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Magic: the Gathering |OT12| Hour of Devastation - Hour of Jace getting dunked on
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FreedomFrisbee
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They even learned from this with Atogs. Rosewater clearly wanted Atog to be in Kaladesh but the community told him it had to be recognizably Atog or not an Atog. So we got Gremlins instead.
Well then.
Fugly art but this is my favorite of the cards they have revealed so far. I'm really bummed this is the only one of this cycle that made it to print
It's a 5 colour deck, they have to stretch the pie thin.
Well, I mean, the white and black one are at least functional. The red one is just bad.
Poodlestrike
Banned
I love this haha
Oh, this is delightful. Really piss off one person but make everybody else like you.
Phages for everyone!
oh shit thats mean
Imperfected
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You apparently play with really weird people.
Usually a board wipe gets brought down because a specific player is getting out of control, in which case everyone but that player is generally grateful for it, and is going to be extra grateful if you're providing an opportunity for them to salvage some of their own board.
Imperfected
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Is the MTGO EDH community really that bad? I think most games I've played in (offline, in person) there's been at least one roundabout the table where I've had people literally ask the table if anyone could please sweep the board.
Heck, with my Child of Alara deck I've had scenarios where players team up to find a way to crack it so they can get the board cleared.
Heck, with my Child of Alara deck I've had scenarios where players team up to find a way to crack it so they can get the board cleared.
Joe Molotov
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They think people are out there playing Blue Goblin decks, so I'm not so sure.
I'm sure there are people out there with Mizzix goblin decks, even if they'r enot competitive.
blindrocket
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I have some sweet news! I am a winner of the Channel Fireball summer giveaway! I don't know what prize I want to select yet but it's pretty awesome to win!
Link! My kids want a couple of the decks and instead of pay $90 for two at Walmart I'd rather pay $100 for all four.
I can still find the Atraxa deck printed in Japanese at Walmart. I doubt the Japanese version holds as much value. Why they have Japanese Commander decks at an American Walmart I do not know.
That's awesome.
Link! My kids want a couple of the decks and instead of pay $90 for two at Walmart I'd rather pay $100 for all four.
I can still find the Atraxa deck printed in Japanese at Walmart. I doubt the Japanese version holds as much value. Why they have Japanese Commander decks at an American Walmart I do not know.
That's awesome.
Imperfected
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Presumably they had stock created for Japan that never moved (Commander may not be very popular in Japan relative to Magic's general popularity there?), so rather than sending the excess stock to Japanese stores they sent it to a market where they were still moving product.
TheBlackMarvel
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I love it.
Awesome only $585 now. Sold!
blindrocket
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So..... What do you think I should pick as my prize? Either $100 in CFB credit, OR one of these three prize crates:
http://store.channelfireball.com/products/search?query=summer+sale+booster+crate
I see, that is interesting. Thanks.
http://store.channelfireball.com/products/search?query=summer+sale+booster+crate
I see, that is interesting. Thanks.
The $100 is probably the best value there if there's actual singles and such that you want to buy. But personally I'd gamble on one of the prize packs and hope my luck keeps up with a good Masterpiece or Masters pull. I think Kaladesh still has the highest value of those three?
blindrocket
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Yeah, I'm thinking those lines too... I'd probably pull all jank.
It's a pretty sweet retail value though.
It's a pretty sweet retail value though.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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the cutoff being RTR is mean though. Gotta be khans or frf boosters.
Joe Molotov
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It comes with a spindown counter and a Return to Ravnica booster pack, how can you top that value?
blindrocket
Member
lol
You don't have to choose RTR... the gamble to pull a foil shock land is so low...
I'd rather do what Familienoberhauptvogel suggested and try my luck on a Fetch.
But really, I should just go for the credit. Ironically I had a cart full of cards on tcgplayer that I hadn't purchased yet, and about 80% of the cards were from CFB anyway. I may as well just purchase all of the cards from CFB now using the credit.
And other than pulling a foil Snapcaster Mage, which admittedly is pretty awesome, my luck with cracking any of the "Masters" packs has been very, very bad. Even so much as pulling TWO separate copies of the same jank rare.
fuck that, I'm selling all my cards for the GW2 card game.
Joe Molotov
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I'm still waiting for the paper WoW TCG to take off.
Aaaaaany day now.
Aaaaaany day now.
it took off and crash landed dude
Joe Molotov
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I'm only kidding, but my friend bought boxes of that shit just to try to get a Spectral Tiger code and never did.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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The raid decks where archenemy done right tbqh
yep the raid decks were cool af
Imperfected
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Mirror of the Forebears is kind of just an underwhelming Mirage Mirror. Yes, it's cheaper, but one colorless casting and activation cost are super trivial savings for EDH, and it's way, way more limited. That said, Mirage Mirror is a format all-star, so plenty of decks can probably roll with both.
Hey, I almost got through this post without making a joke about how Bears Tribal wasn't on the list.
Hey, I almost got through this post without making a joke about how Bears Tribal wasn't on the list.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
mirage mirror really is an all star. Not sure yet if it's made for anything competitive but it at least lets underpowered colour combinations play something that lets them shore up inadequacies.
It's an auto include in rakdos and boros for that reason.
It's an auto include in rakdos and boros for that reason.
Bearly.
About Mirage Mirror (overheard at Game Day):
"Can I pay 2 to turn Mirage Mirror into a land in response to someone using Fatal Push on it?"
"yes"
charlequin
Banned
There are enough bizarre creative decisions like this from right around the M14 - Origins era that I assume they're the result of some combination of growing pains (they like tripled the size of the creative team) and awkwardly taking their first steps into transmedia creative design.
This was definitely the correct call.
The nice thing about the Mirror to me is that if you can find a type where there's good shenanigans to be had by layering activations it's a lot cheaper to do on this than Mirage Mirror.
Imperfected
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The fact it also remains an Artifact when transformed will also be relevant to some decks and allow for some cheeky shenanigans, though honestly it means this thing will just get Vandalblasted in a lot of games (and won't be able to copy itself out of taking the hit).
Any deck that wants to run Mycosynth Lattice will probably get some mileage out of that feature, and I've seen plenty of those.
FreedomFrisbee
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I can only imagine how shut out of the digital space magic would be if they hadn't initiated MDN last yearish.
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