divisionbyzorro
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I mean, the card is awful, but hilarious. You can't chain them together for any real effect. It's only playable with Platinum Gideon, and it's not like that combo even wins you the game.
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Magic: the Gathering |OT11| Amonkhet - Have you ever had decks with a Pharaoh?
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I guess thats some typical cheekyness for the spoiler season...I'm not so sure how "glorious" it is.
For future reference: I am not saying the card is good or bad. It may be amazing and break every format, it may be horrible and never see play ever. I'm just covering my butt for when we look back to see how we did on rating these cards.
Simply Sarah
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Wait. Why is everyone here treating it as a joke? Sure, it's that. But this is also the set with the new Gideon in it and 2R for Time Stop is the real deal. It may or may not be playable but it's certainly something to consider.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Yeah at the worst it's a final fortune for 2R instead of RR. Gearhulks can even flash it back.
Remembrance
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It's not a less expensive Time Stop, it's a more expensive Final Fortune.
Timing.
Timing.
I could see Scapeshift decks using it in Modern.
Hmm. I've been working on a red blue taking turns deck. The fact that you can use it on yourself the turn you're about to lose is interesting. Maybe at 8-9 mana you can cast an extra turn as well as skip the end phase that turn keeps you around. Not sure if it's viable, but it's interesting.
Simply Sarah
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It's both. It's Time Stop with Gideon emblem and almost Final Fortune (opponent gets to untap) otherwise.
SigmasonicX
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I really want a Limited game where my opponent taps out their creatures to finish me off, but then I cast Glorious End before blockers are declared, so then I can tap out to finish them off.
SolidSnakeUS
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I remember when they basically tried to eliminate the use of the word "stack" from MTG lol. But glad it's back, because it makes sense. But seriously, that card can be fun, especially if you so fucking close to beating them and you know you can next turn.
"God's Beard!"
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Hopefully you can win the game your next turn, but you could always use Disallow to kill the suicide trigger.
"God's Beard!"
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...uh oh
A LOT of people are going to get caught with their pants down in an alpha strike with this card.
I'm going to enjoy coming up with cheesy ways to use the card's name in a sentence
"Oh I'm dead am I? Well I guess you'll just have to meet your GLORIOUS END"
"What a GLORIOUS END to avoid death from!"
"GLORIOUS END you have there. Shame if something were to happen to it..."
I'm going to enjoy coming up with cheesy ways to use the card's name in a sentence
"Oh I'm dead am I? Well I guess you'll just have to meet your GLORIOUS END"
"What a GLORIOUS END to avoid death from!"
"GLORIOUS END you have there. Shame if something were to happen to it..."
In my head, when this spell gets countered, I'm not going to be able to help imagining the guy tackling the minotaur missing his mark and just diving headfirst into the spike pit.
I'm brewing with it; it seems really strong and Eightfold Path Gideons is crazy.
Gideon has to get banned
Funny thing is, Gideon Martial Paragon isn't terrible for the deck you want to cast Glorious End in - you want to untap your dudes and get +1/+1 for the reverse alpha strike
Gideon has to get banned
Funny thing is, Gideon Martial Paragon isn't terrible for the deck you want to cast Glorious End in - you want to untap your dudes and get +1/+1 for the reverse alpha strike
lol
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
This set looks really neat in a "not full of broken bullshit" way.
It's a toolbox set. Lots of new gears and gizmos to stuff into decks.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I'm just saying, I don't see something insanely stupid like Aetherworks Marvel or Gideon, AOZ, I see a lot of cards that look fun to try and build something with.
Agreed. I am liking the 2nd sets (Shadows/Amonkhet) way better than the first.
StrategyFan
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gonna play some mtg after not having touched it for 15 years
curious to see how many people turn their heads sideways to read this stuff versus turning the cards sideways
looks like i can find 1 draft per week & 1 sealed per month in my area
what's a good way to know during a draft how much a rare/mythic is worth so i can choose between it or a stronger common/uncommon for my deck
curious to see how many people turn their heads sideways to read this stuff versus turning the cards sideways
looks like i can find 1 draft per week & 1 sealed per month in my area
what's a good way to know during a draft how much a rare/mythic is worth so i can choose between it or a stronger common/uncommon for my deck
Either way will let you know they have an aftermath card
On rare-mythic drafting, just look it up on tcgplayer on your phone. you got time.
Infinite Stars
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It feels very, very much like the old Intel Tick-Tock Cycles of CPUs, where one block completely flips Standard upside down and the following is a return to "normal"in terms of Design/Development.
The worst parts of SoI Block/Standard weren't in the set proper(Queller is fine without CoCo). Edit:
Wrong, forgot about Liliana warping White Weenie out, Queller being generally bullshit,
and Emrakul the Promised Ban
Edit: I do think they need to stop making Artifacts be the focus of blocks though, because the biggest offenders in Kaladesh block were artifacts that used a new Mechanic. Vehicles and Marvel could have been fine if we had actual answers to them vs what we have.
Double edit:Forgot about Liliana,Emrakul, etc. I'll fix that.
Did previous sets have so many broken bullshit then? Always felt that the overall power level was on its downswing, with only the Eldrazi in Oath being really broken because of ROE lands. Standard felt mostly stale because of its lack of good answer to a few real threats.
But this is like the first set in four blocks that feels decently designed. BFZ and SOI had some serious design decisions that still baffle me and didn't live up to their predecessors, and Kaladesh was OKish but fell short on its execution.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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Woah, woah, woah stop rewriting history. EMN was garbage for standard. Spell Queller was a core piece of UW flash, Emrakul was dumb in GB delirium and turbo emrakul just the same and grim flayer was another pushed cardboard. Ishkanah was also a particularly loathed card before the bans.
Amonkhet looks a bit boring in regards to standard, really just in a what do I need for my deck way.
Amonkhet looks a bit boring in regards to standard, really just in a what do I need for my deck way.
Infinite Stars
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What Designs in SoI were so awful compared to Original Innistrad? None of the SoI mechanics were anywhere near as shit as Fateful Hour and for an evolution of Innistrad it made thematic sense.
The power level has been stupid on Threats recently, that's the issue as a whole.
This site has a good quick look at the expensive cards in the current sets: http://mtg.dawnglare.com/
Familienoberhauptvogel
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EMN gave us Liliana, The Last Hope tho
Uh this is incredible in limited and if it's constructed playable another piece that makes combat hell.
Did you already forget Skulk?
EMN gave us Liliana, The Last Hope tho
Damn that's good.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Uh, the power level is not low at all, but "power level" is a legitimately meaningless metric concerning Standard because Standard environments don't play against other Standard environments. It's that the balance of power has shifted towards undercosted fatties with spells stapled to them, rather than lots of powerful answers like Mana Leak, Doom Blade, etc.
EMN gave us Liliana, The Last Hope tho
This is going to fuck with a lot of embalm tokens over the next year or two.
Yeah no shit that card is banned. This is more similar to Flickerwisp (much narrower though).
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I guess I just don't see Gideon of the Trials being particularly broken. Every deck that exists can answer a Planeswalker. Even if you run 0 removal.
Good stuff.EMN gave us Liliana, The Last Hope tho
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