I guess we will have to see.
I think two sites won't work long term.
I guess the quality of the sites will determine what happens.
Mtgs has good general and Modern content, which matters to me. Its Legacy content is nearly unusable, due to the way it is organised, and Legacy also matters to me. I don't really do the rest, rumours aside of course, so the new site has to exceed the current site in those areas in order for me to move. That is easy to do in the cade of the Legacy content, but harder for Modern where the current site is very well organised.
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Feb 4, 2014drmarkb posted a message on Launch Giveaway!I want to give it to a fallen empires card because that was the set that I fell in love with first.Posted in: Announcements
I should give it to a Death and Taxes modern card or to a Pox legacy card.
But in the end I have to give it to magus of the tabernacle .
I rediscovered this card a couple of years ago.
The beauty of it wiping a mass of creatures whilst operating mana restriction with ghostly prison or smokestack type cards is magnificent- you have the paradox of giving your opponent lots of choices, none of which they actually want- each one of which makes them fall closer into being able to do nothing. Even in modern I have used this card with world queller and other lock cards to slowly reduce an opponent to zero permanents, and unlike the original expensive legends land upon which it is based it can block a goyf worth 100 times as much, which always feels sweet. Nothing beats the experience of top decks folding to a 50 cent card that often needs to be read twice. If only it was in fallen empires........:):) - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
Lavinia seems at odds with the free stuff.....
Not many of us on there, but it is rather more recent!
The answer is no, btw.
Any pw has to do two things, space is so tight in stax - most cards have to be lock pieces- so PWs need to be win cons and control.
Karn at 4 mana is better than this in most respects. Additionally, mono w geddon stax runs a lot of colourless sol lands, wastelands, ghost quarters etc, getting WW can be hard when lands, moxen get blown up often to stacks, 'geddon etc.
There is not really a missing piece. Post drs White stax is much better, if anything the Walking Ballista made a huge difference, and Karn helped, but ultimately the only issue is other Stax strategies are more reliable,' Geddon on its own is situationally powerful, but the deck needs to get to 4, its 4cc slot is overloaded a bit compared to mono b stax and dragon stompy.....
The PW itself is ok, its just not better than Karn.
Elspeth/Gideon is probably better in grindier matches like Miracles, this card is brtter vs more combo strategies, but it is slower to set up the ultimate.
I know I used it! I also used "I", which is also a no-no in report writing, which are written in passive register in science.
"I did this" turns into "this was done" for reporting events that have transpired. No "I" or "we" are used, except for introductory references to previous reports e. g. "We have previously reported", which is fine outside of the methodology, but only used in actual papers rather than experimental reports. Plenty of informal speach patterns are not acceptable in formal reports. If a student is writing informal speach that is different, but then they could also use "lol", slang or similar without correction.
Planeswalkers- tick
Creatures - tick, tick, tick
Landkill err, what now
Discard - err too unfun
Counterspells - fine- on turn 3
And the value of your cards? Congrats people, you just paid for me to go part time. Yes, you can enjoy paying for everyone else to enjoy Mtg at your expense. Enjoy your Mtg.
I am aware of archaic uses of "they", but they are archaic. "Egregious" used to mean outstanding, not outstandingly bad. If I indicated a person's work was egregious, people would assume that I was using the modern rather than eighteenth century meaning. Language evolves, of course, but in this case it becomes confusing to use sungular they in the context of longer sentences involving both individuals and groups.
I would rather a gender neutral personal pronoun be created; many years ago in the UK the pronoun "ze" was pushed as an alternative to he/she, which makes far more sense, as it has no masculine/feminine connotations.
I don't really mind what Americans do, of course. Many of our words are rather stupidly francisised by addition of "u", hence our colour and Anerican "color", an attempt to make our language more sophisticated in days where emulating the French was de regeur, so we already have divergence before we even consider our use of S over Z in words ending in "ised".
Man we need a sort out- threads like this should be in the main, alongside Miracles etc. Last I looked infect was lurking in developing as well.
Why don't you pm a mod and get the deck moved to established (and call it dragon stompy as well as Mono Red prison, as that is what I have seen it referred to as most often)
Her home is probably some D N T style list with vial, or humans style list with vial. We need Moxen and sol lands, and so UW is a big, big ask.
These are depressing times, creatures, creatures, bloody creatures with removal, whilst permanents that are not creatures get weaker.
Take a look at real male soldiers, as in actually physically fit men who fight and die, then have a look at what we see on Mtg; it is as far from real as the metal bikini art is for women. Only for women it is considered sexualised, but for male characters it is not.
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Still in terms of art I don't like the modern homogenised style.
To be brutally honest, I liked the old artist lead approach that bought us Foglios et al. Sure some sucked, but the variation was appealing.
Nobody would be interested in Mishra's factory winter if it were an old card but with the modern art. I would ratehr a Stasis every now and then, regardless of how sexualised it is.
Legacy Pox
Modern Eldra Tron
Modern Grxis DS
etc.
What gives? Who is the phantom thread stealer....?
They don't appear in archives afaik.
Honestly, the RW Nahiri deck is solid enough, just has issues with Tron, control etc.
Csn be tuned to most metas.
If, and it is a huge "if", the meta becomes so aggressive that this is good, then Nodes is probably better.
Flexibility is more important in Modern. Every now and then a spirit or DS tempo deck wins as we can't get our stuff under them. By and large the Runed Halo/Ghostly/Leyline package with a couple of Nodes or Seal Away is enough early doors against most aggro decks. S field slows the fetch heavy decks too. One solitary resolved Sphere of Safety is enough to get ahead mid game and stay there against faster decks. My aggro matches, such as Affinity, D Shadow area decent and do not need more It is tron and control that are harder.
I don't think it matters as much in legacy. I play a lot of Legacy and track the decks I play going first and second, there are not many decks I play where the play draw really matters, although my data is patchy in that the format is vast and the sample size is relatively tiny, being the result of my events and my testing sessions with test partners. That said I don't play tempo decks.
There are a few balls-out fragile force checker decks in the format, they to win t1, an example is Belcher, and going first is a significant advantage as you negate the prospect of Daze on the play and the opponent only has a 39 or whatever % chance of a Force in hand on your game-winning T1 . (If the opposing blue deck is on the play they get access to Brainstorm et al., meaning they can see more cards to see the game saving Force, if it is a non blue deck they will probably rip cards from your hand or drop a taxing card like Chalice/3 sphere). So for those decks first is key, which is why those decks are rare in the format.
Leylines of Sanctity and, more importantly in the format, of the Void, which is a wincon with Helm of Obedience in some shells, are both common and can enable you to get the jump on some degenerate strategies t0. Maze of ith and Karakas can often do work too against cheated threats, and are uncounterable. Dark ritual and many other sources of fast mana (mox, sol lands, spirit G effects) mean that you can really catch up going second and do whatever your deck does, and selection of cards means that you can access catch up cards. Other pitch spells also exist and have limited use- you might see Pyrokinesis in Goblins, for example. Daze and Wasteland get stronger on the play, sure, but the decks that run them only generate one mana per turn, plenty of other decks in the format generate more on turn 1, making daze weaker. The only tempo deck in the format that breaks this rule does not run Daze (small Eldrazi), whilst the one deck in Legacy that wants to go second, manaless dredge, is immune to Wasteland and to Daze, to a large extent.