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Magic: the Gathering - Battle for Zendikar |OT| Lands matter (but nothing else does)
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Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Wheel of Fortune isn't illegal right? Because I have it in my deck...
The card's 100% legal in EDH. Feel free to spin the wheel.
He should have cracked his fetch on her end step before activating him so he'd flip. He was one turn away from the ultimate before it got removed by Ulamog. If he had done it that turn, he would have had an emblem on time and likely won. He even mentioned it in the post-game conversation.
My guesses.
- White: Magus of the Sunrise (Second Sunrise)
- Blue: Magus of the Tide (High Tide)
- Black: Magus of the Dead (Living Death) or Magus of the Damned (Damnation)
- Green: Magus of the Order (Natural Order)
Second Sunrise and High Tide are Instants, so I don't think they'd be used for the cycle since Wheel of Fortune is a Sorcery.
But Living Death and Natural Order would be awesome.
A) Before Woo was just weird and eccentric. This take it up to lunatic tier if this is all true (I haven't watched the Twitch archive) O_O
B) These two red cards have been the best ones spoiled today. Pretty cool. Didn't expect a new Magus (though I'm not sure I want to assume its a cycle just yet).
B) These two red cards have been the best ones spoiled today. Pretty cool. Didn't expect a new Magus (though I'm not sure I want to assume its a cycle just yet).
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Magus of The Nausea
magus of the order would be fucking sweet
charlequin
Banned
so basically we need, like, a less hypermanic and relentlessly cynical version of killing a goldfish
(Really the people best situated to do this kind of analysis are former Wizards but so far no one in that slot has really seemed interested in doing so.)
Oh man, this guy rules.
It might not be, but I really hope it is. The Magus cycles were awesome in TSP block and there's obvious room for another full cycle of ones that work like this and cast powerful sorceries.
I'd be surprised if the cycle required all the inspirations to be sorceries, but hey, you never know.
Fun fact: Magus of the Wheel is FUCKING INSANE with Feldon of the Third Path.
Letting Instants be in the cycle would give Wizards some more freedom, but I kinda want to see it just be sorceries now so we can get another cycle based on instants, lol.
Listening to it now but at around 1:09 he specifically states that the holocaust did in fact happen in response to someone in chat. He makes sure to state multiple times that, "a million people died." Once he says "a million or ten million" since his grasp of the facts is pretty loose. Also, the haze of pot smoke that must blanket the room he's in probably makes concentration a little difficult.
It's a lot of gobbledygook and so far he has meandered into some really fucking dumb shit "trying to understand why the Germans did what they did" by reading Mein Kampf and, from the sounds of things, little else on the subject. Oh, wait. He said his other source for information was, "A YouTube video... if you look up Zionist Jew converts to Catholicism and exposes Jewish Conspiracy(link included here) you'll find it." Seriously? A YouTube video of a speech given in 1961 is his other piece of source material?
He also thinks the US entered World War 2 to help save the Jewish people from the Holocaust.
I'm not sure how much of his rambling is delusion and how much is just plain ignorance of history.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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Sounds like a great trainwreck to witness.
i went from "wait i just heard about this wtf" to seeking it out myself and hearing him couch his insanity with a lot of "yeah this shit was bad man"
A lot of the latter from the 45 minutes I listened to. After several minutes asking why we were still in Iraq and wondering aloud if we've ever gotten a statement as to why we're still there I decided to turn it off. It was mildly entertaining for a bit but I had my fill.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Timetwister is probably less busted than Time Spiral
SigmasonicX
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That tree is fast.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Ok now how does that work flavourwise?
Really good fertilizer.
SigmasonicX
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I already said, that tree is fast.
Wouldn't this be a huge blowout against tokens?
Chasing down that annoying planeswalker.
Stop for a quick breather under that oak tree.
Wait a second....
SigmasonicX
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The world could always use more spiders.
fun with heartless hidetsugu
gimmme yess slurpslurpslurp I love boros
charlequin
Banned
blogatog said:
God please never let this man anywhere near these supplemental products, his ridiculous pie-nazi attitude is going to ruin them.
He would get along well with the soup Nazi.
SigmasonicX
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To be fair, Ezuri's Predation really is basically "deal 4 damage to each creature an opponent controls" with an upside.
Compare it to Flame Wave.
Mirror Match, the card he spoiled on his own blog, is often "Destroy each creature attacking you".To be fair, Ezuri's Predation really is basically "deal 4 damage to each creature an opponent controls" with an upside.
Compare it to Flame Wave.
If that's okay, I think Ezuri's Predation is okay.
I agreed with him on Song of the Dryads, but I definitely don't here.
I don't necessarily see a problem with feeling strongly about color pie if it's done well. But even now there are pretty big weaknesses, such as with red's portion of the pie.
Notice that development was happy to write a column saying that there's a problem with red's pie slice and they need to fix it. Guess who hasn't mentioned anything about that in his column?
fun with heartless hidetsugu
That art is sick.
charlequin
Banned
Which is so much less than any actual type of problem whatsoever for Commander. There are so many existing color pie breaks in the legacy cardpool, and so much weird insane nonsense that can go on, that a card like this (which, although it does nuke a bunch of opposing creatures, does do it entirely with mechanisms that are supposed to be available to green) threatens absolutely nothing.
I honestly think this is the single thing that Rosewater is the most absurdly, patently wrong about. The idea that new card design that's exclusive to eternal formats should follow the same color pie as new sets is insulting. Those formats already have a permanently bent, screwed-up color pie (that heavily favors blue, of course) because of old cards that nobody can do anything about. The only way to actually design cards for those formats if you actually care more about gameplay than abstract design principles is to let other colors bend what they can do as well. In four iterations of these Commander decks, we've seen a bunch of these cards -- usually in green or red, the worst eternal colors -- that play well, that make for interesting gameplay and expand the set of possible color options in Commander games, and which have no impact whatsoever on Standard unless someone actively chooses to reprint them there.
The reason this really galls me is that, moreso than anything else, it really makes it obvious how narrow Rosewater's actual view of formats is, because no one who actually plays and cares about Vintage or Legacy or Commander would ever hold this position (as should be obvious from the design teams for the Commander decks who keep creating these cards.)
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
SigmasonicX
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It's the same designers that you'd get on Standard sets, but they are typically used as proving grounds for newer designers, and MaRo isn't there to enforce the color pie.
And unrelated,
I feel 12 again.
cereal bowl island 4 lyfe
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Aurelia looks so scary. She should have had menace in addition
I always wondered where they got the inspiration for this manga angel for
gotta hide those panties.
I always wondered where they got the inspiration for this manga angel for
gotta hide those panties.
It's kinda crazy how much better Aurelia looks than Razia.
Razia looks like a silly pin-up. They really should have used Firemane Angel for her art.
Uh, about that...
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Always wanted to run Splinter Twin in my RG deck.
charlequin
Banned
There was a ton of best-basic-land-art a little while ago and we did "pro does something goony" and "modern is too expensive" just this week.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
That's actually genius.
It's kinda crazy how much better Aurelia looks than Razia.
Razia looks like a silly pin-up. They really should have used Firemane Angel for her art.
Uh, about that...
Agreed Razia looks awful but the pose only hides panties from the front.
Is there any subtype with a bigger emphasis on t&as?
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