I saw this in an M12 draft I did earlier and picked the Lawkeeper and was cut white the rest of pack 1. Not sure if I made the right choice, any advice?
In a draft with unknown people, I'd probably take Crown of Empires p1p1 because it keeps you colorless even though Gideon's Lawkeeper is the better card. If i knew the people and had a strong reason to believe white could be left open, I'd take the lawkeeper. If your pack was bad, then you aren't really sending signals, except for the lawkeeper if you pass it. But i'll concede white pack 2 if it means having a colorless tapper and a better chance at playing the color that's most open
That's true. The Mind Control that returns to the battlefield from under the Oblivion Ring does not target, so it can enchant creatures that have Shroud or Hexproof. Note that it still cannot enchant creatures with protection from blue, because protection has a clause that says the creature cannot be enchanted by blue auras.
I think a small note has to be made on the pro blue point. When mind control returns, it has to enchant something, it can't enchant nothing, however, if you wanted to enchant nothing, and there was a pro blue creature on the battlefield, you could attempt to enchant it and have the mind control fall off instantly. Why you would want mind control to not enchant anything, I'm not sure, but just in case, i believe that works the way i described.
I haven't had the chance to play with this card yet, but I played against it, and I needed to oblivion ring it. The play was painful at the time, but it was just something I had to do. Limited is about using your mana as efficiently as possible, so the fact that you always get something out of 2 mana you otherwise would not use is very relevant.
I am not at liberty to reveal my sources. I am also not trolling.
Believe me or don't. I care not.
a) I doubt there is a gun to your head saying "tell them who I am and i'll pull the trigger"
b) I don't even know what to say for b), bold statements without evidence just = fail. Remember "OMG The Rack is in M10 or M11 (i don't remember which one). You can go back and check, I correctly called that one false, and I think i'd be correct in calling this false too
I didn't count, so I don't know if we actually have more enchantments than usual, but we definitely have more cards that care about enchantments than usual. I can't really figure out a good reason for this though. We have decent reason to believe the next block is a graveyard block (seeing a new card with flashback in DotP 2012) and I can't see an enchantment theme in a graveyard block, so what could the reason for a focus on enchantments be? Just to make the limited format different than usual? Do casual players like enchantments more than competitive players? Idk. Or is there somehow a chance that there will be some form of enchantment theme in the next block?
My only question is because the oracle text says "When Animate Dead leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it." That creature's controler... what creature? at this point in time the metamorph is no longer a creature.
The only creature on the battlefield is Runeclaw Bear and the only creature in the graveyard is Clone. Can Body Double become a copy of clone and then become a copy of Runeclaw Bear?
it's also important to remember that if leyline of punishment is in play, or if you target him with combust, he'll still lose loyalty counters, so if he has 4 loyalty counters, and he gets combusted, he'll go to the graveyard because he's still a planeswalker and he'll have no loyalty counters.
So I made top 8 at the ptq in NYC with basically no knowledge of the format other than the list of cards in SOM, so I had no clue how to draft the set either, so I relied on my basic limited strategies, take removal early, evasive creatures, ect. So when I played my Tower of Calamities in my first round match, my opponent insulted me for playing it, but in game 3, he needed three top decks in a row to beat me, the first of which being a revoke existence for the tower. So did I really make that large of a misjudgment in playing Tower of Calamities? What I saw was late game reusable removal that hits basically everything.
With a drawback like that, they should have given the duals land types so they'd be fetchable at least.
These lands would basically be the original dual lands if they were fetchable. If people are willing to pay 2 life to have fetchable untapped dual lands, they'll gladly not pay the extra to life as well...
In a draft with unknown people, I'd probably take Crown of Empires p1p1 because it keeps you colorless even though Gideon's Lawkeeper is the better card. If i knew the people and had a strong reason to believe white could be left open, I'd take the lawkeeper. If your pack was bad, then you aren't really sending signals, except for the lawkeeper if you pass it. But i'll concede white pack 2 if it means having a colorless tapper and a better chance at playing the color that's most open
I think a small note has to be made on the pro blue point. When mind control returns, it has to enchant something, it can't enchant nothing, however, if you wanted to enchant nothing, and there was a pro blue creature on the battlefield, you could attempt to enchant it and have the mind control fall off instantly. Why you would want mind control to not enchant anything, I'm not sure, but just in case, i believe that works the way i described.
a) I doubt there is a gun to your head saying "tell them who I am and i'll pull the trigger"
b) I don't even know what to say for b), bold statements without evidence just = fail. Remember "OMG The Rack is in M10 or M11 (i don't remember which one). You can go back and check, I correctly called that one false, and I think i'd be correct in calling this false too
This spoiler is significantly more important then the commander spoiler because these cards will be legal in more than one format...
That's not broken
These lands would basically be the original dual lands if they were fetchable. If people are willing to pay 2 life to have fetchable untapped dual lands, they'll gladly not pay the extra to life as well...
Soul's Fire doesn't target only a single golem, it targets the creature or player that is being dealt the damage too