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Magic: the Gathering - Battle for Zendikar |OT| Lands matter (but nothing else does)
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I don't that that's something they can do, logistically. They said that it takes them 18 months just to get the MM GP's organized.
I don't know how well the Modern Event Deck did (probably not very), but a product that could help to get Modern staples into the wild during the off-year definitely needs to be a priority.
Horatorobor
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Just a played a Chaos Draft, opened a booster that had a foil Phyrexian Revoker and a Sword of Feast and Famine, also opened a Courser and the MM2 pack had a Clique.
Good value I'd say.
Edit also pick up a Mishra's Bauble, cause I just found out it's worth something.
Good value I'd say.
Edit also pick up a Mishra's Bauble, cause I just found out it's worth something.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
My holiday gift box wasn't too bad for something I bought because I like how the box fits on my shelf.
Canopy Vista, Sunken Hollow, Painful Truths, Kiora, Sire of Stagnation.
Canopy Vista, Sunken Hollow, Painful Truths, Kiora, Sire of Stagnation.
Etrian Oddity
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Yup. BfZ was a mistake. It's nothing but trash.
divisionbyzorro
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The last time the mana was this good, at least they were casting Cruel Ultimatum.
acheron_xl
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Finally played Legendary Cube. Rafiq + Finest Hour is just unfair.
Etrian Oddity
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I swear, Oaths better give Kiora some toys. A bunch of U/G fatties with a Quest or Tooth & Nail trick for her great walker toy.
GoutPatrol
Forgotten in his cell
If they don't announce one in January, don't expect one again. I could see them printing Affinity sans Mox Opals because it forces people to buy them and doesn't disrupt prices in any other deck.
I copied Cruel Ultimatum even.
I miss Pyromancer's Ascension. ;-;
Edit: Spreading Seas on Savage Lands was amazing. What a time to be alive.
divisionbyzorro
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TFW you play a 2 hour game of Commander on MODO and lose because a card is bugged.
It wasn't even some weird interaction; Scourge of the Throne just didn't bother to give me the extra combat steps I needed. I got the Dethrone trigger, but not the extra combat trigger smh.
Except, as has already been mentioned, it would limit future Equipment design possibilities. It might be okay in the current Modern environment but it's more an issue of Modern going forward that keeps it on the ban list.
They wouldn't need to annualize MM if they focused on putting more Modern staples in whatever set (Conspiracy) was in that slot in the off years. Either that or do what a number of folks have been saying for a while now and put out a Modern Event Deck around Modern season in the off years that is a starter kit for one of the many decks in the format. Put those out at a more reasonable price, say $50, and make them unlimited print runs with a timed window like the original Modern Event Deck. The original Event Deck sat around for the longest time because the price of the deck was too high as an entry point to the format and wasn't attractive enough to piece out unless you got it well below retail. I was still seeing untouched 6-packs of those Event Decks for below MSRP over a year after they had been released. Why are Uncommons that were two and three-ofs in that deck, a product that if I remember correctly was an on-demand (not limited) print run, getting out of control? They priced themselves out of the market and so the number of printings required to meet demand at that price was pretty low.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
You know what else is a safe unban? Shaharazad. Just scoop the subgame if you don't want to play it.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Actual Dubious cards on the Modern Banned List:
Ancestral Visions
Bloodbraid Elf
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
Comedy options:
Punishing Fire
Cloudpost
Ancestral Visions
Bloodbraid Elf
Jace, the Mind Sculptor
Comedy options:
Punishing Fire
Cloudpost
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
They should reprint bojuka bog in OGW
divisionbyzorro
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They can't unban Jace without a reprint; the soonest that could feasibly happen is MM3
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
You also can't unban Punishing Fire without reprinting Grove of the Burnwillows lmao
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Anyone else seen the judge call between Seth and Ken on the TCGplayer tournament?
It was pretty funny how both of them started calling for the judge and imo Seth made a clear misplay. His opponent could have been courteous and let him take it back but it was a possibly chances to get into top 8 or out situation so I doubt many would have.
No translation yet but Mina & Denn is the name and Elf Ally the type
Edit: You may play an additional land during each of your turns.
RG, Return a land you control to its owner's hand; Target creature gains trample until end of turn
It was pretty funny how both of them started calling for the judge and imo Seth made a clear misplay. His opponent could have been courteous and let him take it back but it was a possibly chances to get into top 8 or out situation so I doubt many would have.
No translation yet but Mina & Denn is the name and Elf Ally the type
Edit: You may play an additional land during each of your turns.
RG, Return a land you control to its owner's hand; Target creature gains trample until end of turn
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
So errata confirmed then that's pretty massive.
And naming them Battlelands will eventually be stupid.
And naming them Battlelands will eventually be stupid.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Moves I let people take back: 1) forgot to use planeswalker, 2) tapped the wrong mana colors
Mystic Gate being the Seagate is pretty cool.
That's huge, massive visual errata incoming.
divisionbyzorro
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If Manlands are the other, that means that the Tangolands aren't being finished in OGW, right?
Six cards that produce colourless mana in my cube. Mutavault, Academy Ruins, Everflowing Chalice, Mind Stone, Hedron Archive and Prismatic Lens. Now I need those to be reprinted with the new mana symbol. :/
EDIT: eh forgot about Tec Edge but I kind of want to take it out. So 7 cards.
EDIT: eh forgot about Tec Edge but I kind of want to take it out. So 7 cards.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Was no chance of that anyways.
SigmasonicX
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New art and foil, which means that it's almost certainly real. <> is one colorless mana, and it's nice to finally know that for sure.
Mina and Denn looks pretty good, too.
New art and foil, which means that it's almost certainly real. <> is one colorless mana, and it's nice to finally know that for sure.
Mina and Denn looks pretty good, too.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
divisionbyzorro
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It's still super crazy to me that they didn't do this in the first set of the block. You'll be drafting <> alongside (1).
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Are the filterlands any good in constructed anywhere?
Etrian Oddity
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Expeditions can go fuck itself. :\
Infinite Stars
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I've found that the Filter lands work really, really well in decks with a slight splash that otherwise are Mono coloured. My Soul Sister deck loves it, and I'm imagining that a slight splash in Death and taxes could work well.
That's assuming that we get the full cycle of Manlands. I'd find it odd that they would put out Expeditions for the first half of the Tangoland cycle and not the rest, whenever those show up. It could work like:
10 Filterlands
5 Scars Taplands / Urzatron + Some combination of CoS/Grove/Horizon Canopy/Mutavault/Inkmoth
5 Tangolands
Manlands do seem like they'd be a good bit more likely though. Maybe they're intending to do the Expedition lottery again whenever the rest of the Tangolands appear.
SigmasonicX
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After looking at this Yu-Gi-Oh thread, I'm sad that Magic will never have exhibition matches like this one. The yelling of what the cards do actually did help me follow the match a lot, despite never playing the game.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
They're like one-ofs in a lot of decks. In fairness, most of the Shocklands are 2 ofs, its only the fetches that people are jamming playsets of.
Also I don't get why any of you had even a shred of hope that they were printing the Enemy Duals in this set.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
That looks almost as stupid as wrestling. Thankfully YuGiOh was only a phase of mine. And yes I'm fun at parties.
Unfinished cycles urgh
I mean can the mana really get any worse?
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The Scars Fastlands don't have enemy cards and those see quite a bit of play in Modern whereas BFZ duals see play in Standard and I guess Commander. It's actual stupid that Scars Fastlands don't have enemy versions.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Yeah that's dumb but that doesn't make another unfinished cycle more palatable. Especially since the tango lands are pretty nice for people starting out or jut playing casually and having a bunch of basics still.
Oh yeah the Mystic Gate might be fake the art was released prior.
Oh yeah the Mystic Gate might be fake the art was released prior.
So? It's not like Pod where creatures were the problem and siege rhinos of the world set it over the edge. They barely even print equipment and it's unlikely we'll see much better than what's already available. Only risk is some ridiculous high cmc, low equip busted equipment being printed but that's assuming something like that is in the works. I think shaking up the format a little is worth limiting some hypothetical future busted-with-SFM equipment.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Yeah that's dumb but that doesn't make another unfinished cycle more palatable. Especially since the tango lands are pretty nice for people starting out or jut playing casually and having a bunch of basics still.
Oh yeah the Mystic Gate might be fake the art was released prior.
It's not fake; it's a foil with a hologram. It is real.
charlequin
Banned
Yeah, on the one hand it makes sense to do it this way to keep the secret (it'd be super obvious what was up if you launched this in BFZ)
but it really is just super weird looking and jarring nonetheless.
I'm really glad the only split land cycle
After the original duals in Alpha, it took until Ravnica for a single block to have a full 10-card cycle of duals. The only blocks that ever
had a full cycle like this are Ravnica, Shadowmoor, Return To Ravnica, Theros, and Khans -- i.e. four of the five are explicitly multicolor blocks. Time to get used to having a lot of ally-only dual land cycles sitting around.
Well, Innistrad gave us the enemy versions of an existing ally-only cycle last time, so....
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Khans? It only had 5 fetchlands.Yeah, on the one hand it makes sense to do it this way to keep the secret (it'd be super obvious what was up if you launched this in BFZ)
but it really is just super weird looking and jarring nonetheless.
I'm really glad the only split land cycle
After the original duals in Alpha, it took until Ravnica for a single block to have a full 10-card cycle of duals. The only blocks that ever
had a full cycle like this are Ravnica, Shadowmoor, Return To Ravnica, Theros, and Khans -- i.e. four of the five are explicitly multicolor blocks. Time to get used to having a lot of ally-only dual land cycles sitting around.
Well, Innistrad gave us the enemy versions of an existing ally-only cycle last time, so....
Royal_Flush
Member
The etb tapped, you gain 1 life dual lands.
Blah, got 2nd at a SCG IQ GPT. I have weird bad luck. One game I mull down to 4 with nothing but lands in hand. Scryed away a land to the bottom, proceeded to draw 5 more lands. The next I had to go up against Coastal Discovery, 2 Ruinous Paths, and a Sire of Stagnation. I'm not saying MtG is all luck but jeebus!
This is like my 5th time getting 2nd place. One day I'll take it all.
This is like my 5th time getting 2nd place. One day I'll take it all.
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