MTG Salvation

correct me if im wrong but... doesnt having an artifact general require you to have an artifact/colorless deck with only colorless mana? or do the rules vary between groups... as its unoffical

@ clan iraq, well orignally poison WAS kinda neat, not not quite the same as another life bar, still close but not entirely

but i gotta say im really disapointed in wizards for how they did it this time... couldve been so cool... and now its just mediocre creatures (for the current metagame) that need to get in fewer hits than a better creature

oh idk... maybe the fact that he tripled the national debt - almost dooming our curency

i predict something that gives you a bonus for having 9 poison counters,
also something that transfers poison counters from player to player perhaps?

yikes this is stronger than poisonous by a huge degree

yea im going to giant growth my unblocked poison guy... give you at least 4 counters

wizards... you better make it more interesting than that... poison should need tricks to work, not just a different form of brute force

Quote from ThreeHandMan

I would love to see Psychatog comeback just to see if it would have any impact on standard or not.

wrong flavor for the set, now i could see an atog that eats (removes) counters from permanents you control - i am very hopeful for a new atog and its big toothy grin

Quote from kdf2883

Since Sunburst is coming back, I want them to reprint Stratadon! I can see this card having a chance at being reprinted.

that wouldve been a conflux card, and they didnt do it... not even draco

Quote from JakeFaas

I could see it being flavorful in some aspects to bring back Suppression Field, plus it helps to fill the void pithing needle will leave.

that would be really neat with all of the planeswalkers floating around

some kind of atog
the reprint of fling in M11 makes me wonder about the possibility of fling-atog becoming a standard concept

Quote from QuantumTarantino

Cryptic in Lorwyn, WAS "Mythic" and is just as rare as Jace

1 in 80 Lorwyn packs, have a Cryptic

1 in 80 Worldwake packs, have a Jace

i havent done my research so forgive me if im mistaken,
but wasnt lorwyn a much larger set than worldwake?
and if the odds are the same, as you have posted, but with a much larger pool... that would inturn make cryptic not "mythic"

i wouldnt lump mind rot in, since it is a relatively old card - meaning it was kamigawa that copied it

why do people keep comparing mill to poison?
mill usually requires some combo or just a bunch of consecuative mill cards
no creature involvement

poison requires you to actually damage the player with your creatures (be unblocked in the case of the black ones) which means its pure creature involvement
-and since the poison creatures are all very weak, they need combat tricks and lots of them

and people please, stop trying to equate damage to poison * 2, its very easy to modify your own life total and very difficult to modify your poison counters

the trade off to that is when using poison you have to get the hits in, you cant just do most of it and then finish with some spell that does X amount of damage

this makes for a much more predictable gauge of where the game stands, there is no wondering if you are going to get lightning bolted for your last poison counter or lifegain/lifelink your way back to 0 counters

Quote from ShiftyShifts

Really you pick Poison over Banding as worst ever?

actually, banding is pretty strong
just the creatures that have banding are very sub-par by today's standards

same goes to the poison creatures

anyway, as its been said - poison is another reasource that you lose for completely exhausting
since theres only like... 1? way of removing poison counters, it is better than damage because gaining life is pretty simple, this also allows for cards that give your opponent life to be much more useful, like invigorate is a surprise combat trick if you have no mana

though it is better than damage, its much more difficult to inflict - so its a trade off, maybe not a balanced enough one but very little has been done with the ability - so cut it some slack in that respect

Quote from Blutsau

If you decide to run Training Grounds you almost have to play Spawnsire of Ulamog. A Grounds out with this on top means that you have two jump blockers that replace themselfs for every 2 you spend.

throw in a doubling season for infinite mana and cast lots of giant eldrazi from your sideboard just for giggles

yes because it does not say otherwise

if it said "the cost cannot be reduced to less than 1" then it would be no

say you attack with a first strike creature and it goes unblocked,
example:
black knight

can you do the first strike damage part of combat and then ninjutsu the knight with a ninja and have the ninja do a "normal strike"

i think it works because technically the knight is still an attacking and unblocked creature
and if you do this between the first strike and normal damage steps
the ninja comes in as an attacking unblocked creature before the step in which it would do damage

am i wrong? reasons

Quote from Vaires

I get that part,
but how does it interact with controller-changing effects?

from all I've read,
I get the implication that Mind Control would make the creature that I just got, gains summoning sickness,

unlike Mark of Mutiny, Act of Treason and the rest that definitely gives 'haste' to the creature in question.

i was going for the actual thread topic with that question, not the mind control bit