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Magic: the Gathering |OT13| Ixalan - Port to Sideboard
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Joe Molotov
Member
Do you know what happens to a dinosaur when it gets struck by lightning?
Terrible Thunderlizards?
charlequin
Banned
For twenty years WotC has been doing things with card layout and visual design to try to make them easier for people to engage with, players who think of themselves as highly invested have complained about those things, but history has never borne those complaints out. I still think of people throwing fits about the existence of reminder text in 1997. It's just basically always silly to complain about attempts to make the game simpler or easier to understand because they're always fighting against the tide.
If it's Ripjaw Raptor, its controller draws a card?
Big Icarus
Member
Holy shit, Ramunap Red lives one stronger than ever!
That art is terrible though.
Finally! I've been waiting for it to return for over two years now. I'm sooooo glad I bought into Ramunap Red before rotation. RDW is here to stay!
For a little while maybe.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I'm not against reminder text I don't understand the usage of the reminder text on these lands, as in I doubt the necessity and functionality.
You do realize that the dinos go in a ramp deck that already has cards right? Hour of promise, the cycling thing that gets you a basic land, Chandra Tod, and the three mana rampant growth all look like they work well with the dinos. And they haven't even given us ramp cards in this set yet which looks like they will. Be patient...
They already said its receiving errata. The card now starts off with "When Hostage Taker enters the battlefield, exile another target creature or artifact until..."
Yeah they errataed it to say "other"
I'm curious to see how they handle this on the digital version since playing on a small phone favors less text, but you can also have way more dynamic pop-ups and reminders.
I think it is mainly for people who don't play the game that often and might see one of these. They might have not played through Innistard and Origins so have not seen DFC cards before (You read this thread and it seems like at least a few times a year there is the "Haven't played in over a decade, where do I start," post. The text is for those people. The text is for kitchen table crowd that might not ever open one, and when it shows up on the table they can easily see why the other player didn't just play the card as a land.
I really think it makes sense to have something like that reminder text in the card. The other option is "~ can only enter the battlefield if ~ was transformed." or something similar. These are the only lands I can think of that you can't just play, so they are very unique in the game and require something for people that casually play can easily understand.
charlequin
Banned
I mean the obvious thing to do is steal gratuitously from Hearthstone and do little reminder flags that pop out next to the card when you go to interact with it.
FreedomFrisbee
Member
If the released screens are anything to go by the cards are going to be presented as mostly name and art. Seems easy to assume functionality from there. And we get to find out on saturday, whoo!
Little Old Man
Member
Thursday 1pm
So is this the supposed full replacement for MTGO? I looked at downloading it once but I just couldn't. The interface was too much.
They never thought that. They just had a problem with it being instant speed and able to target both creatures and players
I'm not sure where you got that idea from. Abrade, Incendiary Flow and Oath of Chandra all deal 3 damage and all cost 2. I don't recall them ever mentioning that they thought 3 damage for 2 mana was too powerful.
Thanks for the reply, it's the most sensible thing they could do. I haven't been keeping up with the news the past week.
There was a long period prior after theros rotated where they just didn't print any good face damage.
We have reports from alpha testers that it's the full rules engine from MTGO. The common thinking right now is that they are not going to just throw away MTGO over night so it will probably be an in between at the start i.e. Full Sets with limited formats but maybe only sets currently in standard.
Since it's WOTC though they will probably reveal it's a MOBA.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
being a 1/1 hurts it for as long as ballista is legal.
SigmasonicX
Member
Wait for the one-drop Compy.
Oh, I'm talking limited. Servant of the Conduit is probably going to be the go-to 2 mana ramp guy.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Servant only sees play where energy matters, ramp decks are actually resorting to druid of the cowl in the sideboard right now.
If it were anything but a 1/1 it would actually be great as a dork that can become a threat. Sort of like Sylvan Advocate used to be great.
FreedomFrisbee
Member
Thursday 1pm
:0 Even better
Pirate captains are female, so the trope is turned on its head.That's a very good 1 drop. I wish it was a Merfolk though.
EDIT: Cropped the pic for easier viewing:
First male siren in mtg?
Another bomb uncommon!
I picked a good set to get back into Magic with. Definitely want to Draft this!
i've been putting a lot of thought into getting one of every pirate and building beckett brass for edh and the fact that the pirates seem to be pushed somewhat to establish them as a tribe isn't helping
Wonder if this will be a viable strategy.
Anointed Procession instead of that.
I was kind of hoping there would be some fun with panharmonicon and explore but I need to see a lot more explore ETBs for that to be possible.
Channelers initiate is the go to imo, servant stops working when you run out of energy
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
This might have been an explanation a decade ago but nowadays the internet is accessible everywhere and the first thing anyone picking up a double faced card for the very first time is going to look it up or ask the internet.
The cost of including it is low but it doesn't explain all that much either. If someone new or returning borrows a deck and there's a double faced card sleeved the act of transforming isn't actually described anywhere.
I don't think anyone would use this card w/o inquiring how to first if they doubt how it's used. There's just too much weirdness involved no one would be able to presume how it's done right.
Man, it's vehicles being a semi-regular thing now, I really wish they had made Crew Sorcery speed. I feel like it would give them so much more design space, and make Vehicles so much less obnoxious to deal with.
Duels did something similar to this actually. Keywords on cards were flagged on the right of the card, and you could expand the keywords to view little explanations.
Duels did something similar to this actually. Keywords on cards were flagged on the right of the card, and you could expand the keywords to view little explanations.
GoutPatrol
Forgotten in his cell
This card only affects cards drawn from the library, not the graveyard, right?
Does this stop all subsequent draw higher than 2? For exmaple, if I Pull From Tomorrow X=4, and it gets flashed out, instead we would each only draw one card?
yes.
GoutPatrol
Forgotten in his cell
"shudder"
edit: it is a shame Felidar Guardian is banned, he would be great in a GW cat deck.
Looks like my post about the naya dino ramp deck seems like it's coming true.