It feels pretty boring, just something slapped together that hasn't quite been done yet.
From what I've seen of the next set (and the last one), everything's pretty boring lately. I picked the right blocks to sit out!
You'd think a legendary artifact so easy ( ) to build would either be tiny, or simple, or low quality. But this is a large, ornate, golden item. One mana, wow... I'll take ten!
But I really love the effect, and your writeup of the history. Creative
Wall is a good creature type. I don't think it should be the only creature type to get defender, as it was in the early days of Magic, but it's definitely legit. I like the 3 in the OP, and agree it makes sense without being a full cycle. Green and black really aren't big Wall colours imo. White and red seem like the main ones.
Wizards spoiler policy, as of now, appears to be this:
Release a handful of cards four weeks out from release
Spoiler articles on Mothership and spoiler cards on partner sites three weeks and two weeks out from release
Full spoiler released two Fridays before release
Unofficial spoilers are terrible, awful, no good, very bad
I like how it used to be:
MTGN (and later for a short time, MTGS) posts the entire spoiler 6 weeks before the release, after about 2 months of slowly discovering new cards, piecing together hints, and trying to figure out if "leaks" are legit or fakes. A lot of hype built up and the community was huge and strong.
I too feel this moderation was in very bad taste. To stifle the use of the word gay as an attack on other members is great - in fact, I was the person who started that rule, about a decade ago.
But to stifle (and punish) the use of the word gay when that is EXACTLY the correct description of the characters on the Magic card in question? That's homophobic!
I was punished in the "kings" thread for making a play on words using the word "butt", based on the creature having 8 toughness (commonly referred to as "butt"). A moderator claimed I had made a flame attack. Against who, a Magic card? All gay people? Of course not. The creature depicts gay men, and that's awesome. My brother would LOVE that card. And no, that's not a flame attack against my brother.
We should mature a little. It's 2016 and it's okay to be gay. It's even okay to correctly point out that a Magic character is gay, or use the word "butt". There's literally no harm to anyone.
The harm is when overzealous moderators stifle discussion and then attempt to cover up their poor decision by claiming "it's better to overmoderate than undermoderate". In this case, it was hurtful and wrong to moderate. An apology to the affected members (and the gay community) should be made.
Youch! I like it. Not only is it Holy Day, but prevents ALL damage to you. And you get a massive creature out of the deal. And it just keeps getting bigger if you prevent other damage later? Cool
10/10s are fun, but that mana cost isn't. If your opponent has enough creatures to make this castable, he's going to have enough creatures to chump block it. Booo.
Wow, that's an .... unfortunate..... wording. Talk about counter-intuitive. That much text on a card normally makes a person want to skim it for a second, give up, and toss the card aside.
But hey, it's Oath of Druids, it can be fun and playable! Not that it's going for more than $5 lately. And with reprint, that's going way down.
Won't be that much longer until all the non-Power9 cards have been reprinted and the secondary market is completely at the whim of the printing presses. Woohoooo! A few more dozen judge cards and a handful of "Promo" reprint sets, and that's that.
From what I've seen of the next set (and the last one), everything's pretty boring lately. I picked the right blocks to sit out!
But I really love the effect, and your writeup of the history. Creative
Just not certain on the cost, but playtesting would help decide that. It's probably close anyway
I like how it used to be:
MTGN (and later for a short time, MTGS) posts the entire spoiler 6 weeks before the release, after about 2 months of slowly discovering new cards, piecing together hints, and trying to figure out if "leaks" are legit or fakes. A lot of hype built up and the community was huge and strong.
But to stifle (and punish) the use of the word gay when that is EXACTLY the correct description of the characters on the Magic card in question? That's homophobic!
I was punished in the "kings" thread for making a play on words using the word "butt", based on the creature having 8 toughness (commonly referred to as "butt"). A moderator claimed I had made a flame attack. Against who, a Magic card? All gay people? Of course not. The creature depicts gay men, and that's awesome. My brother would LOVE that card. And no, that's not a flame attack against my brother.
We should mature a little. It's 2016 and it's okay to be gay. It's even okay to correctly point out that a Magic character is gay, or use the word "butt". There's literally no harm to anyone.
The harm is when overzealous moderators stifle discussion and then attempt to cover up their poor decision by claiming "it's better to overmoderate than undermoderate". In this case, it was hurtful and wrong to moderate. An apology to the affected members (and the gay community) should be made.
But that ability is pretty dope. A source of plenty of damage over a few turns. I couldn't care less about Partner.
But not necessarily in charge.
10/10s are fun, but that mana cost isn't. If your opponent has enough creatures to make this castable, he's going to have enough creatures to chump block it. Booo.
But hey, it's Oath of Druids, it can be fun and playable! Not that it's going for more than $5 lately. And with reprint, that's going way down.