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Magic: the Gathering |OT9| Kaladesh - Cruisin' Down the Street in my 6/4
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charlequin
Banned
does my avatar look like the kind of perfectly normal dad that would ban someone for that
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
NOW THIS IS PODRACING
A Serious Man
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I'm still dubious of their constructed viability but I'm going to enjoy drafting vehicle decks.
SigmasonicX
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Speedway Fanatic is pretty fun too.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Ian blinks a lot.
A Serious Man
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Reddit translation said:
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
This is a total Emerge card.
charlequin
Banned
SigmasonicX
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The Hive completely shat on.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
RU =/= RW
"God's Beard!"
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Also hits two types for Emrakul.
A Serious Man
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The power creep is real.
Damn. Who uses RU instead of UR?
Loving the new cards, but a weird impression on them. Stylistically, this set reminds me of Mercadian Masques. Lots of non-combat scenes, ornately dressed characters, smiling faces and a low level humour vibe running through it. Think the atr is great, but it does remind me of that set for some reason.
charlequin
Banned
This is nifty.
This is nifty.
Miracle Whip
oh great more ammo for ug edh decks
"God's Beard!"
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I already love everything about this set. One of the mechanics is modular and the vehicles have a ton of decision points.
If this stuff hits Standard we're gonna have a great format with potential for real skill testing.
If this stuff hits Standard we're gonna have a great format with potential for real skill testing.
Carvalho is in a great spot. Shame about that.
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";215754643]I already love everything about this set. One of the mechanics is modular and the vehicles have a ton of decision points.
If this stuff hits Standard we're gonna have a great format with potential for real skill testing.[/QUOTE]
That is assuming the mechanics work well enough and have enough synergy to make it into a competitive standard deck. I love what they've shown so far though.
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";215754643]I already love everything about this set. One of the mechanics is modular and the vehicles have a ton of decision points.
If this stuff hits Standard we're gonna have a great format with potential for real skill testing.[/QUOTE]
That is assuming the mechanics work well enough and have enough synergy to make it into a competitive standard deck. I love what they've shown so far though.
"God's Beard!"
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Can I just hire Rich Hagon to write segues for every time I talk about anything?
This is nifty.
That is good.
SigmasonicX
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That effect looking at the converted mana cost of the spell you cast is pretty interesting. It's nice that she draws you a card no matter what. And time to update her colors in the OP character section.
charlequin
Banned
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";215754643]
If this stuff hits Standard we're gonna have a great format with potential for real skill testing.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, there are a lot of mechanics here with simple decisions with big implications, so a lot of lines of play open up. Very good starting point for interesting game states in Standard.
If this stuff hits Standard we're gonna have a great format with potential for real skill testing.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, there are a lot of mechanics here with simple decisions with big implications, so a lot of lines of play open up. Very good starting point for interesting game states in Standard.
SigmasonicX
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World Championship draft coverage starting now.
Lazy vs Crazy
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Wait, when did they go back to "create" rather than "put into play"?
Kaladesh.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Super interesting that Kaladesh isn't as much fantasy India as I was expecting. Khans of Tarkir felt very consistently SE Asian in art direction throughout, whereas Kaladesh from what we've seen looks more like a mix of Indian visual design and their extreme-gilt aesthetic, but with...well, a lot more racial diversity then I expected.
Put another way, the people of Kaladesh look more like a traditional fantasy melting pot with a higher than average percentage of people who appear typically Indian than an actual Indian culture. Whereas I think I can count the number of white people on Tarkir on like one hand
Am I saying this in some insensitive way? Sorry if I am
Put another way, the people of Kaladesh look more like a traditional fantasy melting pot with a higher than average percentage of people who appear typically Indian than an actual Indian culture. Whereas I think I can count the number of white people on Tarkir on like one hand
Am I saying this in some insensitive way? Sorry if I am
blindrocket
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The Hive completely shat on.
And it's a rare! Versus this better card, that's just uncommon.
Infinite Stars
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I thought it wasn't vehicles, but instead a mechanic that made you tap to animate something. Like "Tap 3 dudes: Statue of Athena becomes a 4/4 Indestructible soldier creature until end of Turn"
blindrocket
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Good ultimate ability targets for Saheeli Rai?
A Serious Man
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Congrats on making it to the Top 4 Marcaio.
divisionbyzorro
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Vehicles are kinda like a cross between Equipment and Totem Armor.
charlequin
Banned
Yeah, there are a few people with Desi backgrounds I follow on tumblr/twitter who went into this weekend being concerned the set was going to have a lot of problematic/stereotypical shit and came out wondering why there wasn't more actual India-specific stuff.
Yeah, to be clear, a mechanic where some resource is fought over and a mechanic that animated creatures were in Ham and got cut for Conspiracy and Kaladesh respectively; we know they were close enough to the mechanics we got that they got cut, but not exactly what they were trying to accomplish. I think the latter fits NPH even if it's not vehicle-themed though, as long as it's artifacts.
SigmasonicX
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Oh right, vehicles does mean we probably won't get much equipment. Ashodin, are you OK?
Pretty neat. Cast this turn 4, get another creature out the next turn, attack with it, and you have a 4/4 flyer that tapped a creature. Likely will only be significant in Limited, though.
Aetherstorm Roc 2WW
Creature - Bird - Rare
Flying
Whenever ~ or another creature ETBs under your control, you get E
Whenever ~ attacks you may pay EE. If you do, put at +1/+1 counter on it and tap up to one target creature defending player controls
3/3
Pretty neat. Cast this turn 4, get another creature out the next turn, attack with it, and you have a 4/4 flyer that tapped a creature. Likely will only be significant in Limited, though.
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