Etrian Oddity
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Those Modern/Legacy/Vintage combos are so boring
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Magic: the Gathering - Battle for Zendikar |OT| Lands matter (but nothing else does)
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Rhinos have been primarily green though.
Play Triumph of Ferocity and Greater Good (Sylvan Library is too expensive) for some much needed digging. I also like Green Sun Zenith as a silver bullet but that's on the pricey side. There's also Worldly Tutor. Add Savage Beating for extra combat steps. Seems better than Furnace of Rath and Dictate of the Twin Gods. If your group plays a lot of blue, Vexing Shusher and Spellbreaker Behemoth are nice to have. Finally, you have to have Ruric Thar. He can be your lieutenant! I also really like Spearbreaker Behemoth.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Interestingly of the 26 Rhinos 10 are green, 7 White, 7 Multicolor and 2 colorless.
They should be white though flavour wise.
Shuggananas
Banned
Whatever just call it siege giraffe lol
Are you familiar with the Sumatran rhino?
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
No but I assume it lives in a jungle, when people think of rhino they don't think of South East Asia though and the first rhino had art in a dry scarce environment.
Long oversight we didn't have Giraffe creatures yet
I usually don't join the doomtrain that chugs through the mtg community during spoiler season (this set is worse than a butthole full of wasps! rabblerabblerabble!) but....man this set does seem well... waspy buttholey.
I'd love to be surprised though with an awesome limited game and surprise value cards.
I'd love to be surprised though with an awesome limited game and surprise value cards.
divisionbyzorro
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Probably because white already uses the exile zone pretty heavily and (theoretically) so do the Eldrazi, but for a very different purpose.
I hope that's a lotus cobra... but then I'll be sad since we wont see it reprinted
Pretty cool it has haste though.
EDIT: 5c Allies baby! Also, if the picture isn't working for you (it isn't on my work computer and occasionally doesn't load on chrome on my phone) heres the link to the site: http://www.planetmtg.de/articles/artikel.html?id=6941
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
They really want standard elves to become a thing. In modern I'd rather have the cantrip elf though
I want 4 for my ally deck though, don't tell me it's a rare.
Come on it's a 2CMC mana dork you can only spend on creatures. If I don't get an expedition or at least 2 Kiora's from all the packs I'm going to buy I'm gonna hate myself.
I want 4 for my ally deck though, don't tell me it's a rare.
Come on it's a 2CMC mana dork you can only spend on creatures. If I don't get an expedition or at least 2 Kiora's from all the packs I'm going to buy I'm gonna hate myself.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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Off the top of my head I can only think of how you can tap untap it with intruder alert and obviously any flicker will let you tap right away again. Got nothing else though.
divisionbyzorro
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If I wanted to abuse a dork that gave me mana straight away, I would use Burning-Tree Emissary.
EDIT: I'm watching the Modern Super League replay from last night, and I'm getting a lot of joy out of watching Patrick Dickmann show how good Bounding Krasis can be in Temur Twin. Also, Dickmann finding the right line in game three as both of the casters are talking about two less-optimal lines was awesome. I'll be honest - I didn't see Patrick's line, but it was great.
It's a rare.
I don't feel like I'm sticking my neck out too much to suggest they have Reach.
A Serious Man
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I'm going to really miss Sylvan Caryatid.
"God's Beard!"
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It's not that amazing in Standard Elves unless they print another 1CMC elf that's playable.
It's
another Lotus Cobra.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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[QUOTE="God's Beard!";179003839]It's not that amazing in Standard Elves unless they print another 1CMC elf that's playable.[/QUOTE]
If B/W elves moves into black more they could use gnarlroot trapper. He ramps into this card nicely
If B/W elves moves into black more they could use gnarlroot trapper. He ramps into this card nicely
A Serious Man
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He's no Enthralling Victor, that's for fucking sure.
"God's Beard!"
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When I say another, I mean other than Trapper which is currently the only 1CMC card that's playable in elves post-rotation. Thoughtseize and Elvish Mystic are both rotating out. Elves will never be good enough with only 1 1CMC card to play.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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1 4cmc lord isn't enough to play thornbow archer I guess and BfZ really didn't offer much in that regard so far.
Will depend on the commons and uncommons to be shown.
Will depend on the commons and uncommons to be shown.
my name is ed
Banned
Hey I figured this might be a good thread to ask this question:
Does anyone know what the contracts that artists get for doing illustrations for games like Magic look like?
Feel free to ignore if this is a little too off topic.
Does anyone know what the contracts that artists get for doing illustrations for games like Magic look like?
Feel free to ignore if this is a little too off topic.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The third card is what makes this janky. Just swing with the giant Knight.
divisionbyzorro
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EDIT: Ignore me. They just spoiled common processors. Finally.
Shuggananas
Banned
divisionbyzorro
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It's a set fee per piece, and you give up all rights to the piece. I can't remember how much per piece though. It might vary based on what kind of card it's for.
I don't know why some people thought there wouldn't be enough ingest/processors without seeing all of the common/uncommons. MaRo has said plenty of times if your theme doesn't work at common it can't be your theme, so getting nervous after seeing the rares is a little weird.
I think a lot of the cards that will make this set "feel" eldrazi-like will be at common/uncommon.
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I think I've read that its around an average of $1000 a piece, but I could be completely wrong on that number.
I think a lot of the cards that will make this set "feel" eldrazi-like will be at common/uncommon.
Edit:
I think I've read that its around an average of $1000 a piece, but I could be completely wrong on that number.
A Serious Man
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Well I'm going to have a good time trying to make a Drana/Hardened Scales Abzan deck work.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
That happened with Dragons
A Serious Man
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Kiora ult octopus
Awesome. Too bad we'll never actually see them since her -2 is where all the power is.
Fair enough =\
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Drana is the Brimaz of the set - big value creature that gets out of hand if you let her live too long.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I mean, 3/1 Elemental with Haste, Trample is a pretty standard Red token. (okay tramples a bit new)
Wonder what makes it though
I was referring to the art. Looks weird to me.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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In limited the processors lose a lot of value if you're behind in boardstate.
Like the new Voidmage, you need to have an ingest creature and at least gotten through once or one of the exile spells to bounce anything. It being able to trade with 3 toughness creatures is a small upside.
I really like the white + processor synergy though. Making all your exile enchantments removal instead and getting extra value off of them.
for which archetype though. Isn't Anafenza just better for Abzan, Esper Dragons?
Like the new Voidmage, you need to have an ingest creature and at least gotten through once or one of the exile spells to bounce anything. It being able to trade with 3 toughness creatures is a small upside.
I really like the white + processor synergy though. Making all your exile enchantments removal instead and getting extra value off of them.
for which archetype though. Isn't Anafenza just better for Abzan, Esper Dragons?
Same basic CMC too. Do I smell a cycle brewing??
Of course I'm kidding about that
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