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Feb 3, 2014broodwarjc posted a message on Launch Giveaway!Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker because he is the most beast mode of the planeswalkers. Just getting him out requires work, but in the end he pays dividends in the havoc he can reek.Posted in: Announcements
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The Black one is so disappointing compared to the other four. Why coouldn't it just reanimate from all graveyards? The White gets you 60 power wide, the Blue one (potentially) gets you a super full hand and two mroe turns to wreck with it, the Green one gets you two creatures and potentially semi-Craterhoofs your army, and the Red one gets you two spells form the yard and can copy them both 2 more times.
The black one has to target the creatures, can only kill 3 creatures, is restricted to X toughness, and then only reanimates from your graveyard? The others all feel better and more powerful because you can build into them, the Black one relies on the opponents having creatures you can even target and then relies on YOUR graveyard being full, leading to the first half the card wanting to be in a Black control deck and the later half in a combo-aggro graveyard deck.
Just meh.
I have to disagree, also there is a TON of Exile removal being played in standard. If there was less of it than yes I could see them reining in Afterlife. Also the mechanic itself is strong, but they really didn't handle the synergies well. Teysa is horrible without something on the board, Elenda doesn't start doing anything until you have her on the board and your stuff has to start dying post turn 4. Ajani's Last Stand is meh against aggro. Kaya's Wrath has a very strict cost to it and isn't what an Aristocrats deck would want to be doing. Yes, we have some other Aristocrat style creatures, but I don't think you have ever played an Aristocrats deck before. Aristocrat decks play lots of small creatures that need big synergy or pay-off cards, because the creatures themselves aren't very strong. A deck full of 2/2s that die into a 1/1s is okay, but not going to win you games. The big trick for Aristocrat decks is the sacrifice outlets and we got some very slow and clunky ones this time around. This is important given to my first point of how much exiling there is right now to combat decks like G/B. Without that fast sac outlet to get around that Settle, Coil, and Contempt I really don't see the deck performing very well.
Diregraf Ghoul, Graveyard Marshal, Death Baron ? Still need more playable Zombies with the Amonkhet ones leaving, but just saying.
Yep, Black looks very "safe" out this set, lots of 5+cc cards. I guess this is whats happens when they print another Black removal spell at 2cc. Shade would maybe make it if it had another ability, or was a 3/4 (could play it turn 3 without it dying to a bolt).
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/848jg8/randomization_is_not_the_only_issue_affecting/
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/848jg8/randomization_is_not_the_only_issue_affecting/