Seriously. People can die of heart attacks and complications of diabetes, among other things, in their 40s, or even earlier in extreme cases. Considering the average lifespan in the US is in the 70s, reaching 80 or even beyond is a reasonable proposition for a person with a healthy lifestyle. I'm not sure how a 100% increase in lifespan (or 50% decrease, depending on the viewpoint) is a slight change.
Seems odd to say we got Garruk "in black" when the Innistrad Garruk didn't have black in his casting cost. Is a card really black just because the frame says so? As per the rules, sure, it is. But if you don't need a source of black mana to cast it, and there's no benefit to using swamps with it or what not... it's just hard to say he's "truly" a green/black Planeswalker right?
I'm hoping both are two-color Planeswalkers, maybe an Izzet aligned Jace and a green/white female walker. Can't wait to find out!
Agreed. You can't play Garruk Relentless in a mono-black deck, so he can't count as a mono-black PW. He's green.
Still too easy to create a two-card infinite loop. Most of your ideas here have any opponent dead on board to your card and Blood Artist on turn two. Basically, Wizards have wised up to creating cards that allow infinite loops without a lot of other cards or high mana costs being involved. Your card would be one of the most broken cards ever printed
Yup, which is why I was just spitballing. Requiring it to ETB from the graveyard with a +1/+1 counter fixes that problem and is the only way I can see it happening. Go ahead and crush my dreams this time!
It probably is, too many infinite sacrifice loops with blood artist.
I'm pretty sure there will be a creature like that though, wizard loves black creatures with unimpressive bodies who can't block that keep on comin' back.
Well, yeah. Any sacrifice outlet becomes insanely easy to go infinite with. Besides, it wouldn't have either of the correct colours.
Perhaps a psuedo-0, then. Pay 1 life? Sacrifice a land/creature/permanent and only at sorcery speed? It just seems like such a potentially fun use of the mechanic that I think it just might be a thing.
EDIT: It could be, "You may play ~ from the graveyard. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on it." Just as good as a creature, without the infinite shenanigans.
"sorry guys so long as snap caster mage is in standard every instant/sorcery card with a raindrop on it has to suck"
I don't think an incredibly expensive counter spell like that would be that broken. The white effect probably won't be that powerful, and I feel like even with Snapcaster Mage it's not like it will be THAT oppressive, especially with all of the anti-counter spell tech they've been printing lately.
With 4 shocks, 4 M13 duals, and 4 Innistrad duals, plus potentially signets, it's highly likely that anyone who is so inclined will be able to consistently hit WUU on turn 3, and 1WUUU on turn 5. SnapDelver is already brutally dominating standard. Other archetypes are stuck under its 1-mana bootheel at present. Giving it an uber-powerful counter++ (ala Cryptic Command) is just a bad idea at the moment.
Probably for the same reason some vegetarians are intent upon proclaiming the superiority of being a vegetarian and denouncing omnivores as uncivilized brutes. Which is what your post comes off as.
People will eat how they want, and I doubt very many people will be swayed one way or another after they get out of high school (school years being when groups like PETA try and convert people from traditional diets to vegetarianism with their propaganda).
Both sides of the aisle need to get off their soapboxes and just leave everyone the **** alone. It's not what we eat that causes all these problems in us - it's how much we eat. In fact, the country that holds the longest life expectancy (Japan) eats a very meat-heavy (mostly seafood) diet with very little to no grown food (rice and seaweed being the main ones they eat).
I'll leave you in peace to eat your salad.
And you leave me in peace to eat my burger.
My post comes off as denouncing meat eaters? I just stated (in a non-perjorative manner) some of the reasons why people choose not to eat meat. Please have a re-read before you attack me personally.
Japan may have the longest life expectancy, and they do eat a lot of seafood, it's true, but that certainly does not reinforce the healthfulness of the western meat-eating diet; in fact, I'd say it footstomps the point that what most Americans are doing is far worse than ideal.
First of all, the concept of "1 person, 1 vote" was NEVER part of the Constitution.
Second, the only reason California, for instance, will almost certainly go Democrat is because the majority of people in the state are. If this were to shift, the state could easily become a swing state or a Republican one. The idea that somehow votes don't matter in a state where the majority of people are a given party is rather absurd, as the reason that the state goes that way is... because of people voting.
That makes no sense.
No state IS disenfranchised.
First of all, I'm not arguing what is, but what should be. Still, remember the 3/5 compromise? 1 person, 1 vote has been around since the birth of the nation.
Second, yes, this is true, some people do vote, but many do not. Why do you think voter turnout is so low? Because the odds are insurmountable. Whether or not I vote, California will still be blue in November. Even if 100% of Republican voters turned out and voted for Romney (obviously not going to happen), California would still go blue because its population centers are massively blue, while red areas are primarily rural. Thus, most people's votes hardly matter.
It makes perfect sense. Politically homogenous states like New York and California are nearly always won by Democrats. Voter turnout is low because the vast majority of those that do vote, vote Democrat. Politically diverse states such as Florida, on the other hand, tend to vacillate between parties; thus, increasing voter turnout makes sense as it has a good chance to swing the election one way or the other.
Perhaps I should have written, "the people of each state".
"At EoT, exile that card."
that doesn't fix anything, especially not the part where you can replay it over and over before the end of turn.
i searched "+x/-x" and only two cards came up: 1 blue and 1 red. also, see things like flowstone and morphling for +1/-1 and other power/toughness switching shenanigans. in short, playing with p/t is in the realms of UR mainly.
how is the 3rd ability RB when looting is UR? not to mention timetwister, wheel of fortune, etc. and it's definitely a blue winning condition by making the opponent unable to draw due to an empty library.
Whoops - how about, "If you do, exile that card." I'm not sure where EoT came from
Yeah, I came up with Flowstone Slide and a blue card from Planar Chaos (i.e. color pie warping). For some reason I was thinking Unholy Armor did that, but I remembered wrong. Still, +X/+0 feels more red, while +X/-X feels black (sacrificing yourself for more strength).
Timetwister and Wheel are... broken. They're not a good example of what should be allowed, IMO. Anyways, the reference to the graveyard is what threw me off.
Jace, the Raging Mind 2UR
Planeswalker - Jace
+1: Target opponent puts the top card of his or her library into his/her graveyard. Until end of turn, you may play that card from the graveyard.
-X: Target creature gets +X/-X until end of turn.
-5: Any number of target players each draw X cards, then discard X cards, where X is the number of cards in his or her graveyard.
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First ability might be too good, though. As long as the card returns to the graveyard, you can keep playing it the whole turn.
First ability: too good, as you mention, but it's fixed by "At EoT, exile that card."
Meat and dairy doesn't always directly do things. If you eat a lot of meat and dairy, you will get a lot of fat in your system and your system works less properly over time as the stress on your body increases from added weight, IF you don't exercise enough regularly.
As we've known for a while, eating fat does not make you fat necessarily. Eating too much does that, whether it's fat, protein, or carbohydrate.
I do seem to notice that people who eat a lot more vegetarian meals have healthier lives, but that's caloric intake still, because if you cut your current caloric intake by about 33%, your survival genes kick in and it boosts your immune system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie_restriction
You can still eat meat under this calorie restriction and have benefits, you just can't eat a lot of it.
You sure can, but that's not really an argument in favor of eating meat.
Cancer forms in animals bodies pretty frequently, but it just usually gets killed off before it can develop into anything.
Except when it doesn't. It kills 6 figures' worth of my countrymen each year.
Mechanically, these are definately more red than blue abilities. I like the card but I think it needs more empassis on blue, perhaps the colour balance for a U/R Jace should even be :symu::symu::symr:.
Jace, Firemind Inheritor :1mana::symu::symu::symr:
Planeswalker - Jace
+1: Target player puts the top 4 cards of their library into his or her graveyard.
-2: You get an emblem with "whenever an opponent puts cards from their library into their graveyard, ~ deals 1 damage to that player."
-6: Draw a card for each card in target player's graveyard, then each opponent puts the top X cards of their library into their graveyard, where X is the number of cards you drew this turn.
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An emblem that good for -2 is broken. 4 damage per turn he survives after his first, for 0 mana? And you can draw 16+ and do 16+ damage 4 turns later? Maybe at 2UURR. OP's is much more balanced and reasonable, I think.
My take:
Jace, the Unbroken 1UURR
Planeswalker - Jace
+1 - Choose one: Jace, the Unbroken deals 1 damage to target creature or player, or return target creature with converted mana cost 3 or less to its owner's hand.
-3 - Draw two cards. Jace, the Unbroken deals 3 damage to you.
-8 - Return all creatures you don't control to their owner's hands. Creatures you control get +4/+0 and haste until end of turn. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice all creatures you control.
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I figure his +1 gives you a red choice and a blue choice. The -3 is blue (draw) and red (damage); the ultimate is Evacuation + a red-style Overrun - it enables an alpha strike but doesn't necessarily win you the game.
Seriously. People can die of heart attacks and complications of diabetes, among other things, in their 40s, or even earlier in extreme cases. Considering the average lifespan in the US is in the 70s, reaching 80 or even beyond is a reasonable proposition for a person with a healthy lifestyle. I'm not sure how a 100% increase in lifespan (or 50% decrease, depending on the viewpoint) is a slight change.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roustabout
Looks like it can be several different things, but generally, a laborer of some sort.
Agreed. You can't play Garruk Relentless in a mono-black deck, so he can't count as a mono-black PW. He's green.
Yup, which is why I was just spitballing.
Perhaps a psuedo-0, then. Pay 1 life? Sacrifice a land/creature/permanent and only at sorcery speed? It just seems like such a potentially fun use of the mechanic that I think it just might be a thing.
EDIT: It could be, "You may play ~ from the graveyard. If you do, put a +1/+1 counter on it." Just as good as a creature, without the infinite shenanigans.
I hope this is a thing, because it's pretty cool. How about 0, too? Is a free recurring 1/1 that can't block bananas? I don't think so.
With 4 shocks, 4 M13 duals, and 4 Innistrad duals, plus potentially signets, it's highly likely that anyone who is so inclined will be able to consistently hit WUU on turn 3, and 1WUUU on turn 5. SnapDelver is already brutally dominating standard. Other archetypes are stuck under its 1-mana bootheel at present. Giving it an uber-powerful counter++ (ala Cryptic Command) is just a bad idea at the moment.
My post comes off as denouncing meat eaters? I just stated (in a non-perjorative manner) some of the reasons why people choose not to eat meat. Please have a re-read before you attack me personally.
Japan may have the longest life expectancy, and they do eat a lot of seafood, it's true, but that certainly does not reinforce the healthfulness of the western meat-eating diet; in fact, I'd say it footstomps the point that what most Americans are doing is far worse than ideal.
First of all, I'm not arguing what is, but what should be. Still, remember the 3/5 compromise? 1 person, 1 vote has been around since the birth of the nation.
Second, yes, this is true, some people do vote, but many do not. Why do you think voter turnout is so low? Because the odds are insurmountable. Whether or not I vote, California will still be blue in November. Even if 100% of Republican voters turned out and voted for Romney (obviously not going to happen), California would still go blue because its population centers are massively blue, while red areas are primarily rural. Thus, most people's votes hardly matter.
It makes perfect sense. Politically homogenous states like New York and California are nearly always won by Democrats. Voter turnout is low because the vast majority of those that do vote, vote Democrat. Politically diverse states such as Florida, on the other hand, tend to vacillate between parties; thus, increasing voter turnout makes sense as it has a good chance to swing the election one way or the other.
Perhaps I should have written, "the people of each state".
Whoops - how about, "If you do, exile that card." I'm not sure where EoT came from
Yeah, I came up with Flowstone Slide and a blue card from Planar Chaos (i.e. color pie warping). For some reason I was thinking Unholy Armor did that, but I remembered wrong. Still, +X/+0 feels more red, while +X/-X feels black (sacrificing yourself for more strength).
Timetwister and Wheel are... broken. They're not a good example of what should be allowed, IMO. Anyways, the reference to the graveyard is what threw me off.
First ability: too good, as you mention, but it's fixed by "At EoT, exile that card."
Second ability: That is B, not UR
Third ability: Seems RB, not UR.
As we've known for a while, eating fat does not make you fat necessarily. Eating too much does that, whether it's fat, protein, or carbohydrate.
You sure can, but that's not really an argument in favor of eating meat.
Except when it doesn't. It kills 6 figures' worth of my countrymen each year.
No really, I read the first line of OP and thought to myself, "Oh, I see what you did there..."
An emblem that good for -2 is broken. 4 damage per turn he survives after his first, for 0 mana? And you can draw 16+ and do 16+ damage 4 turns later? Maybe at 2UURR. OP's is much more balanced and reasonable, I think.
My take:
Jace, the Unbroken 1UURR
Planeswalker - Jace
+1 - Choose one: Jace, the Unbroken deals 1 damage to target creature or player, or return target creature with converted mana cost 3 or less to its owner's hand.
-3 - Draw two cards. Jace, the Unbroken deals 3 damage to you.
-8 - Return all creatures you don't control to their owner's hands. Creatures you control get +4/+0 and haste until end of turn. At the beginning of the next end step, sacrifice all creatures you control.
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I figure his +1 gives you a red choice and a blue choice. The -3 is blue (draw) and red (damage); the ultimate is Evacuation + a red-style Overrun - it enables an alpha strike but doesn't necessarily win you the game.