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Magic: the Gathering - Battle for Zendikar |OT| Lands matter (but nothing else does)
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Hell yeah. I loved that standard. I ran UG Madness and my brother ran Mirari Wake WUG control. So fun.
Bloody affordable too. I don't think the block constructed version even played a single rare.
"God's Beard!"
Member
Actually, since "transformation" is the Innistrad theme, any chance Transmute comes back?
Muddle the Mixture/Perplex would be sweet reprints to go with a bunch of new Stitcher-themed cards.
godlike
Muddle the Mixture/Perplex would be sweet reprints to go with a bunch of new Stitcher-themed cards.
- Madness(Big Game Hunter reprint with new Garruk-themed art is too perfect)
- Transmute
- DFCs(Werewolf Legend!)
- Liliana of the Veil reprint(with new art!)
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WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
I really loved Morbid and Undying together. Obviously, not everything can come back, but then again...why not the stuff that worked? Those two were beloved. DFCs, too. Fight is evergreen now. R&D didn't like Miracles, so it's out. Soulbond is cool, but it's not tied to Innistrad or graveyard stuff like Flashback.
In a perfect world SOI block would have
Morbid
Undying
Transform
Flashback
Transmute
and some others who cares. Curses can be just single cards, I don't see them as having to come back as a keyword. Besides, fairy tale witches curse shit all the time.
In a perfect world SOI block would have
Morbid
Undying
Transform
Flashback
Transmute
and some others who cares. Curses can be just single cards, I don't see them as having to come back as a keyword. Besides, fairy tale witches curse shit all the time.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
fite me
divisionbyzorro
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Isn't Transmute something like an 8 on the Storm Scale?
um why would it be?
Can we please agree to abbreviate the new set with a capital 'O'? It's not like it's a small, insignificant word like "of" or "on" like it was in Scars of Mirrodin. "Over" is a full word. Shadows Over Innistrad should be SOI. Otherwise it looks like the abbreviation is the proper term for our sun and it's confusing every time.
C'mon lol get out of here. Undying is sweet.
C'mon lol get out of here. Undying is sweet.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
the time difference between persist, undying, infect and wither was just way too short.
SoI also just reads like shit outta luck. When will Wizards make a SMH set or a FML, LoL, BRB,... ? there's way too many abbreviations in today's society.
SoI also just reads like shit outta luck. When will Wizards make a SMH set or a FML, LoL, BRB,... ? there's way too many abbreviations in today's society.
Do you guys like mires malice?
Ever seen i saw it i cant help but slowly grow to like it more and more. I havent played it much tho.
Maybe its because i couldnt make opponents discard in hearstone. Just burn cards in the pile which isnt very good.
Its the awaken flexebility that just puts it over the top for me.
Ever seen i saw it i cant help but slowly grow to like it more and more. I havent played it much tho.
Maybe its because i couldnt make opponents discard in hearstone. Just burn cards in the pile which isnt very good.
Its the awaken flexebility that just puts it over the top for me.
divisionbyzorro
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Because making an entire mechanic around tutoring isn't something R&D is likely to do anymore?
EDIT: It doesn't look like he's put it on the Storm Scale, but everything he says about Transmute is rather negative:
http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/search/transmute/
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I hate the card during, the prerelease someone used it against me when I had 4 bombs in hand.
Guardian of Tazeem, Felidar Sovereign, another bomb and an Island. I kept the Sphinx and the Island but it took me forever to make a choice. Yes Islands counts as a bomb in that case.
They all have random cool cards but like all MTG sealed products, boosters or not, it made far more sense just buying the singles you want.
4 out of 5 decks from last year's Commander series were really fun. The white one has the "money card", but the deck sucks. The others are all pretty powerful and a lot of fun, even the blue one which looks awful on paper. My favorite is the Red deck, followed by the blue one.
I think they're worth getting if you want reasonably powerful EDH decks that need little work. You could hulk them out, but we typically play them against each other unaltered and have a great time.
Giant Panda
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How dare you slight the good name of Nahiri. The deck has had a pretty good track record for me with only minimal modifications.
I can't speak to your modifications. But stock? The deck has absolutely no synergy and gets overpowered by any of the other four decks. It can't really deal with anything in the mid to late game, doesn't have much of one of its own, and Nahiri herself honestly isn't great, especially late game. I've never seen a planeswalker ultimate go off so often and do so little.
I think it's fine. You should definitely try and hold it for Awaken most of the time. The only time you really wanna run it out for 4 is if it is definitely hitting their last two cards. It's mostly filler because it isn't that synergistic with the various black decks. It should not be a high pick, but you can put it in your deck and not feel bad about it.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Just for fun
WiP, which reminds me
- LoL.... Legacy of Lorwyn
- FML.... Fiora Merely/Martially Lost
- BRB.... Best Ravnica Block / Beyond Ravnica Beknownst /
- Kk.... Kaladesh Kaput / Kaladeshian Knowledge
- Rad.... Rejoice at Dominaria
- Bae.... B Alara Emerges
- SMH.... Shandalar M H
WiP, which reminds me
- WiP.... War in Phyrexia
Except it is disingenuous when all you're doing is manipulating the data to show only price. When he breaks down the rares and mythics of Cawblade its 30 rares against 47. He even admits this is cherry picked data.
Again, the only real issue is that there is no budget competitive deck that new players can flock to. Considering that BFZ's power level was a victim of the standard set change a lot of it can be attributed to that.
Yeah i agree a bit with the filler part. Maybe goes in a slower more controlish decks like black blue ingest or fliers
Joe Molotov
Member
LMFAO - Land Matters, Full Art Only
divisionbyzorro
Member
My inner Izzet mage is crying tears of joy right now.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
LMFAO indeed
My inner Izzet mage is crying tears of joy right now.
awful imo but makes me hopeful for the deck
divisionbyzorro
Member
This is a weird card.
My inner Izzet mage is crying tears of joy right now.
Time for a quiz, how many ix and iz can you find on this card?
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I'm hopeful that they'll really be able to go in on making U/B spellcasting a viable strategy in a way that they never really have in Limited. This could be good
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
A ramp strategy with that card would be intense
yessss a UG Snake deck based on Kamigawa.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
but Orochi were shamans and not blue wizards. What's next red moonfolk?
So far that makes Kamigawa, Theros and Ravnica any guesses on
Keru_Shiri
Member
That may just find a home in my Purphoros deck. Board wipe, artifact nuker, and reach all in one.
This is a weird card.
This would not work with a commander though, would it?
Fun looking card, if you can get Lightning Greaves or Swiftfoot Boots equipped at the same time this could do work.
There is no Dimir or Selesnya, Orzhov is Innistrad.
No idea where this Golgari thihng is from:
Yeah, but that's probably for the best. Don't want someone nuking the entire table with Commander damage in one attack. Though I guess that'd be tough since the copies would just be the base creature without any buffs.
My first thought was I'd love it in my Uril deck. My second thought was that it wouldn't copy any of the enchantments.
In a Zada deck tho...
It would not, you'd still be able to get enter battlefield triggers at least if your commander has any. Or just slap it on a Myr Battlesphere, so gross.
DashReindeer
Lead Community Manager, Outpost Games
There is no Dimir or Selesnya, Orzhov is Innistrad.
No idea where this Golgari thihng is from:
I don't think so? Isn't that just a W/B Daxos of Meletis? If so, I don't think we can break these decks down by Plane as easily as we might want to.
divisionbyzorro
Member
There is no Dimir or Selesnya, Orzhov is Innistrad.
That's not Innistrad. That's Theros; that's the Returned/Zombie manifestation of Daxos of Meletis.
Fun looking card, if you can get Lightning Greaves or Swiftfoot Boots equipped at the same time this could do work.
Couple friends and I just imagined this plus Grey Merchant for super lols
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
There is no Dimir or Selesnya, Orzhov is Innistrad.
No idea where this Golgari thihng is from:
Oh yeah always mix colour pairing up the Golgari thing mentions the undercity in the flavor text so Ravnica too I guess
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