Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's mountain Exodus 20:17
Can I really call them my neighbor when they are 5000 miles away? So unfair the number of promos that APAC gets - it takes so little for WoTC to foster US LGS' - promos like these would be a start.
now i'm really wondering if older land cards will get errata'd to have the cave type?
generally speaking - even if cards should have subtypes added, mechanics keyworded or what have you - they typically leave older cards untouched, the exception being when they reprint the card (see opt) and the change can be made seamlessly. If they were to add the cave subtype to any old cards, it would have been the cavern of souls reprint - which certainly would have been flavorful and in set (as opposed to a pure errata). Tundra should be a snow land, but in the end, mechanics and balance beat flavor.
Cyber-controller: … and Ixidor, Reality Sculptor is definitely gonna go from $2 to like $9 for a tiny bit now (hype spike since ixidor purpose will be to flip the creatures the controller hit.)
That seems like way too much mana. Thassa, Deep-Dwelling does the same job cheaper and is much more generally useful. Heck, Bribery does it cheaper and doesn't even need to worry about hitting the right thing with the Cyber-Controller.
I see absolutely no reason to go through any effort to flip your opponent's critters face up. Homeward path is a heavy meta choice in my area, and most of the critters in commander decks seem to be gravitating towards ETB triggers on anything more than 3 mana. I see this is as a premier mill commander - add ashnod's altar (it's always the frakking altar that corrupts fair cards) and you suddenly have a very explosive mill potential. Have 4 dorks yourself and altar, UUB+8 mill each opponent 8 cards so 24 cards, get 8 critters. That's a rough board state, the next mill is maybe 20 cards - and that's a very reasonable turn 5. Not gonna win any cedh with him, but compared to previous mill commanders I think he is the better choice.
That wasn't really a thing at least post mending. What it is different planes will measure times at different rates but time itself flows at the same rate in the multiverse.
Basically, why should a "year" be exactly the same on different planes?
Becomes a bit more of a mess when some planes have 5 suns (mirrodin), some planes have artificial suns (ixalan), no sun (innistrad at times), tiny suns? (segovia). Star Trek adopted "star date" - a xeno-centric earth based time to deal with the issue - so I wonder if we will adopt Dominaria as our baseline for a year (and even they have an AD and BC - relating to the brother's war I believe or is it Ice Age? which would be awkward to implement). Regardless - until a context of a year in mtg has been established - as well as a general aging process - Chandra may be 8 "years" older but that may be 2 years of the physical signs of aging.
That profile version looks like something my 13 year old could draw. Ugh.
You have a very talented 13 year old. These pieces are stylized after turn of century era portrait paintings. They were often devoid of background and had expressionless faces. Do I like the style? Not especially - and I think they will look absolutely terrible - but worse could be said for the ink blot cards we were just subjected to. Likewise, 75% of secret lair cards are misses for me - I have no use for cartoon art, magic anachronisms (the motor cycle riding zombie lord was amazing but not a magic card to me), and several other experiments that have been made.
But, in a world where you can get ai to make virtually any magic card art - I appreciate that wizards is at least using a few human artists and tasking them with creating art that may not necessarily be a style they are practiced in.
I get the impression that the commander cards have been designed bottom-up, that is with the needs of the deck in mind. I imagine the set's Eowyn, Aragorn etc will be more top-down designs.
We know they can do it right, the 40k cards are amazing.
I think the 40k cards were pushed to make people feel they had to play them. I assume doctor who will actually be double that. They need to make alternate universe cards and their disconnect with the mtg universe commonplace to prevent the disconnect - the off feeling - of playing those cards. I actually anticipate lotr cards to have a comparable power level to magic cards because those IPs are so easy to mesh. They also share creature types with established creature types making higher power cards more dangerous in context with the tribes that will get boosted.
"Riders of Rohan"
Aragorn is the alternative commander
WTF? I hope it's a mistake
Also that anime pose on Eowyn is really killing the mood for me. Whoever draw that has no idea what lotr is or only watched movie's scenes with Legolas.
It's mind flayarrrrrs all over again. I was so excited to have a pirate commander deck and they give us a deck with exactly 1 pirate that had no pirate synergy. Should have just called this deck random unthemed humans of lotr.
Huh?
What?
They didn't even have to read the book - they could have watched the movie. Eowyn was a loner - she set to prove her worth as a warrior of her own virtue and not as an adopted princess. Her card draw with 6 humans is forgivable - she loved her people and humankind in general - but the summon knights makes nearly no sense. Furthermore - the riders of rohan more resembled warriors than knights - they operated as scouts, ambush parties and calvary - but they answered only to their king and did not have a code of chivalry, heavy armor or any other trappings we associate with knights.
And that picture? What is she doing - randomly running in the air with the most awkward of poses? Also, I get inclusiveness - but she is the white lady of Rohan - known for her pale complexion!
She killed a witch king! Like killed it - not just caused it to have to be reformed. Aragorn didn't do that. Doubt even Gandalf could do it. How about if eowyn deals damage to a creature with indestructible, exile it.
You are starting to run out of design space for sliver lords - myriad and encore were the 2 obvious choices and in addition to being fairly a wash in terms of play style, giving slivers myriad would be even more excessive. After those two, the only good design space I feel is left is a tribal casting cost reduction (ur-dragon minus the eminence), and virtually every way I look at it I hate it - they would need to have it be a 3 drop that has color identity by text or activated ability and in that tribe it would do very little like a late game manaweft sliver or would create infinite gameplay (hibernation + metallic + dormant sliver). A chromat style set of activated abilities (ala kenrith) would be a less elegant card, and most other sliver "lord" abilities fall somewhere in the color pie and would not be appropriate for a 5 color legend (each sliver is a gravedigger, each sliver can tap to add or remove a counter from a permanent or permanent type).
edit: I suppose there is one more lord space that hasn't been explored.
Sliver Queenie 1RUGBW
2: make a copy of target sliver you control
7/7
I for one find that Aragon is the only character of the 4 on these three cards that doesn't just strike me as off. Gollum just doesn't illicit the image I had of him when I read the books. When I saw the movie (after reading the book), that gollum meshed with my vision and became my new mental picture - this looks - concentration camp old lady to me - so much so it causes a physical discomfort - a well drawn card, but unsettling. I almost feel this looks more zombie than corrupted hobbit.
Arwen is a bigger miss to me - the face is just off to me - she doesn't have elven features to me - hard lines where they should be soft and soft where they should be strong. Arwen gives me the vibe of a 40 year old human actress that had plastic surgery. Still attractive but something is off with her and doesn't mesh with any elf depicted in MTG or LoTR and definitely not the ageless beauty that most of us associate with Tolkien elves.
Finally, Frodo - he is making an up yours motion and they just removed the middle finger. Tell me I'm not wrong. You're welcome.
My friend and I were talking about how poison counters in commander essentially do double damage versus their effect in other constructed formats. What kept poison in check previously was that poison was only a viable strategy if it was killing a player in one hit (blightsteel colossus), or killing the board in one hit (triumph of the horde). Prior to One, the strategy of poison relied on focusing your attention on one player to the exclusion of the others - a sure-fire way to make friends and influence people, as poison did nothing until it hit 10. In that sense, poison was something similar to killing a player with commander damage and it really narrowed the scope of your interaction with a table.
As much as poison strategies in commander will be changed with the release of this set, the part that frightens me more about the health of Commander lies in the secondary theme of the set. Proliferate is a difficult mechanic to account for in an unbounded format like Commander. Counters are the most elegant way to account for changes in indivdual cards over time - anything from becoming more powerful (+1/+1 counters), to storing resources (energy counters and 100 more) - counters represent changes to the board that have usually used resources. Some counters can take a lot of resources to acquire (planeswalker loyalty is a good example - each loyalty you gain requires the use of a less powerful ability that turn and a commitment to protect that planeswalker to use it), and others are trivial (+1/+1 counters). Proliferate doesn't care. A single proliferate can cheat so many resources ot the battlefield or do nearly nothing relevant (your army of 15 creatures going from 2/2 to 3/3 doesnt warp your board position). Furthermore, a single proliferate can add minutes to a turn as dice are found and turned - the only thing that is redeeming about Yawgmoth, thran physician proliferate is that it usually can be demonstrated that it is an infinite combo resulting in a win. 15 incremental proliferates to get to the smae point is messy and boring.
I think you have missed the new grammar guidelines. This card correctly demonstrates the use of the Oxford and. In situations where a compound sentence has two similar objects, the use of and and is the preferred way to differentiate.
ex - The horse ate a purple carrot and and drank purple water.
compare - The horse ate a purple carrot and drank water.
The common element, 2 life, creates a situation where a single and is adequate, but the Oxford and generates an awkward stutter that helps the reader become aware of the similarity.
The proliferation was so strong it hit the text box
Absolute perfection.
I assume we are referring to "of my own" as the grammatical error. While generally redundant, it would be possible to raise contenders for someone else - something not unlike the Rancor trainer working for Jabba. Additionally, the text box is quoting a person who, despite being a Phyrexian, possesses the capacity to err and add a self-agrandizing emphasis to their statement.
Now, if only we could address the use of myself, that would make the community and myself so much more...erm...
Can I really call them my neighbor when they are 5000 miles away? So unfair the number of promos that APAC gets - it takes so little for WoTC to foster US LGS' - promos like these would be a start.
generally speaking - even if cards should have subtypes added, mechanics keyworded or what have you - they typically leave older cards untouched, the exception being when they reprint the card (see opt) and the change can be made seamlessly. If they were to add the cave subtype to any old cards, it would have been the cavern of souls reprint - which certainly would have been flavorful and in set (as opposed to a pure errata). Tundra should be a snow land, but in the end, mechanics and balance beat flavor.
I see absolutely no reason to go through any effort to flip your opponent's critters face up. Homeward path is a heavy meta choice in my area, and most of the critters in commander decks seem to be gravitating towards ETB triggers on anything more than 3 mana. I see this is as a premier mill commander - add ashnod's altar (it's always the frakking altar that corrupts fair cards) and you suddenly have a very explosive mill potential. Have 4 dorks yourself and altar, UUB+8 mill each opponent 8 cards so 24 cards, get 8 critters. That's a rough board state, the next mill is maybe 20 cards - and that's a very reasonable turn 5. Not gonna win any cedh with him, but compared to previous mill commanders I think he is the better choice.
Becomes a bit more of a mess when some planes have 5 suns (mirrodin), some planes have artificial suns (ixalan), no sun (innistrad at times), tiny suns? (segovia). Star Trek adopted "star date" - a xeno-centric earth based time to deal with the issue - so I wonder if we will adopt Dominaria as our baseline for a year (and even they have an AD and BC - relating to the brother's war I believe or is it Ice Age? which would be awkward to implement). Regardless - until a context of a year in mtg has been established - as well as a general aging process - Chandra may be 8 "years" older but that may be 2 years of the physical signs of aging.
You have a very talented 13 year old. These pieces are stylized after turn of century era portrait paintings. They were often devoid of background and had expressionless faces. Do I like the style? Not especially - and I think they will look absolutely terrible - but worse could be said for the ink blot cards we were just subjected to. Likewise, 75% of secret lair cards are misses for me - I have no use for cartoon art, magic anachronisms (the motor cycle riding zombie lord was amazing but not a magic card to me), and several other experiments that have been made.
But, in a world where you can get ai to make virtually any magic card art - I appreciate that wizards is at least using a few human artists and tasking them with creating art that may not necessarily be a style they are practiced in.
I think the 40k cards were pushed to make people feel they had to play them. I assume doctor who will actually be double that. They need to make alternate universe cards and their disconnect with the mtg universe commonplace to prevent the disconnect - the off feeling - of playing those cards. I actually anticipate lotr cards to have a comparable power level to magic cards because those IPs are so easy to mesh. They also share creature types with established creature types making higher power cards more dangerous in context with the tribes that will get boosted.
It's mind flayarrrrrs all over again. I was so excited to have a pirate commander deck and they give us a deck with exactly 1 pirate that had no pirate synergy. Should have just called this deck random unthemed humans of lotr.
What?
They didn't even have to read the book - they could have watched the movie. Eowyn was a loner - she set to prove her worth as a warrior of her own virtue and not as an adopted princess. Her card draw with 6 humans is forgivable - she loved her people and humankind in general - but the summon knights makes nearly no sense. Furthermore - the riders of rohan more resembled warriors than knights - they operated as scouts, ambush parties and calvary - but they answered only to their king and did not have a code of chivalry, heavy armor or any other trappings we associate with knights.
And that picture? What is she doing - randomly running in the air with the most awkward of poses? Also, I get inclusiveness - but she is the white lady of Rohan - known for her pale complexion!
She killed a witch king! Like killed it - not just caused it to have to be reformed. Aragorn didn't do that. Doubt even Gandalf could do it. How about if eowyn deals damage to a creature with indestructible, exile it.
edit: I suppose there is one more lord space that hasn't been explored.
Sliver Queenie 1RUGBW
2: make a copy of target sliver you control
7/7
Arwen is a bigger miss to me - the face is just off to me - she doesn't have elven features to me - hard lines where they should be soft and soft where they should be strong. Arwen gives me the vibe of a 40 year old human actress that had plastic surgery. Still attractive but something is off with her and doesn't mesh with any elf depicted in MTG or LoTR and definitely not the ageless beauty that most of us associate with Tolkien elves.
Finally, Frodo - he is making an up yours motion and they just removed the middle finger. Tell me I'm not wrong. You're welcome.
As much as poison strategies in commander will be changed with the release of this set, the part that frightens me more about the health of Commander lies in the secondary theme of the set. Proliferate is a difficult mechanic to account for in an unbounded format like Commander. Counters are the most elegant way to account for changes in indivdual cards over time - anything from becoming more powerful (+1/+1 counters), to storing resources (energy counters and 100 more) - counters represent changes to the board that have usually used resources. Some counters can take a lot of resources to acquire (planeswalker loyalty is a good example - each loyalty you gain requires the use of a less powerful ability that turn and a commitment to protect that planeswalker to use it), and others are trivial (+1/+1 counters). Proliferate doesn't care. A single proliferate can cheat so many resources ot the battlefield or do nearly nothing relevant (your army of 15 creatures going from 2/2 to 3/3 doesnt warp your board position). Furthermore, a single proliferate can add minutes to a turn as dice are found and turned - the only thing that is redeeming about Yawgmoth, thran physician proliferate is that it usually can be demonstrated that it is an infinite combo resulting in a win. 15 incremental proliferates to get to the smae point is messy and boring.
ex - The horse ate a purple carrot and and drank purple water.
compare - The horse ate a purple carrot and drank water.
The common element, 2 life, creates a situation where a single and is adequate, but the Oxford and generates an awkward stutter that helps the reader become aware of the similarity.
I assume we are referring to "of my own" as the grammatical error. While generally redundant, it would be possible to raise contenders for someone else - something not unlike the Rancor trainer working for Jabba. Additionally, the text box is quoting a person who, despite being a Phyrexian, possesses the capacity to err and add a self-agrandizing emphasis to their statement.
Now, if only we could address the use of myself, that would make the community and myself so much more...erm...