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Magic: the Gathering |OT13| Ixalan - Port to Sideboard
- Thread starter SigmasonicX
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That's the most insane prize support I've ever heard of, holy crap. Being able to guarantee a box to 4-0 is already two packs a person.
Imperfected
Member
That and "skimming", where if the rules text is longer than a very brief sentence the player will just sort of scan it for action verbs/keywords and may or may not actually comprehend what they're reading to begin with.
Magic's generally pretty good about "skim-friendly" rules text that will probably resolve to the appropriate reading even when skimmed, but you can never underestimate the ability of the player to find the wrong way to read a rule.
Yea, they only do prize support like that for the midnight release. Saturday and Sunday's events are break to top 8 but i'm not sure the details of prize support on those. Will most likely go back to my first LGS after the midnight one since 5 rounds will still be shorter than breaking to top 8. May try a 2HG release for the first time though.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Why are there still people around that feel the need to defend colonialism in this day and age?
Do people actually believe in inheriting the guilt of their ancestors and as such need to defend their actions...
Do people actually believe in inheriting the guilt of their ancestors and as such need to defend their actions...
Yep. History should be taught. Not swept under a rug. Even if it's a collectible card game.
Giant Panda
Member
So if Wizards isn't afraid to implement some functional errata to make the game cleaner, why won't they go back and change the old triggered lifelink to real lifelink? Same with deathtouch, non-keyworded hexproof, etc. That counter-intuitiveness comes up more for me than planeswalker redirection.
I lost an EDH game once because I assumed that my Arcane Lighthouse would take care of Canopy Cover when in fact it doesn't.
I lost an EDH game once because I assumed that my Arcane Lighthouse would take care of Canopy Cover when in fact it doesn't.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
they tried doing that for lifelink but undid it because lifelink doesn't have the same applications as spirit link in the end. They really effed up with Loxodon Warhammer though.
Canopy Cover is because granting hexproof to opposing creatures is not the same as giving them quasi hexproof from a source of yours. As in if you enchant an opposing creature your opponent can't target it anymore while you still can
All the cards they errata'd give actual hexproof
Loxodon Warhammer is an outlier. For awhile, Lifelink was a triggered ability, so they reprinted Warhammer with Lifelink. Then, when they eventually changed it to a replacement effect, they decided that since the most recent printing said "Lifelink" it had to have lifelink.
Giant Panda
Member
Well, yeah, I realize it'd be a functional change. I was just wondering why Wizards was only willing to do functional changes some of the time.
Typically, they don't do functional errata on a card-by-card basis. Instead, they just change the rules, then the rules change causes functional change on individual cards.
In this case in particular, they're removing a rule, but doing errata to make cards function similarly to how they do currently. The reason they're willing to do it now is simple: Arena. It's something that they've always thought about, but were always wary about actually pulling the trigger because of the oracle changes that would be necessary. Arena simply forced their hand.
Fuuuuck Tibalt
You take that back
Poodlestrike
Banned
Yeah, Tibalt is unfuckable. Dude is the WORST.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I'd fuck tibalt. I assume he comes with a tail.
Here's an on-theme attempt at a playable Tibalt.
Tibalt, the Redeemed 1BR
Legendary Planeswalker - Tibalt
{+1}: Create a 1/1 red devil creature token with, "when this creature dies it deals 1 damage to target creature, player or planeswalker."
{-2}: ~ deals 2 damage to target player. That player discards a card at random.
{-6}: Each opponent gets an emblem with "whenever you cast a spell, you lose life equal to that spell's converted mana cost."
[3]
ShadowSwordmaster
Banned
Ooh! Angrath is a Minotaur Planeswalker that uses red-hot chains.
I really hope we get him in Rivals, he could be the RB planeswalker.
Nice.
Big Icarus
Member
That's absurdly too good, like that'd easily be the best three CMC walker ever printed.
Christ on a cracker
It's about Tibalt equity. The first one was terrible so the next one has to be broken. It's only fair.
Last mythic
that's fuckin awesome
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
aka absolutely terrible
Poodlestrike
Banned
Feels like it could be hilarious in the right EDH game. I dunno about 2 player 20 life tho.
It encourages low health gameplay from the Vampire deck, which is kinda neat
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
it's a 6 mana enchantment that does nothing until your next turn where it might be good. A janky limited deck is going to be its best use.
Three words: fragile white feelings. Those three words are why a lot of things are what they are in America.
You mean explicitly SaffronOlive bait
divisionbyzorro
Member
Tibalt, the Punisher BR
Legendary Planeswalker - Tibalt
(+1): Draw a card unless target opponent has Tibalt deal 2 damage to him or her.
(-1): Tibalt deals three damage to target creature unless it's controller discards a card.
(-6): You and target opponent choose a number and reveal it simultaneously. Tibalt deals damage to both players equal to the number they chose. Then each player who chose the smallest number sacrifices half their permanents rounded up.
The guy on Reddit who started this chat was not American, fwiw.
Legendary Planeswalker - Tibalt
(+1): Draw a card unless target opponent has Tibalt deal 2 damage to him or her.
(-1): Tibalt deals three damage to target creature unless it's controller discards a card.
(-6): You and target opponent choose a number and reveal it simultaneously. Tibalt deals damage to both players equal to the number they chose. Then each player who chose the smallest number sacrifices half their permanents rounded up.
The guy on Reddit who started this chat was not American, fwiw.
FreedomFrisbee
Member
It's better than mirror universe and soul conduit in most situations.
blindrocket
Member
oh, so damn funny in multiplayer Commander. You could swap out someone about to die with someone else that's much higher. I could see some real feel bads happening. lol
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
My comment was actually prompted by people doing the same as that guy in another reddit thread that commended Wizards on the flavour of Ixalan.
As somone from a country that partook in the holocaust the idea of inheriting guilt is just outlandish for me and I'm only a couple generations removed.
The mix of insecurity, superiority and zeal is fascinating in these kinds of people.
Shouldn't even be hard just need an outlet to pay life. The 2 drop works for instance.
immediately change the game to "ok brian is way ahead on life total, now he's at 5. kill him!"
So the idea would be to somehow stay ahead on life, have the 2 drop, drop this turn whatever, then swap life totals on trigger and pay4 life until near dead?
charlequin
Banned
It's the clear outlier, but offhand it seems to do enough to support the other themes that you'd have a hole if you just pulled it out. Raid and Treasure both skew pretty strongly to the simple side, and Enrage is a pretty easy trigger to follow, so I don't think we have an all-of-the-last-
The card count you need for decks is much higher this way than with the Duels structure so they'll absolutely have a problem if they stick to equivalent pricing. Every other CCG in the market has a more generous F2P strategy than Hearthstone and WotC will have to follow suit here to get real traction.
It's on a CCG model, it's 100% going to have dusting or equivalent.
Imperfected
Member
Don't worry guys, I have an exclusive first look at the
Tibalt.
Tibbers, Devilman of Gothland RRRRRRRRRRRRRBBBBBBBBBBB
Mildly Notorious Planeswalker -- Tibalt
(+1) Tibalt deals 1 damage to target player who controls a Tibalt planeswalker.
(-5) Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand, then discard twice that many cards.
(-10) Tibalt becomes a 1/1 Red and Black Devil creature with, "Whenever this creature dies, deal 1 damage to target opponent or creature."
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Planeswalker Deck
Tibbers, Devilman of Gothland RRRRRRRRRRRRRBBBBBBBBBBB
Mildly Notorious Planeswalker -- Tibalt
(+1) Tibalt deals 1 damage to target player who controls a Tibalt planeswalker.
(-5) Draw cards equal to the number of cards in your hand, then discard twice that many cards.
(-10) Tibalt becomes a 1/1 Red and Black Devil creature with, "Whenever this creature dies, deal 1 damage to target opponent or creature."
[3]
StrategyFan
Member
don't play too many expensive cards unless they have cycling. stick to 2 colors. try to get at least 22 non-land spells during the draft. make sure your deck or sideboard has a chance against flying creatures (attacking with faster ground creatures in a damage-racing situation is an option)
SigmasonicX
Member
* Bring snacks and water.
* Each round of drafting passes booster packs in the opposite direction.
* If the next person is still picking a card and you're done, put the pack next to them. If they already have a pack next to them, then don't pass anything until they're done.
* For a beginner, it's best to choose cards in this order: bombs (obviously good cards), removal (kill spells), evasion (flying, etc.), aggro (high powered attackers), duds (everything else). AKA, BREAD. Good drafting is more complicated than that, but this is a good baseline.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Last mythic
I would be surprised if its the last one, there's only one green mythic (Carnage Tyrant) but 2 of every other color. They go over 15 all of the time these days.
Also, this card is dumb and people who said it might be okay in limited or EDH are wrong because its bad in both of those. There's literally no reason to ever take this card in limited unless its the last card in the pack and your are physically unable to take another card. Even in EDH it's not even a good combo with anything short of Lich and even then you'd have to wait until you untapped (your opponents will kill you by then) and you only get to target one player.
I dunno, I guess I'm not a big fan of wacky effects that only exist to be wacky.
A Serious Man
Member
I have no problem with mythic rarity being the realm of weird, powerful jank and PW's.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I dunno. It's just a generic wacky effect you can't really do anything with.
A Serious Man
Member
Oh, I doubt I'll ever play with it but it is a powerful effect. As soon as it comes down your opponent can't attack you until they can finish you off in one turn. It's great for buying you time as your opponent will have to build and maintain an enormous advantage to finally kill you.
"Redoubled Strike" - 1RR
Sorcery- 3 damage to any target.
Raid- 3RR: Return ~ from gy to hand if you attacked this turn.
from Hobby Consolas
from Magic Mics
"Fleet Swallower" - 5UU
Creature - Fish
Whenever ~ attacks, target player puts the top half of his or her libary into his or her graveyard, rounded up.
6/6
from Wired