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Magic: the Gathering |OT12| Hour of Devastation - Hour of Jace getting dunked on
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FreedomFrisbee
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Oh man, someone just tripped over a cord.
Glad theyre finishing the rare cycle w enemy versions.
Imperfected
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Is this like a Devolver Digital sort of deal? Are nightmare images going to bombard the stream soon?
FreedomFrisbee
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I want everyone to know that they just physically dug a giant card out of the sand sculptured because the rope that would have collapsed it broke.
Ooccoo
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Bad week for WOTC lol
charlequin
Banned
Grixis Pairs for the dead gods confirmed, I guess. A little surprised it isn't a Zombie God.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
It seems bad
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The only company capable of stopping the spoilers of upcoming set: Wizards of the Coast.
SigmasonicX
Member
Red gets spell-wither, so it isn't too odd.
Interesting how the bug gods have forgotten names and act differently.
charlequin
Banned
They're basically permanent direct damage.
Yeah, I dig it. It's like... of course they wouldn't have names, they dead.
You are welcome. I was watching the stream, and thought I might as well post them. It was actually a good distraction from all the cringe on stream.
charlequin
Banned
Nah makes perfect sense. They're killed, erased from memory, and kept on ice for when Bolas wants to bring them out. They presumably had names at one point but nobody knows 'em.
They just need to never do shit like this on stream. Everyone who's actually at the GP having fun is gonna love it, but it doesn't translate well to the dorks-at-home audience.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Someone's been playing Monster Hunter
It can still make sense and be lame. Even if it's flavorful, it sounds cheesy and dumb.
charlequin
Banned
Knowing now that small sets are dead and there's just one more ever after this, BTW, it's more obvious than ever why they'd do that. I don't even think the stuff they're doing in this set is bad in any way (and it's actually pretty cool that they're seriously wrecking the place, and the heroes, up) but it's just so obvious how much less exciting it is than a whole new thing. Mechanically eternalize feels like the only thing they couldn't have just done in one set, and that's a fairly small tweak overall.
i mean it's literally just a description of what the card is
i mean it's literally just a description of what the card is
Imperfected
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I like the Scorpion God better than all of the Amonkhet gods other than maybe Rhonas, just at first glance.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Yeah I like this
Blooddimond
Member
Damnation Invocation:
The mono cycle land is lame,
Lightning strike is too good now
Afflict mechanic is really cool
Eternalize seem pretty sweet in limited
The new god name is really dumb, with this naming scheme the locust god will be name The Locust God lol
It is very interesting how all of the "___'s defeat" can target Bolas himself.
Lightning strike is too good now
Afflict mechanic is really cool
Eternalize seem pretty sweet in limited
The new god name is really dumb, with this naming scheme the locust god will be name The Locust God lol
It is very interesting how all of the "___'s defeat" can target Bolas himself.
Infinite Stars
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Hour of Revelation is 100% going to be a card that sees play, at least in EDH. I'm not sure about it's luck in Modern, but who knows with the format (Seriously, it could be the exact tool that something wants, it could be a dud, who knows).
Eternalize cards are playable in Commander for their base color, right? So like the cat can be played in Brimaz, despite making a black dude.
That's so true. Was it the XX Monster who has the shell made of discarded weapons? I know Gog had a similar deal going on, but that just screams MH.
(I'd kill for an unofficial MH MtG set)
Eternalize cards are playable in Commander for their base color, right? So like the cat can be played in Brimaz, despite making a black dude.
Someone's been playing Monster Hunter
That's so true. Was it the XX Monster who has the shell made of discarded weapons? I know Gog had a similar deal going on, but that just screams MH.
(I'd kill for an unofficial MH MtG set)
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Infinite Stars
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The Scorpion King gifs are now super-relevant, lol.
Okay, you win. I still think Shards would have made the most sense, but whatever.
Okay, you win. I still think Shards would have made the most sense, but whatever.
Infinite Stars
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Lol, I was moreso looking at the design, but yeah, I can see Barroth/Duramobos in it.
Great Jaggi incoming in Ixalan? /s
Yes. Exactly. Different strokes I guess.
charlequin
Banned
More thoughts:
- Eternalize is a reasonable tweak to Embalm, albeit not a thrilling one, but they really need to find a way to link these mechanics together without calling them shit like "Megamorph."
- Exerting creatures for tap abilities is obvious, and good, design space, though it also makes it even weirder to do this just as a block mechanic.
- How many majorr matchups in either Modern or Standard put a lot of permanents on the board? Hour of Revelation seems insane against any kind of token strategy but it's not really gonna matter when your opponent only needs like three cards to kill you.
SigmasonicX
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If it was just used on attacking, I could accept it as a set mechanic, but now that we see it's being used on tap abilities, it's very strange that it isn't just a regular game term.
You can only pile shuffle once per round. If you pile shuffle twice then they can call a judge to give you a warning on delaying time. I only said that because at my shop last week someone unforced that on me every round and he was playing burn versus faeries which will never have time issues.
SigmasonicX
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Updated the OP, including with an additional Scorpion King GIF. Speaking of which, spaces between the cards, good? Bad?
And new Invocation.
And new Invocation.
Updated the OP, including with an additional Scorpion King GIF. Speaking of which, spaces between the cards, good? Bad?
And new Invocation.
YO. Amonkhet Invocations going out with a bang. Also no spaces.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Hour of Revelation's cost reduction ability is trinket text in Standard. It's just there for EDH.
For Standard, this is a Planar Cleansing reprint.
Imperfected
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It could potentially be relevant against Annointed Procession decks and the like, but it's a pretty edge case thing in competitive formats, yeah.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
For the most part the art is kind of whatever, some of the good art is stuck to cards that suck and are worthless, and the art actually looks smaller than even normal cards. Invocations suck.
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