The Technomancer
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I think they struck about as good a balance as they could with that stuff. An opponent with a Mind's Eye or a Cloudstone Curio isn't going to have a significant advantage obviously
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Magic: the Gathering |OT9| Kaladesh - Cruisin' Down the Street in my 6/4
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I think they struck about as good a balance as they could with that stuff. An opponent with a Mind's Eye or a Cloudstone Curio isn't going to have a significant advantage obviously
"God's Beard!"
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Man, this land destruction deck is so bad vs dredge lol
Even anger post board does nothing if they have a greater gargadon suspended.
I swapped the rituals for bolts, the 3rd azusa for the 4th seismic assault and the red fetches for green fetches since the only basic I'm fetching that matters is the forest.
The deck is pretty bad though. If you're playing against midrange/control all day it's hard to lose but anything recursive or quick is ggs.
Even anger post board does nothing if they have a greater gargadon suspended.
I swapped the rituals for bolts, the 3rd azusa for the 4th seismic assault and the red fetches for green fetches since the only basic I'm fetching that matters is the forest.
The deck is pretty bad though. If you're playing against midrange/control all day it's hard to lose but anything recursive or quick is ggs.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
The timeline on this is interesting. Rosewater's article either implies
a.) that they managed to put together the entire Kaladesh Inventions, from the art to the frames to arranging the printing, in less than 12 months after seeing the Expeditions reception, which is possible but very tight for them
or
b.) they were working on Kaladesh Inventions much earlier (which would make sense, I mean "lets do super rare artifacts in our artifact block" is not an outlandish idea) and seeing the reception to Expeditions is what caused them to decide that they're in every block going forward
a.) that they managed to put together the entire Kaladesh Inventions, from the art to the frames to arranging the printing, in less than 12 months after seeing the Expeditions reception, which is possible but very tight for them
or
b.) they were working on Kaladesh Inventions much earlier (which would make sense, I mean "lets do super rare artifacts in our artifact block" is not an outlandish idea) and seeing the reception to Expeditions is what caused them to decide that they're in every block going forward
ThLunarian
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Commander 2016 releases on November 11. Does anyone have an educated guess about when previews start?
Cosmo Clock 21
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I imagine a 50 card "set" of English language reprints doesn't take much time to put together, compared to the ~20 months for a regular large set to go from initial design to print. There was no "Helvault Silver" for SOI/EMN, after all.
2 - 3 weeks prior to release, just like last year, and in-line with previews for every product they release.
Especially if they don't play test them, because why would they?
charlequin
Banned
End of October-ish.
An art push is, what, 3 months? They probably just rolled this into the second wave of commissions they were already doing for Kaladesh at that point.
Boogalogist
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I play Commander exclusively since I've been into Magic since 4th ed.
Sol Ring, Mana Crypt and Mox Diamond all played in my meta. We pack stuff like Annul, Steel Sabotage, Nature's Claim, Vandalblast, Aura of Silence (fucking hate this shit), etc. Artifacts are crazy strong in Commander. 99% of the decks we come up against pack some form of artifacts.
In fact, about 10-15 cards or so in each of our Commander decks consists of reactive cards, to stop someone's combo from going off or stop an alpha strike etc.
(Casting Annul on a turn 2 Sylvan Library is delicious!)
I was looking through that top 50 artifacts article in my previous post, and damn, every semi-interesting artifact there is on the Reserved List, haha.
EDIT: Concerning Blossoming Defense only targeting creatures you control, MTG Salvation pointed out this allows it to dodge Spellskite. That could definitely make it relevant.
That makes it EXTREMELY relevant for infect.
Boogalogist
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Oh man...This Consul's Power card is incredible in the proper Commander deck. It's gonna see so much play at my meta.
Etrian Oddity
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Consul's Power W
Enchantment Rare
Creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your opponent's control, you gain 1 life.
Counsul's Power seems decent, especially in Commander, but maybe even Enchantress.
I could see this.
I could see this.
"God's Beard!"
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After a few more games of messing around, revised Boom//Bust Assault Loam list:
phazedplasma
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oh boy that enchantment...
"God's Beard!"
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Consul's Power W
Enchantment Rare
Creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your opponent's control, you gain 1 life.
So this is basically a better Blind Obedience, and I looooooved me some Blind Obedience.
Consul's Power W
Enchantment Rare
Creatures your opponents control enter the battlefield tapped.
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your opponent's control, you gain 1 life.
I've been lazily working on a white control deck for half a decade, this must go right in it.
ThLunarian
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I like it. A lot. Protects itself very well on the uptick
DashReindeer
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Uw control!
Man, it really feels like they pushed the hell out of the Gatewatch members when looking at these new Planeswalkers. This guy is fine, but when compared to Chandra or Nissa, he seems pretty lackluster.
Artifact creatures;
Seems made with Delirium in mind but I don't think that deck wants it? Haunted Dead gives you a flier, lets you discard 2 and can actually block. This is an extra type in the graveyard, but can't block and needs you to exile stuff from graveyard to bring it back.
Seems made with Delirium in mind but I don't think that deck wants it? Haunted Dead gives you a flier, lets you discard 2 and can actually block. This is an extra type in the graveyard, but can't block and needs you to exile stuff from graveyard to bring it back.
Artifact creatures;
And to think I once considered adding Despoiler of Souls to my cube! :lol
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Uw control!
They could have just let him detain on his +1 instead, all in all he's not particularly pushed for a 4CMC walker
divisionbyzorro
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For only one designated color? That's nuts.
With Company gone, control should be a lot more playable and he seems really solid. He reminds me a lot of Architect of Thought, actually.
Simply Sarah
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Eh. It's Green and it's not going to be in Limited formats so it honestly doesn't seem all that exciting outside the kind of decks beginners would likely be making use of. And hey, it's in a beginner deck!
Familienoberhauptvogel
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It will be I played around a bunch with control in all sorts of colour combos before and he'll definitely see play if UW is viable in standard but I'm looking at him and my Narset Superfriends list and I don't think he'll make the cut. He doesn't do anything exciting his detaining is about the best he does.
Dovan actually does stuff regardless of what is in your deck, so it isn't quite that dire.
Probably too strong vs decks going tall.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I just wish he cost 1 more and didn't feel so undercooked in exchange.
MiniJace/LiliLastHope showed us that +1 is going to be really f'n good.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
2/3/4 CMC make a difference but I already conceded that he's gonna be good in standard anyways.
SigmasonicX
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For those unaware, this is a home video made by MaRo's daughter (since he actually records Drive to Work while driving her to school), which he showed at PAX during the Blogatog Live panel.
I find it amusing that people were looking at the Planeswalker-caring spells in the Planeswalker Decks for something maybe Constructed playable, but it's actually one of the "flavorfully tied" common spells that seems potentially Constructed worthy, Flame Lash, if there really aren't any other decent burn spells that hit the face.
Dovin Baan looks good, but maybe I'm overestimating his card drawing ability.
Scrapheap Scrounger looks good, and as noted, is strictly better than a monoblack card that people were previously looking at for Constructed, Despoiler of Souls.
Bomat Cruiser is a really interesting design. I'm glad red is continuously getting "discard your hand, draw N cards". Note that you exile a card on attack, so you could potentially just attack and sacrifice it in a pinch.
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.
omg this would get me back into standard if so! Haven't played since UW-no win conRTR block control
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