Do you think drafting around a heroic card is a good strategy?
I've been doing pretty well picking up heroic cards and drafting bestow or buff cards around it, but I don't know if I've only been successful because everybody is still figuring out the set...
If I had a Battlewise Hoplite and I played a Chosen by Heliod on him, do I scry 1 and then draw a card, or do I draw a card and then scry?
Basically, does Heroic get activated when the enchantment (which targets it) is placed on the stack, or when the enchantment resolves. Does that Heroic ability go on the stack as well?
Below is the section of the comprehensive rules defining mana abilities. I've bolded the part that precludes Xenagos's +1 from being a mana ability.
Ah thanks that clarifies a lot. So it's simply that loyalty abilities are explicitly not mana abilities. I thought it would be something a bit more intricate than that.
It's also good to know that mana abilities cannot have targets.
So I know that mana abilities produce mana and don't use the stack, but are all abilities that produce mana considered "mana abilities"? I was told that Xenagos' +1 ability is not a mana ability (even though it produces mana) and therefore it actually uses the stack.
Can somebody clarify this for me, maybe citing the comp rules? Thanks!
Jace and Snappy walk into a bar. Snappy leans forward to order a drink and immediately falls over dead. Jace sits down and orders his drink. When the bartender comes over, Jace points to Snappy.
"So what happened to him?"
The bartender points to the table in front of him.
lol I love this stuff and I'm diving head first into this prerelease. If the prereleases were just a sealed tournament before the set came out, I probably wouldn't play.
People who hate america are generally just as stupid as the people who blindly love it, I guess.
This is true.
However I'd probably say "people who are obsessed with their hatred of American" to differentiate them from people who simply don't like America - which is 95% of the world (speaking honestly).
I see that you are from Nashville. I don't live there now, but I actually did live there for a few years. Most people wouldn't know this if they did not live there, but Tennessee in general and Nashville in particular are some of the least racist places in the South. Honestly I think this has something to do with the amount of racism in the state's past (birthplace of the kkk, death of MLK, etc etc) and how that has forced the people of the state to confront racism. This definitely doesn't apply to all places in TN, but I can say from experience that there are many places in the country and in the south where racism is much more ingrained in the average resident than TN.
Interestingly enough, the same statement can be made about Germans. The average German person is (from my experience) much less racist than others in Europe because they have had to confront their racist past and have become better because of it.
I've been doing pretty well picking up heroic cards and drafting bestow or buff cards around it, but I don't know if I've only been successful because everybody is still figuring out the set...
Sorry I misread your comment, disregard this reply
Basically, does Heroic get activated when the enchantment (which targets it) is placed on the stack, or when the enchantment resolves. Does that Heroic ability go on the stack as well?
Ah thanks that clarifies a lot. So it's simply that loyalty abilities are explicitly not mana abilities. I thought it would be something a bit more intricate than that.
It's also good to know that mana abilities cannot have targets.
Can somebody clarify this for me, maybe citing the comp rules? Thanks!
ha ha ha
we might have a winner here.
It's just a sealed tournament, swiss style etc. The only difference is that you build your deck from that box in the video.
This is true.
However I'd probably say "people who are obsessed with their hatred of American" to differentiate them from people who simply don't like America - which is 95% of the world (speaking honestly).
I see that you are from Nashville. I don't live there now, but I actually did live there for a few years. Most people wouldn't know this if they did not live there, but Tennessee in general and Nashville in particular are some of the least racist places in the South. Honestly I think this has something to do with the amount of racism in the state's past (birthplace of the kkk, death of MLK, etc etc) and how that has forced the people of the state to confront racism. This definitely doesn't apply to all places in TN, but I can say from experience that there are many places in the country and in the south where racism is much more ingrained in the average resident than TN.
Interestingly enough, the same statement can be made about Germans. The average German person is (from my experience) much less racist than others in Europe because they have had to confront their racist past and have become better because of it.