The "Crazy One", playing casual magic and occasionally dipping his toes into regular play since 1994.
Currently focusing on Pre-Modern (Mono-Black Discard Control) and Modern (Azorious Control, Temur Rhinos).
Find me at the Wizard's Tower in Ottawa every second Saturday afternoons.
I never anticipated waking up this morning to THIS!!!!???
MY ARIXMETHES ARRIVING AT LONG LAST!!!!! HELL YES IT'S A SLUMBERING ISLE, THIS DAMN THING SLUMBERED ALL THE WAY THROUGH THEROS BLOCK AND THE LAST FOUR YEARS OF MY MTG LIFE
But the slumber counters have been removed! I HAVE CAST MY 5TH SPELL AT LAST AND HE HAS APPEARED!
The moment I saw this, I was so stunned, I could have sworn this was a prank. LITERALLY TREMBLING AS I TYPE THIS!
omgomgogmgomgomgomg
omThassa
This literally happened. I'm so stunned but it literally finally did at long freaking last. I don't even know how to react!
I destroyed these forums, Blogatog, Reddit, Youtube comments, emails, survey comments, all of it in my path to get here. I would have interrupted Trump and Kim Jong Un to demand this card. I have been on a MISSION AND TODAY... TODAY GENTLEMEN! WE DINE IN ARIXMETHES!!!!
YES this is the Theros Atlantis from the novels. And the Lost City itself, all in one. It's one of my absolute favorite MTG Legends. I thought we would have to return to Theros to get this card, but HERE HE IS!!! I really do believe Ken Nagle and Gavin really did look online for what we wanted. This approach has been amazing and if you notice, it has yielded some of the most impressive, unique and Vorthos-friendly cards in these products that have been celebrated the most!
Thassa'lmighty I'm having palpitations. Not only did I open this thread to the ACTUAL CARD. Like not only did this ACTUALLY HAPPEN, But the design is AMAZING! It's really unique, and truly captures the lore of this mighty and elusive creature. I love the art too - it's exactly as I had imagined it (although perhaps more so at sunset, but I love getting bright, balmy Greek beach sunshine art all the same!) with the whole visible isle but Arixmethes partly visible beneath the sea surface. And who doesn't admire scale boats! The island itself even reminds me of Santorini, the real-world island that was once Atlantis. My only gripe is the city itself should have been larger and more prominent (see the new Temple of the False God) but honestly, the art captures so much perfectly that this is only minor.
I was surprised a bit to see him Simic, but part of me anticipated he may be. While it's awkward he gives more devotion to Kruphix than Thassa, the character always kinda did feel Simic, being a sea monster land. THEY EVEN GOT THE STATS CORRECT!!!! And it is so funny and cool that he is a bit similar to Thing In the Ice and the enchantment lands from Ixalan, but in a different and unique way. Trample or Hexproof would have been ideal, but I imagine Trample is awkward on something that immediately becomes a Land. Plus who needs trample when I WHELMING WAVE and smash with this. I'd have given him Hexproof, but frankly, they've gotten so much right with this card, I have nothing to do but to celebrate and finally put my crusade to rest and enjoy all the commanders games I am going to have with ARIXMETHES!
So this finally solidifies my Sea Monster deck as Simic and I am not complaining at all. I will use Time of Need to tutor Thassa and have them both on the field. JUST THAT IS VICTORY ENOUGH FOR ME.
We have Polukranos
We have Arixmethes
Thraxes left and we will have ALL THE PETS OF THE GODS WOTC I forgive all of your transgressions! -Thassa
If I have a horn of greed in play and I cast arixmethes normally (no solemnity in play or anything like that, he's going to enter as a land), do I draw a card? I clearly didn't play a land in the normal way but I also still played a card which did turn out to be a land. So I'm not entirely sure what happens here lol.
If I have a horn of greed in play and I cast arixmethes normally (no solemnity in play or anything like that, he's going to enter as a land), do I draw a card? I clearly didn't play a land in the normal way but I also still played a card which did turn out to be a land. So I'm not entirely sure what happens here lol.
Nope, you are not playing a land. You are casting a creature spell that happens to enter the battlefield as a land.
Tiro's reaction was really touching. That's why I love these sets with callback characters!
For 12 years I played Yugioh. Got bullied in school for it of course, but stood by my hobby. As a teenager when everyone was out being immature and lying to get into parties with alcohol, I was waiting tables and buying their cards and looking forward to playing once a week with my casual deck. I loved this deck called Ice Barrier, that was designed so horribly (as all Yugioh cards are) but certain cards in the deck were the most powerful of all, so they were like $50+ each while the deck itself was terrible. I collected them against all this senseless competition, bought all these boxes of their sets to get them (Konami knows how rip you with what you love to get your money) only for them to get banned. And all throughout that time, I was in contact with Konami to just support the deck enough to survive ONE OR TWO TURNS. Every set they'd release like a $100 secret rare everyone wanted in the ONE viable, competitive format Yugioh has, and the rest would be absolute trash just to sell easy packs off the backs of Spikes. I was so upset we never got any legitimate cards for supporting anything else. Then those major cards would get banned and people would say "well at least this isn't MTG with set rotation" and I'm here staring at them lose hundreds of dollars a year like I did from power creep and the banlist and thought.... uhhh... your deck literally rotated out. There was no casual crowd, I kept losing money paying to just play my unsupported Vorthos-like deck (if there's no prize, no one in YGO will bother to play against you, there is no "fun"). I eventually saw that I was wasting my life and time on something that was causing me more problems than fun. My friend showed me some Innistrad Geists and Jace, Memory Adept and I immediately jumped ship. When I discovered Commander, I knew I was sold on MTG as a hobby for good. So many people begged Konami for years to support the deck I was playing and they never did, not even a single COMMON card.
Just look at the difference. In MTG, they actually listen to what we want. Theros was years ago and here he is, an Arixmethes card. All because we asked. This highlights the fact that MTG really was the game for me all along.
I never anticipated waking up this morning to THIS!!!!???
MY ARIXMETHES ARRIVING AT LONG LAST!!!!! HELL YES IT'S A SLUMBERING ISLE, THIS DAMN THING SLUMBERED ALL THE WAY THROUGH THEROS BLOCK AND THE LAST FOUR YEARS OF MY MTG LIFE
But the slumber counters have been removed! I HAVE CAST MY 5TH SPELL AT LAST AND HE HAS APPEARED!
The moment I saw this, I was so stunned, I could have sworn this was a prank. LITERALLY TREMBLING AS I TYPE THIS!
omgomgogmgomgomgomg
omThassa
This literally happened. I'm so stunned but it literally finally did at long freaking last. I don't even know how to react!
I destroyed these forums, Blogatog, Reddit, Youtube comments, emails, survey comments, all of it in my path to get here. I would have interrupted Trump and Kim Jong Un to demand this card. I have been on a MISSION AND TODAY... TODAY GENTLEMEN! WE DINE IN ARIXMETHES!!!!
YES this is the Theros Atlantis from the novels. And the Lost City itself, all in one. It's one of my absolute favorite MTG Legends. I thought we would have to return to Theros to get this card, but HERE HE IS!!! I really do believe Ken Nagle and Gavin really did look online for what we wanted. This approach has been amazing and if you notice, it has yielded some of the most impressive, unique and Vorthos-friendly cards in these products that have been celebrated the most!
Thassa'lmighty I'm having palpitations. Not only did I open this thread to the ACTUAL CARD. Like not only did this ACTUALLY HAPPEN, But the design is AMAZING! It's really unique, and truly captures the lore of this mighty and elusive creature. I love the art too - it's exactly as I had imagined it (although perhaps more so at sunset, but I love getting bright, balmy Greek beach sunshine art all the same!) with the whole visible isle but Arixmethes partly visible beneath the sea surface. And who doesn't admire scale boats! The island itself even reminds me of Santorini, the real-world island that was once Atlantis. My only gripe is the city itself should have been larger and more prominent (see the new Temple of the False God) but honestly, the art captures so much perfectly that this is only minor.
I was surprised a bit to see him Simic, but part of me anticipated he may be. While it's awkward he gives more devotion to Kruphix than Thassa, the character always kinda did feel Simic, being a sea monster land. THEY EVEN GOT THE STATS CORRECT!!!! And it is so funny and cool that he is a bit similar to Thing In the Ice and the enchantment lands from Ixalan, but in a different and unique way. Trample or Hexproof would have been ideal, but I imagine Trample is awkward on something that immediately becomes a Land. Plus who needs trample when I WHELMING WAVE and smash with this. I'd have given him Hexproof, but frankly, they've gotten so much right with this card, I have nothing to do but to celebrate and finally put my crusade to rest and enjoy all the commanders games I am going to have with ARIXMETHES!
So this finally solidifies my Sea Monster deck as Simic and I am not complaining at all. I will use Time of Need to tutor Thassa and have them both on the field. JUST THAT IS VICTORY ENOUGH FOR ME.
We have Polukranos
We have Arixmethes
Thraxes left and we will have ALL THE PETS OF THE GODS WOTC I forgive all of your transgressions! -Thassa
I'll behave and be positive now.
You care way too much about small things, but get no judgement from me. I never hate on someone for being happy. You do you, mate.
I was still very sad when that preview artwork for Inalla was not actually Massacre Girl and her assassin homies. Given that they gave Xantcha a card and now this thing though it may be a matter of time before a commander product makes murdering people great again!
Oh yeah this card. Yeah it's pretty strong but what can you expect from blue/green legendaries in these commander products
Tiro's geek love makes up for the Olive's (Blessed be the Olive) weird Force of Will take.
In spades. I expect I will be reacting such tomorrow when Amimatou's toolbox is revealed to the world.
The "Crazy One", playing casual magic and occasionally dipping his toes into regular play since 1994.
Currently focusing on Pre-Modern (Mono-Black Discard Control) and Modern (Azorious Control, Temur Rhinos).
Find me at the Wizard's Tower in Ottawa every second Saturday afternoons.
There we go. That's the post we were all anticipating.
Well, the moment I saw this on Twitter, I had instantly the very same idea as a dozen people here. Thinking about Tiro/Jenrik. Thinking about the jokes on his expense to be made.
But seeing his post...I can just smile. The man certainly knows how to express his happiness.
for those who wanted a land as a commander here it is the silliness of using zendikons, however I think its better if you do something that just makes it a creature and puts +1/+1 counters on it.
I think that would be when we find found who he is. IF it is Lim-Dul as a lot of people think, I'd except them to do a card named Lim-Dul, The Raven Man or something so everyone knows who he is.
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I never anticipated waking up this morning to THIS!!!!???
MY ARIXMETHES ARRIVING AT LONG LAST!!!!! HELL YES IT'S A SLUMBERING ISLE, THIS DAMN THING SLUMBERED ALL THE WAY THROUGH THEROS BLOCK AND THE LAST FOUR YEARS OF MY MTG LIFE
But the slumber counters have been removed! I HAVE CAST MY 5TH SPELL AT LAST AND HE HAS APPEARED!
The moment I saw this, I was so stunned, I could have sworn this was a prank. LITERALLY TREMBLING AS I TYPE THIS!
omgomgogmgomgomgomg
omThassa
This literally happened. I'm so stunned but it literally finally did at long freaking last. I don't even know how to react!
I destroyed these forums, Blogatog, Reddit, Youtube comments, emails, survey comments, all of it in my path to get here. I would have interrupted Trump and Kim Jong Un to demand this card. I have been on a MISSION AND TODAY... TODAY GENTLEMEN! WE DINE IN ARIXMETHES!!!!
YES this is the Theros Atlantis from the novels. And the Lost City itself, all in one. It's one of my absolute favorite MTG Legends. I thought we would have to return to Theros to get this card, but HERE HE IS!!! I really do believe Ken Nagle and Gavin really did look online for what we wanted. This approach has been amazing and if you notice, it has yielded some of the most impressive, unique and Vorthos-friendly cards in these products that have been celebrated the most!
Thassa'lmighty I'm having palpitations. Not only did I open this thread to the ACTUAL CARD. Like not only did this ACTUALLY HAPPEN, But the design is AMAZING! It's really unique, and truly captures the lore of this mighty and elusive creature. I love the art too - it's exactly as I had imagined it (although perhaps more so at sunset, but I love getting bright, balmy Greek beach sunshine art all the same!) with the whole visible isle but Arixmethes partly visible beneath the sea surface. And who doesn't admire scale boats! The island itself even reminds me of Santorini, the real-world island that was once Atlantis. My only gripe is the city itself should have been larger and more prominent (see the new Temple of the False God) but honestly, the art captures so much perfectly that this is only minor.
I was surprised a bit to see him Simic, but part of me anticipated he may be. While it's awkward he gives more devotion to Kruphix than Thassa, the character always kinda did feel Simic, being a sea monster land. THEY EVEN GOT THE STATS CORRECT!!!! And it is so funny and cool that he is a bit similar to Thing In the Ice and the enchantment lands from Ixalan, but in a different and unique way. Trample or Hexproof would have been ideal, but I imagine Trample is awkward on something that immediately becomes a Land. Plus who needs trample when I WHELMING WAVE and smash with this. I'd have given him Hexproof, but frankly, they've gotten so much right with this card, I have nothing to do but to celebrate and finally put my crusade to rest and enjoy all the commanders games I am going to have with ARIXMETHES!
So this finally solidifies my Sea Monster deck as Simic and I am not complaining at all. I will use Time of Need to tutor Thassa and have them both on the field. JUST THAT IS VICTORY ENOUGH FOR ME.
We have Polukranos
We have Arixmethes
Thraxes left and we will have ALL THE PETS OF THE GODS WOTC I forgive all of your transgressions! -Thassa
Currently focusing on Pre-Modern (Mono-Black Discard Control) and Modern (Azorious Control, Temur Rhinos).
Find me at the Wizard's Tower in Ottawa every second Saturday afternoons.
To be fair, it's not really a "lands matter" creature besides being a land for a while. More like "spells matter".
UR Melek, Izzet ParagonUR, B Shirei, Shizo's CaretakerB, R Jaya Ballard, Task MageR,RW Tajic, Blade of the LegionRW, UB Lazav, Dimir MastermindUB, UB Circu, Dimir LobotomistUB, RWU Zedruu the GreatheartedRWU, GUBThe MimeoplasmGUB, UGExperiment Kraj UG, WDarien, King of KjeldorW, BMarrow-GnawerB, WBGKarador, Ghost ChieftainWBG, UTeferi, Temporal ArchmageU, GWUDerevi, Empyrial TacticianGWU, RDaretti, Scrap SavantR, UTalrand, Sky SummonerU, GEzuri, Renegade LeaderG, WUBRGReaper KingWUBRG, RGXenagos, God of RevelsRG, CKozilek, Butcher of TruthC, WUBRGGeneral TazriWUBRG, GTitania, Protector of ArgothG
MY ARIXMETHES ARRIVING AT LONG LAST!!!!! HELL YES IT'S A SLUMBERING ISLE, THIS DAMN THING SLUMBERED ALL THE WAY THROUGH THEROS BLOCK AND THE LAST FOUR YEARS OF MY MTG LIFE
But the slumber counters have been removed! I HAVE CAST MY 5TH SPELL AT LAST AND HE HAS APPEARED!
The moment I saw this, I was so stunned, I could have sworn this was a prank. LITERALLY TREMBLING AS I TYPE THIS!
omgomgogmgomgomgomg
omThassa
This literally happened. I'm so stunned but it literally finally did at long freaking last. I don't even know how to react!
I destroyed these forums, Blogatog, Reddit, Youtube comments, emails, survey comments, all of it in my path to get here. I would have interrupted Trump and Kim Jong Un to demand this card. I have been on a MISSION AND TODAY... TODAY GENTLEMEN! WE DINE IN ARIXMETHES!!!!
YES this is the Theros Atlantis from the novels. And the Lost City itself, all in one. It's one of my absolute favorite MTG Legends. I thought we would have to return to Theros to get this card, but HERE HE IS!!! I really do believe Ken Nagle and Gavin really did look online for what we wanted. This approach has been amazing and if you notice, it has yielded some of the most impressive, unique and Vorthos-friendly cards in these products that have been celebrated the most!
Thassa'lmighty I'm having palpitations. Not only did I open this thread to the ACTUAL CARD. Like not only did this ACTUALLY HAPPEN, But the design is AMAZING! It's really unique, and truly captures the lore of this mighty and elusive creature. I love the art too - it's exactly as I had imagined it (although perhaps more so at sunset, but I love getting bright, balmy Greek beach sunshine art all the same!) with the whole visible isle but Arixmethes partly visible beneath the sea surface. And who doesn't admire scale boats! The island itself even reminds me of Santorini, the real-world island that was once Atlantis. My only gripe is the city itself should have been larger and more prominent (see the new Temple of the False God) but honestly, the art captures so much perfectly that this is only minor.
I was surprised a bit to see him Simic, but part of me anticipated he may be. While it's awkward he gives more devotion to Kruphix than Thassa, the character always kinda did feel Simic, being a sea monster land. THEY EVEN GOT THE STATS CORRECT!!!! And it is so funny and cool that he is a bit similar to Thing In the Ice and the enchantment lands from Ixalan, but in a different and unique way. Trample or Hexproof would have been ideal, but I imagine Trample is awkward on something that immediately becomes a Land. Plus who needs trample when I WHELMING WAVE and smash with this. I'd have given him Hexproof, but frankly, they've gotten so much right with this card, I have nothing to do but to celebrate and finally put my crusade to rest and enjoy all the commanders games I am going to have with ARIXMETHES!
So this finally solidifies my Sea Monster deck as Simic and I am not complaining at all. I will use Time of Need to tutor Thassa and have them both on the field. JUST THAT IS VICTORY ENOUGH FOR ME.
We have Polukranos
We have Arixmethes
Thraxes left and we will have ALL THE PETS OF THE GODS WOTC I forgive all of your transgressions! -Thassa
I'll behave and be positive now.
|| 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 ||
Desired Character list from Blogatog
1) Taigam (16)2) Arixmethes (14)3) Yawgmoth (13)
4) Lord Windgrace (12) -tie4) Fblthp (12) - tie
6) Feather (11)
7) Xantcha (10)8) Massacre Girl from Ravnica (6) - tie
8) Archmage Jodah (6) - tie10) Ashnod (5) - tie
10) The Raven Man (5) -tie
12) Tocasia (4) - tie
12) O-Kagachi (4)- tie|| 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 ||
Nope, you are not playing a land. You are casting a creature spell that happens to enter the battlefield as a land.
Tiro's reaction was really touching. That's why I love these sets with callback characters!
Commander: WUBRG Superfriends, GW Rhys Tokens, WUBRG Scion of the Ur-Dragon
Kitchen Table (now that's real Magic): WUBRG Domain, GU Biovisionary, UB Korlash Grandeur, UW Merfolk Mill
For 12 years I played Yugioh. Got bullied in school for it of course, but stood by my hobby. As a teenager when everyone was out being immature and lying to get into parties with alcohol, I was waiting tables and buying their cards and looking forward to playing once a week with my casual deck. I loved this deck called Ice Barrier, that was designed so horribly (as all Yugioh cards are) but certain cards in the deck were the most powerful of all, so they were like $50+ each while the deck itself was terrible. I collected them against all this senseless competition, bought all these boxes of their sets to get them (Konami knows how rip you with what you love to get your money) only for them to get banned. And all throughout that time, I was in contact with Konami to just support the deck enough to survive ONE OR TWO TURNS. Every set they'd release like a $100 secret rare everyone wanted in the ONE viable, competitive format Yugioh has, and the rest would be absolute trash just to sell easy packs off the backs of Spikes. I was so upset we never got any legitimate cards for supporting anything else. Then those major cards would get banned and people would say "well at least this isn't MTG with set rotation" and I'm here staring at them lose hundreds of dollars a year like I did from power creep and the banlist and thought.... uhhh... your deck literally rotated out. There was no casual crowd, I kept losing money paying to just play my unsupported Vorthos-like deck (if there's no prize, no one in YGO will bother to play against you, there is no "fun"). I eventually saw that I was wasting my life and time on something that was causing me more problems than fun. My friend showed me some Innistrad Geists and Jace, Memory Adept and I immediately jumped ship. When I discovered Commander, I knew I was sold on MTG as a hobby for good. So many people begged Konami for years to support the deck I was playing and they never did, not even a single COMMON card.
Just look at the difference. In MTG, they actually listen to what we want. Theros was years ago and here he is, an Arixmethes card. All because we asked. This highlights the fact that MTG really was the game for me all along.
|| 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 care way too much about small things, but get no judgement from me. I never hate on someone for being happy. You do you, mate.
Oh yeah this card. Yeah it's pretty strong but what can you expect from blue/green legendaries in these commander products
In spades. I expect I will be reacting such tomorrow when Amimatou's toolbox is revealed to the world.
Currently focusing on Pre-Modern (Mono-Black Discard Control) and Modern (Azorious Control, Temur Rhinos).
Find me at the Wizard's Tower in Ottawa every second Saturday afternoons.
|| 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 ||
Nicol Bolas, a balance of Vorthos and PowerUBR
Nath of the Gilt LeafBG
Others
Squee, Goblin of AwesomenessR
Nekusar, the Mindblazer!UBR
Vela the NightcladUB
I used to be a world champion, but then I took a wolf to the knee. And three Galvanic Blasts to the face.
Concerning when returning to Kamigawa would be acceptable
Well, the moment I saw this on Twitter, I had instantly the very same idea as a dozen people here. Thinking about Tiro/Jenrik. Thinking about the jokes on his expense to be made.
But seeing his post...I can just smile. The man certainly knows how to express his happiness.
Yeah, three in this product. Well done.
I never understood the love for Massacre Girl in this list. Especially with no Serra in the Top Ten.
Let this great clan rest in peace (2001-2011)
It will come. I think they're still trying to figure out how to work her onto a card to satisfy the masses.
Dunes of Zairo
SHANDALAR
Innistrad - The Darkest Night
~THE RAVNICAN CONSORTIUM~
A Community Set
Commander: Allies & Adversaries
I think that would be when we find found who he is. IF it is Lim-Dul as a lot of people think, I'd except them to do a card named Lim-Dul, The Raven Man or something so everyone knows who he is.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
It’s a mana dork.
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