It would have been better to play Sram-O's with Panharm + Resevoir.
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Magic: the Gathering |OT13| Ixalan - Port to Sideboard
- Thread starter SigmasonicX
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It would have been better to play Sram-O's with Panharm + Resevoir.
I had them in Aetherborn tribal, i'm going to be doing Black/White Vampire Tribal now. I can't really seem them in Dinos and Pirates as there are better options, Merfolk tribal maybe.
I'm starting to think there will not be any tie in benefit for paper magic players except maybe some digital promo cards :/
Would be sad though.
I'd go with Merfolk. There aren't any lords for them in standard and there are +1/+1 counter synergies with Herald of Secret Streams.
Next best would be Vamps, but I still think most Vamp decks will win off of Sanctum Seeker and throwing tokens into the grinder, so counters will only help so much.
Every time I've seen Angle of Invention used outside of being resurrected with God-Pharaoh's Gift I've seen it eat a removal spell instantly. It needs 4 toughness so badly.
What degree is it?
TheBlackMarvel
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Story day
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/something-else-entirely-2017-10-04
In summary Jace and Vraska fall in love while Vraska shares her life story and then their boat crashes
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/something-else-entirely-2017-10-04
In summary Jace and Vraska fall in love while Vraska shares her life story and then their boat crashes
....jeez those redemption changes. We were not prepared.
Didn't these type of tribal cards do a whole lot of nothing back in Lorwyn?
Imperfected
Member
I feel like it's always got to be Chart a Course.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
unles your deck attacks it's strategic planning
Imperfected
Member
Well, regardless, it's never Costly Plunder.
charlequin
Banned
Yes, although I don't know how instructive a comparison that is since the Lorwyn era was so heavily dominated by Faeries.
Joe Molotov
Member
We Monster Musume now. All stories should just be Jace building a monster girl harem from now on.
SigmasonicX
Member
Yeah, not much more to add.
* Jace is perfectly content learning things on the ship.
* They go to the floating pirate city High and Dry, where a merfolk overhears them talking about the compass.
* Jace realizes he can read minds.
* Vraska tells him about Ravnica, but not that it's another plane. She tells him he campaigned for a political position there with the slogan "Jace is Ace", which he doesn't believe.
* Vraska first planeswalked while being beaten in an Azorius prison, but just ended up in another prison.
* Jace takes apart the compass to figure out how it works. It responds to planeswalking energy.
* They're approached by a Legion of Dusk ship and assaulted by waves, presumably from merfolk, causing the ship to crash against a shore wall.
Imperfected
Member
Joe Molotov
Member
I would also be fine with this.
Pirates and the 2017 tribal edh decks
I got my playset for $53. Not what i wanted to pay but I want to brew with it in modern so I bit the bullet.
You mean sram wrapped eggs
Bigger issue is that snek is just better for that effect.
charlequin
Banned
This is true.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I am angry
Infinite Stars
Member
Totally calling it from the description, Ugin is involved with Ixalan somehow. The passage of a "Sun being stolen by a winged creature and then hidden"+Bolas wanting it just screams "Ugin" to me.
Plus, with them having now established Bolas a legitimate threat with 3+ Walkers(Tezerret, Ral, Vraska on Contract, and possibly Dovin) in his employee+The Eternals he's more of a threat to the Multiverse than the Eldrazi were. Icon should hopefully realize this.
Plus, with them having now established Bolas a legitimate threat with 3+ Walkers(Tezerret, Ral, Vraska on Contract, and possibly Dovin) in his employee+The Eternals he's more of a threat to the Multiverse than the Eldrazi were. Icon should hopefully realize this.
They are shipping them on a literal ship. How poetic.
To be fair though, I haven't read many of these stories but this one seemed pretty well written compared to the other ones I have.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I bet you anything they chicken out and Jace doesn't get any gorgonookie.
Rule 34 fans are going to be so disappointed.
My prayer is that they are using this as an opportunity to make Jace a more likeable character. Tear down the sour, boring stuff people seem to dislike and give him a happier, more vibrant personality. Then slowly feed back his talents. Eventually he SHOULD get his memories back, but he should have grown as a character because of this and not return to the old boring beta we all have come to be sick of.
Part of that should totally be having a Gorgan girlfriend.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I don't think Jace is that annoying normally. I consider him far less annoying than Gideon who just reads like some kind of ridiculous mono-white caricature. Really, the obsession with making them have color-pie characteristics is what makes the Gatewatch members that aren't Liliana annoying.
Dusk // Dawn gets back every creature in the deck from the yard.
With all the incidental life gain and stuff you should be able to keep reviving your team. Thinking of even sideboarding Inspiring Cleric too, 4 life swings are huge
TheBlackMarvel
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Yeah, this Jace is MUCH more likable than Jace 2.0(How many times has he lost his memory before anyway?)
Vraska actually wanting redemption is an interesting character trait, I wonder if they're going to position her with the choice of redemption or leading the Golgari?
Of course they are.
And she'll make the wrong choice.
Imperfected
Member
You just say that because being a functional adult is in black's color pie.
Infinite Stars
Member
:raises hand to object:
:realizes that of Tarkir, Black was the closest thing to a shared color among the "adult" factions:
I mean, The Temur punched bears and the Jeskai were the nerdy kids who memorized the encyclopedia.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Twice. He got mind fucked around Alara block but most of that isn't canon anymore, or at least stops being canon whenever WOTC decides its not convenient. At this point the only part of Agents of Artifice we can say is still true is that he had an encounter with Tezzeret.
The reason people are responding positively to Vraska is because they wrote her as an actual person and not whatever the fuck they assume a Green/Black character is like.
Infinite Stars
Member
Confirmed as still Canon: He had an encounter with Tezzeret, and Liliana was involved to the point where she's able to convince him to leave Ravnica to chase after him.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I'm mostly getting at the idea that I don't think we can take the specific facts in Agents of Artifice as necessarily canon anymore since lots of the details just get changed whenever WOTC finds it convenient to change them.
Ugh if they ever go back to Zendikar for more ASHAYAAAAAA interactions with Nissa. Nissa makes the story tedious as hell. A lot of people thought that they wrote Nissa as being on the autistic spectrum, but I don't see it that way at all. I think it's that they were horrible at writing a mono-green character so they made her into some kind of weird hermit. I'm not saying I expect highbrow stuff out of my card game fiction, but the reason people like Jace 3, Vraska and Liliana is because they get written like actual people and not weird personifications of the color pie. We get it, Chandra is impulsive.
GIANKRATOS
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What's the best site to check the price of Magic cards? Thanks 
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
What's the best site to check the price of Magic cards? Thanks
MTGGoldfish just uses the market price from TCGPlayer and is probably easier to actually navigate than TCGP.
What's the best site to check the price of Magic cards? Thanks
Magiccardmarket if you are in Europe. Mtggoldfish if you are US.
GIANKRATOS
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charlequin
Banned
Jay Annelli has been flogging this theory on Twitter for a while now. Above and beyond any of that stuff, there's just a ton of feathered-serpent-with-horns imagery and other things that closely tie in with Ugin's general aesthetic.
This failed hard at my LGS noone showed up. Meanwhile at my other LGS EDH is free and we get promos just for playing (not recent promos, just leftover stuff). It was nuts playing 8 player Planechase Commander.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
It's Marit Lage.