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[Shanba]

Prized Amalgam is my new favourite card spoiled so far. In standard we already have two very playable ways of triggering it (relentless dead and deathmist raptor).

[Klazam]

^^ Im so excited- its finally a new card for dredge.

[Shanba]

I like From Under The Floorboards a lot. Life gain + creature has been a good recipe in recent standards, and this one comes with madness and scalability.

[DiamondSentinel]

I don't like the take SOI is going. For starters, I've never been a fan of flip cards. Also, as much as I love Jace, there's just not enough of the rest of the Jacetice League. How am I supposed to UG in SOI? No Nissa, most G are werewolves (ugh) and blue is looking very meh.

Honestly, SOI seems to be my least favorite set since Khans. At least Khans had some neat mythical. I haven't seen anything that screams "holy crap, I need to buy like 50 of them"

[DeathNote]

Well your probably the first to say that lol.

Shadows looks bonkers fun.

[hasdgfas]

there's just not enough of the rest of the Jacetice League.

Please don’t be disrespectful of the story. You might not care but others do. /Maro

In seriousness, I have to disagree. I love DFCs. They add so much flavor to the set. The set looks super fun to me, there seem to be a lot of interesting directions to go in draft.

[DiamondSentinel]

Ok, I for one think that the Jacetuce league pseudonym is endearing. I like the turn the story is taking.

But anyway, my first sets were the Theros sets, so I started with cards that bounced off of each other (constellation was one of my favorite mechanics I've seen) so cards that just exist on their own like dual sided ones don't appeal to me.

[hasdgfas]

Ok, I for one think that the Jacetuce league pseudonym is endearing. I like the turn the story is taking.

But anyway, my first sets were the Theros sets, so I started with cards that bounced off of each other (constellation was one of my favorite mechanics I've seen) so cards that just exist on their own like dual sided ones don't appeal to me.

I like the Jacetice League name too, was just quoting Maro.

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by how well the cards synergize, even without it being "just play a bunch of enchantments". It's a bit less obvious, but things like discard outlets enabling Delirium and Madness at the same time is a fun synergy. Then it's fun to just play with double-faced cards, since you have to balance wanting them to flip with making sure you're still developing your board, and your opponent has to balance not wanting them to flip with knowing that they can't necessarily stop

you

from not playing a card and flipping them so they have to be able to play two spells in a turn.

[DiamondSentinel]

I do like the spells that have discard costs to play. That's an addition I do enjoy. Problem is, as typical with Innistrad blocks, blue is weaker in this set, while black and white are much more powerful.

[InflatablePie]

PAUPERGOYF

HYPE

[InflatablePie]

I do like the spells that have discard costs to play. That's an addition I do enjoy. Problem is, as typical with Innistrad blocks, blue is weaker in this set, while black and white are much more powerful.

Innistrad: Blue is nerfed! Snapcaster is meh and you can easily block that 2/2 Geist! You need to run a million spells for Delver too so don't bother.
RTR: Blue is nerfed! Sphinx's Rev is just a worse Blue Sun Zenith!
Theros: Blue is nerfed! Master of Waves is trash, you lose the tokens and he dies to most removal!
Khans: Blue is nerfed! Dig is alright I guess but Treasure Cruise is too expensive!

Can't think of a good BFZ example to be fair but you get the idea.

[DiamondSentinel]

Really? I thought RTR made Blue way more viable with all the sphinxes.
Theros had plenty of good blue, as well. Archetype of Imagination was great provided your opponent didn't have plument or similar, and thassa's devourer and countermand are decent for secondary mill decks.

[Natirasha]

I do like the spells that have discard costs to play. That's an addition I do enjoy. Problem is, as typical with Innistrad blocks, blue is weaker in this set, while black and white are much more powerful.

Blue was the second best color in the set after green? There's a reason(besides Spider Spawning just being hilariously fun) that the format devolved into 7 of 8 drafters every pod were running for UG. The worst color in original ISD was red by a pretty large margin.

[DiamondSentinel]

Really? I wasn't impressed at all by the original Innistrad block.

[Natirasha]

It's only regarded as one of the top 3 blocks in Magic's history~

also, cockatrice had SoI drafts and my first draft deck did not disappoint.

[InflatablePie]

LoadingReadyRun is streaming a pre-prerelease tomorrow by the way, for anyone unaware. Noon Pacific/3pm Eastern.

Guest starring NumotTheNummy, Marshall Sutcliffe and two other people I don't know (Elantris and Jimmy Wong).

[DiamondSentinel]

It's only regarded as one of the top 3 blocks in Magic's history~

also, cockatrice had SoI drafts and my first draft deck did not disappoint.

So let me get this straight. You have investigate cards to get clues, which you use to draw more cards. But all of your cards give clues. So you're essentially milling yourself for 2 mama per card.

[Natirasha]

There's nothing I love more than drafting maximum-durdle mill control, be it Thassa's Devourer(JIN), Vedalken Entrancer(M13), Grindstone(M14), or Sphinx's Tutelage(ORI). When that mill engine also happens to draw me cards, oh my god Wizards what have you done??

[InflatablePie]

"let me kill some time on a sealed deck simulator to get some sort of practice in for prerelease"

>pulls a Jace, Sorin, Always Watching, two foil rares

in reality, I'll probably pull at

least

three Drownyard Temple.

[InflatablePie]

Gamma and I did play a match on dr4ft+Cockatrice yesterday. Went GB with basically just two wincons, the 7/7 Menace sac-a-dude-or-land and the 6/6 Delirium-Trample guy. Having a Tamiyo's Journal helped, and as long as your opponent's deck isn't too aggressive (and it's sealed, so...) it seems really good.

Grotesque Mutation and Rabid Bite is a silly combo, and the green Vessel is really good at turning on Delirium.

[Thestatusquo]

So, I don't know why I forgot to post this here sooner, but I often stream magic tournaments on twitch at the stream

https://www.twitch.tv/mtgcm_live

Stream schedule is
Wed: Modern.
Thur: Legacy.

7:30 PM Central Time.

I don't stream every time but I will try to keep people updated about when I am. I'm streaming legacy tonight.

[Thestatusquo]

WOOOO!

Incidentally all cards are for sale, if anyone happens to be interested.

[Klazam]

price for beacon?

[Thestatusquo]

I'd be looking for 40.

[Klazam]

i'll take it.

send me how to pay in PM