Sweet reprints again and a nice slot at Uncommon! Can't wait to get a few sets!
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Currently focusing on Pre-Modern (Mono-Black Discard Control) and Modern (Azorious Control, Temur Rhinos).
Find me at the Wizard's Tower in Ottawa every second Saturday afternoons.
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
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The Mimeoplasm WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
The roller coaster ride continues. A nice rebound after the Call the Skybreaker spoil.
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Playing since 1994: Currently MAGS (HomeBrew),Standard & Pauper (Pioneer and Modern are degenerate trash formats)
STOP using "dude/bro" as a pejorative or insult. Grow up.
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Nobody prefer Foglio's art? When I see these kind of pictures, I always think that are poor for a card, but great for an art book. The picture it's ok, but not for the intended purpose (as most of the new cards). They look good in a computer, with the oversized illustration, but not in your hands. Like the confluence's cycle in Commander 2015. Anyways, nice functional reprint.
Fully agree. I made the same comment, which is true of a bunch of the more modern art pieces: they are visually attractive and impressive, but feel awfully generic and don't say anything about what the card actually is. They definitely don't "feel" magic.
Edit: At least you can see brush-strokes in the newer Hydroblast, which gives it a bit more spirit than many of the pure photo-manipulation pieces.
Can someone help me? Is there a grammatical error in Hydroblast's flavour text? The phrasal adjective "world shaping" occurs after the noun "flow". My understanding is that unless it's listed in the dictionary as hyphenated (like "all-consuming"), it should only be hyphenated if it occurs before the noun. Is it hyphenated because of the lack of a verb after "flow"?
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Also, you could use something like Thoughtlace to make any spell counterable by Pyroblast,
but Red Elemental Blast would not work there as the spell is still nonblue when REB is cast.
You can also just cast either and do nothing to up your Storm count.
These are definitely corner cases, but still reasons the newer versions are better.
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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
(To me, the red elemental blast wording is cleaner.)
Now I have my first miss for the contest. I also preferred the Foglio art.
This set was only in Ice Age and 5th edition so there are a lot fewer copies out there than the REB set
Also although it's very niche, you can cast Pyroblast on a non-blue target to empty your hand for stuff like Ensaring Bridge or Grim Lavamancer, or to up a Storm count
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I feel like the two should should be on the other sides so they're putting their walls up against each other.
I've always wanted these cards to be reprinted in a modern border, and hopefully we'll get Blue Elemental Blast and Red Elemental Blast too.
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Couldn't you just ... switch the order of the cards around on your table?
These are also great for enabling Dack Fayden's Ultimate,
though that won't come up in limited terribly often.
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
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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 love the new artworks and can't wait to have these in foil!
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STOP using "dude/bro" as a pejorative or insult. Grow up.
Margaret Thatcher: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Martin Luther King Jr.: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
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Fully agree. I made the same comment, which is true of a bunch of the more modern art pieces: they are visually attractive and impressive, but feel awfully generic and don't say anything about what the card actually is. They definitely don't "feel" magic.
Edit: At least you can see brush-strokes in the newer Hydroblast, which gives it a bit more spirit than many of the pure photo-manipulation pieces.
Modern: Merfolk UU // Green Devotion GG // SkRed Red RR
Legacy: Death & Taxes WW // Burn RR // Death's Shadow Delver UB
Commander: Brago UW // Karlov WB
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(To me, the red elemental blast wording is cleaner.)
Now I have my first miss for the contest. I also preferred the Foglio art.
Among other things, Hydroblast can take out stuff like Phantasmal Bear,
whereas Blue Elemental Blast cannot.
Also, you could use something like Thoughtlace to make any spell counterable by Pyroblast,
but Red Elemental Blast would not work there as the spell is still nonblue when REB is cast.
You can also just cast either and do nothing to up your Storm count.
These are definitely corner cases, but still reasons the newer versions are better.
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
This set was only in Ice Age and 5th edition so there are a lot fewer copies out there than the REB set
Also although it's very niche, you can cast Pyroblast on a non-blue target to empty your hand for stuff like Ensaring Bridge or Grim Lavamancer, or to up a Storm count