- AUTUMNTWILIGHT
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idSurge posted a message on Teferi - and why he shouldn't existThe number of people looking to put an hour into a single game, not match, is....low. A 3 hour game, even match, is a non-starter.Posted in: Magic General -
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cfusionpm posted a message on The State of Modern Thread (B&R 20/08/2018)Posted in: Modern ArchivesQuote from GotSK »Quote from cfusionpm »
The bottom line is that Ionize is embarrassing from a design standpoint. It's a glorified Uncommon-level card being propped up at the face-card of Izzet. It's a symptom of more than a decade of powering down things that interact with the stack and another example of endless sea of frustration from UR players.
Quote from cfusionpm »Just find it interesting that GB gets one of best removal spells ever printed, while UR gets a spell arguably worse than multiple other similar spells. It's just an observation.
Pick one.
Pick one what? They design design bad counterspells, and have for at least a decade. These are not statements at odds with each other.
Edit: and mostly what I mean by this is the trend of making removal towards cheap + relatively meaningless downside and counters to expensive with usually-not-worth-it upside.
Imagine if instead of Ionize, we got: "UR: Counter target spell, its controller searches for a basic land."
Imagine if instead of Counterflux we got: "UR: Counter target spell CMC3 or less. This can't be countered."
And then wonder why UR players are salty about the new BG spell and their terrible countershock. -
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Illinest posted a message on Assassin's TrophyPosted in: The Rumor MillQuote from ElvesotShelves »Quote from AUTUMNTWILIGHT »Those are monowhite cards not Boros Cards to be Boros it needs RW in the casting cost. My point was RW gets the shaft compared to BG even though RW could based on the color pie get removal just as good. Meanwhile great removal is only one of BG numerous strengths.
So you don't use Path in your Boros deck because its not RW?
Considering Black is the best at creature removal, and green is the best at non-creature permanent removal, how does this card not make sense? Why should RW get this as well? Because creature removal is supposed to be a strength to red and/or white? Nope. It's there, but SHOULD not mitigate other color's strengths. You're arguing to make Magic flavorless.
GY hate is available to every color, with arguably the highest power level being Rest in Peace, White, as well it should be. And it should be available to every color. Graveyard decks are also the easiest to completely blow out. In other words BG's best strength is arguably better than card draw... but this degenerate strategy is counter-able by every color... because its degenerate. That makes it much less of a strength.
Burn is still the best aggro deck. Good luck arguing against that.
What do you want to talk about next, Green's best walker STILL being Garruk Wildspeaker?
This set has been a long time coming for green, and well deserved to balance the color pie. Hush.
You're starting to make a spectacle of yourself. Red and White had the strongest creature removal in Magic since day one with Swords to Plowshares and Lightning Bolt. Not to mention Wrath of God and the multitudes of direct damage red spells. White had the best artifact and enchantment removal with Disenchant. Red also dabbled with artifact removal. Land destruction wasn't really a white thinnnnn... Oh wait - Armageddon. Duh. Yes it was. And Land Destruction was strong in red too.
Trying to argue that these effects aren't supposed to be in RW just makes you look uninformed. I won't go into color shifting but I'll tell you this - Green has always been a Timmy color. That's what it was, is and probably always will be. Crap like this card is the real color shifting. You're just lucky that there was some shifting of the color pie or else you'd still be stuck trying to ramp Elves into Craw Wurms and getting your ass beat. -
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genini2 posted a message on GP Detroit DiscussionPosted in: ModernQuote from AUTUMNTWILIGHT »Jeskai Control, Mono Green Tron and 5 Color Humans Take It.
I didnt even know Peek was a card.
It's a neat card. Twin occasionally ran it as a 1 of in the day and infect tried to use it when Gitaxian Probe was banned. It was way worse than Probe when your deck is trying to win on t3 with delve spells though. -
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ktkenshinx posted a message on [GRN] Guilds of Ravnica previews and spoilers: Modern editionRal is not good. Teferi is only good because he's a three mana walker starting on T5, his -3 unconditionally hits every non-land threat, and his ultimate wins the game with no setup. His + also creates mana efficiency on all subsequent turns and is stupid with Colonnade. Ral just draws cards in + mode, can only kill certain creatures in - mode, and the ultimate isn't even lights-out the same way Teferi's is.Posted in: Modern -
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SimicNuggets posted a message on (GRN) Guilds of Ravnica General DiscussionTHIS, is exciting. I hope people support the novel so that they may continue!Posted in: Magic Storyline -
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Goryo posted a message on Core 2019 General DiscussionBOLAS.Posted in: Magic Storyline
CAN.
READ.
MINDS.
Why is this just discarded? The fact that Bolas can read minds like a book has been not only shown repeatedly, but mentioned over and over again in this very story. And Bolas was fooled by the twins? He knows Naiva has an identical twin. That's what he was using, Naiva's resentment for her twin, to manipulate her to begin with.
I LOVED the first six chapters of this story. But these last two... what happened?
This was the line that finally ended it for me:
"He's gone," said Grandmother. "He could not take the chance it was a bluff."
You don't bluff Bolas. He looks into your eyes and sees what cards you're holding; that's why Jace has to erase Vraska's memories of their sabotage plot. And he loses now by being lied to?
If you pushed Bolas off a cliff, would he actually fly, or would he just fall to his death? -
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Firebead_elvenhair posted a message on Core 2019 General DiscussionI must agree on the fact that I don't like the Multiverse becoming a sort of playground between Bolas and Ugin, it gives the feeling that among almost infinite planes there are only two major players... At this pace, one day we will discover that Bolas was the creator of old Phyrexia.Posted in: Magic Storyline -
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BlueTronFTW posted a message on The State of Modern Thread (B&R 02/07/2018)Posted in: Modern ArchivesQuote from idSurge »A hate card wouldnt 'neuter' anything. Not anymore than Anger already kills elves if you can catch them early, or Bolt/Push/Path can do work.
I mean its not a crazy thing to suggest we get a safety valve for IF they become oppressive. There is nothing wrong with Humans being good, I agree. There is something wrong when decks become too good, with not solid enough answers.
EDIT: Lets not forget, we have 15 slots for decks that are not 'cheating' by getting sideboard functions on 'plan a' level cards...which oh, are all Creatures, in Tribes, with spells stapled to them. Interesting that.
Tribal decks will continue to not have to dilute their plan, to the level the rest of us do, just to bring in x of 15 sideboard cards.
As it is, I have to cut on what I can possibly hate on, and thats with a deck as flexible as UWR.
WOTC wants the game to be about creatures. So yes, creature based decks WILL continue to get better. There's no way around that unless the mothership just decides to stop adding new standard sets to modern and freezes it now. Gotta face that reality. -
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soramaro posted a message on Face Commanders, like, all 4 of themPosted in: The Rumor Mill
Yeah, I like her character design just as much as the next guy and was looking forward to reading more about it, but the article was kind of "eh" for me. Seems like even the people at WotC were fangasming so much about their idea of a child planeswalker and the art by Seb McKinnon that they ended up making her unneccessarily powerful for pretty much no reason. Honestly, what Luhrs wrote sounded like a character description from a bad fanfiction in some places. I mean - I have nothing against her being powerful, maybe being more powerful than most planeswalkers, but basically being able to change fates of whole lives or even worlds just with a single moth? That's Commodore Guff-levels of power, only without the fourth wall breaking. I don't like her "power limiter" being the fact that she's young because she won't stay young forever, although I could see them taking the "her powers wane as she grows more mature" route here. And while her literal childlike behaviour makes sense from a flavor perspective, I don't know if I'd like her being part of a story because of that. There's a risk she could end up robbing the story of all its tension because Aminatou could just randomly or deliberately change the outcome at any given point.Quote from Kman »She is definately interesting. Kind of scary that this eight year old girl is possibly the most powerful planeswalker in existence?? She could take out Bolas with a single moth. She is way OP. If her abilities are really what is decribed, when you take them to their limit she is basically God. Not much effort would be needed apparently either. Want to erase a plane from existence, wave of a hand. Turn anybody or anything into something different, wave of a hand. Anticipates all outcomes.....and can change them with wave of a hand. She is kind of ridiculous in terms of power.
So the article didn't leave the best impression on me, but I'm curious how WotC is going to handle her if and when we see her again. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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You know I like all those choices honestly. Great List.
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I for one am glad Oldwalkers get to show off some after Teferi, Karn and Jaya embarrassed themselves on Dominaria.
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To me combo finishes the job the turn the combo is assembled.
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SHIELD BASH.
Yeah especially since he is going to be the PoV character in the book you expect a good card for him.
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Ajani is save thanks to Chandra Comics. Nissa has nothing going on. Chandra would be killable but again save thanks to Comics.
Teferi has Zhalfir and just got resparked. Jace has Vryn. Lili has Raven Man and Chain Veil Stuff. Gideon could go back to Theros but him dying to save his Friends here against something similar to a God works fine as a story conclusion.
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