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>TqHaliya for white.
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>>96910780>TQProbably this guy.
>>96910780>This land enters tapped unless you control a basicI've been about this effect since the first one was revealed. I think with the incoming 2026 gigastandard with roughly legal cards (holy fuck) it's probably a good thing to have powerful effects with that specific drawback, just so that decks aren't entirely made up of Shocks, starting towns, multiversal passages, cavern of souls'es and so on.the most common build of 4c control runs literally one basic land (a plains), and the mana base is only going to get stronger next year with the rollout of the last five Shocks and whatever else gets released in '26. it just feels wrong to me to have land bases like that in Standard somehow.
Use case for this card being banned? It says right on the card to remove it from your deck if you're not playing for ante. No games are for ante anymore so the card itself bans itself.
>TQplaying one of the only fair modes on Arena (starting deck duels) made me very fond of this lady.
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>>96910871There might have been some tech by filling your deck with ante cards when you enter your deck list for a tournament, and then taking them out before actually playing. A blanket ban is just easier for everyone.
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>>96910912my beHATED
>>96910894That would not work because there is already a rule that a deck needs to be at least 60 cards. If you had to remove the Jeweled Bird it would make your deck illegal.>>96910888Checked, but Jeweled Bird's effect doesn't do anything if you are not playing for Ante.
>>96910815Was she the protagonist of edge?>>96910744>Cyberpunk is popular, right?And thus the end of the intelectual property and aesthetics of the game started. >>96910822>Actually !love jin the shin>>96910958>Checked, but Jeweled Bird's effect doesn't do anything if you are not playing for Ante.You do as much as you can with the card and its effects. If you are not playing for ante, and there is no ante then you are just drawing one card for free.
>>96910780When the shit anime slop will end i want real Magic, i wanna go to Lorwyn already…
>>96910780>TQdrew so many cards off this piece of shit in triple Mirrodin draft
>see the old mtg logo >damn I love magic>wonder what the games been up to in the last few years>oh>oh nooooooYou guys didnt vote with your wallets hard enough
>>96909604>I made this and managed to get through the spark rankings. I have access to the jump in events now but I don't see anything else so I'm assuming I still have to unlock it all
>>96911151I didn't think they could do it but wizards actually managed to make magic worse than modern yugioh.
>>96911151nooo you don't get it, I should be able to proxy all my cards and have wotc cater to me personally
>>96911151I have. I haven't played paper magic since the OG Zendikar.
>>96911151Last time I paid WOTC for product was the Capenna prereleaseAll I've bought since then is singles from the preowned chaff box>>96911163I'm not sure I'd go that far, Yugi just emergency banned 15 cards and then another batch right after that. It's so bad TCG is switching to a point-buy format.
>>96911151I voted with my wallet but it seems Treekies and TMNt fans have bigger wallets according to WotC, Killing Magic must be a low price for their money
>>96911187>It's so bad TCG is switching to a point-buy formatNo they're not, thats an entirely different format
>>96911187>emergency bannedonly floodgates which people have been asking to be banned for yearsyugioh physically has been in a great state for the last few months but it's basically unpayable outside of OCG because of jewnami refusing to print it in its actual intended price range of like $20-$50 a box with low rarities and master duel taking a literal year to only add a second t1 deck to the format
New monk's fist variant.
Spiderman and Vivi from Final Fantasy linked up to finally kill Magic the Gathering. Need it or keep it?
>>96911316I'll still never forgive them for not adding anything cool to the monk's fist, unlike every other fucking job select.
Standard is really bad for new players to get into the game with.Next year there will be almost 20 sets in Standard. A new set comes out every 2 months and has 1-2 new mechanics. This shit is exhausting.I don't think Magic gets new players unless it's some entrenched player introducing the game to his kids.
>>96911187>I'm not sure I'd go that far, Yugi just emergency banned 15 cards and then another batch right after that. It's so bad TCG is switching to a point-buy format.I fail to see how it is bad. MTG since 2018-2019 has had plenty of broken cards being released annually. The first few years they banned the troublesome cards but after 2023 they just stopped banning things. And I m not saying things in eternal format but instead things in the flagship format (Standard).Before if a deck was close to 40% of the meta (and winning tournaments) they would look around and ban something from it to make the other decks able to compete.Standard right now is so miserable that people are going to commander and modern...
>>96910980>Was she the protagonist of edge?One of them. There were basically 3 main parties (Sami & Tannuk, Haliya and Alpharael) that coalesced together. Her whole thing was a big giant crisis of faith because she couldn't reconcile horrible atrocities being done in the name of her faith. Also like 50/50 she wants to fuck Alpharael.
>>96911458>Also like 50/50 she wants to fuck Alpharael.BLEACHED
>>96910780>TQWho's going to attack a guy that is helping everyone?
>>96911458I think it was a joke about independent black woman being protagonists on tv series.(if she was lesbian it would be a combo)
>>96911229>Star trekI wonder if they're going to have literal screenshots for some bullshit collection again. God the screenshot cards for Avatar look like fucking shit. What the fuck were they thinking?We're basically at the level of just basic fucking star trek cards now. Fuck WoTC!!!!!!!!!!!
>>96911568>I wonder if they're going to have literal screenshots for some bullshit collection againLike they did with Avatar and FF? Perhaps they take photos of the comics to use on cards as they did on Spider man.They could also pay to use those high detailed arts that are around for ST (It would be hilarious if they take screen shots of the netflix animation that nobody likes)
The worst part isn’t the poisoning of Magic with UB. The worst part is waiting for however many years until investor scalpers get bored and eventually move on to another TCG or hobby and Hasbro is left holding the bag and finally faces the music of abandoning their customer base, while desperately trying to win them back with overpriced boxes with fewer packs. Until then enjoy the ride.
>>96911584>It would be hilarious if they take screen shots of the netflix animation that nobody likesDon't give them ideas. Nothing WoTC do at this point will surprise me, just continue to disappoint and appal me. They have completely fucked the game with UB and it will only get worse.
>>96911470>Doing this after already writing a story where a monstrous assassin who previously hated a white man (Jace) is utterly charmed by his BWC and gives everything for himDangerously based
Human Scout AllyWhenever this creature or another Ally you control enters, gain 1 life. If this the second time this ability has resolved this turn, draw a card.
>>96911156yeah keep doing the onboarding quests if you care to collect some freebies. eventually you should get a free token for quick draft iirc
>>96911617You know, there's two instances of an assassin getting pseudo-romantically involved with a nerdy blue mage. Jace/Vraska and Proft/Etrata. It's a tried and true method apparently.
>>96911446it was fine in draft especially in White thanks to artifact/equipment synergies.>>96911447I'm telling you guys wotc needs to make Set Constructed a thing
>>96911641You know, they had block constructed for a while, but now without blocks of any sort the most they could do would be to group the most recent three sets together for an equivalent... which is just a form a standard. >>96911632Unironically, WOTC needs to do more stories/cards where nerdy white male characters (aka a stand in for the majority audience) seduce/are loved by exotic, powerful women.
>>96911649Proft is kinda based because he's just a Sherlock Holmes ripoff and Sherlock was an autistic chad.I never liked the Jace/Vraska romance because Jace acts like a simp faggot during that whole thing.
>>96911651I mean, he DID lose all his memories- on Ixalan, Vraska was the highest authority he knew at the time.And considering the last time they met she was trying to kill him, that's pretty good
What kind of shenanigans can I do with a 0/30 wall?
>Eugene, a man denied gay dragon sex JACE HOW DARE YOU TRY TO INTERRUPT MY RITUAL MATING PRESS WITH UNIVERSE BEYOND SLOP
>>96911679They went too far in making him subservient to Vraska. I never liked edgelord Jace but from Ixalan onwards he's like reddit beta Jace and it's just as bad, in a different direction.WotC's character writing is peak millennial because everyone either stands around like a cuck taking orders, or they are le MCU badass quipping and killing everything in 1 hit, and sometimes it's both, with a character switching back and forth between this shit with nothing in between. People writing for this game are in their 30s and 40s and they fucking suck.This game used to have actual writers commissioned to do full novels for fatpacks...
>>96911705Bant Control with fogs and Slaughter the Strong and your win condition is Assault Formation/High Alert with a single Tetsuko Umezawa/Artful Dodge.
>>96911649>now without blocks of any sort the most they could do would be to group the most recent three sets together for an equivalent... which is just a form a standard.They don't even need to do that, though. Foundations + 1 set has 777 cards which is more than any 3-set block had. That would be a fine format for small events with LGS prize support. Shit, MTGO had Block dailies even at the start of blocks at which point they only had a single set released.Even if we jettison FDN from the equation, today's sets have about the necessary amount of playable rares and power level (FIRE design!!) so as to rival entire old blocks, maybe excepting Spider-Man which was an obvious fuckup in that respect. It's no longer the case that sets are released with the expectation of fully exploring their themes and mechanics in layer, connected sets, so they should all be able to stand alone, theoretically.I know I'm talking into the wind here and nobody at WotC is reading /tg/ for ideas. But it just seems really important to me to have a functional on-ramp. The gulf between the lowest buy-in (which is draft/pre-release sealed) and the very next step up the competitive chain (which today is Standard) has never been wider. Like if you played at your LGS every single week for EoE, then you probably opened about one booster box's worth of cards, right? And, not kidding, by the math, you probably would have opened like 0-2 Standard playable spells in all of those packs, plus some Shocklands. The card collection aspect could be so much more enticing than it currently is.
>>96911619>create a mutavaultAre you ready for bullshit on standard?I can totally see this being played, not that it is good but because it will be easy to trigger.
they just can't help themselves breaking standard every time
>>96911852Prowess is just as bad as Storm at this point
>>96911852Shouldn't the guy in the background be doing the uuuoooh?
