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    posted a message on Datamine from Kamigawa AR experience (so yet another leak) — Farewell
    For superfriends decks it's just the perfect mass removal that doesn't upset too much people. Love it. Remind me of Austere Command but it's actually strictly better than that.




    it's not strictly better than Austere. Austere makes it so you can play around your own creatures, and it destroys for death and grave effects
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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    posted a message on Datamine from Kamigawa AR experience (so yet another leak) — Farewell
    Love that Seb art!
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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    posted a message on Double Masters 2 Speculation
    Tbh I feel like Imperial Seal could happen. It's a safe bet that this will be the new most expensive box they have sold, and I struggle to think of a better place to put it, they need a card to drive people to buy the new packs.
    Posted in: Baseless Speculation
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    posted a message on Kamigawa neon dynasty bundle box leak
    that is some of the fugliest art I have seen. I just don't get Wizards


    'Oh, you liked Kamigawa block, set in feudal Japan, with all of the ancient feeling and traditional stuff? Did you like the old school samurai and a world where science had no power because of nature spirits? Well you are going to LOVE this new Kamigawa, looking more stylized and over the top advanced than when Tokyo laid it on really thick for the Olympics!'
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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    posted a message on Fornite Secret lair (All reprints for a reminder) -- Kompy (sorry fake close it)
    thanks, I hate it.

    Also Golos is an odd choice, especially as Thanos, right? And just for a reprint in general, I'm not crazy?
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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    posted a message on Secret lair Arcane show coming November 29th super drop
    This one probably sells really well, the first remotely accessible Rhystic Study without Terese Nielsen art, that's something people have been asking for.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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    posted a message on Innistrad 3 story and lore- Midnight Hunt and Crimson Vow
    Quote from Ryperior74 »
    Quote from 5colors »
    Final Midnight Hunt world building story; The Dusk Reborn by Rhiannon Rasmussen
    https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/dusk-reborn-2021-10-01

    Looks likes all those wanting the other archangels to be reborn/return will be disappointed.



    let me put it this way


    is liesa evil from the demons/revenge thirsty from her death…… not even close it looks like she severely regretted doing that and even saved a human and killed the demon she made the deal with. (Well not kill more like prevent him from resurrecting at all)

    I smell a easy redemption arch for her and also reunited with Sigarda and helping her and the Gatewatch/Arllin and somewhat sorin to stop Olivia and her wedding in crimson vow.




    I definitely see her helping in Crimson Vow, but less of a redemption arc. I don't think she really was shown to need redeeming in the first place. She did something Avacyn didn't like, but Avacyn was not infallible, Avacyn was blinded by the drive to wipe out the darkness without compromise, Leisa had the same goal of bringing goodness, she just tried to be smarter about it.
    Posted in: Magic Storyline
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    posted a message on Need two cuts for Muldrotha (Gyruda companion)
    I would cut Ratchet Bomb and Skinrender. The rest you can mostly make a case for even if I wouldn't run them, but those really aren't powerful or synergistic most of the time
    Posted in: Multiplayer Commander Decklists
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    posted a message on Commander Banned and unbanned announcemnt
    Yeah, a cEDH affectionado calling the EDH Rules Committee out of touch because the RC looks at EDH without a focus on cEDH would very well have not much of a standing - you play your own separate format, you better take care of your own separate ban list. If you don't, then that's your decision to implicitly accept that other banlist and the decisions that were made with another format in mind.

    That said Sunflower MTG doesn't mention cEDH. But with how different the format is, it should have its own banlist easily.

    I mean "for the people who do not Rule 0, they just lost their favorite or most fun commander" is also basically an admission that the people who now "just suffered a wrongful, tasteless ban" are suffering due to their own choice to pick and choose which rules they follow. They choose tofollow the banlist, but choose to ignore Rule 0. If they were consistent between following either both or neither, there would beno issue, correct?




    I strongly disagree on your take. Rule 0 is fine if you keep playing with only the same 8 people, or if you have the resources to build a number of decks. But Golos was popular with new players because he's so flexible and easy to build. New players, who may just be trying the game, who don't have access to a metric buttload of cards like the more experienced players do.


    You're a new player. You see Golos, which is super Timmy. You build him, using your lunch money to buy cards and sleeves. You bring him to the large, successful LGS down the street, eager to play. You grab a seat in an open group....and because it's a setting where you sit where there is room instead of it being 'your group' they adhere to the official banlist to keep things consistent. So that first deck can't be played, Timmy does not have a deck of his own, because too many people liked playing the card, not because it was too strong.


    The question is this, does Timmy go through the process of trading and buying his way to another deck before he can play again, or does Timmy go play a different game?


    When I am playing with my small group of friends who get together every few weeks, we have no problem with Golos or Nephilim or something like that. But the rest of the time, I'm at the LGS, playing with people I don't know, or don't know well as often as I can get a seat with friends. Now I have been playing since Rise of the Eldrazi, grabbing a different deck is not an issue for me. But Golos specifically was extremely popular with new players just getting in.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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    posted a message on [MID] Bladestitched Skaab and Kessig Naturalist // Lord of the Ulvenwald— Corey Baumeister previews
    Quote from Simto »
    Nice, another zombie lord. Too bad it's not +1/+1 though.




    I think doing it this way keeps it from being rare and gives it better flavor. no reason to give toughness to the tribe that is supposed to die Smile
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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