[MTG] Temple of Abandon errata: Temple of Parties; Born of the Gods Prerelease Feb 1+2

The Betgirl

Welcome to the Magic: The Gathering thread! We're currently freaking out over how crazy cool Theros is! Need to know about Theros? Daily MTG has new articles up every day, including the full set spoiler tonight (In about half an hour!)

I'm also looking to gauge interest in some kind of Theros Sealed League (Like we tried with DGM/M14 a couple months ago), so if anyone is interested, hit me with an @ "The Betman" so I can get a good count going. We'd be using Lackey to play the games.

Pre-Release is this weekend! If you attend, you'll pick a color. Depending on which color you pick, you're guaranteed one of these promo cards:

THEROS STUFF

Anon the Felon

Love these new merfolk.

admanb

@The Betman I would be interested in a sealed league.

This version of U/R Counterburn is easily the best one so far, but I'm not actually sure if it's good yet.

1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
4 Guttersnipe
4 Goblin Electromancer
4 Young Pyromancer

2 Dissolve
2 Essence Scatter
2 Izzet Charm
2 Izzet Guildgate
3 Lightning Strike
3 Magma Jet
2 Mizzium Mortars
3 Steam Augury
2 Syncopate
4 Turn // Burn

2 Chandra, Pyromaster

4 Steam Vents
8 Island
8 Mountain

SB: 2 Anger of the Gods
SB: 2 Dispel
SB: 2 Negate
SB: 2 Peak Eruption
SB: 2 Ral Zarek
SB: 2 Mizzium Mortars
SB: 1 Dissolve
SB: 1 Steam Augury

I really wish there was more card draw, or even just cantrips. Scry is great, but without card draw all my 2/2s look a lot less impressive.

WeedLordVegeta

MTG: League of Greek Legends

BlankZoe

@The Betman I am totally down

silence1186

Mmm, new thread smell.

Also, it's here.

Only Online Pauper ate a banhammer, which is good I guess.

THESPOOKY

Ah yes a thread I can bitch about MTGO in

I tried to recover my old account password today, and was asked for the answer to my secret question. It also did not tell me what the question was!

I ended up saying fuck it and buying a new account, because I'm pretty sure I drafted away anything of value on my old account. And I'm a weak willed idiot.

Minerva_SC

Full spoilers are out. I mean, I wanted to do midrange rakdos, but what the fuck Boros weenie is absolutely insane.

turtleant

I love this card so much. So much.

Also, seems like the only thing I want from this set for my Bogbrew witch deck is 4 hero's downfall.

Daebunz

Minerva_SC wrote: »

Boros weenie is absolutely gonna die horribly to one of three red sweepers in the format

Daebunz

also colossus is hilarious

KalTorak

urgh, the Blue section of the spoiler puts this



right above this



Hoping I don't run into that combo.

nightmarenny

Blackbeard7 wrote: »

Minerva_SC wrote: »

Boros weenie is absolutely gonna die horribly to one of three red sweepers in the format

White has access to intant indestructability. Go selesnya aggro.

silence1186

nightmarenny wrote: »

Blackbeard7 wrote: »

Minerva_SC wrote: »

Boros weenie is absolutely gonna die horribly to one of three red sweepers in the format

White has access to intant indestructability. Go selesnya aggro.

Are you going to go 1 drop, 2 drop, hold up Rootborn defense for the rest of the game while your opponent builds his board and sculpts his hand?

KalTorak

if you're in Boros anyway wouldn't you be using Boros Charms for indestructibility?

nightmarenny

If he is building his board then he can feel free to board wipe. Plus our three drops and four drops are A. To big to be killed by it or B. cast-able at instant speed. So I can both keep mana up and increase board presence.

Minerva_SC

Aahhh yeah there is boros charm and legions initiative. I mean, @blackbeard7 I know you've been all about "dies to removal" for the passed few reveals, but with said boros charm/legion initiative plus anex and cymede/phalanxe leader combined with the decent 1 drop pump/enchantments just revealed, boros is looking prettyu damn sturdy at the moment.

Daebunz

legion's initiative is not good

its like having the boros charm but signaling you have it so that I dont tap out and waste a spell

everything you just described is like the slowest. you tap out for anex, you get slagstorm'd

Dr. Flamingo

silence1186 wrote: »

nightmarenny wrote: »

Blackbeard7 wrote: »

Minerva_SC wrote: »

Boros weenie is absolutely gonna die horribly to one of three red sweepers in the format

White has access to intant indestructability. Go selesnya aggro.

Are you going to go 1 drop, 2 drop, hold up Rootborn defense for the rest of the game while your opponent builds his board and sculpts his hand?

Don't be silly!

Supreme Verdit costs four so you have a Loxodon Smiter out before you hold up Rootborn till the end of the game.

nightmarenny

Dr. Flamingo wrote: »

silence1186 wrote: »

nightmarenny wrote: »

Blackbeard7 wrote: »

Minerva_SC wrote: »

Boros weenie is absolutely gonna die horribly to one of three red sweepers in the format

White has access to intant indestructability. Go selesnya aggro.

Are you going to go 1 drop, 2 drop, hold up Rootborn defense for the rest of the game while your opponent builds his board and sculpts his hand?

Don't be silly!

Supreme Verdit costs four so you have a Loxodon Smiter out before you hold up Rootborn till the end of the game.

Anger of the gods is three though. Not that it matters.

BlankZoe

Out of all of the wonderful flavor in the cards, my favorite is probably The Returned.

An army of dead heroes wearing golden masks that have no memory of their previous lives?

So cool

Daebunz

they are rad

I was hoping they had more of a presence in actual cards and maybe a rare or two besides MURDER KING but maybe more in the next 2 sets

Kelor

Kinda hoping that they print an event deck with two Thoughtseizes in it to help drop the cost, like they did with Thragtusk.

Kwoaru

Somebody give me a prerelease primer

Do we know what the cards will be in the intro packs or which color gets which promo cards

unless that is only for the hydra thing in which case whatever

The Betgirl

Kwoaru wrote: »

Somebody give me a prerelease primer

Do we know what the cards will be in the intro packs or which color gets which promo cards

unless that is only for the hydra thing in which case whatever

The promo cards are definitely the intro pack rares for each color

IE the blue one is that kraken, the red one is the guy that makes you sac land

tsplitter

nightmarenny wrote: »

Dr. Flamingo wrote: »

silence1186 wrote: »

nightmarenny wrote: »

Blackbeard7 wrote: »

Minerva_SC wrote: »

Boros weenie is absolutely gonna die horribly to one of three red sweepers in the format

White has access to intant indestructability. Go selesnya aggro.

Are you going to go 1 drop, 2 drop, hold up Rootborn defense for the rest of the game while your opponent builds his board and sculpts his hand?

Don't be silly!

Supreme Verdit costs four so you have a Loxodon Smiter out before you hold up Rootborn till the end of the game.

Anger of the gods is three though. Not that it matters.

brave the elements works for any red

The Betgirl

Kwoaru wrote: »

Somebody give me a prerelease primer

Do we know what the cards will be in the intro packs or which color gets which promo cards

unless that is only for the hydra thing in which case whatever

Okay I just added the pre-release promos to the OP

Kwoaru

u da bes

edit hmmm not knowing which color got which creature I was considering going green but it looks like blue and red have the bombiest creatures on the block by far

Kwoaru

also can I just say how sad I am that Cavalry Pegasus only gives humans flying and not soldiers

soldiers would better fit the flavor of the name and also the million white cards in theros and rtr that produce soldier tokens

The Betgirl

That's probably why they didnt, to be fair

Kwoaru

dumb question time: does a spell have to successfully resolve in order to count as being "cast"? Specifically thinking with regards to triggering heroic

Like, if I have out a bunch of heroic creatures and I play Curse of the Swine targeting my own guys and then Swan Song my own Curse preventing it from resolving

Would I have successfully triggered all their heroic abilities without turning them into boars or would I have just wasted a bunch of mana to make a single bird?

Kwoaru

The Betman wrote: »

That's probably why they didnt, to be fair

Yeah but Synergy! Legion of flying white tokens!

Lasbrook

I really wanna do the whole prerelease, release weekend, game day but I dunno if I'll have money.

It sorta seems like you really only need to go to the game day thing and the first two just give you more hero cards?

KalTorak

Kwoaru wrote: »

dumb question time: does a spell have to successfully resolve in order to count as being "cast"? Specifically thinking with regards to triggering heroic

Like, if I have out a bunch of heroic creatures and I play Curse of the Swine targeting my own guys and then Swan Song my own Curse preventing it from resolving

Would I have successfully triggered all their heroic abilities without turning them into boars or would I have just wasted a bunch of mana to make a single bird?

I think that would work; IIRC, "casting" triggers as soon as you pay the costs for the spell. Countering prevents the spell from resolving, but once the cost is paid you can't prevent it from being cast.

Kwoaru

KalTorak wrote: »

Kwoaru wrote: »

dumb question time: does a spell have to successfully resolve in order to count as being "cast"? Specifically thinking with regards to triggering heroic

Like, if I have out a bunch of heroic creatures and I play Curse of the Swine targeting my own guys and then Swan Song my own Curse preventing it from resolving

Would I have successfully triggered all their heroic abilities without turning them into boars or would I have just wasted a bunch of mana to make a single bird?

I think that would work; IIRC, "casting" triggers as soon as you pay the costs for the spell. Countering prevents the spell from resolving, but once the cost is paid you can't prevent it from being cast.

Yeah I did a brief gatherer look at other cards that have effects triggered when you cast a spell, and none of them ever mentioned a fail state if the spell is countered and most didn't have any ruling text at all

the ones that actually had rulings all said the triggered effect instantly goes on the stack on top of the spell and resolves before the spell resolves

so I think I am onto something (dumb and impractical no matter how fun)

Theodore Floosevelt

@the betman I am mos def interested in Lackey League

Elbasunu

I would love love love to do a league.

THESPOOKY

Started my first Sealed game

got Garruk, Ajani, and Liliana

Kwoaru

the fuck

you're like some kinda super SOTAR

Elbasunu

THESPOOKY wrote: »

Started my first Sealed game

got Garruk, Ajani, and Liliana

I refuse to awesome this.

THESPOOKY

It could be a lot better

This is a new player phantom game, so I don't get to keep any of those cards

E: Went with a white/green Ajani/Garruk deck, and won pretty handily! Unfortunately, I never got to use Garruk.