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Unburial Rites? lol
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Nah, I play a version of it now that eats aggros lunch. It is weak to strict control decks, I've found. It curves out at Thrag right now.
Keru_Shiri
Member
Man, I'd figure by now they'd at least try to bash them with Obzedat or Griselbrand instead of grinding out with Drownyard.
Why waste slots of those cards that do something a land can do.
Keru_Shiri
Member
It's the aggro player in me who can't stand rounds going to time, coupled with my personal hatred of mill. Otherwise, I understand perfectly.
I'm not sure myself. Without counterspells, the creatures control decks play have to dodge removal or provide lots of value, since there're less reliable ways to keep your opponents from Murdering your creatures. Stuff like Drownyard is the reason why I try to fit some Ghost Quarters in my decks (or, at least, a couple of Pithing Needles on the side).
Fragamemnon
Member
Creatures are too good nowadays to rely on just stack control (countermagic). It's still part of any control deck, but certainly not the emphasis compared to board control.
Yeah I know, I was thinking WOTC should may be tone down creatures a bit.
I want 8 of each! All full card art just looks that much better.
Keru_Shiri
Member
I wish there were more extend-art or textless cards in general. What I wouldn't do for a playset of textless Bolts.
This is one of the reasons behind the Izzet getting mostly screwed yet again. Now that the game emphasizes battlefield-based interactions and creatures, the spell-based guild obviously didn't stand a chance. I really liked some old stuff such as Wee Dragonauts or Gelectrode, or wacky stuff like the Development side of Research//Development or Odds from Odds//Ends. Hopefully, the guild will get a few interesting and [even somewhat] playable cards in DGM.
There was a Player Rewards full-art foil Lightning Bolt right before they stopped sending those out. I was unlucky enough to not get them, though.
...Damn, now you've reminded me of the MPR program, which I liked way better than the boring achievement system that's in place now.
Fragamemnon
Member
They actually have over the last two blocks, believe it or not. They are still very good but the creature creep that started with Ravnica and peaked in M11 (Titans) has been brought just a bit.
Still, they're currently pumping early to mid-game creatures up nowadays. The titans (and the sixth ranger, Wurmcoil Engine) were big mistakes, but now we've got powerful early game stuff such as Knight of the Parish, Silverblade Paladin, Gravecrawler, Geralf's Messenger, Restoration Angel, Snapcaster Mage, Thragtusk, Lingering Souls, Lotleth Troll, Deathrite Shaman, Boros Reckoner, etcetera.
They have achieved some balance among these cards, but the power level between them and most of the others is wildly different, making them a requirement for a good deck in their colors or theme (other than Wolfir Silverheart, which is working really well for me as a budget Thragtusk replacement).
I would prefer this over the basic land they put in to short us out of our 15th card.
Yeah, I already have enough basic lands. Enough is enough already with those damned things.
Keru_Shiri
Member
I actually rather like this idea. My problem with foils is they're difficult to work with. They're nice pulls if you happen to need them for EDH decks, but as trade fodder, they suck since most people don't want to value your foil higher, but expect you to value their own. Furthermore, my LGS doesn't want to pay extra for foils since no one wants to pay extra to buy them.
Innistrad basic lands should have definitely had a creepy looking frame for their basics. The bright looking frames clashed with the spooky art for everything but the swamps.
Oversized art lands would meet my criteria of a full art card. I love my unhinged lands.
Posting for new page.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Well we don't know a whole lot yet. The only real revealed Orzhov card is the new champion, and unless your deck is really good at grinding the game to a halt she's probably not what you're looking for.
robotzombie
Member
Am I a bad person for trading my friend a Bruna and some Riot Gears for a Huntmaster?
Yes. You are a bad person and you should feel bad.
Woe unto you if he ever realizes how much you screwed him.
(Good deal)
It's kind of shitty to profit more than 25% off a trade unless you're dealing in cards that're impossible to move. Give him a shockland or something.
robotzombie
Member
Yeah, I'm gonna just give him the next good card he has an interest in of mine
Edit: haha oh yeah, I should point out I did offer him a snapcaster mage for it and he wasn't interested...
Edit: haha oh yeah, I should point out I did offer him a snapcaster mage for it and he wasn't interested...
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Breaking/Entering makes me sad because it means we're getting re-dos of some of the Dissension color combos.
Aren't there only ten ways they can do three color split cards? I swear there was a huge article about it, I'll look for it
There are only 30 potential combinations total.
You can easily, however, do them in such a way that you're not duplicating any on the track. I suspect the gimmick here, though, is that they're all 1 GTC + 1 RTR guild.
Neverender
Member
Have we seen any new boros cards yet?
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I think its the same reasoning behind the original Dissension design: http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/mr224
Basically the constraining factor is that they want the colors in the middle to match, and if you do it that way there's only one combination that gets all three color combos
narcosis219
Member
For one, long games tend to end up with you having no cards left in hand. I imagine in aggro decks you're throwing out most of your hand by turn 3/4 and having him out on the field will help you draw the extra gas. Topdecking this will get you out of stalled states, though you could argue topdecking a bomb instead will just end the game outright.
Off the top of my head, combos well with lotleth troll.
Also, since this is a replacement effect, I believe multiple Blood Sciveners stack.
I.e.
2 cards for 1 life
3 cards for 2 life
4 cards for 3 life
5 cards for 4 life
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Seriously, its like it was designed for that card.
This play needs to happen at least once.
"All cards get Keyword" is one of my favorite abilities. I love it when they print those.
divisionbyzorro
Member
Death's Shadow is slightly bigger, and since we're going as big as possible...
Look at Tablet of the Guilds. That's how you do it and make the colors match. (There's also a third solution for the "other" 10 combos.) I don't think they were concerned about the "middle" factor this time.
Because she has the greatest of super powers. Limitless money...
Also ghosts.
Serious commentary about Tesya though. Doesn't she work pretty well in stall and bleed decks? Still expensive for what she does, mind, but if your deck is built around dropping Spheres of Safety anyway wouldn't she be a pretty solid addition two turns later? If your opponent is only able to (at best) swing with one creature making sure that creature doesn't live to swing again (while also getting a new blocker) seems like a pretty good deal to me.
There's no reason for her to have 4 power though, since you're not going to be using her to destroy creatures by blocking anyways.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Man, fuck Wizards. How do they make all these cool legends and make the Dimir one suck so hard? Oh gee, a 2/4 flyer that mills. For 5cmc.
Bah! Bah, I say!
Bah! Bah, I say!
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
The entire cycle is just fucked. Both in flavor an power level. The Gruul champ is insane, Tesya is a human than is now stronger than the vampire and the vamp Dimir is an uncommon, at best.
And you know Emmara is going to do something stupid good too.
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