MTG Salvation

CARD GENERATOR
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Roll 2 dice (20). Combine the first roll with the second roll.

RED:

first:
1 Fire
2 Lightning
3 Burning
4 Searing
5 Elemental
6 Vengeant
7 Satyr
8 Goblin
9 Furious
10 Devastating
11 Molten
12 Lava
13 Traitorous
14 Flame
15 Angry
16 Destructive
17 Dragon
18 Pyro
19 Chandra's
20 Bolt



second:
1 Blast
2 Strike
3 Bolt
4 Fire
5 Vengeance
6 Destruction
7 Betrayal
8 Rage
9 Anger
10 Fury
11 Force
12 Goblin
13 Phoenix
14 Elemental
15 Flame
16 Treason
17 Rush
18 Burst
19 Firecat
20 Dragon




WHITE:

first:
1 Angelic
2 Divine
3 Righteous
4 Glorious
5 Ajani's
6 Loyal
7 Unified
8 Cleansing
9 Devoted
10 Faithful
11 Veteran
12 Sun
13 Spirit
14 Soul
15 Protection
16 Sacred
17 Martyr
18 Master
19 Law
20 Ivory





second:
1 Charge
2 Blessing
3 Reckoning
4 Judgment
5 Virtue
6 Angel
7 Cat
8 Leader
9 Hero
10 Army
11 Acolyte
12 Reward
13 Vengeance
14 Spirit
15 Duty
16 Faith
17 Hope
18 Light
19 Knight
20 Rule



Other colors coming up! Post your results and potential changes / additions

Quote from empathogen

I believed him when he posted.
I speculated the StP Enchantment is the Ordeal of Heliod

This seems quite believable. Would look like this assuming the cycle works always the same:

Ordeal of Heliod
Enchant creature
Whenever enchanted creature attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it. Then if it has three or more +1/+1 counters on it, sacrifice Ordeal of Heliod.
When you sacrifice Ordeal of Heliod, (you may?) exile target creature. If you do, its controller gains life equal to its power.


This would make the Ordeals be of the form "put counters on the creature, when it has enough counters, sacrifice for a staple effect of that color" (red has Lightning Bolt, white Swords to Plowshares...maybe green makes a token? blue draws cards? black destroys?)

I ran into an interesting situation in Commander yesterday - no one of us knew the answer for sure.

I control a Phyrexian Altar, Karador, Ghost Chieftain, and two untapped lands. I want to cast a creature card from my graveyard for three mana, using Karador's ability. Is it possible to sacrifice Karador to the Altar to pay for that creature's casting cost?

Trostani's Summoner Control:

1.) Survive until you get to 7 mana, keep board clean enough
2.) Cast Trostani's Summoner
3.) ???
4.) Profit

Seriously though, I played two prereleases and won one of them, both decks were mostly controlling with the possibility to switch to a beatdown plan if not facing much resistance.

Good removal was key, obviously, especially when it comes on a body, like Ubul Sar Gatekeepers or Scab-Clan Giant.

I play Standard Pauper online - the rules there are as described, the cards you listed are NOT legal. I strongly advise you to stick to the rules of MTGO as Standard Pauper is a supported format there, not competitive in the sense that you can win tickets, but you can play matches including sideboarding.

It is an interesting format, actually, some decks that are often seen are Ghostly Flicker based, Boros Aggro, Selesnya Travel Preparations. And Seraph of the Dawn is a bomb!

I posted it here because I got the idea from Council of the Absolute. I think having an additional card with an effect like that is helpful (and I don't think decks containing unreleased cards are allowed in any other section?)

However, if a mod feels the same way, move please.

I'm not sure if this has been done before (if so, link please) but while looking at Council of the Absolute, someone mentioned copying it using Cackling Counterpart, then populating.
While interesting, I realized that if we don't restrict ourselves to Standard we have a LOT of options of efficient clones, the best being Phantasmal Image and Phyrexian Metamorph. Also, we have Meddling Mage.

This led me to the idea of a deck that first bans any potential answer cards to our "ban creatures", then proceeds to ban the rest of the deck.

A raw draft:


Is there a modern legal card similar to Extract ? Because even though it might not be competitive, I'd like to keep it modern legal.

Manabase etc. not included since it's only a general idea.

Quote from soulbanana

i searched for an individual thread and i found none, and it's one of the mythics for Rakdos sooooo, and it's an interesting card.

There you go: http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=502245

New card discussion subforum.

I made the same mistake when looking at that scenario. It seems that it just means "whenever this is not blocked while attacking" (unfortunately there's no term for "letting through a creature") "whenever this creature is allowed to pass"?

I was astonished to hear that his ability works when he's put into play attacking. I believe the rules, but that "whenever this attacks and isn't blocked" triggers when "whenever this attacks" doesn't, seems highly unituitive.
While writing this, it seems that "whenever this attacks and isn't blocked" is not some sort of delayed trigger but triggers at the moment blockers are declared, when the creature is not blocked. Makes sense. But could be rephrased as "whenever this isn't blocked while attacking".

*** JUDGING POST ***

I have some general remarks. Please read them at the end of the post.













- First a comment about judging: I realized that it's often equally easy, flavor-wise, to go through a room with a low-mana cost than with a high mana cost. I do want to encourage that you not only create low-mana cost cards, though.
This is why I'll be more generous with additional rewards (Gold coins, sellable items) when you make a good card that has higher mana costs to offset your mana loss.

This does not mean more mana is always better! It just means that the strategies should be more or less equivalent.

- Another comment is about this game in general. As you may have noticed, there was again a gap between my last judging and this one. This is because I often don't have so much time and then I find myself wanting to do other things than judging cards, which is not really relaxing.
Point being, I will continue this game, but expect judgings only every three to four days or so. Maybe more often, but just don't count on it.
Sorry for this.

- A last note that I will also put on the front page:
I will close this game for new players now. It seems only fair that when I do less judging, players already participating shouldn't be the ones suffering.
Monkey Playing MTG is the last new player to join.

***** JUDGING POST *****

The second floor is now online.

It comes with a feature I hope you'll like: Challenges. It's explained in the post with the rooms.

A quick note to everyone who is currently or will soon be in the Store A:

You may choose to directly (i.e., in one post) buy something from the store, proceed to Room 4 and try to solve the room, if you want to save time.

Hi all,

I recently read this great article on the mothership:

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/sf/227

And became particularly interested in this format:

http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/daily/aa114

Since a search yielded no results, I'll start a new thread here to discuss this format. It's called Sliverocity, and the deal is:

Every creature shares all of its abilities with every other creature.

For example, if Nekrataal, Llanowar Elves and Mudbutton Torchrunner are in play, any creature destroys target nonartifact, nonblack creature when it enters the battlefield, has first strike (which becomes redundant), taps for and deals three damage when it dies.

The main point of this thread is to share experiences with the format and also collect good cards for a Sliverocity Cube. I've built one right after reading the thread by going through my commons and uncommons and thinking "would it be cool if all creatures had this ability?", but I couldn't test it yet.

So, to start discussion: Has anyone already played this format? Does anyone else think it sounds like a lot of fun but hasn't played it yet?

I'll also post some cards that will probably be good Cube material.

Some cool things I noticed about the format:

* A Gravecrawler makes blocking impossible, while a Gatecreeper Vine means standstill for the whole board.
* A Diregraf Ghoul is a mini-Kismet for creatures.
* Spark Elemental can wipe the board.
* Aven Squire is the new Sublime Archangel, and Sublime Archangel is...umm...well...let me get my calculator.
* Flameborn Hellion makes the board go wild.
* Blind Zealot makes colors pretty relevant.

And that's just a few of them. I hope it plays as amazing as it sounds.

***** JUDGING POST *****

Dear Dungeoncrawlers,

I owe you an apology. I have been very busy the last two weeks, first with a project, then with Christmas and family and stuff... so I just didn't have the time for this game. I figured I'd take a small break, but I should have told you.
HOWEVER, now I have more time again. So, better late then never, here are the judgings for your last posts - I hope you still remember what you did










I will also update the main posts and Room 4 - 6 (that is, Floor 2) should be up soon.

I hope most of you are still motivated.