Cool! Cascade is back! I wonder what other old keywords they will put on new cards!? I'm hoping for some crossblock keyword combinations, like in Time Spiral, but I'm not counting on it. After all, the card with Cascade is the Maelstrom Wanderer.
Hmm...I wonder though, if there's a cycle of multi-colored legends, what does that mean!? There are four decks! Isn't five cards make a cycle? Aren't there different terms for less-than-5-card-cycles?!
But well, I wonder if the legends go with the decks?
-I can see Maelstrom Wanderer fitting into Chaos Reigns, after all, Cascade is fairly "chaotic" and the Maelstrom was pretty darn chaotic, wasn't it?
-Night of the Ninja has just gotta have a new Ninja! Preferably with blue and black! If it's anything like Maelstrom wanderer, then the Ninja would be from Kamigawa. HA! New cards set in Kamigawa! Take that Kamigawa haters!
-Primordial Hunger? Come on, primordial! Dinosaurs! There will be a legendary Dinosaur, and they will bring back Dinosaur as a creature type. Lizard, seriously? No.
-Savage Auras, might we get a new Aura related legend? Give your Auras Aura Swap!!
I'm also looking forward to the other new cards, including the Planes and Phenomena. I actually would like a normal card that only works in Planechase. It's just ONE card. Think how many cards are useless in all formats! What's wrong with one card that's only usable in one format, but is pretty darn good in it?
The fifth legend in the cycle would be a Legendary Pirate obviously. Authority can't catch him, his whereabouts are unknown, he could be everywhere, so his card would be randomly inserted in any of the decks.
Hey guys, I have a little question: If I use the Wanderer in an Animar EDH, the reducing-cost ability of Animar would make worse the cascade of the elemental, or its CMC is still 8 for the cascade?
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I do think it would have been a good time to add a template to the keyword abilities for that legend, if it was somehow grammatically possible with the ruleset- for example, making it "Cascade Twice", and having that count as the same thing as two cascades- it does of course create issues with stuff that removes abilities somehow or whatever
Hey guys, I have a little question: If I use the Wanderer in an Animar EDH, the reducing-cost ability of Animar would make worse the cascade of the elemental, or its CMC is still 8 for the cascade?
When a card asks for a CMC, you always just add the symbols in the corner. Its always 8 whether you have Animar or a Sphere of Resistance
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This is the closest thing we have to Uno so far in Magic... Reverse!!! Wait, isn't there a "skip a turn" and "draw 4 cards"?
I think I might be able to create a functional Uno game using Magic cards only... use the colors: red, green, black, and white. The color blue is used for Time Stop (skip a turn), Opportunity (draw 4) oooorrrr Ancestral Recall (if you want there to be a draw 3....)(just proxy it up, I know most don't own a Recall, albeit 4 of them, lol), Sleight of Mind (change color) and this guy shrunken down to fit on a Magic single.
Find a spell w/ costs of 1 to 10, then add 4 each of the blue cards, then sleave. If only there was a way to make sleaves w/ a graphic of choice on it... I'd go with Uno card backs (for authenticity sake).
Then shuffle and deal out 7 cards... play until someone yells "Uno!" and Wallah! You have just changed Magic into another game... real cool.
This is the closest thing we have to Uno so far in Magic... Reverse!!! Wait, isn't there a "skip a turn" and "draw 4 cards"?
I think I might be able to create a functional Uno game using Magic cards only... use the colors: red, green, black, and white. The color blue is used for Time Stop (skip a turn), Opportunity (draw 4) oooorrrr Ancestral Recall (if you want there to be a draw 3....)(just proxy it up, I know most don't own a Recall, albeit 4 of them, lol), Sleight of Mind (change color) and this guy shrunken down to fit on a Magic single.
Find a spell w/ costs of 1 to 10, then add 4 each of the blue cards, then sleave. If only there was a way to make sleaves w/ a graphic of choice on it... I'd go with Uno card backs (for authenticity sake).
Then shuffle and deal out 7 cards... play until someone yells "Uno!" and Wallah! You have just changed Magic into another game... real cool.
Wouldnt it be easier to just use Topsy Turvy then this?
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"Hail to the speaker, hail to the knower; joy to he who has understood, delight to they who have listened." - Odin
I am very glad to see that Wizards is going to keep supporting variant formats, and make them widely available. What's really nice is that many of these products can allow me to have a set and fairly balanced game of Magic that I can set in the closet next to Settlers of Catan, Apples to Apples and the like that can be pulled out for various game nights, even with players that will have to be helped through how Magic works as a game.
I'd have to guess the availability of such products would have to make Hasbro pretty happy, Making magic saleable not only as a Trading/Collectible card game, but as a boxed product as well.
I fear another card like Command Tower that mentions planes specifically. Worst card design ever printed ='(
Bad design? Absolutely. But does it find its way into every 3-5 color EDH deck and do we roll in it like a hyena in dead elephant? Heck yeah.
I would love to see some weird niche Planechase card exactly like the one you mentioned. It's a dumb card because of how narrow it is, but that's probably okay for people playing Planechase.
If you dislike Planechase or haven't tried it, this is the funniest way to play with Planechase:
1. Use a EDH Commander decks or perhaps even Gaming Cube og Cube drafting.
2. Play with Planechase using The Blind Eternities Map.
This game required quite some space to play but it resolves in the most fun for all players and people will not spend all their turn and mana on trying to planeswalk away because players don't have their own Planechase pile. PM me for questions.
Ps. I love Wizards for printing this set with 32 new planes and 21 new Eternal legal cards.
It is much easier to just shuffle all PlaneChase cards into one pile, and use one deck for everyone. Less space required, and make for interesting games.
But I am loving this. Planechase is fun for new players, I just wish they supported this online. Plus, it makes the game fun. Which is the whole point. Keeps you away from people building $400 decks, just to have fun. Money like that is best invested somewhere else.
I am very excited about this announcement, as I enjoy formats that incorporate different rules and card types, but I really hope that this new set has "shard-colored" legendary creatures (a single color and its two allied colors) in addition to "wedge-colored" legendary creatures (two allied colors and their mutual enemy color).
The new card type, phenomenon, also seems to be very awesome, as well. I am very interested in this set.
I also am very glad to see new artwork by Thomas M. Baxa, as he is one of my favorite artists for Wizards of the Coast (others being Wayne Reynolds, Todd Lockwood, and Raymond Swanland), and I was worried that he was no longer illustrating for them, so I am very pleased that he still is doing so.
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My playgroup assembled a complete communal planechase deck and play with it quite often. I'm glad they're incorporating phenomenon as we were kind of weary about having 80 + planes in the deck. It's still going to be scary in size (may need to get another oversized Deck box) but at least with the phenomenon we'll be able to go through many different planes in a game.
Also, love the new legend. Hope to see cool one's in all the wedge color combos as most of them still have only 3 legends to pick from.
Hope they didnt goof up and forget to make Esper & Jund planecards.Would be really sad that on the new run of planechase they didn't finish the shards.
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Long-time players will particularly enjoy this fact: there's a plane card for Shandalar!
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Hope they didnt goof up and forget to make Esper & Jund planecards.Would be really sad that on the new run of planechase they didn't finish the shards.
Esper: Artifacts cost 1 less. Chaos: Return target artifact from your graveyard into your hand
Hahahaha. I love Maelstrom Wanderer. I definitely want to build an EDH deck with him. It's a shame most of the other spells with Cascade aren't in colors available to RUG. there's always Bloodbraid Elf I suppose?
This leads to an interesting question though. If you hit a Bloodbraid Elf while resolving the first cascade, would you resolve the 2nd cascade from Maelstrom Wanderer first before the Cascade of Bloodbraid Elf? I assume it would be the latter, since Bloodbraid Elf would hit the battle field before the 2nd instance of Cascade could resolve and then the Elf's cascade would go on top of the stack...
I am a total advocate of Planar Magic and when I'd read this (which was something that, believe it or not, I was thinking about multiple times today out of sheer coincidence), My only word was this.
Phenomenon: Because Planechase Archenemy EDH was still missing something...
That Maelstrom Wanderer looks delicious too. Riku copying a creature with a double cascade trigger? Yes, please. I don't care if it's Legendary, I want the triggers >.<
...Actually, no, thank you. I'm not the Riku player in our group. That idea kinda scares me...
EDIT: Oh, wait, nevermind. Copying the spell doesn't copy cascade ^ ^ My mistake. Still a cool card though...
The fifth legend in the cycle would be a Legendary Pirate obviously. Authority can't catch him, his whereabouts are unknown, he could be everywhere, so his card would be randomly inserted in any of the decks.
good times
I do think it would have been a good time to add a template to the keyword abilities for that legend, if it was somehow grammatically possible with the ruleset- for example, making it "Cascade Twice", and having that count as the same thing as two cascades- it does of course create issues with stuff that removes abilities somehow or whatever
When a card asks for a CMC, you always just add the symbols in the corner. Its always 8 whether you have Animar or a Sphere of Resistance
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I may have dismantled my EDH decks, but guess who's returning next year?
Can you say, that guy in a Riku commander deck? or any commander deck? Or any deck that runs those colors and needs a bomb?!?
I'm just upset they come out in June, I want one for christmas
And I am also interested to see the 32 new planes they're putting in. I bet there are some more that we haven't even heard of yet!
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A Shandalar plane card will also be pretty exciting. At last some good news from WotC.
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I think I might be able to create a functional Uno game using Magic cards only... use the colors: red, green, black, and white. The color blue is used for Time Stop (skip a turn), Opportunity (draw 4) oooorrrr Ancestral Recall (if you want there to be a draw 3....)(just proxy it up, I know most don't own a Recall, albeit 4 of them, lol), Sleight of Mind (change color) and this guy shrunken down to fit on a Magic single.
Find a spell w/ costs of 1 to 10, then add 4 each of the blue cards, then sleave. If only there was a way to make sleaves w/ a graphic of choice on it... I'd go with Uno card backs (for authenticity sake).
Then shuffle and deal out 7 cards... play until someone yells "Uno!" and Wallah! You have just changed Magic into another game... real cool.
Wouldnt it be easier to just use Topsy Turvy then this?
I'd have to guess the availability of such products would have to make Hasbro pretty happy, Making magic saleable not only as a Trading/Collectible card game, but as a boxed product as well.
I would love to see some weird niche Planechase card exactly like the one you mentioned. It's a dumb card because of how narrow it is, but that's probably okay for people playing Planechase.
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It is much easier to just shuffle all PlaneChase cards into one pile, and use one deck for everyone. Less space required, and make for interesting games.
But I am loving this. Planechase is fun for new players, I just wish they supported this online. Plus, it makes the game fun. Which is the whole point. Keeps you away from people building $400 decks, just to have fun. Money like that is best invested somewhere else.
The new card type, phenomenon, also seems to be very awesome, as well. I am very interested in this set.
I also am very glad to see new artwork by Thomas M. Baxa, as he is one of my favorite artists for Wizards of the Coast (others being Wayne Reynolds, Todd Lockwood, and Raymond Swanland), and I was worried that he was no longer illustrating for them, so I am very pleased that he still is doing so.
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Will be pretty cool and good since he costs what? 8? So you have a chance to actually hit something good.
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Also, love the new legend. Hope to see cool one's in all the wedge color combos as most of them still have only 3 legends to pick from.
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I think commander was announced sometime early dec. last year. I remember wanting it for christmas until I saw the date.
Esper: Artifacts cost 1 less. Chaos: Return target artifact from your graveyard into your hand
That would make my hanna commander deck happy.
God ****ing damn ****ing amazing....
This is so up a lot of peoples alley...
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This leads to an interesting question though. If you hit a Bloodbraid Elf while resolving the first cascade, would you resolve the 2nd cascade from Maelstrom Wanderer first before the Cascade of Bloodbraid Elf? I assume it would be the latter, since Bloodbraid Elf would hit the battle field before the 2nd instance of Cascade could resolve and then the Elf's cascade would go on top of the stack...
Seconded! Especially since the new Planechase has new cards in it. This is going to be tough to wait on.
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That Maelstrom Wanderer looks delicious too. Riku copying a creature with a double cascade trigger? Yes, please. I don't care if it's Legendary, I want the triggers >.<
...Actually, no, thank you. I'm not the Riku player in our group. That idea kinda scares me...
EDIT: Oh, wait, nevermind. Copying the spell doesn't copy cascade ^ ^ My mistake. Still a cool card though...
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