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Magic: the Gathering |OT13| Ixalan - Port to Sideboard
- Thread starter SigmasonicX
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Remembrance
Member
It almost feels like a return to DiTerlizzi-style children's book MtG. Only much darker (that guy on the right frozen in mid-impalement, man).
If they actually do fairy tale plane this is what it should look like.
If they actually do fairy tale plane this is what it should look like.
A time machine to 2011?
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
This reads like an essay written by a 1L who got a C- in contracts.
Should i wait a month to buy the cards that are rotating out? Sorta want to build my first budget modern Zombies deck and a second deck which i haven't decided yet. Relentless Dead has dropped $3 in the past week. Not just talking about 1 card. Diregraft is slowly dropping as is Cryptbreaker. Want to pick up afew singles for Commander too.
Seb McKinnon's art for the promo mtgo Stasis is incredible:
That is spectacular. I hope Wizards continues to embrace artists who aren't churning out the cgi fests we've seen over the last decade. Stuff like this makes me want to spend money.
GregLombardi
Member
Wow. Now if you could only get this in paper we would all lose our shit.Seb McKinnon's art for the promo mtgo Stasis is incredible:
My vampire was stock, the cat deck was stock (that one can spit out tons of enemies, though), and I think, judging by the fact that the arcane player was not newish, the arcane was modified. Still, the cat deck being that powerful was a surprise, as I had thought it was just okay.
blindrocket
Member
Okay, I will rephrase. I think that if you were compiling a top ten list of Planeswalkers for Commander, she would be considered. Probably more so in 1v1 Commander and admittedly I play more 1v1 than anything. Her -3 ability is very strong, and the reason you'd even play her.
We haven't played them yet but the cards I've bought to upgrade the Vampire deck for my daughter, makes me think it's going to be OP.
Same goes for my sons Dragon deck, but I haven't bought enough cards to fix the mana base. I've fixed it somewhat, but not enough.
My opinion of the Wizard deck is that it will be the most expensive deck to upgrade. The cat deck seems like it has enough to work pretty well and a few upgrades could make it even better.
Seb McKinnon's art for the promo mtgo Stasis is incredible:
Simply gorgeous, jesus it's so good. I love Seb McKinnon!
FreedomFrisbee
Member
Considering MtG to be 'randomized goods' is looking at it the wrong way. A slot machine produces a 'randomized good' but that doesn't make it particularly legal. Paying a set amount for something and getting a random value back is very illegal in a variety of ways and to different degrees depending on location.
On the federal level I'm not so sure where the line is, but a large amount of states have laws that would destroy MtG as we know it if they figured out WotC was factory the secondary market into their products. Buying boosters IS gambling, and in many states so is the act of paying money for a card tournament.
WotC currently has many defenses to keep from having the game be seen for what it actually is, however. Draft itself likely exists as a format to justify boosters being as randomized as they are. 'They're not randomized as part of a money making scheme, they're randomized as a necessary game mechanic!' or so the logic would go. WotC not acknowledging the secondary market is the other prominent defense.
If MtG was found to be gambling, the entire distribution structure of the game would immediately be destroyed and WotC would owe back damages for a million different things because the RL can be used to show that they've known it was gambling for decades. 20 years of damages would probably straight destroy WotC as an entity.
As an aside, reasons for WotC to not acknowledge the secondary market are more plain and well documented than reasons for keeping around the RL. If I haven't explained it well I recommend just googling it a bit.
PS, I find it amazing that MTGO has been allowed to exist as long as it has, from a legal standpoint.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
man wizard is overdoing it a little bit with these cards now, that's like the 5th gy hate card in the last 2 sets. scavenger grounds is almost all the graveyard hate you need, with crook of condemnation being the card to look at when you want some targeted.
When is gonna be the best time to buy a playset of promo fatal pushes? I'm gonna play for them a bunch of times but I'm not leaving w/o 4 copies.
When is gonna be the best time to buy a playset of promo fatal pushes? I'm gonna play for them a bunch of times but I'm not leaving w/o 4 copies.
That's seems really good actually.
You want answers? Here's all the answers.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Hour of Devastation was basically hate.set, heck By Force is seeing tons of sideboard play across all formats.
blindrocket
Member
I was wondering the same thing. I mean, do I want to grind for them? My LGS is going to do Conspiracy drafts for the next two FNMs. At $12 entry plus whatever cool pulls from Conspiracy packs, it may be worth it. But on the other hand, I kind of just want to stay at home and pay money for them. lol
Poodlestrike
Banned
Weirdly thematically fitting, tbh.
Yep, that's def. graveyard hate. Wish it could do something repeatable, but it's still pretty good.
Not as fun without Delirium around, but hey, it's the thought that counts.
ClayKavalier
Banned
I'm sure there's been plenty of discussion on this, but returning after a decade I'm really not liking that there's no base sets (I understand they're making a comeback next year).
The pre-made I got ended up being pretty garbage, so I started looking through cardlists to make something more fun
. I ended up making a green/ black deck that uses some combos involving -1/-1 counters and a red/ blue deck control deck that has a few creatures with the "Prowess" ability, both using cards from the two recent Egyptian themed sets. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a lot of useful spells to pump the Prowess cards. There's some blue bounce spells, and counters, but there seems to be very few red burn cards in this block. I could look through the previous block but I like the idea of making theme decks with cards from one block. It'd be nice to have a set of generic cards to pull from.
I saw the Modern Masters set, which kind of sort of seems like it fills the roll of a base set except it's not legal in Standard, if I'm understanding right.
The pre-made I got ended up being pretty garbage, so I started looking through cardlists to make something more fun
and down the rabbit hole I go
I saw the Modern Masters set, which kind of sort of seems like it fills the roll of a base set except it's not legal in Standard, if I'm understanding right.
ClayKavalier
Banned
Ah, OK. I quickly skimmed through one of them and recognized many of the cards, I assumed it was supposed to be something like a base set.
charlequin
Banned
It's hard for anything to beat Fay Jones' original for me on this card but this is an exceptional effort.
Absolutely. This has a serious Brian Froud vibe.
The lawyers shitting on it in the comments are pretty funny. This article is a great example of motivated reasoning in action.
I think there's actually a scarcity problem to a degree. Seb has six illustrations in AKH block and they're all pretty great. Kev Walker has 4, Volkan Baga has 4. A lot of the artists who've done spectacular work in more classical or stylized styles are too successful in fine art or general illustration to stick around in Magic (Guay, Meignaud) or have moved onto gigs where they don't do individual cards anymore (Jarvis.)
Like, I would like to see the style tilt further in this direction, but I don't think the core issue is that they're unwilling to commission artists who work in more stylized forms.
Stasis isn't reserved so I figure there's a very good chance this is in either Iconic or 25 Masters.
Gonna need a citation on this. In the US, gambling is largely legal on the federal level and defined pretty specifically on the state level. To just go with one state law:
Purchasing a pack isn't a contest, doesn't involve staking something, and is a bona fide business transaction. Acknowledging that a secondary market exists doesn't change any of this if WotC themselves aren't directly backing the identified value on that market. It just doesn't come close to qualifying.
The case against tournaments is actually much stronger since in some states a "material contribution of chance" makes any paid competition with prizes gambling, though even then it's a pretty small portion of states where it's a serious concern.
I know I'm being kind of pedantic about this, but it's a topic where people broadly reference "gambling laws" all the time to explain certain things, but if something is risky under those there's going to be a concrete reason why.
Oh cool I had no idea it was happening. I hope we get some previews.
BRUH this standard showdown pack
Yes that is a foil Nissa.
yesss Legion of Dusk!
woo Sun Empire!
rofl there was at one point an Equipment card that was
Pirate Hat
Equip 1
Equipped creature is a pirate.
lol
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
grats on the pack.
You know I'd highly consider playing that in a Pirate EDH deck just so that when I steal yo creatures I can dress them in style.
No, that was the cast. Kopala was there and he is not a pw.
bah!
aha, Huatli, Warrior Poet is the actual card name in the set.
CONFIRMATION they can't leave Ixalan!
OH SHIT HER CARD
3RW
Huatli, Warrior Poet
Legendary Planeswalker - Hualti
+2 You gain life equal to the greatest power
0: Create 3/3 green Dino
-X: Deals x damage divided as you choose any number of creatures. Creatures dealt damage can't block
3 Loyalty
BEATEN
TheBlackMarvel
Member
That ult is... underwhelming.
Are you kidding? She can setup a game winning turn the turn she drops.
SigmasonicX
Member
Huatli is seeking the city of gold to understand why she isn't able to leave the plane. It sounds like she's on the Disney protagonist journey, so I think she'll join the Gatewatch.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
doing that is essentially casting aurelai's fury for 3 same cost nigh same effect wasn't great
I'm just excited for shitting out 3/3s but 5 mana 3 Loyalty is a terrible rate and the +2 might as well do shit all.
TheBlackMarvel
Member
"Can" being the operative word there.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
My hot take on Huatli is that she's what happens when Ajani and Elspeth have sex.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Seems pretty bad.
I dunno, looks good to me. 5 is a little pricy, but any dino deck is gonna have decent ramp anyway, and it'll have some decent big bastards to take advantage of the ult.