I remember one time at a table a long time ago someone resolved a Lignify on a commander and the player just scooped in response. Their deck had no way whatsoever to deal with an aura that bricked the commander. At the time I thought it was really funny, all they had to do was wait for a wrath to reset.
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Lignify
1G
Tribal Enchantment - Treefolk Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature is a 0/4 Treefolk with no abilities.
I remember one time at a table a long time ago someone resolved a Lignify on a commander and the player just scooped in response. Their deck had no way whatsoever to deal with an aura that bricked the commander. At the time I thought it was really funny, all they had to do was wait for a wrath to reset.
Why does that card need to be an alchemy? I don't understand.
If you fail to kill it then the card still robs the creature of all of its abilities forever. You couldn't do that outside of alchemy.
Sure you can.
It's clunky as hell and basically needs its own rules, but it's absolutely possible.
Now, if you told me perpetually follows it through zone changes, I'll take your word for it and this has to be alchemy, but my understanding is that's not how it works.
yeah sorry you've been misinformed about perpetual. perpetual follows a card whether it gets bounced, goes into the graveyard, returns to the library, etc. the only thing that clears perpetual is being sent to the command zone, because otherwise players would be really mad about commanders being countered
This is all true but also even if perpetually did work the way you thought it would while there are some old cards that do what you say it's been at least a decade since RandD decided that wasn't something they wanted in the game. You won't see a card that takes away an ability or makes changes to a card that you are supposed to remember after the end of the present turn.
You will see somewhat similar effects that mark the change with a kind of token but they're pretty skittish about limiting how they use that template.
7-1 with this five color pile in Chromatic cube. Beat two storm decks because lol PW removal doesn't care about Niv, one mono-red aggro because lol 5+ sources of lifegain. My one loss was to a Mardu reanimator build because of T3 plaguebringer, T4 Luminous Broodmoth, t5 reanimator Liliana completely obliterating my board and hand. My last game was throwing out four PWs and a land off a Genesis Ultimatum for the instascoop.
Not shown: a wide variety of extra duals, fabled passage, and field of the deadm
E: Thinking a bit more on how things played out, I think that The Wanderer was a little weak but probably fine (WW was hard for me, and value engines didn't tend to attack). Harrow was pretty bad but mostly due to poor luck as I somehow always drew 2+ basics so I could never cast it to actually ramp, since I picked lands "aggressively" (read: earlier than 10th pick). I probably should have dropped Keruga, Harrow, and Wanderer for Kinnan + the alchemy draw a card dork in the board, since I don't think I ever cast Keruga and naturally got down to 2-10 cards left in my deck in most victories an opponent didn't just scoop to an ultimatum anyway.
Skipping Cube to get some ranked play in, decided to go with a Midnight Hunt Quick Draft because Capenna. Grabbed The Celestus out of my first pack of mostly air, then found my way into a sweet balls-to-the-wall Vampire Aggro build.
Playing Historic Brawl, I don't understand why so many people with Mob Nixilis as their commander just... refuse to downtick him, ever?
Empty board? Better cast him and uptick, doesn't matter if he's not gonna ult and probably gonna get bounced or hit with removal.
Opponent has a flier on board that can kill Ob either way? Uptick to deal two, baby!
Opponent has a Young Pyromancer on board? Clearly, I should uptick Ob multiple times and get him attacked to death, instead of gumming up the ground.
I don't get it!
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I have very little interest in this new Alchemy set they're pushing, but I do appreciate that the face-planeswalker could be printed in paper if they feel like it
I also appreciate that against a creatureless (or 2-creature) deck, her ult can mill them out in one shot.
i've said it before and i'll say it again it annoys the crap out of me that they just made completely different cards for alchemy baldur's gate with the same art as cards in paper
The weirdest thing about the Alchemy Tasha is that she's more paper printable than actual version; the only thing that's a bit rough is her -2 giving ward 2 with no indication, and "put a ward 2 counter on it" is almost-but-not-quite functionally identical and could work in the rules.
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One of the starkest examples of "people are bad at the game" is a thing that happened in a commander game I was playing. Some dude ramped up to 5 mana on turn 3 and cast an acidic ooze, targeting a basic land of a player that missed their third land drop, instead of the fucking Gilded Lotus that another player had. Like, if you're going to attack someone's mana, get the right card at least!
The TL;DR is that your (hidden) rating is inflationary, which massively broadens the distribution of ranks throughout the system. If you lose, it's treated as if you lost to your opponent, but if you win, it's treated as if you lost to yourself. This means that in matches where the favorite wins, extra ranking points are created, and in matches where the favorite loses, ranking points are destroyed. Since the favorite usually wins (duh), this creates constantly increasing ratings throughout the system. Instead of the system being (roughly) centered around a rating of 1500, where new players start, it's centered around 4500+.
There are a ton of knock-on effects to this. It explains the "they made mythic with that?" conundrum, because new accounts on a hot streak have an incredibly large and grindy gap before they reach the bulk of experienced players, so a competent first effort to make mythic, even with a F2P deck, has a far greater chance of succeeding than it should. After that, it becomes much harder (as expected). Tanking your rating intentionally by conceding a bunch shouldn't work in a competent system, but because the bug has made the player ratings distribution so wide, you can easily keep losing a ton of rating and head back to noob island. More minor effects include clumping all players together at the same initial rating when they get into mythic and allowing anybody with a 67% winrate to have unbounded rating increases over time. Theorycrafting, this may also partially explain the perception of Alchemy as having extremely long queue times, since if Alchemy is more attractive to less enfranchised players, players with months or years of rating inflation might have no viable matches despite a healthy newbie pool.
Playing Historic Brawl, I don't understand why so many people with Mob Nixilis as their commander just... refuse to downtick him, ever?
Empty board? Better cast him and uptick, doesn't matter if he's not gonna ult and probably gonna get bounced or hit with removal.
Opponent has a flier on board that can kill Ob either way? Uptick to deal two, baby!
Opponent has a Young Pyromancer on board? Clearly, I should uptick Ob multiple times and get him attacked to death, instead of gumming up the ground.
I don't get it!
ppl are bad at the game
cards like mob nix especially get a certain player's brain going "it's inevitability! INEVITABILITY! THAT MEANS IT HAS TO HAPPEN. YOU CAN'T FUCKIN LOSE!"
Huh, Tasha hard counters specifically the Locust God + Sage of the Falls combo. It's a two creature polymorph combo and it wins by attacking with a swarm of hasty 1/1s, so Tasha blocks the combo any turn she's upticked. Neat, if useless information.
Rules question: if a player has Grim Haruspex and Chasm Skulker out and the board is wiped, can the card draw of Haruspex make Skulker larger before it dies? My instinct was no because it can't get counters while already dead in the graveyard.
Rules question: if a player has Grim Haruspex and Chasm Skulker out and the board is wiped, can the card draw of Haruspex make Skulker larger before it dies? My instinct was no because it can't get counters while already dead in the graveyard.
Correct. Everything dies simultaneously, then triggers go on the stack and resolve.
Rules question: if a player has Grim Haruspex and Chasm Skulker out and the board is wiped, can the card draw of Haruspex make Skulker larger before it dies? My instinct was no because it can't get counters while already dead in the graveyard.
Correct. IIRC the Skulker won't even see you draw the cards because it will already be dead before the creatures-die-draw-cards trigger resolves.
KalTorakOne way or another, they all end up inthe Undercity.Registered Userregular
speaking of people being bad at the game, I've yet to play an opponent who realizes that you don't need to pay Ward costs when Lier is on the battlefield. Or if they're trying to kill my Graveyard Trespasser with Void Rend.
I mean, feel free to pay the Ward cost. You don't have to, but I appreciate it.
Getting back on my local scene, is one of those places where everybody plays Duel Commander, so working on that. Did got some stuff, want to see what I can get here before having to go to online stores to buy the bulk of the deck.
Duel Commander is 1v1 with 20 life and a somewhat different 1v1-focused banlist. (e.g. Winota is banned as a commander while Uro is just banned altogether.)
I'd always heard it called Canadian EDH if it was 1v1, but that might even have its own banlist or whatever. There's so many unofficial subcategories it's impossible to keep track of it all.
Also, fucking wild looking at that banlist. Urza is banned but Arcum Dagsson is fine?
I'd always heard it called Canadian EDH if it was 1v1, but that might even have its own banlist or whatever. There's so many unofficial subcategories it's impossible to keep track of it all.
Also, fucking wild looking at that banlist. Urza is banned but Arcum Dagsson is fine?
Urza is a much better card than Dagsson. Daggson dies to bolt, has to tap and requires an artifact to sacrifice. Duel, like most non-rotating formats, is centered around creature removal. Urza:
Creates a body on ETB, that can be a VERY big body.
Makes your artifacts tap for colored blue mana. Starting with the body that he created.
Brings his own form of card advantage, if you happen to have the mana.
I'd always heard it called Canadian EDH if it was 1v1, but that might even have its own banlist or whatever. There's so many unofficial subcategories it's impossible to keep track of it all.
Also, fucking wild looking at that banlist. Urza is banned but Arcum Dagsson is fine?
Canadian Highlander is not a Commander-based format, just a singleton one.
I came in 11th at a Modern format RCQ, and they were prizing out to top 16 so I made some cash.
Meanwhile my LGS held a series of Double Masters 2022 preview drafts last week (they’re WPN Premium, so they get to do that) and each draft entry got an entry into a raffle for a DM2 booster box, and I happened to win the raffle!
I came in 11th at a Modern format RCQ, and they were prizing out to top 16 so I made some cash.
Meanwhile my LGS held a series of Double Masters 2022 preview drafts last week (they’re WPN Premium, so they get to do that) and each draft entry got an entry into a raffle for a DM2 booster box, and I happened to win the raffle!
I came in 11th at a Modern format RCQ, and they were prizing out to top 16 so I made some cash.
Meanwhile my LGS held a series of Double Masters 2022 preview drafts last week (they’re WPN Premium, so they get to do that) and each draft entry got an entry into a raffle for a DM2 booster box, and I happened to win the raffle!
May you have better luck than when I opened 4 copies of Urban Evolution in Mystery Booster Sealed
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It's so sad Richard Garfield died of
Lignify
1G
Tribal Enchantment - Treefolk Aura
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature is a 0/4 Treefolk with no abilities.
Lignimyballs
alchemy was a mistake
DEEZ NUTS are now a 0/4 Treefolk creature with no abilities.
Well at least I got wood
This is all true but also even if perpetually did work the way you thought it would while there are some old cards that do what you say it's been at least a decade since RandD decided that wasn't something they wanted in the game. You won't see a card that takes away an ability or makes changes to a card that you are supposed to remember after the end of the present turn.
You will see somewhat similar effects that mark the change with a kind of token but they're pretty skittish about limiting how they use that template.
Not shown: a wide variety of extra duals, fabled passage, and field of the deadm
E: Thinking a bit more on how things played out, I think that The Wanderer was a little weak but probably fine (WW was hard for me, and value engines didn't tend to attack). Harrow was pretty bad but mostly due to poor luck as I somehow always drew 2+ basics so I could never cast it to actually ramp, since I picked lands "aggressively" (read: earlier than 10th pick). I probably should have dropped Keruga, Harrow, and Wanderer for Kinnan + the alchemy draw a card dork in the board, since I don't think I ever cast Keruga and naturally got down to 2-10 cards left in my deck in most victories an opponent didn't just scoop to an ultimatum anyway.
Only cast Wake to Slaughter once, but it won me my 7th game.
Empty board? Better cast him and uptick, doesn't matter if he's not gonna ult and probably gonna get bounced or hit with removal.
Opponent has a flier on board that can kill Ob either way? Uptick to deal two, baby!
Opponent has a Young Pyromancer on board? Clearly, I should uptick Ob multiple times and get him attacked to death, instead of gumming up the ground.
I don't get it!
I also appreciate that against a creatureless (or 2-creature) deck, her ult can mill them out in one shot.
ppl are bad at the game
The TL;DR is that your (hidden) rating is inflationary, which massively broadens the distribution of ranks throughout the system. If you lose, it's treated as if you lost to your opponent, but if you win, it's treated as if you lost to yourself. This means that in matches where the favorite wins, extra ranking points are created, and in matches where the favorite loses, ranking points are destroyed. Since the favorite usually wins (duh), this creates constantly increasing ratings throughout the system. Instead of the system being (roughly) centered around a rating of 1500, where new players start, it's centered around 4500+.
There are a ton of knock-on effects to this. It explains the "they made mythic with that?" conundrum, because new accounts on a hot streak have an incredibly large and grindy gap before they reach the bulk of experienced players, so a competent first effort to make mythic, even with a F2P deck, has a far greater chance of succeeding than it should. After that, it becomes much harder (as expected). Tanking your rating intentionally by conceding a bunch shouldn't work in a competent system, but because the bug has made the player ratings distribution so wide, you can easily keep losing a ton of rating and head back to noob island. More minor effects include clumping all players together at the same initial rating when they get into mythic and allowing anybody with a 67% winrate to have unbounded rating increases over time. Theorycrafting, this may also partially explain the perception of Alchemy as having extremely long queue times, since if Alchemy is more attractive to less enfranchised players, players with months or years of rating inflation might have no viable matches despite a healthy newbie pool.
cards like mob nix especially get a certain player's brain going "it's inevitability! INEVITABILITY! THAT MEANS IT HAS TO HAPPEN. YOU CAN'T FUCKIN LOSE!"
Correct. Everything dies simultaneously, then triggers go on the stack and resolve.
Correct. IIRC the Skulker won't even see you draw the cards because it will already be dead before the creatures-die-draw-cards trigger resolves.
I mean, feel free to pay the Ward cost. You don't have to, but I appreciate it.
Entry was 75 bucks Canadian.
lol nope
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Also, fucking wild looking at that banlist. Urza is banned but Arcum Dagsson is fine?
Urza is a much better card than Dagsson. Daggson dies to bolt, has to tap and requires an artifact to sacrifice. Duel, like most non-rotating formats, is centered around creature removal. Urza:
Like seriously Urza is fucking ridiculous.
Canadian Highlander is not a Commander-based format, just a singleton one.
I came in 11th at a Modern format RCQ, and they were prizing out to top 16 so I made some cash.
Meanwhile my LGS held a series of Double Masters 2022 preview drafts last week (they’re WPN Premium, so they get to do that) and each draft entry got an entry into a raffle for a DM2 booster box, and I happened to win the raffle!
Congrats, and I hope that box was loaded.
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May you have better luck than when I opened 4 copies of Urban Evolution in Mystery Booster Sealed
Borderless Mana Vault
Mana Drain
Liliana, the Last Hope
Emiel the Blessed
Force of Negation
Foil City of Brass
Oracle of Mul Daya
Green Sun's Zenith
And I got a whole lot of rares in the $3-5 range, plus a good number of borderless commons/uncommons which I assume will rise in value eventually.
3DS: 0473-8507-2652
Switch: SW-5185-4991-5118
PSN: AbEntropy