MTG Salvation

So. What loyalty ability adds the greatest number of counters in one activation in standard?

I thoroughly detest the Bo1 format in arena limited for several reasons (most notably how much more impact on a match bombs have), but if you just look at the data, then you will see a greater number of entries into Bo1 than Bo3 drafts on my account simply because I am f2p and need to enter with gold to get gems, and the conversion rate is bad. Plus, I no longer need any cards from ravnica which is the only Bo3 format so I typically prefer to draft from other sets. And if you include Amazonian's awesome free spell format, then my Bo1 rate skyrockets. Resources are for chumps ;-p

This seems like great sideboard tech if nothing else. Hexproof tokens as a cast trigger is dope anti control tech. Of course it relies on resolving a 3 drop buuuuttt....

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Quote from jshrwd »

Ugh. This forum has the worst image attachment system.
It's totally unviewable on mobile.

Yeah, the switch to curse may have been needed to keep the site open, but was a huge net negative to quality in terms of the forum's functionality.

Quote from Vorthospike »

I feel like people are really underestimating Pendulum of Patterns. Three life and draw a card for any color! Has to be a sideboard card for Legacy Burn in order to win the mirror, right?

That's not even in the same planetary radius as a playable card in legacy burn. 7 mana, even broken up into a payment of 2 and a payment of 5, is not efficient enough in any constructed format for just 3 life and a card. If you want to add lifegain to your legacy burn deck, lightning helix and soulfire grand master already exist. If you specifically want 3 life and a card, Reviving Dose does it for 3. If you want to go deep and play an expensive artifact to gain life surely Obelisk of Alara is a better choice?

Well that's interesting. I definitely foresee this finding a home alongside Paradoxical Outcome at least out of sideboards. While not a strict upgrade to negate for the aetherstorm decks, this is more maindeckable and allows a much greater degree of flexibility in terms of what is needed to protect yourself while going off. It isn't very good on its own, and it definitely is behind the mediocre Spell Shrivel on two counts if you can't improvise reliably, but in the right deck this is a 1 mana Mana Leak. If nothing else, this set is going to get me to revisit Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas in modern to see if the new toys line up well enough.

Quote from Courier7 »

Preordering cards? I used to preorder cards but then I decided that if I want to gamble with my money I will go to a casino. At least at the casino I can also get a double scotch, neat, while I throw my money away.

Yes, but at the casino they generally require one to wear pants. Unacceptable!

I feel cheated that this is not a rigger

Maaaaaan. I NEED Bolas to smash the gatewatch to pieces. I am not super annoyed by the formation of the Jacetus league, and kinda feel like it was inevitable that we would get a planeswalker team of some sort eventually. The concern is that they are going off half cocked to take on Nicol freakin' Bolas. Forget for a second that he is one of the most careful planners in the multiverse and likely has an enormous number of traps waiting for any challengers. Forget that he has not only defeated Jace in mental combat before but manipulated him to do his bidding a few times already. Forget that he has been hard at work since the mending to restore as much of his former power (and immortality) as possible and has only been defeated by the one walker of the Gatewatch that we expect to be elsewhere during the events of Amonkhet. He is still as 25,000 year old elder dragon who will break the mind of any member of the gatewatch that he can physically touch. If we don't lose at least one member here I will be disappointed.

Jace would be a good candidate for elimination to create a reason for our first return to a returned plane; the events of Kaladesh could easily have been a manipulation by Bolas to get Jace to come to him so that he could make some move on Ravnica, but with the mysterious planeswalk to nowhere by Vraska I doubt that creative is done with Jace just yet (yay, plot armor).

Gideon would be another good candidate to be destroyed. We already have another white walker on the team and at some point I am certain that Elspeth will sign up. They should want some color balance in the league just for design elements, and how good of a demonstration of the bad guy's power would it be for him to kill the indestructible member of the team?

Liliana would actually be another candidate with a good story setup to be if not actually killed by Bolas, completely changed by emptying her mind and making her a true key/vessel for the return of the Onnake. Maybe Bolas was the Raven Man all along? Unlikely, but his plots could definitely be long enough to have started at the mending- why did he help her gain her immortality after all if he didn't have a plan for her?

Quote from Morphling »

STOP THE PRESSES.

We are going back to Dominaria?

I hope so, and with Tezzeret "becoming a bridge in his own right" and "returned to his mysterious masters" he could very well be making an appearance there to compleat a mission begun by the father of machines himself. As much as I love Dominaria, it might be time for them to write it off as a Phyrexian wasteland since they are prolly tired of requests from older players to return to a plane that new players haven't seen much of in almost a decade. Also, I can't be the only one that wants to see a hive of Phyrexian slivers can I?

Huh. That sure is an interesting Tidings variant. Slow to be sure and of variable utility, but what does your opponent's face look like in your head after you target the Torrential Gearhulk in your yard?

I'll hop on a newt for a free Rise of the Dark Realms

massive auto include for Muldrotha

Sweet card, feels like an updated Toshiro Umezawa - if you have enough mana (and life), the spells you cast from your graveyard can get you more crime triggers if they are spells targeting your oponent or their stuff.

I'm finding it really hard to take this set or its story seriously, though. One of Dominaria's greatest villains is now just... wearin' cowboy clothes and joinin' in on a good ol' fashioned heist? What in tarnation?

For obvious reason, I expected a scorpion dragon to have deathtouch. Not sure what is the point of making it a scorpion otherwise, except for some weird flavor.

We gotten a cat, possum, Procupine, badger, frog, now a Unicorn

And we’re yet to have one that’s a Horse!?!?!

At this point i'm expecting a Dinosaur with the Saddle mechanic

This dragon will help committing a lot of crimes.

Quote from Ciliatus89 »

The card itself looks good - but what I hate about this set is how random they throw known characters into it.

Why the F should the Queen of an entire plane come into the middle of nowhere and play cards? Why should she do that? It totally doesn't make any sense. Same for a lot of other characters in this set.

I know, that this plane wasn't poulated before the Omenpaths, so there can't be a local legendary creature. But the whole mass of random characters is what i dislike so far.

Wait; the plane wasn’t populated? So everyone who comes here just spontaneously decided to start dressing like a cowboy?
This whole concept is dumb as heck. Would honestly make so much more sense if they tell us it was all just Jace’s dream instead.

Can't cheat mana, but the worst case for this is a 5 mana Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, so might be good anyway?

Note: there is *no* "once per turn" restriction on this. Calling the card lame is hilarious.