phazedplasma
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can you explain color pie to me?
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Magic: the Gathering - Shadows over Innistrad |OT| Blue's Clues
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It's what each colour is supposed to do (e.g. red=burn, green=ramp, blue=drawing, white=life gain, black=discard), as well as what they're supposed to represent (e.g. red=chaos, emotion, green=nature, growth, blue=intellect, white=law, order, black=selfishness).
divisionbyzorro
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It actually starts from the philosophy that color embodies, and from there it becomes mechanical. For example, Red is impulsive and emotional, so when it "loots" it discards first, then draws, while Blue is more thoughtful and plans ahead, so it draws first, then discards.
keeblerdrow
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Here's a good primer: http://mtgsalvation.gamepedia.com/Color_Pie
It's basically the identity that a color operates within. It's not only mechanics ideals, but also specifically where mechanics and keywords fall. Like the newly introduced mechanic, Prowess, lies within Blue and Red's color pie. It's interested in non-creature spells, so it's not something green would ever really touch, being the creature focused color. There are tertiary colors for most keywords that are slight bends in the roles of these color pie identities, but still within what you'd expect from them. When saying that unconditional removal with downside might be out of color pie for white, it's saying that this type of removal is typically seen in black, with red being a secondary to it with creature burn spells. White typically has conditions to its removal or enchantment based ways to get their effects. A white spell just killing something or exiling it outright is not in its identity and any spell that does so could be outside its pie role.
Joe Molotov
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it's delicious
phazedplasma
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ah so people are color flavor mad
divisionbyzorro
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You mean you don't want to cast Surging Might six times in a single turn?
A Serious Man
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Let's see how many Counterbalances I can cash in before I my brain starts revolting against Coldsnap drafts.
oh right triple coldsnap is next ffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Triple Coldsnap is worth a lot.
really now? never drafted it before except chaos draft
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I will never understand the need to own "real" tokens. You can just print them out and insert a piece of paper over a basic land in a sleeve. It's the same reason it drives me mad when someone shows up to FNM playing Hangarback Walker and says "I don't have any Thopter tokens."
SaffronOlive has this whole article on the most valuable tokens, but why the fuck would you pay money for a token
SaffronOlive has this whole article on the most valuable tokens, but why the fuck would you pay money for a token
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Mishra's Bauble is 4 tickets at uncommon and Counterbalance is 14 tickets at uncommon.
divisionbyzorro
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I bought some real tokens for my cube, but only the cheap ones. As much as I would like to own proper Elemental Tokens for Young Pyro, fuck that noise.
Rem KarolusOk, this may have always been the plan:
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So, Emrakul
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Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
Ok, this may have always been the plan:
(look at the name)
I'm probably missing the obvious, here, but...what am I looking for? Rem Kerolus being an 'Inquisitor' pre-Shadows?
This....feels like a stretch, somewhat. Not impossible, but unless its a red herring, his 'characterization' via card text doesn't really feel like he's Nahiri or a disciple of Emra.
Also, a part of me is lol'ing at Jace, the overpowered poster boy, being so bamboozled by Emra/Nahiri and the Cryptoliths.
I mean, Jace was basically there. He was in the VR desktop of Emrakul, it was all gray
I'm not necessarily saying it's true, but they did the "hidden in flavor text" thing with Gideon and Kytheon in the past. So it wouldn't be shocking to see it again.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
You can just print the real token and put it in the sleeve.
but the feel of the token
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Drafting Snowlands
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
IDK either
"Ahh, Emrakul, or some say Emrakulos..." - Nahiri
Joe Molotov
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I'd rather pay for tokens than foils.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Lost Rd. 2 to a dude with a bunch of Stalking Yetis 
ThLunarian
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Ok, this may have always been the plan:
(look at the name)
Wow. Even the flavor text is pretty easy to apply to the current situation. I'm impressed
My friends and I have another booster draft thingy (picking cards, building decks out of them and playing against each other) planned for coming saturday.
This will be my second time participating in one.
My first time doing this kind of draft was during the release of Oath of the Gatewatch, which was pretty neat, bc I had a ton of fun, although I was at last place.
Had a look at the spoilers for Shadows over Innistrad and totally digging the new mechanics and the absolutely stunning art for this set.
Quick questions:
Anything to look out for while picking cards and building the deck?
Also, which kind of colour combination would you recommend for this set?
I feel blue and green are pretty strong (I always prefer black and red though).
This will be my second time participating in one.
My first time doing this kind of draft was during the release of Oath of the Gatewatch, which was pretty neat, bc I had a ton of fun, although I was at last place.
Had a look at the spoilers for Shadows over Innistrad and totally digging the new mechanics and the absolutely stunning art for this set.
Quick questions:
Anything to look out for while picking cards and building the deck?
Also, which kind of colour combination would you recommend for this set?
I feel blue and green are pretty strong (I always prefer black and red though).
Giant Panda
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Have you ever tried grave pact?
pelicansurf
Needs a Holiday on Gallifrey
Printing your own would require an antiquated device known as a "printer".
SigmasonicX
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Planes are separate dimensions, but they typically only are the size of a planet + some surrounding space. However, there is space between the planes, the Blind Eternities, which the Eldrazi physically travel through.
It's hard to say, since Standard has just now rotated, but it shouldn't be too bad now. Certainly not what it would have been just a week ago.
Yeah? Maybe I'll check back in a few weeks from now. I had heard from a friend who stopped playing a year ago that standard and modern had been getting more expensive recently.
Infinite Stars
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The Standard part was due to recent idiotic decisions from R&D regarding Manabases in that we had Ally Fetches+Ally dual lands+Wedge colours as big players, meaning that decks were running 10+Fetches and playing a large chunk of similar cards. This Standard looks to be an improvement, with 3 colors being the max you can run.
Modern is "expensive", but nothing rotates out of Modern and there's some viable cheap decks out there for the format compared to Standard. An average Modern deck is around $5-700 IIRC, with the only two I can think that cost more are Jund/Junk. Maybe TRON, but The most expensive piece of that is Grove.
The biggest expense in Modern comes from older cards that haven't been reprinted. Horizon Canopy/Grove of the Burnwillows/The Zendikar fetch lands are all $50+.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Planes are basically planets separated by outer space.
Planescape had better planes. Magic has those second rate planes. Aint even really planes.
Giant Panda
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Does mtgsalvation give anyone else issues? It's always super slow and firefox is always complaining about scripts crashing, which causes it to reload pages.
Infinite Stars
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I mean, I can get why she's bant(As Kirblar said, Investigate colours), but I still feel like it doesn't mesh with Tamiyo from what we know. She's a constant knowledge seeker but I can't figure out what the flavor reason is for her gaining GW. Unless Wizards decides that where she's been is helping out Thalia/The Order of Saint Traft in protecting innocents from the Angels/Lunar Council
Familienoberhauptvogel
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shouldn't it be possible for two planets to make up a single plane?
SigmasonicX
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Yes, it's possible, but unless Wizards wants to do a binary system world, we don't actually see planes with multiple planets. Really, it is nice that they have a clean answer as to whether there are other inhabited planets in a plane and if they could be visited.
Actually, it could be neat to have a plane where there are two planets that can easily be crossed between. Imagine land cards where you can also see the landscape of another planet in the sky.
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