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>>97020588>TQInsane amounts of soul
>tq
>>97020595rip soul sisters
Thread Question
> TQA good amount of pauper's balance is reliant on this card's ability to cuck red decks
>TQTwilight Prophet, easily
ATLA status?
>>97020629Badgermole Cub guilty of several warcrimesfun limited environment
>>97020634>fun limited environmentThe only thing that matters, ATLA won
>>97020639well it's day 2. we'll see if Fire Nation Cadets goes too crazy and makes it cancerous, I don't have my eye on many other cards. but it's all told a high synergy set where a lot of archetypes sort of bleed into each other and the decks you can build go beyond just choosing the card in your color pair that's best in a vacuum
>>97020652>a high synergy set where a lot of archetypes sort of bleed into each other and the decks you can build go beyond just choosing the card in your color pair that's best in a vacuumSo yeah, ATLA won
>>97020629Still shitbrewing Grixis midrange. Been trying instants with different modes for flexibility. When the stars align, Azula is rather busted.You don't have blockers? Then Azula attacks for 4 + 2 + 2 and discard 2 with KCom.Warp in the Riddler. Azula copies Three Steps and you get draw 3 and 8/12 flying power on the field for for 6.
Hey everyone, I would like to say that Momo, Friendly Flier is my Brawl Commander. I was a prickly pear about this Avatar set, but I eventually found something to like. I brewed a pretty sweet deck and did not just copy/paste an entire decklist, which is uncommon for me. If one person replies positively I will post the decklist. Thanks for reading my post /tg/, and have a wonderful day.
>>97020672azula is so fucking hot jesus christmagic is saved, bros
Oops!
>>97020688>all it takes to be hot is a girl making eye contact with youwew
>>97020744not so fast!
the powercreep will continue until the game improves
>>97020760>not even using the right green creature
>>97020760>>97020769Nothing bothers me more than powercreeping shit like this in a ub set
I stay at 7
>>97020760That's worse though. Brontodon was playable because it's a 3/4 body for 3 even when you don't need to destroy something.
>>97020760>>97020769
Stop lusting after evil psychotic teen girls.
>>97020604I love this little nigga like you wouldn’t believe
>>97020818this is not even close to being a 1:1 comparison
>>97020819No.
>>97020864Holy shit they are ugly
>>97020849yeah it's even better
>>97020928it costs 2x as much mana anon, it better be better.
>>97020940if you play and sacrifice it in the same turn it costs the same, plus the human has flash
>>97020944>if
>>97020897Get fuuuucked!
>>97020949>I need to remove an artifact/enchantment on turn twohopefully opponent does not have removal on t1 or you don't play a taplandat least brontodon and the cathar have better stats
>>97020959>vampire on the left with the third eye and the one on the right with an eye on her chestholy AI
>>97020976emrakul's tentacles typed this post
>>97020976yeah why would there be weird body parts in the block that was about eldritch monstrosities?
So I bought a couple boxes of Avatar Jumpstart packs so I can teach new people how to play. Today I realized I don't know anybody I can teach how to play. Do you guys know how to find new people who I can help learn to play?
>>97020760POWERFULWHITECARDS
>>97021051maybe check with your local game store if they want to set up an event where new players can learn MtG
>>97021061Everybody that goes there already learned how to play though...
>>97021078maybe check other stores.
>>97021078Maybe speak with the owner and you can organize a event for newcomers.
can I see other cases of strict upgrades over the years?
I've just heard they functionslly changed some old cards to make them easier to use on a computer.Do we know how much money does Arena/MTGO make to warrent cucking the real game for them?
>>97021238source? what cards?
>>97021223naturalize has been seeing a lot of strictly better iterations
>>97021251https://gatherer.wizards.com/ZEN/en-us/178/rampaging-balothsRead the new oracle text. They removed the "May" from the ability, just so you don't have to click Yes/No on Arena.This is a small, but nerf, since simetimes you get punished for having more creatures/creatures enter
>>97021269still says may on my machine
>>97021223
>>97021261also
>>97021287nvm had to hit the oracledamn son, that actually fucking sucks. >reading the card does not explain the cardone job wotc. ONE JOB!
>>97021269>just so you don't have to click Yes/No on Arena.anon there's a yield all option. There has to be another reason. >some shit dev forgot his triggers and changed the rules over it
will chocobo boosters be sold separately or is the chocobo bundle the only way to get one?
what formats are actually fun to play in paper these days?
>>97021269This is exactly the kind of thing that validates my hate for wotc. It's like they don't even understand their own game anymore.
Shit designers only powercreep. Good designers make new archetypes and good mechanics.
unbans when
>>97021591What if i use the 1st ability when jeet isn't attached?
>>97021591After playing canlander for a few months, I never want to see this card again. Go and stay gone forever.
>>97021288Look at the rumble arena bro.
>>97021610it would be extremely painful
>>97021621No.
>>97021436Cube, sealed, draft, Dandan, kitchen-table, some random house-rules format only played by you and your friends.
>>97021436Jumpstart is fun
>>97021610you just lose the counter
>>97020588>TQ
anyone got a gramgram/accumulated brew?
>>97021436draft, cubepauper even
>>97021610you get to boost any creature equipped with anything
>>97021733I like her big sister
>>97020588>a gear sticking out of a jello mold really stretches the mind to imagine what future cuisine is like, eh?
>>97021734I can steal an izzet build from a streamer if you'd like. otters bounce I think
>>97021736The ability can be used any time Umezawa’s Jitte’s controller has priority — only the “target creature” choice has additional requirements. Choosing the “Equipped creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn” mode does nothing if the Jitte isn’t equipped to a creature when the ability resolves.
>>97021776does the +2/+2 stick on the jitte, like if you equipped a creature with it after activation then that creature gets the +2/+2
>>97021798no it has to be on a creature when it resolves
Why was return to new phyrexia such a flop?All the art is less cool.All the mechanics are lame and watered down.They even put normal and phyrexain mana together in card costs like some 12 year old making custom cards
>>97021842Don't forget that the story was total shit.
>>97021847Well yeh, but that's becasue they removed the block format in favour of 1-off sets, so it all got 1-shot Wakanda-ed in MoM
>>97021842>They even put normal and phyrexain mana together in card costs like some 12 year old making custom cardsFOEGOD REDEEMED
how long until a Foegod UB?
>>97021877In the era of makng every card text as shotrened as possible, why did WotC remove the "ublockable" keyword?
>>97021917>why did WotC remove the "ublockable" keyword?I believe because it was too rare to really be keyworded.
>>97021387I'm pretty sure it's the second option.
>>97021436Pauper, draft and cubeModern too, in certain doses
>>97021906He should have the following instead"God creatures lose indestructible and hexproof."
>>97021977Anon.You do not correct Foegod.Foegod corrects you.
>>97021877NIGGA THATS NUTS
>Foegod mentioned
>>97020588Ok so why the are all life counter die black now? I remember back then when I stopped playing (Tarkir) we got a myriad of color combinations. Wtf is the reasoning behind this one?
>>97022017>Ok so why the are all life counter die black now? I remember back then when I stopped playing (Tarkir) we got a myriad of color combinations. Wtf is the reasoning behind this one?Reducing production costs.Money, anon.It's WotC. The answer is always money. Except when it is incompetence and stupidity. But even then, it's usually stupidity motivated by money.
playpremodern
>>97022050buyan ad
>>97022050WHERE NIGGA>?!
>>97021917Because it wasn't a keyword.
>>97022021And they faced no backlash or did they just shrug it off?
>>97022111>And they faced no backlash or did they just shrug it off?It was a long time ago. There was backlash but it wasn't big enough to matter since that was long before DFCs and text bloat.
>>97022121>long before DFCsDFCs were before Tarkir.
>>97022136I mean DFCs as an excuse for complexity creep.
>>97022017>Ok so why the are all life counter die black now?You know it
is quantum riddler really a 40 dollar card?
>>97022213The digital version on MTGO was going for $170 a couple weeks ago. Its seeing lots of play in modern.
>>97022253I played against it a couple of times, it's not a terrible card but I don't know if it's a terrible good card either. I beat that jeskai blink deck with a shitty mind crank combo deck. Looking at mtgo top8 its not in a huge amount of decks either, its not exactly snapcaster mage which was 40 bucks for a good reason back in the day.
>>97022213Yes, but what I can't understand is Wan Shi Tong being the same price.
>>97022290correction: it IS in a huge amount of modern decks, idk why it fetched me only 5 pages of decklists this morning. Its like 10 times that now.
>>97022292that's a wait a week situation, supply has not caught up with demand
>>97022292Brand new cards are almost always overpriced because everyone is still trying to get the new set.
Dear citizens......
>>97022403THATS ME!IM A CITIZEN!
>Tales of the success of Magic: the Gathering’s Final Fantasy set may sound greatly exaggerated, but they are not. It was the fastest-selling Magic expansion ever, to the point that distributors and retailers experienced significant product shortages.>To wit: A Final Fantasy collector booster currently sells for over $120 at tgcplayer.com, and a collector box goes for over $1,300. Those resale prices pale in comparison to the news that dropped some days ago from Hasbro’s Q2 financial results: Magic: the Gathering - Final Fantasy produced over $200 million in revenue in just one day, the owner of Wizards of the Coast said. The record was previously held by The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth set, which took six months to reach that number.Ughhh, and /tg/ still complain that Wizards of the Coast are woke and gonna go broke?
>>97021842>They even put normal and phyrexain mana together in card costs like some 12 year old making custom cardsThis literally is the only way to make Phyrexian mana fair though. If you don't put in the color pips it might as well not be there
>>97022808They should have changed phyrexian mana to 3 life. And if that wasn't enough, 4 life, then 5, etc.
>>97022822That's retarded and doesn't change the fundamental problem with it, that being that any color can pay life.Anyone can shove Mutagenic Growth or Gut Shot or Git Probe in their deck. That's the fucking problem, the mana pips are free. Simply putting normal mana pips alongside the Phyrexian ones and treating Phyrexian mana as a discount (because it is) was always the way to go.
>>97022822Erratas should be kept to a minimum and only on cards that are outright nonfunctional.
>>97022715There's literally zero chance of them going back on UB after this, they can tank 10 flops like SPM in a row if it means getting a chance at another LOTR and FF.
>>97022829what about phyrexian mana being relegated to colorless?So you have to pay the colored portion of the cost but can pay the colorless portion for life?and yes, that would mean a card costs something like1UUU (phyrexian 1)instead of3U (phyrexian U)
>>97022845That's basically a different mechanic and the cards would need to be cartoonishly overcosted because, again, everyone can pay life; it'd be Delve but even more busted.The thing they did was the best approach; Phyrexian mana only goes on abilities (meaning you need to pay the creature's own cost fair and square) and compleated planeswalkers where paying the Phyrexian mana makes the card worse as compensation for the reduced cost, meaning it's reverse kicker. It's fine, it avoids all the problems, and it makes sense in the new context.
>>97022845>So you have to pay the colored portion of the cost but can pay the colorless portion for life?What could go wrong with a card where you can skip the colorless part of it, I wonder?
>>97022875>>97022891ok yes I forgot about the colossal fuckup of shit like delvemy bad
>>97022842That's probably their strategy. The paypigs will buy any flop slop; meanwhile, you can reserve all your capital not on investing in good sets every set, but by acquiring IP for another explosive franchise media crossover, like Star Wars MtG or Alien MtG or Cormac McCarthy MtG
It's called a Non-Disclosure Agreement, you little chuds. And WotC aren't going to let the cat out of the bag by telling some ugly neck beards like you that they're in negotiations with Disney for a Predator Badlands set!
>>97022901Can't wait for The Judge to be blacker than a stolen EBT card
>>97022901>Cormac McCarthy MtGThat would go crazy I must say.
>>97022989>the incarnation of primordial violence is blackFitting.
>>97023001You're right it would never happen
>>97023001I mean primordial violence is more gruul or monored then anything
This card is fire with firebending and firebending student especially. Too bad standard is too fast to enjoy such neat interactions
>>97023120I think the more relevant aspect is that it's not legal in standard.
>>97023144Didn't even notice despite drafting it. Well, if it was it wouldn't see play
>>97022829There's a breaking point somewhere. No one is gonna pay 20 life for gutshot.
>>97021269DM'd you the fix.
Open up X bros
>playing modern FNM at my LGS, which allows proxies due to current MTG's retarded single prices.>Shuffle and present deck to my opponent. >lose the dice roll, op goes on the play>T1 play picrel.What do?
>>97023334keep in mind not to shake opp's hand after the match
>>97020588I finally got a chance to draft ATLA and holy shit, these cards feel power crept. Half the set is run of the mill draft chaff that I wouldn't blink twice at but some of these uncommons are fucking scary.
>>97023334Concede out of respect. Then bust out my fully blinged out futa proxy deck.
>>97021269I ignore all errata except that designed to make cards functional under basic game rules. And companions. I'm not just gonna let a corporation that doesn't care about the game anymore to tell me which cards I'm allowed to play as written.
>>97023179Yes but by then the cards are unplayable. If you want to errata them into being nonfunctional just ban that shit nigga
>>97021436Draft, cube, kitchen table, custom jumpstart decks.
>>97021436draftsealedpremodern if you can find peoplemodern is kind of a 50/50 between the most boring shit on earth and a pretty fun match can highlander is pretty fun as well if you can find people
>>97023466If 2 is too little and 20 is too much, then there is clearly a point in the middle where there is actually a decision on whether it's worth it to pay the mana or the life.
>>97021766sure
>>97021304Not on arena, it's the same reason they changed Ajani's Pridemate.
>>97021917Unblockable was never a keywordIndestructible wasnt either.
Wtf prof donates to tr*ns charities
>>97023685Get over it chud
>>97023665>Indestructible>A keyword ability that precludes a permanent from being destroyed
>>97023639The problem with Phyrexian mana has never been whether or not it's a valid decision to pay the cost, it's that the goddamn cards can slot into every deck because every deck starts with 20 life. It's a deck homogenization and color pie problem.Also, going back and errataing a whole mechanic into being completely different is retarded.
All you FOMO-driven whales are trying to slurp up the best cards, meanwhile I am having the time of my life playing penny dreadful games with poverty-stricken homeless people
>>97023639Then they should make a different mechanic to try that out. Erratas must be reserved for cards that are nonfunctional or rules problems.
>>97023639The cards were strong because they cost 0 or 1 mana. If you make it 4 life or something like that, git probe might not be busted anymore but now other phyrexian cards are completely unplayable, including any more you might print in the future.
>>97023743The issue isn't with the mechanic itself, it's just the usual balancing itself. WotC is just spectacularly bad at making cards that are good but not busted or constructive playable without being draft chaff. Just look at Station for the opposite example.
>>97023763Yeah, exactly. No reason to emergency errata the mechanic when there's plenty of cards that work fine with it.
>>97023659yes on arena, if you have multiple triggers on the stack there's literally a button that says "Yield to all"I use it all the time with my brawl deck
>>97023729Hey! I'm not homeless, I'm just terminally Dutch.
>>97023763No, the mechanic itself is broken because the fundamental concept of it is that you can pay life to ignore mana pips, an inerently broken idea.
>>97023875my bad it says "Resolve all"
>>97023902>the entire philosophy of Black is an inherently broken idea
>>97023902You're "ignoring" the mana pips if the cards were properly tuned. Say >Act of Aggression>2R(R | 2 life)>Instant>Threaten target, it gains trample until end of turnIf you pay the 2 life then it becomes an Act of Treason (still 3 mana total) with minor upside. It is still strictly a red card.Here's another example they tried, which again works perfectly fine (i.e. quite underpowered).Of course, this won't sell packs so instead of designing smartly we have shit like Gitaxian Probe.
>>97023923>no handsHow does he even Grisel him brand?!
>>97023945Being the incarnation of no nut november is a pathway to many abilities some might consider ... unnatural
ahhh, yes, lorwyin
>>97023927Compleated is an attempt to sidestep the idea by making the card shittier if you paid the price (meaning it is no longer being ignored) and even then, the compleated cards all have heaps of mana pips you *can't* ignore meaning you'll be paying a big price regardless.>>97023923Yes, giving every color access to black mechanics is broken as fuck by nature.
>>97023953>black is the only color that pays life to do thingsyou can shitpost better than that, anon
>>97023959It's not "paying life for things" it's "pay life to tell the color pie to go fuck itself"
three lands btw
>>97023951Some dogs are doggos, some are puppers.
Shadowmoor pack wars is live on MTGO.
>>97023951Half the art is great and the other half is either bisexual lighting or a Kincade painting.
>>97023951Why in the actual fuck they made Nu- Lorwyn so GODDAMN GAY, man? What the hell is going on here?
cheapest way to give my waifu haste?
>>97024150They based it on Romantasy to bring in the female audience.
>>97024244Cunny cunny cunny cunny cunny chameleonnnnYou're a pedoooooYou're a pedoooooooooo~
>>97024244Your waifu is a slut who loves goblin dick
>>97024150Sorry, can't have nice things. Everything must been gay.
>>97024244This one also gives a nice +4 power
premodern
>>97024244>loli>wants to be pumpedWhat did WotC mean with this?
This draft is fun, but feels B's and flyers are the best
>>97020588>"wait, are you telling me a shrimp fried this rice?"
>>97021917They had been printing more effects like "Can't be blocked by creatures with power 2 or less" and the like, and wanted to standardize the formatting with conditional and unconditional evasion.
>>97024511Anon, shrimp don't fry rice.
>>97024016>Half the art is great and the other half is either bisexual lighting or a Kincade painting.No all the art is awful. The aesthetic of the plane is just totally dead, it's fucking shit.;
>>97024247>to bring in the female audience.SURELY THIS TIME IT WILL WORK
How complicated should individual cards be?
There's really no escaping this fucking game this year huh
>>97024816Don't they sign NDAs so they don't reveal if there was going to be a "collab" (read: corporate incestuous orgy)
>>97024244Tried to give her a sukumizu with IA, this is as far I could go before it refuse to go further.
Ally standard deck is fun
>forced into mulligan>draw 2 spells and 8 land>draft run is over, -1500 gemsI'd have shot my hapless shitter opponent in the head if he were in the same room as me a
>>97024800>First Strike instead of Double StrikeGarbage
Divide by Zero is so sick now
>>97020588>TQhttps://scryfall.com/card/m12/24/lifelink
>>97024800not the craziest t3 play, but kinda ridiculous that it barely sees play
I want to try Pauper on MTGO. The decks are cheap to rent from Cardhoarder. Is the format fun?
>>97025124They just banned the solitaire deck so you dont have to watch some fag jerk off for 10 minutes doing their loops. That said, I hope you love seeing Jund Wildfire, Affinity and blue based Tolarian Terror decks all day
>>97023927so how did tamiyo get compleated and then un-compleated in the end again?
>>97025124Yeah it is. There's tons of decks you can play that stand up to the meta, it just can be hard to brew since the format is somewhat high power.Some of my recent favorites have been black sack and this token deck: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/7386951#paper
>>97025319Tamiyo died by getting oneshot.
>>97024673>>97025107Shrimp fry ricehttps://youtu.be/1U0M7twGsaw?t=23
>>97025215>>97025335Is Dimir Faeries fun? It looks fun.
>>97025672yeah and probably gets better with this new avatar card having infinite synergy with sneaky snacker
>>97024903thanks for reminding meI need to buy a playset of every learn card on MTGO
>>97025682Why does fairy eating things interact with card draw (clue abiity) and not life gain (food ability)?
>>97025762because drawing cards is blue and gaining life is not
>>97025762Because her return has been drawn out in time due to gluttony.
Avatar draft is kind of fun...
Avatar draft is kinda dogshit, I love losing to bonus sheet bombs
>>97024247>>97024679>it's episode where big corporation tries to chase new untapped audiences
>>97025833Why did you let your opponent get to 7 mana?
>>97025950Bombs are 3-4 mana
>>97025956Right, sorry. That clone in the bonus sheet really fucks the draft environment up, huh?
>>97025982Some cards are just megapushed
>>97022292People are trying to get 4 copies for vegas and they haven't opened enough.
>>97025982Just wait until your board gets hit by a blasphemous act
i cant stand avatar bros…
>>97026167Stop playing commander
Is there a place that's kind of like a decent repository of custom cards (text, not reskins) to browse?Quick context is that my TCG group has a christmas party and we want to pit autistic customs against each other in a voting game for fun IE pull up a random card and vote for which custom would have the best synergy with it. Google images isn't cutting it for me though.
>>97025873>Finally audience the fabled female audience>Look inside>Woman (male)>Woman (male)>Woman (male)>The list goes on...
>>97024247>They based it on Romantasy to bring in the female audience.WHY NOT MAKE A NEW PLANE THENWHY DO YOU HAVE TO RUIN A CLASSIC PLANEJUST MAKE A NEW FUCKING PLANE
>>97024150>Bolas gets free>Plane turns gayGee, I dunno anon.
>>97024247>romantasywe getting a milking farm monster fucker set?
I can't believe we're at the point where pic related is considered the standard for filler creatures.
>Add "Power 4 or greater" mechanic to seven different sets in Standard>Print zero (0) playable creatures with power 4 or greaterlmao
>>97026449The gay dragon just got loose, so...
>>97026449>>97026511BOLAS'S MASSIVE COCK HEAD COMETH
>>97026453A year back I watched a Goldfish podcast where they talked about how 4 cmc is the most expensive creatures can get, like that's the point you play a bomb. Now it feels like we are at the point where 3 mana is bomb category
>>97026525>Now it feels like we are at the point where 3 mana is bomb categoryPretty much. Most 3cmc creatures either have to basically win the game by themselves and by you a coke at the same time these days.
>>97026453Seems like a pretty normal uncommon for the last maybe 6 to 9 years to me.
>>97026538>2cmc growing threat with strong tempo keyword>Replaces itself on deathBro that thing is fucking cracked beyond anything that is even remotely acceptable.You're just shit at card assessment because you're a zoomer.
>>97026547Oh a 2/1 that gets a counter every turn or so how will i possibly handle this overwhelming threat
>>97026574>"Bro it's not broken because all this shit is broken too!"What the fuck even is the point you're trying to make?
>>97026574Anon, every creature being "answer this or fucking die" is bad. Both that dog and that drake showcase terrible game design choices jotc are making.
>>97023951If this is a dog elemental and none of the bug-like elementals are insects, I'm gonna be pissed.
>>97026579Are you genuinely looking me in the eye and saying Gleaming Geardrake was some impossible to handle draft nightmare?
>>97026604>an 1/1 that grows a little when you sac clues (the main artifact avaliable in the set and the only one you could reasonably be saccing) is answer or die come on
>>97026615>Are you genuinely looking me in the eye and saying Gleaming Geardrake was some impossible to handle draft nightmare?No.
>>97023951This shit is spiritually repulsive on a level I did not know was possible.
>>97026628Thank you, so this kitty thing isn't a problem either.
>>97026547I guess sure if you want to compare it against something outside the time frame I outlined.>You're shit at card assessment>ZoomerSpoken like a zoomer trying to LARP as a boomer or someone who played once back in the late 2000s, left the game for about 15 years, and has no idea what cards existed in that span of time.
>>97026659>Thank you, so this kitty thing isn't a problem either.They are both problems.You asked me if I was saying something I did not say.I am not saying a thing that I did not say.
>>97026663You said it was "cracked beyond imagination" and it isn't.
>>97026668>You said it was "cracked beyond imagination" and it isn't.Yes it is. You are living in a FIRE design echo chamber.
>>97026431It failed last time so investors won't invest into a risky proposition unless there is a significant change.
>>97026672It's not even as good as Novice Pyromancer and that was an uncommon too.
>>97026678>It's not even as good as Novice Pyromancer... I think it's a little bit better than a do-nothing 4 mana planeswalker anon.
>>97025319Tamiyo got compleated with the Reality Chip so her soul didn't die in the process. She got uncompleated by letting herself get killed.
Ah, the good old days. Where they didn't print busted 2-mana draft bombs. Drsft was fair and square.
>>97023951Can you feel it now, Mr. Krabs?
>>97025319She didn't get uncompleated, she just died.
>>97026712Fucking seriously though, what the FUCK is the point you are even trying to make?
>>97026431Because they don't want a bunch of planes that have similar themes? They're not going to make a new plane every time something changes.
>>97026735>Because they don't want a bunch of planes that have similar themes?Romantasy is a different theme to the themes of Lorwyn, so that is not a problem.
>>97026729That you're complaining about literally nothing. We've had much much bigger draft bombs even at that same exact price and a card that grows and also replaces itself isn't even new. It's going to be a B+, A tier card in draft, but nothing more.
>draft a decent limited deck >get BTFO by mythic bombs and go 0-3 yep, that's magic alright
>>97026748>That you're complaining about literally nothing.Okay well I am complaining about something so your point is explicitly incorrect.
Ah yes, classic romantasy archetype "The Midget With The Big Head"
>>97026752Your deck was simply not decent. Git gud.
>>97026758If they had their way, Kithkin would have been replaced with a new gay faction of fuccbois.
>>97026744Well Romantasy is a genre, so no not really. It's just fantasy but with romance, it's in the name. Lorwyn is a fantasy setting, all that changes to make it "romantasy" is making some characters attractive to women.
>>97026777>It's just fantasy but with romance,Oh, sweet summer child..how little you know...
>>97026758Goes right along with the classic romantasy animal "Crab Snake Anglerfish"
Magic plays itself, just like Hearthstone
>>97026787Cherrypicked counter examples do not disprove a trend.
>>97026758I hate how they keep trying to appeal to women and their inane fantasies, who will stop wokes of the coast??
>>97026604Geardrake was played nowhere outside of limited and even then it was simply a "oh, I'm in these colours I'll use this" pick.
>>97026547Blue needs to end the game it's usually the weakest color in limited.
>>97026814>it's usually the weakest color in limited.If the only solution to bad balancing WotC can think of is bad design, that is not a good thing.
>>97026794We've seen 16 cards from ECL so far, 5 are lands. Out of the 11 left, we have:>3 fucked up elementals>a depiction of the new great aurora>2 DFC of nostalgiabait>a wacky shapeshifter hobo>a classic lorwyn faerie>a classic kithkin>a championship card of a fr*nch dudeAshling's Command is the only art there that could maybe fit into a romantasy book, and if it was change from R/U to R/B it'd fit right into old Lorwyn. You're having a meltdown over your own cherrypicked examples.
>>97026853Cool story, bro.
>>97026758>>97026787Is it "Seven Curses for Seven Dwarves: A Why Choose Romantasy Retelling"?
>>97026777Most of it seem to have fanfiction tropes as the selling point. Enemies to lovers seem to be the most common archetype so inter species Elf romance seems like will be the focus.
>>97026897Yeah, and that's not something you can see in the art. Anon looked at a single piece from an artist who always draws fruity dudes and shat and pissed himself.
>>97026906>Yeah, and that's not something you can see in the art.>>97024150Fuck off, retard.
>>97026933>Anon looked at a single piece from an artist who always draws fruity dudeslmao, you couldn't even get to the second sentence before freaking out
>>97026897>Enemies to loversGAYGAYBOLAS
>>97026946Why is WotC hiring that artist, anon?
>>97026946>before freaking outIt's fun seeing these same NPC idiots try to attribute hysteria to literally every person responding critically to literally any thing.Genuine psychosis.
Bisexual lighting was a mistake and the reason you see it everywhere is because corporate America thinks red blooded trap loving heterosexuals are now hecking gay
>>97026966>Why in the actual fuck they made Nu- Lorwyn so GODDAMN GAY, man?>Fuck off, retard.This isn't responding critically. >>97026953Because they hire any cheap shitty artist on the market.
>>97027016>This isn't responding critically.Yes it is and you can not change that fact by mere assertion.
>>97027001>trap loving heterosexualsThat's just a bisexual refusing to come to terms with their life.
>>97027027Fuck off, retard. Why are you so gay?
>>97027040>That's just a bisexual refusing to come to terms with their life.gay blooded penis (male) loving homosexual spotted.
>>97026853That morningtide's light card looks really good.
>>97027027There isn't a single ounce of critique in there, it's entirely whinging about how you don't like it. You gotta provide actual reasoning for it to be a critic, anon.
>>97027064>There isn't a single ounce of critique in there,>it's entirely whinging about >>>>>>>>>>>>>>how you don't like it.
>>97027069>critique is simply stating you don't like a thingok retardbro, it's been nice talking with you
>>97027084Bye, globohomo defender. Hope the taste of WotC's cum washes out of your mouth fast.
>>97027094Magic The Gathering is for everybody.
>>97027122>Magic The Gathering is for everybody.And that means NOT YOU.
>>97027130>And that means NOT YOUyou mean is for piggies right?
>>97023875No, not on Arena. You can literally just Google this. They explicitly said they changed Ajani's Pridemate because of the digital experience of using it.
>>97027222retard
Top 10 2023 Romantasy Novels that Wotc will steal from1.Fourth Wing: Frail nerd is forced by her mother to become a Dragon rider. An enemies to lovers story.2.Assistant to the Villain: Cheery women works for attractive villain. A sunshine and grumpy story also based on a TikTok series.3.The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King: Women marries man who killed her father and plans to reclaim her kingdom and get revenge on her former lover. The revenge is getting him to beg to have sex with her. A vampire story.4.A Soul of Ash and Blood: The Queen of Flesh and Fire has become the Primal of Blood and Bone, the true Primal of Life and Death. Gods are awakening across the land. This book is a blatant cashgrab lifting text from the previous. The romance is between to soulmates and the woman's sidepiece.5.Sorrow and Starlight: A toxic romance story.
>>97027233They banned Cat Oven combo in Arena for the same reason. They explicitly said they errata'd Pridemate because of Arena's triggers being so clunky. You are wrong and deserve to die.
>>97024247>romantasycan't wait for heckin wholesome bdsm elf rape
>>97027243If wotc is doing romantasy will we get isekai light novels in equal measure or just villainess ones
>>97027262Lorwyn basically already had that
>>97027269Isekai is bad because it is male fantasy. Romantasy is good because it's femoid fantasy.
>>97027001>Bisexual lightingStop it. Get some help.
It's early data, but if this holds, I've never been more wrong about a card. She absolutely carried me through my pre-release.With Aang's Journey and the amount of ripping through your deck that the color-pair can do, I would have thought that Azula would make an easy splash for Izzet Lessons decks. But the three-color Iroh, who I felt the same about, is all the way up at B while she's down at F right now.
>>97027243Part 26.Throne of the Fallen: Women teams up with Prince of envy and travel across both the vampire and demon kingdoms. Too many sex scenes it's porn with plot as filler.7.The Hurricane Wars: Orphan discovers she is the last light magic user is forced to marry her colonizer prince of the shadow magic empire. A enemies to lovers romance and an actual Reylo fanfiction with the names changed to avoid copyright.8.The Hanging City: Woman escapes abusive father and seeks refuge in a troll city. The trolls allow her to live freely if she uses her fear magic against their enemies. She later marries a troll.9.A Fire in the Flesh: 2 lovers are captured must reconcile with their ascension into Primals. A filler book because the Author couldn't meet the deadline.10.The Jasad Heir: The last surviving royal of a kingdom whose magic has been outlawed teams up with her enemy if she wants to live. An enemies to lovers story.
>>97026853Green is really going to be annoying as fuck, huh...
>>97027243Only 3/10 of these are enemies to lovers.
>>97027403People have been complaining green is underpowered for years now.
>>97027381Azula requires you to have another instant speed card in hand to be payoff. Iroh only needs instants and sorceries in the graveyard, a much easier ask. Plus he doesn't need to swing to get benefit.
>>97023685you would think we would donate into helping recovering adicts charities but its some random trannie thing that he cannot even explain what they do
>>97027438>we would donate into helping recovering adicts charitiesWhy would we donate to ourselves?
>>97027424Green was raping Standard for 4 years straight
>>97027513That was 4 years ago.
Remember when George Floyd died the Prof said that he would show solidarity with black people by having black Magic players co-host with him, and there are so few magic nogs that he could only find an EDH player, then by week 2 he was forced to have a Pokemon player or some shit, then he just gave up?
4 years ago was a decade ago...
>>97027534no
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/feature/designing-avatar-the-last-airbender-the-four-elementsMark designed Airbending.
>>97027707Heartbreaking: Worst person you know designed decent mechanic
Green is a mongoloid apemash color like red and whenever red or green fall out of favor, red/green players come out of the woodwork to piss and moan about how they're fucking starving. Green deserves to be shit and so does red.
>Quantum Riddler blinkpile nearing 20% meta share in ModernThis game is so fucked
>>97027772>decent mechanicnice try, nosewater
>>97027802energy was like 60% of the format for half a year, modern is doing really good with those numbers
This is Savannah Lions now. Feeling old yet?
>>97027809Not an argument.
>>97027909>walled by Grizzly BearsSavannah Lions would never
While it'd just be adding more UB nonsense into the mix, are there any small inclusions you'd want to see a return/expansion on? So, stuff like Jurassic Park, Transformers, that kind of stuff.
>>97028260I'm praying for UB to die, no what UB shit we can revisit to pollute this game more, anon.
>>97028260how much do you wanna bet Korra gets its own set lol
>>97026574>>97026811Geardrake was a game-level threat in the recent Harmony cube on MTGO exactly because it's an answer or die card that comes with bonus value even if they manage to remove it. You also don't have your removal spell for a more dangerous threat later. Cards are outstripping the structure of the game at this point; their scale doesn't make sense in a game with 20 starting life and one opponent.
I wanna see a UB that has Donald Trump in it.
>>97024836https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmD8I7Wd6LA
ATLA Limited is fucking horrid lol. Bombs and removal are all that matter.
>>97028260>Transformersbeast wars where the animal side aren't artifacts
mai chads we won
>>97028429korra will get a secret lair AT BEST korra was not popular outside of tumblr mass producing porn of the characters. the vast majority of the fandom would very much like to just memory hole it entirely
>>97028928>Whenever a player casts a noncreature spell, they lose 2 life.I concede.
>>97028883beast wars would be sick
>>97028879>Bombs and removal are all that matter.that's the point of limited tho?
>easily thirty firebending damage off fortelled sozin's comet this is going to break something, it has to
I just popped in to say I hate universes beyond
>>97028928on a serious not, is a 2cmc 2/2 first strike with a punish effect not super good?
>>97028648UB: Epstein Island
>>97029233yes?
>>97029134*mana
>>97029233it's contextually really good in vintage because there's a lot of noncreature spells that don't kill creatures on the spotin younger formats she might just get pushed, plowed or solitude'd before anything
can someone crunch the numbers for me?
3 mana discard 2 is the key to all of this...
>97029361No
>>97027001Your life would improve greatly if you spent less time on the internet and more time outside.
>>97029640You aren't wrong, but then again neither is he.
>>97027367>yfw you find out it has a wikipedia page
>>970295832 manaDiscard two at randomThe eerie, wailing Hymn caused insanity even in hardened warriors.
>>97027448I donate batteries to myself sometimes
>>97029672Bet, bring hymn back in standard
>>97029361is there a way to search pure mana dumps on permanents in scryfall?
>>97029722o:":" -o:{t} gets a lot of themYou could check tags, I'm too lazy but there's almost certainly a tag for it
>>97028928Nigga I wish so bad that Mai would make mono black burn viable but it's not gonna
>>97029233No, she's a worse version of Eidolon and that doesn't see play anywhere anymore. If modern was healthy these three cards would see play together but they won't. Fuck this gay earth
>>97029946Or humans, we have so many great humans in pioneer right now but the deck is dead
>>97029970>but the deck is deadnot if you're tiago, the god of humans
>>97029989Kinda weird how he's going for mono colour deck when there's support for manafixing, is pioneer not that competitive anymore?
>>97030047it's not weird if you know about the history of the deck in the format, mono white lets you run 4x mutavault + a bunch of utility lands and it's what people have been playing since 2019
When Bitcoin was doing well, reserve list cards went through the roof. Now that Bitcoin is getting fucked, what will happen to magic card prices?
>>97030075I know the history but payoffs for going Mardu would be big
>>97030104I don't think so, but feel free to produce results with your list, that's how innovation happens
>>97030094Who gives a fuck.
>>97030126I'd like to but it's not worth buying in
>>97026712I plashed black just for that every time I opened it and it was the right choice every time
>>97024679It worked for Bloomburrow
>mfw "food" tokens and other ordinary item tokens, heckin' doggos, vehicles and etc was just part of the long jewish plan to do crossover slop
>>97030168Similar strategies have worked in all the recent sets. The best selling sets of the past few years have all be targeted at audiences outside of the usual Magic crowd. /mtg/ just don't want to admit it.>b-but they won't stick around with the game and buy packs from future setsNeither do anons, supposedly.
>>97023951I hope we get more merfolk
>>97030245>>97030245>>97030245
>>97026787> I can fix him
