That's what I assume too, but it's not like they don't have some of the best fantasy illustrators in the world doing work for them. There are so many other artists that could have done this and made it interesting. I mean, the spell has flash. It lets you bring something back from the dead. It's a 2/1. I mean, he's small, but should be energetic and a bad ass.... not a stupid statue in the corner with a lame cliche "caulk gun" on his arm.
Good thing we have fellows like you to alter our cards, hey?
I won't say the art is atrocious until it gets added to the spoiler, but from what I can see it captures the players portrait way too much, so much so that it looks like a silly photo shopping job. Ranger of Eos shared this issue, but the figure is smaller and has stuff going on around it (animals) so you don't quite notice it. This is like, "Here's an asian kid's face on a dark gloomy card. Deal with it." I liked when the invitational art was subtle, and felt right in the block.
Where did this guy get his equipment? Ludevic's dumpster?
Ok, my last try to show you why what you ask for is absurd. You play Squadron Hawk becouse its ability to fetch his friends. BUT he has flying. And that's why it's that good: evasion +sword + card adventage make it really good. Now just imagine Squadron Hawk is a 2/1 body, with fly and card adventage. Do you think a 2/1 Squadron hawk would be overpowered? I mean... you play it becouse the fetch, not becouse the 1/1 beating. But... would it be over the top being 2/1?
Now, lets go with this mage. It has a 2/1 body and pack card adventage. Being flying would make it a prime sword bearer as well. It would pack heavy aggresion (2/1 fly foe 2cc) plus heavy card adventage, at instant speed. If you dont see why that would be overpowered, I can only say I'm happy that the developers did.
PS: there's a reason Dark Confident is a thousand times better than Pfyrexian Arena , and that's its 2/1 chasis.
Once again, you take what I said completely out of context and make some stupid unrelated comment about some other card and are exaggerating the **** out of "I wish it had flying". How the hell is giving hawk 2 attack even remotely close to me saying "It'd be nice if this had flying, but oh well". It's not at all. You play squadron hawk because he's an evasive +3.
Dark confidant is better than phyrexian arena because it costs 1B and the 2/1, the mana cost being vastly more important. If there was an enchantment that was 1B at the beginning of your upkeep draw a card lose 1 life it would be busted as ****.
I never said I wasn't happy with this card either. You sure have made up a lot of **** for someone trying to tell someone else to be realistic.
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Actually, now that I think about it. He fits pretty darn good in a Riku deck!!!
That was my next consideration, since I split my Mirror Mastery deck into a Riku deck and an Animar deck. Just think of all the mana you'd need for this guy, though. 1U + UG to copy him, then mana to recast two spells from your graveyard, plus UURR to copy those. That's a total of eight mana in addition to the TWO spells you want to cast, for maximum impact. Definitely something I want to do
(Obviously I realize that you don't have to use all the options and 'kickers.')
As for giving the guy flying, he's over the top already. He doesn't need it at all. This is the extant to which it is similar to giving Dark Confidant deathtouch - in both cases, the creatures are amazing on their own. In both cases, they would be gaining very relevant abilities that make them even more amazing. That's all that's been said.
And the best card of the bunch is blue. Again. WTF Wizards?!
I know right?
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The Snap mage is obvisious strong with the undercosted spells (that are allready good on their own).
Getting an extra Path to Exile / Sword , a free Probe , Brainstorm or anything else from it is value.
Overall its quite a good that might work in tandem with Dark Confidant in blue/black , together with "jace" and "maybe" Liliana ; could allready build a deck on its own automatically.
Of course, but since when has the upkeep cost made Pact of Negation a bad card?
It's not a bad card, but no one really plays Pact of Negation with the intent of actually paying for it's Upkeep cost. Like Hive Mind runs it because it protects the combo and because it's such a heavy liability for the opponent to pay for the upkeep cost, most often resulting in them losing.
...I was just making sure I wasn't missing something.
I don't see how that makes it a strong interaction. Pact of Negation is played in hive mind because it protects the combo and because the upkeep cost is such a liability.
I laughed at the youtube clip...as if anyone who's already watching a pro-tour video with Innistrad spoilers has absolutely no idea how to play Innistrad.
It's not a bad card, but no one really plays Pact of Negation with the intent of actually paying for it's Upkeep cost. Like Hive Mind runs it because it protects the combo and because it's such a heavy liability for the opponent to pay for the upkeep cost, most often resulting in them losing.
I don't run combo, and it's my humble opinion that winning by forcing your non-blue opponent to cast Pact is being a godawful poor sport.
I run Pact in my multi-color EDH deck so I can tap out on my turn and still have an insurance policy, in which case the option to cast it twice is pure gold. But don't worry, I'll make sure my Demonic Tutor and Chaos Warp get plenty of Flashback love, too.
I don't run combo, and it's my humble opinion that winning by forcing your non-blue opponent to cast Pact is being a godawful poor sport.
I run Pact in my multi-color EDH deck so I can tap out on my turn and still have an insurance policy, in which case the option to cast it twice is pure gold. But don't worry, I'll make sure my Demonic Tutor and Chaos Warp get plenty of Flashback love, too.
Lol, that's Hive Mind for ya : /
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Werewolves are actually pretty awesome. They brutally punish slow decks, and any decks that stall. If your opponent can't play a spell on the turn following you dropping a werewolf, they are pretty much screwed. Smash for 8? Doublestrike werewolf? Create more wolves? And if your opponent couldn't play a spell during the one turn "grace period", what are the chances of them being able to ever cast two spells in one turn before they die? Serious power. Super sick in limited. Gonna be almost impossible to untransform a werewolf.
Snapcaster Mage looks great, but can someone explain how it's so awesome?!
I like the werewolf myself.
How it's awesome:
Versatility. He is only limited in what he can do by the cards you have in your graveyard. He's mini-yawgmoth's will for 1U at instant speed and you get a 2/1 to boot.
Say you played a ponder earlier. When you flash him into play he is 1UU for 2/1 that says ponder.
Or he's 2UU for a 2/1 and mana leak.
Or he's 1UR 2/1 lightning bolt/shock.
He can even be day of judgements numbers 5,6,7,8 for 4WU.
Dark confidant is better than phyrexian arena because it costs 1B and the 2/1, the mana cost being vastly more important. If there was an enchantment that was 1B at the beginning of your upkeep draw a card lose 1 life it would be busted as ****.
Except that you are comparing 2 completely different costs here.
I'll give you a hint, the cost isn't mana.
If Dark Tutelage was 1B, it would still be pretty ****, maybe run in an aggro deck, but that is it.
Don't you understand that the body is what makes bob so good?
Can hit if they empty, and the most important thing, you can remove it when you can't afford to pay the life, or don't need to risk it anymore for the CA.
The reason people jumped on you wasn't that you said the flying thing in the first place, it's that you argued that it wouldn't be broken after everyone told you it would be.
As amazing as Snapcaster is, I think I'm more excited about playing Werewolves. Lol. Each base side is a reasonably good beater, then cast Moonmist and alpha strike for the win. All they need is something to give them trample and the deck is golden. Maybe Triumph of the Hordes?
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That's so badass! I'm definitely getting this card for SB against monsters lol
I'm guessing someone already answered this but I don't want to read 11 pages. If Ancestral Visions is in your graveyard, do you get to cast it with snapcaster for 0 mana?
Maybe this is the reason Visions was banned in modern lol...
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Good thing we have fellows like you to alter our cards, hey?
I won't say the art is atrocious until it gets added to the spoiler, but from what I can see it captures the players portrait way too much, so much so that it looks like a silly photo shopping job. Ranger of Eos shared this issue, but the figure is smaller and has stuff going on around it (animals) so you don't quite notice it. This is like, "Here's an asian kid's face on a dark gloomy card. Deal with it." I liked when the invitational art was subtle, and felt right in the block.
Where did this guy get his equipment? Ludevic's dumpster?
Once again, you take what I said completely out of context and make some stupid unrelated comment about some other card and are exaggerating the **** out of "I wish it had flying". How the hell is giving hawk 2 attack even remotely close to me saying "It'd be nice if this had flying, but oh well". It's not at all. You play squadron hawk because he's an evasive +3.
Dark confidant is better than phyrexian arena because it costs 1B and the 2/1, the mana cost being vastly more important. If there was an enchantment that was 1B at the beginning of your upkeep draw a card lose 1 life it would be busted as ****.
I never said I wasn't happy with this card either. You sure have made up a lot of **** for someone trying to tell someone else to be realistic.
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That was my next consideration, since I split my Mirror Mastery deck into a Riku deck and an Animar deck. Just think of all the mana you'd need for this guy, though. 1U + UG to copy him, then mana to recast two spells from your graveyard, plus UURR to copy those. That's a total of eight mana in addition to the TWO spells you want to cast, for maximum impact. Definitely something I want to do
(Obviously I realize that you don't have to use all the options and 'kickers.')
As for giving the guy flying, he's over the top already. He doesn't need it at all. This is the extant to which it is similar to giving Dark Confidant deathtouch - in both cases, the creatures are amazing on their own. In both cases, they would be gaining very relevant abilities that make them even more amazing. That's all that's been said.
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There was Remand and Vedalken Shackles
then Gifts Ungiven/Meloku
then Tarmogoyf
then Cryptic Command/Vendilion Clique/Spellstutter Sprite/Bitterblossom
then Jace, the Mind Sculptor
then Preordain and Mana Leak
then Dismember
now Snapcaster Mage
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Pact of Negation is blue.
Counter target spell.
At the beginning of your next upkeep, pay 3UU. If you don't, you lose the game.
Flashback 1U
Please sir, may I have some more?
Wouldn't you would still have to pay the 3UU next turn tho?
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Of course, but since when has the upkeep cost made Pact of Negation a bad card?
Yes. Why not?
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Getting an extra Path to Exile / Sword , a free Probe , Brainstorm or anything else from it is value.
Overall its quite a good that might work in tandem with Dark Confidant in blue/black , together with "jace" and "maybe" Liliana ; could allready build a deck on its own automatically.
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It's not a bad card, but no one really plays Pact of Negation with the intent of actually paying for it's Upkeep cost. Like Hive Mind runs it because it protects the combo and because it's such a heavy liability for the opponent to pay for the upkeep cost, most often resulting in them losing.
...I was just making sure I wasn't missing something.
I don't see how that makes it a strong interaction. Pact of Negation is played in hive mind because it protects the combo and because the upkeep cost is such a liability.
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I don't run combo, and it's my humble opinion that winning by forcing your non-blue opponent to cast Pact is being a godawful poor sport.
I run Pact in my multi-color EDH deck so I can tap out on my turn and still have an insurance policy, in which case the option to cast it twice is pure gold. But don't worry, I'll make sure my Demonic Tutor and Chaos Warp get plenty of Flashback love, too.
Lol, that's Hive Mind for ya : /
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Werewolves are actually pretty awesome. They brutally punish slow decks, and any decks that stall. If your opponent can't play a spell on the turn following you dropping a werewolf, they are pretty much screwed. Smash for 8? Doublestrike werewolf? Create more wolves? And if your opponent couldn't play a spell during the one turn "grace period", what are the chances of them being able to ever cast two spells in one turn before they die? Serious power. Super sick in limited. Gonna be almost impossible to untransform a werewolf.
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How it's awesome:
Versatility. He is only limited in what he can do by the cards you have in your graveyard. He's mini-yawgmoth's will for 1U at instant speed and you get a 2/1 to boot.
Say you played a ponder earlier. When you flash him into play he is 1UU for 2/1 that says ponder.
Or he's 2UU for a 2/1 and mana leak.
Or he's 1UR 2/1 lightning bolt/shock.
He can even be day of judgements numbers 5,6,7,8 for 4WU.
Pretty much awesome!
Except that you are comparing 2 completely different costs here.
I'll give you a hint, the cost isn't mana.
If Dark Tutelage was 1B, it would still be pretty ****, maybe run in an aggro deck, but that is it.
Don't you understand that the body is what makes bob so good?
Can hit if they empty, and the most important thing, you can remove it when you can't afford to pay the life, or don't need to risk it anymore for the CA.
The reason people jumped on you wasn't that you said the flying thing in the first place, it's that you argued that it wouldn't be broken after everyone told you it would be.
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That's so badass! I'm definitely getting this card for SB against monsters lol
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Maybe this is the reason Visions was banned in modern lol...