It seems so awful to me.
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It seems so awful to me.
Well it'd be absurd if it didn't have to sac. It is no man-land, but in Limited it is total gravy to include if your mana base is reasonable. Might not be constructed playable, but I could see some deck wanting it as an uncounterable way to get a few dudes.
Now that i think about it, Gargoyle Castle did a 3/4 flier instead of two 1/1 at the same cost and saw 0 play. This could've easily costed 3 and it would'be been an interesting card, or 4 for fringe.
manipulate
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5 seems p overcosted, oh well.
Guys, it's a card for Limited. It has synergies all over the set in multiple colors, and unlike something like Darksteel Citadel, has enough upside that makes it worth including in your deck even though it makes your colors weaker.
It's an ability that has been playable in constructed at 3 mana (Midnight Haunting), so making it 5 with the upside of being uncountable and producing mana seems perfectly fair.
It's an ability that has been playable in constructed at 3 mana (Midnight Haunting), so making it 5 with the upside of being uncountable and producing mana seems perfectly fair.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
RIP assorted second land cycle dreams.
They are really making Kaladesh look like the most interesting plane in the set. I do hope its either Spring or Fall 2016
When does BFZ come out again? I think I'll be fine skipping buying product/drafting/prerelease for this one.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I miiiight draft it once or twice because I do like ten-archetype formats for like the first draft or so. That's probably it though
manipulate
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I'll have you know I won my first ever real modo draft with the ensoul artifact deck
"God's Beard!"
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Yeah, he's one of the concept team for Theros. He didn't just paint Erebos, etc. He came up with the design and backstory as well. I even bought one of his sketchbooks off him, I'm a big fan of the dude and hate to see him go out like this. He was one of their more important artists.
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";170678603]Yeah, he's one of the concept team for Theros. He didn't just paint Erebos, etc. He came up with the design and backstory as well.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like there's a train wreck behind the scenes at WOTC and it's peeking through in some of the poor art in this set.
Sounds like there's a train wreck behind the scenes at WOTC and it's peeking through in some of the poor art in this set.
pelicansurf
Needs a Holiday on Gallifrey
My guess is that they overcosted it so it wouldn't see play in Affinity decks. At 2-3 mana + sac, it may be worth playing.
The Technomancer
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Damn you Affinity
"God's Beard!"
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The only other art director than Jeremy Jarvis at Wizards I know of is Cynthia Sheppard and it's hard to believe she would give out poor assignments. Plus, she seems to be on good terms with him.
That said, when I went to one of Karla Ortiz' seminars she was talking about how important a good art director is. Like, really emphasized it. And she has arguably the widest variety of experience of any major contemporary illustrator.
RIP assorted second land cycle dreams.
Eh it's an uncommon so it's fine in limited I guess.
The Technomancer
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[QUOTE="God's Beard!";170680754]The only other art director than Jeremy Jarvis at Wizards I know of is Cynthia Sheppard and it's hard to believe she would give out poor assignments. Plus, she seems to be on good terms with him.
That said, when I went to one of Karla Ortiz' seminars she was talking about how important a good art director is. Like, really emphasized it. And she has arguably the widest variety of experience of any major contemporary illustrator.[/QUOTE]
Jarvis has been AD since Time Spiral, and I find it weird that actual AD issues would only start showing up now. I could buy that there has been a lot of skeevy business stuff going on for years now that's only about to come out though
That said, when I went to one of Karla Ortiz' seminars she was talking about how important a good art director is. Like, really emphasized it. And she has arguably the widest variety of experience of any major contemporary illustrator.[/QUOTE]
Jarvis has been AD since Time Spiral, and I find it weird that actual AD issues would only start showing up now. I could buy that there has been a lot of skeevy business stuff going on for years now that's only about to come out though
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";170680754]The only other art director than Jeremy Jarvis at Wizards I know of is Cynthia Sheppard and it's hard to believe she would give out poor assignments. Plus, she seems to be on good terms with him.
That said, when I went to one of Karla Ortiz' seminars she was talking about how important a good art director is. Like, really emphasized it. And she has arguably the widest variety of experience of any major contemporary illustrator.[/QUOTE]
You and Karla need to get a room
That said, when I went to one of Karla Ortiz' seminars she was talking about how important a good art director is. Like, really emphasized it. And she has arguably the widest variety of experience of any major contemporary illustrator.[/QUOTE]
You and Karla need to get a room
"God's Beard!"
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Someone play me on cockatrice.
I'm freaking out looking at Horizon Canopy's price chart and need distracting.
I'm freaking out looking at Horizon Canopy's price chart and need distracting.
So, remember Zachary Jesse, the player who T8'd Grand Prix Atlantic City, and then people found had pled guilty to Sexual Assault?
He has now been suspended for the next 35 years http://magic.wizards.com/en/content/suspended-dci-memberships
He has now been suspended for the next 35 years http://magic.wizards.com/en/content/suspended-dci-memberships
*shakes head*
Even though I was on the side of "don't feature him whenever possible", a ban, if it wasn't for some recent unpublicized incident, sets a pretty rough precedent. I guess I wouldn't be totally against them having some sort of wide reaching rules about sex offenders and Magic (though it is entirely unenforceable unless we're adding background checks to DCI numbers), but just doing it to one guy because it got publicity seems wrong.
Edit: And thinking on it more I remember there's all kinds of screwed up stuff about sex offender status in the US so having any sort of wide ranging rules would pretty messed up.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Absurd. Hope he sues Wizards (and Drew Levin while hes at it). Seriously doubt anyone at Organized Play will comment on it too.
Good. This is a good precedent.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Does anyone have a problem with Patrick Chapin being allowed to play Magic? Or being in the hall of fame?
This is an awful precedent. They don't have any kind of policy in place and are basically doling out punishments as they please.
So, uh, yeah. I really hope that WOTC puts out a statement. If Geordie Tait of all people thinks something is wrong, you probably screwed up
Terrible move by Wizards.
No, I don't view drug dealing as anything remotely comparable to violent sexual assault.
"God's Beard!"
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That's some bullshit that they banned him for no reason.
What? My name(HeebyGB) is on the sidebar and nobody else has had problems finding me for games.
Also I just got kicked and accused of not knowing how to play because I tried to make a joke with my opponent.
What? My name(HeebyGB) is on the sidebar and nobody else has had problems finding me for games.
Also I just got kicked and accused of not knowing how to play because I tried to make a joke with my opponent.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
They're both convicted felons. Are you saying one guy should be celebrated and promoted by Wizards and one guy should be banned for life because one was a sex crime and the other wasnt?
If Wizards wants a policy that bars certain folks bring being in their community then have that. They don't right now.
"God's Beard!"
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I really should start writing the names down of all the jackasses on Cockatrice so I don't accidentally rejoin games with them. There are some pretty crazy people on there.
More importantly, my French Dark Depths just arrived in the mail ^_^
Anyone wanna trade me a Marit Lage token?
More importantly, my French Dark Depths just arrived in the mail ^_^
Anyone wanna trade me a Marit Lage token?
Yes. This is not a double standard. This is two separate standards for two different types of acts.
Felony is a legal classification utterly irrelevant to the discussion.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Wizards is free to make an ad-hoc decision that they don't want rapists hanging around their mostly-for-children game. Image actually does matter: I personally would be far more uncomfortable playing Magic against a convicted rapist than a convicted drug trafficker.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Except there are no standards here. There isn't any kind of guideline policy they're following here.
If Wizards wants to ban players for issues not pertaining to Magic thats their prerogative but Wizards isn't taking this seriously. If they were they would institute a background check policy. They would have a personal conduct policy in place banning folks who they don't want involved with their marketing machine. They chose to ban a guy here because the issue came to light thanks to some third parties.
People being banned for arbitrary reasons with no policy in place isn't something to applaud. It doesn't address anything. Their comment on the whole issue is just an acknowledgement of the banning without an actual statement on how they're going to address these issues in the future.
Oh you mean you don't want to visit Vryn?! I heard it has Mage-Rings!
Sequence Six
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RKF has been one of my favorite Magic artists since I was a kid. Wizards makes me sad sometimes.
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";170694683]
More importantly, my French Dark Depths just arrived in the mail ^_^
Anyone wanna trade me a Marit Lage token?[/QUOTE]
eeeeee Dark Depths. I've been waffling on whether or not to buy one for a couple months. I'm pretty sure I'm never buying one of those tokens, though. I just use cards from other games as my tokens.
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";170694023]That's some bullshit that they banned him for no reason.
What? My name(HeebyGB) is on the sidebar and nobody else has had problems finding me for games.
Also I just got kicked and accused of not knowing how to play because I tried to make a joke with my opponent.[/QUOTE]
Oh i'm stupid sry, i didn't connect that name to u.
What? My name(HeebyGB) is on the sidebar and nobody else has had problems finding me for games.
Also I just got kicked and accused of not knowing how to play because I tried to make a joke with my opponent.[/QUOTE]
Oh i'm stupid sry, i didn't connect that name to u.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Why does it matter if there is a guideline policy? Banning a rapist for his rape-history isn't arbitrary at all.
Wulfric
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You've gotta wonder what happened between Theros and Tarkir block for Mohrbacher to go from having 11 heavily promoted cards to 4 measly commons. He illustrated 3 Theros gods, Brimaz, and the face cards for the event decks. I could see why he would be annoyed he didn't get to do anything noteworthy for the entirety of Tarkir block.
Speaking of art, I don't think they've revealed a single Raymond Swanland piece for Origins. Unless I might it somehow.
Speaking of art, I don't think they've revealed a single Raymond Swanland piece for Origins. Unless I might it somehow.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
kirblar are you sitting down
you might want to sit down
you might want to sit down
What's kinda interesting is that there was a huge break in his art for the game until he did a few pieces for Time Spiral and Shadowmoor block. Then nothing.
I'm not sure if it's because at that time he wasn't interested or if Wizards just didn't commission work from him. Either way, it's pretty clear now he's not coming back and it's a damn shame Wizards drove off an artist of his talent.
Another reason the art for Origins is terrible overall. Love Swanland's art, spiky brown messes and dutch angles and all.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
99% of the art looks the same now anyways. I barely care unless they do stupid shit like money-shot serum visions.
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