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Magic: the Gathering |OT9| Kaladesh - Cruisin' Down the Street in my 6/4
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Infinite Stars
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Dredge is so getting the axe. If doesn't, then Wizards has done messed up. I still thinking hitting all dredgers above 4 is the right call, because Troll/Imp give the deck two much power right now.
I'm assuming this is a typo and you mean Spirits?
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
only went 2-3 at the showdown and one of them was a bye but I did beat a resolved brisela.
SigmasonicX
Member
In the search for a mill keyword, perhaps it might be better if instead of wording it as "target player __", it could be worded as "target player's library __".
Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
vs.
Target player mills 2.
vs.
Target player's library loses two cards.
Or it could instead be, "Target player's library loses its top two cards," to differentiate it from effects that mill from the bottom ("Your library loses its bottom card.").
Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
vs.
Target player mills 2.
vs.
Target player's library loses two cards.
Or it could instead be, "Target player's library loses its top two cards," to differentiate it from effects that mill from the bottom ("Your library loses its bottom card.").
you damn right it is
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
They're not gonna ban Golgari Grave-Troll just so they don't have to ban a card they unbanned.
Infinite Stars
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Banning those 2 only addresses the symptoms, not the root cause. Wizards would much rather nuke Grave-Troll and admit it was a mistake to unban it(and maybe Stinkweed Imp) then have to filter every card in Standard through the lens of "Is this better then Amalgam/Cathartic Reunion?"
The only sensible non-dredge creature to hit is Narcomeba because it's what starts the stupid dredge chains.
charlequin
Banned
They've done it before!
Any ban they make from Dredge has to be oriented around keeping the deck viable and just reducing its ability to oppress the metagame. Dredge is among the cheapest significant decks in Modern and a ton of the people playing it right now are gonna be people who felt like it gave them a good route to buy into the format. Nuking it from orbit would be very shortsighted.
Wulfric
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This deck is so cute. It's cheap too, could be worth taking to FNM over winter break. I've got an extra green Gearhulk laying around, might just throw that in the deck as well.
Hooray!
I think that's a first from the showdown packs in this thread, no?
Played an intense game of EDH last night, me & two buddies. I was running Breya, my friends ran Atraxa & a Phanax mill deck.
What happened was Atraxa got out ahead early with little resistance, he ulted Tamiyo the Moon Sage. Next turn Phanax plays Traumatize, Atraxa puts all the cards (35+) into his hand. Following turn (after some shenanagans from Atraxa, meanwhile I sit there helpless thinking this is the end) Phanax casts Whispering Madness... milling Atraxa completely. And supplying me with a 54 card hand, with which I end the game quite quickly.
It was a great time
What happened was Atraxa got out ahead early with little resistance, he ulted Tamiyo the Moon Sage. Next turn Phanax plays Traumatize, Atraxa puts all the cards (35+) into his hand. Following turn (after some shenanagans from Atraxa, meanwhile I sit there helpless thinking this is the end) Phanax casts Whispering Madness... milling Atraxa completely. And supplying me with a 54 card hand, with which I end the game quite quickly.
It was a great time
shrapnelmagnet
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Prediction: Magic Digital Next is Standard-focused. Perhaps even spawning a new format... A Frontier-esque format. They already have that going right now. I imagine they continue this trend and double-down on it. I am super curious how confident they are in their game in the face of Hearthstone. They have the "better" game, but history shows that this doesn't really matter. Blizzard always wins; that's a better take-away, in my opinion.
HotS lol
GoutPatrol
Forgotten in his cell
Week 2 of Showdown, week 2 of getting garbage Showdown boosters. I enjoy playing my Standard deck but I have yet to see anyone get anything good from these packs.
phazedplasma
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4-4-1 at GP Denver.
Definitely misplayed my way to 2 losses.
Ran Steve Rubin's UB zombies list. Was super fun to play even if thought it's above my skill level.
Definitely misplayed my way to 2 losses.
Ran Steve Rubin's UB zombies list. Was super fun to play even if thought it's above my skill level.
New Ajani is 4GW , 4 loyalty, +2, -2, -9https://twitter.com/bazardebagda/status/805475591508070400
+2: Look at top 3, draw all nonland permenants and bottom the rest
-2: Swords to Plowshares
-9: put 5 +1/+1 counters on all your creatures and 5 loyalty on other walkers
+2: Look at top 3, draw all nonland permenants and bottom the rest
-2: Swords to Plowshares
-9: put 5 +1/+1 counters on all your creatures and 5 loyalty on other walkers
ThLunarian
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Oh shit.
Here is my poor attempt at translating:
+2: Reveal the top 3 of your library. Put all Noland permanent cards revealed into your hand and the rest on bottom in random order.
-2: Swords to Plowshares
-9: Put 5 +1/+1 counters on each creature you control and 5 loyalty counters in each Planeswalker you control
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
That's kinda weak for a 6 mana PW.
Yeah. Seems like a worse Ob except it can fire its kill off twice before plusing and is 1 more mana
Infinite Stars
Member
I like his +2 and his -2, but his Ult is just.. why.
I guess I'm going to keep repping Mentor of Heroes in my Super friends Deck in Modern.
I guess I'm going to keep repping Mentor of Heroes in my Super friends Deck in Modern.
Well it's G/W what do you expect?
SigmasonicX
Member
Ajani's ultimate is an interesting effect, even if the planeswalker part is unlikely to happen outside of Commander.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Repeatable exile is pretty nice and "draw gas"' on a plus 2 is actually really good. Like so good that you probably just win if nobody answers it in one turn.
This card seems quite good, really.
This card seems quite good, really.
Infinite Stars
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I think upon reviewing it, I agree with this. It's kind of odd that he's 6 mana, but he's going to be incredibly hard to outvalue if he lives for more than a turn.
Meh, who cares. ;-)
He's easily the worst of the 'Big 3' enemies. Every time he shows up it's like some bad Saturday mornings cartoon villain, with stupidly complicated plans that don't make sense. Let's compleat him!
I'm still holding out hope we will all be blown away when they pull the ripcord on his plans. Something grand and jaw-dropping.
But deep down I know we won't.
I don't know about you but Umezawa's desire to defeat Bolas is infinitely more interesting than Emrakul hiding behind a moon and mindfucking Jace telling him he's not really a bad guy. If I want a return of Kamigawa, I want it to be Bolas trying to get back at Umezawa and his kin.
You only need a troll ban. Slow the deck down and put them on thug which won't let them get free wins through cages like troll does.
Nice! As a side note why does every girl dress as Chandra with Jace when Liliana is his love interest? Just curious.
Oh, the Chandra was there in the Hasbro booth and we happened to meet her there. The people in the booth actually made him take pictures with a Liliana Funko Pop doll.
TheBlackMarvel
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Because Chandra is stealing Liliana away from him lol.
His goal is the übervague 'ultimate power, or at least a return to his original power level. Which is stupid.
I think Liliana is stealing Chandra tbh.
They can make it interesting if they give him a legitimate reason for why he wants to return to his original form.
Right, they could. But this company cant even give Chandra an identity other than 'Burn burn burn'. So I'm not holding my breath.
Etrian Oddity
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Temur (RUG) Energy is really fun. I love these damned colors.
I want Black to get good Energy use in AR, though. Sultai Energy would be really fun, and Black has a ton of mechanics you could tie in with Energy.
I want Black to get good Energy use in AR, though. Sultai Energy would be really fun, and Black has a ton of mechanics you could tie in with Energy.
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