Heirloom + deathrender + sac outlet = put all your creatures into play if they share a type
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Magic: the Gathering |OT12| Hour of Devastation - Hour of Jace getting dunked on
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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?"
Vampire Knights make me think of the wrong thing
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
well isn't he an old school vampire who would have to transform to fly?
Wulfric
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I think it'll go for 12k at least. It's not often that vampires go up for sale. And Sorin's planeswalker cards have all been digital, so this is going to be the next best thing for a lot of collectors.
Totally forgot to brag yesterday, but I pulled my first Invocation during draft last night. I actually sat down in the wrong spot at first and told the dude who was supposed to sit there that he'd pull a masterpiece now. He didn't, but I did! It was a No Mercy:
It looks pretty sweet in person, but I fell in love with it too quickly and my draft ended up being an absolute trainwreck. The more people at a table go for a 4 color durdle deck the worse they get.
It looks pretty sweet in person, but I fell in love with it too quickly and my draft ended up being an absolute trainwreck. The more people at a table go for a 4 color durdle deck the worse they get.
TheBlackMarvel
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That was the first masterpiece I pulled too! Congratulations!
Congrats! No mercy seems like it'd be hard to play against. I'd probably force black if at all possible after opening it.
During prerelease, I had to play against a guy who opened a Worship. Fortunately, I had plenty of removal, so I was able to keep his board clear when it counted.
During prerelease, I had to play against a guy who opened a Worship. Fortunately, I had plenty of removal, so I was able to keep his board clear when it counted.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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you're missing mana echoes but now you have a brew.
or the sac outlet makes mana that also works.
I tried to force, but got cut unfortunately and had to pivot into a green mass splashing for everything. And I ended up losing a match to Approach of the Second Sun as well, which made No Mercy look kinda useless because I couldn't get through their Hippos.
I really like this draft format, but can't manage to win all that much. I should probably just be more reasonable and pass Oasis Ritualist every once in a while.
I haven't gotten to draft this format as much as I'd like, but I enjoy it a lot. It's easily one of the better multi-set formats. There's enough fixing and sideways cards that you can build interesting decks that are viable, but the normal strategies work as well. My only real complaint is that there are too many board wipes in the format, especially for a small set.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
for a second I feared Gary was a Wizard.
The new vampire wizard goes infinite with Ashnod's Altar. It's pretty cool with Snapcaster and Master of Waves, too.
charlequin
Banned
Hm, yeah, I dunno. I think of go-wide/boost strategies as pretty reasonable, since there's a lot of cases where you can build up a board of a bunch of 3/3s (or whatever) without immediately drawing heat, then boost them and clear a way for them to move in.
Exile then return triggers a buttload of ETB/LTB effects, which makes that what the card is about rather than hiding your stuff for a turn.
Oh man this makes me ridiculously happy.
blindrocket
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You're a pirate, Harry.
So phasing is kind of like exiling, but that card also exiles the player too?
charlequin
Banned
Somebody on Twitter made a good point about how many Grixis wizards have good ETB effects: Snapcaster, Master of Waves, Augur of Bolas, Dualcaster Mage, Spellstutter Sprite, Vendillion Clique, Venser, Trinket/Trophy/Treasure Mage....
Familienoberhauptvogel
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Easiest way to describe is that phased out cards do not get detected when the game state is looking for them for any reason.
blindrocket
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It's like the ultimate exile effect. And if I understand correctly, in the past, it also killed tokens because they couldn't be blinked.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
it kills tokens because there used to be a phased out zone and tokens cease to exist when moving zones.
It's important to reiterate that phasing isn't a moving of zones but a change of status
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I missed this but is it perhaps the shojou manga that went off the rails after the first big arc and never got back to a coherent plot?
Curses make a lot of sense in multiplayer. They're super-political and don't really take any extra headspace to grokk over normal enchantments.
SigmasonicX
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Some good good art and an interesting effect for Red! (Not like, good, probably, but cool!)
With this and Ixalan leaks, it seems like gold/treasure tokens are safely in red's color pie, which definitely works better than only being able to add R to the mana pool.
shrapnelmagnet
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Guess that rules out Aura Shards, eh?
Not that I'm into that card, just like the prediction aspect of these sets lol. Well, sorta
charlequin
Banned
This only makes sense; they've been basically doing this effect in red/green hybrid for a while with cards like Wild Cantor and Manamorphose.
Sower of Temptation too
I skipped a bunch of good options because there were so many to choose frrom!
I would be a little bit irked if it isn't, really.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
wasn't gold a black mechanic in Theros?
It was also a big theme of the cabal and aren't Orzhov also moneylenders?
Wait a sec aren't Orzhov the cliched prejudice against Jews throughout the last millennia impersonated?
It was also a big theme of the cabal and aren't Orzhov also moneylenders?
Wait a sec aren't Orzhov the cliched prejudice against Jews throughout the last millennia impersonated?
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
In a sense, temporary mana fits Red more than Black but money is much more in tune with black both historically and thematically through greed.
It's going to fit red in Ixalan because the flavour there appears to be adventuring and scavenging more than minting.
It's going to fit red in Ixalan because the flavour there appears to be adventuring and scavenging more than minting.
Infinite Stars
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Nah, the Orzhov (Big Planewide Organization that uses the guise of religion as a method to achieve money/power, governed by a ruling body of old men who care more for power then piety) is basically Reformation Era Protestant Propoganda taken to the max.
Selesyna is the "Nature, Man" Hippy Stereotype personified.
Um, whilst greed is definitely black money itself isn't. Money is a collective agreement that something that doesn't have value actually does for the benefit of society as a whole. It's almost certainly white in original concept - and then twisted to black when someone becomes obsessed with having massive amounts of it.
Imperfected
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Pretty sure money's gold.
Imperfected
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Based on the Time Walk Property of Magic: Mana = Time, and Time = Money, so Money = Mana.
You'd still need someone to have the spell scroll to be able to cast Time Walk.
Time Walk is $1350. Gold is $1280 per oz. An ounce of gold doesn't even let you buy Time Walk!
The wizards deck is going to be FUN
Yeah. 7 mana is pretty rough.
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