Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I like the fact that the new Force of Will art is.....also Terese Nielson
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why the cutouts in the corners? why the chunky comicsans-esque lemniscate?
it would have looked way better without those things
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
A 1 mana creature with three abilities and an evasion ability? What?
"God's Beard!"
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I thought this was a super old reprint until I saw it had Delirium. That's some strange art for Modern Magic.
Should have been like Eye Gouge where Delirium lets it destroy a Werewolf.
Yeah them not reprinting dual lands is the biggest disappointment in Eternal Masters, but you take what you can get.
So many possibilities. I wonder which gold cards will make the cut too. If it follows a MM-style build, we'll see two per guild. Fingers crossed for Vindicate!
So many possibilities. I wonder which gold cards will make the cut too. If it follows a MM-style build, we'll see two per guild. Fingers crossed for Vindicate!
So I'm guessing eternal masters going to get opened like crazy then people are going to sell when they realize all the good decks require many expensive duals and other reserve list pieces.
SCG already lowered buylist on wastelands to $20 and Forces to $30. I guess I'll be holding onto mine for now lol.
SCG already lowered buylist on wastelands to $20 and Forces to $30. I guess I'll be holding onto mine for now lol.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I think a format shakeup is coming, but I don't know if its anytime soon or if it involves banning the duals, or making a new format without the duals legal.
But I can sense they're not happy with the fact people can't actually play with old cards.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I'm not sure what it would be telling of. I don't think its very likely they exclude it from MTGO, although honestly its not even necessary on MTGO. I would not pay to draft it because nothing on MTGO is worth anything in old formats due to VMA having been in "print" for like 4 months at a time.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Someone on CFB did an article on reserved list free legacy and how it'd mostly compromise the mana bases.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Finally the draft format where I can hit people with Hymn to Tourach and look them in the eye.
I can't see Hymn in this set as anything other than a Rare. It's designed to be drafted!
divisionbyzorro
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Doesn't this mean you should pick up your dual lands now?
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I drafted VMA like 20 times and I might have Hymn'd my opponent (Hymn was an uncommon) like twice. It was very rarely a good play because black sucked because the set did not include Modern legal cards and black was historically balanced around Dark Ritual.
Not unless you want to play the dumpster fire that is Legacy
"God's Beard!"
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Having to use shocks would be a big deal for some decks.
Turn 1->
Shock -> Dark Ritual -> Entomb -> Reanimate -> Activate Griselbrand
17 damage to yourself. The shock is the difference between being dead to bolt or not, or being able to crack a fetch for a second dual land.
It also makes Ad Nauseum worse, etc.
I hope so. Makes me glad I didn't offload them a few months ago and buy into Expeditions.
GoutPatrol
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I thought this was a super old reprint until I saw it had Delirium. That's some strange art for Modern Magic.
It looks very comic book-esque, or like it went through a cel-shaded filter.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
So far the art in SOI looks god-like compared to BFZ
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";195351263]Having to use shocks would be a big deal for some decks.
Turn 1->
Shock -> Dark Ritual -> Entomb -> Reanimate -> Activate Griselbrand
17 damage to yourself. The shock is the difference between being dead to bolt or not, or being able to crack a fetch for a second dual land.
It also makes Ad Nauseum worse, etc.[/QUOTE]
Just don't activate Griselbrand until you connect with it or someone tries to Swords it I guess, in which case you gain 7 life anyways.
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";195351263]Having to use shocks would be a big deal for some decks.
Turn 1->
Shock -> Dark Ritual -> Entomb -> Reanimate -> Activate Griselbrand
17 damage to yourself. The shock is the difference between being dead to bolt or not, or being able to crack a fetch for a second dual land.
It also makes Ad Nauseum worse, etc.[/QUOTE]
Just don't activate Griselbrand until you connect with it or someone tries to Swords it I guess, in which case you gain 7 life anyways.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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[QUOTE="God's Beard!";195351263]Having to use shocks would be a big deal for some decks.
Turn 1->
Shock -> Dark Ritual -> Entomb -> Reanimate -> Activate Griselbrand
17 damage to yourself. The shock is the difference between being dead to bolt or not, or being able to crack a fetch for a second dual land.
It also makes Ad Nauseum worse, etc.[/QUOTE]
but how viable is reanimator anyways?
Turn 1->
Shock -> Dark Ritual -> Entomb -> Reanimate -> Activate Griselbrand
17 damage to yourself. The shock is the difference between being dead to bolt or not, or being able to crack a fetch for a second dual land.
It also makes Ad Nauseum worse, etc.[/QUOTE]
but how viable is reanimator anyways?
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
It would make me laugh if the reason there's no announcement for MTGO is because they're getting the real EMA on MTGO that has dual lands and Gaea's Cradle in it.
but the MTGO date is right there? June 17
I really like tooth collector. One thing i love about hearthstone is the character that pops out of the cards, and things like tooth collector and saddleback lagac hit that sweet spot for me. It feels like tye card has a little life of its own if you know what i mean.
How do you even draft that eternal set, you just plop down 30 dollars?
SOI looks like ana amazing set so far as long as the mechanics actually do work, and worth setting up.
How do you even draft that eternal set, you just plop down 30 dollars?
SOI looks like ana amazing set so far as long as the mechanics actually do work, and worth setting up.
A 1 mana creature with three abilities and an evasion ability? What?
This art is awesome. Really like the FoW art as well
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
They edited that in a few minutes ago.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Wasn't a critique nor disbelief, your avatar was just oddly fitting to the situation.
GregLombardi
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Force of Will being reprinted at all is bigger news than any of these. Mythic seems about right.
Wasteland at rare is a shocker, IMO. I'll be picking up 4 of those.
"God's Beard!"
Member
Reanimator is pretty strong, it wasn't too long ago that it was always at the top tables and it got a slight buff from Jace, Vryn's Prodigy.
The scenario I presented is basically to try and win turn one. You chain Griselbrand into Tidespout Tyrant/Sire of Insanity and lock out your opponent. Later in the game you can just grab Iona or Elesh Norn instead of Griselbrand to win.
You can just get Sire of Insanity turn one but I've lost a few times to that gamble.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";195353198]Reanimator is pretty strong, it wasn't too long ago that it was always at the top tables and it got a slight buff from Jace, Vryn's Prodigy.[/QUOTE]
I don't have that much knowledge of legacy but I only ever saw reanimator in legacy cube. There were some decks that could go reanimator post board though.
I don't have that much knowledge of legacy but I only ever saw reanimator in legacy cube. There were some decks that could go reanimator post board though.
Would love a Bribery reprint... is that reserved list?
Yep, panic selling my Show and Tells before people put together 2+2.
Believe that was first printed in Masques which is the first expansion to not have any reserve listed cards (I believe).
nope, it's in 8th Edition.
I'd love black-border modern-frame Bribery and Plow Under too btw. Only two white border cards in my cube!
GregLombardi
Member
If the fetches are in and at rare, I'll have to go to the Grand Prix in Columbus. If they are at mythic, no way.
Yeah, I'm gonna keep my FoWs still.
Is that what it is? Wow.
Unless that card's name is Spellskite.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Bribery is Modern legal. Fun fact.
GregLombardi
Member
vs.
I think it is correct to keep the old ones regardless, but the new look of the card is...sub par IMO. One CAN open a Foil Force of Will though, and that would be something.
"God's Beard!"
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I love Reanimator. It's extremely fast(the fastest deck in legacy) and deceptively resilient.
You play a full 8 free counter spells, and 6-8 of the coolest cards in Magic:
3-4 Griselbrand: Keeps your deck churning even through removal and countermagic, very quick clock
1 Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite: creature decks like Elves scoop on the spot
1 Iona, Shield of Emeria: basically invalidates many midrange/controlling decks
0-1: Tidespout Tyrant: turbo iona if you can keep the cards flowing
0-1: Sire of Insanity: immediately ends the game turn one on the play, otherwise mediocre
0-1: Grave Titan: Anti-Karakas tech, somewhat hard castable
0-1: Sphinx of the Steel Wind: lol aggro
Reanimator regularly has 1-3 of these in play by turn two.
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";195354719]I love Reanimator. It's extremely fast(the fastest deck in legacy) and deceptively resilient.
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I always felt like Charblecher was the fastest, win or lose. It's either Turn 1 win, or Turn 1 loss with that deck. Unless you meant good decks.
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I always felt like Charblecher was the fastest, win or lose. It's either Turn 1 win, or Turn 1 loss with that deck. Unless you meant good decks.
"God's Beard!"
Member
Yeah, Charbelcher can stay in Vintage lol
SigmasonicX
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* Eerie Interlude seems alright. It's ripe with combo potential, of course. Is there anything in Standard it could work with?
* I like the flavor of Compelling Deterrence, but I'm surprised that monoblue is getting a "return to hand, that player discards" effect, even if it requires a usually-black zombie. One thing to note is that you can do this to yourself to save a creature and cast a madness card.
* As mentioned, Tooth Collector is pretty neat. It has both a flavorful effect and art that's unique for modern Magic that brings a lot of charisma to this madman. It really does look like something I'd expect from Odyssey block.
* Topplegeist has nice art too, and the ability is interesting. I note that both this and Tooth Collector have delirium abilities that trigger on each opponent's upkeep.
Mindwrack Demon also does have the delirium ability word after all. I wonder why that didn't show up on the earlier leak? Did people just avoid it when translating?
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