Car:I for one am glad they went this way with Kaervek.I heard all these yeard that he was the guy on Disempower without any actual proof, but that guy always looked lame to me(lame for depicting Kaervek that is).Playing with Kaerverk's Spite at the time i always thought it was his hand that i saw and being a RKF fan i loved the guy on Kaervek's Purge, so i can say i'm 100% satisfied that they chose that.
I like the new Living death.If it was 1BB or suspend 2 i'd be much better, but anyone who'sp layed with or agaisnt a Living Death deck, knows better;)
It's symmetry is easily worked around and don't forget that it can act as black Wrath;)
On the Suspend Ancestral:I just love it.Any control deck will play this.And i called suspend on it from the very first minute:smileup:
Yeah. I just hate Living Death because a friend kicked my butt with it at the vineyard event in the Tempest Rotisserie.
The more I look at Kaervek's pic, the more I like it, to say the least. You'll find out soon what I have in mind now. Damn the Phyrexians for deceiving me...
And suspend Ancestral is :thumbsup:, I agree. Now I wish James's dream to fulfill :D.
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So my favorite black card ever returns... I love it ever since I opened it in my first booster pack batch ever, back in Tempest days. Too bad its new incarnation sucks.
So we got Ancestral Recall for blue, LD for Black, Wheel for red, and Lotus for colorless... I'm betting on Balance for white and Eureka for green (see today's Ask Wizards ;)).
Hey all, I had this crazy dream about Lim-Dul in Time spiral this afternoon : It goes like this:
Lim-Dul was a black and blue creature, probably around 3UB.
He was of relative size and strength, around 3/3.
He was considered to be a Human wizard, but details are fuzzy on that.
He was a master of Flashback for some reason, and had the ability: Tap: Socery and instant cards in your graveyard have flashback costs equal to their converted mana costs until the end of turn.
Crazy huh? The art in my dream is kinda fuzzy also... but whatchagonnado?
Anyways... I best get back to modding business... TTYS lads!
I really can't tell if that was just a dream or your sneaky way of spoiling the Lim-Dul card to us, Hydro. I guess only time will tell...
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Herder, how can Magus of the Disk not be the best card in Time Spiral so far, even with a weak Recall being printed? Has there been a time in recent memory with 8x Effective Wraths at 4cc? I just think that's the biggest overstatement about how good a card is...perhaps ever. The turn its played, i could just hardcast Tidings and get an extra card. Yeah i know i know, you can keep mana for counters open, but you don't think anyone will run Remand? Hell, UWG will be running Remand this t2 season
I think Living End is being underplayed. I mean, in an environment where Wretch will be reprinted, and Dredge is around, how easily can this be a one sided Wrath? Very easily.
Then again, i'm in the company that with Ravnica, the environment is far too fast for Suspend to be anything but a support mechanic, nothing to build around. And if there are ANY good counters in TS, you gotta think that Suspend is almost never going to hit the stack.
Though i like Split Second very much. And the Morph doppleganger is freakin great. That's much better than people think, as you can hardcast it later at 3uu and still have it be flippable with counter mana/kill mana after next upkeep.
Very cool. Hurray for good uses of Morph! Now we just need a cycle of free Morph creatures that actually get sacrificed EOT on flip up turn, with flip abilities that act as instants (a Char on flip up for free, since Char costs 3) but the creatures are all 0/1 so there is no brokenness in their costs other than a free chumper perhaps.
More Morph! (How many in Orb do we get and how many instances per card usually?)
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No i wasn't at work Shady, i was surfing from a PDA of my friends at his home
Yeah obviously Hermit and Doppleganger go together as fun, but i mean-- i can see it being pretty powerful just to be able to copy and chump a Simic Sky Swallower.
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The Magus cycle is looking really really sexy. I'm liking them A LOT.
BTW, has anyone had a chance to at least take a glance at my set? Unfortunately, I can't use MSN Messenger since I don't have nearly enough money for XP, and when I try to install it I get a notice saying that it only works on XP. Damn me and my Windows 2000 piece of crap.
I've made a deal with my parents where if I can maintain at least a 2.5 GPA in college for 2 consecutive semesters they'll buy me a laptop. I guarantee you I'll be able to talk a whole bunch on MSN then!
Until then, however, I've gotta find a way to get $400 in two months. I've gotta have the Wii, plus Twilight Princess and SSB Brawl. Why did they have to go and package Wii Sports in with the system? Package one of those games and watch the system sell like hotcakes!
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I hear you man, i need about 400 euros too, for Wii 2 games and a classic controller or 2nd Wiimore+nunchuk.
Wii Sports is hella fun though, i can't wait to make my first post here from the Wii:D
December 8th is soon i hear:D:D:D
December 8th? Man, at least you've got more time.
November 19th for me. Gotta get crackin. Mayhaps I could find some friends and sell some of my MTG cards. Like the weekend before I learned that my store was closing, I talked to a "friend" of mine (I call him friend with quotes b/c we were cool with each other and he gave me rides after tourneys to the closest train station, but we only saw each other at said store.) and he tentatively agreed to buy my 4x Meddling Mage and 3x Blinkmoth Nexus for about $100. Haven't seen him since, though I think I know some of the other stores he goes to. I should probably go looking for him or something.
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Hey all, I had this crazy dream about Lim-Dul in Time spiral this afternoon : It goes like this:
Lim-Dul was a black and blue creature, probably around 3UB.
He was of relative size and strength, around 3/3.
He was considered to be a Human wizard, but details are fuzzy on that.
He was a master of Flashback for some reason, and had the ability: Tap: Socery and instant cards in your graveyard have flashback costs equal to their converted mana costs until the end of turn.
Crazy huh? The art in my dream is kinda fuzzy also... but whatchagonnado?
Anyways... I best get back to modding business... TTYS lads!
Crap, did I say Lim-Dul...? I must have day dreamed that, I meant Dralnu, the Lich lord. Of course being the lich lord you have to sac a permanent when he's damaged... and he only makes one Sorcery or instant card at a time gain flashback.... Stupid day dreams...
Hmmm, No no no, I got it all wrong: Lim dul will probably let you gain control of your opponent's critters when they die for like 1B or something... and they'll probably gain the Zombie creature type to boot...and.. and be able to regernerate too I bet... lol! I seem to think he'll be a 4/4 for like 5bb too... hmmmm.
And Saffi of course will probably cost WG, be a 2/2 and let you sac her to return to play a creature you control that was just destroyed... or something... I dunno...
... must take better notes after day dreaming ay guys... the details are soo fuzzy!
Heh, so Dante, you think that by turn 5 a blue mage wont be able to answer your remand? keep dreaming bro...
Today i just realized that Teferi hoses suspend for your opponents(just read him then read suspend)!!!
I'm with you Dante on the Doppelganger, the coolest thign is that he copies morph triggers too, so copying a Thelonite hermit will give you 4 more saprolings and provide the +1/+1 as well.Me and St@rwizard designed a deck aroudn it earlier that works smoothly!
Morph has 18 hits and appears once usually.
Rick:I'm surprised you like Living Death, a black Wrath of God ;):p:p:p
Also in an enviroment that canemptygraveyardseasily i don't think it's too bad(especially when Debtor's Knell sees play and comes around the same turn).
All i know is that Time Spiral is teh powerful and i love it!!!
Vesuvan Shapeshifter is the nuts indeed. The deck that Shady and I threw together goldfishes pretty smoothly and can go land bop, land morph, bounceland morph, land turn thelonite face up, land glare turn shapeshifter face up. Turn 6 awesome board control. That's a beating against aggro
I really like all the cycles so far. All have clear winners (Ancestral Visions, Magus of the Disk) and the other parts are all at least playable. I love the way Time Spiral is turning out to be and it seems that we are about to experience the best Standard season ever
it seems that we are about to experience the best Standard season ever
I concur. I can't remember the last time two blocks I really liked were together in Standard. This is going to be a good one.
@Vax - Yes, I've taken a look at it, and it's pretty good. I'll send you my detailed impressions later, because now I'm off to a beach house. A childhood friend of mine is moving to Spain, so we're having a goodbye party. Should be fun.
Way too sneaky indeed. Well then i would tell you about the dream i had, where i saw Kaervek. He wasn't all the big, in the mold of Circu at 2/4, but as a BR mage, he was decently casted at 2BR. His ability had something to do with losing life...ahh right something like Lose 2 Life, BR: Deal 3 damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way is put into a graveyard from play this turn, draw a card.
Oh, Human Wizard
I must say, Saffi is amazing, Lim Dul (while harshly overcosted it seems at that damned 7cc win condition spot) is amazing, i'm just pissed Dralnu is better than Lim Dul. That's a bunch of bologne!
Anyways, i have 14 hours till work. Meaning? 14 hours to write out clan entry for the contest!
*Dante shaped blur*
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So, it seems that the release promo is ''Sudden Shock'', which probably is an uncommon Shock variant for 1R + Split Second (the name pretty much gives the card away).
I like it. A lot. It kills Psychatog and Wild Mongrel, no questions asked. In a burn deck, if you manage to get your opponent at 2 it will kill him, no questions asked. And it's still a decent limited removal. Solid. And I think the artwork for this card is the one in MaRo's article for next Monday. No one has talked about Split Second there yet, and Making Magic is the place to introduce the mechanics of the set...
Sudden Shock is >>> >>> >>> then Glacial Ray (our last decent 1R 2 damage dealer). This makes red decks cheer in extended (Tog). Underrated for sure. So we now have Kaervek, Lim dul, Dralnu, and Saffi all due to the dreams of Hydro and me. Oh....my head hurts...I see Stonebrows card!
I'm just teasing And my Kaervek somehow doesn't seem quite as reliable as Hydro's dreams
Man i'm a procrastinator, when is this story due again?
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Last i dreamed Kaervek was a human wizard for 1BR of relative size(2/2) and he either added X to your spells for them to do X damage or let you sacrifice your permanents and discard your hand, for an opponent to lose 5 life.But hey my dreams are always messy;)
Hehehe, mine too Shady bro, mine too.
Seriously, on the cards I've been talking about here, it's mainly specualtion mixed with a touch of supposed info from a couple of people who have claimed to have seen the cards/spoiler list in full. I can't verify anything just yet, but when I do, I'll post 'em up here first.
On that note: what would blue players say about this: 1UU. Instant: Counter target spell. Uncommon. (We've seen the art for this already I'm told)
It's true, Dante has just finished his first MTGS Clan contest entry and posted it. Sure go check it out, Dante will wait whle speaking of himself in the third person...
I am already 10 minutes late for work, so yeah i worked alittle bit on this, i had to do a LOT of cropping, especially out of the opening scene and the middle, i hope everyone sees themselves in there i tried to get all the members plus Zaz, Ix and Gelcur. Hope you recognize yourselves!
Gah and we had such a good story to tell, 2o00 words is simply not enough Shady.
Anyways off to work!
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Fantastic story Dante bro, a work of magnificence! HIDROOOOOO! I love it brother... Great work.
It's Sunday evening with definetly less than 6 days before we have the full spoiler available... man... I can't wait! I'm off to do some mongering tonight, so I'll wish you all a great evening, and I'll talk to you very soon!
Awesome story, Dante. I really :rofl:ed when I have imagined GC-13 as a some kind of mech when you first mentioned the name...and then I have read the rest of the story :D:D:D.
It's Sunday evening with definetly less than 6 days before we have the full spoiler available... man... I can't wait! I'm off to do some mongering tonight, so I'll wish you all a great evening, and I'll talk to you very soon!
Right on, bro. Same here. I hope that the FAQ will pop up on Wednesday evening and give us a mighty cardcount boost. I am really hyped about all the legends (I wonder where the instance of "Vesuva" belongs to), and, from the so-far unassigned arts, to the suspend Dragon from Reality Fracture precon.
Sudden Shock =
Okay, kinda expectable after what we have seen, but still...Mongrel and 'tog have just received their ticket to damnation.
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Motto of the day :D.
Off to help with lunch, ttyl!
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Just a few ideas i didn't get to incorporate into the story:
-A very funny conversation between Shadowlord and Derocnar. - Hidro's possession by Derocnar, making him the new Rumor King - Derocnar was hurt so badly by Shady's dagger spell that he would need to take on a host or he would've died before finding the Lost Library of Destoguardiania, which has the texts to re-summon his body. - Why Shady craved the power that Derocnar would never have really given him - Shady becoming the new leader of the GA, as Khan as a character (as you can clearly see) is not as assertive. - Why Isidor and Gelcur had to die, and how Isidor knew they would. - The last words from Gelcur to Khan as he died. - How Hidro and Poukis (the shapeshifter obviously) ended up on the boat with Greek Alliance to Salvation (we went from MTGnews to MTGsalvation it seems, so i tried to incorporate that into the story). - I really didn't get to do anything with Rick, Yameneko, Poukis, or myself really other than have a pre-Allied Greek fight. That upsets me - Didn't get to do anything with Paranoid or Starwizard either.
- Had no time for people who've been in and out since the GA arrived, such as Sterling Angel or Gweniel (i did my research people!) - Obviously, the Lost Library and dealing with Derocnar - Shady's faked death. - Why Zazdor left the Greek Alliance, and why he sent Rick, Yammy, myself, Poukis and Hidro to join the Alliance.
So all in all, the story reads like crap. I mean, i read it, and maybe it does maybe it doesn't make sense to all of you, but for me it's like there are pages missing. Pages which i foolishly deleted in my rush to work since i was late while finishing this up
Yeah, Shady and I really need to do more storycrafting together.
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Dude, that was really good, but having Rick kill me? At least I think that's who Cursed is supposed to be. I can't be too sure. Working off a slight hangover from last night.
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Rick doesnt kill you brother, he just uses a white spell to magnify the suns ray, and thus the sunlight does effect you (but only in strong dose, the moonlight is much worse). You just get hurt in the fight--the idea was that everyone in the GA could equal the other, so at the end, when Khan forges the alliance after the letter from Isidor and the people from Zazdor, the idea is no one is better than anyone else.
Well of course cept me, who got a couple shots in on Herder If you didn't notice, i took his banhammer!
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God I've missed you guys, I'm retired from playing magic so I really didn't want to come here because of nostalgia. Nobody plays here anymore so I really started questioning myself about a lot of things... but whatever I didn't really wanted to let you guys hanging. I talked with Dante the other day and after that this forum starting to come to my mind again. So here I am once again.
I was also kinda bummed out because no one remembered my birthday, not even many of my closest friends remembered, so I went out and drank some stuff and so forth. Happy being an adult for me huh. It kinda sounds stupid but I can get bummed out by a lot of little things. Makes me feel like a little girl sometimes, but I'm like that
I remember when I saw that Angel card with the Guay picture, I wish I could have it as an avatar (wink wink)
I'm gonna keep browsing these pages after I get to my apartment just to see what's been going on lately (especially about Dante's latest work)
Anyways I saw a couple of Time Spiral cards and I'm saddened that I'm not playing because I like the set, some really strong stuff here, so anyone have a fav as of yet?
...But most of all I missed everyone making fun of Shady!
(BTW Kon what's up with tha flag)
I was also kinda bummed out because no one remembered my birthday, not even many of my closest friends remembered, so I went out and drank some stuff and so forth. Happy being an adult for me huh. It kinda sounds stupid but I can get bummed out by a lot of little things....
I REMEMBERED! Check "speak your mind" forum my friend there's a birthday thread there with your name on it bro!
Great to have you back... Favorite [TS] card so far: Jaya Ballard, and that's saying something, it's hard enough to pick a top 10 so far, with only a third of the set known, but Jaya is top for me. Second is definetly Sengir Nosferatu, followed by Magus Disk & Scroll. Red for the friggin' win this standard baby! ...
'bout time too...
More rumors today, or should I say, more rumor's somewhat confirmed enough to be posted in the mill today. You can't stop the flood now, you can only hope to be swept up in its magestic flow, 4 days to go!.
Gotta grab some lunch lads, back soon with a whallop and a bang!
RofT- I'm sorry we didn't remember your birthday here I'm rather new, but really not that new that that's a reliable excuse. I apologize dear friend, but it think i made that clear the other night. Hope you enjoy the butchered version of the story, i gave you a very cool, non-chalant part.
Herder- About that...thing is i got finished 10 minutes after i should've been at work last night. So literally, once i copy+pasted and posted, i just manually shut the computer off. The 4300 word version is gone But do not fear, as this bit of writing has reinstilled hope that I can be good if i just try.
I expect a much better, different, more complex Greek Alliance creationism story in the future
And yeah, you can have the hammer back I only held it over your throat, i wasn't ACTUALLY going to staff you to death. You guys were bullying Hidro, who was the leader of our little half of the Neo-GA
Angel-- He lives in Germany now!
HOLY SIMULATANEOUS POST HIDRO! (edit btw)
Edit2- Stronghold Overseer for the win by the way.---
Awww you guys remembered my birthday, and for the worse part, I just saw the thread :'(, I was so let down that nobody where I lived remembered that I forgot that my clan friends did. You guys are tha best
Cookies taste better when they're old really
Hey who want's to drink. I've got Smirnoff's (apple, orange and kiwi flavored), Some Zombie's with bacardi 150 rum, a lethal homemade puertorrican lemonade (or limoncillo), which is a lemonade half-filled with rum. It'll make you happy with a few shots. And I also have cookies (rum flavored cookies from the Virgin Islands). And for those non-drinkers or non heavy drinkers like me there's juices of all flavors (it's usually to combine the rum but it's nice like that too) I'm sorry for being away for so much time.
Oooh and Jaya Ballard is insane, very
Dante I'm still looking for your story I can't find it, which page is it!
Woah are the boards running on html now!
Jaya is insane brother. My entry is the first in the Clan Contest 4 thread in Clans. I actually did some grammer correction since the deadline got extended till today...
excuse me a moment...
:argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh:
Yes, that's better.
Family Guy hilarity. Everyone should be watching this show.
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Yeah. I just hate Living Death because a friend kicked my butt with it at the vineyard event in the Tempest Rotisserie.
The more I look at Kaervek's pic, the more I like it, to say the least. You'll find out soon what I have in mind now. Damn the Phyrexians for deceiving me...
And suspend Ancestral is :thumbsup:, I agree. Now I wish James's dream to fulfill :D.
H.
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So we got Ancestral Recall for blue, LD for Black, Wheel for red, and Lotus for colorless... I'm betting on Balance for white and Eureka for green (see today's Ask Wizards ;)).
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I really can't tell if that was just a dream or your sneaky way of spoiling the Lim-Dul card to us, Hydro. I guess only time will tell...
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I think Living End is being underplayed. I mean, in an environment where Wretch will be reprinted, and Dredge is around, how easily can this be a one sided Wrath? Very easily.
Then again, i'm in the company that with Ravnica, the environment is far too fast for Suspend to be anything but a support mechanic, nothing to build around. And if there are ANY good counters in TS, you gotta think that Suspend is almost never going to hit the stack.
Though i like Split Second very much. And the Morph doppleganger is freakin great. That's much better than people think, as you can hardcast it later at 3uu and still have it be flippable with counter mana/kill mana after next upkeep.
Very cool. Hurray for good uses of Morph! Now we just need a cycle of free Morph creatures that actually get sacrificed EOT on flip up turn, with flip abilities that act as instants (a Char on flip up for free, since Char costs 3) but the creatures are all 0/1 so there is no brokenness in their costs other than a free chumper perhaps.
More Morph! (How many in Orb do we get and how many instances per card usually?)
Yeah obviously Hermit and Doppleganger go together as fun, but i mean-- i can see it being pretty powerful just to be able to copy and chump a Simic Sky Swallower.
BTW, has anyone had a chance to at least take a glance at my set? Unfortunately, I can't use MSN Messenger since I don't have nearly enough money for XP, and when I try to install it I get a notice saying that it only works on XP. Damn me and my Windows 2000 piece of crap.
I've made a deal with my parents where if I can maintain at least a 2.5 GPA in college for 2 consecutive semesters they'll buy me a laptop. I guarantee you I'll be able to talk a whole bunch on MSN then!
Until then, however, I've gotta find a way to get $400 in two months. I've gotta have the Wii, plus Twilight Princess and SSB Brawl. Why did they have to go and package Wii Sports in with the system? Package one of those games and watch the system sell like hotcakes!
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December 8th? Man, at least you've got more time.
November 19th for me. Gotta get crackin. Mayhaps I could find some friends and sell some of my MTG cards. Like the weekend before I learned that my store was closing, I talked to a "friend" of mine (I call him friend with quotes b/c we were cool with each other and he gave me rides after tourneys to the closest train station, but we only saw each other at said store.) and he tentatively agreed to buy my 4x Meddling Mage and 3x Blinkmoth Nexus for about $100. Haven't seen him since, though I think I know some of the other stores he goes to. I should probably go looking for him or something.
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Crap, did I say Lim-Dul...? I must have day dreamed that, I meant Dralnu, the Lich lord. Of course being the lich lord you have to sac a permanent when he's damaged... and he only makes one Sorcery or instant card at a time gain flashback....
Hmmm, No no no, I got it all wrong: Lim dul will probably let you gain control of your opponent's critters when they die for like 1B or something... and they'll probably gain the Zombie creature type to boot...and.. and be able to regernerate too I bet... lol! I seem to think he'll be a 4/4 for like 5bb too... hmmmm.
And Saffi of course will probably cost WG, be a 2/2 and let you sac her to return to play a creature you control that was just destroyed... or something... I dunno...
... must take better notes after day dreaming ay guys... the details are soo fuzzy!
Vesuvan Shapeshifter is the nuts indeed. The deck that Shady and I threw together goldfishes pretty smoothly and can go land bop, land morph, bounceland morph, land turn thelonite face up, land glare turn shapeshifter face up. Turn 6 awesome board control. That's a beating against aggro
I really like all the cycles so far. All have clear winners (Ancestral Visions, Magus of the Disk) and the other parts are all at least playable. I love the way Time Spiral is turning out to be and it seems that we are about to experience the best Standard season ever
I concur. I can't remember the last time two blocks I really liked were together in Standard. This is going to be a good one.
@Vax - Yes, I've taken a look at it, and it's pretty good. I'll send you my detailed impressions later, because now I'm off to a beach house.
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Way too sneaky indeed. Well then i would tell you about the dream i had, where i saw Kaervek. He wasn't all the big, in the mold of Circu at 2/4, but as a BR mage, he was decently casted at 2BR. His ability had something to do with losing life...ahh right something like Lose 2 Life, BR: Deal 3 damage to target creature or player. If a creature dealt damage this way is put into a graveyard from play this turn, draw a card.
Oh, Human Wizard
I must say, Saffi is amazing, Lim Dul (while harshly overcosted it seems at that damned 7cc win condition spot) is amazing, i'm just pissed Dralnu is better than Lim Dul. That's a bunch of bologne!
Anyways, i have 14 hours till work. Meaning? 14 hours to write out clan entry for the contest!
*Dante shaped blur*
I like it. A lot. It kills Psychatog and Wild Mongrel, no questions asked. In a burn deck, if you manage to get your opponent at 2 it will kill him, no questions asked. And it's still a decent limited removal. Solid. And I think the artwork for this card is the one in MaRo's article for next Monday. No one has talked about Split Second there yet, and Making Magic is the place to introduce the mechanics of the set...
So we now have Kaervek, Lim dul, Dralnu, and Saffi all due to the dreams of Hydro and me. Oh....my head hurts...I see Stonebrows card!
I'm just teasing
Man i'm a procrastinator, when is this story due again?
Hehehe, mine too Shady bro, mine too.
Seriously, on the cards I've been talking about here, it's mainly specualtion mixed with a touch of supposed info from a couple of people who have claimed to have seen the cards/spoiler list in full. I can't verify anything just yet, but when I do, I'll post 'em up here first.
On that note: what would blue players say about this: 1UU. Instant: Counter target spell. Uncommon. (We've seen the art for this already I'm told)
More news soon, as it appears!
It's true, Dante has just finished his first MTGS Clan contest entry and posted it. Sure go check it out, Dante will wait whle speaking of himself in the third person...
I am already 10 minutes late for work, so yeah i worked alittle bit on this, i had to do a LOT of cropping, especially out of the opening scene and the middle, i hope everyone sees themselves in there i tried to get all the members plus Zaz, Ix and Gelcur. Hope you recognize yourselves!
Gah and we had such a good story to tell, 2o00 words is simply not enough Shady.
Anyways off to work!
It's Sunday evening with definetly less than 6 days before we have the full spoiler available... man... I can't wait!
Right on, bro. Same here. I hope that the FAQ will pop up on Wednesday evening and give us a mighty cardcount boost. I am really hyped about all the legends (I wonder where the instance of "Vesuva" belongs to), and, from the so-far unassigned arts, to the suspend Dragon from Reality Fracture precon.
Sudden Shock =
Okay, kinda expectable after what we have seen, but still...Mongrel and 'tog have just received their ticket to damnation.
Motto of the day :D.
Off to help with lunch, ttyl!
H.
Let this great clan rest in peace (2001-2011)
Just a few ideas i didn't get to incorporate into the story:
-A very funny conversation between Shadowlord and Derocnar.
- Hidro's possession by Derocnar, making him the new Rumor King
- Derocnar was hurt so badly by Shady's dagger spell that he would need to take on a host or he would've died before finding the Lost Library of Destoguardiania, which has the texts to re-summon his body.
- Why Shady craved the power that Derocnar would never have really given him
- Shady becoming the new leader of the GA, as Khan as a character (as you can clearly see) is not as assertive.
- Why Isidor and Gelcur had to die, and how Isidor knew they would.
- The last words from Gelcur to Khan as he died.
- How Hidro and Poukis (the shapeshifter obviously) ended up on the boat with Greek Alliance to Salvation (we went from MTGnews to MTGsalvation it seems, so i tried to incorporate that into the story).
- I really didn't get to do anything with Rick, Yameneko, Poukis, or myself really other than have a pre-Allied Greek fight. That upsets me
- Didn't get to do anything with Paranoid or Starwizard either.
- Had no time for people who've been in and out since the GA arrived, such as Sterling Angel or Gweniel (i did my research people!)
- Obviously, the Lost Library and dealing with Derocnar
- Shady's faked death.
- Why Zazdor left the Greek Alliance, and why he sent Rick, Yammy, myself, Poukis and Hidro to join the Alliance.
So all in all, the story reads like crap. I mean, i read it, and maybe it does maybe it doesn't make sense to all of you, but for me it's like there are pages missing. Pages which i foolishly deleted in my rush to work since i was late while finishing this up
Yeah, Shady and I really need to do more storycrafting together.
Many thanks to:
Sig: CharlieD at Limited Edition Signatures
Avvy: XenoNinja at HotP Studios
Well of course cept me, who got a couple shots in on Herder
God I've missed you guys, I'm retired from playing magic so I really didn't want to come here because of nostalgia. Nobody plays here anymore so I really started questioning myself about a lot of things... but whatever I didn't really wanted to let you guys hanging. I talked with Dante the other day and after that this forum starting to come to my mind again. So here I am once again.
I was also kinda bummed out because no one remembered my birthday, not even many of my closest friends remembered, so I went out and drank some stuff and so forth. Happy being an adult for me huh. It kinda sounds stupid but I can get bummed out by a lot of little things. Makes me feel like a little girl sometimes, but I'm like that
I remember when I saw that Angel card with the Guay picture, I wish I could have it as an avatar (wink wink)
I'm gonna keep browsing these pages after I get to my apartment just to see what's been going on lately (especially about Dante's latest work)
Anyways I saw a couple of Time Spiral cards and I'm saddened that I'm not playing because I like the set, some really strong stuff here, so anyone have a fav as of yet?
...But most of all I missed everyone making fun of Shady!
(BTW Kon what's up with tha flag)
I REMEMBERED! Check "speak your mind" forum my friend there's a birthday thread there with your name on it bro!
Great to have you back... Favorite [TS] card so far: Jaya Ballard, and that's saying something, it's hard enough to pick a top 10 so far, with only a third of the set known, but Jaya is top for me. Second is definetly Sengir Nosferatu, followed by Magus Disk & Scroll. Red for the friggin' win this standard baby!
'bout time too...
More rumors today, or should I say, more rumor's somewhat confirmed enough to be posted in the mill today. You can't stop the flood now, you can only hope to be swept up in its magestic flow, 4 days to go!.
Gotta grab some lunch lads, back soon with a whallop and a bang!
Herder- About that...thing is i got finished 10 minutes after i should've been at work last night. So literally, once i copy+pasted and posted, i just manually shut the computer off. The 4300 word version is gone
I expect a much better, different, more complex Greek Alliance creationism story in the future
And yeah, you can have the hammer back
Angel-- He lives in Germany now!
HOLY SIMULATANEOUS POST HIDRO! (edit btw)
Edit2- Stronghold Overseer for the win by the way.---
Cookies taste better when they're old really
Hey who want's to drink. I've got Smirnoff's (apple, orange and kiwi flavored), Some Zombie's with bacardi 150 rum, a lethal homemade puertorrican lemonade (or limoncillo), which is a lemonade half-filled with rum. It'll make you happy with a few shots. And I also have cookies (rum flavored cookies from the Virgin Islands). And for those non-drinkers or non heavy drinkers like me there's juices of all flavors (it's usually to combine the rum but it's nice like that too) I'm sorry for being away for so much time.
Oooh and Jaya Ballard is insane, very
Dante I'm still looking for your story I can't find it, which page is it!
Woah are the boards running on html now!
excuse me a moment...
:argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh::argh:
Yes, that's better.
Family Guy hilarity. Everyone should be watching this show.