Magic: the GAFering |OT2|
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Where are you guys seeing this one?
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Reddit. 2/4 flying, 3ub, when he deals combat damage to a player that player mills until land
AKA a slightly better Balustrade Spy. But not really since it takes 5cmc to cast
It's actually Mind Funeral on a stick.
I don't think it's awful in an all in mill strategy, where you're going to be running stuff like Jace's Phantasm, Consuming Abberation Wight, but it doesn't really fit into other decks. If they'd given him deathtouch I think that would have been enough to put him over the edge.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Ah, 4 lands. Well, now he's a rare!
And that Dimir deck with Wight, phantasm, aberration, mind sculpt, thought scour and others is bordering on playable. I was hoping for some stuff to assist to make it at least somewhat viable, considering it's on borrowed time.
Post rotation: No phantasm, drown yard, scour, sculpt = garbage
And that Dimir deck with Wight, phantasm, aberration, mind sculpt, thought scour and others is bordering on playable. I was hoping for some stuff to assist to make it at least somewhat viable, considering it's on borrowed time.
Post rotation: No phantasm, drown yard, scour, sculpt = garbage
Once you are on 5 mana hitting 4 lands off the top of their deck would be awful.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Yeah, but by time you're getting him out and attacking your opponent has 6-7 lands. You'd be doing him a favor, really.
It's a fine casual card for kitchen top, but whatever. Maybe some of the other Dimir cards will be more competitive in nature.
My heart wants to be Dimir, but they're making it pretty hard.
I guess if he had double strike? I don't know. He's just not that great sadly.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Yeah, that would be insane. Probably guessing that was the Dimir mechanic they took off at the last moment because they broke it in play testing.
I really like Blood Scrivener. It'd be great in a weird deck that abuses its graveyard with flashback or scavenge (or both!), if you'd rather not overextend into a wrath. It could combo with stuff such as Desolate Lighthouse or the enchantment that turns lands into Phyrexian Arena.
The golgari champion looks awesome. Now G/B has a second reliable regenerator that makes combat math harder for everyone else, and it also upgrades stuff such as Dreg Reaver and Deadbridge Goliath's scavenge costs, making them more playable. It makes me want to build a golgari deck soon, since I do have the Gravecrawlers and a Lotleth Troll. It also enables Blood Artist shenanigans since you get to sacrifice your board at will.
The U/R split looks fun and potentially playable. It's surely going to be an back-breaking 2-for-1 limited card, at the very least. The dimir/rakdos split makes it look like all rares will have a CC side and a 4CC one, and it looks like a fine card, even if I don't like it personally.
That dimir vampire looks like he isn't doing any drinking at all, just dumping stuff into the graveyard. If it had that and some way to grow and slowly milled more and more, it could've been more interesting.
The plant skeleton sounds funky, but it can't block and has nothing else going for it. It would've been fun if it was smaller and able to block, like a slight variation on Reassembling Skeleton.
The golgari champion looks awesome. Now G/B has a second reliable regenerator that makes combat math harder for everyone else, and it also upgrades stuff such as Dreg Reaver and Deadbridge Goliath's scavenge costs, making them more playable. It makes me want to build a golgari deck soon, since I do have the Gravecrawlers and a Lotleth Troll. It also enables Blood Artist shenanigans since you get to sacrifice your board at will.
The U/R split looks fun and potentially playable. It's surely going to be an back-breaking 2-for-1 limited card, at the very least. The dimir/rakdos split makes it look like all rares will have a CC side and a 4CC one, and it looks like a fine card, even if I don't like it personally.
That dimir vampire looks like he isn't doing any drinking at all, just dumping stuff into the graveyard. If it had that and some way to grow and slowly milled more and more, it could've been more interesting.
The plant skeleton sounds funky, but it can't block and has nothing else going for it. It would've been fun if it was smaller and able to block, like a slight variation on Reassembling Skeleton.
Fragamemnon
Member
that golgari champ is funny because the high activation costs shows just how paranoid they are of any kind of self-mill graveyard enablement.
For good reason of course, given that dredge is the ultimate abomination of MTG.
For good reason of course, given that dredge is the ultimate abomination of MTG.
Little Old Man
Member
I'm really liking the Golgari champion too since as you say it makes the scavenge mechanic cheaper, and so the tactic more viable. When I purchased cards for a golgari agro deck I've been working on I grabbed a playset of Corpsejack Menace and some Jarads too, so I doesn't feel like I've wasted my time getting those now!
Does the full spoiler list go up at the end of the ten days of reveals usually?
Yeah, it always goes up the Monday before the prerelease. So on the 22nd this time.
Today's terrible draft
I'm not winning a single game with this
UPDATE 1: Won the first match, somehow. Might have something to do with my opponent not playing a spell after turn 2 in game 1 (and the game ended on turn 12 with 2 lands in play for him), and my opponent not knowing what Blind Obediance does, leading him to not leave a blocker back for a lethal swing.
UPDATE 2: In the finals, thanks to some Zurichi Tiger magic ruining my opponents math with a bloodrushed Wrecking Ogre, leaving me at 1 life and then able to crack back for lethal, and a whole lot of extortion.
UPDATE 3: Dead in the finals :/
I'm not winning a single game with this
UPDATE 1: Won the first match, somehow. Might have something to do with my opponent not playing a spell after turn 2 in game 1 (and the game ended on turn 12 with 2 lands in play for him), and my opponent not knowing what Blind Obediance does, leading him to not leave a blocker back for a lethal swing.
UPDATE 2: In the finals, thanks to some Zurichi Tiger magic ruining my opponents math with a bloodrushed Wrecking Ogre, leaving me at 1 life and then able to crack back for lethal, and a whole lot of extortion.
UPDATE 3: Dead in the finals :/
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Your spells are fucking amazing. But..you have no win con besides just annoying them to rage quit...lol.
Still, better drafts than I do most times heh
Sums up this cycle.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Sums up Dimir in total.
Hands of Binding is good in limited. Same with Shadow Slice. (Won a game with that sideboarded in last week)
Paranoid Delusions is pretty much a role player in the Wight/Phantasm deck.
But all of them (except Delusions) needed to be costed less by 1-2 to be effective.
Obzedat's help
3WB
Sorcery
Return target permanent card from your graveyard on the battlefield.
5 mana to reanimate Omniscience or Nicky B? Good gravy marie.
I like the others ones just fine. Cro-cop feels underpowered in comparison.
http://imgur.com/IDfmRbT
Bred for the hunt 1GU
Enchantment
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card
Bred for the hunt 1GU
Enchantment
Whenever a creature you control with a +1/+1 counter deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I think it's pretty viable. Prime Speaker Bant is a thing.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Seems bad even in limited. A lot of effort for a pretty poor engine.
Is it? When I tried to play it, it basically scooped to two Verdicts/Terminuses.
Haven't really played GTC limited so it was just guesswork.
There aren't enough playable cards that have +1/+1 counters on them for this to be any good. By the time you're drawing cards off of it (generally late game once township starts rolling) you could have done any of a million more efficient card draw things (Sphinx, Zegana, Urban Evolution, etc...)
Underworld Connections craps upon this from on high.
Underworld Connections is a fairer Phyrexian Arena though. I was (and assume f0rk was) thinking of Descendant's Path and Triumph of Ferocity.
I think Wizards is still struggling to give green card advantage. Only examples I can think of are Big Garruk (planeswalker), Domri (multicolored), Urban Evolution (multicolored, needs to be built around), Unexpected Results (rofl), and I guess all forms of land fetching.
I think Wizards is still struggling to give green card advantage. Only examples I can think of are Big Garruk (planeswalker), Domri (multicolored), Urban Evolution (multicolored, needs to be built around), Unexpected Results (rofl), and I guess all forms of land fetching.
MOAR:
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=502889
Body (Left) 3BG
Sorcery Rare
Exile target creature from a graveyard, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature. X equal to the power of target card you exiled this way.
Blood(Right) RG
Sorcery Rare
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or target player.
I like blood.. its like fling but you dont sacrifice the creature.(Edit: except that its a sorcery)
http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=502889
Body (Left) 3BG
Sorcery Rare
Exile target creature from a graveyard, put X +1/+1 counters on target creature. X equal to the power of target card you exiled this way.
Blood(Right) RG
Sorcery Rare
Target creature you control deals damage equal to its power to target creature or target player.
I like blood.. its like fling but you dont sacrifice the creature.(Edit: except that its a sorcery)
Because its any graveyard i would assume.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Yeah, it's not tier 1, but it's on the edge. Gyre Sage and Experiment One with Zamuck shenanigans help out.
Common bonds
Keru_Shiri
Member
I would take the Blood half as a single card, no joke.
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Transhuman
Unconfirmed Member
A.K.A, Ground Assault's brother.
Edit: I missed the "or target player" Blood is Ground Assault's *older* brother
CommonWriter
UncommonlyGoodListener
All of these split cards are unable to be used in (some) EDH decks, right? If I could play one half, but not the other, would it be legal to have it in?
A.K.A, Ground Assault's brother.
Edit: I missed the "or target player" Blood is Ground Assault's *older* brother
Blood gives a choice between player or creature though which makes it amazing.
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Transhuman
Unconfirmed Member
narcosis219
Member
The color identity has to match your general. These cards are mostly 3 colors, so if your general lines up with both sides then yes you can.
CommonWriter
UncommonlyGoodListener
Awww, thank you all. Looks like I might be tempted into making 60 card decks again for this set.