Dire Fleet Poisoner (rare)
1B
Creature - Human Pirate
Flash
Deathtouch
When Dire Fleet Poisoner enters the battlefield, target attacking Pirate you control gets +1/+1 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
2/2
Anyway, this is stupid enough to be really strong in standard and probably meaningless anywhere else.
And the "fun" this produces in limited is pretty crazy, as it will either ambush a creature, and/or work as a combat trick to win a combat, save a creature from a blocker and so on and so on.
Really strong card for what it does, while its not something you really look out for outside of limited games.
I get you, but he's pretty gross as is. If he could give a blocking pirate deathtouch and block something....that would be super gross. Like vomit inducing. I could see limited games straight ruined by chunks of half-digested Taco Bell littering the table.
At this point, I would really like to see the art descriptions for all these pirates. I want to know why the ratio of female/male pirates is so ridiculously skewed. Did Wotc instruct the artists to make so many of them female (if so, why? world flavor? story reason we have yet to be told?) or did they leave the choice to the artists who then all individually decided to make them female (to be original? to be inclusive? coinflip?)
The "orc" and "goblin" pirates probably just count as male and so to make an artificial 50/50 balance humans are overrepresented by females.
But thats just my line of thinking for that matter.
At this point, I would really like to see the art descriptions for all these pirates. I want to know why the ratio of female/male pirates is so ridiculously skewed. Did Wotc instruct the artists to make so many of them female (if so, why? world flavor? story reason we have yet to be told?) or did they leave the choice to the artists who then all individually decided to make them female (to be original? to be inclusive? coinflip?)
At this point, I'd like to know why anyone should give a flying **** about whether the card depicts a male or female.
This is actually one of the best removal spells they probably have printed in a while. Ambush Viper was playable back in it's hayday and this is basically a strict upgrade. While it shifted to black, we get one more point of toughness and some bonus synergy that lets players use the card offensively to trade with much tougher targets.
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It lets a weak Pirate player attack into a much stronger board; either accept it as a bluff (and keep the Poisoner in your hand to deal with the counterattack), or drop the Poisoner and take out two arbitrarily-larger creatures. The +1/+1 boost is immaterial in most cases, though it could also be used to push in the last couple of points of damage needed to win.
Crazy how far black has come from the days when when it couldn't get a 2/2 for under 3 cmc, yet alone one with not one, not two, but three upside abilities.
So, this is more or less Ambush Viper that doesn't die to tokens but it is super pushed if you're playing aggro pirates, but only if you're playing Aggro pirates.
If you're playing an aggressive deck, the deathtouch makes it really hard for midrange to stonewall you. If you're playing on defense, they can just shock it out of the way.
If they're going to push a card into standard, I like that they chose Ambush Viper because it has a lot of push/pull to it.
Even so, it feels super weird to see a bear pushed so much, though in the grand scheme of things, this is not Dark Confidant.
Incidentally, can we have an exact black-shifted Ambush Viper? I want the game play without the wordiness to use elsewhere.
One thing I like about this card is that thanks to Flash, it can work both offensively and defensively: Give your blocked creature deathtouch, or flash this in as a blocker herself.
At this point, I would really like to see the art descriptions for all these pirates. I want to know why the ratio of female/male pirates is so ridiculously skewed. Did Wotc instruct the artists to make so many of them female (if so, why? world flavor? story reason we have yet to be told?) or did they leave the choice to the artists who then all individually decided to make them female (to be original? to be inclusive? coinflip?)
At this point, I'd like to know why anyone should give a flying **** about whether the card depicts a male or female.
So why bother making a pirate theme then? Idon't mind having female pirates but feels really weird compared to real life pirates where it was dominant male since you know, raping and pillaging. I guess they want these pirates feel more adventurous and jsut doing the raiding pillaging. Nonetheless some roles are primarlly more comon for 1 gender, history wise so thats why feels abit strange that theres way more female pirates then male ones. Tough to be fair its weird to have Male sirens so i guess they are balancing it out. I want male Amazonians then if we want gender equallity.
At this point, I would really like to see the art descriptions for all these pirates. I want to know why the ratio of female/male pirates is so ridiculously skewed. Did Wotc instruct the artists to make so many of them female (if so, why? world flavor? story reason we have yet to be told?) or did they leave the choice to the artists who then all individually decided to make them female (to be original? to be inclusive? coinflip?)
At this point, I'd like to know why anyone should give a flying **** about whether the card depicts a male or female.
It's more noticeable on some languages other than English.
At this point, I would really like to see the art descriptions for all these pirates. I want to know why the ratio of female/male pirates is so ridiculously skewed. Did Wotc instruct the artists to make so many of them female (if so, why? world flavor? story reason we have yet to be told?) or did they leave the choice to the artists who then all individually decided to make them female (to be original? to be inclusive? coinflip?)
At this point, I'd like to know why anyone should give a flying **** about whether the card depicts a male or female.
So why bother making a pirate theme then? Idon't mind having female pirates but feels really weird compared to real life pirates where it was dominant male since you know, raping and pillaging. I guess they want these pirates feel more adventurous and jsut doing the raiding pillaging. Nonetheless some roles are primarlly more comon for 1 gender, history wise so thats why feels abit strange that theres way more female pirates then male ones. Tough to be fair its weird to have Male sirens so i guess they are balancing it out. I want male Amazonians then if we want gender equallity.
Trust me, the less one thinks about the gender the better. There's enough crazy people shouting in a megaphone about gender politics in this game when they probably decided it would make the set more thematically unique if they had a few different fleets. Isn't the Storm crew a mostly female crew? Angrath is orcs and monkey people with some wizards thrown in, and Vraska is a mix of sirens and humans.
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
At this point, I would really like to see the art descriptions for all these pirates. I want to know why the ratio of female/male pirates is so ridiculously skewed. Did Wotc instruct the artists to make so many of them female (if so, why? world flavor? story reason we have yet to be told?) or did they leave the choice to the artists who then all individually decided to make them female (to be original? to be inclusive? coinflip?)
MaRo said somewhere that they are trying to balance out the genders on card art. Most cards over the years have depicted males so they're playing catch-up. While I'm all for more chicks depicted on cards, I'm not all that thrilled with all the female pirates since piracy has historically been a male-dominated profession.
MaRo said somewhere that they are trying to balance out the genders on card art. Most cards over the years have depicted males so they're playing catch-up. While I'm all for more chicks depicted on cards, I'm not all that thrilled with all the female pirates since piracy has historically been a male-dominated profession.
Also historically pirates haven't had to fight many vampires or fight dinosaurs, so I'm going with the sentiment that Ixalan may not be historically accurate (as some may have noticed already when it came to the discussion that the wrong types of dinosaur have the wrong kinds of feathers and that many Dinosaur cards are inspired by non-dinosaur animals - which once again is okay, because the game does not make a claim to depict real history nor real biology (paleontology)).
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At this point, I would really like to see the art descriptions for all these pirates. I want to know why the ratio of female/male pirates is so ridiculously skewed. Did Wotc instruct the artists to make so many of them female (if so, why? world flavor? story reason we have yet to be told?) or did they leave the choice to the artists who then all individually decided to make them female (to be original? to be inclusive? coinflip?)
MaRo said somewhere that they are trying to balance out the genders on card art. Most cards over the years have depicted males so they're playing catch-up. While I'm all for more chicks depicted on cards, I'm not all that thrilled with all the female pirates since piracy has historically been a male-dominated profession.
Actually what he has said is new planeswalker are leaning towards more female to catch up. Card art they try to have a 50/50 split and sometimes it leans one way or another for factions;
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At this point, I would really like to see the art descriptions for all these pirates. I want to know why the ratio of female/male pirates is so ridiculously skewed. Did Wotc instruct the artists to make so many of them female (if so, why? world flavor? story reason we have yet to be told?) or did they leave the choice to the artists who then all individually decided to make them female (to be original? to be inclusive? coinflip?)
MaRo said somewhere that they are trying to balance out the genders on card art. Most cards over the years have depicted males so they're playing catch-up. While I'm all for more chicks depicted on cards, I'm not all that thrilled with all the female pirates since piracy has historically been a male-dominated profession.
So...
1. This isn't earth
2. Asking for historical accuracy in a fantasy setting that is not meant to be related to the real world simply doesn't make any sense. This world isn't accurate to history at all. If we're going to examine gender balance in terms of historical accuracy why are we not also questioning why there are dinosaurs in the same time period as pirates and the Aztecs and why there are vampires and fish people? Why are outlandish fantasy concepts more immediately believable than there happening to be more women than we might be used to in the real world?
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Dire Fleet Poisoner (rare)
1B
Creature - Human Pirate
Flash
Deathtouch
When Dire Fleet Poisoner enters the battlefield, target attacking Pirate you control gets +1/+1 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
2/2
You had me at Flash and Deathtouch.
EDIT: Forgot the source.
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Anyway, this is stupid enough to be really strong in standard and probably meaningless anywhere else.
And the "fun" this produces in limited is pretty crazy, as it will either ambush a creature, and/or work as a combat trick to win a combat, save a creature from a blocker and so on and so on.
Really strong card for what it does, while its not something you really look out for outside of limited games.
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I get you, but he's pretty gross as is. If he could give a blocking pirate deathtouch and block something....that would be super gross. Like vomit inducing. I could see limited games straight ruined by chunks of half-digested Taco Bell littering the table.
The "orc" and "goblin" pirates probably just count as male and so to make an artificial 50/50 balance humans are overrepresented by females.
But thats just my line of thinking for that matter.
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Should see play if UB pirates has legs
At this point, I'd like to know why anyone should give a flying **** about whether the card depicts a male or female.
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Crazy how far black has come from the days when when it couldn't get a 2/2 for under 3 cmc, yet alone one with not one, not two, but three upside abilities.
I wouldn't mind either, but does that arm blaster look like the weapon of a "poisoner"? I don't think so.
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If you're playing an aggressive deck, the deathtouch makes it really hard for midrange to stonewall you. If you're playing on defense, they can just shock it out of the way.
If they're going to push a card into standard, I like that they chose Ambush Viper because it has a lot of push/pull to it.
Even so, it feels super weird to see a bear pushed so much, though in the grand scheme of things, this is not Dark Confidant.
Incidentally, can we have an exact black-shifted Ambush Viper? I want the game play without the wordiness to use elsewhere.
Oh hey. This is a good target for Mutiny.
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So why bother making a pirate theme then? Idon't mind having female pirates but feels really weird compared to real life pirates where it was dominant male since you know, raping and pillaging. I guess they want these pirates feel more adventurous and jsut doing the raiding pillaging. Nonetheless some roles are primarlly more comon for 1 gender, history wise so thats why feels abit strange that theres way more female pirates then male ones. Tough to be fair its weird to have Male sirens so i guess they are balancing it out. I want male Amazonians then if we want gender equallity.
It's more noticeable on some languages other than English.
Trust me, the less one thinks about the gender the better. There's enough crazy people shouting in a megaphone about gender politics in this game when they probably decided it would make the set more thematically unique if they had a few different fleets. Isn't the Storm crew a mostly female crew? Angrath is orcs and monkey people with some wizards thrown in, and Vraska is a mix of sirens and humans.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Also historically pirates haven't had to fight many vampires or fight dinosaurs, so I'm going with the sentiment that Ixalan may not be historically accurate (as some may have noticed already when it came to the discussion that the wrong types of dinosaur have the wrong kinds of feathers and that many Dinosaur cards are inspired by non-dinosaur animals - which once again is okay, because the game does not make a claim to depict real history nor real biology (paleontology)).
Finally a good white villain quote: "So, do I ever re-evaluate my life choices? Never, because I know what I'm doing is a righteous cause."
Factions: Sleeping
Remnants: Valheim
Legendary Journey: Heroes & Planeswalkers
Saga: Shards of Rabiah
Legends: The Elder Dragons
Read up on Red Flags & NWO
Actually what he has said is new planeswalker are leaning towards more female to catch up. Card art they try to have a 50/50 split and sometimes it leans one way or another for factions;
http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/169309413338/whats-with-all-the-pirates-being-female
http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/169330008203/do-the-pirates-skew-female-in-the-world-of-ixalan
http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/169333724638/people-ask-why-so-many-females-because-of
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1. This isn't earth
2. Asking for historical accuracy in a fantasy setting that is not meant to be related to the real world simply doesn't make any sense. This world isn't accurate to history at all. If we're going to examine gender balance in terms of historical accuracy why are we not also questioning why there are dinosaurs in the same time period as pirates and the Aztecs and why there are vampires and fish people? Why are outlandish fantasy concepts more immediately believable than there happening to be more women than we might be used to in the real world?
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