Rebbec (one time love interest of Yawgmoth, who put an end to his schemes and trapped him on Phyrexia).
As mentioned by Jay13x, Rebbec was really more of an Artificer or Advisor than a Wizard. But, also, I have a hard time imagining her as anything except mono-white.
Lord Windgrace card in the Cat Deck *CROSSES FINGERS REALLY HARD*
There's no way Windgrace wasn't primarily red. He was also possibly part black. (The best color identity for him would be mardu.) Trying to shoehorn him into a GW deck would be doing him a disservice.
Jodah was at least partly white. The fact that white magic came the most easily to him and was his preferred color was a plot point several times throughout the Ice Age Trilogy.
Wizards are in top 10 most popular tribes in magic the gathering
They by only just above 600 wizards printed in mtg. The second biggest tribe ever.
I don't believe he's referring to Wizards as a type being upopular. He's referring to the Numena from Onslaught block, three confusing as hell ancient wizard characters from a DECIDEDLY unpopular and best-left-forgotten storyline.
I can't wait to learn more about The Ur-Dragon deck because I really hope there's still some exciting new cards yet to be revealed. The Ur-Dragon himself is the only thing that actually synergizes with dragon tribal. The rest of the new guys do their own thing and Taigam's abilities should've went on a dragon itself
Rebbec (one time love interest of Yawgmoth, who put an end to his schemes and trapped him on Phyrexia).
As mentioned by Jay13x, Rebbec was really more of an Artificer or Advisor than a Wizard. But, also, I have a hard time imagining her as anything except mono-white.
Lord Windgrace card in the Cat Deck *CROSSES FINGERS REALLY HARD*
There's no way Windgrace wasn't primarily red. He was also possibly part black. (The best color identity for him would be mardu.) Trying to shoehorn him into a GW deck would be doing him a disservice.
Jodah was at least partly white. The fact that white magic came the most easily to him and was his preferred color was a plot point several times throughout the Ice Age Trilogy.
Yeah because WOTC cares so much for accuracy of characters after Ludevic having nothing to do with Zombies and O-Kagachi being a 6/6 with passive effects. At least they got the colors right… but WOTC needs to stop restricting themselves with these pointless Commander design rules like "Tribe based! Synergy based! New mechanics holding cards hostage!" and start designing these characters TOP-DOWN. Taigam was good design at least, so far. Most characters from last year were pretty good like Thrasios and Kydele especially. I love Kydele's similarity to Prophet of Kruphix, but in a fair and interesting way.
Wizards are in top 10 most popular tribes in magic the gathering
They by only just above 600 wizards printed in mtg. The second biggest tribe ever.
They probably get that reputation because they don't have the same kind of support other tribes get. They don't have a consistent mechanical identity (aside from maybe having lots of activated abilities) and most of the time they're not great at combat or impressive on the table, so they don't appeal to Timmy as much as other tribes more rich in lords and team buffs. Plus, they're not often that special in-universe either. In MTG lots of people can do magic, regardless of whether or not you're a "wizard". Clerics, knights, warriors, and literally everyone else and their dog too are shown using magic, so wizard is usually shorthand for "nerd who only knows magic and won't win you games directly". Like Humans before Innistrad, they're prolific, and sometimes get standout cards, but there's rarely a reason to play them as a tribe.
I now realize we weren't talking about all wizards, but I stand by my reasoning.
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Wizards are in top 10 most popular tribes in magic the gathering
They by only just above 600 wizards printed in mtg. The second biggest tribe ever.
They probably get that reputation because they don't have the same kind of support other tribes get. They don't have a consistent mechanical identity (aside from maybe having lots of activated abilities) and most of the time they're not great at combat or impressive on the table, so they don't appeal to Timmy as much as other tribes more rich in lords and team buffs. Plus, they're not often that special in-universe either. In MTG lots of people can do magic, regardless of whether or not you're a "wizard". Clerics, knights, warriors, and literally everyone else and their dog too are shown using magic, so wizard is usually shorthand for "nerd who only knows magic and won't win you games directly". Like Humans before Innistrad, they're prolific, and sometimes get standout cards, but there's rarely a reason to play them as a tribe.
I now realize we weren't talking about all wizards, but I stand by my reasoning.
You're not wrong, compared to Cleric/Soldier/Ally/Warrior/etc, Wizards don't have -a- specific thing that unifies them as a tribe outside of Azami and tapping to draw cards. Hell, drawing cards might be the only thing Wizards -do- if we use Nekusar as further proof.
Wizards are in top 10 most popular tribes in magic the gathering
They by only just above 600 wizards printed in mtg. The second biggest tribe ever.
They probably get that reputation because they don't have the same kind of support other tribes get. They don't have a consistent mechanical identity (aside from maybe having lots of activated abilities) and most of the time they're not great at combat or impressive on the table, so they don't appeal to Timmy as much as other tribes more rich in lords and team buffs. Plus, they're not often that special in-universe either. In MTG lots of people can do magic, regardless of whether or not you're a "wizard". Clerics, knights, warriors, and literally everyone else and their dog too are shown using magic, so wizard is usually shorthand for "nerd who only knows magic and won't win you games directly". Like Humans before Innistrad, they're prolific, and sometimes get standout cards, but there's rarely a reason to play them as a tribe.
I now realize we weren't talking about all wizards, but I stand by my reasoning.
You're not wrong, compared to Cleric/Soldier/Ally/Warrior/etc, Wizards don't have -a- specific thing that unifies them as a tribe outside of Azami and tapping to draw cards. Hell, drawing cards might be the only thing Wizards -do- if we use Nekusar as further proof.
Well there's few things outside drawing wizards does they also deal with sorceries/instants and also a little counter spell work and stealing permanents (mind control spells.)
But yes the biggest focus I can see for this deck is drawing.
Drawing and bouncing maybe? I don't see too many new cards that would make spells cheaper when they can just throw in a goblin electromancer reprint or something since the colors support that.
You know, I haven't read Outlaw in at least 10 years, but... why do you like Choryu? The Choryu I remember was a total weiner.
Not true, he was cool. White haired cute young and arrogant wizard of Minamo who was gifted hydromancer powers. Sounds like a nice Mono-Blue Minamo wizard and he hits several Japanese tropes too. He was a tricky little mage too.
|| UW Jace, Vyn's Prodigy UW || UG Kenessos, Priest of Thassa (feat. Arixmethes) UG ||
Cards I still want to see created:
|| Olantin, Lost City || Pavios and Thanasis || Choryu ||
He wasn't talking about wizards, he was talking about the Numena: https://mtg.gamepedia.com/Numena
As mentioned by Jay13x, Rebbec was really more of an Artificer or Advisor than a Wizard. But, also, I have a hard time imagining her as anything except mono-white.
There's no way Windgrace wasn't primarily red. He was also possibly part black. (The best color identity for him would be mardu.) Trying to shoehorn him into a GW deck would be doing him a disservice.
Jodah was at least partly white. The fact that white magic came the most easily to him and was his preferred color was a plot point several times throughout the Ice Age Trilogy.
I don't believe he's referring to Wizards as a type being upopular. He's referring to the Numena from Onslaught block, three confusing as hell ancient wizard characters from a DECIDEDLY unpopular and best-left-forgotten storyline.
|| UW Jace, Vyn's Prodigy UW || UG Kenessos, Priest of Thassa (feat. Arixmethes) UG ||
Cards I still want to see created:
|| Olantin, Lost City || Pavios and Thanasis || Choryu ||
You know, I haven't read Outlaw in at least 10 years, but... why do you like Choryu? The Choryu I remember was a total weiner.
They probably get that reputation because they don't have the same kind of support other tribes get. They don't have a consistent mechanical identity (aside from maybe having lots of activated abilities) and most of the time they're not great at combat or impressive on the table, so they don't appeal to Timmy as much as other tribes more rich in lords and team buffs. Plus, they're not often that special in-universe either. In MTG lots of people can do magic, regardless of whether or not you're a "wizard". Clerics, knights, warriors, and literally everyone else and their dog too are shown using magic, so wizard is usually shorthand for "nerd who only knows magic and won't win you games directly". Like Humans before Innistrad, they're prolific, and sometimes get standout cards, but there's rarely a reason to play them as a tribe.
I now realize we weren't talking about all wizards, but I stand by my reasoning.
Standard - RIP Cat
Modern - Death & Taxes
Commander - Mazirek, Trostani, Angry Omnath
You're not wrong, compared to Cleric/Soldier/Ally/Warrior/etc, Wizards don't have -a- specific thing that unifies them as a tribe outside of Azami and tapping to draw cards. Hell, drawing cards might be the only thing Wizards -do- if we use Nekusar as further proof.
Well there's few things outside drawing wizards does they also deal with sorceries/instants and also a little counter spell work and stealing permanents (mind control spells.)
But yes the biggest focus I can see for this deck is drawing.
|| UW Jace, Vyn's Prodigy UW || UG Kenessos, Priest of Thassa (feat. Arixmethes) UG ||
Cards I still want to see created:
|| Olantin, Lost City || Pavios and Thanasis || Choryu ||
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