how do people like to use this card in reanimator decks? I play it in my Sedris deck, but not sure to use it as another buried alive or as a way to grab three versions of living death.
You could use it to grab Mnemonic Wall, Archaeomancer, and Living Death. That has the added benefit of returning living death to your hand after you use it.
This does work. I also want to point out that the till EOT exile thing is only for your graveyard, so you could cast another players Gitaxian Probe as many times as you want.
The only real bad story I have happened a couple years ago. I have always had one really good LGS, like seriously good. They always have good prices, great service, and they even bother to remember your name if you go there a few times. The only problem is it's a little bit of a drive.
So I find out there is a different store that's signifigantly closer, and give them a try. It's a smaller store, but they have a decent customer base and I end up playing a few fnm's there. Not as good as my main LGS, but It's okay.
Then comes the Mirridon Beseiged prerelease, and I decided to go with a Buddie of mine to their midnight release. Thats when things went downhill. They decided that for flavor reasons you could only use cards with the water mark of the faction you picked (if you recall it was the first faction themed prerelease, Mirrin vs New Phyrexia) which essentially meant that anyone who picked phyrexia was short almost all of the cards in their Scars packs (there were only a couple Phyrexian watermarked cards in the first set). And they said that everyone got to use their promo in their deck. Which meant that everyone who picked Mirrin got a Hero of Bladehold, while you had to commit to a G/B deck if you wanted to use your phyrexia promo.
When asked about it, the owner said that Wizards made it very clear that it was supposed to be run that way, and brushed it off. It seriously ruined the release, and everyone who picked phyrexia got stomped, hard.
Attendence dwindled after that, and they went out of business shortly after. I am not sure if the prerelease caused it or it was already going down hill, but either way I am not sad to see them go.
Just came up in an EDH game we were playing. Player A casts All Sun's Dawn, and player B casts Reverberate on it, with no red cards in . Can player B target Reverberate? When do targets get chosen for the copy?
If I could time travel, the last thing I would do is anything magic related. I WANT TO RIDE A DINOSAUR, DAMNIT.
But if it had to be about magic, I would convince them the shave 1-2 generic mana off of almost every card from kamigawa block (with a few notable exceptions, looking at you Jitte and Top). There are so many cool cards from that block that are just a bit over costed.
Life isnt a good analogy, and a straw man defense. Life obviously needs to be public knowledge. Theres no reason pen and paper need to be in a card game. No where on the card does it say look at opponents hand and youre allowed to always remember the cards shown.
I run a black deck, so i'm very familiar with using Thoughtsieze. I just done resort to using outside tools when I cast it.
I'm shame every player who does this, its not part of the game.
THANK YOU! If you can't remember the hand you looked at 30 seconds ago, you are SOL. This is a CARD game, no paper, no tokens, no dice.
You can't remember how many counters on your Jace? It's zero, he's dead now. To all those noob players using "dice" to keep track, for SHAME. This is magic, not some gygaxian bull****.
And really, if you can't remember how many Cats you have from a White Sun's Zenith 10 turns ago, after chumping with one and sacing some to Ashnod's Altar, we don't want you in this game. GET OUT.
If Kaho, Minamo Historian is killed in response to her activated ability, does she still get to cast the card? I am unsure if last known information works here.
I think this is a MUCH better card in a 1v1 setting. For example, if you are playing a Rhys, the Redeemed against a non tribal, you essentially get to keep all your dudes, and they get to keep one of theirs. But in multiplayer, this will never hit what you need it to hit, and with 4-5 (or more, sometimes, but I never play games that big) types chosen you only hit a few non essential guys.
It doesn't affect combat damage. Lifelink and abilities are still under Rain of Gore influence.
Another un-intuitive ruling is that Doubling Season will not double the counters on a Vivid land (say, Vivid Grove) when you play it from your hand. It will double them, instead, if you take the Vivid land with a Primeval Titan or something else.
Is that because placing the land from your hand isn't an effect?
Even without the sac thing, they print cards that are notably worse than older cards all the time, for limited/standard balance, and other reasons. Lighting Bolt --> ShockCounterspell --> Cancel
There are a lot of cards in Alpha/Beta that don't fit with modern balance standards. Moxes were fair game when everyone essentially was playing limited, and you could only ever feasibly get like one of them. Now that everyone can consistantly have the max number of any given card, you can't balance like that.
I really like the card, but it bugs the crap out of me when I use (almost) strictly worse cards. One of the reasons I only have one legacy deck is I can't stand using shocks over original duals, and I can't afford duals right now.
You could use it to grab Mnemonic Wall, Archaeomancer, and Living Death. That has the added benefit of returning living death to your hand after you use it.
This does work. I also want to point out that the till EOT exile thing is only for your graveyard, so you could cast another players Gitaxian Probe as many times as you want.
I think you would have to specify non-mana, or non-land abilities, or else this is beyond broken.
So I find out there is a different store that's signifigantly closer, and give them a try. It's a smaller store, but they have a decent customer base and I end up playing a few fnm's there. Not as good as my main LGS, but It's okay.
Then comes the Mirridon Beseiged prerelease, and I decided to go with a Buddie of mine to their midnight release. Thats when things went downhill. They decided that for flavor reasons you could only use cards with the water mark of the faction you picked (if you recall it was the first faction themed prerelease, Mirrin vs New Phyrexia) which essentially meant that anyone who picked phyrexia was short almost all of the cards in their Scars packs (there were only a couple Phyrexian watermarked cards in the first set). And they said that everyone got to use their promo in their deck. Which meant that everyone who picked Mirrin got a Hero of Bladehold, while you had to commit to a G/B deck if you wanted to use your phyrexia promo.
When asked about it, the owner said that Wizards made it very clear that it was supposed to be run that way, and brushed it off. It seriously ruined the release, and everyone who picked phyrexia got stomped, hard.
Attendence dwindled after that, and they went out of business shortly after. I am not sure if the prerelease caused it or it was already going down hill, but either way I am not sad to see them go.
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But if it had to be about magic, I would convince them the shave 1-2 generic mana off of almost every card from kamigawa block (with a few notable exceptions, looking at you Jitte and Top). There are so many cool cards from that block that are just a bit over costed.
THANK YOU! If you can't remember the hand you looked at 30 seconds ago, you are SOL. This is a CARD game, no paper, no tokens, no dice.
You can't remember how many counters on your Jace? It's zero, he's dead now. To all those noob players using "dice" to keep track, for SHAME. This is magic, not some gygaxian bull****.
And really, if you can't remember how many Cats you have from a White Sun's Zenith 10 turns ago, after chumping with one and sacing some to Ashnod's Altar, we don't want you in this game. GET OUT.
If Kaho, Minamo Historian is killed in response to her activated ability, does she still get to cast the card? I am unsure if last known information works here.
Is that because placing the land from your hand isn't an effect?
There are a lot of cards in Alpha/Beta that don't fit with modern balance standards. Moxes were fair game when everyone essentially was playing limited, and you could only ever feasibly get like one of them. Now that everyone can consistantly have the max number of any given card, you can't balance like that.