blindrocket
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Neither have I, it was just a guess. But good on you for jumping on it when you did!
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Magic: the Gathering |OT13| Ixalan - Port to Sideboard
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Neither have I, it was just a guess. But good on you for jumping on it when you did!
Is this only counting Standard sets? If so... yeah, it's been bad. Six dragons total in the last nine sets sucks. None of them made the cut in my list, I hate the idea of exerting scion.
But supplementary formats have been insane! We got a tutorable instant speed Wheel of Fortune in Runehorn Hellkite, a Karmic Justice on legs in Scalelord Reckoner (not to mention a great replacement for Thunderbreak Regent), and (IMO) the best single-card scion target ever with the Ur-Dragon itself.
I'm liking Boneyard Scourge a lot too. It's definitely not the most efficient way to clog up the board, but it's nice to have a blocker after getting wrathed, especially with stuff like Kindred Discovery and Dragon Tempest.
charlequin
Banned
We've actually seen this kind of thing before; for sets where there's a strong but very general theme (in this case tribal, though stuff like multicolor is similar) and a faction split, the individual mechanics don't do that much to hold together the set and they tend to get churned more by development. (Contrast this to stuff like Theros or Scars, where either they need to carry through the design mechanical structure pretty hard or else hit some really uncomfortable snags later in the process.)
(And yeah, it doesn't help that they lost two different design mechanics to other sets.)
I'm curious since I know what kind of weirdo searches I run but I'm clearly a pretty atypical user: what else would be good to search/filter/sort by in a card search engine?
Scryfall doesn't let you reverse the sort order (descending rather than ascending) as far as I can tell. That always seemed a big weird to me.
There are plenty of things that they could add to sort by, but I don't think would see much use. Year, frame, artist, card type, mana 'weight', etc.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
They count, which then also includes conspiracy 2 as a miss. I don't like Scalelord Reckoner personally, from C17 I added Ur-Dragon and Boneyard Scourge.
Yeah exerting scion is subiptimal but Glorybringer one of the most efficient dragons you can run. Flameslash on a stick is really good.
I'd love to be able to search by art (all cards with the same artwork) as well as search by modern/legacy rankings.
I first look for cards from legacy and modern before looking at what people do in EDH. Imo it's a much better gauge for power level.
FreedomFrisbee
Member
It's on my list of playsets to pick up. It's a 1 mana draw two with Baral out. I can dig it.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I'm reduced to playing highland lake, why wizards, why does red have to be so good.
Imperfected
Member
Hell, I still really like Colossal Dreadmaw in Limited. He may be completely worse than Carnage Tyrant, but he's still going to shit on blokes with the middling removal options available.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I'm surprised I have't seen the 1/1 with raid that gets a +1/+1 counter yet on the beta
it's truly ridiculous. There's such an abundance I think I'm going to take out lightning strike from my board. PW aren't the biggest issue right now for me so I don't really need the direct damage.
it's truly ridiculous. There's such an abundance I think I'm going to take out lightning strike from my board. PW aren't the biggest issue right now for me so I don't really need the direct damage.
This Saturday is my first Pre-Release event. I'm excited to get beat down 
I also preordered a couple booster boxes I get on the 29th. Fingers crossed for the Cradle, Jace or Tyrant. Pre-ordered the rest of the flip cards but didn't want to pay the $20 a card for Cradle.
I also preordered a couple booster boxes I get on the 29th. Fingers crossed for the Cradle, Jace or Tyrant. Pre-ordered the rest of the flip cards but didn't want to pay the $20 a card for Cradle.
This Saturday is my first Pre-Release event. I'm excited to get beat down
I also preordered a couple booster boxes I get on the 29th. Fingers crossed for the Cradle, Jace or Tyrant. Pre-ordered the rest of the flip cards but didn't want to pay the $20 a card for Cradle.
Wow talk about jumping all the way in!
If you are new to the game you might want to check out the first 45 minutes or so of this video. It's from the pre-prerelease and it shows someone opening their prerelease box and showing how he builds his preeelease decks. Then afterwards there's 5 hours of matches using the Ixalan cards.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cf1ESNK5ckI
Not my first go around. I started playing in 1993 but took a long 20 year break
came back just after hour came out. Although after seeing Arena I think that might be my go to once it's polished. Now that I'm Karrie it's harder to regularly hit up my local card shop.So I just ordered all the singles I need from IXN. Only thing I didn't spring for were the planeswalkers and Carnage Tyrant. Feels so good to only pay $100 for a new set rather than cracking boxes upon boxes.
Excited AF to play Marath Dinosaurs EDH, add more vamps to the C17 decks, and play with Cradle-lite.
Excited AF to play Marath Dinosaurs EDH, add more vamps to the C17 decks, and play with Cradle-lite.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I hate approach of the second sun so very much. Stupid mfing card.
charlequin
Banned
Yeah this is definitely a bit odd.
Where do you get modern/legacy rankings from?
For everything but basic lands you can get pretty close on the same-art thing by searching by artist, I think.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Already getting owned by Spell Pierce. WotC shat all over control that isn't approach with Ixalan.
Search by artist then a ++ in front will give you all prints of a card. Still annoying when you're looking for a particular basic land.
modern legacy rankings would have to be sourced from mtgtop8 or goldfish or the like.
you can circumvent the lack of searching by artwork pretty easily. I'd still like to skip the hassle.
Search by artist then a ++ in front will give you all prints of a card. Still annoying when you're looking for a particular basic land.
modern legacy rankings would have to be sourced from mtgtop8 or goldfish or the like.
Noah Bradley would hate you
A Serious Man
Member
It's a shit show. I've had to go to the forums multiple times to get them to add me back to the mailing list. How do you even lose people from a mailing list?
Thanks!
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Maro said they'll print more
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
They used to be unlimited print runs but that changed with C16 IIRC.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The problem is that one of them is always orders of magnitude more popular than others and you can't order more of them as single decks.
It's a real bummer that prowess, one of the coolest mechanics in modern MTG, keeps getting cut from sets for weaksauce reasons. This isn't the first time after prowess's evergreening that it was weirdly absent from a set...sigh
charlequin
Banned
From what I understand they didn't actually change them to the single-order/limited-run model technically, but MM3 moving up to March sucked up some store dollars that could've gone into reorders and then they got cut off much faster than previous decks due to the slot moving from November to August.
Marionette Jank 2.0. I think I am happy with the creatures now. Still tweaking the sorceries and instants. Metallic Rebuke maybe??? The goal is to just stay alive long enough so that Marionette Master resolves with 3 or 4 treasures on board.
https://deckstats.net/decks/90385/811922-marionette-jank-2-0?share_key=zKLNtVR0pS4EIvDk
https://deckstats.net/decks/90385/811922-marionette-jank-2-0?share_key=zKLNtVR0pS4EIvDk
Hmm. It'd say it's definitely jank lol.
Have you considered splashing white for Hidden Stockpile and some Servo making spells? They're cheap ways to make more artifacts, and in the case of Stockpile it's very easy to trigger Revolt with Treasure tokens.
Not sure about Stockpile. The only thing I want to be spending treasures on is triggering the Marionette Master, casting Vraska or paying for a Push if needed. I feel if Marionette Master resolves and I don't have enough treasures to finish them off then its game over so I want to use them sparingly.
Fair point. In that case, I'd 100% go for Metallic Rebuke to keep yourself alive until you can get your combo off. Also, how about some more disruption, like Duress? Nothing beats that for making sure your opponent can't react to your creatures.
I feel iffy about Deadeye Plunderers though. You say you want to kill via Marionette Master + Treaser Tokens, but Deadeye Plunders feels like it's too expensive to help with that. You have to spend 9 mana for it to give you 1 treasure token. I like that it can get pretty big with enough treasures on the field, but I'd rather have lots of cheaper creatures that make treasures for free when they die/ETB.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I played around with Marionette decks. The problem is that it costs too much to actually cast Marionette Master and not enough stuff actually makes treasure. It's all pricey stuff.
The problem is that the best card to repeatedly make "treasure" is still Tezzeret. I can't see not running Deadeye Plunderers - it's like an 8/8 for 5 that buffs itself.
The problem is that the best card to repeatedly make "treasure" is still Tezzeret. I can't see not running Deadeye Plunderers - it's like an 8/8 for 5 that buffs itself.
Fair enough. A big body is a big body and that counts for something.
Last suggestion I have is Lookout's Dispersal. You're basically running Pirate tribal, and it's another counterspell to keep you and Marionette Master alive. With enough Pirates in the deck it's better than Mana Leak.
Good Job Bob
Member
Heading to my first pre-release on Saturday and I don't have any sleeves. Any recommendations on Amazon?
Edit: Maybe I should just buy some sleeves while I'm at the LGS. I assume they should have some.
Edit: Maybe I should just buy some sleeves while I'm at the LGS. I assume they should have some.
Speaking of jank decks, here's what I'm thinking for a jank Favorable Winds deck.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/favorable-pirates-2/
I like the idea of cheap anthems + evasive creatures, and there's a couple of cool flying pirates to try out, like Kitesail Freebooter. I also want to try out Skyship Plunderer + Jace and see if that helps out with how squishy he is.
http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/favorable-pirates-2/
I like the idea of cheap anthems + evasive creatures, and there's a couple of cool flying pirates to try out, like Kitesail Freebooter. I also want to try out Skyship Plunderer + Jace and see if that helps out with how squishy he is.
Turn 4 Jace ultimate would be awesome. The tokens come in with 3 loyalty right?
Checked the rules just now and yep, the Jace copy tokens come into play with 3 counters on them, regardless of how many counters original Jace has on him at the time he makes them.
Which means I can safely kill off Jace once he gets to 5 Loyalty on turn 4 in Magical Christmasland. And then I can do it again with one of the Jace Tokens to make even more Jaces.
Yeah, just get them at the store. Ultra Pro eclipse are good.
Imperfected
Member
Man try to have your marriages last at least a week and this won't be as much of a problem.