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Feb 4, 2014nobule posted a message on Launch Giveaway!My favorite card is hobble because it removes dangerous attacking creatures from the equation while providing card advantage, but is not powerful enough to warrant a spiteful response in multiplayer since it is undoable and still allows blocking and activating abilities.Posted in: Announcements
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Hmm I beg to differ - both blue exile effects and green dragons are outside the typical pie.
Planar Chaos was all about going outside the color pie. Every single card. If a card is going descended from a planar Chaos printed card, it pretty much is by definition outside the pie or at least very significantly stretching it.
I'll agree green FLYERS are outside the pie. But Green Dragons shouldn't be very far outside the pie- Flavorwise, dragons are big beasties and green is the bomb at having the beasties so it should have more of them.
for special sets like Dragons of Tarkir that are all about the dragons, there should be some in the form of green dragon- which there are. I just wish there were more. It's crazy that blue has 2x as many exile creature effects -which are very out of pie- as green has dragons.
LET THERE BE GREEN DRAGONS!
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To be fair dragons are something green has had since mirage with canopy dragon leading the way. Blue isn't particularly the color of creature removal, but it usually gets counterspells which are even better and stop creatures before they happen.
damn straight. PRINT 'em.
I understand you're only into protesting injustice when it affects you.
you obviously just don't understand the need to...
PRINT GREEN DRAGONS!
There are 3 monogreen dragons in existence before this set - that's two less than black, three less than blue and four less than white - wtf?
Who cares what Maro says? They stretch the color pie all the time for their own agendas - for example - blue exile creature effects.
PRINT GREEN DRAGONS!
Yea... well how is a set with DRAGONS in the name supposed to work?
I think all colors should be getting their fair share of dragons. Even the Dragonlord Sarkhan is green! Where the green dragons at?!
I don't understand how wizards rationalizes blue exile creature effects time and time again but hardly budges on big green fliers.
Edit - HALEILUGH - a 3/3 flyer with megamorph!
A reachy - kalonian tusker that is sometimes bigger - snore. you spikes can take him.
I am however very excited for assault formation, mostly because it gives me a second, harder to kill doran.
It isn't playable in standard constructed due to a need for better tutoring - best options are 5 or 6cc.
That said, this card should've been white all the way - which cares more about toughness and has rolling stones
Both these cards read to me as very clear - cards that were shoved in green to make green players happy and distracted from the fact we aren't giving green many good flyers.
You sorta can't win this argument. The weaker she appears, the more of a potential sleeper she is.
Why can't Magic have it's own unique visual style identity that does not involve tabby curvy digital lines? Lord knows they are dumping top dollar into the art for the cards. How about something more in line with the design of the back of the cards like a raggedy magical scroll.
Switcheroo: When this creature enters the battlefield you may pay X which is the difference in cost between this and another target creature's casting cost. If you do exchange control of these creatures. X can't be less than 0.
The real driving force here is the color pie. BG Zombies are only often available in sets with enemy color support. Fortunately with Theros, wizards seems to be moving in the right direction with random enemy color support where it makes sense from a flavor perspective. What they really need to do is have sets where enemy colored support is dominant not just equal. Only then will combos that really make sense like BG Zombies have adequate card support.
ps. Shards block unearth seems forced in blue and should've been a green ability: it's creature based and involves haste which is more green than blue. This would've given us more green zombies since that block had a few grixis ones.
pps. Thraximundar should be green instead of blue: +1 counters are more green than blue.
ppps. Innestrad should've been Vamps-BU Humans-UW Zombies-BG Werewoves-RG Spirits-WR Reasoning Vamps are way more U than Zombies. Humans are tricky/wizardy. Spirits are fickle chaotic.
If I have Derevi in play and attack with multiple creatures, they go unblocked and I get multiple triggered untaps, can I target the same permanent multiple times like Arcanis the omnipotent and use arcanis's tap ability in between each untap trigger? Or do I not have a chance to respond to each trigger.
I think you're too caught up in seeing these cards as creatures with a kicker like ability option. Which is obviously how the designers saw them and costed them.
I want to see them primarily as auras and I want to play more than boon satyr in constructed formats. I want to be able to play all of them in jank voltron edh decks. I won't though because there are so many better options: licids, griffin guide, equipment.
You state that if celestial archon were costed only 1 cheaper it would almost never be cast as creature. I wish it were never cast as a creature. We already have plenty of creatures in this game. We only have a handful of cards with bestow. Shouldn't I want to use this new exciting ability more often than not using it? Isn't the goal of having a new ability to be used?
Bestow is also not all upside. Putting all of your eggs on one creature makes it susceptible to tapping abilities and pacifism abilities.
Kitchen finks is more than just garuk's messenger + savannah lions. Its biggest function is that it gains you life, stopping aggro in it's tracks and also going infinite. This life gain is essentially given free. Also the mana cost of garuk's messenger and lions are all colored vs the hybrid mana cost of finks makes the finks much easier to cast and effectively cheaper.
More cards than not with persist have etb or sacrifice abilities tacked on that after the persist "creature" iterations are factored in, they abilities are essentially free see: murderous red cap puppeteer clique aerie ouphes
Why can't bestow it's ability give us a slight efficiency reduction that makes it at least somewhat ahead of the curve and desirable compared to these other abilities like persist, undying, flashback?
hahaha if we're casting bears with perfect hands how about four burning tree emmisaries for two mana. It takes one less card and two less mana than your proposed "broken play"
I'm totally fine with people 2 for 1ing themselves in order to cheat out slightly cheaper creatures. Don't forget the targets for failed bestow also cost mana so it makes it quite difficult to get a boon unless the bestow cost is far below actual cost. Even with cards like wild cantor you'd have to pay for your bestow costs before you get that one mana back from the cantor.