Hey all, I just started a crew on the Rockstar Social Club website. Called the Discordians, tag ERIS, if you wanted to join. But doing that made me think about a MTGS crew. Anybody down?
Bonescythe spoiled to be white. As a sliver fanatic, who actually doesn't mind the changes thus far, I will say that if they are Naya only, that will be a bridge too far for me.
why can't you wish for more wishes with ring of three wishes?
You can wish for another ring of three wishes!
That out of the way, it is looking increasingly likely that slivers won't be in all 5 colors. I am not one of the people complaining about the new look, or the changed mechanic. In fact, as somebody who has been obsessed with slivers since my beginnings as a magic player, I am that rare player who is a gigantic sliver-fan and not bitter about the changes...that said, if slivers are Naya only, I will be bitter. Very, very, very bitter.
First major problem being that Emmara is completely aware that her friend is dead and has been replaced. No way she'd let his impostor get close enough.
Honest question: Are we sure he is dead? Not just in a prison with no doors, like our "heroes" last we saw them in the books?
Either way, I didn't think it was going to be one of those scenes where she runs into his arms and he stabs her in the back, a la Starke back in the day. I was thinking more like the end of Mortal Kombat the movie, when Shang Tsung turns into Liu Kang's brother, just for the extra emotional damage in addition to regular ol' physical damage.
Regardless, I'm pretty sure Emmara is gonna take a dirt nap, or, I guess, on Ravnica, a concrete nap. Err, actually, I guess she goes in to Golgari stew for the poor. Or maybe there is some Selesnya ritual where you get turned into a tree or something? I don't know. But I think she gonna die.
My actual prediction: Emmara wins, and then immediately dies. (Right in front of Jace, by Lazav's hand, in the form of her Selesnya beau whose name I can't recall[because we can't have Jace get a happy ending, because then why would he ever leave Ravnica?]) Immediately after she dies, the power she gained from the maze is released into the surviving runners, including some random Selesnya schmuck (possibly the legitimate version of her beau), causing the power of the brand-spanking new guildpact to be funnelled into all 10 guilds equally.
Also, Niv-Mizzet, through some crazy Batman gambit, knew this was how it would, and must, play out.
Less seriously: Then Szadek shows up and drinks somebody's brain juice. Maybe Lazav. Then regains his place as rightful boogeyman and guildmaster of the Dimir. Just in time for Feather to show up and arrest Aurelia for something. Leading in to Re-Return to Ravnica the block after Theros, with a new Szadek card, and, more importantly, a card for Feather. Also, it's magical christmas land, and the gateless serve some purpose in the next block.
EDIT: oh, and Jace blows up somebody's mind because he gets really, really sad over Emmara's death. Maybe Ral Zarek. Maybe Lazav. Maybe everybody.
I think its because its just a normal Enchantment, not a World Enchantment.
I lol'd. Literally.
Anyway, here was my submission:
Ecks' Bargain
~ enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters.
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may move a +1/+1 counter from ~ onto it.
Sacrifice a creature with a +1/+1 counter on it: Draw cards equal to that creature's power, and lose life equal to it's toughness.
didn't set the mana cost, but obviously it needs to have X in the cost.
I know it's a little weird for black to give +1/+1 counters out like that, but I felt the overall flavor of the card justified it. I read over this whole thread, and some of the submissions I really liked, and others I wasn't sure what they were thinking when they typed it. ( A. Overpowered, B. Underpowered, or C. Not feasible/not how WotC does things.)
Yeah...I thought about them. Specifically, the Myojin. More specifically, Night's Reach. If any non-walker being that has been detailed in magic has been close to true deity status before...
But again, they weren't referred to as gods. This is me acknowledging it's an irrational line in the sand, but it is still where I put it.
That's such a horrendous and offensive cliche that I got cancer just from reading that.
Harsh. That statement was so bitter it gave me an ulcer. Still, cancer is worse than an ulcer, so I guess you win this round. Or I do...I'm not sure what the parameters are for victory.
Either way...it's not a cliche, it's a trope. Just like guilds battling for supremacy in a city, brotherswaging war, or humans being beset on all sides by monsters, or great eldritch beings, unknowable to the human mind who promise utter destruction, or a race of beings who consume, corrupt and destroy all in their path.
It's not in the trope you use, but how you use it.
Makes some sense, apart from the fact that Subbak is me, and I definitely wasn't recently mugged by Dimir agents. The name you're looking for is Bartek.
I see the mind extraction went swimmingly. You didn't think they'd let you remember, do you?
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...Well, I guess you don't remember if you thought they'd let you remember.
But in all seriousness, I see your point. I am having trouble defining what a "god" is to me, without resorting to DnD 3.5 and divinity points. lol.
To be blunt, in fiction, a god is a being which is called a god by the author outside of quotation marks. I will be okay with extremely powerful, possibly gigantic, possibly immortal beings that are worshiped as gods by the folks of Theros...but to go that next step and call them gods outside of " " goes against my (long-established and well-read) view of the Magic Multiverse.
Am I saying I will quit Magic, or any such trite nonsense? Nah. I will still play, and I will still stay up on the story as much as I can...I will read the book(s) if they exist, I will read the flavor articles, and I will Absorb flavor text, and most likely, I will love every second of it, just like I always have. But gods in Magic still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
EDIT: And again, I am not forgetting about Gaea, or that dwarven god from Myths of Magic. It is just that whenever gods have been mentioned in Magic, they have always been kept at a distance. Either they were nothing but a background detail, to explain a society's customs (a la Brother's War and the kingdom which worshipped like a thousand gods whose name I can't recall at 4 am) or they were actively proven to be something else (Eldrazi, or an old machine [Ramos]) And for the first type, we always saw that a thousand years later nobody worshipped that god anymore, and since they didn't do some SERIOUS wrath of god'ing, the religion must have been wrong.
If we don't get minotaurs in red (and possibly blue) I will be very, very surprised.
Other than that, I'm hoping the gods won't actually be gods, but oldwalkers who convinced the populace of their divinity, and now (post-mending) have sort of backed away from the public eye, causing all sorts of political and societal turmoil.
I have always liked that Magic doesn't have true gods (except for possibly Gaea, but that has never been proven), and would be more than a little bit disapointed if that changed this block.
i'm really torn. I, like others here, would really like to see what the community could do with a land...but I also love creatures. An enchantment could also be awesome. I'm going to wait a couple days before voting, think on it. I see the point some people made about lands not having enough nobs to turn to make it good...but as much as I'd love to make an awesome Elf, we already did a creature. Anything an enchantment can do, a land could do without being color restricted...though the effect wouldn't be as powerful, because we couldn't change the mana cost of a land for other reasons. I am taking YMTC4 seriously...far more seriously than I took the last u.s. presidential election, for sure.
Man, it wouldn't even have to break the fourth wall, they probably get Ravnican Equivalent Of Coffee together during their lunch breaks or something.
Oh, Ravnica has coffee. Kos got hooked on Ogrish Coffee while he was a 'jek. Discussed in the first Rav book. I may not have a great memory for most small details, but if it has to do with coffee, I'm your man.
Hey, so, I know this is a huge question. I am trying to get back in to magic after a break, and part of my process is going through and organizing my cards. I have been playing off and on since Nemesis, and I have never really kept my cards organized, except by color. I now want to organize by format as well as color, card type, what-have-you. Basically, I am trying to figure out a list of cards which have been reprinted from older sets into modern-legal ones. I couldn't figure out a way to do this in gatherer, and couldn't find a list online. Does anybody know any gatherer tricks to do this, or any places I could find such a list, and if not, would the community as a whole like to help my figure it out? I figure this could be useful to others who would like to break in to modern as well.
You can wish for another ring of three wishes!
That out of the way, it is looking increasingly likely that slivers won't be in all 5 colors. I am not one of the people complaining about the new look, or the changed mechanic. In fact, as somebody who has been obsessed with slivers since my beginnings as a magic player, I am that rare player who is a gigantic sliver-fan and not bitter about the changes...that said, if slivers are Naya only, I will be bitter. Very, very, very bitter.
I for one, have but a single response:
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*$@% yeah Slivers. Looks like I am buying a lot of M14, to ensure I continue to have 4x of every sliver.
Honest question: Are we sure he is dead? Not just in a prison with no doors, like our "heroes" last we saw them in the books?
Either way, I didn't think it was going to be one of those scenes where she runs into his arms and he stabs her in the back, a la Starke back in the day. I was thinking more like the end of Mortal Kombat the movie, when Shang Tsung turns into Liu Kang's brother, just for the extra emotional damage in addition to regular ol' physical damage.
Regardless, I'm pretty sure Emmara is gonna take a dirt nap, or, I guess, on Ravnica, a concrete nap. Err, actually, I guess she goes in to Golgari stew for the poor. Or maybe there is some Selesnya ritual where you get turned into a tree or something? I don't know. But I think she gonna die.
Also, Niv-Mizzet, through some crazy Batman gambit, knew this was how it would, and must, play out.
Less seriously: Then Szadek shows up and drinks somebody's brain juice. Maybe Lazav. Then regains his place as rightful boogeyman and guildmaster of the Dimir. Just in time for Feather to show up and arrest Aurelia for something. Leading in to Re-Return to Ravnica the block after Theros, with a new Szadek card, and, more importantly, a card for Feather. Also, it's magical christmas land, and the gateless serve some purpose in the next block.
EDIT: oh, and Jace blows up somebody's mind because he gets really, really sad over Emmara's death. Maybe Ral Zarek. Maybe Lazav. Maybe everybody.
I lol'd. Literally.
Anyway, here was my submission:
Ecks' Bargain
~ enters the battlefield with X +1/+1 counters.
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may move a +1/+1 counter from ~ onto it.
Sacrifice a creature with a +1/+1 counter on it: Draw cards equal to that creature's power, and lose life equal to it's toughness.
didn't set the mana cost, but obviously it needs to have X in the cost.
I know it's a little weird for black to give +1/+1 counters out like that, but I felt the overall flavor of the card justified it. I read over this whole thread, and some of the submissions I really liked, and others I wasn't sure what they were thinking when they typed it. ( A. Overpowered, B. Underpowered, or C. Not feasible/not how WotC does things.)
Yeah...I thought about them. Specifically, the Myojin. More specifically, Night's Reach. If any non-walker being that has been detailed in magic has been close to true deity status before...
But again, they weren't referred to as gods. This is me acknowledging it's an irrational line in the sand, but it is still where I put it.
Harsh. That statement was so bitter it gave me an ulcer. Still, cancer is worse than an ulcer, so I guess you win this round. Or I do...I'm not sure what the parameters are for victory.
Either way...it's not a cliche, it's a trope. Just like guilds battling for supremacy in a city, brothers waging war, or humans being beset on all sides by monsters, or great eldritch beings, unknowable to the human mind who promise utter destruction, or a race of beings who consume, corrupt and destroy all in their path.
It's not in the trope you use, but how you use it.
I see the mind extraction went swimmingly. You didn't think they'd let you remember, do you?
...
...Well, I guess you don't remember if you thought they'd let you remember.
But in all seriousness, I see your point. I am having trouble defining what a "god" is to me, without resorting to DnD 3.5 and divinity points. lol.
To be blunt, in fiction, a god is a being which is called a god by the author outside of quotation marks. I will be okay with extremely powerful, possibly gigantic, possibly immortal beings that are worshiped as gods by the folks of Theros...but to go that next step and call them gods outside of " " goes against my (long-established and well-read) view of the Magic Multiverse.
Am I saying I will quit Magic, or any such trite nonsense? Nah. I will still play, and I will still stay up on the story as much as I can...I will read the book(s) if they exist, I will read the flavor articles, and I will Absorb flavor text, and most likely, I will love every second of it, just like I always have. But gods in Magic still leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
EDIT: And again, I am not forgetting about Gaea, or that dwarven god from Myths of Magic. It is just that whenever gods have been mentioned in Magic, they have always been kept at a distance. Either they were nothing but a background detail, to explain a society's customs (a la Brother's War and the kingdom which worshipped like a thousand gods whose name I can't recall at 4 am) or they were actively proven to be something else (Eldrazi, or an old machine [Ramos]) And for the first type, we always saw that a thousand years later nobody worshipped that god anymore, and since they didn't do some SERIOUS wrath of god'ing, the religion must have been wrong.
Other than that, I'm hoping the gods won't actually be gods, but oldwalkers who convinced the populace of their divinity, and now (post-mending) have sort of backed away from the public eye, causing all sorts of political and societal turmoil.
I have always liked that Magic doesn't have true gods (except for possibly Gaea, but that has never been proven), and would be more than a little bit disapointed if that changed this block.
Oh, Ravnica has coffee. Kos got hooked on Ogrish Coffee while he was a 'jek. Discussed in the first Rav book. I may not have a great memory for most small details, but if it has to do with coffee, I'm your man.
Thanks in advance.