Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Okay I entered a league and so far its just sitting in queues not doing anything
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Random thought on how Steamflogger Boss could work.
Rigger creatures can assemble a Contraption by exiling any number of "Component" artifacts that says that the assembled Contraption will have certain qualities and/or any number of Contraptions, and then put a Contraption token onto the battlefield with those qualities. Maybe to make things easier, Contraptions all start as 0/0 creatures. The key is why the creature is doing the assembling and not the player. And the solution is, the Rigger adds its own qualities to the assembled Contraption.
Like a component would be:
"This Contraption has +1/+1."
A rigger's assemble ability could be:
1R, Tap: This creature assembles a Contraption (Exile any number of Component or Contraption artifacts you control: Put a 0/0 artifact Contraption creature onto the battlefield with the text of the exiled artifacts.)
Contraptions assembled by this creature gain "This Contraption has +1/+0".
Although that last part, with the Rigger adding qualities, does have big memory issues. The fact that you exile Components should make building Contraptions using those easier to keep track of, though. Maybe Riggers just provide "until end of turn" effects.
Yeah, works really well with the plan and extra copies of Ensnaring Bridge is a big deal.Infernal Tutor is actually really sweet tech for that deck.
Exert Influence(4)(U)
Sorcery
Converge-Gain control of target creature if its power is less than or equal to the number of colors of mana spent to cast Exert Influence.
I can't control its mind ― I'm not even sure it has one. But I can dominate its will.
Junk.
Are Goblins going to be a thing? I bought a play set of Goblin Piledriver just because.
Like Gilt-Leaf Winnower, this works really well with Jace's +1. It'll be interesting to see if it makes it into Magic Duels.
Having handled a few of them, I feel confident in saying there is no way you would ever get caught with one of those blue-core counterfeits, *especially* if you roughed it up a little to make it look a little more worn.
Also if Maro is tired of people asking for Kamigawa maybe he should stop asking questions where that is an obvious answer?
The best Steamflogger Boss implementation I can think of involves a separate "Contraption" deck that you can put cards into play from by "assembling" them, probably shared between players.
I think it's hilarious that the new U/G and R/G spoilers have people asking if Temur can be good, as if Knux isn't one of the strongest 3-drops in Standard right now.
That said, I don't think it's inconceivable that at some point they'll actually go back for Kamigawa for something and cite the long-term fan interest as a reason.
I see they spoiled the rare I'll be pulling dozens of.
Junk.
The blue-core itself is meaningless, it's just that the ones labeled as such are the ones that actually look and feel like Magic cards.It kind of almost doesn't even matter that they have the blue cores, the scenario that's relevant is whether there's anything remotely suspicious about them when held and read by your opponent, sleeved. If they can pass that test they're very rarely going to get tested more thoroughly in a real play scenario.
(It would indeed be really nice if incredibly good counterfeits really did lead to eliminating the reserved list)
$20 Inquisition of Kozilek incoming
I assume this lets you get like 4 two drops, 2 4 drops, etc. as a combination?
Has a two mana discard spell ever seen play if it wasn't attached to a body or discarded more than one card at a time?
This is one of those cases where I legitimately don't give a fuck what their excuse is: you need to reprint Inquisition. If that card is not in OGW, there's literally no excuse whatsoever for it not being in Modern Masters 2015.Nooooo they aren't going to reprint Inquisition...
This set is a testament to where not listening to the right feedback can bite you.I don't think he's sick of people saying it so much as sick of people getting mad when he tells them that even though they like it it wasn't very popular.
I assume this lets you get like 4 two drops, 2 4 drops, etc. as a combination?
Has a two mana discard spell ever seen play if it wasn't attached to a body or discarded more than one card at a time?
Set looks like a relatively incoherent nostalgia blend of ROE/ZENAlso, I'm getting more and more worried about this set. In my opinion, they haven't printed a set of above-average quality since Khans, and this just keeps looking less and less like something I want to play.
I think FRF was actually a great set that happened to play like shit in limited (bombs away!) because of the mono-colored necessity of being a swing set in its position. I think Dragons was ok, and I think Origins was decent, minus the art issues.Also, I'm getting more and more worried about this set. In my opinion, they haven't printed a set of above-average quality since Khans, and this just keeps looking less and less like something I want to play.
I think FRF was actually a great set that happened to play like shit in limited (bombs away!) because of the mono-colored necessity of being a swing set in its position. I think Dragons was ok, and I think Origins was decent, minus the art issues.
BFZ is just an incoherent mess.
I have no idea why the fuck Converge is in the set.
Edit: TIMING
But then there's landfall and allies and eldrazi and ingest to enable processors but also ramp into giant eldrazi and also scions and things that care about scions and then theres a SUNBURST MECHANIC and holy shit what the fuck is going on in this set.
I have no idea why the fuck Converge is in the set.
Innistrad being such a runaway hit was the reason we have the Maro & Lauer team for all the big sets now but.......I think we'll come to regret that despite how talented Maro is overall :/ (I haven't seen Lauer whiff yet)
Because Fifth Dawn worked so well the last time we did 5 colors in a colorless set.
No White Eldrazi.There seems to be allies of every color though, and eldrazis too, they're just all devoid
Sunburst. Did anyone ever ask for Sunburst? Then again, it somewhat fits into the set and the cards seem acceptable, although the design of the XUG elf is weird. Could be worse.