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Magic: the Gathering |OT11| Amonkhet - Have you ever had decks with a Pharaoh?
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Oh true. Funny- I was trying a Magic: The Puzzling in an issue of Topdeck magazine yesterday, couldn't figure it out for the life of me, flipped to the solution- and discovered it only worked under 6th edition rules. It involved a creature with Muzzle on it (Aura- prevent all combat damage this creature would do), and part of the puzzle was attacking with it, putting damage on the stack, and then killing it with a kill spell so the Muzzle effect went away and the damage on the stack happened normally LOL
Good, not broken. Power level of Jace 5 (without being the most unfair limited card of all time)? Seems like a control finisher/mirror breaker
Always Watching might be a build around
A few more pushed exert cards, and an Always Watching weenie build might be able to outrace Mardu Vehicles and put sufficient pressure on Copycat.... Which would bring back Liliana decks to prey on white weenie.
.... Or Mardu Vehicles just starts running more Walking Ballista and pings off your X/1s, and nothing changes. But still! Definitely a good time to pick up $1 copies of Always Watching.
God damn.
Hasn't reanimation been a 5 mana thing for a while? We just... get a planeswalker with it now? That's pretty awesome. She even stays at two loyalty afterwards, so you can't ping her down after she reanimates your Ulamog/Kozilek/Decimation Twin.
Making 2/2s while ticking up is always nice, too.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
A PW at 2 loyalty and w/ summoning sickness then.
They are, I didn't play competitively until after they were done, but...yeah.
The M10 changes getting rid of damage on the stack was the best thing ever though. (Morphling is now bad again!)
The poopy one's in the starter decks.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
There's been a RWb reanimator deck based around Refurbish. Most of the reanimate targets were gearhulks.
Decimator of Provinces and Desolation Twin are all I'm coming up with. Maybe Emeria Shepherd if you want to go completely nuts.
edit: nvm, I'm dumb, those are cast triggers. Gearhulks/Demon of Dark Schemes probably the best you can do.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
The second one is for the starter decks, there will be a Liliana too
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Daaaamn, unconditional reanimate when she comes down and she still sticks around.
Hot damn, indeed. Looks like I'm building a Mummy deck lol
Drop Liliana on turn 6, reanimate Emeria Shepherd, play a plains, bring back Linvala or Demon of Dark Schemes?
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If only we had an Orzhov Signet or Mind Stone.
this too
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_/¯If only we had an Orzhov Signet or Mind Stone.
this too
Drop Liliana on turn 6, reanimate Emeria Shepherd, play a plains, bring back Linvala or Demon of Dark Schemes?
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If only we had an Orzhov Signet or Mind Stone.
There is this thing:
With self-mill or discard, its not hard to enable it.
This is the Liliana that I have always wanted them to make. I'm gushing over this card right nowReposting for top of page.
Daaaamn, unconditional reanimate when she comes down and she still sticks around.
Giant Panda
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I want a hound lord.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Actually this Liliana and Gideon both feel the closest, mechanically, to what their creative identity has always been supposed to be. I sort of hope this is a sign going forward that they recognize they were getting too wide in their versatility
I think I'd rather just reanimate Noxious Gearhulk with her.
We just got Release the Gremlins, which is fairly better than Manglehorn.
There is this thing:
With self-mill or discard, its not hard to enable it.
If only there were cycling cards to use.
Red gets bears with upside now for 1R
Hard not to be OK wit hit when green is getting things much bigger at similar CMCs.
keeblerdrow
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Gearhulk reanimate was almost a thing before aether revolt.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I actually really like the Planeswalker Deck pack in Gideon. As do I like the card that fetches him. I think you could make it work in commander, Token builds could use him very well.
Yeah, something like Noxious Gearhulk is a pretty good target, but I dunno. The last time I remember reanimator being a big thing (considering I skipped a LOT of standard) was Unburial Rites + Angel of Serenity, and that was fucking nuts.
Still, probably a good thing that there aren't any targets that powerful.
Ultimate_Trainer
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For Corrupted Graftstone, Would different color aftermath cards be counted for both colors or just the first half?
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I'd run unsubstantiate over that
charlequin
Banned
Will we see M20 back in 2019?
The problems that having a core set created for them (like, say, spending a ton of money on a set that no one liked or spent money on buying) were way, way bigger than the piddly shit that's "wrong" in the current setup. All of the problems with Standard balancing they have now can be fixed in much less goofy ways than bringing back something that was always a bad product.
Of the two of them I think it's really only GAoZ who's been notably off from his intended identity and there's all kinds of shit going into that particular case.
I don't know, this seems like a good remand variant. Instead of drawing any card you draw Comply. Seems really good for tempo decks.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Unsubstantiate bounces creatures. It's the versatility it has over comply. It's not really card draw when the card you're drawing is conply.
Imperfected
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I can at least use that Lily for a zombies deck. Hopefully there are some nice mummies to ride along with her.
No wonder they banned Reflector Mage.
I think you are undervaluing it. This card is much better than Unsubstantiate for tempo decks since you are essentially not losing a card. Delaying their spell a full turn after you have already delayed it by bouncing it is really good.
Liliana of the Dark Realms was pretty off base, but that was a long time ago and you maybe meant in standard and/or in a post-Origins world.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I actually had LotV in mind honestly, she was always more "generic killing magic" than "necromancer" to me
^ "one or more" prevents it from being totally busted with Snek. Still a really cool build-around with some cross-block synergy.
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So probably Nissa tomorrow and the remaining 3 gods next week.
Spoilers have been killing it for the last two days.
Also, cropping Lili's awkward foot makes that art officially god tier.
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So probably Nissa tomorrow and the remaining 3 gods next week.
Spoilers have been killing it for the last two days.
Also, cropping Lili's awkward foot makes that art officially god tier.
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