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Magic: The Gathering |OT3| Enchantment Under the Siege
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GregLombardi
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Clever Impersonator is a very powerful card.
acheron_xl
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Yep. Insta-add in every blue deck I have.
The shitty not-Provoke rare creatures are hilarious. I don't know how I feel about this set. It's like they depowered a lot of the rares to be good, but not bomb-good in limited.
Keru_Shiri
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Crater's Claws seems solid in the RG Monsters lists that usually don't have trouble staying Ferocious. Could be good in the mirror, the extra +2 can help chew through enemy Coursers and Arbor Colossus.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Yeah these rares...don't feel rare
divisionbyzorro
Member
...and Clone just got a sick upgrade. Damn. That Imposter is pretty sweet.
The x-spell feels uncommon. Actually, a lot of the rares in this set feel uncommon. It's becoming more and more of a letdown every day.
The x-spell feels uncommon. Actually, a lot of the rares in this set feel uncommon. It's becoming more and more of a letdown every day.
pelicansurf
Needs a Holiday on Gallifrey
That impostor is ridiculous early, mid, and lategame. Opponent drops any sort of threat/beast planeswalker and you can just 4-drop a clone of them. Ridiculous.
manipulate
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the blandness is real.
edit: so far these rares are more bland than those of the core set.
edit: so far these rares are more bland than those of the core set.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Eh, I'll wait to see how it plays in Limited. That's what I care about the most, aside from a few cards
divisionbyzorro
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Metamorph was already better than Sculpting Steel...
The key thing this does is let you copy planeswalkers. Which is pretty sick.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
It makes me laugh how much people got excited by thsoe fetches only to realize almost everything else we have seen is worse than Theros
ThLunarian
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Only about a third of the set is spoiled, and there are probably 10-15 good to great cards in there so far. I'm not worried yet.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Yes, I realize all the cards in every set basically do the same thing, it just feels off flavor-wise somehow. Like they don't feel different enough to keep up the facade that "this is totally not Fireball."
It COPIES PLANESWALKERS. Damn right it's a mythic, lol.
SigmasonicX
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Also note that Ankle Shanker is confirmed to be a 2/2, not a 3/3 as previously thought.
Avalanche Tusker is still boring, even with the extra 2 power. Sage of the Inner Eye is also boring, but seems powerful. With Clever Impersonator, it's interesting how planeswalkers can be copied now. I think people are underestimating Crater's Claws, though it is a bit odd to see it at rare. EDIT: Then again, it looks like Banefire was also printed at rare, and its upside also isn't all that impressive to look at, even if it is useful in theory.
Avalanche Tusker is still boring, even with the extra 2 power. Sage of the Inner Eye is also boring, but seems powerful. With Clever Impersonator, it's interesting how planeswalkers can be copied now. I think people are underestimating Crater's Claws, though it is a bit odd to see it at rare. EDIT: Then again, it looks like Banefire was also printed at rare, and its upside also isn't all that impressive to look at, even if it is useful in theory.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Nobody got the joke about Ankle Shanker being a 2/2 with First Strike/Deathtouch and 5 CMC and the proposed Achilles legendary creature having "protection from non 5 CMC"
So let me get this straight WOTC - you take this card:
add a color to it, a shitty ability (which doesn't even match the added color), bump it up two rarities and you give me this?:
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The new clone is super sweet though
This is so depressing.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The thing is, I understand MTG cards are mostly the same in every set, but I'd just like a fresher coat of paint on my Craw Wurms and Fireballs.
acheron_xl
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I hope they redo this bad boy at mythic. I mean, trample? OP.
divisionbyzorro
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Make it a 5/4 for GUR and now we're closer to rare material.
Alethebeer
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I know this might be a silly question. What is the general consensus about Magic
online? Does it feel like an indipendent shape of the game or just a secondary side? Does it maintain the feel of the game? I know that a big part of the game is to play against physical opponent etc but besides this, does it feel like the ordinary card came? I'm out from magic since 2005 i think, and i'd like to start playing it again but a little bit softly. I don't want to go to the local store early afternoon and come back home in the evening to find oppents/trade cards/buy cards/sell cards. But i'd like to play in a vibrant, active, populated community. So i'm asking the ones who play magic online (or tried it) which are their feelings and experiences about the game and the community. Link me the thread/post and kill me if this has already been asked. Thanks in advance and sorry for my english.
online? Does it feel like an indipendent shape of the game or just a secondary side? Does it maintain the feel of the game? I know that a big part of the game is to play against physical opponent etc but besides this, does it feel like the ordinary card came? I'm out from magic since 2005 i think, and i'd like to start playing it again but a little bit softly. I don't want to go to the local store early afternoon and come back home in the evening to find oppents/trade cards/buy cards/sell cards. But i'd like to play in a vibrant, active, populated community. So i'm asking the ones who play magic online (or tried it) which are their feelings and experiences about the game and the community. Link me the thread/post and kill me if this has already been asked. Thanks in advance and sorry for my english.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
It basically plays like Magic, but its also kind of a piece of shit we live with for lack of other options. Like shit will just not work sometimes for no reason and you just deal with it.
platypotamus
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If it copies a planeswalker, how many loyalty counters does it have? The amount the original had, or the amount that planeswalker normally comes in with?
Amount the planeswalker normally comes in with.
I think Wizards is over-evaluating the cost of making a creature block, or we are incredibly under evaluating it.
This was a Sorcery in Theros
I mean when you do the math, 2 extra mana for a 6/4 with that ability isn't bad. It's just what amount of mana do you place on that ability ? I mean I think if you make it a 6/4 that say's "When this creature attacks choose 2 target creatures they can't block this creature this turn" or whatever the templating is. Then you have a pretty damn good creature
This was a Sorcery in Theros
I mean when you do the math, 2 extra mana for a 6/4 with that ability isn't bad. It's just what amount of mana do you place on that ability ? I mean I think if you make it a 6/4 that say's "When this creature attacks choose 2 target creatures they can't block this creature this turn" or whatever the templating is. Then you have a pretty damn good creature
divisionbyzorro
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It was a garbage card that nobody played.
Loving all the aggressive red two drops in recent years. Auto include for my cube.
They've figured out they needed to make Red's low drops "not shit". Everyone was just splashing for the burn and playing better G/W/x critters.
divisionbyzorro
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It's like the old Fires deck on crack.
First card I know I will be pre-ordering!
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