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Quote from elrond943 »

I agree with the OP on this one. People complaining about reprints and rarity shifts have apparently never played Yugioh...

Ding ding. Cards have to be worth something to have a game to play. Yugioh isnt a game anymore becuase they did not value their consumers investments in their game.

One closed pro event doesnt support modern, yet the open large events every weekend continue to support modern, and you think the format is dead.

Clueless people.

Wait, what judge is traveling to a GP/Pro Tour and not arranging compensation and/or requirements for their work? That simply does not happen in my area (STL). Area L2's always are responsible enough to negotiate for their travel and time compensation. They are certainly not negotiating with WOTC, they are contracted (albit, a under the table, verbally) by TO's and stores. WOTC contracts TO's to run events. These judges have a problem with not being compensated or being supplied breaks, and they are suing the wrong entity.

Also, it is a compete misnomer that you need judges to run an event. Only 1 judge is needed to run a GP. The TO can choose to use any level of judge outside of the head judge, including those who are not judges, to run the event. No TO does this because they want to run a good event. Hell, you can judge your FNM and Pre-releases without passing even the rules advisor tests.

Quote from AdamM »

I have been saying this every time I make a comment about the modern eldrazi.

Edlrazi Temple should be the first card to go. multiple eye's do nothing, and 2 temples still let you cast turn 2 TKS after turn 1 mimic.

This guy gets it. When my SCG pro friends who broke the Mono-black eldrazi deck before the pro tour says its the best card in the deck, it simply needs to go.

Quote from Exodite »

Why?

Just to be clear the card being flexible is not in doubt, nor is the fact that it's powerful. Why is it too good?

I've had this argument more times than I care to remember but I've never been able to get an actual answer. It's just " it's too good", no argument required. Or, even better, an argument that actually supports why it should be in the format.

As long as the format is T2-T4 linear decks it's practically impossible for a card like Deathrite Shaman to be too good.

Its just the best card in the format. It is RAMP, HATE and STALL on a 1/2 for 1. It hates on any graveyard interactions for no downside. It ramps to 3 while also doing that. It also just extends the game 2-4 turns against decks that want you dead asap. Go back and look at the decks that didn't play DRS. Living End? Not a real deck then. Grisholbrand. Nice try. Snapcaster decks? Snappy only spiked after it left, and saw little play while it was legal. Its existence stifles lots of random decks.

People want to say goyf is too good for modern because its a 2 mana 5/6. A 1 mana handyman's toolbox of answers is 4x worse. I would not play a deck without 4 DRS in it if it were unbanned and you'd have a damned good reason to not play it.

Quote from romellos »

BFZ feels more like a bad Rise of Eldrazi than Zendikar. They have failed to catch the theme of Kors, Merfolks, Vampires, Eqipments and especially Trap cards. And Allies are not even close enough to the previous ones.

I've never seen anyone not "get it" so hard. Bravo sir. You win the award.

Quote from Valanarch »

Exactly. But 5 mana wraths without significant additional upside are not overpowered, so being able to cast your playable but not exciting card shouldn't be a power-level issue.

It could be 4W in lots of formats. A format with fetchable duals? You need to be extremely careful with mana costs to avoid every deck splashing a W/X dual for a wrath. A wrath they might not have access to otherwise.

Quote from DokuDokuH »

beyond disappoint that they let her terrible art into this set. Would have loved to see alt art on so many other angels by more talented artists that wizards has taken on since dropping her =/

Wizards hasn't dropped her, She dropped Wizards. She makes too much real money off of commisions and selling her art nowadays that the WOTC money wasn't worth the time.

Perfect time to put this art on a playable magic card.

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Quote from mtgsmsc6 »

"Wah wah"
Weaboo isint even an insult lol.
If you take it as such, then you need to check your prioritys.

Thank god that IF we do go back its only for 2 sets, 2 sets i will sit out of. As will many others. A risk wizards wont want to take. But hey, whatever helps you sleep at night guys.

Weeaboo is a common pejorative for Japanophiles

pejorative: A pejorative (also called a derogatory term,[1] derogative term, a term of abuse, or a term of disparagement) is a word or grammatical form expressing a low opinion of someone or something, or showing a lack of respect for someone or something.[2] It is also used as a criticism, hostility, disregard and/or disrespect.

Check your own priorities. Or just check your facts.

Prepare yourself to be convinced then. He's going to be a lot like punk was, completely under-rated for his looks and style, but when the mic is in his hands and the bell has rung, he'll earn the respect he deserves.

This guy is Demon of Dark Schemes BFF. I bet they play doubles tennis.

Quote from LegionLoyalist »

I...I really don't want to spend money on this set. Apparently the Eldrazi are sucking all the power out of the cards themselves.

Everyone fails to remember just how bad the rares were in the original Zendikar set. Everyone was blinded by the fetchlands to remember I guess. There was maybe 3-4 playable rares and a couple of mythics that's it. This set has about the same if not more. Not saying the set is any good just it's about on par with the original Zendikar set.

Tommy Wiseau? Is that you?

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Remember, Sphinx's Revelation was an absolutely terrible card. Cards with X costs that have a lot of preceding mana are always bad. After all, you had to pay four mana to even get the card to just cycle itself and for six mana, you only get a Concentration. It's pointless to talk about costs greater than 6, because any game will be over by then. And as we all know, a few points of life, up or down, are completely irrelevant. This is why Mind Rot is a much better card than Blightning, because it only requires one color to cast and those few points of damage that can't even hit a creature are irrelevant anyway.

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The current UW-based control decks are pretty slow by modern standards, mostly because of Sphinx's Revelation allowing them to effectively win the game and dig for a win con at their leisure. A typical U/W control deck today has only one AEtherling and a couple Elspeth, Sun's Champion as finishers, neither of which are particularly fast, whereas a control deck in the past couple of years is probably playing cards like Grave Titan, Gideon Jura, or Batterskull, all of which are more direct threats that end the game quicker. It's a quirk of the format, and control decks will almost certainly play more threats once Sphinx's Revelation rotates.

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