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Jan 6, 2018Mergatroid_Jones posted a message on The Magic Market Index for Jan 5, 2018Amonkhet is on there twice, and Hour of Devastation is missing, so you know.Posted in: Articles
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Nov 30, 2017Mergatroid_Jones posted a message on If You Can't Take Criticism of Jeremy Hambly, You're Part of the ProblemEveryone: STOP TRYING TO WIN THE CULTURE WAR BY POSTING ON THE INTERNET!!!Posted in: Articles
No matter how smart and compelling your post/ article seems to you, it is not going to change hearts and minds. None of us had ever heard of either of these two people before this nonsense: it is just an excuse to rehash a bigger issue that will never be resolved by making posts and counter-posts on message boards. (Yes, I know saying that here is hypocritical.) -
Apr 23, 2017Mergatroid_Jones posted a message on The Magic Market Index Amonkhet Set ReviewIt's like people don't even know that Anointed Procession will be eight bucks in five years. How is it this kind of card always follows this pattern? It seems investors would have destroyed that easy plunder by over-exploiting it.Posted in: Articles
Not that I mind. I'm happy when cards are cheap, and easily available. Order now for your casual fun purposes, or you'll end up paying way more for the same card. In the mean time, almost every other card in the set will tank in value. Business as usual. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
Well if nothing else, I'd say it's about three steps ahead of any other Cancel variant. I'm totally down for this card and I'm into it. I prefer it to Mystic Confluence or Sublime Epiphany as a modal spell since its cheaper while still having powerful big-mana modes.
I mentioned on another thread that I didn't like how quickly Luminarch Aspirant compounded advantage. This only does that if you can consistently enable it while having a potentially higher ceiling, which I much prefer.
I wish it weren't mythic. People might try to make it expensive.
In a low power environment, it can be kinda fun as a minigame trying to get its power up. It'll only be oppressive in a deck that dumps the hand, and it dies to anything, so it should be a fine and fun card. Still a bit inconsistent though: it'll be middling in some games, and just win in others.
But the main version of the card has to be the combat trick, since 3www is an utterly unplayable rate for a wrath even at low power. If the combat trick version also gave -1/-0, it would make a huge difference. But it's still potentially playable at low power.
EDIT: I just realized the obvious: the combat trick mode is 1W, not W. That renders this totally unplayable IMO even at low power. I'd pay 1 for that ability if there was a cool upside, but 2 is not worth a card. And the wrath option has to be pure upside for the card to be worth anything.
As someone vocally against creature-creep, this doesn't actually bother me. Chrome Host Seedshark and Vesuvan Drifter on the other hand irk me to no end since on those it feels like the stats were pushed just to push them.
I guess flashback is deciduous now.