OH BOY! My favorite card so far spoiled! Finally instants get the same power creep creatures have been getting! Anybody remember Mnemonic Nexus? Nope? That's because it doesn't WIN YOU GAMES like psychic spiral.
Sure it does cost five mana, but as a one card combo instant, I'll pay for that.
This will be most fun in multiplayer dredge on someone's upkeep. Yes, it's trolly, but you sacrificing your graveyard resource to take out the player who is the biggest threat is a fair trade. You'll still need to account for Ulamogg 50% of the time.
As previously stated, the set is not fully spoiled so this question is yet unanswerable.
I do like the level of apparent distance from the rest of Innistrad so far.
With the amount of throwbacks blocks recently, I think it is appropriate to take the long view and assume this is not the end of Innistrad.
Players should also remember we are in a time of interblock synergy and soon we will be returning to the land of the Watchwolf.
awesomeee I love the ouroboros on the timetwister!
the brainstorm imho is the best so far.
I don't know how you guys are calling it too literal. The previous arts are literal examples of people brainstorming. If anything this new art is too surreal. Personally, I like the creative interpretation that emphasizes the storm.
What makes it past printable is that it too closely mirrors offensive aspects of our society. If we did exist in a gender neutral society where men are dominated by women sexually and otherwise in close to equal amounts as women were dominated by men, sure it should be a permissible representation. BUT WE DON'T. 99% of rapists are men. If you take a look at this playmat and say, "yeah that's fine" you are either OUT OF TOUCH WITH REALITY or DESENSITIZED. Get educated. Care about others.
It also doesn't help that it is cartoony and reminds me of big johnson t-shirts.
Phyrexia can win with Karn dead or alive. Their victory just means taking over the surface and having majority control over the plane to do what they wish. Karn dying would have been beneficial for Sheoldred personally, because she wants to make herself the sole ruler of the plane. Karn defecting to the Mirrans has pretty much the same outcome for her, since she could have the opportunity to take his throne after he abdicates.
I've started skipping your posts because they are so intentionally biased toward new phyrexia. Have fun changing your avatar if you're wrong.
I agree with a bunch of people that if we were to pick which packaging is more aethetically pleasing, we should go with the mirrans. New phyrexian looks like cluttered and gross guildpact packaging. Though Mirrodin pure does look a bit too much like Scars of Mirrodin. I'll withhold judgment until it is fed to me through a tube by wizards.
I think the problem was lack of randomness.
The set is way too designed and cohesive as a unit.
They need more random cards, more error, more skullclamp just to shake it up a bit.
As a Johnny, there need to be quirky odds and ends that aren't obvious for me to enjoy a set.
I love the selkies!
The flavor of u/g in this set is awesome! The beasts are great!
I'm happy that they are generic types so they are soo much stronger as previously mentioned!
For every dollar that you don't spend because of the selkie nitpick I will spend two on selkie commons!!!
Unmake is the only white removal with NO drawbacks in the entire game.
This is not true. You kids are looking at unmake and seeing it as a WWW spell, not a W/B W/B W/B spell. It is NOT a white spell.
The most obvious practical implication of this is that it will almost never kill a Chameleon Collosus. For that, you'd be better off using the less exciting temporal isolation, which saves you mana amount and color.
There is always the drawback having the card take up space in your deck. You could be playing something different, like Wrath of God or Damnation, that usually kills all the creatures for only one more mana.
Okay so unmake is not entirely broken, but that's not why you people are upset. You are upset because of change in the color pie and you have a right to be. In a world that is scary and turbulent at times, it is comforting to have some lines that are not crossed in our favorite collectable card game.
And for these people we have fallen empires tribal limited formats.
Sorry, that was a little condecending, but relax people it's a game it changes. Frankly, it's the new and exciting ways Wizards shake up the color pie is one of the only ways they hold my interest and cause me to fork over more dollars. I echo the setiment expressed earlier that eventide, if anything does not do this enough and that the hybrids are on the safe side (esp the triggering on two lands battlemage-esque cycle). Even powerful stuff like unmake is going to have trouble finding it's way into my decks.
spin down life counters are horrible.
~their name is deceptive (the ravinica card life counters actually spun. dice roll).
~the rav counters are more collectible due to their artwork as opposed to the set symbol on the dice. Their collectibility is further evidenced by the fact that the rav-style counters are used for prizes in tournaments. (if I received a spin down counter as a tournament prize I would force feed that grimy piece of plastic to the wizards of the coast representative)
~the spin down counters are strictly and utterly inferior to the rav style cards for their intended purpose of keeping track of life. (if you doubt this conduct the following experiment: put a spin down on a table. record your life total. bump the table. record your life total. repeat using a rav style counter. if you experience greater variance in the totals with the spin down please send five dollars to the following address: 66 Ulose lane, burlington, vt 05401)
~The only reason that I can imagine people liking spin downs is due to some crap setimentality and some dice-related preference acquired in other non-magic games.
that said, I like fat packs. I like the boxes the most because my 2 year old cannot choke on them.
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.
Sure it does cost five mana, but as a one card combo instant, I'll pay for that.
This will be most fun in multiplayer dredge on someone's upkeep. Yes, it's trolly, but you sacrificing your graveyard resource to take out the player who is the biggest threat is a fair trade. You'll still need to account for Ulamogg 50% of the time.
I do like the level of apparent distance from the rest of Innistrad so far.
With the amount of throwbacks blocks recently, I think it is appropriate to take the long view and assume this is not the end of Innistrad.
Players should also remember we are in a time of interblock synergy and soon we will be returning to the land of the Watchwolf.
the brainstorm imho is the best so far.
I don't know how you guys are calling it too literal. The previous arts are literal examples of people brainstorming. If anything this new art is too surreal. Personally, I like the creative interpretation that emphasizes the storm.
It also doesn't help that it is cartoony and reminds me of big johnson t-shirts.
also it is semi-color biased as mentioned above to green-red just as scrye was linked to blue-black and bloodthirst to black and red.
I've started skipping your posts because they are so intentionally biased toward new phyrexia. Have fun changing your avatar if you're wrong.
I agree with a bunch of people that if we were to pick which packaging is more aethetically pleasing, we should go with the mirrans. New phyrexian looks like cluttered and gross guildpact packaging. Though Mirrodin pure does look a bit too much like Scars of Mirrodin. I'll withhold judgment until it is fed to me through a tube by wizards.
I've also won beat Uril, the miststalker with ben-ben, akki hermit in edh by playing an aura barbs against an uril with two enchantments on him when my opponent was at four life.
The set is way too designed and cohesive as a unit.
They need more random cards, more error, more skullclamp just to shake it up a bit.
As a Johnny, there need to be quirky odds and ends that aren't obvious for me to enjoy a set.
The flavor of u/g in this set is awesome! The beasts are great!
I'm happy that they are generic types so they are soo much stronger as previously mentioned!
For every dollar that you don't spend because of the selkie nitpick I will spend two on selkie commons!!!
This is not true. You kids are looking at unmake and seeing it as a WWW spell, not a W/B W/B W/B spell. It is NOT a white spell.
The most obvious practical implication of this is that it will almost never kill a Chameleon Collosus. For that, you'd be better off using the less exciting temporal isolation, which saves you mana amount and color.
There is always the drawback having the card take up space in your deck. You could be playing something different, like Wrath of God or Damnation, that usually kills all the creatures for only one more mana.
Okay so unmake is not entirely broken, but that's not why you people are upset. You are upset because of change in the color pie and you have a right to be. In a world that is scary and turbulent at times, it is comforting to have some lines that are not crossed in our favorite collectable card game.
And for these people we have fallen empires tribal limited formats.
Sorry, that was a little condecending, but relax people it's a game it changes. Frankly, it's the new and exciting ways Wizards shake up the color pie is one of the only ways they hold my interest and cause me to fork over more dollars. I echo the setiment expressed earlier that eventide, if anything does not do this enough and that the hybrids are on the safe side (esp the triggering on two lands battlemage-esque cycle). Even powerful stuff like unmake is going to have trouble finding it's way into my decks.
~their name is deceptive (the ravinica card life counters actually spun. dice roll).
~the rav counters are more collectible due to their artwork as opposed to the set symbol on the dice. Their collectibility is further evidenced by the fact that the rav-style counters are used for prizes in tournaments. (if I received a spin down counter as a tournament prize I would force feed that grimy piece of plastic to the wizards of the coast representative)
~the spin down counters are strictly and utterly inferior to the rav style cards for their intended purpose of keeping track of life. (if you doubt this conduct the following experiment: put a spin down on a table. record your life total. bump the table. record your life total. repeat using a rav style counter. if you experience greater variance in the totals with the spin down please send five dollars to the following address: 66 Ulose lane, burlington, vt 05401)
~The only reason that I can imagine people liking spin downs is due to some crap setimentality and some dice-related preference acquired in other non-magic games.
that said, I like fat packs. I like the boxes the most because my 2 year old cannot choke on them.
wizards that beat down