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Magic: the Gathering |OT11| Amonkhet - Have you ever had decks with a Pharaoh?
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SigmasonicX
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why no planeswalkers?
Yeah, this could have actually been a non-ban answer to Copycat in that case.
Still, this does work against vehicles. And yeah, I'm surprised how quickly red jumped on the super-bear bandwagon after getting its first plain old bear Eldritch Moon.
You know what? I think I'll cut my Skullcracks for this dude. Only problem is that I give Collective Brutality even more targets, but I'm never winning against that shit anyway.
EDIT: Improves A Command as well, so maybe this shines more in a creature build like those RG Bushwhacker decks?
EDIT: Improves A Command as well, so maybe this shines more in a creature build like those RG Bushwhacker decks?
keeblerdrow
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Now that's a good ass card.
Lantern Control has another card to worry about, I guess.
Because it would basically blank almost every planeswalker.why no planeswalkers?
You say like it's a bad thing.
2 damage a turn, the player with PWs can fight through it.
No.
gideon goes to 2 and still gets a bear
Big Icarus
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But you can still redirect this to Planeswalkers if they fetch with a walker on their side of the battlefield, right?
Yeah, but Chandra uses Flames Slash dies. Ob Nixilis uses Murder and dies. And also, that scenario puts your opponent in a situation where they can only plus Gideon, which makes it go to one. Without removing the bear first, you basically don't want to use your Planeswalkers anymore.
No, they can't really. Most planeswalkers have +1 or +0 abilities. Redirecting the damage to the planeswalker, effectively makes all loyalty abilities cost -2 more. It gets even worse when you have multiples of these in play.You say like it's a bad thing.
2 damage a turn, the player with PWs can fight through it.
I think this will almost certainly see play in standard; if it were a 1/3 so that it could survive shock, it might be one of the top cards to be.
charlequin
Banned
this is good as heck. shock you or your PW every time you crew a vehicle, every time you equip something, every time you sac a guy to ravager, every time you fetch a land. can definitely see it getting some real use.
I think it's a fair trade since historically killing a planeswalker with a spell is a 2-for-1.
Now that's a good ass card.
Legacy burn finally got what it needs to help it fight miracles. Those sensei activations are going to really hurt now. One of the best cards of the set for modern/eternal formats.
Every time you use Scavenging Ooze. Every time you activate a creature land. The list is endless.
Boogalogist
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Wow. I really like Harsh mentor. Great disabler card!
divisionbyzorro
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I can't even believe you just said that.
You know what this is? This is an anti-bullshit button.
Now that's a good ass card.
And I love it.
SigmasonicX
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This Entertainment Weekly article has more information about the set beyond the cards it revealed.
* Beyond the shifting sands of the desert are the Broken Lands, containing the ruins of ancient civilizations. No one has gone there and returned to tell of them.
* Unrevealed cards (with just art) are Sandwurn Convergence, Heart-Piercer Manticore (oddly with no wings), Grasping Dunes, Painted Bluffs, Soulstinger (oh hey, we do have a CGI Rock card!), Ornery Kudu, and Defiant Greatmaw,
* Beyond the shifting sands of the desert are the Broken Lands, containing the ruins of ancient civilizations. No one has gone there and returned to tell of them.
* Unrevealed cards (with just art) are Sandwurn Convergence, Heart-Piercer Manticore (oddly with no wings), Grasping Dunes, Painted Bluffs, Soulstinger (oh hey, we do have a CGI Rock card!), Ornery Kudu, and Defiant Greatmaw,
Mardu has crazy answers for it (Unlicensed Disintegration is a hell of a card) and Copycat just combos off on it.
btw the set has some pretty sweet art, flavor-wise it's already way ahead of Kaladesh
it's sort of funny that the answer to the deck is a basic 3 mana removal (okay, with a lightning bolt attached to it)
it's sort of funny that the answer to the deck is a basic 3 mana removal (okay, with a lightning bolt attached to it)
CeruleanSilver
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These are just beautiful!
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Karn wasn't a golem back in the day.
Imperfected
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I have a friend who loves artifacts, and even vehicles, and the whole of Kaladesh.
He's interning in design at Wizards in a month or so. Weep for the future.
He's interning in design at Wizards in a month or so. Weep for the future.
"God's Beard!"
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The winning move I've chosen is not to play
The white cartouche really makes me want to play bogles again though.
charlequin
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None of these is innately a problem... as long as he's going into design, anyway.
What's his name?
Imperfected
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None of these is innately a problem... as long as he's going into design, anyway.
What's his name?
Corey. He's a solid gentleman and loves Magic like no other designer I know, so I have relative confidence in his overall abilities, even if I give him the side-eye every time the matter of vehicles/Kaladesh Standard comes up.
Infinite Stars
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Vehicles would 100% be a non issue if Pithing Needle was in Standard
In fact, name Me a standard that wouldn't be better with Pithing Needle in the format.
In fact, name Me a standard that wouldn't be better with Pithing Needle in the format.
Infinite Stars
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Vehicles would 100% be a non issue if Pithing Needle was in Standard
In fact, name Me a standard that wouldn't be better with Pithing Needle in the format.
Crap, double posted this. That Red Rare could be the missing link in Red White Hatebears, honestly.
In fact, name Me a standard that wouldn't be better with Pithing Needle in the format.
Crap, double posted this. That Red Rare could be the missing link in Red White Hatebears, honestly.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
So Bolas rolled in, devastated the plane, built his little city in a bottle to breed warriors, than got de-deified in the mending and its been running along on its own ever since?
This is my favorite setting in quite a while
Imperfected
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As tempting as it is to bring in snakes to eat the frogs, and mongooses to eat the snakes, I think sometimes the better solution is not to have a plague of frogs to begin with.
I don't think Vehicles actually contribute anything of value, and they fail some basic design questions that should have been asked before they committed to them, so it's hard for me to want to design around their problems rather than not having the problems to begin with.
the fact that he didn't make the plane should tell you that he boasted about it dragon style
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I've come around on vehicles in modern. Which essentially is just the looter scooter, really great in weenie decks.
Infinite Stars
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Looter Scooter is amazing in Modern. If it wasn't such a nonbo with Thalia/Stony Silence Post Board, I'd be jamming 4 of them in Modern D&T. It turns Blade Splicer/Inspector into actual threats.
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