Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
It's modern IIRC. Considered going since I've been on a roll with Merfolk but I don't need any shocks rn.
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Magic: the Gathering |OT10| Aether Revolt - That shit that make your Soul Burn slow
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It's modern IIRC. Considered going since I've been on a roll with Merfolk but I don't need any shocks rn.
Wulfric
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GP Orlando was officially a success, except for being sick and congested the entire weekend. That was pretty shitty. I left with a box of Conspiracy 2 from the prize wall, and a cool new artist playmat. The Boros burn build some of you suggested was explosive and beat two different Jund players. I also picked up some Hareruya sleeves for limited, since they came in packs of 50.
sure if you want the set to bomb
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Okay this is a bit ridiculous.
how do you even know the thing in the drags is dead?
and is her right arm kinda upside down? There's a thumb at the top but with the back of the hand to the viewer, which would make it a left hand on the right arm.
I think you're taking a game about elves, humanoid fish, goblins, and dragon-wizards who can teleport at will between universes a smidge too literally.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Taking it too literal would have been asking if the cloth around his dick is just as tight.
SigmasonicX
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The trailer got leaked?
Maybe. I'd estimate that embalm is primarily in black and white (and the BW draft archetype).
This is my guess on the mechanic breakdown
Cycling: All Colors
Embalm: White/Black with a bit in Green
Exert: Red/Green with a bit in Black
Consequence/Aftermath: All colors, primarily Blue/Red
Brick Counters: Green/Blue and Colorless
Based on some of the commons that were spoiled, I expect this to be a slower limited format. Even red gets a 3/4 at 2RR instead of the bog-standard 4/3.
Infinite Stars
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Well, I'm betting the Shard theme is out 100% now. We have Giant Spider at 166 and Oracle Vault at 239. There's no way that we'd get anything significant in Gold by this ordering. Khans ended Green at 158 and Alara at 152.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I wonder if we'll see a street wraith reprint.
charlequin
Banned
Yeah, we'd be looking at an absolute max of about 30 gold cards in the set, assuming a weirdly low number of artifacts; Khans, in comparison, has 56. We also know that none of the set promos are gold, which almost certainly wouldn't happen if multicolor was a significant theme.
Big Icarus
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Guys, that artifact is the only thing that uses "brick" counters. It's probably not a mechanic.
Like Thing In the Ice, and Dark Depths, it has it's own unique counters. Six distinct mechanics, two of which involving counters would be too much even for a large set.
Like Thing In the Ice, and Dark Depths, it has it's own unique counters. Six distinct mechanics, two of which involving counters would be too much even for a large set.
charlequin
Banned
They're on every one of the punchout cards they're including in packs. It's a mechanic.
Big Icarus
Member
Eh, you might be right.
Sometimes though, they overcompensate with an abundance of unique tokens distributed in packs that only one card makes. Ragavan is a good example of this. Those bricks might just be an instance of this.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
This is what I'm talking about, correct me if I'm wrong but this is a left arm
charlequin
Banned
The article does also say that the brick counters "help you build things like" the Vault, rather than only it.
It's blurry but if you look close you can see that the thumb's on the front and you can see the handle underneath it in front of the hand.
Infinite Stars
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The question I'm left wondering is how Bolas fits into this. It's weird to print what will probably be a pushed for competitive Bolas potentially not see play at all because Shards aren't really a thing right now
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Aw yeah makes sense, still looks a bit off but that could be due to the blurriness.
you can play 4 colours very easily right now, vehicles has done it in the past and it's even easier if you are base green. I don't even bother with evolving wilds.
You forgot to add the G in his mana cost, because Bolas, like Urza, is obviously green
There is some Simic in him or something!
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Bolas cloned himself and clones are UG now.
Infinite Stars
Member
Come on, we can slap some White on him as well. Make him the Divine Emperor of Amonkhet, Nicol Bolas.
SigmasonicX
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Alright, time to cover everything.
* Punch cards for counters is great. Hopefully that becomes a thing.
* Brick counters being a theme, instead of just a thing for that one card, is unexpected.
* Embalm is interesting. As for why the mummies are white, the fact that the creatures have embalm means they are probably willingly allowing themselves to be mummified, as society expects from them. I do imagine the reminder text will be quite long, but even if it was short, the nature of embalm's recursion would favor simpler abilities on the creature. It's really interesting that each embalm creature gets its own token; I wonder what this could mean for future mechanics.
* So exert really is "double tap" after all. I wonder how that mechanically fits in with everything else. It certainly doesn't have a particularly Egyptian flavor.
* Giant Spider is back!
* Tattered Mummy has the creature type Jackal, not Hound!
* Surprised the black Welcome Deck uses Raise Dead instead of Disentomb.
* Huh, so I guess the set is actually monocolor. Didn't see that coming.
* The high toughness common creatures makes me think that in addition to the other mechanics, we'll still see wither.
* Punch cards for counters is great. Hopefully that becomes a thing.
* Brick counters being a theme, instead of just a thing for that one card, is unexpected.
* Embalm is interesting. As for why the mummies are white, the fact that the creatures have embalm means they are probably willingly allowing themselves to be mummified, as society expects from them. I do imagine the reminder text will be quite long, but even if it was short, the nature of embalm's recursion would favor simpler abilities on the creature. It's really interesting that each embalm creature gets its own token; I wonder what this could mean for future mechanics.
* So exert really is "double tap" after all. I wonder how that mechanically fits in with everything else. It certainly doesn't have a particularly Egyptian flavor.
* Giant Spider is back!
* Tattered Mummy has the creature type Jackal, not Hound!
* Surprised the black Welcome Deck uses Raise Dead instead of Disentomb.
* Huh, so I guess the set is actually monocolor. Didn't see that coming.
* The high toughness common creatures makes me think that in addition to the other mechanics, we'll still see wither.
A prominent streamer, when discussing how they little they could talk about the invocations ahead of time, mentioned that their preferences were given some weight in terms of who got which spoiler. He mentioned they asked if he liked draw spells, removal spells, counterspells, etc. so it's pretty much confirmed both instants and sorceries are included.
Infinite Stars
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You're forgetting the Grand reveal that he's the Father of all of the Gatewatch, even Ajani.
"I CREATED YOU SO YOU CAN HELP ME STOP THE TRUE THREAT: NEW PHYREXIA"
We already know that Bolas won't show up in card form until Hour of Devastation based on the packaging we've seen.
Exert and Embalm both have memory issues, which is likely why they're trying the punch cards here. The brick counters likely just came along for the ride.
I don't expect Aftermath to be on any commons, so its complexity issues aren't as big a deal.
-1/-1 counters isn't really a mechanic in this sense. Cycling is also simple enough that it could be evergreen if they really wanted it to be.
Exert and Embalm both have memory issues, which is likely why they're trying the punch cards here. The brick counters likely just came along for the ride.
I don't expect Aftermath to be on any commons, so its complexity issues aren't as big a deal.
GoutPatrol
Forgotten in his cell
Has landwalk, they won't do it.
shrapnelmagnet
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Before the spoilers hit in the morning, I am firmly in the camp of the new Masterpieces being Sorceries.
Will find out when I wake up
Will find out when I wake up
Damn.
Streamers are going to have a card or 2 to give out, and we are probably going to see them trickle out through the day, cause streamers live in different time zones and stream at different times. I wouldn't look for anything before 8 AM PDT, which is when the mothership updates, though
Wow and I thought my box was bad. Condolences.
On the bright side, there's always someone worst lol.
Simply Sarah
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I feel a bit ill just looking at that image.
TheBlackMarvel
Member
Damn Ebay snipers, that Avacyn promo is going to wind up costing me a kidney.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Went and bought the remaining fetches I needed for commander. It sucks just how expensive lands are but fetches are just too good.
Yeah I'm trying to collect a set of the rest. I didn't own any Marsh Flats before this box opening so that was a silver lining I suppose. Just weird having to pay this much for these set of fetches when the others saw a standard reprint, dropping them as low as $10 iirc.
I was hoping for a Conspiracy reprint but oh well, take what we can get.
Got lucky with MM so far. Only opened three packs but I managed to get a foil Scalding Tarn. Wife opened three as well and pulled a Snapcaster Mage and a Cavern of Souls. We've got three more packs paid for and to be opened at our next group gathering, but I'd say we're in the positive for good.
Joe Molotov
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Wal-Mart is stocking Japanese Commander 2016 precons now, wut? I saw some at my local Wal-Mart, but they didn't have Atraxa.
Yeah, reports of them have been showing up on reddit for months now.
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