Hah, I thought so. I'm playing Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012, and time after time, the AI "counters" my Pandemonium by killing off my creatures with Chandras Outrage and other direct damage. Talk about frustrating.
EDIT: Thank you for your quick and educational replies.
If have a Pandemonium in play and I summon a creature, can my opponent use direct damage to destroy that creature and prevent Pandemonium from triggering?
Like, Pandemonium says when the creature comes into the battlefield. It's not possible for them to target and kill the creature with damage before it comes into the battlefield, is it? Or am I missing something?
EDIT: Sorry about the uninformative title, I messed up submitting this question and it seems I can't edit it.
So could Worldwake be an all Land set? God help us all.
Man, this is funny. Just this morning, I said to my brother, "Remember the all creature set a while back? What if they did an all land expansion?"
It'd be neat, because lands that act as creatures couldn't be counter-spelled or even hit with an Oblivion Ring. These days, "Destroy any non-land permanent" seems to be the rage, so a whole bunch of nasty lands would throw everyone for a loop. Plus, there's this curious lack of land destruction in M2010. I know it's just so people can play their Alara multicolor decks, but it also means that it'd be the perfect time for there to be monster lands you *really* want to eliminate.
I have a question about cutting (or shuffling) your opponent's deck.
Before a tournament game, after everyone shuffled their cards, I saw a player pick up their opponent's deck, slowly go through it, hand-pick seven (facedown) cards and then lay them on top of the deck.
In other words, he hand-picked his opponent's initial seven card draw.
Now, the cards were in new polybags with a uniform design on the back, so I don't believe the guy was able to hunt down particular cards (old beat up land, etc.) for an unfair advantage...
Even so, I've never seen anything like it. People usually just cut, or in a really serious, shuffle their opponent's deck like normal.
The hunt-and-picker insisted the move was totally legal, but I can't help but think: If the other player had done this, carefully going through their own facedown deck and hand-picking an initial draw of seven, wouldn't that sort of behavior be called into question?
One or maybe one plus one guy knows someone who does it also does not make it an icon. Black Lotus is not only horribly broken, but it's legacy as being so broken makes it almost like an icon showing how far magic has come from then to now
The point wasn't the wallpaper, it's was how many more people got to bust out a Craw Wurm than a Black Lotus.
Black Lotus is like some inaccessible black and white movie that critics love but no one has actually seen. Craw Wurm is like big stupid action film. To some people, Hollywood is about the former, to others the latter, but I'd say that Citizen Kane is no more iconic than, say, Terminator 2.
I'm not arguing that Black Lotus ISN'T iconic. I'm just saying, there are other contenders.
Uh...what? I don't see where you would get that. I believe Black Lotus wins.
I've heard of multiple people (one lived in my town) who collected thousands of Craw Wurms to wallpaper their rooms. Craw Wurms are, literally, common. Not worth anything. And yet they inspired this sort of obsessed devotion.
Even the simplest things can become an icon. That's the beauty of it.
Comebacks are one of the things I love about magic. You can get hammered turn after turn and then draw the exact card you need for the situation and turn the game around.
Case in point: I was down to 4 life and my opponent was at 14, with a load of little flying critters waiting to finish me off. All I had was a Jenara, Asura of War with two +1/+1 counter on it, making it 5/5. As I don't have any Wrath of God type cards in this deck, things were looking grim.
Then I drew a Battlegrace Angel. Even though she had summoning sickness, she immediately saved my butt, giving Jenara +1/+1 (Exile) and lifelink.
I attacked with Jenara, gained six life and took my opponent down to eight (he was tapped out from a previous attack). The next turn, he went all out, but only got me down to two life. (I blocked a single attacker with the Battlegrace.) The turn after that, I hit him with both the Battlegrace Angel and the Jensara and won the game.
There isn't anything remotely special about the match I just described. It's just the kind of thing that happens all the time in Magic. It's why I never quit matches, barring unexpected circumstances, because you never know how things are going to turn out.
It's not Norwood Ranger, its not even in M10. I remember seeing this art in the rumor mill months ago. I'm don't think it was ever used on anything. Many thought it was going to be the ranger, though. It may be ZEN or unused art.
Aww, darnit. It's weird Wizards is using it in their little, "This Is Green!" sideshow when it's not even a real green card.
Edit: I just realized ZEN=Zendikar. I heard Zendikar's got elves, so I maintain high hopes.
My opponent uses a blinding mage to tap my Battlegrace Angel. I attack with an unblockable 2/2. He tells me that since my Battlegrace Angel is tapped, the 2/2 doesn't get Exalted or Lifelink.
Is it true that tapped creatures lose their Static Abilities, the way Icy Manipulating a Continuous Artifact used to shut it down back in the old days?
EDIT: Thank you for your quick and educational replies.
Like, Pandemonium says when the creature comes into the battlefield. It's not possible for them to target and kill the creature with damage before it comes into the battlefield, is it? Or am I missing something?
EDIT: Sorry about the uninformative title, I messed up submitting this question and it seems I can't edit it.
Man, this is funny. Just this morning, I said to my brother, "Remember the all creature set a while back? What if they did an all land expansion?"
It'd be neat, because lands that act as creatures couldn't be counter-spelled or even hit with an Oblivion Ring. These days, "Destroy any non-land permanent" seems to be the rage, so a whole bunch of nasty lands would throw everyone for a loop. Plus, there's this curious lack of land destruction in M2010. I know it's just so people can play their Alara multicolor decks, but it also means that it'd be the perfect time for there to be monster lands you *really* want to eliminate.
Heck, at any rate it'll be a reason to bust out Pyramids, and Rune of Protection: Lands will skyrocket in price!
Before a tournament game, after everyone shuffled their cards, I saw a player pick up their opponent's deck, slowly go through it, hand-pick seven (facedown) cards and then lay them on top of the deck.
In other words, he hand-picked his opponent's initial seven card draw.
Now, the cards were in new polybags with a uniform design on the back, so I don't believe the guy was able to hunt down particular cards (old beat up land, etc.) for an unfair advantage...
Even so, I've never seen anything like it. People usually just cut, or in a really serious, shuffle their opponent's deck like normal.
The hunt-and-picker insisted the move was totally legal, but I can't help but think: If the other player had done this, carefully going through their own facedown deck and hand-picking an initial draw of seven, wouldn't that sort of behavior be called into question?
The point wasn't the wallpaper, it's was how many more people got to bust out a Craw Wurm than a Black Lotus.
Black Lotus is like some inaccessible black and white movie that critics love but no one has actually seen. Craw Wurm is like big stupid action film. To some people, Hollywood is about the former, to others the latter, but I'd say that Citizen Kane is no more iconic than, say, Terminator 2.
I'm not arguing that Black Lotus ISN'T iconic. I'm just saying, there are other contenders.
I've heard of multiple people (one lived in my town) who collected thousands of Craw Wurms to wallpaper their rooms. Craw Wurms are, literally, common. Not worth anything. And yet they inspired this sort of obsessed devotion.
Even the simplest things can become an icon. That's the beauty of it.
Craw Wurm?
Case in point: I was down to 4 life and my opponent was at 14, with a load of little flying critters waiting to finish me off. All I had was a Jenara, Asura of War with two +1/+1 counter on it, making it 5/5. As I don't have any Wrath of God type cards in this deck, things were looking grim.
Then I drew a Battlegrace Angel. Even though she had summoning sickness, she immediately saved my butt, giving Jenara +1/+1 (Exile) and lifelink.
I attacked with Jenara, gained six life and took my opponent down to eight (he was tapped out from a previous attack). The next turn, he went all out, but only got me down to two life. (I blocked a single attacker with the Battlegrace.) The turn after that, I hit him with both the Battlegrace Angel and the Jensara and won the game.
There isn't anything remotely special about the match I just described. It's just the kind of thing that happens all the time in Magic. It's why I never quit matches, barring unexpected circumstances, because you never know how things are going to turn out.
Aww, darnit. It's weird Wizards is using it in their little, "This Is Green!" sideshow when it's not even a real green card.
Edit: I just realized ZEN=Zendikar. I heard Zendikar's got elves, so I maintain high hopes.
Can anyone name this card? It looks really neat. I actually went through every Elf on Gatherer and couldn't find it!
Thanks,
- Gull
Is it true that tapped creatures lose their Static Abilities, the way Icy Manipulating a Continuous Artifact used to shut it down back in the old days?