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Magic: the Gathering - Battle for Zendikar |OT| Lands matter (but nothing else does)
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The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Playing the Pokemon TCG lately actually has me really interested in its Energy system, have any other TCGs played around in similar spaces?
Dude complained about power creep IMMEDIATELY after complaining about unusable cards LMAO
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
those are not mutually exclusive so
Feels like everyone realized what i did a month ago. That heathstone could be a good game with improvements but blizzard is lazy as fuck. They nerfed patron, which held back a lot of bullshit in the game and let everyone blame it, and now people can all see the problems glaring
Guess we will see at blizzcon if they can do any good for the game
Wat
Plants are living organisms. Vinelasher Kudzu is a plant. So is Utopia Tree.
A stag is a male deer. Having stag as a creature type makes about as much sense as having "man" as a creature type.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
So a centaur plant, does it practice photosynthesis and uses capillaries to move water or blood vessels powered by a heart.
Didn't mean stag as a creature type but pretty much every "elk" creature is male, don't know if there's even a doe elk.
The Dragon does the red card draw (exile) in the amount of damage he deals
Keru_Shiri
Member
Folks underestimate the value of a good sac outlet.
fuck you tokens hehehe
Awaken the Sky Tyrant is the sort of card that I don't understand why it exists; a 4 mana 5/5 with Flying is not amazing in EDH, especially when it's conditional. And it's certainly not gonna be useful in Legacy or Vintage.
Gisela being included in the RW deck is awesome; she's a legendary creature a lot of people love to play.
I do think "Deer" would have been a better creature type since it's less specific while still covering the same creatures.
Gisela being included in the RW deck is awesome; she's a legendary creature a lot of people love to play.
Both? It's magic.
There is one doe elk in the history of Magic; it's one of the elks in the background of the original art of Gang of Elk.
I do think "Deer" would have been a better creature type since it's less specific while still covering the same creatures.
Both of them are useless, but at least Dream Pillager actually does something decent and unique in EDH.
This piece of shit on the other hand...
Who the hell at Wizards thought this was a good card for Commander? It's not. It's fucking terrible.
Keru_Shiri
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Yeah, that's baffling. Being able to hit a land drop really helped red's temporary draw. I hope this won't be the norm going forward.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Kinda wanna make an angels EDH deck now
We've been over this before I don't like it's magic as a cop out for everything. Plant as a subtype is like fire, water,... it's color defining and intrinsic to green subtypes already like Treefolk and Dryads not to mention how green elementals are plants by default mostly.
Yeah Deer would have been preferred. It's so weird when every odd set they introduce a new type that technically falls under a different family yet here we have Elks that are Deer.
When I'm on a rant about types already, why does Wizards make incorrect raptors and why are they beast lizards instead of beast birds?
Because Wizards hates biology and for some stupid reason won't make a Dinosaur creature type.
divisionbyzorro
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You get upset about the weirdest things. I kinda like it.
http://magiccards.info/query?q=t:"legendary+creature"+ci:wrm&v=card&s=cname
EDIT: I should include the newly spoiled commander.
Both of them are useless, but at least Dream Pillager actually does something decent and unique in EDH.
This piece of shit on the other hand...
Who the hell at Wizards thought this was a good card for Commander? It's not. It's fucking terrible.
The dragon is better than the enchantment. But I don't want either of them.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
You know I'm the guy in the theatre who can't shut up about how illogical and dumb the movie is and how the stuff they do is physically impossible.
In this case though my father is a paleontologist so
Paleontology to be precise, though it falls under the umbrella of biology.
Surprised they didn't update it to Naga and I still can't spot the druid part in the art
still anatomically a naga
And it sucks at encouraging opponents to attack someone else.
Hell, Illusory Ambusher (the Blue flash creature that lets you draw cards equal to the damage it's dealt) works better at encouraging opponents to attack someone else, and that's not even its intended role.
They didn't update Coiling Oracle to Naga because he's literally half an elf grafted to half a snake.
SigmasonicX
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Why the hell are you guys posting non-English cards without translations? Seriously.
Viper's Brood
4U
Creature - Snake
Myriad
Whenever Viper's Brood deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
Vine Centaur
3G
Creature - Centaur Plant
Trample
Vine Centaur enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 for each land in all graveyards.
Whenever a land is put into a graveyard from anywhere you may pay GG. If you do return Vine Centaur from the graveyard to you hand.
Dream Pillager
5RR
Creature - Dragon
Flying
Whenever Dream Pillager deals combat damage to a player, exile that many cards from the top of your library. Until end of turn, you may play nonland cards exiled this way.
I think Dream Pillager is pretty interesting, though yes, overcosted.
Viper's Brood
4U
Creature - Snake
Myriad
Whenever Viper's Brood deals combat damage to a player, you may draw a card.
Vine Centaur
3G
Creature - Centaur Plant
Trample
Vine Centaur enters the battlefield with a +1/+1 for each land in all graveyards.
Whenever a land is put into a graveyard from anywhere you may pay GG. If you do return Vine Centaur from the graveyard to you hand.
Dream Pillager
5RR
Creature - Dragon
Flying
Whenever Dream Pillager deals combat damage to a player, exile that many cards from the top of your library. Until end of turn, you may play nonland cards exiled this way.
I think Dream Pillager is pretty interesting, though yes, overcosted.
Well they also made this card, so I'm not surprised.Both of them are useless, but at least Dream Pillager actually does something decent and unique in EDH.
This piece of shit on the other hand...
Who the hell at Wizards thought this was a good card for Commander? It's not. It's fucking terrible.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Well besides the dragon the cards should have been easy enough to figure out even w/o speaking the language.
No... they were not, especially the centaur.
http://www.raptorresearchfoundation.org/education/raptor-world
Last page you posted two Italian cards. :lol
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Raptors are literally birds, velociraptors have been recreated incorrectly in the past and in last decade new findings concluded they were feathered and closely related to birds.
I mean tierra, mano, +1/+1,... I guess french helps, the centaur is spanish.
Not actually teeth, but there have been fossil birds found with teeth, and modern birds have inactivated genes for teeth growth.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
divisionbyzorro
Member
Now here's an interesting one. A one-shot opportunity to avoid the commander tax (unless your commander is Titania, in which case it reads "never pay commander tax ever again").
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Now here's an interesting one. A one-shot opportunity to avoid the commander tax (unless your commander is Titania, in which case it reads "never pay commander tax ever again").
Honest to god I read bacon there. Also this and crucible of worlds in every deck
divisionbyzorro
Member
Food Chain + this thing + Titania: infinite mana and 5/3s
Torpor Orb/Sundial of the Infinite/Nether Void + Gravedigger?
It finally lets you use Haakon, though.
divisionbyzorro
Member
Well, you could always have just used Torpor Orb or Platinum Angel or Sundial of the Infinite...but yes, more redundancy is good.
I think the only legendary creature that was literally unplayable as a commander before this card was spoiled was Haakon.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
This is the worst time of year.
Because we have to talk about EDH.
Because we have to talk about EDH.
Let's talk about Standard instead then. Like how Jace and the Den Protector/Deathmist Raptor double team are going to get even more obnoxious when the graveyard block is out.
I will almost certainly be playing some sort of G/B deck.
SigmasonicX
Member
What do you think is the source of the light?
Plus, the flavor text clearly indicates that Riku got upset that it got burned. That's why you have to sacrifice the land.
Siege Rhino.
There you go, a brief summation of Standard talk for the last year.
Only for another week, until it's out in the wild, then they have to start hyping OGW
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