Why? to have any effect in combat you have to crew them before declaring attackers or blockers anyway.
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Magic: the Gathering |OT9| Kaladesh - Cruisin' Down the Street in my 6/4
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Why? to have any effect in combat you have to crew them before declaring attackers or blockers anyway.
SigmasonicX
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Interesting that Aethersworn is a new creature type, and they didn't go with Elemental.
Also, stealing from the opponent's library seems to have settled in black now.
Also, stealing from the opponent's library seems to have settled in black now.
They're evil shoppers.
A Serious Man
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Why is that? It's not like they can do anything after attackers or blockers are declared.
Kaladesh looks great but I am honestly a little sad that we are gonna be way off our all-time peak for Octopi in Magic.
I don't know why you mention Octopi, but Magic could sure use more normal dads.
The Technomancer
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If I'm attacking into a vehicle during my declare attackers I have to consider both the board state as is and the ways they might crew it before blockers, unless I'm mistaken
Yeah, fair enough, but it doesn't seem overly complicated.
Oh my god did they make the edgelord race
The Technomancer
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I'm just having Lorwyn flashbacks
SigmasonicX
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I hadn't noticed the URL on Inventors' Fair until they pointed out.
A Serious Man
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Giant tree gundam confirmed.
charlequin
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This story spotlight technology is pretty neat, I wonder if they'll start to extend it to other stuff. They could definitely make use of the ability to call out websites or unify certain cards together visually.
Also:
The biggest sad thing for me so far is that a lot of the South Asian bestiary/imagery seems to have been taken by Tarkir and are out of scope here. Rakshasas, Naga, all this stuff would've been nice.
Also:
The biggest sad thing for me so far is that a lot of the South Asian bestiary/imagery seems to have been taken by Tarkir and are out of scope here. Rakshasas, Naga, all this stuff would've been nice.
SigmasonicX
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I was expecting a much larger crew number.
A Serious Man
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I really want a new Weatherlight card now.
The Technomancer
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I want there to be something large and dumb with Crew 6 or 7. Just some limited fodder rare
charlequin
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A red/white commander that isn't a mindless aggro one!
Lorthos got cut in half before we even met his wife and kids.
They're all listening to Linkin Park and leaving entitled comments yelling at artificers on Kaladeshi youtube.
A Serious Man
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I guess we can say goodbye to putting cards on the bottom of our libraries in an order of our choosing.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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Vehicle in token decks are gonna be fun.
They want to cut time in tournament games. (and ease things in MTGO)
Familienoberhauptvogel
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But it is related to attacking and if this doesn't count then Munda does.
charlequin
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oh man the guy who called them out on diversity at the innistrad panel coming back to check in again, awesome
LOL @ that mild cheer for "fat people"
She doesn't look like what I would expect a dwarven pilot to look like. That's a good thing.
A red/white commander that isn't a mindless aggro one!
She doesn't look like what I would expect a dwarven pilot to look like. That's a good thing.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
That question about adding more fat guys to Magic was weird as hell.
SigmasonicX
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Glad that dwarves will be red/white after all (at least in small numbers). Depala is really neat, and I love that she's both a dwarf and vehicle lord.
EDIT: Glad that we have a black race that isn't evil, and generally presents black in a different way.
EDIT: Glad that we have a black race that isn't evil, and generally presents black in a different way.
Technically her activate ability requires attacking at a basic level but VEHICLES
SigmasonicX
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Oh right, didn't even notice they didn't have loxodon.
Nazgul_Hunter
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charlequin
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Literally just the guy following up after asking about diversity five years ago (when they sucked a lot more on at the time) on boxes they haven't checked -- and given that they've just done a paraplegic planeswalker, a black female planeswalker, a trans legend, an agender planeswalker, etc. fat people are one of the only ones left.
Shivam's been writing cool stuff about Indian mythology and culture and how it could intersect with Magic for a while now, really glad he got to make it in for a question and loved Jarvis' answer.
SigmasonicX
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Mechanics panel in seven minutes, and World Championship draft competition after that.
The return of the dwarves. *sheds a tear*
I mean, if you feel that what they've shown encapsules the very essence of inventing, that's fine. Stating the obvious and/or parroting what they've said doesn't change my initial impression.
I mean, if you feel that what they've shown encapsules the very essence of inventing, that's fine. Stating the obvious and/or parroting what they've said doesn't change my initial impression.
charlequin
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highlights video of day 1 champs with idiotic dubstep backing is easily the single worst thing they've shown so far
I'm just curious (and I hope you don't mind me asking) but would having Loxodon in Kaladesh bothered you personally at all?
Haha I was just thinking this!
SigmasonicX
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I would have been annoyed, and after hearing that guy at the Q&A, I would have been disappointed. Especially if they did that and not the bear people I actually wanted from an India-based set. It should be noted the only elephant-headed person in Indian mythology is the god Ganesha (and the demon his head was stolen from, it's complicated).
Although thinking about it, I'm slightly disappointed that this talking with advisors seemingly made them avoid monkeys. That's something cliche that I wanted.
You could argue that you don't need to be fit to shoot lightning out of your finger tips and creature types like Dwarves lend themselves well to stockier builds. I think the real reason it might be a hard sell, and this actually ties into another conversation I was having, is that fat people aren't shown the same degree as respect or empathy as other groups IRL. Even though genetics plays a role for sure, you aren't really "born" fat. Whereas you are decidedly born Race X, Gender X, Cis/Trans, etc. and if you get paralyzed because you got hit by a car, that's almost certainly not your fault.
SigmasonicX
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Mechanics panel start, mic feedback everywhere.
charlequin
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They're big, they're really nice, and they're cheap on Amazon. I'm a fan.
charlequin
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lawl maro on serrated arrows: "I will call this... the best card in Homelands."
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