MTG Salvation

Pauper also includes all of the sets in magic so there is a large difference between just the commons and every card ever printed. There are also expensive commons.

Standard is the most popular competitive format. I doubt they are going to have standard tournaments and standard tournaments without mythics. Thats like having legacy and then legacy with all the cards on the reserved list banned.

They don't create formats based on the price of cards. If you think that then you are confused. Pauper is different enough from other formats so it creates a different type of meta. If you just play standard without mythics, its basically standard -30 cards or something like that. Not that different.

Because if you take the warlord, that leaves the captain as the clear best card left in the pack and you can put the person to your left in two colors that you are not playing. The warlord is still a very good card and also splashable.

The captain is fine and there is a case for taking that. I would take either over the dryad though lol.

Creating a new format because some people cannot afford cards ect doesn't seem like a great direction for the health of the game. Confuses new players with two different formats that are essentially the same thing (-) only mythics.

This idea seems completely pointless since wotc has already chosen to print the mythic rarity. I would image that if they were concerned with mythics driving up prices or what not, they would choose to stop printing them rather than create a new format.

There is pretty much no way P1P2 is correct. The dryad is mediocre even if you end up playing green and it isn't like you are really signaling because the next few people are not going to take that card anyways.

Then after probably taking the warlord in pick 2, P1P3 I would either splash the tragic slip or take a second warlord because green / red is very good.

Everything else in pack 1 was fairly straightforward

So I think this exact situation came up in the live coverage with Matt Costa at Barcelona. He played a creature tapping the cavern of souls for mana, but didn't specifically say if it was colorless or not. His opponent countered the creature and there was a judge call. The judge ruled that the creature was countered and I don't believe there was an appeal.

I know Exsam is a level 3 judge and he already posted a ruling. Was the table judge correct on the live coverage or do you think the head judge would have over ruled the call if there had been an appeal? I'm just trying to figure out the official ruling on this because it seems like it came up multiple times during the pro tour.

Maybe I missed something on the live coverage.

People in the tournament practice room are usually horrible. I grind a lot of mtgo. Just play tournaments if you want real practice.

I'm saying if you are going to play at FNM, then play for fun.

Who cares, it's FNM, the most casual magic tournament there is. It's basically pay X dollars for prize support and play with your friends. Grats, you beat someone who placed second at a GP. That doesn't make you a pro magic player. It doesn't actually mean anything. He could have been mana screwed both games and you drew perfectly. Sample size of 1 is irrelevant. On the other side, maybe you are capable of GP top 8.

I don't even know why you posted this. Yes, there is some luck in magic just like in everything else. Magic does have a high skill cap though and anyone who takes advantage of this will show much better results than someone who plays once a week.

tl:dr fnm doesn't matter. Play in larger events if you want to know if you are good or not. We don't know you or anyone who plays at your store so we can't help.

The card is not very good. They can just pay the life for individual creatures so it's not even an all or nothing. The only time it really does anything is if you are already winning in which case you probably don't even need this.

Haven't seen a convincing argument yet for why this card is good. Maybe you and TSG can go in together and buy them all and get rich when everyone is proved wrong.

P1P2 was like the 5th best card in the pack. Probably just take loyal cathar. Sends the best signal

Killing wave is pretty unplayable everywhere. It's kind of the worst.

Maybe you are just average

It's not really the same thing as yawgmoth's bargain. Bargain is an enchantment which already makes it a more resilient card. You can also choose exactly how many cards to draw instead of being forced to draw in increments of 7.

I don't really see how they are similar at all other than paying life to draw cards.

People complaining about a new set mechanic; this is new and interesting. At least wait until the format is fleshed out a bit before determining that miracles are unplayable, broken, or whatever else.

You have to reveal the miracle card when you draw it. If you do, you can cast it for the miracle cost right then. If it touches your hand before you have revealed it, you can't miracle it anymore.