MTG Salvation

I suspect part of the reason there's never been an OS X port of MTGO (and likely never will be one for it or iOS) is that Wizards in South Renton, Washington, is located not so far from Microsoft in Redmond, Washington. I'm sure it's easy for them to hire software engineers with the right skill sets to develop for Microsoft APIs.

And it's obviously a gross error for Wizards to have never ported MTGO to OS X. OS X may not have a huge market share based on simple numbers (roughly 10%), but Apple has a sizable dollar share of the computer market (roughly 30%). Moreover, Apple owners tend to be better off and more likely to spend money on content.

But let's leave Apple aside. Wizards is ignoring not only the Mac and iOS market, but the Windows-based tablet and smart phone market as well. The Windows Presentation Foundation API that they're building the new client on won't run on these ARM-powered Windows devices.

Why Wizards continues to develop MTGO in a desktop-Windows-only environment I'll never understand. All the client has to do is report the game state and provide the ability to make game decisions. You could do a perfectly good job with 80x25 text mode! It'd probably even be more pleasant to use than the MTGO v3 interface, which deserves a lifetime achievement award for causing user misery.

In conclusion, Wizards should just fire their entire software development team and start from scratch.

R&D always tries to include answers to bomb rares at common for limited play. If all those answers are highly playable, it affects the overall power level of the set too much. Marginal cards like this helps insure that everyone has at least some kind of answer to bombs.

Also, this card is a 10/10 for flavor. I hope it goes in M11. It's the kind of card a new player might look at and think "Why would I want to give my guy defender?" and then it dawns on them that they can put it on an opponent's creature. Fantastic design.

5 mana in UW Skies archetypes should be making a fat beater or getting you tempo. Think about what 5 mana gets you in that archetype in M10. I'd rather make a Horned Turtle and keep mana up for an Essence Scatter than make a guy that their Craw Wurms don't care about.

That said, I'd certainly not have a problem including this guy in a limited deck, but I wouldn't want more than 2 copies, and 1 seems just fine.

I guess this makes Regrowth into the best Yawgmoth's Will ever.

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These are not called "faded" they are called "miscut" as the cards were miscut. Yeah these have a bit of value as they are collectible.

I know what they're called. You'll notice that I replied to somebody talking about miscuts, not about fading.

Anyway, someone was kind enough to PM me to say that the new website for Magic Library is magiclibrarities.net . So go to the forums there and ask, because that's honestly the best place for this question.

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Radical miss cuts are worth a pretty penny but those don't happen anymore.

I am talking cards that were so badly cut that you see another card above it.

Well you're right that they you don't see other cards above it anymore. Now you see them off to the side.


Anyway, the best place to get this kind of question answered used to be the forums at Magic Library, RIP. I don't know if there's a new place where all the oddity collectors congregate.

As Quentin Martin's most recent article at Wizards put it: "[M]ost cards are good because they provide card advantage, have evasion, have repeatable effects, are removal, or are fat." Apply as needed.

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Some color choices that may or may not be promising - Green/Black, Red/White, White/Blue, Blue/Red

I also think that the following choices may or may not be promising: White/Black, Blue/Green, Black/Red. But I'm unsure if Green/White and Blue/Black may or may not be promising.:rolleyes:

Daybreak Coronet, hands down. For all the trouble it takes to play it, the effect just isn't that exciting. At least stuff like Force of Savagery or Steamflogger Boss is provocative. But at least the art is pretty sweet.

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Only if you have something to give them Haste.

You're right. That's too bad.

1. Narcomoeba (this card will get something banned in Extended)
2. Street Wraith (good in many combo decks)
3. Horizon Canopy (Crucible / LftL abuse)
4. Delay (solid soft counter; really good against other counters)

Overrated: Pact of Negation
Horribly Overrated: Glittering Wish

This deck should be playing 4x Street Wraith so it can be 56 cards. You win so fast the life loss doesn't matter, and they make your Ghoul big enough that you only need 1 Cloudscraper.

Also funny: War Pride with Relentless Assault, or anything else that gives you an extra attack.

Here's the VS with Cutthroat il-Dal and Tarmogoyf. They're spelled wrong at Wizards.

One thing that Delay has going for it over Remand is that Delay is really good against counterspells, while Remand is pretty bad against them. The big thing that Remand has going for it is that it cantrips, which will help control decks draw into the land they need.

Vintage will not affect the price of this card. The only deck that it's really good in is Dragon, where it can replace Force of Will. Any combo deck that runs Empty the Warrens can't use it. Belcher can't use it. I'd rather have Misdirection in Pitch Long, but even if it replaces Misdirection, MisD is only a $7 card.