Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Seems good in my Ojutai deck (lol)
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Magic: the Gathering |OT11| Amonkhet - Have you ever had decks with a Pharaoh?
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Seems good in my Ojutai deck (lol)
Samurai are so boring though. Bushido is just an awful ability. What would a good new Samurai legend look like? Takeno, Samurai General but more colors?
A UB Ninja legend would be 1000x better.
That is a bit of my point. I will definitely throw him into my scion deck, but I wouldn't use him as the general. He is stronger in the 99 where I can cheat stuff into play, then the next turn grab teneb and bring the ur dragon back.
ThLunarian
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I think it'd be cool to have a WR guy that gave all your Warriors and Samurai both Bushido and Flanking.
And indestructibility on everyone else's turn.
So like:
Uematsu, Samurai Exemplar
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Legendary Creature - Samurai Warrior
Knight creatures, Warrior creatures and Samurai creatures you control have Bushido 1 and Flanking 1, and have indestructible if it's not your turn.
Sacrifice a Samurai: Each opponent loses life equal to the sacrificed creature's power. You gain that much life.
charlequin
Banned
Yeah, monocolor is too limiting to design and there's almost no tribe that you actually need to do that with. Certainly all the classic characteristic races have been bled to one or two other colors in the past.
They won't do humans for two reasons: they're not thematically exciting enough (they'll want to choose creature types which can be showy and have good conceptual variance for legends that are all tribal in orientation) and to do them justice they'd almost certainly have to be a five-color deck, which is already taken by dragons here.
Nah the Eminence keyword is absolutely perfect for this situation.
Eminence -- As long as this is in your command zone or on the battlefield, Samurai you control have indestructible on your turn.
Samurai are already fragile as fuck (and hard to cast) so I think making them indestructible wouldn't be a bad thing.
Would you like divinity counters with that?
Just imagine the guy got a hold of the taste of divinity or something, I dunno.
Samurai you control enter with a divinity counter on them. They are indestructible as long as they have the counter. Remove a divinity counter from a permanent you control: do X.
Oloro was already busted because Lifegain by 2 every turn is insane
Infinite Stars
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Also, there's a 100% chance of one of the commanders being fucked up in terms of balance. 2013 had Derevi/Oloro/Prosh,2014 had.. someone I remember hearing people bitch about, 2015 had Meren, 2016 had Atraxa/Breya. It's basically a yearly thing that the new commander decks end up creating something stupid.
I mean, joke suggestion of Rhys, because Abzan Elf Commander just screams Rhys(has been G and GW, but is/was a part of the Gilt-leaf group, so...)
Fair point. I still expect some more boring and predictable choices instead of the off-the-walls ones that I'd rather see. Maybe not Humans, but Elves, Zombies, and Merfolk are all fair game.
Joe Molotov
Member
Maybe it's time to bring back Spikes.
charlequin
Banned
I'm actually guessing Eminence is pretty narrowly defined -- literally a price reduction for one tribe, every time.
I would also lean against zombies (though definitely not exclude) just because they've been hit so hard in standard-legal sets this year. Elves and Merfolk both have viable three-color executions (Abzan and Esper respectively) and are very popular with players.
Cylia from Alara, Disa and Taaveti from the Ice Age era, Eidren and Gryffid from Lorwyn, Fonn and Myc from Ravnica are a few that meet at least the notability standard that the cat dragon does.
I would also lean against zombies (though definitely not exclude) just because they've been hit so hard in standard-legal sets this year. Elves and Merfolk both have viable three-color executions (Abzan and Esper respectively) and are very popular with players.
Cylia from Alara, Disa and Taaveti from the Ice Age era, Eidren and Gryffid from Lorwyn, Fonn and Myc from Ravnica are a few that meet at least the notability standard that the cat dragon does.
ChazAshley
CharAznable's second cousin
Source: Mythic spoiler
Source: Mythic spoiler
We've been discussing this and other leaks for the past page or so
also: mythic spoiler is never a source, they just compile spoilers from other places
ThLunarian
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I'll be in New Orleans for work next week. Does anyone know of any good gaming shops in that area? Especially ones that have board games, but even if they don't, I'm still interested.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Since they're digging deep for the new c17 legends I'm really excited to see the other 3 decks now.
Really? I don't recall any.
Santiako, Mythic Spoiler sometimes actually is given real spoiler cards from WoTC
Really? I don't recall any.
Slivers make a ton of sense, except they probably don't want to reprint any of the ones with older templating, which would defeat the purpose of the deck.
I stand by my Kavu prediction though. All 5 colors, they are apparently still all in Dominaria, and we are probably going there soon
I stand by my Kavu prediction though. All 5 colors, they are apparently still all in Dominaria, and we are probably going there soon
Even though Kavu are mostly terrible cards (FTK aside), I'd love a R/G Kavu deck, since I love their look and concept.
Imperfected
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I'm thinking Dragons are the only five-color deck. Like, as neat as it would be to see a five-color Angel or something, I'm betting the rest of the decks are three- or four-color.
CoconutTank
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I still want bat tribal
Vikings or pirates or ninjas would be cool
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Some people are up in arms about Amaz getting invited to the next PT by WotC.
it's entirely the "nuhhhhh hearthstone in muh magic" crowd.
Which is funny since we have RNG Marvel.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
It's funny since people celebrate when Kibler attends but he's probably worse at magic than Scamaz rn.
Because Kibler was in MTG first.
hmmm I wonder... is Marvel their attempt at creating RNG-style hearthstone cards in paper? I wonder if we'll see more of that creativity.
Collected Company, Marvel, I don't think it's an accident. It's also been terrible for the game.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
let's not pretend there aren't a million precursors to these types of effects. The only thing that's changed is how pushed they've been.
I've gotten Summoning Trapped into Emrakul enough times in my life.
I've gotten Summoning Trapped into Emrakul enough times in my life.
Exactly once
Well yeah. If these were at Summoning Trap level there'd be no issue.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The MTG community is always up in arms about goddamn something
I mean, if B&R discussions don't convince people that the human race is not collectively smart, I don't know what will.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Marvel is stupid and unfun, but so are a lot of things. I don't think you need to ban Marvel.
The arms are up all the way down in mtg land
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
They should ban Ulamog so people have no choice other than to play Kozilek, the Great Distortion for once.
I would laugh my head off.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I mean, Kozilek is really strong in reality, but it's a much fairer card than Ulamog is. You can interact with it, or at least attempt to catch back up because the second Kozilek is far worse than the second Ulamog.
I don't know that it would be better than Sandwurm Convergence.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I was thinking this exact thing last week
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
The point was that this type of effect isn't new. They aren't hearthstoning it up, they just suck at balancing.
But wouldn't the point be to push cards with this type of wording to invite players from other games who like RNG-style gameplay?
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Ban Ulamog at the next B&R announcement. Then ban Kozilek at the last ban announcement before rotation so he doesn't feel left out of the "banned from Standard" club.
I don't agree. The effects are a lot more pushed than they ever have been in terms of just winning games. Cascade is the last big mechanic that worked that way but it wasn't nearly as dumb as Marvel is.
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