Originally posted by Ramenth
Even if the Schism isnt a rift in and of itself, no one knows where it came from
The goblin piloting the ship in Utarva creates the Schism when Hauc's experiment goes "awry". It is explained that after a long and painful tear from the physical realm he awakens somewhere undefined. His last words in the Guildpact prolouge are "Where am I". He certianly didn't seem to end up in the Agyrem. That being the case, it is perfectly plausable to theorize that the Schism is in fact another rift.
However, it is also made clear that the souls of dead Ravnicans are pulled to the Schism and thrust into the Agyrem. Now is it not safe to think that the Agyrem is one of a possible infinate number of places the Schism could lead to?
Originally posted by sleeping Villian Perhaps even the Schism in Ravnica is one such planar hole.
This is a great theory. It is never fully explained in Guildpact where the goblin pilot flying over Utvara ends up after his mission fails. Nor does Niv answer Crix about his whereabouts after the Neph fight in Dissension. It's never stated Niv is a planeswalker, but c'mon, he's Niv.
I find all this inter-set storyline amazing. For me, the best part of the TS novel wasn't Bolas elder dragon pimping Teferi's face, but the sheer mention of two pincer like spires of rock jutting out of the sea. It all came together at that point and I was beside myself.
My mind is just exploding with the possiblities of what Planar Chaos will offer. If in fact it will have to do with Kami/Rav (and this point it seems promising) which other legends would pop up from those worlds!?
Svogthir, Jarad, Fonn, Biracazir, Cicarzim, Kobo, Kyodai, Myc, Zomaj, Crix, Uramon, Chiyo, Lupul, and so on, and so on...
Match 19
DarkArchangel vs. Pseudofate
Judge: Istanbul
Temporal Dominance
:4mana::symu:
Sorcery
Choose target creature from outside the the game with a time counter on it. Remove all time counters and put it into play under your control.
As long as Temporal Dominance is in your graveyard, the next time a spell would be played from outside the game you may pay :4mana::symu:. If you do, remove Temporal Dominance from the game and counter that spell, otherwise, remove Temporal Dominance from the game.
After a miserable June leauge, I placed 24th in July, a personal best. August RGD held the same mediocre pool and performance, and let's not even get into the Coldsnap release leauge.
So September is here and a new leauge begins!
I think I put together the best of what I had availible. However I normally think that every month and get proven wrong.
Match #10
Blinking Spirit vs. Pseudofate
Judge: Raia
Lestat de Lioncourt
Legendary Creature - Vampire
:symr:, :symtap:: Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Then, flip a coin. If you win the flip, return that creature from the graveyard to play under your control with a +2/+2 counter on it. That creature is a vampire in addition to its creature types and has ":2mana:: Regenerate this creature". If you lose the flip, return that creature from the graveyard to play under target opponent's control with a +2/+2 counter on it. That creature is a vampire in addition to its creature types and has ":2mana:: Regenerate this creature". Then, sacrifice Lestat de Lioncourt. :symb:: Regenerate Lestat de Lioncourt.
***
Whew, thats a mouthful, yet absolutely necessary.
In "Interview With the Vampire", Lestat embraces Louis and grants him the ageless power of the vampires. Louis is his friend and ally, winning the flip. Yet, when the same power is granted to Claudia, in time, she grows to hate Lestat for the power he has granted (she's a child, and doomed forever to stay as one so long as she is vampire) and takes his life, losing the flip. It's common knowledge that being a vampire gives you a leg up on your enemies and, save the sun or fire, eternal life, thus the +2/+2 and regen.
Lestat is evil and chaotic, arrogant and impulsive. Black and Red never had a better poster child.
For as long as I've been playing Magic, I have never been exceptional at it. In the early days when my friends and I thought Carnivorus Plant couldn't block flyers because the flavor text stated "no means of locomotion", to my recent conversion to limited only. Through all this, all though I've been dissapointed when suffering a loss, I haven't complained to my opponents, or blamed mana screw (except when your, well, mana screwed). My RGD release leauge went bad, and now my monthly leauge is fairing worse. 1-4 week 1 and now I've suffered my first 0-5 week ever.
I try to better myself after every match, and rarely ask for assistance. I like figuring it out myself. But its time to break that habit.
I don't know how to utilize the nifty deck window.
RGD Draft Week 2 Pool (Rav Starter, Rav Pack, GP Pack, Dis Pack)
Perplex
Rain of Gore
Azorious Aethermage
Burning-Tree Bloodscale
Dimir Infiltrator
Drooling Groodion
Guardian of Vitu-Ghazi X2
Moroii
Scab-Clan MAuler
Sisters of Stone Death
Skynight Legionare
Souls of the Faultless
Sunhome Enforcer
Wee Dragonauts
I usually follow two guidelines, Take out what I would never consider playable (probably not giving enough cards thought or see big picture), and a method called BREAK. Bomb, Removal, Evasion, Acceleration/Advantage K?
Pseudofate
Daily for the most part.
Limited (1 League a month. Latest one availible. Release Drafts, may do more now that I'm practicing with Netdraft.)
I've been playing MTG since 4th Edition, and switched to full time MTGO with the release of CHK due to lack of intrest in the community. Just can't find the people, short of driving the 3 and half hours to Neutral Ground, just to get there and get slapped around during regionals in 2001 and losing your best cards for sale totaling over $500 when you left them on the table because the tourney start announcement was called! AHHHHH! AHHHHH! AHHHHH!
That was a bad day.
So now its MTGO all the way. With the exception of PTQ's, depending on format.
The goblin piloting the ship in Utarva creates the Schism when Hauc's experiment goes "awry". It is explained that after a long and painful tear from the physical realm he awakens somewhere undefined. His last words in the Guildpact prolouge are "Where am I". He certianly didn't seem to end up in the Agyrem. That being the case, it is perfectly plausable to theorize that the Schism is in fact another rift.
However, it is also made clear that the souls of dead Ravnicans are pulled to the Schism and thrust into the Agyrem. Now is it not safe to think that the Agyrem is one of a possible infinate number of places the Schism could lead to?
This is a great theory. It is never fully explained in Guildpact where the goblin pilot flying over Utvara ends up after his mission fails. Nor does Niv answer Crix about his whereabouts after the Neph fight in Dissension. It's never stated Niv is a planeswalker, but c'mon, he's Niv.
I find all this inter-set storyline amazing. For me, the best part of the TS novel wasn't Bolas elder dragon pimping Teferi's face, but the sheer mention of two pincer like spires of rock jutting out of the sea. It all came together at that point and I was beside myself.
My mind is just exploding with the possiblities of what Planar Chaos will offer. If in fact it will have to do with Kami/Rav (and this point it seems promising) which other legends would pop up from those worlds!?
Svogthir, Jarad, Fonn, Biracazir, Cicarzim, Kobo, Kyodai, Myc, Zomaj, Crix, Uramon, Chiyo, Lupul, and so on, and so on...
Guesses
Winter Orb
Serrated Arrows
Cursed Scroll
DarkArchangel vs. Pseudofate
Judge: Istanbul
Temporal Dominance
:4mana::symu:
Sorcery
Choose target creature from outside the the game with a time counter on it. Remove all time counters and put it into play under your control.
As long as Temporal Dominance is in your graveyard, the next time a spell would be played from outside the game you may pay :4mana::symu:. If you do, remove Temporal Dominance from the game and counter that spell, otherwise, remove Temporal Dominance from the game.
So September is here and a new leauge begins!
I think I put together the best of what I had availible. However I normally think that every month and get proven wrong.
And the deck itself...
The point matches await!
Blinking Spirit vs. Pseudofate
Judge: Raia
Lestat de Lioncourt
Legendary Creature - Vampire
***
Whew, thats a mouthful, yet absolutely necessary.
In "Interview With the Vampire", Lestat embraces Louis and grants him the ageless power of the vampires. Louis is his friend and ally, winning the flip. Yet, when the same power is granted to Claudia, in time, she grows to hate Lestat for the power he has granted (she's a child, and doomed forever to stay as one so long as she is vampire) and takes his life, losing the flip. It's common knowledge that being a vampire gives you a leg up on your enemies and, save the sun or fire, eternal life, thus the +2/+2 and regen.
Lestat is evil and chaotic, arrogant and impulsive. Black and Red never had a better poster child.
I try to better myself after every match, and rarely ask for assistance. I like figuring it out myself. But its time to break that habit.
I don't know how to utilize the nifty deck window.
RGD Draft Week 2 Pool (Rav Starter, Rav Pack, GP Pack, Dis Pack)
White
Boros Fury Shield
Flickerform
Auratouched Mage
Aurora Eidolon
Caregiver
Conclave Equenaut x2
Ghost of the Innocent
Lionheart Maverick
Screeching Griffin
Soulsworn Jury
Vetern Armorer
Blue
Repeal
Dream Leash
Flight of Fancy
Crystal Seer
Drake Familiar
Grayscale Gharidal x2
Lore Broker
Tattered Drake
Tidewater Minion
Veldalken Dismisser
Black
Cry of Contrition
Dimir Machinations
Disembowel
Necromantic Thrist
Abyssal Nocturus
Dimir House Guard
Enemy of the Guildpact
Golgari Thug
Mortipede
Roofstalker Wright
Thoughtpicker Witch
Vesper Ghoul
Red
Crackling Flames
Cleansing Beam
Dogpile
Firey Conclusion
Instill Furor
Flaring Flame-Kin
Ghor-Clan Bloodscale
Goblin Fire Fiend
Ogre Savant
Sabertooth Alley Cat
Torpid Moloch x2
Utarva Scalper
War-Torch Goblin
Green
Thrive
Dryad's Caress
Flash Foliage
Fists of Ironwood x2
Moldervine Cloak
Dryad Sophisticate
Ghor-Clan Savage
Stone-Seeder Hierophant
Verdant Eidolon
Artifacts
Boros Signet x2
Cyclopean Snare
Golgari Signet
Grifter's Blade
Rakdos Signet
Selesnya Signet
Spectral Searchlight
Gold
Perplex
Rain of Gore
Azorious Aethermage
Burning-Tree Bloodscale
Dimir Infiltrator
Drooling Groodion
Guardian of Vitu-Ghazi X2
Moroii
Scab-Clan MAuler
Sisters of Stone Death
Skynight Legionare
Souls of the Faultless
Sunhome Enforcer
Wee Dragonauts
Guild
Shielding Plax
Centaur Safeguard
Land
Azorious Chancery
Boros Garrison
Selesnya Sanctuary
***
I built it this way.
Blue
Repeal
Dream Leash
Flight of Fancy
Tattered Drake
Veldaken Dismisser
Black
Disembowel
Dimir House Guard
Golgari Thug
Roofstalker Wright
Thoughtpicker Witch
Red
Cackling Flames
Cleansing Beam
Firey Conclusion
Flaring Flame-Kin
Ogre Savant
War-Torch Goblin
Green
Moldervine Cloak
Artifact
Spectral Searchlight
Gold
Dimir Infiltrator
Moroii
Skynight
Sunhome Enforcer
Wee Dragonauts
Guild
Shielding Plax
Land
Azorious Chancery
Boros Garrison
Forest
Mountain x4
Swamp x5
Island x4
I usually follow two guidelines, Take out what I would never consider playable (probably not giving enough cards thought or see big picture), and a method called BREAK. Bomb, Removal, Evasion, Acceleration/Advantage K?
So that's what it is. Thanks for reading.
Daily for the most part.
Limited (1 League a month. Latest one availible. Release Drafts, may do more now that I'm practicing with Netdraft.)
I've been playing MTG since 4th Edition, and switched to full time MTGO with the release of CHK due to lack of intrest in the community. Just can't find the people, short of driving the 3 and half hours to Neutral Ground, just to get there and get slapped around during regionals in 2001 and losing your best cards for sale totaling over $500 when you left them on the table because the tourney start announcement was called! AHHHHH! AHHHHH! AHHHHH!
That was a bad day.
So now its MTGO all the way. With the exception of PTQ's, depending on format.
Limited forever.