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Reesepuff posted a message on Kaya's Guile BBD previewAs happy as I am with the card, Kaya as a character seems to be forced almost as if they’re trying to make her a main protagonist post WAR.Posted in: The Rumor Mill -
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Kman posted a message on Channel FireBall - LSV Preview - Seasoned PyromancerThis is Mythic Level????Posted in: The Rumor Mill -
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sicsmoo posted a message on [Primer] Gx TronAlright, I wasn't planning on testing Great Creator after my initial assessment of the card but community interest has been so strong that I thought I should give it a spin to be sure.Posted in: Big Mana
I played this list for 2 leagues - 8 card wishboard which is all I could justify without cutting into essential sideboard cards too much. It felt fine. Some matchups felt better, but more felt worse. I'm gonna go through the top 10 decks in the format and look at how the matchups change with this configuration.
Dredge first of all gets significantly worse because you're shaving grave-hate cards overall and mostly relying on Great Creator to tutor one up, on turn 3 at the earliest. This is not going to be good enough most of the time.
Grixis Shadow - the Great Creators looked pretty silly here, especially when I had to cut my 2nd and 3rd Dismembers, 3rd Relic and 3rd and 4th Thragtusks to make room for the package.
Phoenix - losing grave-hate and Dismembers, gaining...?
Amulet - worse because you shave TKS and cut Surgicals.
UWx and BGx - I think you improve a bit against UW but not much against BGx because they can pressure him so easily, compared to the 3rd and 4th Thragtusks which impact the board immediately and in a big way.
Burn - probably a minor improvement because fetching up something like Witchbane Orb game 1 is great, but you also might just die first/anyway, plus again, cutting Thragtusks hurts.
Humans - maybe a minor improvement because you effectively have 6 O-Stones, but this matchup is already great.
There are only 2 matchups where I would say Great Creator offers a significant improvement - the Tron mirror and Hardened Scales. Not coincidentally, these are the only 2 matchups where GC's static ability matters on its own. In the mirror, it becomes our second best turn-3 Tron play after Karn Liberated with the ability to fetch a Spyglass to shut off their potential Karn Liberated, and obviously why the static ability is good requires no explanation.
For Scales, again, 1-sided Stony Silence is strong, especially when you consider it shuts down their Darksteel Citadels as well, but it can be slow and they can still just attack and kill Karn.
I will mention decks like Titan Shift, Boggles, and Infect - yeah, getting Witchbane or Spellskite game 1 against these decks is great, but they're also each less than 2% of the metagame.
Now of course, this anaylsis is just based on the list I posted, and certainly you could play different cards and improve a particular matchup - having access to Torpor Orb against Amulet for example. But then you have to cut something and lose that edge in a different matchup.
People may suggest playing fewer copies of Great Creator. I'm skeptical about this as well because as you decrease his numbers, obviously you're less likely to draw him and so that makes it even harder to justify having all those narrow 1-ofs in your sideboard.
A note on Mycosynth Lattice - our deck does not need this card. It's a fun alternate win-con (that I actually found pretty hard to protect), but we already have plenty of things to end the game with that don't require putting 2 pieces together.
So in summary, I think Karn, the Great Creator is a very interesting card, a very versatile card and a very fun card. But does it improve Mono Green Tron against the field? I'm standing by my initial assessment with an emphatic no. -
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Slivortal posted a message on [Primer] Gx TronThe new Japanese KGC art is gorgeous. Kind of hope he's playable for that alone.Posted in: Big Mana -
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Slivortal posted a message on [Primer] Gx TronPosted in: Big Mana
Karn only gets artifacts.Quote from Melkor »Quote from tonyfergie »Honestly, I believe that the new Karn will be absolutly insane for us. Ill plan on testing at least 2 possibly 4 in the main board replacing Ulamog, maybe an o-stone, and maybe a relic.
I think we can all attest that at times drawing a Ulamog or having one in your opening hand can be almost a dead draw at least in my opinion whereas the new Karn is always relevant as its only 4 CMC. Having access to your sideboard in game one can be huge, as ill plan on playing some one-off cards like Tormod's Crypt, gravediggers cage, etc which could free up some duplicate space in the sideboard.
The static ability on Karn is like having a stony silence in the main board which I think has the potential to get us free wins against affinity and the mirror.
The fact that new Karn can serve as a win con is the cherry on top IMO. Having a card that when it resolves can win the game when we have 10 mana is great but it's even better when it can do double duty.
I honestly think the sky is the limit with this card as it will give us the ability to be much more dynamic in game one and may end up freeing up some sideboard options
I would love to hear your guys opinion on my take of this card. Am I being too optimistic or is there any other people that think this is the nuts?
You nailed most of my thoughts. I actually go back and forth with cutting Ulamog from the mainboard because I hate having it in my opener so badly, same goes for O-Stone. New Karn being a win condition itself is nice,but I read it as 'you now have in hand whatever card you need right now'. I could not be more indifferent to the Lattice plan, I really couldn't, but this will let me take some of the cards I am not happy to see in every matchup but can't cut from the mainboard and have the best of both worlds. Not just general sideboard stuff either, it's like Eye of Ugin come back to us, because I can put Ulamog in the side and only have it when I want it. I may cut all or most of the creatures from the main and run them as 1-2 in the side, lower the curve a bit. I think people are a bit misguided with the Lattice plan, we don't need off the wall ways to win, we have the cards already for the best late game in the format, ones that don't rely on this new Karn staying in play. this is the thing to give us flexibility beyond our powerful but straightforward plan A. I absolutely love it.
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Volrath posted a message on >> Hypothetical New Card Back <<I prefer my library full of spellbooks to look like a spellbook and not a spaceship designed by Sony Eriksson, thank you very much.Posted in: Rumor Mill Archive -
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Melkor posted a message on [Primer] Gx TronNew Karn SUCKS. Also, if it gets adopted by E-Tron and gets the Tron lands banned (unlikely) I am going to Seattle to have words.Posted in: Big Mana
I'm actually glad to see that new hate card, now maybe people will stop griping about us.
Broken Bond- *Rocket Raccoon voice* oh, yeah.
Seriously, that card is sweet, almost makes up for how much I hate what they did to Karn, the card I have been most excited for since his LAST card. -
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Ashiok posted a message on Dominaria FAQ leak threadI'm gonna be honest: I like the references and the flavor, and I also like the originality of the new mechanics like Saga and Historic.Posted in: The Rumor Mill
That said... I'm not feeling the hype. Aside from a single llanowar elves, I don't see the change in design that wizards promised. Teferi and Karn look moderately powerful, and the cycle of three coloured creatures too, but the rest? Conditional spells, overcosted kicker effects and a mix o tribal and legendary sinergies, with tons of overcoated legends.
I honestly want to like this... but I don't see it. Simply don't see the expected change in design. If something is happening, it is at a glacial pace. I don't see how any of this set is 'fixing' standard. -
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leslak posted a message on Packaging for Dominaria and M19Posted in: The Rumor Mill
weird angle and face composition. Would be sad if it was his pw card art. -
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SteamMage posted a message on Packaging for Dominaria and M19Posted in: The Rumor Mill
"Have you heard the good news of Urza today"Quote from matrix_lord »
looks like Karn, the Preacher. Very robotic. I'm not sure what to make of it - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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Edit: Saw the lists !! Bad luck, he lost the other 3 MU, but 12-3 is good on a field dominated by Burn, DS Aggro, Infect and other aggro variants.