You need to know the game and be intelligent to win with KCI , WotC cannot let that be, everyone needs to be able to understand the game ...
Yea ... thats one way to phrase it, or let us simply call it "Dumb down the game".
If a combo involves more than 2 pieces its just way too complicated, cant let that be.
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The reason to see KCI banned is simply to make the game more trivial to consume for the "streaming" of it in digital and events.
Its the kind of deck that appeals to people that play the deck and not so to viewers that barely understand the rules of the game in the first place / even commentators struggle to understand the deck or see whats happening.
They want the game to be more "visual" to the eyes of a newbie, so they look at the board state and assume whats going on.
Its literally dumb down the game , not that its a secret, but its still sad ...
Do Judge promos actually affect the price of their originals? They don't print these in any great amounts, I'm sure. But perhaps it helps to some degree?
They tend to lower the price at first but the availability dries up quickly. I am still a bit bitter I passed up on the 40$ Ravages of War promo...
I still hate that you have to tap for these abilities. They would all be so much better. This is a perfect example of why. Instead of the guildmages, I'd just rather taken reimagined charms for the guilds i.e Syndicate Charm or Clan Charm or something along those lines.
If they didn't have to tap to use their abilities, the abilities would have to be weakened or the card shifted up to rare.
Do you even realize how busted that second ability would be if this guy didn't have to tap?! It could be mythic!
My brother and I designed the exact same card as arrester's adominition, however we had it at 2 CMC, not 3. I feel like any time there are spell based mechanics they almost ALWAYS over cost them from a modern point of view (I don't play a lot of standard). I was excited for Rebound and it was way overcosted on every card. I was excited for spell mastery and it stunk for the most part. I was excited for jump-start and it was underwhelming. Not all of the cards with those mechanics were bad, but non really affected modern. Now I was excited to get at least one decently costed addendum card, but again most of them seem overcosted. I figured the bounce spell would be the most "safe" card to push a bit in terms of using addendum because it doesn't fit into every deck, but I was wrong. I think my standards too high because I play modern almost solely. However, it seems like the creature based mechanics are pushed every set and the spell based mechanics get the shaft. I may just have too high of standards because I play modern delver.
With that said, this should be a good limited card and could see some standard play.
So you think Voice of Resurgence is a powerhouse card in multiplayer? I really don't see it: it so easy to play around. It's a good card for sure but I think the hoopla over it (20 bucks a pop?!) is completely unwarranted.
My thought weren't really meant as counter-arguments at all, they were just random thoughts that came to my mind about the topic after reading your blog
I think it all depends on the meta (of coure, it always does!)
My meta is very laid back though: out of the four of us two are very competitive (one of them netdecks like mad) while the other and myself usually take apart decks that win consistently (I had a game where I discarded all my Luminarch Ascensions because they basically end the game) because we like games to last a long time.
While reading your thoughts on multiplayer definitely convinced me that counterspell and go for the throat aren't all that great in multi, I hope my meta never gets to the point where things like Oblivion Ring (one of my favourite spells ever so I'm biased) suffers the same fate: it just creates such an interesting dynamic in my meta (if you kill me he gets his super stuff back etc...)
Unless your meta is very casual, you should have better things to do with your mana than attack/block with them.
Even as straight up dual lands they aren't that great because they come in tapped.
Sit down, I'll go get your cheese mr edgelord.
I seem to remember a lot more new art for the previous guild kits.
If they didn't have to tap to use their abilities, the abilities would have to be weakened or the card shifted up to rare.
Do you even realize how busted that second ability would be if this guy didn't have to tap?! It could be mythic!
Sounds like you should play Standard