Magic: the GAFering |OT2|
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WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Staff cycle looks dumb as hell
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Okay, the Apostle looks pretty hilarious.
Well at least it's marginally better then a lucky charm.
Griselbrand seems an obvious choice.
narcosis219
Member
The 1 damage is assigned by the attacker, not changed by deathtouch or trample.
Trample requires lethal damage in order to move on to the next creature in blocking order or player. Deathtouch states that any amount of damage dealt is lethal damage. There is no damage being altered here; 1 damage is assigned to all blockers and that never changes.
No it's not. Firstly, they cost one more mana. Secondly, they're not symmetrical - they only trigger from your own cards. Dragon's Claw, for example, is somewhat useful against mono-red burn decks, as you're effectively reducing all their burn damage by one; the staff doesn't even do that.
Shadowborn Apostle, on the other hand, is awesome.
But if they kill it all you're drawing into is more Shadowborn Apostle lol
Ah, I get it. Thanks!
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EsotericManiac
Banned
I think your friend's argument, though wrong, refers to giving DT to a creature after damage has been dealt. The rule he's referencing says, basically, that you wouldn't go back and reassign all the damage dealt by that creature differently because he gained DT.
We didn't debate it long but I assumed he was interpreting the part about 'changing the amount of damage' as being compared to if the source didn't have those abilities in the first place (which, yeah, thinking about it now doesn't make any sense.)
Keru_Shiri
Member
Shadowborn Apostle looks hillarious.
Also, I hope a new lucky charms cycle is a signal for better Red burn spells in M14.
Also, I hope a new lucky charms cycle is a signal for better Red burn spells in M14.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
20 year anniversary should be the return of Bolt, Counterspell and Terror.
EsotericManiac
Banned
I don't think they'd ever put counterspell back in standard. terror is horribly obsolete with so much, better black removal.
Bolt has the best chance I think, but not if R/G aggro is so good i think
Bolt has the best chance I think, but not if R/G aggro is so good i think
Right after shocklands? Why not reprint fetchlands while you're at it and have a year of Modern Standard.
Keru_Shiri
Member
Hell, I'd settle for Pyroclasm or Volcanic Fallout.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Fine, bolt and Counterspell only. I'm okay with this. Giant Growth, Terror and ...Healing Salve? complete that cycle in my mind.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I'm trying to think of the other cards. Obviously, salve is like, the worst thing ever printed, but those were right there.
And millstone for artifact!
And millstone for artifact!
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I wonder though. With MM and them not wanting to Return to Domanaria, I wonder if WotC let the 20th anniversary creep up on them without really planning anything special.
This years From the Vault is called Twenty, did you miss that?
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I forgot. I'm hoping that's not what they had planned. I think I've made my views on FtV clear enough to say that I'm decidedly nonplussed.
However. On a less cynical note, I'm likely getting to draft a lot more in the near future. The wife is switching to evening shifts at her job. Which, you know, sucks in every other conceivable way, but hey. More MtG
But how will my flashback deck work NAO?????
EsotericManiac
Banned
yea, it's not good. maybe if you have some way of producing multiple tokens of one in the same turn, then activated...
I had pegged fetchland reprints for M15, but you never know.....
I figured 3 months would be amazing, 15 months would be miserable.
I figured the same. It's clear they want ally fetches in modern, but also clear that they wouldn't want them in with the shocklands. Either M15 or the block right after it is when I see them appearing. Maybe even allied in M15 and Zendikar fetches in the block.
They're switching to pretty much "always" doing 10-cycles because it leads to better gameplay.
Putting another lot out there because a filling has gone south and now I need a tooth pulled (or a root canal which they say may not help anyway).
Lot is:
4x Thragtusk
1x Flooded Grove
1x Wooded Bastion
1x Olivia Voldaren
1x Restoration Angel (pack foil)
2x restoration angel
3x Huntmaster of the fells
2x domri rade (1x russian)
1x Boros Reckoner
1x Aurelia's Fury (russian)
185 paypal gift (cheaper for Gaf than I put it up on Salvation for) (price updated, has to go!)
This tooth has to go or I will end up doing it myself.
Lot is:
4x Thragtusk
1x Flooded Grove
1x Wooded Bastion
1x Olivia Voldaren
1x Restoration Angel (pack foil)
2x restoration angel
3x Huntmaster of the fells
2x domri rade (1x russian)
1x Boros Reckoner
1x Aurelia's Fury (russian)
185 paypal gift (cheaper for Gaf than I put it up on Salvation for) (price updated, has to go!)
This tooth has to go or I will end up doing it myself.
Surely, there'll be a card to boost 1/1s up. Something like this..
Otherwise, Shadowborn Apostle is the lulz.
I loved Pendelhaven so much when Legends hit
narcosis219
Member
More notably, "if you have less than 6 creatures in your graveyard". This is a terrible combo lol.
Either way, you just end up getting it a turn earlier since I think the fastest you can get the apostles out is turn 3 and sac/fetch on turn 4.
divisionbyzorro
Member
When is the WotC PAX panel?