Angry Grimace
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Serious question: why would it matter if Atarka triggers a non-starter winmore ability?
Magic: The Gathering |OT3| Enchantment Under the Siege
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Serious question: why would it matter if Atarka triggers a non-starter winmore ability?
For flavor purposes since Formidable is the keyword attached to her clan, I guess.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
lol such trolls.
pelicansurf
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Uncut sheet featuring Rally the Ancestors, eh?
SolidSnakeUS
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Never seen that card before but holy shit that thing sucks. If it had haste, then it would make more sense but nope...
"God's Beard!"
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Yeah, but the modality makes up for it. If you could only cast Far//Away for five it would be pretty bad.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I guess Rally the Ancestors plus Dragon Tempest plus a bunch of dead dragons....okay that card sucks
That card encapsulates why I think FRF is a bad set. Its not that its a bad card, its that its such a stark contrast to the rest of the stupid bombs like Citadel Siege. You're probably way behind everyone else if you open Rally (I got that shit as my Abzan promo in prerelease).
That card encapsulates why I think FRF is a bad set. Its not that its a bad card, its that its such a stark contrast to the rest of the stupid bombs like Citadel Siege. You're probably way behind everyone else if you open Rally (I got that shit as my Abzan promo in prerelease).
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I like how it exiles itself so you can't even fuel delve with it in case you accidentally shuffled it into your deck.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Cunning Breezestrider
4UW
Flying
Whenever you cast a non-creature spell, Cunning Breezestrider gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
4/4
To summarize:
Ojutai ability: recycle an old ability that works with Prowess and give all the creatures Prowess but call it something else
Atarka ability: nonstarter winmore
Kolaghan ability: aggro ability that doesn't let you establish a board state
Silumgar: Make my own board state worse unless I sac a meaningless dude but why am I playing meaningless dudes
Dromoka: counters, counters everywhere
4UW
Flying
Whenever you cast a non-creature spell, Cunning Breezestrider gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
4/4
To summarize:
Ojutai ability: recycle an old ability that works with Prowess and give all the creatures Prowess but call it something else
Atarka ability: nonstarter winmore
Kolaghan ability: aggro ability that doesn't let you establish a board state
Silumgar: Make my own board state worse unless I sac a meaningless dude but why am I playing meaningless dudes
Dromoka: counters, counters everywhere
divisionbyzorro
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Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
It isn't relevant for any reason, but the name of the character in that text is Ishai, Ojutai Dragonspeaker.
This set just goes to show how boring dragons are and I say this as someone who collects dragons. Design space of every colour, the sky is the limit, yet we get mill dragons, prowess dragons, fight dragons, bogardan hellkite, scourge of kher ridges. Just in the previous two sets you had Butcher of the Horde, Ashcloud Phoenix, Necropolis Fiend, Whisperwood Elemental, Tasigur. That there's no delve dragon is utter bollocks. Instead we get overcosted fatties as usual.
It doesn't really matter, it's just neat that she synergies with her faction's mechanic.
It doesn't help that some of the design is just plain boring. Atarka is bigger Bogardan Hellkite with the Flash removed so you can't use it as a combat trick. Instead of trying something new, the designers dumbed an older card down.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The inevitable excuse will be "Well there's no design space in dragons other than overcosted fatties" despite the fact that there's nothing that actually mandates dragons do anything in particular other than be "creature - dragon."
"God's Beard!"
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Still waiting for Hoarding Dragon's chance to shine 
platypotamus
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Cunning Breezedancer is just an uncommon though. Granted, Ojutai will probably have the same sort of non-keyworded Prowess trigger.
Megaprowess
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I just look at the Khans card list and get sad. There's a ton of cards you can build decks around even if they aren't necessarily good - Villainous Wealth, Sidisi, Siege Rhino, Butcher, Jeskai Ascendancy, Mantis Rider, Knuckleblade, etc.
It seems like they just figured the mana to play allied colors is way better so they could just make the cards less good.
It seems like they just figured the mana to play allied colors is way better so they could just make the cards less good.
They should mega everything.
Make a set that's like SMB3 World 4. Classic keywords now mega'd.
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MEGA UNBLOCKABLE
SigmasonicX
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That doesn't make any sense. It's not like in other sets where the dragons are red that have to have red abilities. They can literally make any dragon. They don't need to adhere to any rule. In the past you had cloud dragons, mist dragons, eternal dragons, undead dragons, wingless dragons. "But these are all Ugin's babies." Who gives a shit? It's called Magic. They can probably think of something.
Edit: oh I see you edited your post.
divisionbyzorro
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The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
So that was a sound
Rip in peace headphone users. Holy cow
SigmasonicX
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BRMPMPMPMPMPMPMPMPMPMP
phazedplasma
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hell yeah anafenza spirit queen
SigmasonicX
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Anafenza is also dead, but not undead.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Man Doug Beyer seems like a cool guy but I'm not sure if he's the right person to be delivering all of this...
divisionbyzorro
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Dragon Punch! Bwa ha ah.
Epic Confrontation 1G
Sorcery
Target creature you control gets +1/+2 and fights target creature you don't control.
Epic Confrontation 1G
Sorcery
Target creature you control gets +1/+2 and fights target creature you don't control.
SigmasonicX
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Surrak seems to have gotten the most satisfying deal for him out of the former clan leaders.
Can't be worse than the Overwatch presentation.
phazedplasma
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where was Ojutai
divisionbyzorro
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Damn, Ojutai. Incoming bigkrev meltdown.
EDIT: Temur Sarkhan!! Also, damn he's good.
EDIT: Temur Sarkhan!! Also, damn he's good.
SigmasonicX
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where was Ojutai
There he is!
phazedplasma
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dat ultimate lol
GregLombardi
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Sarkhan is absolutely insane.
The Technomancer
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Sarkhan is cool. Ultimate is kind of boring, but those first two abilities at that cost...
divisionbyzorro
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Sarkhan seems really good.
SigmasonicX
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For dorks that aren't watching:
Sarkhan Unbroken 2GUR
Planeswalker - Sarkhan
+1: Draw a card, then add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
-2: Put a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield.
-8: Search your library for any number of Dragon creature cards and put them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.
4
Sarkhan Unbroken 2GUR
Planeswalker - Sarkhan
+1: Draw a card, then add one mana of any color to your mana pool.
-2: Put a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying onto the battlefield.
-8: Search your library for any number of Dragon creature cards and put them onto the battlefield. Then shuffle your library.
4
SolidSnakeUS
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That's pretty badass.
Angry Grimace
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