Am I the only one who likes this card for the sheer flavor behind it?
Although i will say, 2/1 lifelink for 1B is not too shabby... I may go black for this.
Am I the only one who likes this card for the sheer flavor behind it?
Although i will say, 2/1 lifelink for 1B is not too shabby... I may go black for this.
You know what they say about going black and not returning... You'll win a lot more.... right?
I like this card... reminds me of a more beaty nip gwillion or whatever.
Am I the only one who likes this card for the sheer flavor behind it?
Although i will say, 2/1 lifelink for 1B is not too shabby... I may go black for this.
I like it for flavor purposes. It tastes like chicken.
Still like zombies better than vampires. I like knowing that these might have once been dead creatues that my enemy used before I crushed him. Good Times.
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Simple and a smooth design. I highly aprove of this move from wizards to put lifelink on some vampires, always seemed fit to me.
Can't wait to see more cards from m10.
agreed. the old vampiric ability was complete jank:
get a +1/+1 counter for killing a dood no matter how big???
Recent discussions here and elsewhere have made it clear that there seems to be a group of players who consider blue and control synonymous, as if they somehow started playing a game with four identical and "bad" colors that do nothing interesting because they just "turn men sideways" and then true, glorious blue, the only thinking person's color.
EDH decks
Marath, Will of the Wild
Sygg, River Cutthroat
Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer
Marchesa, the Black Rose
I for one, dislike this card, purely because I feel that Vampires should stay rare. It's like having a common dragon or demon. I realize there have been common/uncommon angels for a while, but I've never been happy about them either. I would prefer to see zombies as the lower-level Black minions.
I love this card and it wants some love! Come on, it's black and lifelink, isn't black the color that goes suicidal? This can definetly help you balance it out.
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I for one, dislike this card, purely because I feel that Vampires should stay rare. It's like having a common dragon or demon. I realize there have been common/uncommon angels for a while, but I've never been happy about them either. I would prefer to see zombies as the lower-level Black minions.
Looking at your sig I never would have guessed you wouldn't like it because it's a change from the normal.
Anyway...
I like the return to flavor that has been seen so far with M10, this included. Hopefully they'll add an uncommon Vampire as well and make a tribal deck a possibility and help make Vampire Nocturnus a bit more attractive.
I really hope that they get ~5 or 6 vampires, then I can build a total vampire deck! I know it's lame but I like having a weak common vampire. It makes them more accesable for casual players. My gf wants to get into magic and I could definetly get her in with a vampire deck. Isn't that what core should do? Give players an entry point into the game. All the Twilight fans could be joining magic too, more female players is never a bad thing
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I really hope that they get ~5 or 6 vampires, then I can build a total vampire deck! I know it's lame but I like having a weak common vampire. It makes them more accesable for casual players. My gf wants to get into magic and I could definetly get her in with a vampire deck. Isn't that what core should do? Give players an entry point into the game. All the Twilight fans could be joining magic too, more female players is never a bad thing
Yes more vampires, but please no twilight "vampires"....we dont need sparkly vampires in magic(yes i am aware that the movie screwed that up, but its still funny)
No!! Dark, evil, cruel vampires. If I see a shiny magic vampire I will cry, laugh then barf. I want the typical folklore vampires not the weird Twilight ones.
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Well, I beat Wizards to this years ago, since I had a custom set where the vampire ability was lifelink. I'll likely be playing this in limited. It's not like there's been a time I haven't favored aggro.
What we're doing here is akin to taking the text of Moby Dick, locating specific words therein, rearranging them to create a passage from Fight Club, and concluding from this evidence that Tyler Durden is based on Ahab.
What I really like are the subtle implications of that.
Making a 2/1 1B Vampire imples to me that they are planning on making it a playable tribe. And it's awesome.
As farfetched as it may sound (maybe because I was working on a 'Return to Ulgrotha' project in the card creation forum), I put my $0.02 on we revisiting Homelands in a near-future and vampires making a comeback.
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I like it, I just got the idea to do a casual Vampire Tribal, after seeing the Nocturnus(with Staples art, not PR version).
Now for standard, eh, I doubt Vampires will go far, unless they reprint Dark Ritual, or make a new one, that costs you three life to cast as well...:o...or will they?
Maybe?
Vampiric RitualB
Instant
As an additional cost to cast Vampiric Ritual, pay 3 life or this spell is countered.
Add BBB to your mana pool.
Uncommon
I collect: Vedalken Heretic, Lorescale Coatl, Reaper King, Worldslayer, Woodwraith Corrupter, Lorthos, the Tidemaker. Soon to collect Conquering Manticore.
I demanded a Manticore, and Wizards delivered. I now demand a Chimaera. The REAL one, not, Chimeric items. I also demand a new Gorgon. And more Manticores please.
1. The templating with "or this spell is countered" is completely unnecessary as you can't play the spell unless you pay 3 life anyways.
2. Dark Ritual was already Flavorful for black and so does everything else that is being justified by giving it a dark theme.
3. Mana-Rituals are now red and they will not come back any time soon.
about #3
how do you know they will not be coming back any time soon? even for red?
Recent discussions here and elsewhere have made it clear that there seems to be a group of players who consider blue and control synonymous, as if they somehow started playing a game with four identical and "bad" colors that do nothing interesting because they just "turn men sideways" and then true, glorious blue, the only thinking person's color.
EDH decks
Marath, Will of the Wild
Sygg, River Cutthroat
Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer
Marchesa, the Black Rose
I for one, dislike this card, purely because I feel that Vampires should stay rare. It's like having a common dragon or demon. I realize there have been common/uncommon angels for a while, but I've never been happy about them either. I would prefer to see zombies as the lower-level Black minions.
They seem to be expanding the idea of what a vampire can be. Up until now, we've only seen Dracula-style major vampires; this is more a Bride-of-Dracula-style "minion" vampire (though, obviously, without the actual Minion type).
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Although i will say, 2/1 lifelink for 1B is not too shabby... I may go black for this.
You know what they say about going black and not returning... You'll win a lot more.... right?
I like this card... reminds me of a more beaty nip gwillion or whatever.
I like it for flavor purposes. It tastes like chicken.
agreed. the old vampiric ability was complete jank:
get a +1/+1 counter for killing a dood no matter how big???
simple and elegant.
http://stat.rumandmonkey.com/tests/1/6/5261/20801.jpg
EDH decks
Marath, Will of the Wild
Sygg, River Cutthroat
Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer
Marchesa, the Black Rose
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Looking at your sig I never would have guessed you wouldn't like it because it's a change from the normal.
Anyway...
I like the return to flavor that has been seen so far with M10, this included. Hopefully they'll add an uncommon Vampire as well and make a tribal deck a possibility and help make Vampire Nocturnus a bit more attractive.
(Also known as Xenphire)
Yes more vampires, but please no twilight "vampires"....we dont need sparkly vampires in magic(yes i am aware that the movie screwed that up, but its still funny)
Sparkling vampires that are really just boy wizards in disguise, however, are not. Robert Pattinson can't fool us.
Don't forget you can never go back, though.
Amen.
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Making a 2/1 1B Vampire imples to me that they are planning on making it a playable tribe. And it's awesome.
As farfetched as it may sound (maybe because I was working on a 'Return to Ulgrotha' project in the card creation forum), I put my $0.02 on we revisiting Homelands in a near-future and vampires making a comeback.
Now for standard, eh, I doubt Vampires will go far, unless they reprint Dark Ritual, or make a new one, that costs you three life to cast as well...:o...or will they?
Maybe?
Vampiric Ritual B
Instant
As an additional cost to cast Vampiric Ritual, pay 3 life or this spell is countered.
Add BBB to your mana pool.
Uncommon
That would be awesome, AND flavorful for black.
I collect: Vedalken Heretic, Lorescale Coatl, Reaper King, Worldslayer, Woodwraith Corrupter, Lorthos, the Tidemaker. Soon to collect Conquering Manticore.
I demanded a Manticore, and Wizards delivered. I now demand a Chimaera. The REAL one, not, Chimeric items. I also demand a new Gorgon. And more Manticores please.
...with first strike.
about #3
how do you know they will not be coming back any time soon? even for red?
if true, i will be a very sad panda
i would even be happy with
Half Ass Ritual R: add RR to your mana pool.
http://stat.rumandmonkey.com/tests/1/6/5261/20801.jpg
EDH decks
Marath, Will of the Wild
Sygg, River Cutthroat
Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer
Marchesa, the Black Rose
They seem to be expanding the idea of what a vampire can be. Up until now, we've only seen Dracula-style major vampires; this is more a Bride-of-Dracula-style "minion" vampire (though, obviously, without the actual Minion type).
candidus inperti; si nil, his utere mecum.