Yeah it is a limited strategy at best.
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Magic: the Gathering |OT11| Amonkhet - Have you ever had decks with a Pharaoh?
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Yeah it is a limited strategy at best.
Imperfected
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It's... okay? I mean you're still spending Nahiri's Wrath + Shadow of the Grave, so you're still dropping two cards on spreading damage across X targets. You could probably spend two cards to wipe their board in a more efficient way or ten.
Oh definitely. Just neat that the interaction is opened up because of that card. The jank!
Wulfric
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I can't get over how gorgeous Lyon's work is. Of course I'm biased towards oil, but it's still fascinating to watch.
She's currently at $6,200 on Facebook right now, I'm gonna bet it finishes at 15k.
I look at these quotes and I have to assume you are being sarcastic
Imperfected
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Jack-in-the-Box has a whole commercial about how you can eat brunch anytime.
Oh wait, you meant the writing isn't great. Yeah, there's that.
My jank strategy also involved Drake Haven and New Perspectives, for additional funs.
Imperfected
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Liliana, stop licking the cat. We have Nissa tagged for that storyline.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Why don't Planeswalkers get new clothes ever?
Seems like a really weird trope to stick to when their outfits aren't necessarily all that iconic. It's particularly stupid when every single arc has revolved around the Gatewatch showing up to some Plane trying to blend in....except they're wearing clothes from a DIFFERENT FUCKING PLANET.
Seems like a really weird trope to stick to when their outfits aren't necessarily all that iconic. It's particularly stupid when every single arc has revolved around the Gatewatch showing up to some Plane trying to blend in....except they're wearing clothes from a DIFFERENT FUCKING PLANET.
Imperfected
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Well... Liliana's costume design is actually pretty good, so I get that.
And Jace kind of needs his dumb hoodie, because without it he doesn't actually have a character design.
No reason you can't go nuts with the rest, though. Especially Chandra, none of her costumes have been spectacular and her character design should show through almost regardless of how you dress her.
Poodlestrike
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Because when the Spark was taken from them and they lost their shapeshifting they were stuck permanently in whatever they'd last shifted into. They're not clothes, they're extensions of their body. Liliana is technically naked all the time.
They do get new clothes, Gideon got new armor to make him 50% more Amonkhet.
Gideon's clothes change every plane. He's wearing totally new armor on Amonkhet. Sure he has the same silhouette (which is what they want) but there's definitely a difference.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I mean, they could handwave it by saying Jace uses illusions to make them look like locals, but it doesn't explain why they never change clothes ever.
It is a puzzle why they don't get more clothing changes though. Assuming the Jacetice league are in fact using Riot and Blizzard's blueprint for icon characters, then it would make sense for them to change getups every plane to heighten their appeal.
Imperfected
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If they were following the Riot plan they'd actually be making new Planeswalkers more often rather than having three or more copies of each Gatewatcher in Standard.
they tryna make a movie here breh
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
That's because superheroes wear costumes which they aren't persistently wearing.
I can't wait until we get to Hipster World. Gideon won't even have to do anything. He already has Ironic Facial Hair.
He'll get a man bun to go with it.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I'm skeptical they'd put a different Masters set out the same year as Modern Masters.
The Technomancer
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I'm cutting out my "gatewatch bitching" until I see just how much they have cut back on them going forward.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Looking at the blocks I played a couple years ago and the prices now almost makes me sick. I got rid of all my Karns except one when they were $30 a piece. Still incredibly how some stuff has fallen off and other stuff has skyrocketed.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Somewhere in my collection is a chinese Karn and I'm so pissed I lost track of it
Different formats have risen and fallen which have made some of the cards fall or rise in price.
Commander being a popular eternal format makes a lot of stuff great in value (if not crazy high because you only need one ofs)
And Modern and Legacy continue to drive high value cards to be sold for... well, high value.
SigmasonicX
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Is Iconic Masters going to be a licensed Ubisoft set?
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
There's a contingent of people on the beta that keep playing New Perspectives and then doing a billion cards of cycling before fizzling and not understanding why its a stupid waste of time that makes everyone hate you.
Desperate storm players want to simulate it in standard
Now that would be something.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Storm is literally less tedious. Like if someone played it at FNM I'd call them an asshole. It takes fucking FOREVER to execute and it doesn't do anything like half the time.
I'm betting the same people are holding out for some sort of cycling win condition in HOU.
The Technomancer
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Screw it, its probably in here somewhere, been too long since I sifted through it all
man I would love to go through that old stuff
also I have a box of apparently old stuff my parents have kept that they can send me. Maybe some old magic cards are in there!
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
They usually try to draw their whole deck play Archfiend and hope you don't ever answer Archfiend.
You also have to live 6 turns and draw + resolve New Perspectives.
Right so any aggro just makes them roll over then
sure:
Rishadan Port
Mana Drain
Imperial Recruiter
Umezawa's Jitte
Armageddon/Ravages of War
Land Tax
Upheaval
True-Name Nemesis
Channel
Mind Twist
Imperial Seal
Opposition
Stoneforge Mystic
Worldly Tutor
Rolling Earthquake
Smokestack
Strip Mine
Tangle Wire
Lotus Petal
Burning of Xinye
Petrified Field
Cabal Coffers
Deserted Temple
these are the cards in my EMA2 wishlist
EDIT: removed Crop Rotation since it was in Nissa vs Ob!
divisionbyzorro
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I also built this deck. I played it once and realized that it can literally never win.
You can build a somewhat functional control deck with Drake Haven as the wincon, but New Perspectives is a huge trap.
Surprised it took them this long to put another set closer to the shopping season. Would be nice if they focused more on the quality of the sets, formats, and tournaments instead of just dumping out more and more products but I guess they have to chase that growth or whatever.
New Perspectives is a card for formats not named Standard.
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