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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?"
And now they'll get banned a week from Monday!
She has killed griselbrand and kothophed so far.
Why? She is a planeswalker with hundreds of years of experience in black magic. The demons are just random creatures at the end of the day. They aren't immortal. She can only beat them with the chainveil which will probably backfire in hour of devastation.
I don't know how many times I've tried to sign up for the beta and been burned by WotC's shitty website. Normally I can't even make an account successfully, just getting helpful "Something went wrong; please try again" errors. I was able to make a Wizards account just now and fill out the sign-up form (which is apparently a customer service ticket, including fields that don't make any sense), but have yet to receive even the 'your ticket was filed' confirmation email. But the ticket is listed as 'solved' online, which means...? Maybe it'll work itself out in a couple of days (how long should it take?), or maybe I'll forget and try again when Hour comes out.
At least now I have an account. Before I kept having trouble setting up an account, and was unable to file a help ticket because I didn't have an account. That was lovely.
TheBlackMarvel
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But, given enough time, they should reform.
I assume the veil allows her to stop that happening.
It's always been bullshit that demons could do this but angels couldn't.
It's always been bullshit that demons could do this but angels couldn't.
Wulfric
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These are just regular tangolands with the expedition art yeah? I don't even know how to get them from my store.
I love RB group slug/ punisher decks. People are too greedy and durdly in EDH and these decks just eat them.
Also, that cinder glade looks ace. I'll try to get my hands on some for my modern deck.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Yeah you had to compete in 6 standard events until today to get one officially.
I've started to make decks that are my own worst nightmare. I'm so greedy with land count and such.
I'm in the phase of learning all the card names/artwork through sealed simulators. Is it just me or does this format feel like it might be kinda slow? Not just sealed, draft as well. Although that red one-drop that gives something haste might be pretty potent, could be even constructed playable perhaps?
Imperfected
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You could just play him in Group Hug.
I think playing Tibalt is bad enough that it qualifies as assisting your opponents.
It's a format w/ heavy amounts of recursion and card advantage. It'd be weird if it wasn't slow.
Because black has reanimation while and self recursion while white only has reanimation on other permanents.
I'm super doubtful that gideon will see a ban. He is about to rotate soon. If anything it would be heart of kiran and I doubt that would happen since they just printed a ton of artifact hate. Wizards hates banning things so if anything gets banned it's Guardian. (which I am also not 100% convinced will happen because they just banned a ton of cards from standard) Banning things in standard is like pushing the emergency button. With the start of a new set they probably let it ride and then ban cat in hour of devastation if it's too oppressive. That's how I see it.
He's rotating in 6 months! If they don't ban him he'll continue to dominate standard until then, rendering all other aggressive 4 CMC cards irrelevant.
Fwiw, I don't think they'll ban him unfortunately, I think they nix the cat and maybe heart of Kiran.
I agree with the cat ban but I don't think they will pull the trigger on it. I doubt Kiran gets banned because of how much artifact hate that they just printed. They will let it ride on HoK. Gideon is an issue the same way that Collected company/siege rhino/pack rat/Thragtusk were issues of their times. Doesn't mean that you ban them.
Imperfected
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If they ban Heart of Kiran it's practically just admitting that Vehicles are a mess, considering they already hit Copter straight out of the gate. I think stubborn pride saves the stupid thing, to the detriment of Standard.
2 mana big evasive cheap to crew vehicles are a mess.
There is no reason to ban it when they printed so much artifact hate. One of the reasons why HoK was so rampant is because artifact hate sucked. Now that they just printed tons of it (and graveyard hate for scrapheap) it would make no sense to ban something from the deck. At the very worst you let it ride for a set. Cat is a different story since the combo is just bad design for a standard environment that is devoid of great planeswalker hate/pithing needle effects. You can at least interact with artifacts.
Imperfected
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Oh, I don't disagree, and I do think they should ban it. I just think they won't, because if they do, what are they left with to show of Kaladesh's vehicles? Skysovereign and Fleetwheel Cruiser?
Aethersphere Harvester would probably see play.
shrapnelmagnet
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That Devoted Druid card is basically sold out everywhere 
Scooped mine way earlier. Hopefully they don't cancelThat Devoted Druid card is basically sold out everywhere
Played R/W burn at Modern for the first time tonight, where I couldn't find destructive revalues so I actually had no green cards in my 75 despite having a Stonping Grounds (make them think though)
Went 2-2 loosing to Jeskai Nahiri and Bant Eldrazi, and beating Mardu Tokens and the Mirror. Deck is way harder to play than I imagined- I think I kept a lot of hands I shouldn't have, and I didn't realize till 3 turns in
Went 2-2 loosing to Jeskai Nahiri and Bant Eldrazi, and beating Mardu Tokens and the Mirror. Deck is way harder to play than I imagined- I think I kept a lot of hands I shouldn't have, and I didn't realize till 3 turns in
That Devoted Druid card is basically sold out everywhere
Meh that combo reminds me of the Allosaurus Rider combo.
blue looks fun in limited. I'm pretty sure you could play a lot of spells that do nothing or have a late-game effect as long as they cycle for 1-2 mana, letting you dig for your value cards
like, I would be tempted to play 3 compelling arguments in my deck
white seems really solid as usual
like, I would be tempted to play 3 compelling arguments in my deck
white seems really solid as usual
It's surprising how much decision making goes into playing burn. Granted, it's still maybe not as much as other decks, but it's not as straightforward as you would think.
Eldrazi is a tough match up. Thought-Knot can come down early and it blanks all of your creatures and burn spells. Just gotta hope they can't play it early lol.
Did MM17 sealed. Most valuable card was a foil Serum Vision. Yeah I'm done dropping money on that set lol.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Natural State was a thing as was a bunch of other artifact destruction I don't see anything in AKH that's so much better than what we had available making those obsolete. There's the instant that cycles and the 3 drop and the X Spell that you can find equivalents for already.
It's not just 4CMC that he makes irrelevant he also makes tapping out on 3 impossible.
In a world where people play Gamble he oughta be playable somewhere. If that ends with him being ignored all the better. Insurrection is no joke.
Infinite Stars
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Burn is one of the easiest hardest decks ever. It's easy to see it on a Stream and killing on turn 3/4 and mock it for being autopilot.deck, but to master it is super difficult.
Like, you don't want to spread out your burn against DS because they'll kill you if you do. Likewise, Guide/Eidolon are probably the two best cards in the deck.. except against Bant Eldrazi where they quickly lose board presence
TheBlackMarvel
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I mean, that's an awful flavour justification for it.
Imperfected
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They'll probably still run a monster over to twat him just for giggles. The problem with PWs in multiplayer is that they're very "diplomatic" targets.
Really excited for the prerelease next week. The set looks really sweet and different to Kaladesh to play. Can't wait!
I wonder why
I wonder why
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Lol what is this card, also funny that they made instants with activated abilities before, even if they change it in the oracle text for this one.
Bad ones still tend to be ignored until a "what does his ult do again, oh shit kill this thing" moment.
Lol what is this card, also funny that they made instants with activated abilities before, even if they change it in the oracle text for this one.
Bad ones still tend to be ignored until a "what does his ult do again, oh shit kill this thing" moment.
I run one in Teysa! Always hilarious, always unexpected.
GoutPatrol
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Lol what is this card, also funny that they made instants with activated abilities before, even if they change it in the oracle text for this one.
Bad ones still tend to be ignored until a "what does his ult do again, oh shit kill this thing" moment.
They were never activated abilities. That was how they wrote "at an additional cost" effects back then. They changed it in Urza's Saga.
Really excited for the prerelease next week. The set looks really sweet and different to Kaladesh to play. Can't wait!
I wonder why
Not because of Slayer's Plate!
"God's Beard!"
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it sux
charlequin
Banned
The only spell that's ever had an activated ability as part of the spell itself (as opposed to an alternate cost/thing you can do with it like Cycling, Flashback, etc.) is Lightning Storm:
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Aw need too many cuts tibalt has to go.
Urgh still need 5 cuts from this. Maybe I shouldn't go too hard into the megrim effects or maybe I should cut the whole reanimator package.
that's the weirdest templating to say that.
It's a weird thing in fantasy in general, not just MtG. For some reason it's a fantasy trope that angels die when killed, but demons usually come back.
Play Tibalt to send a message.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
If you can convince me on a single cut that isn't the reanimator package I'll do it. I really want to.
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