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Magic: the Gathering - Battle for Zendikar |OT| Lands matter (but nothing else does)
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Familienoberhauptvogel
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I just searched for power 4 or greater on legendaries and got a pic from the last page sorted by editions and somewhere in the last 3rd there were plenty more
and in regards to merfolk, stands to argue that they are a crew though
A ship full of Merfolk has more power and toughness than a single Merfolk.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I mentioned as much in my edit. I'm just not a fan of the old new comments they are so tiresome and Magic was always inconsistent when it comes to art and the card.
We can equip slimes with boots.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";178752395]Most people would have. It's objectively the most popular Zendikar Island.
I mean, look at their picks for the reprint cycle, it's like 1/5 for good choices:
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Swamp, Mountain and Plains are all either ny first or second pick. Forest us the only real one I wish was different
I mean, look at their picks for the reprint cycle, it's like 1/5 for good choices:
Swamp, Mountain and Plains are all either ny first or second pick. Forest us the only real one I wish was different
So basically the swap to the new block size and rotation system damaged development of this set? Fantastic :/
I've never seen WOTC miss a deadline for ANYTHING. Not a lot of businesses can claim the same. What likely happened was that they just couldn't justify moving the BFZ block (since that would impact the design of other nearby blocks) or redoing whole swathes of the design and still make their deadlines with confidence :/
Gameplay > Flavor. You can't have humans that cost 5+ mana all be 2/2s.
I've never seen WOTC miss a deadline for ANYTHING. Not a lot of businesses can claim the same. What likely happened was that they just couldn't justify moving the BFZ block (since that would impact the design of other nearby blocks) or redoing whole swathes of the design and still make their deadlines with confidence :/
Gameplay > Flavor. You can't have humans that cost 5+ mana all be 2/2s.
New Magic player who wasn't around during the original Zendikar, but I think all of the reprint lands look fantastic with the possible exception of Forest. Forest got a little better when I noticed the cool pyramid near the bottom, but it isn't quit as awe-inspiring as the others.
The issue might really be that pretty much all of the lands from the old Zendikar are great, so there's little consensus on which one is the best.
You can't move it.
The problem with the Eldrazi go beyond basic mechanical issues and go to a core misunderstanding of what they should evoke.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Unless Rosewater isn't bullshitting and he actually thinks vanilla 10/10s inspire dread
divisionbyzorro
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding Maro's article, but it sounds like they were partially through design for this set when they decided to change to a 2-set model. Why wouldn't you put that transition off until before you were starting the next fall set?
Oh, there's enough defensiveness in his answers regarding them that I think this is absolutely the case.
Because the core sets have not been selling.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
They may also have been running into pre-planning issues with making BFZ work as a three set block, plus who knows what pressure there was from on high
I'm not advocating humans or similar humanoid species be small all the time. Look at Kamahl, Pit Fighter. He's 6/1 which is awesome and flavourful because he's a barbarian with a big ass sword.
This merfolk though is just a scrawny wizard slash terraformer. Same with Tasigur, basically. I mean, what did he exactly do that can be considered as impressive? At least someone like Arcanis is badass because he's omnipotent and a pit fighter.
"God's Beard!"
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Combining both Zendikar sets these are my favorite full-arts:
I can't stand the desaturated Jung Park lands. Full arts should be bright and easily visible.
Also, I just realized how much better the new frame is for the basics. Very Medieval, nice classic feel.
It's almost shocking how poor a choice pinching the bottom is in retrospect. Makes the land feel less weighty.
The Noah Bradley Swamp might be my new favorite full art of all time. It's composed for the frame so well.
I can't stand the desaturated Jung Park lands. Full arts should be bright and easily visible.
Also, I just realized how much better the new frame is for the basics. Very Medieval, nice classic feel.
It's almost shocking how poor a choice pinching the bottom is in retrospect. Makes the land feel less weighty.
The Noah Bradley Swamp might be my new favorite full art of all time. It's composed for the frame so well.
Tasigur was powerful in a more political sense
SigmasonicX
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The flavor here is incredible.
Deepest lore
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
divisionbyzorro
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Apparently Buttcrack guy has been unbanned just in time for the prerelease, and now has a front-page post on Reddit posing in front of a hedron. :lol
Who? Is there a story here?
SigmasonicX
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He went around a game store and took pictures of everyone who had exposed buttcrack while they were sitting, and proceeded to put them on Reddit. This was considered bullying, so he was banned for a while.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
There was some hubbub when someone went to a GP and posted a buttload of pictures of players having their buttcracks exposed on some social media. Is he that guy?
divisionbyzorro
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About a year and a half ago, he posted this to Reddit. It's currently the third highest upvoted post of all time over there, and was number one for a while.
He was banned by WotC for 18 months for reasons.
Ooooh those by Sam Burley look pretty damn good.
agreed, the forest and mountain look pretty interchangable though (but still the best of the bunch)
dayum, this is embarrassing pull up your pants people
Oooooh, I like this. Very useful in commander with big artifact creatures.
divisionbyzorro
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That's pretty cool. It's not quite as good as Eye of Ugin in the long game, but it's not a dead draw early which is cool.
And why namedrop Ugin? Seems like a hint that he might get another card soon
Hecatonchires Custom
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EDH Animar loves this card. Cast Kozilek for free, go fetch Ulamog, play it for free.
Sanctum looks fine for EDH, but isn't it a bit weird that it's clearly built to work with Eldrazi? Shouldn't it work against them? Like fetching creatures in response to an opponent playing a 7 mana spell, or get colored creatures?
I'll put it in Animar to fetch various colossi, but I'm not happy about it.
I'll put it in Animar to fetch various colossi, but I'm not happy about it.
never trust a colorless planeswalker
More cards to fetch Hangarback Walker
Familienoberhauptvogel
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More cards to fetch Hangarback Walker
this actually works with hangarback since it asks when you cast and on stack the X counts for CMC
helloresolven
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More cards to fetch Hangarback Walker
edit: Oh I cannot read.
You can fetch any mana cost creature
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The entire concept of BFZ seems like it would be cool in an open world video game.
And not particularly cool as a set of cards
And not particularly cool as a set of cards
In my time not really, can't remember how M15 previewed but that's kind of expected out of a core set, and even then we had Nissa.
I've only been around since Theros, and had no idea how that previewed; Born of the God's for a small set had some really strong/constructed staple cards; Courser of Kruphix, and Brimaz off of the top of my head, but I thought there were a few more, and Journey brought with it a G/W planeswalker and the new gods.
I remember being pretty pumped for Khans, and the fetchlands.
SigmasonicX
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For a large non-core set, this is the most negative reaction to a set that I've been around to see, yeah.
Shuggananas
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SigmasonicX
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from Blake Rasmussen (DailyMTG Chief Editor) on Twitter
Another "feels like an uncommon" card. I really wonder what the uncommons and commons are like.
Shuggananas
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