Scourge is still a lot of text for so little value. I realize making even a one-shot flying Flametongue Kavu as a 4/4 would probably need to cost 4RR or more... but maybe making it fight would allow it to come down at 3RR... with far, far less text devoted to the ridiculous "counts # of dragons" x text.
Im curious about the story behind Mathes the fiend hunter. Fiend hunter would imply he kills monsters...but then he's a vamp..disconnect?
We've had vampires in fiction that kill their own kind before, so this wouldn't be new.
Yes but im curious what world this is happening on, not Innistrad I think.
I'd sooner want the name of Rome world that Licia is from, and I suspect we're getting neither piece of information.
Isn't that part of the fun is getting some stuff set up that will pay off later. They have done this well in the past couple of years with Nahii, Daetti where the character hints at future things we may not know about entirely. Plus if they paint themselves into a corner then we get things like the origins retcons. I prefer to have a good mix of old and new.
I'm planning on buying the dragon deck, but, so far, that's thanks to the unofficial leaks, not due to any of WotC's actual efforts to sell me on it. That's pretty bass ackwards.
Wouldn't you have decided to buy the deck anyway in a week or so when they officially spoil the dragons? I think they are trying to keep the hype close to the product release.
I could only dream of a new, updated version of Baron Sengir!!! Oh man people would go nuts. Although I feel like he would have to be mono black so he couldn't be a general for this deck, just in the 99. But that's okay with me.
Actually, Sengir has mastered several kinds of Magic, not only Black Magic. Ravi, now Grandmother Sengir, was a Planeswalker who become mad/crazy and Sengir took advantage of it and learn many spells and secrets of Magic Power from her... And Ravi was mostly a Green Magic wielder...
He also learnt from Ihsan, whom he turned into a Shade to control him...
So, since he was used to Black, Red and Blue Magic in the beginning; he could easily use all color of Magic, such as Nicol Bolas; since Sengir is the OLDEST Vampire in Magic (Created by a Ritual, read "A Song of Plague Rats") as Edgar and Sorin Markov were...
So, I would expect him to be a Black Creature with Activated abilities that require all colors or hybrid Mana dor their activation: Black, White, Red, Green and Blue
Anyway, I want to listen to the Podcast about Vampires to complete this information
I always thought Grandmother Sengir was dealing in black magic. (I always thought Liliana of the Dark Realms was the perfect representation of Granny's ability) It would be awesome if they included her in the deck, but if I could only get one it would have to be an updated Baron Sengir or Irini Sengir.
Interesting to see a card with practically the same art as a card from the previous setThose Who Serve. A little stronger, but still not strong enough to survive the Hour of Devastation
Copy the Abyss or Nether void in opponents upkeep?
Copying The Abyss doesn't work, since the first chance you would get to copy it is during your opponents upkeep. Which means that the "Begining of the Upkeep" has already been and gone, so your new Mirror copy of the The Abyss won't even trigger.
It could be used to destroy an opponent's The abyss or Nether void using the world enchantment rules
I'm sure the next Commander Anthology will do this exact thing again. No point in printing all 5 originals when you can go to that well every other year in a specialty release. They can do this exact thing 4 more times (one deck from each of the first 4 sets), and if people buy this stuff, I can't blame them if they do.
Personally I have all 25 Commander decks, but I would like the foil commanders, though I have a Kaalia from the Commander's Arsenal.
This is exactly what I was thinking. There is no way they just repackage the first and most popular decks when they can spread it out over years and sell tons more. They know exactly what they are doing, it's not some accident where they just happened to pull these decks out of a hat.
There's lots of reasons to do Core sets, the decision to stop doing them never really sat well with me.
But isn't the masters set just better at reprints than the c se set was. Core sets originally had much less RandD when they were reprint only sets. Having masters sets let's them do a reprint only set every year. As far as the impact on standard they do have some "release" valves they have not tapped into like the deckbuilder toolkit and planswalkers intro decks that could get answers into standard if needed.
I've played a fair few games on untap now and i've found that i was always able to get haunted cloak online. Maybe it was by chance but I drew it almost every single game and is just too good to have less copies for me. In my last game I had three colossi on the battlefield, one started in my hand, one was tutored through sanctum of ugin, and one was tutored through inventors' fair. He had two creatures and a deadlock trap untapped. I drew a crane, sacced a hedron archive and drew key to the city and another crane. I played the key to the city and he left the game.
As for the caravan and archive switch that may be something worth looking into, however the archive reduces the cost of colossus by much more but caravan can ramp into the archive. I find that once I get to three lands in this deck, I can ramp from there through foundry inspector or a caravan.
I also am considering reducing choked estuary to 2 copies because my sunken hollows are coming in tapped a little too often
Now that example used sounds like a good case scenario. Do you have any games where you didn't like to see you cards? You come across any situations where YouTube more than one cloak or more than one key in the city?
Great thing about key is that multiple copies can be discarded.
It might be retired now that we have the Masterpiece series.
This is also my guess. We don't need "Premium" cards that are not really sought after and most people equate to the lowest cost non-fiction version of the same card.
Masterpieces do a much better job.
Someone also mentioned to me in another thread that it is a "thank you" to the card stores because they can mark it up much more than other products, but that can easily be accomplished with some of these other plane chase or archenemy products that are unavailable in big box anyway.
I might grab this because Archenemy is a format that I wanted to get into, but the product run was so small that it disappeared entirely before I could get anything.
Targets and Walmarts around me had those for at least a year, but then again I almost always find popular Magic commander decks there too.
It seems like they are changing these types of formats to premium products and leaving commander as the sole introductory supplemental release.
Plus lotus value errata was years ago and is not a enters the Battlefield effect anyway
Don't forget the actual possible included plansewalker for the deck Sarkhan Unbroken for hundreds of damage
Isn't that part of the fun is getting some stuff set up that will pay off later. They have done this well in the past couple of years with Nahii, Daetti where the character hints at future things we may not know about entirely. Plus if they paint themselves into a corner then we get things like the origins retcons. I prefer to have a good mix of old and new.
card seems pretty good, i like the art as well.
Wouldn't you have decided to buy the deck anyway in a week or so when they officially spoil the dragons? I think they are trying to keep the hype close to the product release.
I always thought Grandmother Sengir was dealing in black magic. (I always thought Liliana of the Dark Realms was the perfect representation of Granny's ability) It would be awesome if they included her in the deck, but if I could only get one it would have to be an updated Baron Sengir or Irini Sengir.
Crook of Condemnation?
Anyway this cad looks great to help get some embalm/etenalize in the graveyard while digging up something useful at the same time
It could be used to destroy an opponent's The abyss or Nether void using the world enchantment rules
This is exactly what I was thinking. There is no way they just repackage the first and most popular decks when they can spread it out over years and sell tons more. They know exactly what they are doing, it's not some accident where they just happened to pull these decks out of a hat.
But isn't the masters set just better at reprints than the c se set was. Core sets originally had much less RandD when they were reprint only sets. Having masters sets let's them do a reprint only set every year. As far as the impact on standard they do have some "release" valves they have not tapped into like the deckbuilder toolkit and planswalkers intro decks that could get answers into standard if needed.
Great thing about key is that multiple copies can be discarded.
This is also my guess. We don't need "Premium" cards that are not really sought after and most people equate to the lowest cost non-fiction version of the same card.
Masterpieces do a much better job.
Someone also mentioned to me in another thread that it is a "thank you" to the card stores because they can mark it up much more than other products, but that can easily be accomplished with some of these other plane chase or archenemy products that are unavailable in big box anyway.
Targets and Walmarts around me had those for at least a year, but then again I almost always find popular Magic commander decks there too.
It seems like they are changing these types of formats to premium products and leaving commander as the sole introductory supplemental release.