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Tanngnjostr posted a message on Voyaging Satyr TappingAlright! Thank you! Still getting the hang of the concept of floating mana and stuff.Posted in: Magic Rulings Archives -
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Bedford posted a message on Walgreens selling boosters and intro decks B1G1 freePosted in: The Rumor MillQuote from BusMcRider »I will never in my life understand how people can buy so many boosters and use them for cracking, not drafting.
Myself, I can't gather 7 other people to draft, so I can only draft at game stores. Thus, if you see them at Walgreens, you crack them. -
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Redirus91 posted a message on Temur MidrangeYou wouldn't have a 4/7 defender, it would be sacked to doom saving your dragonthen boon satyr would join the party.Posted in: Standard Archives -
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ThePeople'sHero posted a message on Epochrasite 2nd TriggerYes. When Epochrasite dies, its triggered ability goes on the stack and waits to resolve. While it waits to resolve, the creature itself is still in the graveyard and a legal target for Scavenging Ooze's ability. If Epochrasite is exiled, its ability will be unable to find it in the graveyard where it expects it to be, and then do nothing.Posted in: Magic Rulings Archives -
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Segoth posted a message on Epochrasite 2nd TriggerEpochrasite only has one triggered ability. The first ability is not a triggered ability, but a static ability that sets up a replacement effect. As to your question, yes you can respond to that ability. So if you exiled it with scavenging ooze before the trigger resolves it will be exiled by the ooze's ability and not have the time counters on it or gain suspend. When the Epochrastie trigger does resolve, the object will no longer be in the zone it's expected to be in so the ability resolves and does nothing.Posted in: Magic Rulings Archives -
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lugger posted a message on Temur MidrangePosted in: Standard ArchivesQuote from jshrwd »lugger, I tried your version of the deck at first and immediately moved on as soon as someone resolved their first Anger of the Gods against me. It was so devastating.
You running into any issues with it?
No. Post-board Anger of the Gods are easy to sniff out. If they have them main deck then fool me once.
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Strike doesn't actually help you there either unless you want to play an elf or hold up your 1-of Denial OR if you do it on their turn instead of developing your own board.
Hold up Lightning Strike. Strike their dude (Rabble, two-drop whatever). Untap. Deploy threat. Seems like a good play. Jeskai players do it all the time. I've done it in this deck quite a bit, regardless of whether I'm playing Temur or Gruul.
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Minor nitpick-Jeskai doesn't play black spells. You are thinking of Mardu. Mardu is typically more midrange/control but they are so versatile that they can also assume the aggro role. Claws is super important here because we have so few good ways to interact with a resolved Butcher of the Horde. Temur Charm rarely is profitable and strike does actual nothing.
I was referring to both Mardu and Jeskai in my post, since they tend to play the snowball style non-counterspell tempo -- with Rabblemaster and Seeker -- and I was describing threats at 4 that go into both decks.
Temur Charm is mana leak against Mardu -- which is fine if you're on the play.
I like Sarkhan'ing the Butcher (and will typically hold him until I see the Butcher or expensive spell come out of their hand).
Strike is necessary against Mardu since you need to Strike the Rabblemaster or ambush it with Boon Satyr.
I would agree that Crater's Claws is quite good against Butcher of the Horde but redundant Crater's Claws is inefficient and would better be a protected threat.
Quote from LinkChmofsky »Edit: I don't want to come off as "Kibler played 4 so it must be good" but he did say he was most often using it for x=0. To me that says it is a card that gets better when you are on the beatdown plan since you will already have strong guys out.
Agree to disagree. I think Claws is a good card. I just don't want to play 4 due to it's inefficient manner. I think the difference between a player who wants to play 4 and 3 is probably minor. -
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microstar22 posted a message on Does gift box quality get worse each year?I have heard that these boxes die to removalPosted in: Market Street Café -
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Barinellos posted a message on What Reason did Ugin and Bolas Have to Fight Each Other?Let me rephrase this then.Posted in: Magic Storyline
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Pouncing Kavu posted a message on Will there be a 2-Mana Red Rare Creature that is Insanely Powerful?Posted in: Baseless SpeculationQuote from jshrwd »Quote from Pouncing Kavu »Quote from Musicman247 »It's probably just the name throwing you off. If it was called "Master Pyromancer" there would most likely be less objection.
Haha, yeah, possibly. Maybe my biggest issue is the price. I mean, uncommons are three times more plentiful than rares, which means Young Pyromancer would be $10 rare, theoretically. I guess I just don't think that's expensive enough to be in the club.
that's not exactly how economics works
there still has to be demand
if there's demand for X copies of a card, then the X + 1 copy will have no value because no one will want/need it
#oversimplifying
I think that's kind of my point... by normalizing the cost to account for the rarity, we see the demand isn't high enough to make it as expensive as the other members of this pseudocycle are. Since the demand is theoretically lower, the power level of the card is lower.
This wasn't exactly meant to be a rigorous proof, however. -
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Pouncing Kavu posted a message on Will there be a 2-Mana Red Rare Creature that is Insanely Powerful?Posted in: Baseless SpeculationQuote from AvatarofBro »As dumb and irrational as it sounds, I honestly think it's more of a gut thing. Young Pyromancer, powerful as it is, just doesn't feel right in the context of the other four cards.
I like how your post leads so well into your signature. I kind of know what you mean, though. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
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Maybe not
Like I said over on io9, I'm really glad to see them getting to preview a card.
Hopefully, this is the first of many for them.