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Magic: the Gathering |OT12| Hour of Devastation - Hour of Jace getting dunked on
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Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
already here. But I forgot the hub facepalm.
A Serious Man
Member
Hey there old friend.
Um, in English you call both dromedaries and bactarians as just camels. Most people don't specify the type of camel. Its interchangeable whether you call something a camel or a dromedary.
ThLunarian
Member
Kinda funny that people have been talking about using Thalia's Lancers to fetch planeswalkers under the upcoming new legend rule, when this set has something almost identical that's used to fetch Planeswalkers (Djeru with Eyes Open)
I don't see anything on from this link
TheBlackMarvel
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Thalia's Lancers would get Legends as well.
Seems like it could be nuts in limited if you get the zombie deck.
Didn't think we'd ever see this reprinted in Standard
This is basically clear shot at common. Should be really good.
I like the new art on these
This is pretty bad. I'd rather play Painted Bluffs / Unknown Shores / Shimmering Grotto and fix any colors than have the 1 life (and even those I wouldn't play)
Didn't think we'd ever see this reprinted in Standard
This is basically clear shot at common. Should be really good.
I like the new art on these
This is pretty bad. I'd rather play Painted Bluffs / Unknown Shores / Shimmering Grotto and fix any colors than have the 1 life (and even those I wouldn't play)
keeblerdrow
Member
Djeru, With Eyes Open
Samut, When The Gods Fell
Rhonas and Oketra... at Tanagra.
Gonna reference that whenever I play Djeru now.
Samut, When The Gods Fell
Rhonas and Oketra... at Tanagra.
Gonna reference that whenever I play Djeru now.
A Serious Man
Member
What a headache in limited.
What a headache in limited.
This + Ammit drains your opponent for every card they play and gives you one life
Simply Sarah
Member
So we have worse Basking Rootwalla (even though it's a Rootwalla that's basking) and easier to cast but less powerful Overrun to go with "Lightning Strike is too good here"
so much for Grixis mana
honestly though, sans Bolas, I don't think there are many good reasons to play R and B together anyway. Red gives you HoD, Abrade, KLD Chandra, Glorybringer + the usual removal spells, Black just doesn't seem all that interesting for a typical control deck aside from the Lillies, Push and the discard spells maybe
awesome art. I like the card, too
What a headache in limited.
Joe Molotov
Member
This is pretty bad. I'd rather play Painted Bluffs / Unknown Shores / Shimmering Grotto and fix any colors than have the 1 life (and even those I wouldn't play)
lol, even the dream of getting Crumbling Necropolis is dead. RIP in peace, Hour of Devastation.
Cards that care about deserts:
White - 1 Common, 1 Uncommon
Blue - 1 Common
Black - 1 Common
Red - 1 Common, 1 Uncommon
Green - 1 Common, 1 Uncommon, 2 Rares
Lands - 5 Uncommons, 1 Rare
I expected RG to be the main desert color deck, but I wasn't expecting white to get in on it.
Cursory glace; it feels like, even more than usual, all of the good removal is in black and red. There also seems to be a fair amount of life game in the set, so I'm imagining it'll be grindier than triple AKH.
Common Removal
Uncommon Removal
Common Tricks
Uncommon Tricks
White - 1 Common, 1 Uncommon
Blue - 1 Common
Black - 1 Common
Red - 1 Common, 1 Uncommon
Green - 1 Common, 1 Uncommon, 2 Rares
Lands - 5 Uncommons, 1 Rare
I expected RG to be the main desert color deck, but I wasn't expecting white to get in on it.
Cursory glace; it feels like, even more than usual, all of the good removal is in black and red. There also seems to be a fair amount of life game in the set, so I'm imagining it'll be grindier than triple AKH.
Common Removal
Uncommon Removal
Common Tricks
Uncommon Tricks
Just seems worse than Enigma Drake to me honestly. Most of the good cycling cards are already instants and sorceries, Drake only dies to revolt FP, and having high power isn't that great with no evasion.
Red and blue can force people to attack. Green and Red can force people to block.
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There were some blue creatures with Goad in Conspiracy 2 at least.
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?text=+[goad]
SigmasonicX
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So in the end, nothing for Constructed in the final day, but Limited looks pretty interesting to me.
With this I wonder if Living End decks finally shift to blue:
(the art looks like a screenshot of Borderlands lol)
Unsummon will probably see play.
(the art looks like a screenshot of Borderlands lol)
Unsummon will probably see play.
TheBlackMarvel
Member
Apparently. Once again, Rhonas is a jobber.
What the fuck is with this set's flavor text?Hey there old friend.
Aren't there some janky decks that run Thermo-Alchemist? This looks like a pretty good addition to those, if not a replacement.
Not janky, Thermo is a pauper staple. I don't see this replacing T-A since you always get at least 1 damage per turn with it, regardless of blockers, but I can see these as Thermo 5-8 if needed.
SigmasonicX
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I'm surprised by the return of a noncreature spells matter theme this set. We haven't seen it at this level since Tarkir.
About Crumbling Necropolis not being in the set after all, the replacement also starts with 'C', so it was probably a last minute replacement and they forgot to update the art book. They probably didn't want to push Grixis as much.
About Crumbling Necropolis not being in the set after all, the replacement also starts with 'C', so it was probably a last minute replacement and they forgot to update the art book. They probably didn't want to push Grixis as much.
I meant janky in the sense of non-pauper decks using Thermos. It's certainly the real deal in pauper.
This new one seems pretty good against decks without a ton of creatures though. Thermo gets 1 damage per turn, but with no blockers archer gets 2.
UR Thermo Alchemist was a thing briefly when Eldritch Moon released in standard, but haven't seen it since. Anyway, I'm sure grapeshot girl will see play in pauper.
charlequin
Banned
This is the end result of 2+ years of people complaining about every single set that it wasn't clear enough what was going on.
Yeah, it was almost certainly originally Crumbling Necropolis (with the same creative concept) that they swapped at the last minute.
Its in the new Archenemy
A Serious Man
Member
Modern starting on SCG.
CommandThrower
Member
Ooooh, Obelisk Spider and Overcome are great cards for a deck based around Hapatra, Vizier of Poisons and Nest of Scarabs.
I like~
I like~
They're literally pulling planeswalker power levels out of their asses.
And what was it that shook the Gatewatch so much?
Bolas wiping the floor with them? (You should check the spoilers from a few pages back)
I mean, he's ABSURDLY powerful according to the story.
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