Hey Molten Shark, I saw your list and I really loved the idea as it's something I hadn't really done with any of my decks yet (artifacts or walkers). I made mine a little bit more budget friendly and would like your input, I feel the function is nearly the same:
I feel the same way. A lot of his work is really cool if you can look at a higher resolution version of it but I feel like a lot of it is too busy to have on an mtg card.
Pemmin's Aura is an anagram for "I am Superman," which is relevant because it grants the abilities of Morphling to the enchanted creature who was known as Superman on the tournament scene because he could do anything.
I hope it stays that way. Playing against Island-Go is painfully boring. Waiting 20 minutes before my opponent plays High TidePalinchron is miserable, an agonizing 4 minutes every time I play a card while he "thinks" about countering it, and every time he wastes the clock deciding what to put back with Brainstorm. Even if he can't win he can still snatch a draw. Either way it is the antithesis of fun.
If blue has to "think" to outplay the opponent, let them figure out the right ratio of Negate/Essence Scatter to put in their deck.
That's ridiculous, saying one archetype has a right to exist in a tournament setting and another shouldn't show up in any capacity is pretty hypocritical. Combo and control decks are just as much a part of Magic as are aggro decks, especially in a format Wizards is trying to push as a "legacy alternative" that they can more easily regulate. There will be people who say Wizards is trying to cater to the aggro players by aggressively banning control cards and frankly I agree with them. When someone first starts playing mtg, what colors are they usually drawn to? My guess is, in order, green, red, white, black and blue. Why is blue at the bottom? Because it doesn't have hueg d00dz to plop down and swing sideways, it's not a straightforward color for them to just "get." So what does Wizards do? They try to make some blue cards that are similar to cards in other colors and some times they go too far, like with delver. Blue as a color has caught the most flak from the more casual player base and I am getting a little tired of opening up Magic General and seeing threads titled "(Insert blue card) a mistake/too OP/killing the game?" Some colors are better than others and it is unfortunate that most of the fundamental elements of MTG are covered by one color most of the time, especially in eternal formats, but incessantly stating "I hate control :mad:" is not going to fix anything. I guess complainers are going to complain no matter what so there is really no use complaining about them.
But why should blue get all the hate? For the past couple of standard seasons I never once saw anyone complain that white got to answer pretty much anything with either catch-all answers or hosers that basically read target black or reddeck loses the game. People forget that it wasn't just Big Bad Jace that made caw-blade what it was, it was a perfect storm involving quite a lot of other cards but it's all too easy to point at Jace 2 and scream about how he ruined the game because he's blue.
Edit: Also I never understood why players, especially "pro" players, need so long to decide whether to counter a spell or not. Same goes for sensei's divining top activations.
Edit 2: Furthermore, Jace 2 continued to be not such a great card until Shards block rotated out of standard. It wasn't like Jace 2 was printed and then he was instantly the second coming of blue, BBE kept him (and most blue decks) in check for a long time.
I actually really don't like AJ as gm. Her work in the Punk/Bryan feud was cute at first but it quickly became evident that she doesn't know how to work a microphone. The fact that they're trying to make her a hardline baby face, and all the logic holes that go with it, doesn't endear me to her in the least. She can be a total birch to the heels (or as I like to call them, the only ones with a brain in their heads) and gets no flak for it. Just like Sheamus and just like John Cena.
Rock doesn't get to swoop in and do whatever he wants. You have to realize that's all run through creative months/weeks in advance, and finally through Vince. If Vince didn't want rocky main eventing the rumble next year, he wouldn't be. For all we know, Rock may have asked for summer slam and they told him "No, we have to use Brock more before he jumps to UFC again". Plus, the yearling buildup actually worked well for them financially, so they probably wanted to capitalize on that angle again.
Vince knows that Rock = ratings. The casual WWE fans love the Rock because of who he was and I imagine he *does* get a lot of creative control with what he wants to do and when it's convenient for him unless there are some larger plans in place (more than likely involving Triple H or John Cena). Dwayne has a lot of movies to shoot and the Royal Rumble was the most convenient place for him to boost his ego this year and thus the deal was made. Dwayne says he wants to come back and help the WWE but he really only wants to help himself, he gets a huge paycheck to come in and win for no reason and now he's going to take the main event away from someone else twice next year; at the rumble and at wrestlemania again and what does that do for WWE? Nothing unless Dwayne wants to come back full time and perform because I'm sure he doesn't want to put anyone over. And I thought Hulk Hogan was bad.
ABU Duals
Shocks
Pain Lands
Filter lands
M10/ISD Duals
WWK Man lands
Tri lands
Odyssey duals are absolutely useless by themselves so I don't want to consider them for this list. Everything else is just too dependent on other things.
I would like a distinction made between The Rock and Dwyane "The Rock" Johnson. The Rock died at Summerslam 2002, Dwayne Johnson appears on WWE TV every 3 months or so to pop a rating and do whatever he wants, real WWE superstars be damned. How the hell are you going to do exactly what you claim you hate John Cena for doing? Everyone in the locker room gets the spotlight stolen from them just as much by you as they do by him because you swoop in on your white horse and declare yourself in the main events of major PPVs and for what? You wan't to be WWE champion again? That belt doesn't mean a god damn thing unless Cena is holding it because he is the only one who ever gets to main event. And this is supposed to set up for Rock/Cena II at WM29? Give me a ****ing break.
Don't get me wrong, I love The Rock, he is undoubtedly one of the all time greats. I don't like Dwayne Johnson because he is a ****ing sycophant only looking out for #1.
Mox opal was legendary for balancing reasons. Can you imagine how nuts it would be otherwise? Auto 4-of status. Instead its good but drawing multiples is bad.
I do agree that the Zendikar named land cycle should have been legendary since they are named places and all.
1 Sharuum the Hegemon
Creatures (17)
1 Baleful Strix
1 Consecrated Sphinx
1 Duplicant
1 Filigree Angel
1 Master Transmuter
1 Mycosynth Golem
1 Myr Battlesphere
1 Phyrexian Metamorph
1 Restoration Angel
1 Solemn Simulacrum
1 Spellskite
1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind
1 Sphinx Summoner
1 Sun Titan
1 Trinket Mage
1 Wall of Denial
1 Wurmcoil Engine
Planeswalkers (10)
1 Elspeth Tirel
1 Elspeth, Knight-Errant
1 Jace, the Mind Sculptor
1 Karn Liberated
1 Liliana Vess
1 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad
1 Tamiyo, the Moon Sage
1 Tezzeret the Seeker
1 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas
1 Venser, the Sojourner
Enchantments (3)
1 Bitterblossom
1 Land Tax
1 Phyrexian Arena
1 Azorius Signet
1 Contagion Engine
1 Darksteel Forge
1 Darksteel Ingot
1 Dimir Signet
1 Dispeller's Capsule
1 Executioner's Capsule
1 Everflowing Chalice
1 Mox Opal
1 Nihil Spellbomb
1 Oblivion Stone
1 Rings of Brighthearth
1 Skullclamp
1 Sol Ring
1 Sword of Feast and Famine
1 Trading Post
1 Worn Powerstone
1 Vedalken Orrery
Instants (5)
1 Counterspell
1 Dismiss
1 Foil
1 Pact of Negation
1 Return to Dust
Sorceries (9)
1 Austere Command
1 Damnation
1 Decree of Pain
1 Demonic Tutor
1 Entreat the Angels
1 Terminus
1 Time Warp
1 Transmute Artifact
1 Vindicate
1 Adarkar Wastes
1 Ancient Den
1 Ancient Tomb
1 Arcane Sanctum
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Caves of Koilos
1 Celestial Colonnade
1 City of Brass
1 Command Tower
1 Creeping Tar Pit
1 Darksteel Citadel
1 Godless Shrine
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Inkmoth Nexus
5 Island
1 Mistveil Plains
1 Mystic Gate
1 Phyrexian Tower
3 Plains
1 Reflecting Pool
1 Reliquary Tower
1 Seat of the Synod
1 Sunken Ruins
3 Swamp
1 Tectonic Edge
1 Tolaria West
1 Underground River
1 Vault of Whispers
1 Watery Grave
I'll probably replace the dismiss with a Cryptic Command when I get my hands on one.
That's ridiculous, saying one archetype has a right to exist in a tournament setting and another shouldn't show up in any capacity is pretty hypocritical. Combo and control decks are just as much a part of Magic as are aggro decks, especially in a format Wizards is trying to push as a "legacy alternative" that they can more easily regulate. There will be people who say Wizards is trying to cater to the aggro players by aggressively banning control cards and frankly I agree with them. When someone first starts playing mtg, what colors are they usually drawn to? My guess is, in order, green, red, white, black and blue. Why is blue at the bottom? Because it doesn't have hueg d00dz to plop down and swing sideways, it's not a straightforward color for them to just "get." So what does Wizards do? They try to make some blue cards that are similar to cards in other colors and some times they go too far, like with delver. Blue as a color has caught the most flak from the more casual player base and I am getting a little tired of opening up Magic General and seeing threads titled "(Insert blue card) a mistake/too OP/killing the game?" Some colors are better than others and it is unfortunate that most of the fundamental elements of MTG are covered by one color most of the time, especially in eternal formats, but incessantly stating "I hate control :mad:" is not going to fix anything. I guess complainers are going to complain no matter what so there is really no use complaining about them.
But why should blue get all the hate? For the past couple of standard seasons I never once saw anyone complain that white got to answer pretty much anything with either catch-all answers or hosers that basically read target black or red deck loses the game. People forget that it wasn't just Big Bad Jace that made caw-blade what it was, it was a perfect storm involving quite a lot of other cards but it's all too easy to point at Jace 2 and scream about how he ruined the game because he's blue.
Edit: Also I never understood why players, especially "pro" players, need so long to decide whether to counter a spell or not. Same goes for sensei's divining top activations.
Edit 2: Furthermore, Jace 2 continued to be not such a great card until Shards block rotated out of standard. It wasn't like Jace 2 was printed and then he was instantly the second coming of blue, BBE kept him (and most blue decks) in check for a long time.
Vince knows that Rock = ratings. The casual WWE fans love the Rock because of who he was and I imagine he *does* get a lot of creative control with what he wants to do and when it's convenient for him unless there are some larger plans in place (more than likely involving Triple H or John Cena). Dwayne has a lot of movies to shoot and the Royal Rumble was the most convenient place for him to boost his ego this year and thus the deal was made. Dwayne says he wants to come back and help the WWE but he really only wants to help himself, he gets a huge paycheck to come in and win for no reason and now he's going to take the main event away from someone else twice next year; at the rumble and at wrestlemania again and what does that do for WWE? Nothing unless Dwayne wants to come back full time and perform because I'm sure he doesn't want to put anyone over. And I thought Hulk Hogan was bad.
Shocks
Pain Lands
Filter lands
M10/ISD Duals
WWK Man lands
Tri lands
Odyssey duals are absolutely useless by themselves so I don't want to consider them for this list. Everything else is just too dependent on other things.
Don't get me wrong, I love The Rock, he is undoubtedly one of the all time greats. I don't like Dwayne Johnson because he is a ****ing sycophant only looking out for #1.
I do agree that the Zendikar named land cycle should have been legendary since they are named places and all.