MTG Salvation

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Choose target creature, then choose another target creature for each time ~ was kicked.
Each of them gains +1/+1 and "T: this creature fights another target creature" until end of turn.

Is this so different from the original text and so much more difficult to grab? I understand the reasoning behind (unifying set mechanics etc), but I still feel it's an unnecessary inflation of keywords that complicates the rules for nothing. Some of those keywords become (semi-)redundant with other existing ones and/or become forgotten (was there ever a fateful hour archetype?). When I see the effort put into trying to explain how devotion was something else than chroma, I come to think that those new narrow keywords are just a marketing effort, to say there's something new in the set.

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You know what's been eating all my time? Sorting all my financials out and moving into my own place, buying a new computer, and generally getting everything sorted

Here's a pic of me christening my new place


That was us having a random peasant deck building sesh, but we've been having EDH nights and everything and having an actual place that's mine is kinda awesome for doing things. How is everyone?

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In the sweres, the only things that sleep never wake back up.
I just assumed you all were awake all the time.

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I'm against this personally. Play the game. As others have said, you may be helping the person in front of you but you're hurting someone else just as much.

As a competitive person, I don't understand why you would even want someone to do that. I've certainly never asked someone to let me win anything nor would I. If I don't earn it then it doesn't mean anything. That's what feels good about winning something, knowing you worked hard and earned it. I wouldn't give that to someone else either. I don't care if you're 5-0 and I'm 0-5, I'm still going to give you my best game and try to win and I expect the same if the situation is reversed.

As an example on a minor level, I was at FNM two weeks ago and sitting next to two guys in round 3. One guy was 0-2, the other 2-0. They went to time and it was about to draw. The 0-2 guy asked the 2-0 player his record and when he said 2-0, he said okay, you can take it and said he lost. He wasn't offered anything to do so, though the guy did say thanks and if he won any prizes he'd throw him a pack or two to which he was told "if you think that's fair". It wasn't a condition but it worked out better for the player.

Might not seem like much but he ended up winning 1 and losing 1 of his last matches to go 4-1. There was a four way tie at 4-1 for 1st. On tie breakers he got 2nd. I got 4th. Yet ultimately he should have been 3-1-1 and he cost both me and the person who got 3rd extra packs. Not the end of the world, 3-1-1 would have likely gotten him 4th or 5th or something which isn't bad but his friend trying to be nice cost some of us prizes we actually earned.

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You have to be sleep deprived to see them?

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Dark Souls 2 is a thing

I haven't slept in like three days. Just checking in to let you know I'm alive while I go play more. Peace.

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It doesn't really matter how far away you can draw on the mana bonds from if the land you're bonded with doesn't have any mana in it any more.

Mana doesn't just go away though. It continues to produce mana because of the meaning attached to it. It takes ages or a MASSIVE upheaval to make a land change the mana it produces. You'd actually have to destroy the lands, not just move people out of their homes.

Going back to my metaphor, think of the mana as water. The lands are dams. The leylines are rivers. If someone had the power to re-arrange the rivers, they could make it so none of them flow to any of your dams. Even if you can access the dam from the other side of the planet, it doesn't do you any good if there's no water flowing to it.

The metaphor breaks down a bit because the lands aren't dams. They are springs. The rivers START at the those lands.

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It's a real-world term. A ley line is simply an alignment of locations of geographical and/or historical significance.

Since in the Magic storyline, mana comes from forming bonds with locations of geographical and/or historical significance and drawing on the energy (mana) of those lands through that bond, it follows logically that a leyline is an alignment of mana-rich lands. So, the relation leyline of anticipation and leyline of singularity have with Island on Ravnica is that the Islands are connected to each other via the Leylines. Think of it like a literal line tracing the flow of mana between the lands.

I haven't read the story you're talking about, but it sounds like Jace re-directed the leylines to cut off Vraska's mana bonds. Like diverting a stream to keep the water from reaching the dam where your enemies get their hydroelectric energy.

Oh, cool. Thanks, that does explain the first part. But The Gorgon and the Guildpact While if I recall, Doug had one time discussed there being few amateur mages with the necessity of being in proximity with a given land to access its mana, this should not be the case for the guilds' vital spellcasting forces, and Planeswalkers aren't limited as such either. I'm not sure what guild territory does to mana bonds o.O

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Personally, I think that Modern countermagic needs a boost. Memory Lapse could be that boost.

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It is good, but would it really break Standard?

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Why does it need to be more expensive?

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What are we going to do with the plane from flight MH370?

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A lot of people think the new art has been homogenized but I think the main reason for this is that if the card on which the art will be placed is a green card, then many of the elements of the card will have a green hue. Same for all the colors. That's my only gripe. I would like to get some of my favorite cards done by the artists in a "non-magickified" format where they were allowed to use whatever hues they want and not just red for red cards and so forth. The trouble with this is that in game terms we need to have homogenized cards, it makes memorizing the pictures much easier. I'm sure you've all experienced that moment when you know every card and exactly what it does just by the blurry inch and a half picture sitting three or four feet away. I don't think this would be as easy without a somewhat homogenized approach.