Casuals love them. I know do many casuals who drool over them. Also vexing devil and great revel are examples of the Punisher mechanic working at a high level.
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Magic: the Gathering |OT13| Ixalan - Port to Sideboard
- Thread starter SigmasonicX
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Tribute: Never forget.
I'll never understand how MaRo didn't intuitively understand that the mechanic was a terrible idea immediately and how it made it all the way to print.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Captain Angrath is pretty specifically a male and is pretty clearly a Pirate Captain.
Captain Storm looks like a female to me.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I mean, that's true, but I also think it can be overrated. In format's power is high enough or aggressive enough it's not nearly as good because Pathing a 2 drop kind of sucks.
Pathing a Hierarch during their upkeep was often a thing back when Conflux was standard legal.
Well actually... its the Ixalan captains that are all female. Angrath is from another plane.
I hate myself
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Sure, but Hierarch itself is kind of busted.
I'm just a little dismayed that unconditional removal starts at 4 mana now. I don't get why that kind of escalation really needs to be a thing.
Oh you said male....Captain Angrath is pretty specifically a male and is pretty clearly a Pirate Captain.
Captain Storm looks like a female to me.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I'm never getting a push at this point getting matched against UW every time.
Isn't the eternalize guy better? 3 mana only gains 2 but comes back as a 4/4 gaining 4This is not bad at all if aggro is very dominant
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Neither of them are Arashin Cleric.
I'm a little surprised at how little this set tries to punish red aggro.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Semi-serious question: is there an actual way to kill Carnage Tyrant in limited beyond "have a deathtouch blocker or 6 power of blocking or Settle the Wreckage?"
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Took the plunge and ordered a playset of pushes, for close to 50.
They shouldn't be. He plays limited regularly
SigmasonicX
Member
I don't watch him, but I imagine they complain every time he does that too.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
He rarely plays mtg limited on stream though. It's mostly for fun and for a good reasons as his numbers go way down when he does.
shrapnelmagnet
Member
Hmm, to be honest, I haven't used that site a ton. But I will give it a go. Though, my initial search has an error:
Red
Common
Alliances
Returns 10 cards, instead of 11 - misses Death Spark.
Scryfall
Gatherer
That said, it seems more reliable than magiccards.info, already
So thanks!EDIT: I take that back, GATHERER has the error. Death Spark is Uncommon in Alliances. Hmm, that's interesting lol
ThLunarian
Member
Star of Extinction!
On one hand i want to say it doesn't really matter because its a mythic so it will show up very rarely. On the other hand it seems like someone opened up a god every damn HOU draft.
Hmm, to be honest, I haven't used that site a ton. But I will give it a go. Though, my initial search has an error:
Red
Common
Alliances
Returns 10 cards, instead of 11 - misses Death Spark.
Scryfall
Gatherer
That said, it seems more reliable than magiccards.info, already
EDIT: I take that back, GATHERER has the error. Death Spark is Uncommon in Alliances. Hmm, that's interesting lol
Alliance rarities are mega weird IIRC. Like U1 and U2 and R1 and R2 but I could be mixed up with Homelands?
I like Aetherborn Vampire here
Grimace is asking about limited
Did your vampire deck come together now that the full spoiler is out?
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Capitivating Crew is a much dumber bomb in limited than Carnage Tyrant. Carnage Tyrant is just a big dude.
Imperfected
Member
Big dudes are my favorite limited bombs, though.
I got tons of scoops to Scaled Behemoth.
blindrocket
Member
It's funny, I just watched a video that referenced Garfield's Boon cycle. Ancestral Recall is obviously leaps and bounds the best card in that cycle.
I didn't notice this guy before, what a nightmare of a common for limited:
I don't know, 4 life is a lot more than 2.
I don't know, 4 life is a lot more than 2.
Imperfected
Member
It's fine, it has a higher rarity!
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
If you put Spell Swindle and Marionette Master in your deck it's the randomest combo but you win on the spot a lot because you swindle something they tapped out for and then cast the Master and blow them out. It's funny but I doubt it's viable.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Oh right the Beta went live. Time to test UBx control.
True the question if the double dipping from steadfast sentinel makes up for it.
Etrian Oddity
Member
Still sad Walk the Plank is not an instant.
charlequin
Banned
mc.i has fairly comprehensive foreign card data which scryfall still doesn't, but otherwise no. Scryfall is kept very up to date (like, the whole Ixalan spoiler is in already while mc.i doesn't even have Iconic Masters.)
Up until Alliances, the contents of card packs and the types of collation were much less consistent than they are now. Starting with Mirage every set was a pack of 11 commons, 3 uncommons and 1 rare regardless of size, but before that there were small packs with 8 cards or 12 cards, and wildly varying numbers of occurrences per sheet -- kind of the same way that mythics work now, but without a formal rarity difference.
Most importantly, the result of this is that a lot of cards aren't in practice the rarity of the sheet they're printed on -- the "rares" in the old small sets were all U1s vs. the U3s we consider uncommons, and there were a few wacky cards like Maze of Ith that's now considered an "uncommon" despite being printed as a C1 vs. C4s for everything else on the common sheet. tl;dr old set rarity is weird and sometimes there's multiple possible answers that are in some way "right."
In eternal formats its likely still a worse Victim of Night at Instant.
Busy with freelance work and shit today, but yeah it's coming together
People are gonna try to ramp into carnage tyrant in standard
So what should I expect from the "Open House" thing? Going with a friend tomorrow, looks like. I'm more or less a newbie to the game at this point because I really just have some light experience with the game from when I was younger, buuuut I'd say I do have the rules down outside of when you get into the nitty-gritty of specific card interactions in specific circumstances or whatever. So no idea if this'll be a worthwhile thing for me or not, but may as well give it a shot.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I asked the most recent counterspell guy what his plan was to beat Desert Red and even just a plain ol' Carnage Tyrant and his answer seemed super christmaslandy. Like his answer involved double blocking with the Scarab God and Torrential Gearhulk.
If you want the free welcome deck and promo card then you should go. Usually they will have a store employee there to walk you through a game or if you know the rules they will just make themselves available for questions that come up.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Scarab God is the answer once again. From my experience you can go from fearing for your life to killing them in 1 swing fairly quickly because you get all their guys back hasty and 4/4s
SigmasonicX
Member
I believe he was referring to how that card showed up in a common search on Gatherer despite Gatherer itself listing it as uncommon.
Ah, cool, sounds good. Thanks.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
You don't have any other guys in a counterspell deck
You get theirs.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I forgot it even did that. What a dumb card.