shrapnelmagnet
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Can you counter a Cumulative Upkeep trigger with a spell / ability that counters Triggered Abilities?
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Magic: the Gathering |OT13| Ixalan - Port to Sideboard
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In what world is a 3/3 for one mana small???? This will see play. It can even crew heart of Kiran.
Imperfected
Member
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
yes
that'd be mighty weaker but you realised she's a woman right away which puts you above 83% of people from my experience.Fair. I also misread the card and thought the +1/+0 was only when she attacked
another thing that is overwhelming every deck/card has a nickname and i have no idea what any of it means
Imperfected
Member
Red and Temur Energy are top decks. What did you expect?
I recommend starting off by asking if anyone wants to play tribal themed decks. The newest decks are pretty simple and easy to drive (play). A lot of people enjoy tribal theme commander games and they're just basically to play whatever tribe they like.
A tribe can mean Merfolk, Slivers, Knights, Clerics, whatever. Just all the same creature type.
Do you know how to play? If not I'd start with Magic Duels on xbox/steam to learn the rules and see different kind of decks so you can see what suits your play style best. If you do know, I agree that commander can be too overwhelming at first, so you could start with a budget modern deck mtggoldfish has a good selection here, they are usually 70-100 buck in paper and 20-50 bucks in mtgo.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask here
If you need to learn the game better, Magic Duels is free on Steam. There's not more updates, but it's more than good for just learning the ins-and-outs of the game.
Wizards is potentially working on a new digital version of the game that will replace Magic Duels and, likely eventually replace MTGO. There should be more details about that in a few weeks. If the only store near you is all Commander all the time, then playing online might be your best bet.
Muskieratboi
Member
A little off topic, but:
Yeah, so TIL DesolatorMagic is an Asshole:
EDIT: Oh Crap, I posted this on mobile, had NO idea how big that image was. sorry guys, quoted.
Yeah, so TIL DesolatorMagic is an Asshole:
EDIT: Oh Crap, I posted this on mobile, had NO idea how big that image was. sorry guys, quoted.
Muskieratboi
Member
Yeah, mostly over it. Just like to point out when community contributors decide to ignore Wheaton's law.
Wulfric
Member
Just a heads up, preorders are probably gonna open up for this statue soon. The one with two head accessories is $850, the regular version is $800. All the glamour shots were posted today.
More info here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/Prime1Studio/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1529881863725117
More info here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/Prime1Studio/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1529881863725117
the DSP of magic
Whyyyyyyyy did I look you up on twitter to see why he blocked you. Someone bleach my eyes please.
That seems absurdly expensive, but I don't really know about this kind of thing.
Wulfric
Member
Yeah, I kinda guessed what was on his feed. That's what you get for snooping. >
Nope, the price is on par with other statues this studio produces. I realize that this badass figure is 28 inches tall, but I simply don't have a good place to put this statue. It would need to be behind glass to start with.
Muskieratboi
Member
Just because he's right, doesn't mean he has to be a dick about it, dude.
As for the Ajani Statue: hoooly shit that's expensive but worth every cent.
you play that card turn 1 and pass, they start their first turn with 2 lands, access to 2-mana removals and one step closer to sweepers or their big bad creatures. And that's the best-case scenario, the dryads get even worse if you're on the draw or you top-deck them. The issue is that your opponent gets one of the best 2-mana spells you can cast early game for free
re: Des Magic guy, I looked up that twitter and he simultaneously seems to hate and make fun of Trump, women, overweight people and probably more (but I didn't care to continue scrolling)? He kind of comes accross as your average GamerGater and I don't quite understand why you'd be surprised that such a person is actually a huge dick if you check his twitter history. And, oh boy, he's not in the position to criticise how other people look
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Oh fuck I need to prepare for tomorrow's FNM it's Fatal Push time. And I just sold my only Drangonmaster Outcast.
small time youtuber who keeps ranting about sjws, so he's probably a dick. Block him and move on.
On topic, how does everyone feel about the whole Vampire Conquistadors setup in this set? Not just the cards themselves, but the story implications too.
I kinda feel odd about them honestly, like having historical evil represented by actual monsters is both a good analogy and potentially a breakpoint from people learning about this stuff?
Idk, it's a fantasy card game.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Thinking more about it a Vampire church is oddly political of wizards. In so far that the church was absurdly corrupted at the time and bloodsucking quite an apt comparison of what the Vatican did.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Bloodsucking is even more apt if we're talking about colonial Spain. Those treasure fleets you see in pirate movies were all about draining the resources of their colonial holdings.
Like I've said before, the way they're handling the conquistadors is pretty clever.
RuinerPrime
Member
The Orzhov kind of did this too on Ravnica. Corruption of the Church and such.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Kinda as they also appear like a take on jewry.
They aren't real conquistadors though, I'd be surprised if wizards handled anything close to the genocide. They aren't heading an invasion moreso than an expedition. Which makes me think Quest is gonna come back in rivals.
GregLombardi
Member
I told my local game store they may want to hire a police officer or pack heat for the FNM fatal push promo month. The geeks are going to slit each other's throats over minor magic mistakes in order to gain an advantage in getting one.
Imperfected
Member
It thematically makes a lot of sense given that one of the things the Conquistadors were doing was looking for a source of eternal youth.
Brofist
Member
I haven't been following the spoilers, what is going to drive the scarab god price?
Imperfected
Member
Might just be that he's going to be one of the bigger late game win conditions left around after rotation, and Ixalan hasn't really shown anything up to snuff for replacing him just yet?
We're about to see a whole lot of Standard's late game power go bye-bye.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
It's only been rising, is very powerful and starting to pick up in play.
There goes that, disappointing.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Is there a disproportionally high amount of transgender among magic players?
For instance I would have never guessed Emma Handy was born in the body of a man until I read her bio on twitter couple weeks ago and stuff like that has happened a surprisingly amount of times. I don't know of anyone of name ftm OTOH. That also speaks a lot to the community for never once deadnaming her or any of the sort.
For instance I would have never guessed Emma Handy was born in the body of a man until I read her bio on twitter couple weeks ago and stuff like that has happened a surprisingly amount of times. I don't know of anyone of name ftm OTOH. That also speaks a lot to the community for never once deadnaming her or any of the sort.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I think just saying "is transgender" is fine here
And eh, maybe in geek spaces in general? I don't have any stats though
or maybe they just played Bloodborne and liked it
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Totally I just had a bunch of text more and used transgender 1 too many times, aesthetically, within before I rephrased a bit and posted it.
This mgiht be more fitting for OT general, I sometimes wonder why transexuality hasn't become more of a hot topic issue in western parts of europe just yet. We're socially overall more left leaning than the US (while also in areas lagging behind in equality) and there's nothing suggesting there are just a lesser numbers of transgender people in Europe. So what gives, is it less politicized, a natural transition, am I missing the forest for the trees and there's a lot going on actually,...?
There are actually a few that plays at my lgs. The MtG community is very accepting.
Magic stories will no longer have bylines.
I wonder if this is a response to criticism (attempting to remove the spotlight from particular authors) or because the stories will be written by committee more now than in the past.
I wonder if this is a response to criticism (attempting to remove the spotlight from particular authors) or because the stories will be written by committee more now than in the past.
This feels like an attempt to remove criticism from individual authors, cause you had Kelly Digges generally putting out awesome stuff while others were putting out some really bad fan-fic-esque material.
I'm not sure I'd say "disproportionately" high w/ MTG players as a whole, but due to the lack of cis women in competitive gaming spheres (and the various factors playing into the gap), we seem to end up with a way higher ratio of trans:cis women in this part of the community.