I enjoyed your article a lot, but the archetype Delver is named after Delver of Secrets, it's been a part of Modern for years. Before Tarkir it never had any delve cards.
Another thing, in the linked Twitch game you never cast Treasure Cruise... I guess the Treasure Cruise provided inevitability if the game went longer? Even through a Tarmod's Crypt? The video didn't really show me the power of Treasure Cruise, not more than reading the card would. It showed the power of Monastery Swiftspear pretty well!
But your article was really good were it counts. I'll read it more in the future.
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Nov 13, 2014JimmyNoobPlayer posted a message on The Cranial Archive - Dealing with the Modern Delver 'Menace'Posted in: cbgirardo
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Nov 13, 2014JimmyNoobPlayer posted a message on Archetype of Endurance (or any other Archetype) questionHi, I'm new to MTG Salvation, but I can help with these questions. In the future, you should try the forums, they can give you answers within hours or minutes.Posted in: ArmyBox1
The Archetype gives itself hexproof. The ability would read, "every other creature you control" if it didn't. Compare it to Nylea, God of the Hunt, which gives trample to your other creatures but not to herself. Also compare it to an "old" Sliver like Muscle Sliver, which gives the ability to all sliver creatures, even your opponents'. Reading the card carefully will always tell you exactly what's happening. -
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A copy of a spell is like a creature token in that it can't exist in any unusual game zones. If a spell copy ever gets exiled or returned to your hand or sent to the graveyard or anything else, it goes there but then immediately ceases to exist.
Only the spell card can be encoded onto a creature, the extra copies just resolve and vanish.
If every copy could encode onto a new creature, things would get out of hand really fast! The cards would need to have even greater mana costs, and they would be awkwardly swingy and unfun. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
four Forests, a Mountain, an Island, and a Shaman of Forgotten Ways on the battlefield since the start of my turn. Fist of Suns and Emrakul in my hand.
Tap three forests to cast the Fist of Suns, then tap the other basic lands and Shaman for all five colors, to cast Emrakul, get the extra turn bonus.
Will that work as I describe?
I believe it would work but I want to verify it.
I copy/pasted and modified the sprites directly from Super Metroid.
The background and lettering is completely custom (based on the Arial Font) made by ridiculously inefficient programs I wrote in C#.
The for-printing images are the right size to print on a 8.5x11 page of cardstock at 300 dpi with a 1/4 inch margin on all sides. If you do, the overlays will be exactly 2.5 by 3.5 inches, the size of Magic cards and tokens.
I think most everybody assumes Waste Not won't work because it's too unreliable. You'll get a small creature, or mana, or a card, but you usually can't decide which one. Many decks are actively trying to draw and discard more, and they will probably get more advantage from their delve cards and Whip than you will out of the enchantment.
Mardu control decks have a lot of discard already, so that could be a starting point. Black and Red with Tymaret, the Murder King to light cats on fire sounds like fun. Anger of the Gods with Dictate of Erebos, Disciple of Phenax, Thoughtrender Lamia if you get some extra mana to cast it with? Definitely Liliana Vess, as you'll want repeatable discard you don't have to spend mana or cards on.
Siren of the Silent Song will cause discard as it attacks, so maybe it could fit into a more aggressive deck with Ordeal of Erebos, Mardu Skullhunter, and Ashiok's Adept?
It would be nice if we get a card like Whispering Madness or Rakdos's Return in the next set.
I really, really suck at deck building. I like to think about fun decks that have no chance of working in the real world... and Waste Not is probably one of those decks. The next set might make it work. Wish I could help you more.
To answer some of your questions, a token is a permanent that acts like a creature (or artifact, or other thing) but doesn't take up a card. Raise the Alarm makes tokens for example.
Legion Loyalist and Gates aren't Standard-legal anymore (Standard is the most common format, but there are other formats). The current Standard-legal sets are Theros, Born of the Gods, and Journey into Nyx from the Theros block, the Magic 2015 Core Set, and Khans of Tarkir from the new Tarkir block. Sets rotate out of Standard in about a year and a half.
Playing Draft games is a great way to build up your card collection, most Magic card shops have Khans of Tarkir drafts going on a few times a week.
I hope you decide to learn Magic, it's an awesome game!
But only Goblins are stupid enough, most creatures would let go. I guess it's not as good an example of a flavor fail as I thought. It's just that the name and flavor text says, "The creature doesn't drop the equipment! Isn't that funny!" and the rules text says, "Just kidding, the creature drops the equipment."
There are quite a few cards that must've been changed late in the development cycle and couldn't be renamed/reflavored. A recent mild case is Villainous Wealth's flavor text, "Gold buys death, death earns gold." which sounds like the spell is being powered by death, that is, Delve.
Imagine if Villainous Wealth had Delve.
I wish I had kept more double-faced cards from Innistrad, for example. I bet a lot of people wish they had kept more Zendikar Quests and Allies. (That was before my time.)
For Tarkir drafts, I've been keeping the rares and most uncommons, and keeping commons only if I'm thinking of building a deck with them (or Treasure Cruise).
Everything else goes into the free box. My local shop has a box anyone can look through and take. So many people opened boxes of Tarkir when it was released that the free box was packed and overflowing. : ) It's still pretty full.