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Magic: the Gathering |OT9| Kaladesh - Cruisin' Down the Street in my 6/4
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Mulldrifter is back!
I mean the Evoke ability on Mulldrifter was like the most powerful part of the card. Options and flexibility <3
So basically paying lip service without doing the legwork? WOTC doesn't strike be as that cynical (more cowardly than assholish) but its not beyond any company and I guess at the end of the day, the end result is the same.
We've been over this - burn cards that have a limitless ceiling on the damage they can do but a fixed mana cost tend not to be able to hit players because its too easy to just blast people for like 10 damage for 3 mana. Imagine the version of this card that can hit players and creatures in Affinity. Sounds terrifying no?
pelicansurf
Needs a Holiday on Gallifrey
That copter is pretty legit, 3/3 and only being crew 1 means anything enables it. Dope card.
Fair enough. They already have a 1 mana 4 damage (and 2 mana 5 damage that they don't even use) though
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Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
That aside excluding dtk and origins there's 3 red instants that can hit face right now in standard and Kaladesh, so far, has not been adding to that list. Including dtk and origins there's 2 constructed playable and one fringe playable instant that can hit face right now in standard.
A Serious Man
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Hey, removal that isn't total garbage!
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
actually easier to cast than murder in constructed.
phazedplasma
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Why wont wizards let me go to the face
Were searing spear type cards so good in standard in a world where we get powerful midrange cards at 3-4 mana every set?
Etrian Oddity
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Good lord. Crater's Claws didn't break fucking Standard, why can't we get that again?
There was nothing more satisfying than a Ferocious CC tagged with a Ferocious Stubborn Denial. Goddammit I miss Temur.
Hey, we fired him, but let's write premium articles about him anyway
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More like trying to take credit, amirite?
I'm only half serious. I think it's awesome that Brad worked with him, but credit where credit's due: SCG fucked BBD over and BBD used that as motivation to win it all.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
BBD going from SCG grinder to World Champion practically the moment they cut him is the funniest anti-SCG story ever.
I mean, other than SCG's prices.
I mean, other than SCG's prices.
Noble Hierarch jumped this week, huh?
BBD moves to Roanoke VA from Seattle and signs a lease for a year to work at SCG after having worked there for some time
SCG promptly fires him for no good (public) reason
BBD moves to Roanoke VA from Seattle and signs a lease for a year to work at SCG after having worked there for some time
SCG promptly fires him for no good (public) reason
What everyone's been waiting for, a CoCo variant. But like also probably bad, outside some weird combo w/ flickering.
I could see it in a deck with big huge fatties that have harsh upkeep costs that your opponent wouldn't be able to pay, so they'd end up just sacking their stolen creature on their upkeep anyway.
Good, I finally got a playset this past summer to stick in the no touch box.
Also I remember the BS reasoning being that they were cutting contributors with low page hits and they claimed BBD had some of the lowest. People called bullshit because he was often considered to have some of the best articles on the site.
A Serious Man
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The other issue here is that you need a certain density of creatures in order to hit, just like CoCo. Unlike CoCo, you have to hit two otherwise your opponent gets one and you get nothing. Creating a deck with 20+ expensive fatties with upkeep costs doesn't seem like a recipe for success.
Definitely not, but I'm sure there will be a casual tabletop deck filled with demons or some shit with ugly upkeep costs.
Eldrazi Displacer, too.
What everyone's been waiting for, a CoCo variant. But like also probably bad, outside some weird combo w/ flickering.
Modern fatties!
DashReindeer
Lead Community Manager, Outpost Games
Modern fatties!
There you go. Now that's an idea I can get behind. You essentially have to hit one of these to make it work though. Wish Homeward Path was legal in Modern.
Isn't this just an inconsistent, underpowered Tooth & Nail in Modern?
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Kaladesh has much better delirium enablers than Shadows block had, though that is probably due to limited just weird to see all these cards here that thematically makes more sense in Shadows Moon
Well it costs 3/5 mana less than Tooth and Nail.
Like I'm pretty sure it's just bad, but as the card name itself suggests, it wants you to tinker with it and find some way to break it. And that is fun to think about.
SigmasonicX
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I've noticed that blue cards spoiled so far are oddly lacking in set mechanics. The only one to use any so far is Thriving Turtle, with energy. (And I suppose the blue Puzzleknot, also with energy).
Simply Sarah
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Yeah. Fabricate has been on like 3 cards so far total, vehicles are colourless artifacts, and that basically leaves energy and pilots, the former which has indeed been mostly missing on the Blue cards we've seen and the latter which has been entirely missing (although when we've seen literally one pilot with a crew effect that's not saying much). The other colours have displayed several energy related cards, so either it's lighter in Blue, which would seem a bit odd given that it's Blue, or they've just had rather unbalanced choices for cards to reveal.
It's CoCo for Commander. You give you and a friend each a critter.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Can't believe I won a single round with this deck on the MTGO beta.
turns out search for the morrow into kodama's reach is pretty good in limited as well.
turns out search for the morrow into kodama's reach is pretty good in limited as well.
"God's Beard!"
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It's like someone told you to pick exactly one card from every Modern deck and build a deck with them.
charlequin
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How far we've come from the days that Demons were removed due to complaints!
I think this is an unfair read on the situation. Magic has always been ahead of the pack on this, I'd agree (they were one of the few fantasy brands in the late 90s/early 2000s with reasonable depictions of female characters) but the push over the last few years is clearly a concerted effort originating in the Creative team to do a better job and be much more representative than formerly. I don't think their marketing has really leaned into it all that much except inasmuch as they can use it as a partial antidote to their (rightful) reputation for having a miserable, toxic fanbase.
WRT Kaladesh in particular, I think this goes to show the limitations of trying to properly represent cultural diversity with a team of 10+ white guys. They can certainly do a very good job of avoiding pitfalls, and of handling inclusivity effectively on the level of individual characters, but getting to "effective and true-feeling representation of another culture" while dodging both unintended offense and purely superficial depictions is just difficult.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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[QUOTE="God's Beard!";216415579]It's like someone told you to pick exactly one card from every Modern deck and build a deck with them.[/QUOTE]
I know right, it looks like crap but I'm 2-0 now. Never even mulligan'd, is that how pro's do it?
My round 2 opponent was 2 coloured and got colour screwed while I was easily playing 4 colours.
I know right, it looks like crap but I'm 2-0 now. Never even mulligan'd, is that how pro's do it?
My round 2 opponent was 2 coloured and got colour screwed while I was easily playing 4 colours.
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This probably just replaces Disenchant in Eternal sideboards, right?
Edit: Oh but it misses Batterskull. That's probably relevant.
And disenchant is an instant. Right. Reading all of cards.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
As a person of color, I will say that I think the way they handled Kaladesh being Indian was completely correct. You can't please everyone, but someone is going to complain that its either "too Indian" or "not Indian enough" regardless and this was the much safer route than having Loxodons and Rakshasa and such.
I don't buy the argument that the Indian setting is just "window dressing" because the setting for every non-top down designed set is window dressing to some degree.
I don't buy the argument that the Indian setting is just "window dressing" because the setting for every non-top down designed set is window dressing to some degree.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
As a white person I do feel like I would have liked to see them skew a bit closer to what they did with Tarkir then they appear to have so far. Tarkir did have some more pronounced influences from various southeast asian cultures
All I know is if they do a China block without a Son Wukong knockoff legendary I'm gonna be pretty pissed.
No monkey man in Magic India? Cool, that's understandable. But really, there should be a whole set of ersatz Journey to the West guys in Magic China, Monkey King is the bare minimum.
No monkey man in Magic India? Cool, that's understandable. But really, there should be a whole set of ersatz Journey to the West guys in Magic China, Monkey King is the bare minimum.
Man, remember the days when you could kill damn near anything for 2 mana and people were a okay with that game state?
Familienoberhauptvogel
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Tarkir was too pronounced in the sense that it was so vastly different across Khans that you can't stop but draw similarities whenever they do another continental asian themed set.
"God's Beard!"
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Plus some decks might need disenchant to counter a chalice on 1
As a person who likes equipment
I want to see more damn equipment
Also I fired off a question mark about Brago's Sword. missed opportunity imo
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