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Magic: The Gathering |OT3| Enchantment Under the Siege
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divisionbyzorro
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I would bet that the blue deck has a Morph theme based on that.
Perhaps Ixidor or Ixidron will be in it. Ixidron is a sweet, sweet card.
Perhaps Ixidor or Ixidron will be in it. Ixidron is a sweet, sweet card.
That's from this article. Makes it sound like they are avoiding making PW cards for characters involved or soon to be involved in the modern storyline. I was surprised to see Ob Nix for the same reason though I'd think Nix would be less relevant plotwise than Nahiri.
Interestingly enough, the white walker for the Magic the Gathering board game hasn't been reveled yet. I wonder........
The Black deck is filled with Morbid cards. I wouldn't be surprised if each deck has a returning mechanic running through it. It's a shame that Siren is useless in 1v1. I have little interest in cards that can't be used across formats (as opposed to just being better/good only in certain formats).
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Nahiri stuck a hedron in his head after he showed up on Zendikar looking for a way to fix the Chain Veil curse.
The flavour text on Ob Nixilis, the Fallen suggests that it was actually Zendikar itself that caused him to lose his spark.
SigmasonicX
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Uncharted Realms article about Ob Nixilis
And that's all the information we have about Nahiri from that article. This article mentions her once, with the context implying that she's the Lithomancer.
Did they name this card after the reaction you're going to get from your opponents when you play it?
Next up?
1GG
You know what, you twat? Fuck You
Enchantment
Whenever your opponent casts a spell, they have to scratch your ass.
Can't wait to Cascade into this in my Maelstrom Wanderer deck.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Nope, it was Nahiri. He was cursed by the Veil to be stuck in demon form and then went there to fix it. Originally he was weakened in terms of his demon powers, but the removal of the hedron in M15 side-stories meant he got his wings and some of his powers back, but not his spark.
Wave of Vitriol should have been in Annihilation.
The card naming in recent years has been poop. Like, from a butt.
Wave of Vitriol? Really?
What ever happened to the awesome naming conventions for board sweepers? Like Jokulhaups, Obliterate, Pyroclasm, Mutilate, Damnation and the classic Wrath of God.
Now you have Extinguish All Hope, In Garruk's Wake, Mass Calcify and End Hostilities. A few years back there was All Is Dust, Sudden Disappearance and Disaster Radius. Disaster Radius.
I really hate how this card is just a giant middle finger to colorless decks.
divisionbyzorro
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Holy crap; I hadn't thought of that. This literally puts the colorless player out of the game.
shrapnelmagnet
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But tokens have ads as it is- I really don't see how 50% of one card has any appreciable value to them from an advertising point of view. You already bought / opened the product and they already have an ad for you.
The ads advertise upcoming products and things like the website and Duels of the Planeswalkers. Apparently the ad cards come out of the ad budget, not the product budget (or whatever it might be called), so if they stopped putting the ads in there would be no tokens at all.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
They're pieces of paper they don't cost shit to make
Yeah.. My Kozilek is sad face
EDIT: also to make it worse, they made it sacrifice instead of destroy so you can't even try to Darksteel Forge to protect yourself.
Made some adjustments to my deck, you wernt kidding kirb about mantis riders. Those can suck to play against when someone knows how to actually play Jeskai agro. Here's my current list:
Prog sphinx has been pretty essential to clogging the flyers, and they usually can't burn him twice before combat to force the tap. Went from 3-7 wl to 6-4, but I'll be doing more fnm to get where I need to be. Keranos was also pretty poor outside of a control matchup.
ThLunarian
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Eh, colorless commander decks had it coming. They're never up to any good.
SigmasonicX
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Hmm, they mentioned that one of the planeswalkers would be a brand new character but from a familiar setting. They never did have a planeswalker that was actually from Lorwyn...
ThLunarian
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shrapnelmagnet
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That's fair, but they print "game tips" on the ad cards, too. I'd much rather have a potentially gameplay-related token than a reminder about the clan colours. I can't help but feel that if I really needed to know that information, there's an entire internet out there. It's unlikely for the situation to be, "Oh, thank heavens I have this handy reminder card nearby!"
I suppose if it were actually explaining a fairly complicated rule (like how the attack phase works), I might be less annoyed by them.Also, I am looking at an ad card right now that has an ad for Magic 2014... on both sides. That's hardly necessary.
Obviously it's more complicated than I'm making it out to be, but it just feels a tiny bit silly on their part. Especially when I'm more likely to keep a token (and as a result, the ad) when I'm throwing away the packaging.
(Interesting thought: Tokens are more rare than rares. Not the individual tokens, maybe, but if you've opened a booster box, you'll have less tokens than rares.)
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RE: Jokulhaups - that's pretty neat.
SigmasonicX
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Assault Suit is pretty neat. You can lease out your big creature and never worry about it attacking you, since you still control the equipment.
EDIT: The same applies to Crown of Doom, actually. Once you pass it on, you can't get it back, since you're its owner.
EDIT: The same applies to Crown of Doom, actually. Once you pass it on, you can't get it back, since you're its owner.
charlequin
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I originally thought this, but given that they printed an Ob Nixilis (who was just in M15, and will assuredly show up again soon in Zendikar) I don't think it's quite right. If they print an Ajani or whatever, it's confusing in terms of when exactly he's appearing in the ongoing modern storyline. If they print a Nahiri, they can just have it be the pre-Mending Nahiri from like 2000 years ago and make her look different if she does show up again in a Standard set.
They used them all up? Names are a limited resource!
Also FUCK THAT All is Dust is an awesome card name.
They were doing you a favor by keeping you from using Magic Online.
CeruleanSilver
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lol, this just cracks me up.
Rules question: what happens if you donate your creature with Assault Suit to an opponent, but then that opponent is killed during their turn? Does the creature revert to being under your control, or does it leave the game? Same thing for the Assault Suit: if the creature vaporizes due to its controlling leaving the game, does the equipment come back under its owner's control unattached?
CeruleanSilver
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I really like what they did with the Reef Worm and its tokens:
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Even the text boxes get smaller so the creature looks bigger– cute.
Even the text boxes get smaller so the creature looks bigger– cute.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
It's the little stuff like those tokens that make this game special.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Holy. Mother. Of. Urza.
A splashable Goblin PW.
I am going to buy 4 of all of these decks. It's gonna happen.
A splashable Goblin PW.
I am going to buy 4 of all of these decks. It's gonna happen.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
U/R artifact commander deck, mill all of the things and reanimate every artifact.
Neat.
Neat.
This is the best PW ever.
Conspiracy lives!Riggers confirmed
Joke deck confirmed! At least Wurmcoil Engine and Goblin Welder should make the deck, right?
tl;dr flavourfail and a terrible name
Lies! I can think of names right on the spot. Crashing Elephants, Sleet Storm, Acidic Rain. They should identify with green, namely nature. When I see Wave of Vitriol, I don't see a natural disaster. I see a chemist terrorist unleashing his biological weapon on cities. Nothing green about it except the colour of the chemical. Also, apparently the acid destroys artifacts, but doesn't hurt flesh.
tl;dr flavourfail and a terrible name
This seems legacy/vintage playable. Awesome card - its a red Planeswalker that both feels red AND is really good.
Conspiracy lives!Riggers confirmed
acheron_xl
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I can't wait to see what shenanigans arise from Daretti + The Chain Veil.
And if you squint, it almost looks like the kraken in that kraken token is destroying the Weatherlight.
And if you squint, it almost looks like the kraken in that kraken token is destroying the Weatherlight.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
The card isn't that playable (outside of EDH haha) but Duneblast is also a sick name
You'll get the creature back. When a player dies one of the things that happens is that any effects that give that player control of something end. So since you originally controlled the creature it goes back to you. The Assault Suit is actually always under your control, just the creature is changing hands.
Crashing Elephants sounds like a creature, not a removal spell.
Sleet storm sounds blue, not green, since blue is the color of water and ice. Acidic Rain is too close to Acid Rain, which is already a card.
Goblin planeswalker is awesome.
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