RG werewolf lord and RG werewolf tribal legend are not mutually exclusive. Maybe her creature side will tutor for werewolves or something an enable a tier-1 werewolf deck in standard?
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RG werewolf lord and RG werewolf tribal legend are not mutually exclusive. Maybe her creature side will tutor for werewolves or something an enable a tier-1 werewolf deck in standard?
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I'd prefer it if she wasn't that much tribal actually. A commander doesn't have to be particularly tribal to be good, it's much more important that it's thematically sound to me and actually a good card.
Probably because Tazri already existed in concept.
Probably because Tazri already existed in concept.
Infinite Stars
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Come to think of it, why the hell doesn't Gideon, Ally of Zendikar tutor for Allies? They obviously wanted Allies to be a deck and it would have given them a stronger push, plus with Gideon having done his best "We're here to talk to you about the Seagate Initiative", it would have been flavorful vs Generic " All Creatures you control get +1/+1".
BFZ continues to find new ways to confuse me in it's design.
Angry Grimace
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That's my point: Racist Nissa was an Elf tribal walker that tutored for Elves and everyone hated the card to the point they re-wrote her character. Planeswalker design has reached the point where it feels like they design them such that they're not part of linear strategies and more of cards that are designed to be generically good in decks of the right style and color.
I just see a lot of practical and mechanical deckbuilding restrictions. I'm guessing that whoever it is that won't shut up about a Legendary RG Werewolf legend was looking for a Lord along the lines of Mayor of Avabruck or Master of the Wild Hunt or something.
charlequin
Banned
She'll be a Garruk-style PW with two sides because in her backstory she sparked as a teen and she's much older now -- the Origins walkers were all specifically their young selves. Both sides will be PWs because she explicitly can planeswalk in either form. (As someone else mentioned, the inability to shift on other planes is definitely there so they can do single-sided versions in other blocks.)
All this stuff is telegraphed by the story, because the character bio is pretty much written to support the gameplay they're interested in.
I'll reread later but I'm leaning towards mono-green based on how she's presented so far. Her backstory could support white but I think a white werewolf would be weird.
Right, Arlinn doesn't actually achieve the things people were looking for in a WW legend.
They also already have a character they can use for this which, again, has a backstory designed to support a mechanical element: Tovolar, the werewolf who never turns back human. I feel pretty confident that they'll just check both boxes individually rather than try to jam them awkwardly together.
My theory was that Origins and BFZ had a lot of reused concept art, slapdash digital, etc. as part of the troubled handover to the two-block system, and so far SOI is suggesting to me that I was on the right track. They've also increased the number of art directors so it wouldn't surprise me if they had one junior AD working exclusively on each block now, which should help a lot if true.
For one, as people have mentioned the cursemute never actually affected every single werewolf, but secondly they've indicated that it's an ongoing effect that Avacyn needs to sustain rather than a one-time thing, so the corruption of the angels is causing it to wear off.
Angry Grimace
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A return to Innistrad is just so much more exciting IMO than a return to Zendikar because Zendikar is inherently generic and defined mostly by Eldrazi at this point. It just has way more interesting lore by default.
I've always felt like people's prior desire to return to Zendikar was influenced far more by the power level of the Constructed cards and the limited environment of ROE (which was not a realistic target to return to).
I've always felt like people's prior desire to return to Zendikar was influenced far more by the power level of the Constructed cards and the limited environment of ROE (which was not a realistic target to return to).
Angry Grimace
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Since Sealed Leagues have no timing restriction on deckbuilding, let's see what you guys think:
Guardian of Tazeem is bomby, I guess and blue seems sorta okay? IDK about the rest of this. Most of the sealed I play prereleases and I tend to be very much "just play whatever the coolest card I opened is," which in this case is "literally nothing."
But yeah, looking through the cards without time, I think its better than I initially thought - black/blue seems the way to go.
Guardian of Tazeem is bomby, I guess and blue seems sorta okay? IDK about the rest of this. Most of the sealed I play prereleases and I tend to be very much "just play whatever the coolest card I opened is," which in this case is "literally nothing."
But yeah, looking through the cards without time, I think its better than I initially thought - black/blue seems the way to go.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Well blue is a given, after that it's between black or white.
Mindmelter is really mean once your opponent is hellbent. I'd go UB colorless on a first glance. Looking at that Essence depleter definitely UB, that card is absolutely firstpickable and blue gives you a lot of colourless sources. Warping Wail is also great. Counter a sorcery and killing an X/1 or 1/X is more applicable than it seems. Pool looks pretty great in that regard just missing a prophet.
Mindmelter is really mean once your opponent is hellbent. I'd go UB colorless on a first glance. Looking at that Essence depleter definitely UB, that card is absolutely firstpickable and blue gives you a lot of colourless sources. Warping Wail is also great. Counter a sorcery and killing an X/1 or 1/X is more applicable than it seems. Pool looks pretty great in that regard just missing a prophet.
charlequin
Banned
The parts of Zendikar's setting with a bit more texture to them were the look of the plane (pretty great, but this mostly begins and ends at the full-art lands), the god/eldrazi mythos (that was interesting while it was a mystery), and the Adventure World thing (that's dropped completely in BFZ.) That leaves you with something super flat and generic, like you say, when it's just "ZEN vs. Eldrazi."
Angry Grimace
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Right now I have blue/black/colorless and vaguely enough cards to fill out the pool.
It looks better than I initially thought.
divisionbyzorro
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure UB Colorless is your best bet. You'll be able to get real value out of Swarm Surge, which is nice. And you have Essence Depleter and Dread Defiler for reach. I think you're fine.
Angry Grimace
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I would splash Dragonmaster Outcast in any pool regardless haha. It's an unbeatable bomb if you untap with it with the right number of lands. You have a shitload of black removal though with Tar Snare, Demon's Grasp, Grasp of Darkness, Disregard and Oblivion Strike. The lack of playable creatures in those colors is pretty bad though.
divisionbyzorro
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You have a Green/White and a Green/Black deck. My gut likes the Green/Black deck better, but that might just be my natural bias.
Green: Oran-Rief Invoker, Snapping Gnarlid, 2x Netcaster Spider, Tajuru Stalwart, Saddleback Lagac, Embodiment of Insight, 2x Nissa's Judgment, Tajuru Pathwarden, World Breaker (11 cards)
Black: Grasp of Darkness, Complete Disregard, Tar Snare, Vampire Envoy, Mire's Malice, Null Caller, Oblivion Strike, Demon's Grasp (8 cards)
Splash Dragonmaster Outcast. Play Seer's Lantern for a little bit of ramp and better topdecks when the game inevitably goes long. That's 21 cards.
I assume this deck wants to play 18 lands, so you need one more playable. I think you might go hard on the splash and play either Touch of the Void or Radiant Flames. Or you could play Canopy Gorger for a piece of beef.
You have options when sideboarding to lower or raise your curve, which is really nice.
I would also build the GW deck and have it saved to your playable decks to be able to switch in game two if you think that the matchup requires you to be proactive. Or, if you're just more comfortable with GW, start there and be able to side back into GB if you need to slow the pace of the game down.
I like your pool. It has a lot of play to it.
Green: Oran-Rief Invoker, Snapping Gnarlid, 2x Netcaster Spider, Tajuru Stalwart, Saddleback Lagac, Embodiment of Insight, 2x Nissa's Judgment, Tajuru Pathwarden, World Breaker (11 cards)
Black: Grasp of Darkness, Complete Disregard, Tar Snare, Vampire Envoy, Mire's Malice, Null Caller, Oblivion Strike, Demon's Grasp (8 cards)
Splash Dragonmaster Outcast. Play Seer's Lantern for a little bit of ramp and better topdecks when the game inevitably goes long. That's 21 cards.
I assume this deck wants to play 18 lands, so you need one more playable. I think you might go hard on the splash and play either Touch of the Void or Radiant Flames. Or you could play Canopy Gorger for a piece of beef.
You have options when sideboarding to lower or raise your curve, which is really nice.
I would also build the GW deck and have it saved to your playable decks to be able to switch in game two if you think that the matchup requires you to be proactive. Or, if you're just more comfortable with GW, start there and be able to side back into GB if you need to slow the pace of the game down.
I like your pool. It has a lot of play to it.
Joe Molotov
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Yesterday, my LGS was giving everyone a pack that voted. I got a World Breaker out of my free pack. Thanks, Obama!
Angry Grimace
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I don't think Arlinn will be a creature at all. Her storyline strongly suggests she can move back and forth between wolf and human but the way Planeswalker cards work with loyalty counters would make it mechanically awkward for her to have both creature and Planeswalker types.
The Origins type Plansewalkers can do it, but they aren't ever meant to flip repeatedly.
MTGO sealed leagues let you change your deck in between rounds (or even create multiple decks to switch between) if you don't like what you ended up with.
The Origins type Plansewalkers can do it, but they aren't ever meant to flip repeatedly.
MTGO sealed leagues let you change your deck in between rounds (or even create multiple decks to switch between) if you don't like what you ended up with.
divisionbyzorro
Member
Yeah; I might not have explained it that well, but that's what I was getting at. I would build both the GW and GB decks and have them saved to be able to pick and choose after sideboards. I would default to starting the GB deck, but that's a personal bias and might not actually be right.
I've actually just been playing a lot of Khans of Tarkir sealed, thanks to the MTGO beta, and I've played very little OGW sealed. So it's possible you should just ignore my advice altogether. 
"God's Beard!"
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Doing some practice drafts lately on cockatrice to get ready for this week's Sealed online PPTQs.
Just wound up with this one:
C O N S I S T E N C Y B O Y Z
Just wound up with this one:
C O N S I S T E N C Y B O Y Z
Angry Grimace
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I don't understand how free drafts are supposed to help you with a Sealed PPTQ.
I'm not even saying that to be mean - it seems like you could just generate a pool anywhere. Or does this have a top-8 draft component (in which case it seems a bit much to be preparing for Top 8).
I'm not even saying that to be mean - it seems like you could just generate a pool anywhere. Or does this have a top-8 draft component (in which case it seems a bit much to be preparing for Top 8).
"God's Beard!"
Member
Mostly to make sure I keep up with all the combat tricks, etc. I do sealed practices as well.
Angry Grimace
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Won my first round easily
Lost my second round (I only played one game and had to leave to take care of a client)
Won my third round (good games, won off of an Essence Depleter chumping that 8/9 Trample guy and winning on the crackback through a huge board stall with my Guardian of Tazeem)
Lost my second round (I only played one game and had to leave to take care of a client)
Won my third round (good games, won off of an Essence Depleter chumping that 8/9 Trample guy and winning on the crackback through a huge board stall with my Guardian of Tazeem)
SigmasonicX
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Wizards sent a mysterious package to a guy named ReyWombat (original tweets in Spanish, this Reddit thread has translations).
The box contains silverware, a pocket watch, cloth, and a hashtag: #SOIkickoff.
Unboxing, part 2
"These must be melted down. The armorer needs silver for the roof and top of the wall. Can you send these to him?
Thank you,
Oliver Hayfield"
The box contains silverware, a pocket watch, cloth, and a hashtag: #SOIkickoff.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Join the conversation by using the hashtag #SOIkickoff
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Does anyone use hashtags on Twitter?
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Having looked at my Twitter feed, the answer is "yes, everyone." Most people don't post things as far as I can tell, just celebrities or businesses.
Also, I'm just lost again in Sealed to the guy with a multiple Mythics, same as the last time I lost. /sadface
Edit: And whoops I dropped at 2-2 because I mistakenly thought I was 1-3 but I was 2-2 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
No but in gaf #doingitright
3-0 with that deck. Played a guy who had 2 Nissa (1 foil), but the rest of his green seemed attrocias and his deck sucked.
Only for stuff that I know people that follow me might not care about and want to filter out (like if I'm tweeting during a Wrestling show), or for irony's sake.
Only for stuff that I know people that follow me might not care about and want to filter out (like if I'm tweeting during a Wrestling show), or for irony's sake.
Wow, that's some Google Translate level Spanish in that note.
The Technomancer
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divisionbyzorro
Member
How has Warden of Geometries been for you? I expected it would be mediocre to bad; has it been better than that?
Given how many (very popular) apps have horrible German descriptions in the Google appstore I assume it must be pretty hard.
Yeah she's really cool. Reminds me of Sigourney Weaver. I think it's the smile?
4-1 to finish out the league.
It was OK when I had it. Used it to activate Worldbreaker one game, and the ramp was helpful to get me to a 5 drop on turn 5 when I didn't have a 5th land.
It was OK when I had it. Used it to activate Worldbreaker one game, and the ramp was helpful to get me to a 5 drop on turn 5 when I didn't have a 5th land.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Not to be ungrateful but that box is "wow its fucking nothing"
IDK WOTC must not realize we don't care about anything that doesn't tell us what cards are or do
IDK WOTC must not realize we don't care about anything that doesn't tell us what cards are or do
I'm going to laugh when the rest of that box of SOI that's out in the wild gets shared tomorrow
SigmasonicX
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By the way, I'm still perfectly willing, but in the interest of fairness, does anyone else want to create the SOI topic?
I refuse to think even Google Translate would botch things that badly. "deben ser fundidos" is bad, but "¿se puede tomar estos a él?" is a literal word-for-word sutitution of "could you bring these to him?".
They were better off sending it to some guy in an English-speaking country rather than embarassing themselves in public with this... abomination (
oh hey, I guess it's on-theme for Innistrad after all!
Angry Grimace
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Used the Play points from going 4-1 to jump back in for a new pool
Here is my first draft, though I don't feel great about it, or splashing for the 2x Oblivion Strike
I'm leery of "jumping back in" all that often as its horrible value unless you win all of the time and unlike real cards, the digital ones aren't worth anything.
This is one of those events that would be a good way to use packs before the implementation of Itchy & Scratchy Money because it wouldn't cost an actual 28 dollars to enter. Of course, you only need to win three matches to get 1/2 your entry back in the form of ICM and in theory, that's not that hard, lots of people have 1700-1800 ratings in MTGO. But I feel like since Sealed is pack wars, eventually luck will catch up to your and your rares will all be Hedron Alignments and you will get smashed and straight up lose your entry.
I guess they were trying to say
Hay que fundirlos
El armero necesita plata para el armamento del techo y la cima del muro.
Puedes llevarselos?
Gracias
Only thing is I have no clue what they ment with armamento del techo, that translates to ceiling weaponry lol.
Maybe it was, para armar el techo? (to build the ceiling)
Next time better send it to a English speaking country lol
Hay que fundirlos
El armero necesita plata para el armamento del techo y la cima del muro.
Puedes llevarselos?
Gracias
Only thing is I have no clue what they ment with armamento del techo, that translates to ceiling weaponry lol.
Maybe it was, para armar el techo? (to build the ceiling)
Next time better send it to a English speaking country lol
But if your rares are all Hedron Alignments you can try to make a deck out of them at least. What sucks is when only 3 of them are rares, since then there is no way to even use them.
Angry Grimace
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Kamigawa has the same problem Mirrodin does in that the third pack is just random nonsense that has nothing to do with the previous two packs. My luck has been so bad today I expect my first opponent to just turn 2 drop Jitte to put me out of my misery.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I am not certain it is actually possible outside of your opponent hitting you with Witness the End or some kind of shenanigans where you cast Scour from Existence on your own Hedron Alignment.
ThLunarian
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3-1 with Pod in No Bans Modern. Lost to Twin; beat two storm decks through hate bears; and beat up on Tezzerator by comboing around Ensnaring Bridge.
Was a good night! My deck is far from optimal too. Excited to tune it for the next one
Was a good night! My deck is far from optimal too. Excited to tune it for the next one
"God's Beard!"
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Doesn't sound like anybody went too deep into the ban list, but congrats!
ThLunarian
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[QUOTE="God's Beard!";197401469]Doesn't sound like anybody went too deep into the ban list, but congrats![/QUOTE]
Eh... I encountered Thopter/Sword, Twin, Dig, Treasure Cruise, Rite of Flame, Seething Song, Misstep, and artifact lands. There was some broken stuff happening.
And thanks!
Eh... I encountered Thopter/Sword, Twin, Dig, Treasure Cruise, Rite of Flame, Seething Song, Misstep, and artifact lands. There was some broken stuff happening.
And thanks!
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