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Magic: the Gathering |OT11| Amonkhet - Have you ever had decks with a Pharaoh?
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Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
New Bolas looks great but the other 3 look like artwork they rejected before put to use.
Also the schemes have some real graphic novel art feel to them.
And like red said the decks are trash.
Also the schemes have some real graphic novel art feel to them.
And like red said the decks are trash.
FreedomFrisbee
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I'm still waiting for new planechase cards.
Oh, just found out my lgs is hosting one of the RPTQs on saturday/sunday. Should I bother at all with the LCQ? Just want to try it out and the format for the rptq is sealed so I imagine the lcq would be as well?
I've done a handful of amonkhet sealed already but it is a bit dead brained and samey because of the prevalence of exert.
I've done a handful of amonkhet sealed already but it is a bit dead brained and samey because of the prevalence of exert.
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Transhuman
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What do people think Ash Barrens is going to peak at? I bought 2 when they were 70 cents, another 2 when they were $1.50, now they're $2.50.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
the highlight are reprints of a couple talismans.
Yeah, the downward camera angle and apprehensive facial expressions are good flavor for Archenemy, but it doesn't make them very appealing to use in other contexts.
Imperfected
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I feel like the text accompanying those decks in no way fits the actual decks.
"With no Black and only half a Blue deck, Gideon has to bring white's most powerful control options..."
Oh, so it's going to be a ton of white exile/prison effects? Nope, all creatures, and not even O-Ring on a Stick creatures. Well, uh... okay?
"With no Black and only half a Blue deck, Gideon has to bring white's most powerful control options..."
Oh, so it's going to be a ton of white exile/prison effects? Nope, all creatures, and not even O-Ring on a Stick creatures. Well, uh... okay?
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
There's a lack of motion to them as well. It looks more like they are posing than mid combat.
The new artwork for Bolas looks great, it's a shame it's the old Bolas and not Nicol Bolas, God-Pharaoh.
Yeah, I noticed this as well. "White's most powerful control options" apparently = more creatures than any of the other decks. Not even a board-wipe to be seen in there.
Yeah, I noticed this as well. "White's most powerful control options" apparently = more creatures than any of the other decks. Not even a board-wipe to be seen in there.
Simply Sarah
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Ah, but it says "white's best control elements" and so it does! See, there's a single tapper, a hatebear, two flicker effects, and even two exile effects! See, they touched on most of the major strong elements! Just, uh, not in any amount and not with particularly strong examples of them.
Yet they didn't reprint the entire cycle. I HATE when WOTC does stuff like that. It could be years before the entire cycle get a reprint and if I want to use the same set symbol for each card I have to hope they get reprinted all together :/
Maro wrote a very in-depth article about mechanics and where they fit on the colour pie:
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/mechanical-color-pie-2017-2017-06-05
He's also teasing something big for next monday (announcement day hopefully).
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/mechanical-color-pie-2017-2017-06-05
He's also teasing something big for next monday (announcement day hopefully).
Gods I hope not. Such terrible, terrible sets. Maris sense of humour is such an absolute fail in card form. The fact he's had two shots and both have been big failures leaves me hoping they will never waste the time on a silver bordered set again.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
We could have a return to kamigawa instead.
FreedomFrisbee
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There's a lot in there. I haven't read through all of it, but I did look through red. There's a lot of stuff in there that straight isn't represented in cards yet so I can only assume its future set stuff? Like red having permanent edicts. As in 'target player sacrifices a permanent' is apparently in red. Unless there's a hidden rider in there that says that it has to also be a random sacrifice to be bad and therefor red.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Simply Sarah
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Some of the stuff listed is extremely rare and it's just that when it does show up it tends to be colour(s) X (,Y, and Z).
Edit: For example, there have been only four cards with "End the turn" on them. One is an artifact, two are blue, and then you have Glorious End in Amonkhet (Which is basically just the Final Fortune version of Time Stop).
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
can't be countered is certainly not primary red. It goes green > red > blue
he doesn't mean impulsive draw with this.MaRo on primary red said:
It's primary on red for spells, green for critters, and they print it on more critters than spells.
Imperfected
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He didn't put the rider that if similar effects appear in both Red and Blue the Red version has to be strictly worse, because it's assumed to be common knowledge.
Bolas himself looks good. The rest? They looked scrunched up.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Red still has secondary bounce lol.
makes sense. MaRo should clarify that.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
It's kind of weird - obviously crappy B art appears on these products all the time, so I assume its on purpose.
I mean, the Planeswalker deck versions of cards also look hideous.
Also, it would make me laugh if it turned out Stony Silence (or Damping Matrix) is in Hour of Devastation and we're up in arms over nothing. Even though it isn't.
I think that fancy lands would be the only thing of interest to me in a new Un-set. I really don't get why people want one, and would really like someone to let me know the appeal, I am seriously curious!
Numbers don't stop people like this.
cooltrainer
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I think one of red's biggest problems is that it's considered a "spell color" in that it's alongside blue in most of it's power is in instants and sorceries instead of creatures. But design has shifted to give more power to creatures and planeswalkers. So red rarely gets pushed creatures but also lacks a lot of the powerful stuff blue gets to play with. It's been a little bit better in most recent sets but I feel like they are too afraid of making good red permanents.
I think the un-sets are fun too. I think it's interesting from a design standpoint what they can do when they are not so constrained by what's possible. I like the humor too though most people here don't seem too. Would be interesting to see un-set planeswalkers. I missed the pre-release for Unhinged but my friends had a blast doing it. I don't see it really affecting other things that much but maybe I'm wrong. Wizards puts out tons of products I don't give a shit about and I still get way more than I need.
I think the un-sets are fun too. I think it's interesting from a design standpoint what they can do when they are not so constrained by what's possible. I like the humor too though most people here don't seem too. Would be interesting to see un-set planeswalkers. I missed the pre-release for Unhinged but my friends had a blast doing it. I don't see it really affecting other things that much but maybe I'm wrong. Wizards puts out tons of products I don't give a shit about and I still get way more than I need.
shrapnelmagnet
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Honestly. I mean it. Anything else. Even a reprint of a previous Un-set.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
To quote kirblar, why would you make an un-set when you could make literally anything else?
This is actually a Matt Tabak quote, which shows you why this is actually never going to happen.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Un-sets are like if World of Warcraft came out with an 8-boss comedy raid tier that was LFR difficulty and where all of the gear dropped was non-transmoggable cosmetic items.
For me, the best things about Un-sets were references to old cards, and Time Spiral block did all of that way better than any of the Un-sets did, so why bother doing another one?
Maybe if they did an MTGO-only set that abused the fact that none of the cards were available in paper. But even then, I'm not prepared to go back to MTGO just for one joke set.
Maybe if they did an MTGO-only set that abused the fact that none of the cards were available in paper. But even then, I'm not prepared to go back to MTGO just for one joke set.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
He said recently he's pretty sure he'll get one
Yes but someone last week asked a core set question and he specifically said that his article on the 12th would cover the subject.
Imperfected
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They could call the new set Unpublished, and that could also be reflective of its status.
You are talking about a different thing. No one is saying that next monday's article is about a new un set.
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