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Intentionally broken disgusting cash grab garbage.
OP is a wizards marketing bot who filled the prior post with deleted posts to push it to a bump limit in the 400sGood god, how can one anon compete with faggotry of this level?
If this is meant to be a set from the 80s, where is the card featuring two horny teenagers banging?
>>93776289That 3 mana board wipe is busted as fuck
>>93776308>filled the prior post with deleted posts to push it to a bump limit in the 400sWhat?
I just want to have a boa---AAACK!!!
>>93776327>"We didn't playtest the final version of Split Up."
Are you ready to get clowned Pioneer bros?
>>93776339is this meant to be an IT reference?why is this a human clown instead of a nightmare clown or some other creature type?
>Sunfall>Temporary Lockdown>Final Showdown>Day of Judgment>Split Up>Deadly Coverup>Damnation>etc.Is this going to be the Standard with the most board wipes in history?
>>93776339The left one feels AI generated somehow.
praying for at least a tier 2 rakdos sacrifice deck. i'll even take mardu.>>93776355i think of this before i think of IT
Just a quick quick checkcan I run anoint with affliction in my whiskervale forerunner deck, and use it both as removal on opponents 1-3 mana creatures, and as a way to throw it away to trigger whiskervale valiant without exiling it?>Exile target creature if it has mana value 3 or lessso its valid to target a mana value 4 creature right
>>93776374it's the "humanoid subject almost exactly centre of frame" thing I think
>TQI do like some art.
>>93776339wish the right one wasn't solid green, would look so much better white with clown makeup
>>93776289If this doesnt make Ninjas playable nothing will do it.
>>93776406What format?
>>93776308>OP is a wizards marketing bot who filled the prior post with deleted posts to push it to a bump limit in the 400sFirst of all, what does that even mean? Second of all, why would a WotC shill care about how many posts the previous thread had anyway?
>>93776339the normal art looks miles better than double exposure
>>93776409looks potentially playable in all formats besides crazy shit like vintage
Deck4 Outcaster Trailblazer (OTJ) 1731 Island (BLB) 3724 Vesuvan Duplimancy (DMU) 731 Underground Mortuary (MKM) 2714 Pillage the Bog (OTJ) 2243 Underground River (BRO) 2674 Take the Fall (OTJ) 734 Botanical Sanctum (OTJ) 2674 Timely Interference (DMU) 704 Rat Out (WOE) 1031 Song of Totentanz (WOE) 1503 Darkslick Shores (ONE) 2502 Hedge Maze (MKM) 2624 Yavimaya Coast (DMU) 2613 Blooming Marsh (OTJ) 2663 Llanowar Wastes (BRO) 2644 Disfigure (BRO) 914 Whisper of the Dross (ONE) 1173 Insatiable Avarice (OTJ) 91top standard combo coming through
>>93776409any with enough ninjas considering ninjas is in no way playable.
>>93776378From Gatherer:>You may choose to target a creature that has mana value greater than 3 even if no player has three of more poison counters.
>>93776378Si.
>>93776339álright will combat celebrant and clown become the new amalia?
>>93776339Alright, so here's a standard legal infinite combo.With The clown and pic related 3 cards on the board you activate the clown to make a copy of Ertha. Ertha copies the trigger, with the copy, you copy the recruiter and target your own clown. The clown will untap and the Ertha copy will create a 1/1 (You legend rule the old Ertha away).Now you have an untapped Ertha copy, an untapped 1/1 flying Reptilian Recruiter with haste and an untapped Clown. You use the Relic to tap the Ertha token and now you have the mana to do it again.Each iteration will net you two 1/1 tokens, with one of them having haste and flying.You can basically make infinite hasting 1/1s this way.It's totally unplayable garbage since it requires you to have 3 creatures on the board that total 12 mana, but a fun thought experiment on how it would be possible to break it right now.
>>93776327>Your opponent has all of their creatures untapped to defend themselves>You play a single Vehicle to tap all of your creatures>Play thisPerfectly balanced
>>93776406Why would you play it in a ninja deck? Just play it as a control/tempo finisher. Why would you go out of your way to put more ninjas in your deck? They are bad.
>>93776445definitely not, amalia's combo pieces cost 2, not 3, and you didn't have to worry about summoning sickness because you could just kill people with aetherflux reservoir
>>93776465I dont know why I expected this to see anywhere near as much play as PVDDR saw.
>>93776325>>93776410>Cares enough to post in the thread, yet does not understand the rules for posting threads on 4chanplease go home Hasbro
>>93776319>>93776301baby jesus, please deliver me from the next six months of caretakers/forges/boardwipes/lockdowns
>>93776501If you can't explain what you're on about, I can only conclude you're a schizo.
>>93776376How come they got Junji Ito to do art for New Phyrexia but not for this set?
>>93776517Basically>Holy shit where did all these people come from?!>Are these bots? shills? Why so much activity from spoiler season?!
>>93776539It's just spoilers. It's like wondering why people post more when there's a big tournament going on.
>>93776517>>93776527>>93776549if we had poster replies, you would be able to tell these are all the same guy.Why does the prior /mtg/ thread have 126 visible posts and a post count of 426?Paid marketers, go away.
>>93776327tapped bros we eating good.
>>93776577>126 visible postsThe fuck do you mean by "visible" posts? Last thread got a lot of posts because the dozen or so guys who are usually here were all reacting to the spoilers. It's not complicated.
Earlier today I heard someone describe demonic tutor and eladamri's call as terrible cards, because "they basically make you spend 2 more mana to cast a card". I didn't know what to say.
>>93776289>TQI like the focus on Enchantments, they don't get as much love as Artifacts do.
Skeletons continues to evolve.With more testing, I'm starting to lean away from the pure Sligh variant and more into a midrange toolkit list. Case of the Stashed Skeleton machine gunning Demonic Tutors if they try to stop our pressure is FUCKING. RIDICULOUS.Skeletal Swarming is cracked, turning a manageable board into 15+ trampling power in no time at all.Fruits of Tizerus is out for Cling to Dust. Cling is just too potent.And, sadly, Death Baron is out for now. It's a shame that Pioneer is in a state where you can't just play efficient tribal lords and have them work. If Baron drew a card on ETB, now we're talking. But it doesn't. It not being a Skeleton, gaining no haste from Corpses, was a big hit too. Glissa doesn't suffer the similar fate due to how absurd she is by herself.Visage of Dread is proving pretty solid. Disruption in the early game, and a haymaker late game. A very good mix.Basically, if we can lock down the game into the midgame, the torrent of Corpses of the Lost, Rot Farm Skeleton and Skeletal Swarming is way too much for any deck to handle. It feels great, but still needs some tuning. And a sideboard would probably also help.Still, I REALLY like this deck. Fast and resilient. It has everything you could ever want.
>>93776633>We finally get an Enchantment land that isn't Urza's Saga>It enters tapped>It only adds Mana of one color>Does nothing else other than have Hexproof out of pity
>>93776671>Does nothing else other than have Hexproof out of pity>"Hey, adding a type to a land is a pretty big downside. Should we allow it to make for interesting risk and reward gameplay?">"No, give it hexproof! We don't want the players to feel bad!"fucking retards, total design failures, absolute talentless hacks, complete braindead losers without an ounce of good sense
>They unbanned picrel todayBYE MOM!
If you use slickshot showoff in standard you are objectively a faggot. I cannot imagine how someone could play that and not feel great shame. Mono red in general, is it even fun to play?
>>93776339explain to me why the fucking clown is boros.JUSTIFY IT.
>>93776742>it makes tokens>tokens are white, right?>they have haste>haste is red, right?
>>93776742always were
>Milling with Rot Farm triggers Descend for Corpses of the Lost and fills the yard with Forsaken Miners>A full graveyard fuels Cling to Dust escapes, which trigger Forsaken Miner crimesbruh it all just WORKSFUCK it feels good
top 3 most kino decks of all time (objective list)1. manaless dredge2. lands (legacy)3. grixis control (legacy)
>>93776815top 3 most kino decks of all time (a better objective list1. Mono-white legacy STAX2. Modern Death's Shadow3. Bant Moneypile
>>93776815King list.
>>93776815>ok>ok>soulless midrange pile
>>93776406IM GONNA FUCKING DO ITNINJAS IN PIONEER I DONT GIVE A FUUUUUUUUUUUUck
>>93776406>>93776854I'm down. Sounds fun.
>>93776742I think we're past the point of them justifying anything. They do whatever it is they want and they don't give a shit what you think because the majority of players lack your ability to see things and either they approve of it or condemn you.I don't mean to say this as an insult, but why do you still have any faith in them? It's been the same people running the game for over 20 years and they have only made the game worse. Yes, there's more cards to do more things, but stores are dead and dead stores means no paper game (except EDH), and no paper game means people aren't talking and no talking means no way to get good ideas. So the majority moves online, where there is no voice but YouTuber and Twitch dickriders who beg for a suck at Wizards' dick for a box of promo product.
i want to try pooneer but i know the moment it gets anywhere close to modern's peak popularity jotc will start pumping out pioneer horizons
>>93776866>i want to try pooneer but i know the moment it gets anywhere close to modern's peak popularity jotc will start pumping out pioneer horizonsPioneer Horizons is already on the roadmap my guyget in while you can before the format gets obliterated
>>93776452Because Ninjutsu is the most fun mechanic they've ever printed and I wanna see if a deck built around it won't immediately fold outside of Standard
>>93776742It makes 1/1 flyers
>>93776339>activate only as a sorcery
>>93776742Clowns wear red and white facepaint and a creatures mana colors are just whatever colors it happens to be wearing.
>>93776742Probably because he has some kind of code, like he plays a game with survivors and if they win he lets them go but if they lose he balloonifies them.
>>93776883where's your modern horizons 4 waiting room?
>>93776742His name is "Jolly" and that means happy which is good and not evil, that's very white
>>93776866you can try the format without having to invest like $800 upfront, that's part of the appealif you still have shocklands, you can make a competitive aggro deck like ensoul or convoke for like $100, if you don't, you can make white humans for about the same priceand of course if you're uncertain about anything you can just proxy whatever you want first before commiting
>>93776339how is that not rakdosI guess we are the clowns
>>93776949already postedclowns are either c, or r or w
>>93776935>It's good and not evil>He literally has the head of his victims as flying ballons around him>GoodAnon?
>>93776992He's jolly though, like Santa.
>>93776992This isn't the '70s anymore, grandpa. You can be fundamentally good without having the personality of Superman.
>>93777010Maybe he's like one of those Insane Clown Posse clowns. For all you know, those "victims" he's torturing and murdering are actually pedophiles or wife beaters, and he's a vigilante enacting justice. Vigilante heroes are definitely Red/White.
>cavern of souls, naming noggle>cavern of souls, naming rigger>->Your Account Has Been Suspended
>>93776327Yeah standard definitely needed more white sweepers. And day of judgement is coming in foundations.
>>93776327The design team at Wizards asked chat gpt to design a card to counter rdw and it shat this outI'm so sick of them printing cards to counter oppressive, obnoxious things that end up killing the game for all the normal people who don't run oppressive bullshit.
>>93777157>3 mana sorcery>counter rdwyou already had lockdown, this won't do shit
today I'd like to thank Karakas for making sure my favourite formats will never be infested by the commander jew, thank you Karakas
>>93777157>>93777172yeah RDW doesn't run any threats with 3+ mana value anymore, lockdown is a full wipe against them that also takes out mirran banesplitters and prevents demonic ruckus from drawing cardsthis is absolutely unambiguously worse than temporary lockdown vs RDWthis is however 3 mana plague wind in normal fair / midrange aggro vs aggro deck like deep cavern bat tribal
>>93777189Karakas stopped people from playing Lurrus?
>>93776742Mechanically it is red with white giving flyingFlavorfully red traits are emotion over logic and caring for the life of your friends over caring for all life.White traits are caring for your in group and caring about what is legally right over what is instinctively right.
>>93776406If you put this in a deck that runs 2~3 Mutavaults it's already great, the difference between a 2/2 and a 3/3 or a 4/4 when you want to close games is pretty noticeable.
>>93776406sorry but i need to ask because i'm not sure emblems stack?
>>93776742The Flying is whiteThe temporary haste token ability is red.Thus it is red and white.
>>93777220sometimes cards are just too pushed for even Karakas to stop them, Lurrus is the only card to ever get banned from Vintage after all
>>93777320
>>93777351Karakas also didn't stop dimir reanimator despite being immune to Grief.
Is there any better win condition in standard than locus of enlightenment + boom box + esoteric duplicator lockdown?
>>93777403Atraxa.
>>93777320If they stack or not depends entirely on their abilities. Them being an emblem is not a factor in determining stack-ness.The effects from Kaito's emblems stack.
>>93777418I repeat my question
>>93777422Declaring a 7/7 flying deathtouch vigilance lifelink as attacker.
>>93777399>eh, not so fastalso the only karakasseable threat in dimir reanimator was atraxa since they didnt even run griselbrand and archon of cruelty isn't a legendary, and bouncing an atraxa doesnt really matter since the ETB already won the game. But in general Karakas keeps janky legendary creatures that don't bring immediate value off of vintage and legacy pretty well
>>93777418Atraxa isn't a win condition, it just says you draw 5 cards and opponent discards 1 card, which is a go for the throat or get lostpretty good deal for 7 mana
>>93777434And if opponent doesnt hace a fucking removal boyo?
>>93777403Wincon? I just kill everything until the opponent scoops or decks out.
Tamiyo' scroll as a legendary artifact?
>>93777450You should stop playing against sparky and try human opponents
>>93777487Yes anon, that's why Atraxa is one of the top decks in the format. Retard.
>>93777502Yes, and in that deck atraxa is just an uncounterable spell that draws them a new hand and dies immediately. Its like a really big mulldrifter lmao, except its yoinking that removal spell out of the opponents handIts also why tishana's tidebinder is seeing a resurgence. If the opponent just cast a big silver scrutiny, you could three steps ahead it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVjk5nrb_lIGET YOUR FUCKIN' SPOOK HATS ON BROS, THIS DECK IS REAL.The addition of Hearse maindeck has shifted the deck from feeling like it smokes crack, to feeling like it shoots PCP. Extremely easy, FREE Crimes plus an inevitably gigantic body that the Miners can fucking crew after recurring on their end step.Things grow more streamlined by the second. It's growing VERY hard to deal with. Like, three Reflections of Kiki-Jiki can't put out enough blockers to stop it hard.
>Duskmourn is a surprise enchantment set>the second enchantment land is in it>it sucksRooms look cool. Hopefully there's a playable Eerie card.
>>93777567>it's rareLmfao
>>93777567>Rare>It's a fucking rare
>>93777567I'm already seeing people not understanding Rooms, despite them being... Honestly kind of straightforward? The reminder text isn't the most clear, but it's hardly incomprehensible. People just make weird leaps in logic when it comes to, like, cheating them in. The most wonky thing is that copying one that's in play means you copy its locked/unlocked states. It's a very 'weird' type of mechanic, but I think it's fairly intuitive to understand besides some niche stuff.
>>93777567There are no words for how disappointed I am in this card.
>>93777567how is this a rare? wtf?
>>93777567>Ultra powerful demon land card>Hexproof>0 abilities>Rare card????????????????????
how good do you think deck thinning is in this game?
>>93777607>>93777613>>93777619tbf, it's not legendary even though it's clearly implied to be unique. so... it's got that going for it i guess?
>>93777626>0 abiltiesIt has two. hexproof and the color fixing
>>93777627There's a dozen reason fetches are good.
>>93777637Oh yeah? Name all of them
I didn't see a custom thread up, sorry if this is off-topic.Any thoughts on this custom card?
>>93777653Custom cards are always welcome here. The threads were too slow so we've kind of just migrated to talking about our sets in /mtg/ whenever they become relevant.First, get Magic Set Editor. It formats cards properly.As for the card, I like it.
>>93777567>pay hard earned cash for a pack of bloodborne>crack it>the rare slot is occupied by an unsharted haven
>>93777629Generate mana is hardly an ability considering is a land, the hexproof is more a keyword than an ability, hall of storm giants has a reason for the ward but this card is pretty meh for Valgavoth home.
>>93777567I don't think this would have seen any play even if it came in untapped. It's literally garbage unless we get a bunch of good land auras to stack on it.
>>93777688Keyword abilities are abilities. It says so right in the name.https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Keyword_ability
we lack the green and red ones but for now which one you think is the best? Goat with caretaker seems good
>>93777653Probably needs to not be able to exile Shapeshifters so two of them can't infinitely loop.
>>93777677Mirage Mesa, that's what I was thinking of. Thanks anon. >>93777567They literally just printed Mirage Messa but with a pointless Hexproof and at rare. I cannot possibly "Lol. Lmao." hard enough at this
>>93777696Ok 1 usseless ability is an ability i guess... Waste a rare apot on that shit is still a stupid decision
>>93777691If it came into play untapped it would be a 4 of in every 2+ color deck ever made because it would be a prismatic land with no downsideThis is the old problem of 5 color lands where taplands need to do more than just fix your mana to justify their huge tempo loss (ie manlands that also fix colors), because if all they do is fix colors than they're fucking garbageeven in a dedicated enchantment-matters deck this won't be worth its tempo loss in most casesthis seriously needed something like:>Valgavoth's Lair>Enchantment Land>Hexproof>As long as you control six or more lands, other lands you control are enchantments in addition to their other types>Valgavoth's Lair enters the battlefield tapped. As it enters, choose a color.>{T}: Add one mana of the chosen colorthere, fucking fixed it world tree style
>>93777650>Manafixing>Surveil lands>Treasure Cruise>Dig Through Time>Brainstorm>Wasteland>Wrenn and Six>Sensei's Divining Top>Death's Shadow>Surveil (keyword)>Explore (keyword)>Deck thinning
>>93777728We already have lands like that, and they barely see any play because they can only tap for one color at a time. It would be good in Standard and stop being relevant after rotation.
>>93777770surveil and explore don't care if you use fetchestreasure cruise and dig through time are both the same mechanic you can't list it twice
>>93777777heh
>>93777779And pathways saw plenty of play in standard and they only did 2 colors. An untapped choose-land would do all 5 colors, enabling greed piles even more than triomes did
>>93777567This is going to see play and everyone shitting on it will eat crow.
It's hilarious that Sunfall has been such a massive and omnipresent problem in standard And then they decided to print Split up lmao
>>93777712Wait, wouldn't I need a 3rd one to get them to loop? Wouldn't you need one on the field, one in exile, and one entering for the loop to start? I'll add non-Shapeshifter anyway.
>>93777782They let you shuffle an undesired card on top of your deck that you might not want in yard for some reason. I'll give you reusing Delve though so I'll say>Blood Moonbecause if it's not the first turn you can crack an open fetch for a basic (and if it's the first turn you Force it)
>>93776815>top 3 most kino decks of all time (objective list)1. Stasis2. Death & Taxes (60 card)3. Charbelcher
>>93777813how often is it ever relevant to shuffle a card back into your library instead of putting it into your graveyardI grant you there's some combo decks where you have a 1-of win condition you don't want to throw away but don't need to draw until your whole deck is gone, like thassa's oracleand I guess its +1 card in a mill matchupbut for normal decks its almost entirely irrelevant
>>93777809>>93777712Ah, I see it nowFigured out the problem, never mind.
>>93777669The fuck they are. Remake your own general and leave this thread for the actual game.
>>93777888We've done custom set drafts here sparsely for a long ass time.Look at me, we are /mtg/ now.
>>93777900Only when they're funnynobody wants to see your serious ideas for custom sets that will never be used in a game of actual magic
Tyvar spoiled by the Duskmourn story writer.
>>93777905>that will never be used in a game of actual magicMost of the people in /ccg/ draft with their sets.
>>93777909>it's been two weeks since I've seen an elf and so I'm no longer racist
>>93777888>Remake your own generalI haven't seen a ccg in over a month. They really aren't fast enough to sustain a general and there's not a lot of point in getting ruffled over the few times the topic comes up.
>>93777900I recommend the custom magic discord.They have an entire format called Revolution that has had years of custom setshttps://discord.gg/VM5Wpsfu
>>93777958>Discord Ew
Bros I finally found a good 2-drop Skeleton!
>lots of aggro 1 drop skeletons>3 drop skeleton is the most pushed tribal ever printed>2 drop skeletons are absolutely haraam and cap out at 2/1 menace
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/planeswalkers-guide-to-duskmournDuskmourn guide got updated.Origins of The House (entirely new)Basically Marina befriend the Valgavoth and lured her bullies to him. After their deaths people began disappearing. Marina threatened to burn down the house but made a deal with Valgavoth. Now she sees everything as it once was despite it no longer being true.ValgavothAs he grows older and more powerful, Valgavoth molts out of his older form and into a new, larger body. Some believe he's doing this because he's still trying to break the curse that tethers him to the House. Others believe that these molts are just the natural way that demons grow.Marina VendrellAs part of his promise to her, Valgavoth swore to restore the House to its normal state. Or rather, he restored her perception of the world, encasing her in a bubble of warped unreality that transforms the House wherever she goes so that she only sees a normal world, not the horrific environment it's become.CellarspawnCellarspawn have an innate connection to the House and an instinctual understanding of the House's geography. They can sense impending shifts to the House's geography and take advantage of them to spring surprise attacks upon survivors.Like other manifestations, most cellarspawn are unconsciously created by the House. The main exception to this are the overlords, which Valgavoth deliberately created to help enact his will and carry out occasional targeted campaigns of terror. There’s one overlord for each zone of the House.SurvivorsThe longer newcomers remain in the House, the more their memories of their home planes are altered, until they come to believe they've always lived in the House. They still retain memories and knowledge of other planes, but become convinced they learned it all secondhand.
why do reddit niggers always have to pretend something bad is actually a good thing
>>93778012Something between parasocial dependency and substitute tribalism in the absence of good culture.
>>93777567>Not a Mythic*snap*This one's going in my cringe compilation!
Some cute interactions I'm finding in search of Skelebrew fodder.
evens buy a tabernacleodds pay to fix my gf's car
>secret lair koma is misprintedThis game is a joke>Your upkeep>Each upkeep
>>93777018I don't think good guys torture wife beaters.
>>93778385this looks like pulp comic shit from the '70show old does wizards think its fanbase is? wtf?
>>93778385I find it truly fascinating how many misprints there are on Secret Lair cards.
>>93778390ICP has a tonne of music about brave hero vigilantes murdering evil wife beaters. He's probably just a juggalo.
>>93777909OG Ezuri is still better for elfball decks
>>93778396It's actually pretty relevant, horror anthology comics have been all over the place lately. Creepshow is about to start a third volume, they just put out two new EC titles, and Marvel just had an event with variant cover homages of Tales from the Crypt that were selling for $150.
>>93778396Tales from the Crypt is iconic enough that I imagine even zoomers would recognize it pretty quickly.
>turn 1 mistbreath elder>turn 2 hopeless nightmare, nurturing pixie picking it uphehe I'm in danger
Why is Fable still allowed in Pioneer?
>>93778568its a fair card
>>93776742the real answer is:>one of the card designers wanted those colours for his clown EDH deck
>>93778568Fable is a fair card and encourages slow formatsDegenerate formats end the game on turn 3. That's where pretty much every format is right now. Fable gives you a fucking grey ogre on the board on turn 3, its a 2/2 blocker until turn 4.Its not a 3 drop game ending avengers level threat like every other card needs to be now, where if you don't kill it immediately it kills you in 1-2 swings. Opponents curves 1 drop into 2 drop lord into adeline? Adeline will hit you for 2 damage on turn 3, then on turn 4 she's contributing 10-11 damage, next turn 13-15 damage. You don't have instant speed removal that kills an x/4 on the spot? Whoops you're already behind 2 life and a 2/2 token even if you untap and answer herFable and invoke despair being banned in standard when kumano, swiftspear, heartfire, slickshot all go unbanned is a joke. I have never felt like a fable deck stopped me from playing a game of magic
>>93778681>Fable is a fair card>Ramp>Hand fixing>infinite chump blockers>Haste enabler>FairFuck off retard.
>>93778681>>93778707should cost 2RR for how much value it provides
How is the game still so unbalanced, despite having a rotating format, that you can be infinite looped by people?
>>93778753awareness of infinite combos is a knowledge check
>>93777829It's still a benefit and in the context of fetches the cost for it is nonexistent, so it's still a legitimate upside. Besides I names 12 different ones some of them aren't going to be as good as others.
>>93778753Because unlike YGO, we don't get banlist updates that hit more than one card at a time. Most of the time we get 0 bans.
>>937768151. Astral Slide2. UG Madness3. Long.dec
>>93778753Because good design is bad business. Balanced cards don't sell as much as broken cards. Fixing broken formats decreases sales (in the short term). Cards blatantly meant for other formats draws more people to buy a given product.
>>93778793Have you heard the tale of Jace the Wallet Sculptor? It's not a story the Wizards would tell you.
>>93778817>Jace has now been powercrept out of every format he's legal inIt hurts so, so much to realize this.
>>93778681>>Fable is a fair cardOmega lul
>>93778792>Long.decwas that prosbloom?
>>93778707>>93778733There's no point at which fable either threatens to end the game, locks opponents out of the game, cheats in game ending threats or anything else to actually stop a game of magic in its tracks.All it does is provide incremental advantage. +1 ramp treasures, 2 card draw/discard, an incredibly slow kiki jiki.If a format is slow enough that fable can be a usable card than its a healthy format, that's just a fact. And thus, its a healthy, fair card. You know what would happen if you played fable on turn 3 in standard right now? You'd never untap on turn 4
>>93778753There is a financial incentive for Hasbro/WOTC to both print broken cards and to keep them in circulation. The only cards they do ban are the ones which are so format warping that they can't ignore the problem, like Nadu.What WOTC/Hasbro now has is an unstable growth that can only be sustained by continuing to print cards that are even more broken than their predecessors. This growth will one day hit its breaking point and kill its host for good. I can't say when the breaking point will come for sure. Every match in every format except standard right now usually ends on turn 3, yet it's still alive somehow.
>>93778842>There's no point at which fable either threatens to end the game>I cast Archfiend of Dross and copy it with my Kiki-Jiki>locks opponents out of the game>I use my Kiki-Jikis to copy blockers, block and trade with the copies and lose nothing.>cheats in game ending threats >I attack with the Goblin Shaman, making a treasure token, then use the treasure to cast....> or anything else to actually stop a game of magic in its tracks.See above.>All it does is (This giant list of things, each of which is incredibly good on its own)lmfao
>>93778853>Every match in every format except standard right now usually ends on turn 3Anon over here forgetting that EDH is the most widely played format
>>93778842>an incredibly slow kiki jiki.it's not exactly "slow" when stabled to the ass of a threat that immediately appears
>>93778842>There's no point at which fable either threatens to end the game, locks opponents out of the game, cheats in game ending threats or anything else to actually stop a game of magic in its tracks.if you flip two of them you can dump all your mana into one of them copying the other one on the opponent's end step then untap and swing for like 10. you can facilitate this by playing 4 of them in your deck and using the first one to dig for the second one.
>>93778867EDH is casual magic pretending to be a format
>>93778873You'll get no argument from me, but that's why the game isn't dying--the most widely played form of it isn't choking on the same shit. Competitive Magic hasn't been evaluated as a significant component of the revenue stream since Time Spiral block.
>>93777567The hexproof is basically necessary. The rarity is a huge mistake though
>>93778881>the most widely played form of it isn't choking on the same shitIt's getting pretty damn close even outside of EDH because even in that format the power level has been escalating a lot. I played against someone with a abzan counters deck who ran nearly the entire table over with like a 64/64 trampler not 5 turns in.
>>93778861>>I cast Archfiend of Dross and copy it with my Kiki-Jikiso at the earliest on turn SIX, with a combo requiring two different creatures to survive and can be stopped by ANY removal spell down to shock or cut down, you can use your kiki jiki to deal 6 damagebravo>>93778868the "threat" that appears immediately is a 2/2 that cost 3 mana, its about as threatening as grey ogre. It ramps you but it doesn't actually kill the opponentIts like you haven't even seen what actually degenerate cards do. Slickshot Showoff deals 20 damage on its own by casting random spells. Grief locks you out of the game before you've even played your first land. You didn't get down 2+ creatures to answer a Liliana on turn 3? She both softlocks the game state on her own and then ultimates to hard lock it.You want to pretend that a 3 mana card that just gives you a trivially killed treasure goblin and faithless looting before turn 6 is some broken busted format warping card meanwhile wizards printedlet me remind you this existsthey printedand again, for emphasis:TIME WALK FOR FOUR MANATHAT DRAWS 10+ CARDSIN COLORLESS MANA
>>93778894Even outside of cedh I meant.
>>93778895>so at the earliest on turn SIX....yes, and?
>>93778900and in busted formats the game is over on turn 1 and in standard its over on turn 3-4 and you're talking about a kiki jiki that only gets over its summoning sickness on turn 6 when your opponent somehow passed over it so mercifully it must have sacrificed a lamb and put blood on its door because you need to untap with a 2/2 exposed for a full cycle to do anything
>>93778910>and in busted formats the game is over on turn 1
>>93778838ProsBloom was an extended combo deck named for Prosperity and Cadaverous Bloom, also notably supported by Squandered Resources and Natural Balance.Long.dec was an early 2000's Vintage deck born from newly released Storm cards. It was widely regarded as the best deck ever created and was disgustingly consistent at turn 1 and 2 Storm kills. It used cheap fast mana in tandem with wishes, tutors, and draw 7's to power out consistent fast kills even in the face of interaction. Its the reason that Lion's Eye Diamond is an expensive card and still restricted in Vintage to this day, and the reason Burning Wish was formerly restricted. It is truly THE storm deck.
>>93778910>and in busted formats the game is over on turn 1We're not talking about those formats. Go away.
>>93776406Really good card. I want it.
>>93777567>>93777613>>93777616>>93777619>>93777626The reason it's Rare is because of limited. This set has Eerie, which is a slightly better Constellation, so being able to trigger it consistently just by playing a Land is probably considered too much. It's the reason MaRo previously gave for why there were no Enchantment Lands in any of the Theros sets.
i don't know how anyone can defend modern with a straight face
>>93779211Its a balanced format now that grief is banned
pretty sweet new rdw card got spoiled for dskshame that slickshot is like $10
>lolhe said, brewing his skeleton deck>lmao
>>93779200I can understand it being rare, I can't understand it being garbage.>But Constel-I mean Eerie triggers!Yeah, it would see play even if it was blank because it's a 0 mana enchantment, but putting Uncharted Havens in the rare slot feels insulting.
they should add in one pushed 2 drop just to troll you with it being a total nombo>Skeleton Mage {1B}>Creature - Skeleton Wizard>Deathtouch, Reach>Enchantments lose all abilities.>3/2
>>93779247>I can understand it being rare, I can't understand it being garbage.That about sums it up.
>>93777919Was Tyvar ever racist?
>>93779265
>>93779265>Enchantments lose all abilities.BRO, MY VALGAVOTH'S LAIR Es UNTAPPED NOW!!!!!!!!!!!
>>93779271nta but I cannot understand why they would print something that is mechanically just uncharted haven without giving it SOME fourth line of rules text, no matter how many hoops you need to jump throughthere are like 4 different uncharted havens legal in standard right now and the rare ones all have some extra exploitable utility that isn't just a type line. The common one is a desert.They haven't fucked up a design this badly since Battle for Zendikar where they just slapped "Devoid" onto random creatures as if it had any implicit gameplay impact and wasn't just a totally arbitrary typeline used in masturbatory parasitic designs as roundabout tribal fuckery
>>93777207that's about to change
>>93779306>nta but I cannot understand why they would print something that is mechanically just uncharted haven without giving it SOME fourth line of rules text,I mean fuckmake it a legendary land and it interesting. Enchantments don't tap. Make it like a Gemstone Mines, enters with 3 counters, can remove one per turn to add one mana of any color or some shit.What they did is just so shit lmao.You must understand. This land is literally THE ENTIRE PLANE and it's a pile of trash.
>>93776371damnation not in standard
>>93776698what a hideous game
no spoilers today?
>>93779285My understanding he was a bit of an elf supremacist and less than pleased about the whole 'elves losing their divinity' thing but that may have just been general braggadocio
>>93777567the art spoilers confirm a land cycle. not sure those will be enchantments, but I also don't see why this is
>>93779314I'd rather play squee, goddric, recruiter or forge than this. Hell I'd rather play magmatic sprinter to dodge sweepers
>>93779306It has Hexproof.
help
>>93779347It wins the totally irrelevant protection clause prize.
>>93779361>The knobs are stickers
>>93779361this frame is so ugly
>>93779374You don't understand! It's supposed to look like...um...we'll it gives the vibe of...it's kind of analog looking.
>>93779361this is a fucking ai generated image isn't it
>>93779389https://x.com/wizards_magic/status/1830019547975598364No
>>93779389don't believe your lying eyes
>>93779361Final Girl did it better
>>93779343cool, then do so
>>93779315>This land is literally THE ENTIRE PLANEno, it's not. It's one very specific part of the house.
>>93779431Yeah, the place where the demon who manipulates an entire plane lives. Imagine if Bolas's Meditation Realm was just a Shimmering Grotto
>>93779431>It's one very specific part of the house.>"So you own this mansion?">"Yes, but I only live in one room."Lmfao what a loser.
I do love most of mtg worlds but I do hate most of modern mtg stories.Wish I still had my rpg group active this way I could at least engage with mtg by DMing campaings based on a mtg-world. I will not support wotc by buying new cards. They have 2 jobs : make cards and make story for the cards.They can't even keep up with those 2 simple tasks, they don't deserve my money.
>>93779443it's where he retreats when he needs to heal or whatever, since the only person who knows the way is the leader of his cult. don't be retarded
>>93779480His safe space is an Uncharted Haven. That's embarrassing and makes him seem less threatening.
>>93779480>it's where he retreats when he needs to heal or whateverHow embarrassing.
>tfw playing sneak and show in 2024
>>93776742white makeup for the facered makeup for mouth and noset: wizards propably
>>93777905>sideboards are already in exile>commanders can be put back in the zone while changing>doesn't exile counters on players
>>93779621Sideboards don't start the game in the exile zone
>>93779628oh, well. the list goes on>doesn't exile dungeons, initiatives the bunch>doesn't exile companions from the zone
>>93777796It will see play in Standard as it puts Eerie on the stack without passing priority. The question is how many you run because I doubt you can justify 4 of them unless your payoff is something insane. I understand them erring on the side of caution with this typeline in this set, I just wish they didn't build the set around a mechanic that forces that. >>93779247>>93779271This. I guess it's a build-around because it's just bad without enchantment synergy so maybe I should be happy. Maybe it's a lot better than it looks and I'm just jaded.>>93779347>turn 1 get Sinkholedlol
oh sweet time to play a game of standard, a fun an interactive forma->opponent goes first>opponent turn 1 plains novice inspectoroh boys its my turn! better start out fixing my mana>me turn 1 surveil taplandokay I think I'll keep it on to->opponent turn 2 vantage demolition warden knight-errant of egos getting 2x recruiter
>Beanstalk draws a card when you flip Invasion of TolvadaCall it winmore at your own peril
>>93779340He probably thinks that elves are superior (which let's face it they kind of are), but that doesn't mean he hates "lesser" races. He gets along well with pretty much everyone that isn't trying to kill him. And based on his heroic attitude of running towards people screaming for help, he probably considers it the "elf man's burden" to help humans and other puny mortals.
>>93779664Yeah, the design is clearly awful and only serves to fuel eerie, which is its own parasitic mechanic.>We want a land that does the thing>Oh, but it has to fit in all colors>Oh, but being an enchantment makes it vulnerable >Oh, but being legendary makes it hard to run 4>Oh, but being common or uncommon would shatter limited>Oh, but being any color and being hard to remove means we can't put good abilities on it
>>93777157You must have been sick for years then.
>>93779736He just like me frfr
>>93777157They're just designing for Arena. That's the real issue. When BO1 Standard is your most played format, you start building for it. Which means aggro needs to be faster to get those dailies done. And if aggro is faster, then you need to be able to sweep faster and faster too so that aggro will scoop sooner and dailies get done quicker.
>>93779756
>>93779438you are comparing one of the most powerful beings ever, to a random servant demon who couldn't figure out how to break a basic binding
>>93779861>most powerful being ever>literally bound to a meditation plane for eternity>a basic bindinglmao
>>93779809if only arena had an entire format where all the for-arena designs go to
>>93779865yes, it's a basic binding. domestic, even. the people of what used to be duskmourn had basically demon-powered technology and advancement.
>>93779873what duskmourn used to be*
GIVE ME GREMLIN SPOILERS
>duskmourn>new mechanics are literally just manifest but also surveil 1 and constellation but also triggers on these extra meme cards
I have to admit, I like the setting despite the 80's anachronisms, I'm a sucker for giant worlds that are just a big househttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8U22dvli4w&(cool fake trailer)
>>93779939>I'm a sucker for giant worlds that are just a big houseCan you name 3 examples?
>>93779918You're forgetting about Impending and Survival.
>>93779944I mean, it doesn't have to be exactly the entire world, just so big that it's an entire setting-the town without streets (junji ito)-the dollhouse underground (alice madness returns)-probably dozens of SCPs and other creepypastas
>>93779736He just wanted the elves to regain their divinity so the shadow and wood elves no longer have a reason to fight. By become gods again they'll gain more power, freely travel between realms and properly reseal the demon realm.
>>93779974>suspend but you're on the battlefield instead of exile
>>93780048Having them on the Battlefield matters to lots of Enchantment matters abilities.
>>93779918>>93779974>>93780048Every new mechanic is just Kicker in the end.
>>93779974Survival is a non-keyword because it doesn't condense information. "If it's tapped during the second main phase, do a thing" but the "thing" is going to be different on all of these survival creatures. It's also a massive cop out, since the idea is that you survived combat, but any Survival creature with a good ability will get tapped manually to keep it safe and creatures with Vigilance can't Survival because they don't tap. It should say "if this creature attacked", but it doesn't for some strange reason.
>>93779974and Rooms
>>93780054yes yes we know the stupid joke
>>93776815>vintage doomsday>legacy doomsday>premodern doomsday
>>93780048way it's laid out the enchantment also does something, although so far it's only etb effects rather than continuous effects
>>93780067By this very same logic Landfall isn't a mechanic either.
>>93779974The DSK mechanics are trash. The only semi-interesting one is the room cards, but they have a ton of special rules garbage/baggage that players are going to get wrong for years.
>>93780288There's only 5 Impending cards and I think they're all Titan-style enter or attack things.
>>93780299what the fuck, are they retarded? why even have a new keyword in that case?
>>93780305Anon, at this point they don't care. If a designer thinks an idea is "really cool and TOTALLY fits the theme" they will do it regardless of the rules baggage or opportunity cost.
>>93780296>free rule enforcementarenachads win AGAIN
>>93780305Epic was only on 5 cards, too.
Escalate had 8 and was in one set only. It is fine.
Didnt blooomburrow just come out?Are we getting a set a month now?! Fucking wizards
>>93780385And we're getting Foundations soon after that. We won't know the full schedule for 2025 until October, but with at least 4 Standard sets, Final Fantasy, and Marvel, it'll probably be packed too.
HH unironically needs to be banned from Standard.
Would it really have killed limited if disguise had been just morph but costing 2 mana instead of 3
>>93780400>We won't know the full schedule for 2025 until October,Why though? Usually they made the announcements for the next year of products right before the first set of the new Standard rotation came out.
>>93780400Its getting to the point where I basically have to be testing new cards every time I play just to keep up with the release cycleThey must still be making money hand over fist this way, I wish we got one release a quarter
>>93780400The "Death Race" set will probably come out in January, right?
>>93776406Yuriko ninjas in edh is still fun
>>93780488late january/early february, yup
>>93778919word. i was thinking of when he meme'd mark justice with that long-con drain life bluff. pro magic was wild back in the day.
>>93780575>Yuriko>funNot really, in my experience everyone hates Yuriko so much that players tacitly agree to focus all of their ire and removal on the Yuriko player.
>>93780617In the ideal world where commander is played by people who don't get salty over everything, it would be fun.
I think restore balance is a fun and affordable deck in modern.
>>93780631>this deck would be fun if people had poor threat assessment
Why do you still play mtg despite wotc being greedy, agenda driven and not caring about the game and world they've made?
>>93780756I only spend what I make. So I've been playing for "free" for about 6 years and met some cool people.
>>93780209https://articles.starcitygames.com/magic-the-gathering/select/cataloging-my-work-on-modern-horizons-2/>we could've had modern doomsday
hmm
>>93780905Math nerds, does the Magus of the Moon flavor text mean anything?
>>93780332epic is the epitome of a gimmick keyword, impending actually has design space
>>93780923it's your mom's weight
>>93780923Seems like a simple A=01, B=02, C=03, etc. Too lazy to type it all into an encoder, first three words are "the blood moon". Note that they're using 0 and not 00 as space, which is kinda dumb.
>>93780923it's a substitution cipher;20 t08 h05 e002 B12 l15 o15 o04 d013 m15 o15 o14 n018 r09 i19 s05 e19 s
>>93780923yeah. just glancing at all those 15s tells you it is a simple substitution cypher, probably just 1=a, 2=b etc. can't be bothered.
>>93780905THE-BLOOD-MOON-RISES-THE-BLOOD-MOON-GROWS1-1 number substitution cipher with a lone 0 meaning a space. Not exactly a brain buster.
>>93779869Unfortunately no one wants to play that, even on arena, so they're forced to start putting them in paper so that arena players can experience the arena cards.
>>93776289>BansFuck i was away for a couple of weeks and this is what i see?Yes clearly Sorin was the problem, not that dogshit overtuned vampire card, which can be rushed out turn 4 without sorin anyway
>>93781293>people are still saying shit like thisI'd lol if it wasn't so sad
>>93779361Goddammit, I don't want a secret lair with cards I might use outside of commander. Don't make me buy four of these.
>>93780905Shame about the decent art trapped in the dogshit frame.
What the fuck is a room and how i unlock it
>>93781646... A room is an enchantment anon and you can unlock it fucking PAYING is not difficult...
What's the best deck in standard?
>>93781664Best performing or most fun to play?
>>93781664Domain, still.
>>93781680Best performing. I keep getting my shit pushed in with Gruul aggro because it folds to interaction and also BO3.
>>93781664The top decks are: Gruul, Domain Golgari and some forms of Convoke.
>>93781646It's pretty straightforward outside of some niche cases. You basically cast it like a MDFC, except once it's on the board you can pay the cost to get the other side as well.
>>93781664I gotchu g
>>93781723Yeah, the edge cases are cheating/flickering, in which case it's a nameless enchantment with no mana cost or abilities except to unlock the sides, and copying it while it's on the board, in which case the copy will have the same locked/unlocked state, and be able to unlock any locked doors still on the original.
>>93781744What makes this better than gruul?
>>93781744Ah yesRakdos Aggro
>>93781752Notice the lack of sideboard. He's playing BO1 in Arena lol.
>>93781752Splashing 2 extra colors is too much of a commitment for an aggro deck. Realistically you'd be dropping sell-sword to run audacity/druid/protection spells which is not worth it imo
doom foretold is now a mardu deck
>>93781811I'm so excited to sac this to cast Viper.
>>93781811This card is insane and I can't believe nobody cares about it.
>>93781811Is this the same company that nerfed phyrexian designs in order not to be boo hoo too scary?
>>93781849It's good, but I don't think it's insane, it's definitely a good signpost uncommon for limited.
>>93781870Signpost uncommons are pretty much always good for limited, that's the whole point.
I think they've actually pushed the powerlevel so high that they're going to be forced to make "BO1 Standard" its own format with its own bans. Which concerns me because then I think they become even bolder with their aggro design choices, knowing they can banhammer it from Arena without worrying about paper sales.
>>93781870Just think about chaining them together. How many cards are 2 mana for a 2/2 that draws 2? If there's any decent fodder or sac synergy in the set, this thing has a ton of value.
>>93781900As I said earlier, it's a signpost uncommon, meaning the whole theme of Black-Red in the set will be sacrificing creatures and Enchantments, so hopefully we'll get some good cards for the strategy.
>>93781900They've already shown the 1 drop that pings when it dies. Fear of Losing Teeth, I think. So Rakdos Sacrifice is definitely coming back.
Like look at this guy. You could get two sac targets or you could just swing in with your 1 mana 3/2.
>>93781947This guy already being played in Rottenmouth Viper decks makes so very sure Rottenmouth Sacdos will be a thing in Standard.
>>93781900>Just think about chaining them together.The card does nothing on its own and is a bad topdeck. It's only good if you have something else going on and the payoff, while advantageous, might not actually do enough to justify it in constructed
>up against Boros Tokens>he gives me a smug grin when he exiles my Vinereap Mentor and then plays a Caretaker's Talent>my fucking face when 5 turns later he sunfalls my board and then watches me reanimate 3 Rottenmouths, an Ygra, a Vinereap Mentor and a Lord Skitter while also milling him for 24 and then sacrificing them all on end step to mill him for another 24
>>93782080>an Ygra
>>93782080What format are you playing? Because it sure as hell isn't standard.
>>93780905I like Magus art.
>>93781041terrariakino
>>93782051There's enough cheap fodder in standard that it will never be a dead card.
>>93782118Are you questioning the card or the "an" instead "a". Because I pronounce it "Eegra", which would make it an "an".>>93782135I'm playing Standard lol. Two Scavenger's Talents on board fully levelled and then cast Lich-King's Conquest saccing all my foods and tokens to bring back a bunch of creatures after he swept.
>>93781811I wonder what the Red-Black draft archetype is gonna be
>>93781690I say go with Golgari. The meta shifts around a lot as people tune decks to answer whatever is most prominent, but The Rock has been consistently tier one or two and has a lot of choices that should let you build it to survive whatever new threats appear.
why every enchantment focused set seems busted?
>>93782186oh wait thats based>t1 nightmare, you discard and lose 2 life>t2 mirth, i sac nightmare scry 2 draw 2>t3 fable xD>t4 beseech the mirror, sac mirth, manifest dread, then i put sheoldred onto the battlefield from my library
>>93782245Interaction is trickier.
>impending>at the beginning of your end stepthe end step ruins it
>>93781864Yeah, and they also said they weren't doing any body horror in Duskmourn. WotC can't help but lie, even when it's exclusively to their detriment.
>>93782259
>>93782251Dead to aggro by turn 3
>>93782295>impending Nme when my opponent plays a mountain on turn 1
>>93782279Market research following the ONE/MOM showed people disliked the new design route.
>>93782245The enchantments are never busted, it's always something else.
This is my favorite swamp.
>>93782253this game has interaction?
>>93782306game has to visually appeal to """"everyone""""game design too hence why every deck basically plays itself
>>93782397This is my favorite Swamp
It seems to me that card shops would be prime targets for robbery. It's not as if MTG cards have serial numbers or any way to track them. Is it that criminals just haven't thought of it?
>>93782397I'd love this one if it didn't have the Weatherlight in the background
>>93782626Forgot pic, damn it
>>93780292Landfall is also a non-keyword. If I say "it has landfall" you still don't know what the card actually does, you only know that they will do it by playing lands. There are lots of good cards with Landfall abilities, but Landfall itself is a bad mechanic.
>>93782296i let domain kill the aggro decks by r3 and then clean up, or collude to ID r1 and dodge aggro in the draw bracket. do you even metagame?
>>93782637Yeah, that's what ability words are. They don't mean anything, they simply group effects with the same conditions to trigger.
>>93782716No, I just manaweave better than my opponent
>>93782718And that sucks. They write the entire effect on the card anyway, so there isn't any point in taking up more space with the ability word.
>the only skeleton in DSK is a shitty mill crab>"whenever you fully unlock a Room>fucking escape room cringeREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>Eerie"What if we made Constellation.... but power crept!?">Manifest dread>"What if we made Manifest.......... but power crept!?"
>>93782771>The only skeletonAnon, preview season hasn't even fully started.
>>93782770The ability word serves to make designs cohesive and allow mental shorthand. If I see something has a landfall ability, I know when and how it triggers even if I don't know what it does. That sort of batching is useful when dealing with complex cards.
So... Now that Norin is confirmed to be 200+ years old and also be a young sorcer player from new york... What other old characters should we expect to see coming back in future sets?
>>93782771Direct into my Pioneer UB mill. Lets make mill a thing bros.
>>93782851Norin was sent to the future during the time crisis instead of going back to his own time. It's established that things STILL do just turn up now and then on Dominaria, so Norin probably just showed up a year-ish or so back in-universe and wound up getting Duskmourn'd.
>>93780671Based balance chad
>>93782855>Direct into my Pioneer UB mill. Lets make mill a thing bros.Mill is one of my many ongoing brews. I don't run black though, what do you even gain for including it?
>>93782998Removal, counters like drown in the loch, interaction like thoughtseize, wraths like extinction.
>>93783017>Removal, counters like drown in the loch, interaction like thoughtseize, wraths like extinction..... but why though?I mean I get it, but you're trying to kill them, not durdle.
>>93783026The problem is in actual Pioneer there are things that can kill you by turn 3 like Humans, Gruul or Greasefang. Go with 0 removal, some good counters and one or two side sweepers as mill is a death sentence
>>93783050>The problem is in actual Pioneer there are things that can kill you by turn 3 like Humans, Gruul or Greasefang. Go with 0 removal, some good counters and one or two side sweepers as mill is a death sentenceCrab + Safekeeper block. Rebuke + Glacial Grasp for tempo (While still milling them).Easy one or two extra turns.
>>93780905Were all of today's reveals just reprints?
>>93780671List?
>>93782524I'm sure somebody has done it at some point. It's just that the kinds of people that commit robberies usually go for easier targets or for targets with more payoff.
>>93783411
I really want to see the rest of rooms
>>93782524They usually get caught. Stores have cameras. I manage a store and see the owners of others talk about it in retailer groups, they'll make a post with a list of what was stolen and the video footage telling people in the area to watch for them. Most of the time within a week they post an update about the person being arrested.
rooms are yet another mechanic that must be immediately evaluated for cascade/discover/etc shenanigan decksie carnosaur combo can't run anything with mana value 5 or less that doesn't chain molten duplication, so it relies on >channel>adventures>prototype>split cardsetcthis is basically split card 2 boogaloo, they have mana value equal to their combined halves so they'd get ignored by discover
>>93782524https://x.com/SportsCollector/status/1655363878862061569https://www.myballard.com/2024/02/22/police-recover-40000-worth-of-magic-the-gathering-cards-stolen-from-a-ballard-warehouse/https://old.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/1220oji/thieves_broke_into_my_local_gameshop_and_stole/happens all the time
>>93780209BasteVery humorous how Premodern DD loops Doomsday to re-pile 5 cards. I had no idea you could do that until I saw the list.
The Room frame is a fucking abomination.Rooms are a god damned fucking abomination holy fucking shit.
>>93783835It's closer to a regular split card than Adventures or fucking flip cards
Now that we're actually seeing the set.I really do not like DSK.
>>93783835It's kinda awkward flavor and would be hard to incorporate in any other plane but otherwise they're alright.
>>93783857In a fascinating twist that has experts baffled, nobody cares
>>93783835We only saw one but i already like a lot the mechanic and that art is superb. In fact with the amount of token support in White will be 100% a staple in Standard
>>93783857k.
>Ban 40% of the meta>the 2nd best deck is already 20% of the metaPioneer really is a garbage fire format, innit?
>>93783857Well I wasn't expecting them to print White Fatal Push and a 3 mana board wipe whose restriction is arguably an upside
>>93783919>whose restriction is arguably an upside... Split Up has a restriction?
>>93783932It could've said "Choose one or both" if WotC really wanted to see the world burn.
>>93783910they said in the B&R that they're ready to ban treasure cruise if necessary in december but the meta got a lot better, phoenix is a much better deck to have at the top than vampires or amalia
Split up is pure faggotry and if you ever play it you are a faggot too.
>Standard finally rotates out a bunch of cancer>immediately print a bunch of new rancid cancer right afterwardAbsolutely revitalizing
>>93783910Every format is a fucking FIRE format anon, are you new here?
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>>93779327You want to talk about a hidieous game how about a game where the devlopers are more interested in scoring political points than balancing their game/ That seems pretty disgusting to me or better yet how about a game where the art is ugly and stolen and sometimes even replaced with whatever idiotic youtube influencer paid them money, that seems far more gross and vomit inducing then whatever disgust you feel towards a dead game with nobody playing it anymore. Just saying maybe worry about the problems in this game than shitting on stuff nobody has played in almost a decade
