So, what's up with Kalitas? I know that he's an objectively good card, but I haven't heard "Oh, Kalitas is the key to this-and-such deck", or "Wow, Kalitas was really strong in this other deck". Is his silly high price due to Standard, Modern, EDH, or some combination of the three? Where is his demand coming from?
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So, what's up with Kalitas? I know that he's an objectively good card, but I haven't heard "Oh, Kalitas is the key to this-and-such deck", or "Wow, Kalitas was really strong in this other deck". Is his silly high price due to Standard, Modern, EDH, or some combination of the three? Where is his demand coming from?
He's a monster in Standard which is where most of his pricing is generated from. He's also being played in Modern Jund as a 1 or 2 of. I don't know if he's being brewed elsewhere either. While I love EDH as a format, I don't know that it alone would be able to generate that kind of value for an in print mythic.
He has generated a lot of his tag from standard I think. Ive only seen him in modern jund/grixis beyond that. Michael majors just put up a good showing with a grixis modern list recently too; coupled with jund's resurgence.
He also gives black a respectable body to Lifelink with that's not in bolt range, which is what I think is so attractive about him. Lifegain that doesn't have 1-3 toughness in black isn't very prevalent and he closes out games as you do the things black wants to do anyway. Maybe some casual appeal?
I agree it does seem rather inflated because even in standard I never see him as more than a 2-3 of. It'll probably settle in a few weeks once the prevalent archetypes for standard settle down. The standard meta is still shifting.
Reprints the one card that people point to when saying that art objectifies women.
Well done Wizards.
Liliana does not objectify women in any way at all. We have gotten to a point in our society that every single picture of a women must be objectifying a women in some negative way......blah blah blah.. That is not the case. (((Sarcasm)))Picture of a girl drinking a milk shake, must be sex related and putting women down, picture of girl sitting on a beach, picture of a girl driving a car, picture of a girl on the moon at a new space station.)))
You have a picture of an attractive strong power women who girls dress up as for anime conventions. What more do you want? The picture is fine, happy to see a reprint. Sick of of seeing people claim that everything in existence must be putting women down. Then all I have to do is replace the word "women" with anything else to get the same mentality; fish, cats, arabs, blacks, jews, men, environment, whites, chinese, old people, etc. It doesn't matter what word I put in. Stop sucking life out of everything man. That artwork of her is awesome. Stop putting stuff down man. Just stop. If the picture was really as negative as you claim she would totally nude, in a kitchen, making sandwiches and giving blow jobs. Her abilities would be horrible as well. +1 do nothing -2 do nothing -6 do nothing. Instead liliana of the veil is an amazing planeswalker comparable to jace, the mind sculpter with great art to appreciate.
My suggestion listen to some comedy radio for a while, pandora is free, youtube is free there is something out there for you. ***** go make fun of somebody. The whole world is so serious and campaigning for some cause, or someones rights, everything is a hate crime, racist, sexist. blah blah blah.
"O no mcdonalds must be slandering a hate crime against skinny people every time they make a big mac." hahaha jeeze You're just someone perpetuating another groups negative perspective that they've made you believe is correct. Look at the picture for a hour and tell me what's wrong with it? I don't see anything.
I have heard vague rumors of a moustache-dispensing vending machine in a distant laundromat, across the street from a tattoo parlor. However, this information is shaky, and time is of the essence.
So, what's up with Kalitas? I know that he's an objectively good card, but I haven't heard "Oh, Kalitas is the key to this-and-such deck", or "Wow, Kalitas was really strong in this other deck". Is his silly high price due to Standard, Modern, EDH, or some combination of the three? Where is his demand coming from?
He's a monster in Standard which is where most of his pricing is generated from. He's also being played in Modern Jund as a 1 or 2 of. I don't know if he's being brewed elsewhere either. While I love EDH as a format, I don't know that it alone would be able to generate that kind of value for an in print mythic.
He also gives black a respectable body to Lifelink with that's not in bolt range, which is what I think is so attractive about him. Lifegain that doesn't have 1-3 toughness in black isn't very prevalent and he closes out games as you do the things black wants to do anyway. Maybe some casual appeal?
I agree it does seem rather inflated because even in standard I never see him as more than a 2-3 of. It'll probably settle in a few weeks once the prevalent archetypes for standard settle down. The standard meta is still shifting.
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