Avacyn is a triggered ability, not an activated ability.
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Magic: the Gathering |OT9| Kaladesh - Cruisin' Down the Street in my 6/4
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Avacyn is a triggered ability, not an activated ability.
SigmasonicX
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No, that's a triggered ability, not an activated ability.
I'm pretty sure that's what his +1 ability is supposed to represent.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
He just seems oppressive
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
EDIT: Wait, hold on, what's with the different wordings between the searching for these two cards?
Library and graveyard vs. library and/or graveyard
The mandatory vs. may is due to Chandra's spell's default effect not requiring searching the library, but I don't get the above.
This is driving me nuts now
As blue-white should be, so they're on flavor. I'm just curious as to how he plays into the story. I don't expect him to become a recurring character. I think we're just going to learn Tezzeret is maneuvering and pulling strings and Dovan just happened to be a pawn in the plot.
I'm thinking it is so that if you have a Chandra in your Graveyard you can just grab that and not worry about searching and shuffling your library. If it said "you may search your library and graveyard" you'd have to do both.
T1 - Mountain, Bomat Courier, attack, exile Simian Spirit Guide, activate ability, discard hand
T2 - Reanimate Grisselbrand
Game
Nissa's spell already has you search your library no matter what for the land, so there's no need to use the or.EDIT: Wait, hold on, what's with the different wordings between the searching for these two cards?
Library and graveyard vs. library and/or graveyard
The mandatory vs. may is due to Chandra's spell's default effect not requiring searching the library, but I don't get the above.
Remembrance
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The second one doesn't get the whole ability negated by "players can't search libraries" effects?
divisionbyzorro
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With Nissa's card, you're already searching your library. Searching your graveyard carries no additional cost with it. So the card instructs you to search both, because why wouldn't you since you're in there already?
With Chandra's card, there's no need to search your library if you just want to get the card from your graveyard, since searching your library would force you to shuffle it. So the card lets you choose one or the other to give you the option to save time.
SigmasonicX
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I'm of the mind he's an innocent bystander.
"God's Beard!"
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More Ichorids and Kioras, huh. When it works, it works.
Seems worse than Insolent Neonate
This guy seems to have high potential for shenanigans.
Seems worse than Insolent Neonate
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
There's no reason why UW Control would be any better than WB or even GB and Dovin's card doesn't help much either in my opinion. It isn't a card that seems particularly pushed compared to Architect of Thought, which is probably just a better card because Jace's minus is so much better for control decks.
I just don't see any reason to play blue over black or green because blue has terrible card draw and Kaladesh appears much more slanted towards aggressive strategies than either BFZ or SOI blocks were.
Actually, lemme rethink that:
T1 - Mountain, Bomat Courier, attack, exile Simian Spirit Guide, activate ability, discard hand
T2 - DREEEEEEEEEDGE
Tournament
[QUOTE="God's Beard!";216786574]Seems worse than Insolent Neonate[/QUOTE]
I assume in practice it will be worse, but in an aggressive deck it could be potentially useful if you can get at least two hits in. Assuming you empty your hand, "R, Sacrifice ~: Draw two cards" is pretty strong in those decks.
Admittedly, I'm not sure how many hits you'll realistically get through.
I assume in practice it will be worse, but in an aggressive deck it could be potentially useful if you can get at least two hits in. Assuming you empty your hand, "R, Sacrifice ~: Draw two cards" is pretty strong in those decks.
Admittedly, I'm not sure how many hits you'll realistically get through.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Baby Jace and emerge were the reason. Personally gonna try Jund and Bant control first.
SigmasonicX
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Also from the Planeswalker decks, new tapped-land art.
I didn't expect Chandra's deck to be red-white. Also, given that these decks are going to be used to keep these tapped-lands in Standard indefinitely. it's odd that they're reprinting the enemy colored ones from SOI before the ally colored ones from BFZ.
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I didn't expect Chandra's deck to be red-white. Also, given that these decks are going to be used to keep these tapped-lands in Standard indefinitely. it's odd that they're reprinting the enemy colored ones from SOI before the ally colored ones from BFZ.
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"God's Beard!"
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Living the dream for you, Grimace:
Flashback //Bust, play forest off of Crucible, cast 5/6 Tarmogoyf. Untap, play Blood Moon.
Unfortunately, my opponent conceded to the //Bust.
Flashback //Bust, play forest off of Crucible, cast 5/6 Tarmogoyf. Untap, play Blood Moon.
Unfortunately, my opponent conceded to the //Bust.
ShadowSoldier89
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the art on the inventions is some of the best art I've ever seen in magic
Buy a Commander precon, they are a great way to get started.
I've a noob question. I'm not planning to get super into Magic but would like to get a few starter decks to mess around with when some friends come over to game. I got a couple from the Innistrad set the other day, would there be any balancing issues if I got starters from the last couple of blocks or the upcoming planeswalker decks?
shrapnelmagnet
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What are the chances that Herald of Kozilek will finally have its day in the sun? Maybe with Aether Revolt?
I assume there's no "colourless" decks in standard...
I assume there's no "colourless" decks in standard...
I expect they'd work together just fine since they're all of a similar power level, but I don't think they do a ton of balancing between those decks even in the same block. If you want something that is specifically balanced against each other you can look at the "Duel Deck" series where they have pairs of decks built to play against each other. Most recent one is "Blessed vs Cursed".
eh, I'll consider it, depending on the price. I have a commander deck in MTGO, which I think is probably a lot cheaper than ordering the real cards
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okay, again, why are there swiss drafts for Takir and Zendikar but not Innistrad on MTGO
They print all 10 in the Deck Builder's Toolkit. They don't need to have them all in the Planeswalker decks.
God damn it why couldn't it have cost 2UR
charlequin
Banned
1/1 flying tokens are pretty rare usually -- zero in BFZ block and two in KTK block, for example. (SOI had a lot of cards that make them at 10, but they're all white and it's to support a tribal theme.) They're usually going to be in white, which is totally the wrong color for them here. And Kaladesh has a different artifact token with a much higher than normal quantity of cards that make them, which uses up even more space.
why
whyy
WHYYYYYYYYY. why.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
there's a brew I saw on reddit that's all about storming off with 0 and 1 mana artifacts with the herald the 4 mana 50 life card and the return to hand draw cards card.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The taplands aren't in the booster product so its fine. There's an enemy colored theme in Kaladesh anyways.
I've looked into those and will probably get one or two but I'd also like to get some stand alone starters to give people more options, plus I'm liking the art style of Kaladesh. Thanks for the info.
"God's Beard!"
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This is going to be so so so annoying in limited.
The fact that you can hold off on the Thopter until you drop Padeem is kinda cool. If you play a Thriving Turtle and Aether Hub at any point you've pretty much got a 3 mana Whirler Rogue.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Uh
This seems maybe good
This seems maybe good
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I mean, if your turn 1 play is Great Furnace, seems good. Kird Ape is hardly busted and Kird Ape was generally far easier to turn on.
T1- mountain, apprentice
T2- plains, Thraben Inspector
Could work out in standard maybe
"God's Beard!"
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I guess if you're playing bomat, thraben inspector and Smuggler's Copter in your sligh deck it could be good.
CommandThrower
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Uh
This seems maybe good
That plus Inventor's Goggles. Also Inventor's Goggles + Toolcraft Exemplar.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
You could probably win 50% of your games on MTGO's 2-man queues by just mainboarding Orbs of Warding.
Nobody plays anything but U/R Burn. It is a bad deck, but people like that it doesn't cost anything.
Nobody plays anything but U/R Burn. It is a bad deck, but people like that it doesn't cost anything.
Royal_Flush
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