I read his statement as "We here at SCG with our intense control over Magic's core price-range are going to wring Modern Masters for every penny, and make sure prices stay strictly over what they should be."
There are two kinds of people in this thread that have me laughing so hard.
1) Those who wanted Necropotence or another equally broken black enchant that would "return black combo to Standard".
and
2) Moronic tinfoil hat enthusiasts who are dead set Wizards is out to get them, completely incapable of looking at the data here on MTGS that showed this card won all its brackets.
Never ceases to amaze me, this thread is the epitome of why I've begun hating the magic community. Some of you are completely incapable of losing in anything, even a stupid little make a card contest. You'll come up with the most insane, moronic excuses as to why it won just to make yourself feel a little bit better.
Grow up, shake hands with the winner, and move on with your lives. There will be other YMTC's, and there will be other black enchantments made in many sets (I promise you).
Llanowar Elves is getting changed because of two reasons:
1) The card depicts a single elf instead of multiple, which makes its name silly.
2) For such a basic card it has a very specific location name, for the sake of future reprints in possibly expert expansions as well as core sets, they probably wanted to simplify the name.
This is basically confirmed as far as I'm concerned.
God, WOTC, why did you have to print it in such small numbers. Imagine how amazing it would be to draft this without breaking your bank.
Wut? Its not a small print run, its enough for stores to get cases of it so they can draft it. It was part of how the set was built, so you could limited-modern.
You have not established that this is a bad thing.
(Personally I think all this complaining is baseless, unreasonable, and childish, especially since no one here has played a single game with the new rules yet. Play games, brew decks, put edicts and sweepers into your deck and adapt.)
Ha jokes on you, we house ruled this awhile ago and have been playing for awhile!
Its alright, as I said earlier, it bothers me as a deck made for cloning and it does enable easier invincible board states in EDH, but its still stoppable. For Standard who cares, Geist won't be in long enough to dominate with it.
Ah, how I love stupid assumptions. Standard is THE format I play the most, but I love how you assume that I cast Clone against Invisible Stalker - in other words, that I am beyond stupid - rather than present decent arguments. I'm talking about hexproof legends - have been since I started posting here. Maybe you read again what I said?
Geist of Saint Traft costs only 3 mana, is a Blue legend, which means protecting it is very easy. Blasphemous Act as a solution? Are you joking? Which costs 4-5 mana even with 4-5 creatures in play - which is a lot? Supreme Verdict is the one good answer, but guess what, you have to be playing both U and W and not a creature deck.
Cloning as a way to deal with hexproof legends is not a small portion, because in the scope of a color/color combination, it's a big deal. For a UW deck, there's Supreme Verdict. For a UG or UR deck, losing Clone as way to deal with hexproof legends IS a big portion of what qualified as an answer.
Sadly, as much as I don't like the ruling you have to look at it in a broader spectrum.
If Geist wasn't there, would this be a problem to you? That one overpowered Legend shouldn't dictate the entire ruling across the board.
I've come to terms with the ruling, mostly because I'm hoping that means Theros has a lot of powerful legends in it, and because I'm really tired of getting matched up against identical commander decks or what-have-you and getting Legended to death (I have a whole blue deck dedicated to cloning).
I pray this leads to more solutions to hexproof/shroud, while they shouldn't be easy to deal with, there should be some silver bullets for it. The spotlight was a step in the right direction. Also these rules come into effect with M14, which means that Geist will only have a measly 3 months to enjoy the spotlight with them.
My only annoyance with this is that it was the only solution to invincible board states in EDH (I built an entire EDH dedicated to it). I'm really hoping this means we get some new ways to strip Hexproof, Shroud, etc.
Would be very disappointing as a mythic, fine as a limited/casual rare. Depending on the returning mechanic and whatever subthemes M14 has, could be better in limited than it looks at first glance.
Could be worth trying in Animar EDH, especially the builds with "counters matter" themes.
Yes! This is perfect for my Animar deck. I run nothing but hydras because he makes them cheaper to drop anyway. I run the whole counters-matter theme which got even better from Simic in RTR block, this Hydra is perfect.
M14 is the paste between RTR and Theros.
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1) Those who wanted Necropotence or another equally broken black enchant that would "return black combo to Standard".
and
2) Moronic tinfoil hat enthusiasts who are dead set Wizards is out to get them, completely incapable of looking at the data here on MTGS that showed this card won all its brackets.
Never ceases to amaze me, this thread is the epitome of why I've begun hating the magic community. Some of you are completely incapable of losing in anything, even a stupid little make a card contest. You'll come up with the most insane, moronic excuses as to why it won just to make yourself feel a little bit better.
Grow up, shake hands with the winner, and move on with your lives. There will be other YMTC's, and there will be other black enchantments made in many sets (I promise you).
1) The card depicts a single elf instead of multiple, which makes its name silly.
2) For such a basic card it has a very specific location name, for the sake of future reprints in possibly expert expansions as well as core sets, they probably wanted to simplify the name.
Legendary Lands are viable now!
So are legendary hate cards. (Player X sacrifices a legendary creature.)
Wut? Its not a small print run, its enough for stores to get cases of it so they can draft it. It was part of how the set was built, so you could limited-modern.
Ha jokes on you, we house ruled this awhile ago and have been playing for awhile!
Its alright, as I said earlier, it bothers me as a deck made for cloning and it does enable easier invincible board states in EDH, but its still stoppable. For Standard who cares, Geist won't be in long enough to dominate with it.
Let's see anyone tell me Devastation Tide is bad again.
Sadly, as much as I don't like the ruling you have to look at it in a broader spectrum.
If Geist wasn't there, would this be a problem to you? That one overpowered Legend shouldn't dictate the entire ruling across the board.
I've come to terms with the ruling, mostly because I'm hoping that means Theros has a lot of powerful legends in it, and because I'm really tired of getting matched up against identical commander decks or what-have-you and getting Legended to death (I have a whole blue deck dedicated to cloning).
I pray this leads to more solutions to hexproof/shroud, while they shouldn't be easy to deal with, there should be some silver bullets for it. The spotlight was a step in the right direction. Also these rules come into effect with M14, which means that Geist will only have a measly 3 months to enjoy the spotlight with them.
Yea that's my thought.
"This spell ignores Hexproof and Shroud."?
Yes! This is perfect for my Animar deck. I run nothing but hydras because he makes them cheaper to drop anyway. I run the whole counters-matter theme which got even better from Simic in RTR block, this Hydra is perfect.