It goes great with indestructible creatures.
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Magic: the Gathering |OT12| Hour of Devastation - Hour of Jace getting dunked on
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It goes great with indestructible creatures.
SigmasonicX
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Weird how that destroys the creature instead of exiling it.
I like Izzet Chemister, but it's super brittle if people pay any attention to it.
I like Izzet Chemister, but it's super brittle if people pay any attention to it.
Izzet chemister, not U/R ¯_(ツ
_/ ¯Overall a bust. Don't see why I should use any of these commanders. Grixis already has more flavourful, cool and sweet commanders.
Imperfected
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Depends on if you mean the individual cards or the decks as-printed.
I'd say Wizards has the most interesting individual cards, but it's also the deck I'm least likely to play off-the-shelf or with minor modifications. I'd rather take the choice cards and build entirely different decks around them (see the entire last three pages of brewing for examples).
Vampires and Dragons look like the decks I'm most likely to play as-is or lightly modified, but also the ones with the contents of least interest for building other decks.
Cats I'm just generally ambivalent toward.
Here's the last foil grixis commander. Flashback something every turn. Strong.
Why Is it worded "during each of your turns"?
Imperfected
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So you can't do it on other players' turns?
SigmasonicX
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It signifies that you can use the ability at any time during your turn, but only once that turn.
If it said "during your turn", it might be unclear how many times you can use it.
Joe Molotov
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But it's still more ambiguous than a "You may do this only once per turn." Even with it worded the way it is, I could see people reading that, and thinking that they can use it as many times as they want to.
Yes, post it!
Imperfected
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If it said "only once per turn" you could do it during each opponent's turn, which is one of the primary ways cards get broken wide open in multiplayer EDH.
They probably started with that wording, tested it once in a 4-player EDH game that got to maybe Turn 6, and then agreed never to speak of it again.
Don't know if it was mentioned, but it's really cool that Mathas works really well with the only other card that uses bounty counters.
...now that I like.
Overlap of obscure counter types is always a highlight of EDH.
Oh god why would you have Bushido and Rampage on the same card.
SigmasonicX
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If you don't know the rules well, I recommend downloading Magic Duels, though note it is no longer being supported with updates.
For the paper game, the Planeswalker decks are a great place to start. You can use them as a base you can modify as you get more cards.
planeswalker decks are a cheap, easy way to get into the game, but they are low-powered and you only stand a chance against other similar decks. They're for casual play, if you know other people to play with that's great. You can later upgrade the decks with new cards, but no matter how much you modify your base planeswalker deck, you'll never stand a real chance against competitive decks in any format
limited formats (booster drafting and sealed) are another way to get into Magic without owning any cards. You build a deck from the cards in the booster packs and compete against other players for prizes, and at the end you keep all the cards for your collection. Plenty of people here (including me) only play at limited events. The next set (Ixalan) comes out at the end of September and is shaping up quite nicely based on what we know from leaks. When a new sets releases, game stores will run sealed events that a typically very popular with new players, so that might be something that could interest you. You could also participate in Friday Night Magic booster drafts right now, but booster drafting is more demanding and you should have some basic knowledge of how it works, and how to play Magic in general
I was in the same situation as you a few months ago right before Amonkhet came out. I will second that downloading the Duels game to go through the tutorials is really good and its free. It also has 60 or so single player missions to play through that are also free.
After you have the basic rules down I would recommend finding a store near you that drafts or does sealed events. It can seem intimidating at first but drafts are the best way to both learn the game an build up your collection. You are also playing from a smaller set of cards so after a few drafts you will start to understand how the rules work and the cards interact.
When the Ixalan pre-release weekend comes up make sure to go to at least one of the events. They are really fun and everyone starts at the same level since it is the first time anyone gets to play with the cards. The Amonkhet pre-release was actually the first time I ever played and I had a blast.
Also they have been holding Open House events usually the week before pre-release where the stores have free welcome decks for new players they hand out and also teach you how to play the game.
Lastly feel free to ask any questions in this thread as people in here are very helpful.
charlequin
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It's always funny to me how disconnected the old sets are from the storylines associated with them. If you look at the cards Mairsil has a tiny little part in the Dark only; in the novels he's this huge, extremely important character.
Really glad to see they're specifically continuing this. Trying to think of what would be good white and green choices.
ThLunarian
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Biorhythm for green. "Magus of the Pulse"
Not sure there's a good choice for white unless you want to go the boardwipe route, and that doesn't seem like a fun place to take it. I guess there's Shahrazad? All the iconic white sorceries/instants tend to just destroy a bunch of stuff.
Storm Herd maybe? Magus of the Herd? Meh.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
they already did biorythm with the shaman from dragons
SigmasonicX
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SigmasonicX
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You should use simple and straightforward decks, probably even with a few vanilla creatures. At the same time, there should be interesting things in it. Note that to a beginner, Shivan Dragon counts as interesting.
Remembrance
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Yeah, Shivan Dragon is actually still in the welcome decks and Standard legal.
I mean the Dark book was written years after the Dark released. I should dig into my Duelist collection to see if there is anything!
shrapnelmagnet
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Probably too messy
charlequin
Banned
This isn't bad.
Some white options:
Magus of the Armageddon
Magus of the Balance
Magus of the Cataclysm
Magus of the Burial (all creatures to bottom of libraries)
Magus of the Chant (W, T, sac: target player can't play spells this turn. WW, T, Sac: Target player can't play spells this turn and creatures can't attack this turn.)
Magus of the Ancestors
Magus of the Dust (nuke up to two artifacts)
GSZ for green and Moat for white?
Remembrance
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Magus of the Moat was already done when they did enchantments in Future Sight. The current megacycle is sorceries (so Magus of the Sunrise doesn't actually work).
For green... Magus of the Channel would be just as banned as the original, wouldn't it.
Now I want to see a cycle in Unstable for the worst cards from old Magic:
- Magus of the Farmstead
- Magus of the Lace
- Magus of the Sorrow
- Magus of the Mudhole
- Magus of the Wood
FreedomFrisbee
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Magus of the (Natural) Order seems obvious for green. White has a lot of options though.
Giant Panda
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Magus of the tooth and nail. Or Magus of the Genesis.
charlequin
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Historically they'll cycle instants and sorceries together in some contexts so at least in predicting what else they do I wouldn't rule it out completely.
https://imgur.com/a/KACML
Yeah, I thought about other options but this one is so perfect and obvious I have trouble seeing them picking something else.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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Magus of the Second Sun's Approach
Tied for first in tonight's standard event with a W/U approach control deck. First time playing a control deck and felt really fun for me but by God do people let it be known how salty they feel. Only fueled my desire to see their reaction when I countered their next thing. To make the night even better the first prize pack I opened had Nicol Bolas. Up to two now and I don't see decks running more than that.
This is correct.
NameGenerated
Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
Is any place going to put up the single Commander decks for pre-order? I've only seen the bundles. Or are they waiting for the full spoiler to gouge? I just want the Wizards and maybe the Dragons.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Magus of the Will is probably close to the best ability to slot into Mairsil
I'm still unclear from the current wording is my problem, even though I follow your explanation lol.
Yeah I don't get why it didn't just say "only once per your turn" but whatever!
Only got one. Mairsil seemed the most likely of them anyhow.
Do we have any idea who Inalla is?
charlequin
Banned
Name's never shown up before and Kelly Digges said her plane is unknown, which basically means one we haven't seen before.
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