What were the rares spouled today? I see colossus and that's it.
I hope the next set has more interesting legends in the form of philosophers and poets; I've always been more interested in that aspwct of Greek/Roman culture, not the primary "Heroes and Monsters".
The remaining Scry cards are dissapointing---mostly pretty lazy. Development, at it again.
But some awesome! cheap combat tricks, like that G for two cards one.
Some decent Minotaurs in there, too. A few more Devotion cards.
We're a little spoiled by Reckoner being one of the last, though that Colossus is a hoot. Crypt Ghast? Muahaha. You could have the 20/20 indestructible trample online turn 5-6.
This looks like a fun set, with good value at rare and smart card design. Even if the enchantments seem a little mechanically pointless at the moment. It's intentional there's zero non-creature, non-artifact, [edit: non-aura] enchantments...I guess as we journey closer to Nyx we'll see more.
that's not what happened at all. kamahl stabbed phage, akroma, and some old lady and they became korona. then korona got stabbed by her "prophets" and kamahl got drunk with a mutant centaur
Now to start brewing my Decks for Constructed. Down UWR Control burn deck. I hope Born of the Gods is a better set. Limited will be very interesting to say the least.
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Well, that's an aura. I think the poster meant to say "non-creature, non-artifact, non-aura" since there's tons of auras.
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"I am so stupid that I cannot understand philosophy; the antithesis of this is that philosophy is so clever that it cannot comprehend my stupidity. These antitheses are mediated in a higher unity; in our common stupidity."
~ Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
I was kinda hoping that in "The Enchantment Set" there would be some good auras...
There is still hope since it is a enchantment block. Theros set might be more focused on the the more tangible side of the plane where enchantments are less common. The next two sets should be more enchant heavy..... I hope.
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
First impressions on the set: this may not be as slow of a format as originally thought. There are a fairly large presence of aggressive, low cost creatures and several heroic enablers that can definitely make the game reasonably faster. Maybe not gatecrash fast, but more than usual for sure.
Gods only have to fear only one removal spell but four-five actual enchantment hate cards does make things better for the bestow creatures.
Additional reasoning for aggressive format is that there isn't that much quality removal at a cheaper cost and rarity. Best ones are in red dealing with one and three toughness creatures. Otherwise most removal costs 4+. So expecting board stalls for sure. Is it weird to think you could build a red based control deck in limited if you pulled anger of the gods?
Overall, lots of fun cards and excited to see what happens in limited
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Art, as I have come to expect, is superlative. One thing confuses me though. Bronze Sable has the creature type satyr when the art and name appears to be a weasel. I mean a cursory google searching finds pictures of weasels. Am I missing something here?
Edit: Well pictures of weasels and some possibly NSFW stuff. You have been warned.
Very few cards are very good for EDH and stuff. Even less seem standard playable. But all in all, I do like this set. Very flavorful. A couple gems are in here, but still, YAY SPOILERS.
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Modern Decks: GGGMGAGGG RRRRed AffinityRRR RGShamansGR BWB/W ControlWB
Fate Foretold is going to see a lot of play. Draw 2 cards for 1U? Yeah that's a 4-of. I really like Breaching Hippocamp too, nasty nasty combo trick though I don't think it enables heroic.
Still, I bet loads of people were complaining and whining about exactly the same things back then (even while acknowledging the awesome flavor of it all).
Here is some of the first replies to the Liliana of the Veil.
"Liliana is, um, interesting. Meh? Glad she costs 3, but not seeing great value at first glance.
EDIT: Well, obviously she works good at filling up graveyards and making you discard stuff you want in the graveyard. Chandra's Phoenix with Chandra seems ok. She's obviously going to be specialized. My Johnny sense just isn't tingling when I see her."
"The trick with her is going to be finding a way to make the +1 work. Definitely not an automatic 4x walker."
"Her CMC makes her usable BUT her abilities aren't the greatest. We'll see how good she is after the whole spoiler."
"I guess you could use her +1 to drop creatures to the graveyard."
"Liliana is...disappointing. The -2 seems decent and the ultimate seems OK as well. The + ability could be decent, but the card as a whole seems pretty underwhelming"
"Why am I horribly disappointed with the new Liliana? Richard Garfield is on the design team, right? MaRo, too? Where's the creativity?"
"Finally a low costed Black Walker, to bad her abilities are kind of lack luster. Hopefully theres a good way to use her abilities."
"I am dissapointed by Liliana"
All from the first page. I think people here always feel they are great at evaluating cards but in reality they are bad and then claim they always have loved something they poo pooed in the beginning to try and look cool.
Constructed playable is a bell curve, it shifts with overall power level, you have to wait and see where that curve adjusts to before you can say one way or another
Ooh, does this mean the "disappointed with Theros thread" is imminent? Let me help with that:
Scry lands are [overpriced, a cashgrab, worthless, worse than X, terrible, boring]
Scry 1 cards are [overpriced, worthless, derivative, only useful in limited, waste of cardboard]
[insert any card here] is [only for EDH, only for limited, too rare, overcosted]
Theros is [not as good as set X, boring, only for EDH, only for limited, too slow]
Mechanics are [only for limited, only for EDH, only for Jonny, only for Timmy, not constructed playable, too parasitic, unoriginal]
Here is some of the first replies to the Liliana of the Veil.
"Liliana is, um, interesting. Meh? Glad she costs 3, but not seeing great value at first glance.
EDIT: Well, obviously she works good at filling up graveyards and making you discard stuff you want in the graveyard. Chandra's Phoenix with Chandra seems ok. She's obviously going to be specialized. My Johnny sense just isn't tingling when I see her."
"The trick with her is going to be finding a way to make the +1 work. Definitely not an automatic 4x walker."
"Her CMC makes her usable BUT her abilities aren't the greatest. We'll see how good she is after the whole spoiler."
"I guess you could use her +1 to drop creatures to the graveyard."
"Liliana is...disappointing. The -2 seems decent and the ultimate seems OK as well. The + ability could be decent, but the card as a whole seems pretty underwhelming"
"Why am I horribly disappointed with the new Liliana? Richard Garfield is on the design team, right? MaRo, too? Where's the creativity?"
"Finally a low costed Black Walker, to bad her abilities are kind of lack luster. Hopefully theres a good way to use her abilities."
"I am dissapointed by Liliana"
All from the first page. I think people here always feel they are great at evaluating cards but in reality they are bad and then claim they always have loved something they poo pooed in the beginning to try and look cool.
Constructed playable is a bell curve, it shifts with overall power level, you have to wait and see where that curve adjusts to before you can say one way or another
You have take these things in context.
Are they referring to Standard? Modern? Legacy? What was the metagame when she was spoiled?
Copy-pasting random quotes doesn't prove anything.
Liliana of the Veil wasn't that hot in her first few months of Standard.
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- H. L. Mencken
Colour me unimpressed with most of this set. I do like Reaper of the Wilds, but that's about it.
Limited will be fun as HELL though!
森内葵
祇園精舎の鐘の聲、
諸行無常の響あり。
娑羅雙樹の花の色、
盛者必衰のことわりをあらはす。
おごれる人も久しからず、
唯春の夜の夢のごとし。
たけき者も遂にほろびぬ、
偏に風の前の塵に同じ。
I hope the next set has more interesting legends in the form of philosophers and poets; I've always been more interested in that aspwct of Greek/Roman culture, not the primary "Heroes and Monsters".
But some awesome! cheap combat tricks, like that G for two cards one.
Some decent Minotaurs in there, too. A few more Devotion cards.
We're a little spoiled by Reckoner being one of the last, though that Colossus is a hoot. Crypt Ghast? Muahaha. You could have the 20/20 indestructible trample online turn 5-6.
This looks like a fun set, with good value at rare and smart card design. Even if the enchantments seem a little mechanically pointless at the moment. It's intentional there's zero non-creature, non-artifact, [edit: non-aura] enchantments...I guess as we journey closer to Nyx we'll see more.
Decks
Future EDH
BRGAdun OakenshieldG[MANA]R[/MANA]B
When it escaped, the experimenters hesitated. It would cause untold havoc, yet they wished to see it in action.
~ Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
Because limited. That's all cards are designed for now anyways. Limited.
How To Keep Your FOIL Cards From Curling: http://youtu.be/QTmubrS8VnI
The Best Deck Boxes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEwgLph_Pjk
The Best Binders: http://youtu.be/H5IauASYWjk
There is still hope since it is a enchantment block. Theros set might be more focused on the the more tangible side of the plane where enchantments are less common. The next two sets should be more enchant heavy..... I hope.
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
UBRBLACK ROSE COMMANDERUBR
WURGBTrades - Looking for ABU Duals, Fetches, Ect. Have Liliana otV, Snapcaster Mages, Chrod of Calling, Alters!WURGB
Commander
Omnath, Locus of Mana
GWBUR Genju of The Realms RUBWG
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAND just like a ToS, no one is going to follow that **** (or even read it) unless the penalties are strictly enforced.
Hint: They're not.
Username: Cabz
Gods only have to fear only one removal spell but four-five actual enchantment hate cards does make things better for the bestow creatures.
Additional reasoning for aggressive format is that there isn't that much quality removal at a cheaper cost and rarity. Best ones are in red dealing with one and three toughness creatures. Otherwise most removal costs 4+. So expecting board stalls for sure. Is it weird to think you could build a red based control deck in limited if you pulled anger of the gods?
Overall, lots of fun cards and excited to see what happens in limited
—Lazav
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Total Scum Win %: 60%
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Definitely agree with ya. will be a nice card for my EDH decks that dont play green.
Edit: Well pictures of weasels and some possibly NSFW stuff. You have been warned.
And people like that are why we can't have nice things =|
GGGMGAGGG
RRRRed AffinityRRR
RGShamansGR
BWB/W ControlWB
EDH:
Maelstrom Wanderer
Heartless Hidetsugu
Cromat
Nicol Bolas
Sapling of Colfenor
Mayael the Anima
add scry to cards that exist, make creature enchantments in every color.
sigh..
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Here is some of the first replies to the Liliana of the Veil.
"Liliana is, um, interesting. Meh? Glad she costs 3, but not seeing great value at first glance.
EDIT: Well, obviously she works good at filling up graveyards and making you discard stuff you want in the graveyard. Chandra's Phoenix with Chandra seems ok. She's obviously going to be specialized. My Johnny sense just isn't tingling when I see her."
"The trick with her is going to be finding a way to make the +1 work. Definitely not an automatic 4x walker."
"Her CMC makes her usable BUT her abilities aren't the greatest. We'll see how good she is after the whole spoiler."
"I guess you could use her +1 to drop creatures to the graveyard."
"Liliana is...disappointing. The -2 seems decent and the ultimate seems OK as well. The + ability could be decent, but the card as a whole seems pretty underwhelming"
"Why am I horribly disappointed with the new Liliana? Richard Garfield is on the design team, right? MaRo, too? Where's the creativity?"
"Finally a low costed Black Walker, to bad her abilities are kind of lack luster. Hopefully theres a good way to use her abilities."
"I am dissapointed by Liliana"
All from the first page. I think people here always feel they are great at evaluating cards but in reality they are bad and then claim they always have loved something they poo pooed in the beginning to try and look cool.
Constructed playable is a bell curve, it shifts with overall power level, you have to wait and see where that curve adjusts to before you can say one way or another
Scry lands are [overpriced, a cashgrab, worthless, worse than X, terrible, boring]
Scry 1 cards are [overpriced, worthless, derivative, only useful in limited, waste of cardboard]
[insert any card here] is [only for EDH, only for limited, too rare, overcosted]
Theros is [not as good as set X, boring, only for EDH, only for limited, too slow]
Mechanics are [only for limited, only for EDH, only for Jonny, only for Timmy, not constructed playable, too parasitic, unoriginal]
Pick a template. Full 10 pages.
You have take these things in context.
Are they referring to Standard? Modern? Legacy? What was the metagame when she was spoiled?
Copy-pasting random quotes doesn't prove anything.
Liliana of the Veil wasn't that hot in her first few months of Standard.
- H. L. Mencken
French Duel Commander
WBR Kaalia of the Vast WBR
RUG Maelstrom Wanderer RUG