The war marks are most likely just the way to pick your faction for the pre-release online. There will probably be two entry options (hey wow they added this fancy new multiple entry fee system just recently, how CONVENIENT!) one will use phyrexian war marks and one will use mirran.
This is what the ORCs on the beta have alluded to anyways.
After finally playing the game (I had the problem where right-clicking to find out unit info didn't work and was holding out for an update, then gave up on an update any time soon and moved into the campaign), I was mildly pleased to learn I didn't hate the gameplay. The attack+move controls need a lot of work or need to function the way they did in the tutorials because I cannot manage to pick a different space than the closest open-adjacent, which causes problems once in a while.
There are a number of times that strategy does matter. When you have significantly weak creatures and your opponent's creatures can take yours out in ways that deny you counter-attacks, you can way the cost and benefits of attacking into the opponent's better creature and actually getting damage in, or defending and creating a roadblock for your planeswalker.
It is unfortunate that once you start winning, the best strategy for the enemy is to run, but I haven't played on a map so small that this was more than a minor annoyance. I've always caught the enemy in a few turns.
Of course, unless they change the cost of the cards, there's no way I'm playing this for more than a week, so I guess we'll just wait and see if enough people are smart/mad enough to leave the expensive product be and how SOE responds if they do.
You can change your attack and move style in the game options. There's 3 different styles to pick from, one being like in the tutorial. With the default move an attack style you can pick the square you attack from by holding shift.
From time to time they ask for people to sign up. It is usually one of the news posts on the login screen of MTGO. I haven't seen sign-ups since Alara Reborn, but I may have just overlooked them.
Of course, the best thing is just to check around to 3-4 different bots you've used in the past.
This is really your best bet for semi-cheap cards that aren't advertised in the trade messages. For the current popular cards you can usually search for the card name and skim multiple humans/bots advertisements for the best price.
the first thing i did was scour all of the rules forums for that exact question and what i have come to find out is that necrotic ooze will gain the level up ability but will not be able to gain any of the abilities of the level up creature.
maybe someone much smarter than me can explain this better.
tl;dr version:
necrotic ooze gains level up
necrotic ooze does not gain abilities of level up
im an idiot don't trust me
You are correct. The reason the ooze doesn't gain any of the abilities granted by the different levels is because the different levels are basically static abilities that grant activated abilities. Imagine that instead of the leveling creature template they actually read:
How about this? I tried making a standard and sorta-cheap-but-its-looking-expensive-due-to-scalding-tarn-and-myr-battlesphere-and-tezzeret
It allows enough variability for
a.) infinite mana -> Fireball/ Golem artisan
b.) infinite creatures
c.) alot of myrs/creatures + myrsmith -> Tempered Steel
d.) Enough mana and myr for Myr Battlesphere -> Tezzeret's ult
Any comments on this? I might try to build this once I finish with my discard deck. Though my major concerns is that this seems way too slow for aggro bursts/infect.
Looking forward to the dragon deck, but honestly I can't really see how they will make a mythic Knight card.
Keep in mind that aside from the aforementioned Rafiq we also have Mirrodin Besieged coming out between then and now. Wouldn't be surprised for there to be some more knights in that set to accompany Kemba's Skyguard. Otherwise Knight Exemplar really served no purpose.
Hopefully they go a multi-colored route with the dragons deck and not a mono-red theme. I guess the same could be said for the knight deck not being mono-white.
Heh, if you could cash out MED4 it would be the most popular set in the history of MTGO.
Answer: No, you can't.
This is what the ORCs on the beta have alluded to anyways.
You can change your attack and move style in the game options. There's 3 different styles to pick from, one being like in the tutorial. With the default move an attack style you can pick the square you attack from by holding shift.
From time to time they ask for people to sign up. It is usually one of the news posts on the login screen of MTGO. I haven't seen sign-ups since Alara Reborn, but I may have just overlooked them.
This is really your best bet for semi-cheap cards that aren't advertised in the trade messages. For the current popular cards you can usually search for the card name and skim multiple humans/bots advertisements for the best price.
Wow. This is one I could have gone without noticing. Lmao.
You are correct. The reason the ooze doesn't gain any of the abilities granted by the different levels is because the different levels are basically static abilities that grant activated abilities. Imagine that instead of the leveling creature template they actually read:
If ~ has x to y level counters, it has <ability>
Tezzeret the Seeker is no longer in standard
Keep in mind that aside from the aforementioned Rafiq we also have Mirrodin Besieged coming out between then and now. Wouldn't be surprised for there to be some more knights in that set to accompany Kemba's Skyguard. Otherwise Knight Exemplar really served no purpose.
Nice eye. The mouth and tail are the strongest indicators. Pic added for comparison.
Fixed.