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[MTG] Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it Magic.
Unpopular opinion, but I will take Siege Rhino or even Omnath meta again over Cawblade any day.
Also possibly unpopular opinion, lots of format-warping cards would be less annoying if they reprinted Pithing Needle.
I started playing during Cawblade standard and it was absolutely disgusting, but also kinda amazing at the same time?
I agree, actually. Cawblade as a deck appeals to me - lots of interaction between card types and the opponent's board, equipment being usable upgrades, bouncing for tempo and control, etc. But those damned Swords were so disgustingly OP in conjunction with Stoneforge Mystic that it just turned into a game of "who can stick a Sword on the table first."
At least it wasn't the hilariously overlooked mistake that happened with Flash Hulk and turn 0.5 kills.
i was running quest for the holy relic at the start of that standard and managed to transition it into the white half of cawblade by the time the bannings were imminent.
i think i ran GW for birds of paradise at some point? i could never afford jaces.
so my deck was an aggressive WW brew with stoneforge, swords, and swords on glint hawks.
for the two weeks i could run batterskull and mystic together i stomped everything but proper cawblade.
Unpopular opinion, but I will take Siege Rhino or even Omnath meta again over Cawblade any day.
Also possibly unpopular opinion, lots of format-warping cards would be less annoying if they reprinted Pithing Needle.
I started playing during Cawblade standard and it was absolutely disgusting, but also kinda amazing at the same time?
I agree, actually. Cawblade as a deck appeals to me - lots of interaction between card types and the opponent's board, equipment being usable upgrades, bouncing for tempo and control, etc. But those damned Swords were so disgustingly OP in conjunction with Stoneforge Mystic that it just turned into a game of "who can stick a Sword on the table first."
At least it wasn't the hilariously overlooked mistake that happened with Flash Hulk and turn 0.5 kills.
Jace and Stoneforge absolutely deserved to get banned, but part of me is morbidly curious what standard would have looked life if people had been able to really iterate on the twin-blade deck that popped up literally the weekend before the ban took effect.
there is so much marketing push for kamigawa jesus
it's almost getting overwhelming
I don't even play Magic anymore, and this came up on my Youtube feed.
It looks cool as hell!
What's been happening with the MTG story, broadly? Or just with this set?
It would be helpful to know exactly how long you've been out of the game. Do you know what Mirrodin is? How about The Mending?
Quit right before Dragons of Tarkir came out, but came back briefly for Ikoria (Godzilla).
So ancient dragon planeswalker Nichol Bolas had a plan to reattain godlike powers. But part of that plan involved moving large amounts of troops from one plane of the multiverse to another, which was a problem because the Mending shut down all the old planar portal technology. Bolas discovered a plane called Kaladesh that has a steampunk theme and is full of inventors. One of the inventors there, an elf named Rashmi, had engineered a new type of planar portal called a planar bridge that still functioned, even in the new, stronger Blind Eternities created by the Mending. Bolas sent his agent Tezzeret to steal the planar bridge.
Bolas's big plan was foiled by a bunch of noble hero types, but Tezzeret fucked off with the planar bridge before anyone could stop him. He took it to New Phyrexia and sold it to the praetors in exchange for some as of yet unspecified compensation on their part.
Unfortunately for the praetors, while the planar bridge makes transport across the multiverse possible, it does not protect from the intense magical energies of the Blind Eternities, which normally disintegrate any organic matter that passes through them. But they discovered a plane called Kaldheim that's themed around Norse mythology and Scandinavian culture. On that plane is a giant tree, and the innards of that tree produce a magical sap that imbues a family of gods with a form of immortality. The praetors send one of their own to retrieve a sample of the sap. Only Green-aligned Vorinclex was durable enough to possibly survive the journey, and even he was brought to the brink of death. Reconstituting his body with local biomass, Vorinclex succeeded in his mission.
Protected from the rigors of the blind eternities, Blue-aligned Jin-Gitaxias could now begin his research into the most common means of multiversal travel, the planeswalker spark. His previous studies had shown that it was impossible to create a phyrexian with a planeswalker spark, as sparks are an aspect of the soul and the soul is fundamentally incompatible with the glistening oil. Either the spark would repel the oil, preventing infection, or the oil would overwhelm the soul and snuff it out entirely, taking the spark along with it.
Which brings us to the current set:
To resolve the oil/spark incompatibility, Jin-Gitaxias traveled to the Japanese culture themed plane of Kamigawa. It had both of the two things he would need for his research, state of the art technology and an abundance of spiritual energy. Acting through Tezzeret as a middleman, Jin-Gitaxias commissioned a Soratami inventor named Tameshi to engineer a device called the reality chip. True to its name, the reality ship is a microchip that can alter reality itself when magical energy is channeled through it.
Three heroic planeswalkers discovered Jin-Gitaxias' plot and attempted to stop him. The first was Tamiyo, who you might remember from Avacyn Restored. The second was the Wanderer, a nameless planeswalker who is cursed with an unstable spark that causes her to unintentionally planeswalk at random times. And the third is Kaito, a ninja who is able to planeswalk due to being friends with a kami who represents planeswalker sparks.
Jin-Gitaxias captured Tamiyo and escaped with the reality chip. Using the chip, he was able to cheat the laws of nature, resulting in a work-around for the inherent contradiction of glistening oil and a soul coexisting in the same body. Tamiyo was forcibly transformed into the first phyrexian planeswalker.
Thanks for this! Also,
that's a real bummer for Tamiyo!
Also in the anime preview video for the set, it looks like the Wanderer gets ripped away from Kaito while they're hugging, so it seems like everyone ends up unhappy in the end, and the bad guys have figured out the next step of their evil plan.
Shitty all around!
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ShadowenSnores in the morningLoserdomRegistered Userregular
Yeah, but
Even using the Reality Chip, Jinny G could only compleat Tamiyo by, basically, a loyalty transfer. Tamiyo's whole thing outside of knowledge is protecting her family and making sure they're happy and healthy. The compleation process made her see Phyrexia as her family. This might come back to bite Jin in the Gitaxiass.
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Obligatory fuck alchemy post
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I'm not opposed to changes like the zombie buffs and the dungeon buffs previously, but the fact that they come in packages where they basically just shove a bunch of different buffs on a single mechanic to practically build the deck for you is not particularly interesting to me
I actually think that of all the Alchemy changes, making the eternally popular set_draft_mechanic.dek more powerful is a pretty great idea. People always try to play it and it's already kinda pre-built for you, it's just sometimes super terrible instead of just T3.
I ate an engineer
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alchemy is fine, and the idea of making more shit viable is totally okay
I like how they buffed my foretell.dek.
Don't think they needed to, at least it worked well in standard back when.
Also it's been like a year since I played, so seems weird to buff it now.
Starting with the next set, Streets of New Capenna, Digital clients will get the new set a week after the paper release. (4/22 vs 4/28)
This makes a great deal of sense - retail outlets trying to run prerelease tournaments (generally a pretty high turnout, comparatively casual event) were basically being forced to compete with Arena. Anecdotally, store owners here absolutely hated that, and it did mean that some players decided to play on arena instead.
Oh wizards, I get the appeal of "hey we can get some of these fools to buy the cards TWICE! AND we don't even have to print half of them!" but trying to have your cake and eat it to is difficult for a reason.
I discovered that my old flashback could more or less be put back together for historic. I am now also discovering that a lot of people scoop to a single counter spell or bounce spell.
I discovered that my old flashback could more or less be put back together for historic. I am now also discovering that a lot of people scoop to a single counter spell or bounce spell.
Man, there was a deck during the era of CHK block that got incredible amounts of turn 2 or 3 scoops by opponents. It was a fucking disgusting deck for one of two people just not playing a game of Magic.
Starting with the next set, Streets of New Capenna, Digital clients will get the new set a week after the paper release. (4/22 vs 4/28)
This makes a great deal of sense - retail outlets trying to run prerelease tournaments (generally a pretty high turnout, comparatively casual event) were basically being forced to compete with Arena. Anecdotally, store owners here absolutely hated that, and it did mean that some players decided to play on arena instead.
There’s still an ongoing pandemic that is killing an average of 1500-2000 people a day in the states
I played a game of Commander over Zoom last night and the Lynde player Briberied my Jin Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant on turn 2. And as it was happening, it occurred to me that card is the only good Bribery hit in my whole deck.
The game was pretty miserable for a few turns until Jinny G got removed, and even though all 3 of us teamed up against her, we still lost.
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KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
Tamiyo making token versions of any nonland permanent makes me want to so silly things with Esika's Chariot
so far I've only gotten to make a token of Chariot, which then copies itself when it attacks (and dies instantly but leaves behind two Cats). But I could also make token copies of planeswalkers, or Binding of the Old Gods, or other silly things.
I've never played historic before this week so as I move up the ranks with my half-built flash deck its very interesting. I'm already up to Gold 2 and not facing much of any resistance. Seems like almost everyone is happy to play a deck that folds to threat back by counter spells and bounce spells. Starting to feel like I'm ruining everybody's fun...
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I started playing during Cawblade standard and it was absolutely disgusting, but also kinda amazing at the same time?
I agree, actually. Cawblade as a deck appeals to me - lots of interaction between card types and the opponent's board, equipment being usable upgrades, bouncing for tempo and control, etc. But those damned Swords were so disgustingly OP in conjunction with Stoneforge Mystic that it just turned into a game of "who can stick a Sword on the table first."
At least it wasn't the hilariously overlooked mistake that happened with Flash Hulk and turn 0.5 kills.
i think i ran GW for birds of paradise at some point? i could never afford jaces.
so my deck was an aggressive WW brew with stoneforge, swords, and swords on glint hawks.
for the two weeks i could run batterskull and mystic together i stomped everything but proper cawblade.
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Jace and Stoneforge absolutely deserved to get banned, but part of me is morbidly curious what standard would have looked life if people had been able to really iterate on the twin-blade deck that popped up literally the weekend before the ban took effect.
Thanks for this! Also,
Also in the anime preview video for the set, it looks like the Wanderer gets ripped away from Kaito while they're hugging, so it seems like everyone ends up unhappy in the end, and the bad guys have figured out the next step of their evil plan.
Shitty all around!
New rebalances for Alchemy and Historic.
Fires of Invention is unbanned from Historic and now costs 4R (up from 3R)
I am happy.
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This list of rebalancing was comically long, and almost exclusively to make a competitive decayed Zombie deck viable? Seriously?
killing historic to do it is not
Don't think they needed to, at least it worked well in standard back when.
Also it's been like a year since I played, so seems weird to buff it now.
The next set, Streets of New Capenna, will be released on digital clients a week after the paper release. (4/22 vs 4/28)
Steam: YOU FACE JARAXXUS| Twitch.tv: CainLoveless
This makes a great deal of sense - retail outlets trying to run prerelease tournaments (generally a pretty high turnout, comparatively casual event) were basically being forced to compete with Arena. Anecdotally, store owners here absolutely hated that, and it did mean that some players decided to play on arena instead.
Currently this only applies to New Capenna.
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Man, there was a deck during the era of CHK block that got incredible amounts of turn 2 or 3 scoops by opponents. It was a fucking disgusting deck for one of two people just not playing a game of Magic.
https://www.tcdecks.net/deck.php?id=4896&iddeck=19466
I loved this pile of shit.
There’s still an ongoing pandemic that is killing an average of 1500-2000 people a day in the states
Not total bullshit
But kinda bullshit
The game was pretty miserable for a few turns until Jinny G got removed, and even though all 3 of us teamed up against her, we still lost.
so far I've only gotten to make a token of Chariot, which then copies itself when it attacks (and dies instantly but leaves behind two Cats). But I could also make token copies of planeswalkers, or Binding of the Old Gods, or other silly things.
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people i know green black is the spicy combo but i shouldn't be allowed to do that