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[Isis]

If you ask, WotC will mail a bunch of starter decks to a unit of soldiers, free if charge. I'm not sure if you need to be stationed abroad to qualify, or whether you are stationed abroad, but it's something you could look into if that ever lines up. It's a special support the troops thing they do. (The complexity of those decks are generally beginner level)

[Isis]

My LGS has reopened, but, uh, I think it'd be reckless of me to go.

[Isis]

I like the colors in Maritime Guard.

[Isis]

I think we have some crossover here, so I just wanted to throw this out here in case anyone is interested.

That looks pretty cool

[Isis]

I am a "take the Burst Lightning" person on a very very deep level

[Isis]

I should probably be going to a magic focused forum to ask but

Is the new RW cathartic reunion gonna justify a color change for modern dredge? Probably right?

[Isis]

We don't loot no more we RUMMAGE

[Isis]

Unless you try a burning inquiry list but don't try a burning inquiry list

[Isis]

When I do hallowed one dredge as a thought experiment in my mind the deck isn't as good as dredge

[Isis]

I think it could become the thing to do with the right printings

[Isis]

It's similar to ponder and preordain being banned in higher power formats and allowed in lower power formats. Hand fixer effects are stronger in more powerful formats.

Shriekhorn+faithless looting+5 lands was an easy keep even though it doesn't actually enable anything on its own because half the power was being an amazing hand fixer card, whether you were playing a graveyard deck or not.

I kind of wish they would ban payoffs instead of hand fixers because I think hand fixers are fun (when they cost mana I don't know that we need Once Upon a Time to be a thing)

[Isis]

Idk anything about historic but I believe you.

[Isis]

When I think about tapping a land to put a +1/+1 counter and being allowed to do it most turns that seems exciting, but when I think about playing a wastes that says "your instants and sorceries have kicker(1): put a +1/+1 counter on target creature" then my mind instead says that's not good enough. The shimmering grotto mama filter is not much better than nothing, lands that require you to go down aana to get the correct color generally haven't performed well.

I don't expect it to be playable but I might be wrong.

[Isis]

It's a shame they couldn't make it "activate this ability only outside of combat when the stack is empty" so that it could be used with instants better. But there's the cardinal rule against acknowledging the stack exists on a card.

[Isis]

I kiA deck manlands with cheap activations makes it a lot more attractive since it erodes the tension between having creatures and having instants and sorceries both to make the card good. And some manlands are kind of unfair if you augment them and they keep ducking sorcery speed removal.

[Isis]

It's way too low power for anything but standard so I'm hoping standard has one I don't know of or one gets printed into the format.

If you just removed your opponent's biggest creature in an aggressive deck how likely are you to need the +1/+1 to be favorable against blocks D:

[Isis]

Dropping a mana for the shimmering grotto ability isn't very aggressive. This might actually be at its best in monocolor aggro so that you don't have to use the second ability at all.

[Isis]

Yes, a colorless land can be fine in 2 color aggro as well. The fewer the colors the better is the point.

I actually expect monocolor decker to play slightly more instants and sorceries absent incentives is what I was thinking about, like the red stuff. I didn't think about it hard enough because when monoblie plays counter spells those don't work so it's more specifically just mono red. Maybe monoblack with more available instants and sorceries than usual.

You don't have to play boulder rush at sorcery speed! The play pattern can be attack with two goblin tokens, wait to see which one gets blocked, boulder rush the blocked one to make a trade (assuming trading is preferred on the board) go to second main phase, put a plus one counter on the other goblin.

If you have just one goblin tokens against a 4/4 you do have to pump and pump and make your opponent say "oh well ok I won't block then" but you haven't tied down the boulder rush at all, that's only the land getting tied down.

[Isis]

If your opponent has lots of removal you'll wish you had the faceless haven since it increases the number of questions your opponent has to answer. Manlands have always been a huge deal for that reason

[Isis]

Paying one mana for one power doesn't really help you win by turn six either.

[Isis]

I guess it can a smidge if you would have left the mana unspent.

I just doubt the double or nothing is worth it overall I guess

[Isis]

Nah. Midrange decks that accidentally draw the removal half of their deck are control decks.

[Isis]

I guess it's hard to draw only the "removal" part of your deck when bonecrisher giant is a silly ubiquitous magic card

[Isis]

is there a way to go infinite with twincasting a twincast in standard right now? cause there'd be a lot of 3rd cards for it now.

[Isis]

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=86415

[Isis]

lol

[Isis]

No more pro player stipends or salaries. No more pro play. Period

[Isis]

I don't follow you on Twitter but hear me out I don't follow anyone on Twitter

[Isis]

If it's for a casual experience I think I would want to have the winning line described but not get a spoiler on what all cards are in so that I get to be like "man that creature is annoying me oh cool this deck has chainers edicts in it"

[Isis]

I think it's cool how older magic cards reference cards that happen much, much later. Time spiral has to be the coolest block.

[Isis]

i'm gonna attempt a prediction

"1BB Instant
Destroy target creature or planeswalker without nightbound. It is now night"

[Isis]

rare

[Isis]

maybe 1B sorcery I'm not necessarily good at this

[Isis]

maybe 1B sorcery I'm not necessarily good at this

I'm not sure if it's a matter of good or bad, lol?

We're just navel gazing about what might exist and what we think fair prices for cards are. I'm not sure anyone can be "good" at this, or if it matters. I think the card design is cool, at least, so I'm kind of approaching it from a "if I was designing this card, what would I want to do to balance it?"

I can be objectively wrong in predicting the WotC design team's future behavior, but you're right that it is way too silly a skill to be caring about.

[Isis]

The secret is to play esper

[Isis]

Mfw the set has no duals at un/common

[Isis]

I've been daydreaming about an anti-Rest in Peace card that dredge can run that is better than fragmentize (new dredge does mana for fragmentize better than nature's claim now imo)

The new curse of silence is such an answer to prayer. It's so perfect. Current modern dredge doesn't have enough turn one plays after the faithless looting ban. It's easy to get overwhelming advantage before land 4. And even when they pay four for rest in peace, you get to dredge 5 one last time!!!

[Isis]

I went 3-1 with black white in innistrad sealed... I think draft will be better.

Bunch of people in the store talked about flesh and blood having more organized play support than mtg now which made me hrm.

[Isis]

It is, I don't see how that's in tension with her post

[Isis]

They're really deep colors, you're probably supposed to move in even if they're visibly moderately cut

[Isis]

Yeah Tru tru

[Isis]

Organ music

3U
Sorcery
You may choose a card you own named Strategic Planning from outside the game. Put it on top of your library. You may choose a card you own named Bloodbraid Elf from outside the game. Cast it without paying its mana cost. Beserker Elf creatures can't attack this turn.

Common

[Isis]

Infinity would you draft that card in limited

[Isis]

I think that is very wrong

[Isis]

Yes. You get both things. It will always cascade into the spell Strategic Planning, which was considered powerful enough of a 2 mana card selection spell that it was colorshift printed into a modern horizons limited format.

[Isis]

I agree and I would draft it even in sets with no graveyard synergies. I think a set having graveyard synergies only moves it from "should never be wheeling" to "jawdropping".

I think a similar card perhaps with the flavor text "The stitcher died years ago, but her dutiful assistant still keeps the laboratory well stocked." would help out the struggling midnight hunt blue black zombies archetype a lot

[Isis]

I was wary of Poe's law but not wary enough

[Isis]

Proud of you !

[Isis]

The trick is to not switch magic decks

[Isis]

Owning the whole legacy format 0.0

[Isis]

I think it's not good when borrowing is the best way to play a "collectible card game"

[Isis]

I like some of the other business models but mtg is a natural Monopoly

[Isis]

I wish

[Isis]

there's other decks that demonstrate it better than this one but it's pretty funny that jtms was ever banned from a format he's not good enough for.

The deck looks fun. Playing 1+1 Chalice seems like a stressful amount of access to that effect to play but is pretty easy to imagine being correct

[Isis]

I'd probably want to play 0+2

[Isis]

I'd probably play an incorrect number of copies to avoid stress

[Isis]

As a selfinterested dredge player I recommend you run 4+0 though.

[Isis]

Idk why an obvious joke post made you feel like dunking on me for trying to play magic on a budget

[Isis]

Time raveler has the card advantage/tempo of oblivion ring or vindicate albeit in bounce style, but randomly also Kitesail Freebooters all your opponent's countermagic too.

[Isis]

yeah i immediately saw the irony in Ythan saying that and also knew well enough that Ythan wasn't trying to be ironic and just was reading the oracle text for the card and hasn't played in a while.

[Isis]

my first experience playing multiplayer (not counting high school) involved people explaining to me that we were playing a 5 player mode where each person tries to kill 2 players who are like their bounty targets, and the first play to complete that task is the sole winner, and I cast a red sweeper that killed 1 of my creatures, none of my bounty player's creatures, and 5 creatures of a player who was on the verge of eliminating both of his bounty targets, and he was furious at me for playing the game wrong.

my second experience playing multiplayer I doom bladed some legendary creature that would obviously snowball, and that player had 1 white mana up, and casted silence and insisted it countered the doom blade, caring more about a consensus of two players who had played it that way before more than my dry encyclopedic explanation of the definition of casting a spell.

[Isis]

you're so rude

[Isis]

I def do not have time for arena :/

[Isis]

Shiki you play dominion?

[Isis]

Life seems like part of some combo that doesn't exist. Life + "each player sacrifices all no creature permanents" or mass polymorph priced at a nonmeme cmc

[Isis]

play LoR Iguess

[Isis]

I think it's a pretty cringey design. Kind of an Ajani Vengeant rehash. The two loyalty counters aren't a meaningful incentive because doing a curve with a 5 defending a planeswalker is going to be way better than a curve with a 4 defending a planeswalker. It seems like a failure to address what the issue with Phyrexian mana is.

Combining the unleash mechanic with Phyrexian mana with unleash is what I'd do if I was designing a set and I was told I needed to bring back Phyrexian mana even though it was a problematic banfest. This is the -opposite- of that.

[Isis]

Cavern of souls is much stronger

[Isis]

Maybe you play both but ancient ziggurat is already a card too.

Activated abilities are surprisingly rare

[Isis]

I like james

[Isis]

The shrines are designed for limited. People win from mill from permanents that mill 2 cards per turn all the time when there are forty cards in the starting deck. You could raise some questions about whether incidental mill is fun in limited, but I'd be shocked if the blue shrine isn't draftable.

[Isis]

I didn't know scg runs any limited wow

[Isis]

should i get into flesh and blood

[Isis]

I misread unhappy as "happy"

I hate ragavan and my main fnm draw was modern so I'm on a break from the game

[Isis]

I may very well just not like the idea of constructed modern enough as a baseline. It feels like it doesn't present me challenging decisions often enough.

[Isis]

Someone is gushing over the doubletraumatize in their sealed pool.
I think that card is really bad

It's like a 6 mana Planeswalker that sacs a creature to cast and needs to +1 loyalty: do nothing 5 times in a row to ult: win the game

[Isis]

Its hard to make a perfect analogy, the Planeswalker is weaker and there's a band of cases where you can't block enough to prevent a few damage to the Planeswalker but you can block enough to protect your starting life total when you cast the mill bomb

[Isis]

this is an imaginary planeswalker with no minuses but maybe we can give it a "-1: Shuffle your graveyard" for asserting dominance

[Isis]

This past first prerelease was my first experience with how rules text volume creep has affected the game.

All sorts of games were going to time but the time it takes to read one of these new cards cause it's been cast, in a prerelease context, shit was just silly.

It's a little bit exacerbated by capenna being a tricolor set with ton of fixing so players are often 4 color and playing all their rares. I don't like gold sets tbh.

[Isis]

It looks really fun.

There's a very new LGS in my sector of greater Seattle doing a weekly draft fnm so I think I'll go there a bunch to play the set. Also grindworthy for arena. I didn't love snc. Hbg is more goofy fun but it's hard to want to grind the hearthstone set, I played snc more

[Isis]

I don't think the wall deck is the best example of the format allowing you to devalue tempo since it plays a 1 mana creature that blocks 2s and a two mana creature that trades with 3s.

I do think it's a slower format with people sometimes trying to be slightly bigger than eachother though.

There's a weird giant growth burn deck i've seen screenshots of that plays all 1 drops and green combat tricks and just tries to convert combat tricks to lava spikes, that looks pretty fast but i've never seen it in queue.
Against white based aggro i get overwhelmed a lot but if I draft and play slightly differently i'm getting the hang of winning against it with a slower strategy.