Familienoberhauptvogel
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Magic: the Gathering |OT12| Hour of Devastation - Hour of Jace getting dunked on
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charlequin
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Serra's Realm had tons of angels but it was also heavily populated by human members of the Order of Serra. When Urza blew up the plane they moved to Dominaria and set up shop in Benalia. We've confirmed that there's a New Order of Serra:
The picture is floating structures like Serra's Realm, but with stained glass and other architectural designs that fit with what we saw of New Benalia. So: probably a floating city built by the New Order of Serra in New Benalia.
I think "Shivan Dragon" really speaks to why they'd be likely to go that way, heh. Keld is less iconic and less obvious how to extend out to the full range of what the color needs to cover.
I'm not saying Otaria will be completely ignored in the set since I'm sure it'll be referenced, but it's not gonna be a big thing. People's nostalgia goggles for Dominaria are things from the early era or the Weatherlight Saga. Otaria's technically there but its flavor is totally incompatible and it has almost no real overlap with anything else, so they're not going to make it a core part of the return.
I feel like this Serra image tells us a lot about expecting an Advanced High Fantasy type vibe for Dominaria on this return, btw.
goddamn look at that
now that is a protagonist
That fur cloak backpiece wew
I love the fusion of old armor + tech armor. Works great here
@Charlequin: likely the New Order of Serra floats over Benalia to "watch over" it. Maybe there's even a caste that gets to "promote themselves" up to the heights. Aspirational goals for real.
The same Urborg that in Time Spiral made everything into a Swamp?
I don't know if it's RB anymore. We'll have to wait and see.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
why did you quote me with someone else's quote?
I love how much it is in style of a comic. The humongous hands, his big stature, the low texturized background.
well windgrace fixed it throughout the block and windgrace was at least R
Dude was the rare in the first pack I ever got. Didn't even know what the game was, or how to play, or what any of it was about. But that style, and that specific art, symbolizes MTG to me more than anything else.
I liked Kamahl fine as a character. But that is not my favorite period of art in the game, by far.
Does fixing it mean the color identity changes to or adopts that of the being that fixed it? Serious question, I don't know enough about how that works.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
no but if we consider urborg tainted then fixing it would bring it back to its more primordial roots, which is black tinted RB or Jund considering theres a couple green urborg cards.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Literally speaking the land Urborg produces black mana.
There's nothing actually in Phyrexia. It's the straight-up analogue of MTG Hell down to having circles of torture and shit.
shawnoftheshred
Member
Really hoping that the "Arena" tag indicates we're going to get a very true to form draft mode outside of Magic Online finally.
Yeah, the one in Legends. I always thought it was mono haha
charlequin
Banned
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I though the CIPT dual land was also just called urborg but it's actually
now in Time Spiral the volcano was dormant IIRC so that begs the question if just BG remains.
Where do you keep getting G from?
Also a volcano does not necessarily make the whole realm of Urborg BR
Also creatures that are from there can have different colors even if the land is one color.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
mostly the time spiral block books, they described Urborg as more than a big swamp. The impact of a pre mending planeswalker on his place of residence is debateable but Windgrace declared Urborg his own and did sorta imprint himself on the place.
Yeah looked it up and there's a forest on Urborg potentially a part of Yavimaya even.
I don't know how cannon the books are at this point, i'd like to see it on the cards if you have examples. Notably, Urborg isn't a plane, it's a region. And the land itself from that set literally turns everything into a swamp. Feels super mono black identity wise.
That said, I am honestly curious to see what they do with it in the return.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
that shoulda been place. I can only argue with story points and as far as I'm aware everyting from Time Spiral block is canon as is seen by for instance Venser retaining old walker teleportation.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I'm going with this
I'm still considering Pulse of Murasa, World Breaker (amazing in some matchups and trigger KReturn) and Crumble to Dust and some tweaks to what cards to play in the main and in the board.
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Lands
4 Aether Hub
4 Botanical Sanctum
2 Cinder Glade
5 Island
3 Lumbering Falls
3 Mountain
4 Spirebluff Canal
Spells
2 Abrade
1 Brutal Expulsion
4 Censor
1 Chandra, Flamecaller
2 Disallow
2 Essence Scatter
3 Glimmer of Genius
4 Harnessed Lightning
4 Hieroglyphic Illumination
4 Magma Spray
2 Supreme Will
2 Sweltering Suns
Creatures
4 Torrential Gearhulk
Sideboard
2 Chandra's Defeat
1 Commit // Memory
1 Confiscation Coup
2 Dispel
1 Dragonmaster Outcast
1 Glorybringer
1 Hour of Devastation
1 Kozilek's Return
2 Life Goes On
2 Negate
1 Tireless TrackerI am taking my Hapatra deck because... I dont have anything else.
https://deckstats.net/decks/90385/775042--1-1
https://deckstats.net/decks/90385/775042--1-1
I'm playing this unless my ramp cards arrive tomorrow: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/716259#paper
Any suggestions? Not in love with that sideboard, tbh. Maybe I could fit in a Bontu's Last Reckoning or Doomfall or two in there.
Any suggestions? Not in love with that sideboard, tbh. Maybe I could fit in a Bontu's Last Reckoning or Doomfall or two in there.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Can't really find much at fault with this. Depending on the RDW matchup maybe some Essence Extraction. 5 pure colourless lands could make for problematic hands in the mulligan.
I feel like the deck has a naturally strong RDW matchup. I'm mostly worried about control and ramp.
Another deck I could play is some kind of BR midrange list with Liliana, Chandra, and, most importantly, Goblin Dark-Dwellers. I love that card and it seems rad with Sweltering Suns in Doomfall.
Another deck I could play is some kind of BR midrange list with Liliana, Chandra, and, most importantly, Goblin Dark-Dwellers. I love that card and it seems rad with Sweltering Suns in Doomfall.
I have been very curious and wanting to do a more rotation-proof version of UW monument but I haven't really took the time to brew it up. I was wanting to put it together much earlier but the list I see going around is like 90% SOI block stuff and I'd rather not invest that much for something that's about to rotate.
A Serious Man
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Was hoping for more MDN news today but whatever, we're a month out from the full reveal. Full rules set or bust.
I think authority of the consuls would effectively gain you way more life during the course of a normal game, for far less mana.
Added 3 to the SB. Got Fumigate in there for help.
RNG alone means i'm never touching Hearthstone again. The only RNG in TCGs should be your deck draw and booster packs, not card effects or targets.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
You know Magic has those too and how it emphasizes the order of the deck way more.
Heck for the longest time a top tier deck in legacy relied heavily on RNG.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
In fact Hearthstone at times is much less random because it's much easier to consistently draw your entire deck to win than it is in MTG.
I think Goblin Test Pilot is a stupid and fun card but I don't want those kinds of effects all the time. And with time passing, I think there will eventually just be a critical mass of them to make something kind of unfun.
As it stands, I think it's just a teeter totter of what is "too much". Like if Aetherworks Marvel also required a sac, like many mentioned when it was dominating, things may have been very different.
As it stands, I think it's just a teeter totter of what is "too much". Like if Aetherworks Marvel also required a sac, like many mentioned when it was dominating, things may have been very different.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
It's still random af but the results are more predetermined.
Deck construction can be argued to be less random otoh.
There are cards that have different effects depending on how you built your deck too right? I saw a card that does something if you have a singleton deck. I thought it was really cool.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
A bunch. They made highlander a mechanic for 3 of the 9 classes in a set last year. Each of them got their own high impact card and they shared another. Fun times, sadly the archetype died when Reno Jackson the original Highlander card rotated this spring.
They made some more in the upcoming set that do thing if they are the only 2/3/4 drop in your deck but they are collectively terrible for such a costly deckbuilding restriction.
They made some more in the upcoming set that do thing if they are the only 2/3/4 drop in your deck but they are collectively terrible for such a costly deckbuilding restriction.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
only secrets you play on your turn hidden and they activate conditionally.
Counterspell for instance is basically this card
Counterspell for instance is basically this card
turned face down and only for non creatures.
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