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The prerelease involves something players do alone called Forge a Godslayer (With Forged in [Glory/Intellect/Tyranny/War/Pursuit] being the box names at the prerelease) and the challenge deck is called Defeat a God. You will use the godslayer you've forged at the prerelease in some way when defeating the god.
Unfortunately this is all the new information I've gathered. As we thought they are using the Xenagos vs Elspeth and [Ajani] picture, and its motif is the same style as THS and BNG but with Dark Blue/Purple and Light Blue/Purple as its colors.
Guess we also know what Elspeth is going to be up too in JOU.
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Hey, some of those jank limited bombs have some neat casual applications in addition to keeping the intro deck prices down. Having 2 different art foil options cheaply available isn't really a bad thing, either. They have event decks where they can throw tournament staples if desired. Besides, if the event decks and intros were stuffed with new set rares that were different than any of the promos, they'd be giving out nearly every rare in the set for small sets. That would seriously devalue nearly all the set and really make the chase mythics skyrocket. Something similar actually happened early in Kaijudo where nearly every good card in Rise of the Duelmasters was given out with the exception of one rare and and a handful of supers (mythic rares). That one good normal rare left was fetching $30+ where a similarly played chase normal rare from a few sets later was fetching about $5. As for the supers, even the fringe played ones were fetching $40+. Wizards still needs to sell packs and that would just make the whole mythic rare complaint far more extreme where you couldn't even trade 6 copies of heavily devalued chase rare X for fringe played mythic rare Y. There really isn't any good way to fix card prices to what a lot of people deem acceptable unless you crash the price of all the good cards all at once, which means no one's buying any product. You can argue that specific cards should have been made more widely available like, say, Jace 2 or Tarmogoyf, which are really extreme outliers, but otherwise, there's only so much you can do.
Now, as for forging a godslayer, I wonder if this is going to have an alternate art foil basic like the maze running. Eventually, we could complete the cycle of alternate art foil basics. (not that basics have a lack of art choices)
just wondering but if we are going to build a godslayer does this mean... xenagos will die O,O NOOOOOOOOOOOO, but in all seriousness will this mean the death of his character as i rly like him :/
Maybe it's a bait-and-switch. Everyone bands together to defeat Xenagos. When nobody's looking Elspeth stabs Heliod in the back with the godslayer. Elspeth becomes the new white god, just as planned, shakes hands with Xenagos, and walks off into the sunset as Ajani stands there dumbfounded.
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I like this idea. With Zen, Scars, and RtR leaving things on their respective planes in a weird state it would be nice to potentially get some closure for now.
I like this idea. With Zen, Scars, and RtR leaving things on their respective planes in a weird state it would be nice to potentially get some closure for now.
Don't think that's going to be the case. Xenagos already shook things up by becoming a god. While I'm not sure if he's going to survive the block (and I hope he does) either way I'd say there's no chance of Theros returning to status quo.
Maybe it's a bait-and-switch. Everyone bands together to defeat Xenagos. When nobody's looking Elspeth stabs Heliod in the back with the godslayer. Elspeth becomes the new white god, just as planned, shakes hands with Xenagos, and walks off into the sunset as Ajani stands there dumbfounded.
I seriously want this to happen. That would be great. Either this or the as-yet-unmentioned 16th five-color god.
So I quite obviously pay no attention to magic's "storyline," but if Xenagos became a god, who was the R/G god before him? Why wasn't it a big deal when Xenagos presumably killed that guy?
Oh, I thought he was talking about playing a spell that is countering a spell with counters on it as it comes into play, but I see you guys were just discussing whether he was flashing a creature with flash in order to flash a flashback or just flashing a creature with flash but not needing flash in order to flashback a spell without flash.
So I quite obviously pay no attention to magic's "storyline," but if Xenagos became a god, who was the R/G god before him? Why wasn't it a big deal when Xenagos presumably killed that guy?
As far as we know, there has not been a RG god for a very long time so Xenagos did not kill anyone, he just stepped into an empty position.
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Nobody on Theros found that strange? Most flavor text references the gods of a particular faction or color, it seems like the lives of various races are pretty tied to their patron gods. So did the Satyrs just never think to ask why there wasn't a god for them?
Oh, I thought he was talking about playing a spell that is countering a spell with counters on it as it comes into play, but I see you guys were just discussing whether he was flashing a creature with flash in order to flash a flashback or just flashing a creature with flash but not needing flash in order to flashback a spell without flash.
Nobody on Theros found that strange? Most flavor text references the gods of a particular faction or color, it seems like the lives of various races are pretty tied to their patron gods. So did the Satyrs just never think to ask why there wasn't a god for them?
Satyrs are atheistic by temperament and don't care. Also, not everyone is able to see colors of magic.
Nobody on Theros found that strange? Most flavor text references the gods of a particular faction or color, it seems like the lives of various races are pretty tied to their patron gods. So did the Satyrs just never think to ask why there wasn't a god for them?
Most people of theros didn't think about it. Very few mages know the whole color pie things, so people on theros won't like "huh we are missing a RG god". They knew of 14 gods and figured thats how things have always been.
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My understanding is the g/r mythos for Theros was playing into the hedonism troupe of ancient greece. Even True Blood did a riff on this. All partying, drinking, and what not fits with an absentee or no god to harsh their mellow. Hence the temple of abandon. In walks the Reveler, Xenogos who is a kick-ass partier and all the gruul satyrs can dig that, and pray to him.
Elspeth is thinks 'no way' and gets to chop him down to size. Seems like a nice story arc to me.
Elspeth is thinks 'no way' and gets to chop him down to size. Seems like a nice story arc to me.
It would be hilarious if after Xenagos is taken out, Elspeth becomes the new GR god against her will, both losing her planeswalker status and experiencing a drastic shift in alignment at the same time, because when has Elspeth ever had something end in her favor?
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The prerelease involves something players do alone called Forge a Godslayer (With Forged in [Glory/Intellect/Tyranny/War/Pursuit] being the box names at the prerelease) and the challenge deck is called Defeat a God. You will use the godslayer you've forged at the prerelease in some way when defeating the god.
Unfortunately this is all the new information I've gathered. As we thought they are using the Xenagos vs Elspeth and [Ajani] picture, and its motif is the same style as THS and BNG but with Dark Blue/Purple and Light Blue/Purple as its colors.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
Not.
Still, that's the coolest challenge premise by far.
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It's more than enough to be interesting.
Thanks for posting it!
Prerelease Colors?
Forged in Glory
Forged in Intellect
Forged in Tyranny
Forged in War
Forged in Pursuit
Now, as for forging a godslayer, I wonder if this is going to have an alternate art foil basic like the maze running. Eventually, we could complete the cycle of alternate art foil basics. (not that basics have a lack of art choices)
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Don't think that's going to be the case. Xenagos already shook things up by becoming a god. While I'm not sure if he's going to survive the block (and I hope he does) either way I'd say there's no chance of Theros returning to status quo.
I seriously want this to happen. That would be great. Either this or the as-yet-unmentioned 16th five-color god.
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-regarding Snapcaster Mage.
As far as we know, there has not been a RG god for a very long time so Xenagos did not kill anyone, he just stepped into an empty position.
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-regarding Snapcaster Mage.
Satyrs are atheistic by temperament and don't care. Also, not everyone is able to see colors of magic.
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Most people of theros didn't think about it. Very few mages know the whole color pie things, so people on theros won't like "huh we are missing a RG god". They knew of 14 gods and figured thats how things have always been.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
Elspeth is thinks 'no way' and gets to chop him down to size. Seems like a nice story arc to me.
And Ajani and Elspeth defeats Xenagos, who flees Theros.
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It would be hilarious if after Xenagos is taken out, Elspeth becomes the new GR god against her will, both losing her planeswalker status and experiencing a drastic shift in alignment at the same time, because when has Elspeth ever had something end in her favor?
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Phenax. He's the evil-ist one causing the most trouble other than Xenagos.
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