Simply Sarah
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Karn, Bolas, and a restored Teferi would be the real retro options. Yes, I know Bolas wasn't on a PW card until Conflux but he has existed as a character since Legends.
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Magic: the Gathering |OT11| Amonkhet - Have you ever had decks with a Pharaoh?
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Karn, Bolas, and a restored Teferi would be the real retro options. Yes, I know Bolas wasn't on a PW card until Conflux but he has existed as a character since Legends.
Imperfected
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If they're doing standard tribes in Aztechland I want to see Aztech Vampires for reasons that are more or less entirely JoJo's Bizarre Adventure related.
FreedomFrisbee
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SigmasonicX
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I think it's pretty likely that Commander 2018 will have a five color Urza commander.
Let's ask charlequin to list all the reasons Urza is part green :3
CoconutTank
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So I actually tried looking for bat tribal decks and stuff I can use for bat tribal, but the pickings are quite slim. Seems like I would have to allow for technicalities like Skeletal Vampire or Belfry Spirit, which makes Bat tokens, and maybe demons and vampires in general because they're associated with bats in pop culture.
Which hometown? Wasn't Urborg devastated by the invasion of the Phyrexians?
keeblerdrow
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Subject Line: Liliana Vess lives in Shittown, Dominaria.
FreedomFrisbee
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Maro asked what we wanted to see in Return to Dominaria right? Anyone have a link to that Blogatog question?
If the set isn't just called Dominaria they're doing it wrong.
If the set isn't just called Dominaria they're doing it wrong.
SigmasonicX
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I expect it to be called Dominaria's Legacy, followed by Karn's Destiny.
I mean it's a return to form for the plane as a whole, so calling it Dominaria would be apt and also really really badass. A re-introduction for newcomers to MTG and a celebration of MTG as a whole.
You know it would be funny if it was called
Dominaria's End lmao
"We're moving the center of the multiverse to Ravnica"
BARF
Poodlestrike
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I could live with it tbh. Always liked Ravnica, though they'd need to elaborate on some actual checks and balances (other than "don't piss off Jace").
FreedomFrisbee
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Ravnica might as well be. It's been the center of storytelling for a long time. Ravnica should be go to multicolor. Mirrodin should be go to artifact. Muraganda should be go to mono color.
Muraganda never.
I agree that Masterpieces fills the same demographic that are generally into FTV but I really was hoping we could get to a 25th anniversary one. The Amonkhet Invocations are ugly. :/
Ravnica brings great power levels but has such a boring ass story. If it were some kind of inter-planar crossroads where planeswalkers passed through and brought cool tales or adventures with them, I'd be all about it. But right now the surrounding story... it's just a bunch of static to me.
I don't think Magic's story needs a "home base". The whole idea is that there are infinite worlds right? Keep that shit going. If the narrative brings you back somewhere, cool, but don't make it the goal to get back to the same place over and over. That's boring as shit.
Personally, I don't give a crap about the story, I just love the gameplay the guilds bring and I love the setting. I hope we go back there soon.
Putting the actual cards aside, to me a setting goes part and parcel with the story. Yeah the architecture is grand and the creatures look cool, but without something giving them meaning they're just kind of there doing nothing. I guess that's my big problem with Ravnica. During RTR, there was this whole narrative with Jace and Vraska that I didn't even know existed. Also there's 10 guilds, each with their own wants and desires and leaders and characters and nobody gets anything of a spotlight or moment to shine. Then there was the whole cluster of the Dragon's Maze that felt like it was just trying to be Hunger Games meets Harry Potter, but it also didn't seem to have much of a purpose. As much as I complain about the writing we get now and the focus on the Origins 5, at least we're getting something direct and upfront. You really couldn't say that back then.
I guess what I'm saying in lots of words is that Ravnica looks cool and all, but I don't like it because I don't have a reason to care. There's a lot of potential, I just wish they'd give that to me.
nah, 5 classic Planeswalkers
U/G Urza- "He's very Simic"
R/U Jaya Ballard- "She's very cunning and crafty, very Izzet"
W/B Teferi- "While previous versions have been Blue, the idea of talking a contenent and sealing it off from everyone else is a very Orzhov idea"
W/R Serra- "The Plane she created solely with White mana is a very Boros idea"
G/B Daria- "This Planeswalker is pictured on one card, a White Disenchant varient, and we killed her in the book about 20 pages after introducing her. This is very Golgari"
SigmasonicX
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Gavin says that Commander 2017 will have at least one unexpected tribe
So yeah, probably not just goblins, elves, merfolk, and zombies.
So yeah, probably not just goblins, elves, merfolk, and zombies.
Mono white Gideon tribal.
Guys, it's Kavu. We are returning to Dominaria, and as I recall, there are still a bunch of Kavu running around there (unless they all died at the end of Future Sight or something)
FreedomFrisbee
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I mean, would slivers be unexpected? In that it would be so obviously popular as to be the best selling deck of the set so there's no way they'd actually do it?
Big Icarus
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I'd love a Thopter tribal deck, but we did just get Breya.
Ultimate_Trainer
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Man they were kinda pushing for dwarf tribal in Kaladesh block, but it was kinda ended up underwelming. Really hope it is actually dwarves
divisionbyzorro
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Just played against a dude in the beta who had built a Jund deck designed to abuse the Gitrog Monster. Turns out new Liliana and the Cycling lands make the monster super happy.
"God's Beard!"
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Going DEEP with AKH draft:
Sandwurm Convergence, Heaven to Earth, New Perspectives and Pull from Tomorrow backed by a crapload of ramp, baby.
Sandwurm Convergence, Heaven to Earth, New Perspectives and Pull from Tomorrow backed by a crapload of ramp, baby.
charlequin
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We will... as the Dominaria block masterpieces.
Etrian Oddity
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Dammit I'm on Ubuntu now and I can't play MtGO.
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Is Amonkhet as good as people are praising it? Is Standard saved????
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Is Amonkhet as good as people are praising it? Is Standard saved????
I like this.
Just bought my pre-release ticket, 6 boosters, 100 dragonshield sleeves and a folder to finally try magic.
I have been playing the steam game, but since I'm not in the beta I cant test the new cards and I'm just playing the campaign to understand the mechanics (I play "Mitos y leyendas" a local game kind of similar to magic, so at least I think I understand most of the concepts. ).
Any resource to prepare the prerelease aside from this? http://draftsim.com/draft.php?mode=Sealed_AKH and youtubers analysis?
I have been playing the steam game, but since I'm not in the beta I cant test the new cards and I'm just playing the campaign to understand the mechanics (I play "Mitos y leyendas" a local game kind of similar to magic, so at least I think I understand most of the concepts. ).
Any resource to prepare the prerelease aside from this? http://draftsim.com/draft.php?mode=Sealed_AKH and youtubers analysis?
Ravnica is the center of Magic.
Jace is the center of Ravnica.
Jace is the center of Magic.
Makes sense from a certain point of view.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Legends isn't necessarily set on Dominaria.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Return to Dominaria should have Pashalik Mons and a mechanic that makes Mons's Goblin Raiders somehow good.
I mean Tetsuo Umezawa is there
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Tetsuo and Bolas (and sort of Dakkon Blackblade) are like the only characters with any lore. Some of them are just regular people like Nebuchadnezzar.
A better example of what you're saying is probably the fact that there are lands in Legends named "Urborg" and "Tolaria." (that are comically horrible as well as being part of a cycle with Karakas) I forgot about those. It's kind of comical that there is a Legendary Land named "Tolaria" with flavor text from English poet John Dryden and which has an activated ability that removes Banding from your opponents creatures.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I'd also like to see the other Elder Dragons come back in some capacity. I won't be surprised at all if Ugin is retconned into one of them in disguise to explain why Bolas wants him dead so badly.
It would be cool if he unmasked himself as Palladia-Mors. She looks baller.
For an "interplanar crossroads" setting, I'd prefer them to just blow up Dominaria, and turn it into Outland from World of Warcraft, a combination of floating continents and asteroids with an "anything goes" space frontier flavor. In fact Blizzard originally planned Outland to be exactly that, with each following expansion pack set on a new planet reached through an Outland portal. Also solves the problem that Dominaria is either too bland or too scattershot compared to the post-Mirrodin worldbuilding.
However I'm sure Dominaria will still be in one piece when we see it in 2018.
However I'm sure Dominaria will still be in one piece when we see it in 2018.
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