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Magic: the Gathering |OT11| Amonkhet - Have you ever had decks with a Pharaoh?
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Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
...she's a writer for MTG
Exactly!
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
This says FUCK YOU to Yavimaya Wurm alsoI mean it can only attack every other turn (as a flyer) so shrug? Seems worse than say Topan Freeblade more often than not?
Yavimaya Wurm already did that YEARS ago
I mean so does goddamn Primeval Titan, but yea
Imperfected
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wat
Apparently the only way we can get Liliana cards that actually deliver on the necromancer identity they've created for her is... when she's having her period?
The mystery of the Eldritch Moon at last revealed.
Imperfected
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That's assuming they play a creature, though. What if they're playing vulture-chicken with you and waiting for you to play a creature first?
But, yeah, it's pretty solid.
Then you go Forbidden Orchard, gut shot the token, turn 1 vulture. BOOM; BETTER DELVER.
Infinite Stars
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That GW Exert Uncommon/UW Token booster..
UW is going to be insane in limited if you can get that card
UW is going to be insane in limited if you can get that card
Simply Sarah
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wat
That is amazing. <3
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
So her aging was turned off and then the mending happened and she still looks like 20 something after getting deaged by WotC after she already made the pact but she went through menopause nonetheless?
That doesn't even make sense. I'd like an old Liliana card though if she was old before her pact, which might I say is still the dumbest pact made by demons I've ever read in fiction.
Like Mephistopheles made a better bargain with Faust. Or to be a bit more contemporary Mephistopheles made a better deal with Spiderman.
That doesn't even make sense. I'd like an old Liliana card though if she was old before her pact, which might I say is still the dumbest pact made by demons I've ever read in fiction.
Like Mephistopheles made a better bargain with Faust. Or to be a bit more contemporary Mephistopheles made a better deal with Spiderman.
divisionbyzorro
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Liliana's Flow (BR)
Enchantment
Whenever you activate an ability of a Liliana Planeswalker, put a flow counter on Liliana's Flow.
Remove four flow counters from Liliana's Flow: Liliana's Flow deals four damage to each creature.
Enchantment
Whenever you activate an ability of a Liliana Planeswalker, put a flow counter on Liliana's Flow.
Remove four flow counters from Liliana's Flow: Liliana's Flow deals four damage to each creature.
Simply Sarah
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Huh? It makes perfect sense. The Mending happened and her immortality turned off and she got old. Then she made the pact and had her youth and some of her power restored.
Simply Sarah
Member
This is a good point. It allows you do to things you can't do with Melira since it's a replacement effect rather than preventing the putting of -1/-1 counters on to start with. This is kinda silly, actually.
Poodlestrike
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Hah, nice. Shame needing a white card means you can't just play your whole hand by default turn 1.
Infinite Stars
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Also seems strong with wall of Roots iirc, which seems huge. Not infinite Mana Strong, but still pretty big for interactions.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Then you cast Walking Ballista for 1 billion.
Wall of Roots is -1/-0 counters so they don't interact.
Simply Sarah
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-0/-1 but yes, the good old days of wonky P/T adjustment counters.
I guess they figured blue needed more lasting removal and decided that this was better than printing more Pongify variants. Can't say I'm thrilled.
You don't need the birds if you have the SSG, do you?
ThLunarian
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That's no better than t2 Druid, t3 Vizier. Either way you don't get to go infinite until turn 3.
T1 SSG, Druid and t2 Vizier would be faster though.
I wonder if this could fit in a Jeskai Ascendancy shell
You're right.
T1: Forest, Exile Spirit guide, Devoted Druid
T2: Temple Garden, Viser, Infinite mana
Sorry. Fixed it.
Edit: How are these out of order?
Infinite Stars
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I mean, the cards you'd want for Jeskai Ascendancy would be Untap+Sprout Swarm, right? So why wouldn't you just run Paradox Engine and keep it in GW?
ThLunarian
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Right. There are probably like 10 different shells that you could slot this combo into anyway. An existing Modern deck probably just went up a tier or two
TheBlackMarvel
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wat
To be fair, someone did ask the question.
The Amonkhet Pre Prerelease Stream is LIVE
https://www.twitch.tv/loadingreadyrun
They'll have Aaron Forsythe building his sealed deck in a couple of minutes.
https://www.twitch.tv/loadingreadyrun
They'll have Aaron Forsythe building his sealed deck in a couple of minutes.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
She got deaged between Liliana Vess and every card since.
You're right the rest does make sense, though you'd think necromancy or travelling across highly advanced worlds would include a way to turn off your ovaries.
I'd really like to know her contract though it appears so ill conceived by the demons.
TheBlackMarvel
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Not at all. Best part about both is you can ignore them if you don't really care as well.
Personally, I probably wouldn't have cared except the explanation is hilarious. Totally justifies it imo.
charlequin
Banned
Maybe read again? The angle here is:
- While she was a godlike pre-mending PW, Liliana (like literally every female PW) would have avoided having a period, using her powers.
- When the Mending happened, she started aging naturally and got to be like 60, so she would've experienced menopause as normal.
- When she made a deal for eternal youth with the demons, they would've made sure she went back to being young in every way, including having periods again, because demons are dicks.
Someone asked them about it on Twitter and they went and had an offhand conversation about it at lunch, then Alison reported on it because it's funny.
They decided that it's polymorphing rather than rule-setting and I'm okay with that, white has better creature removal options anyway.
Alison is objectively the funniest person working on Magic and they made a good choice to bump her from social media to creative.
Surely you knew I was joking lol
Obviously the twist is that the baby will be Gideon's
charlequin
Banned
Yes just noting for the peanut gallery!
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
That's not being dicks but being considerate. Being dicks would have been to not restore her to full capacity.
If you take for example Yennefer from the witcher novels who despite being able to retain a young experience went to great lengths to regain the possibility of motherhood without success.
"God's Beard!"
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Cartouche of Solidarity confirmed best card in the set.
Well, the only thing that makes it ill-conceived is the Chain Veil, which the demons obviously wouldn't have known about. Without the Chain Veil, Liliana is no match for any of the demons.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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Wasn't Griselbrand one of the demons and didn't she kill a couple of them prior already?
https://www.twitch.tv/loadingreadyrun
First match of the Amonket PPR is on. Both players seem to be playing Black Green.
Nissa and Liliana on the battlefield.
First match of the Amonket PPR is on. Both players seem to be playing Black Green.
Nissa and Liliana on the battlefield.
TheBlackMarvel
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He was but she used the veil to kill him.
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