MTG Salvation

Both here and in Masters 25 I find it really difficult to differentiate rarity for commons/uncommons from the set symbol.

I'm kinda sceptical. If they manage to find the sweet spot between supply and demand for these and manage to sell a few more boxes, then that's just upside as far as I'm concerned. But I am a bit worried about "cards not in standard print but in standard legality".

Apparently, according to this twitter thread, Pros experimented with breaking Soul of the Harvest (legal in standard because it was in the 2016 welcome deck), and Flame Lash(from Chandras PW deck) were played at a Pro Tour. These were cards that were explicitly meant not to be standard viable, yet got there/close. They could make this mistake again.

This is fun. I went to get a random card and I got Imperious Perfect again.

Comment Hidden

It is so incredibly correct to include this. Why is "loot" a word? 'Cause this guy. Definitely part of the history of the game, and if players have learned how good looting is since then, uncommon is just fine.

Very sad not to see original art.

Comment Hidden

Comment Hidden

Quote from hyalapterouslemur »

Quote from JovianHomarid »

Prophecy also has Avatar of Woe, while Homelands has such allstars as Mammoth Harness and Dwarven Pony AT RARE.

Merchant Scroll and Memory Lapse were first printed in Homelands, no? Aether Storm and Feroz's Ban see some play in Stax. And there is some niche use for Primal Order and Koskun Falls in Commander; I've even used Forget in Nekusar. Even An-Zerrin Ruins can be a hoser; it's much better than Root Cage. And I'm sure Mystic Decree has some use with something.

So, yeah, I'm not saying it's a good set, but Prophecy is far worse, and looks even worse as a "lands matter" set in contrast to Zendikar.

I'll admit Prophecy is far worse than I actually realised when I have a closer look. I was on hiatus at that time, so I don't have the first-hand experience with it that I have with Homelands.

Interesting that Maro said in his article today that he actually chose Prophecy over Homelands for his example of "worst set ever", and I guess you could argue for both sets. Prophecy at least tried something interesting, even if it failed, with the whole Rhystic and "new ways to look at lands". Homelands was just an incoherent collection of cards mostly (seriously, are there any themes to the set beyond anaemic Dwarf and Minotaur tribal support?). And then the power level: They famously had to introduce a rule at the pro tour that each deck had to have at least 5 cards from each legal set, as that was the only way they could get anyone to play with homelands cards. I don't think things were that dire for Prophecy. (That rule also hilariously led to someone register a red sligh/weenie deck with both Goblins of the Flarg and Dwarven Trader.)

There is also the factor that Homelands could get the benefit of the doubt for being an early set, whereas by the time of Prophecy they really should know better what they were doing. So I guess I could agree to rate Homelands as worst overall, but Prophecy being worst for its time. Other than that, agree to disagree I suppose, as well as agree that bad sets are fun in their own right (once you get over the trauma from actually having played with the things).

Comment Hidden

Quote from Dunharrow »

Platinum Emperion's Text box is tilting. No reminder text, no flavour text.... just centered.

Yeah looks glorious. I need more basic, centered, clean, cards in my life.

Craps profusely on the holiday card for not being tournament legal / competitive enough.

Never change, mtgsalvation.

Quote from Purplemurasaki »

Affectionate Indrik is a worse Somberwald Stag.

I think he's worth a shot. I'll make a proxy'd card, Somberwald Stag on one half, Affectionate Indrik on the other side and force him into our 8 (or 6... sigh) man draft in a couple hours. I'll let ya'll know how it goes.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Started out as a 4man group, so while we waited for people to show, we played "Overcooked! 2", which is a fantastic couch co-op game on the Nintendo Switch. Highly recommend it.

Affectionate Stag didn't get put into someone's deck, which may be a reflection on both cards. Not worth picking up as it circled the table. Maybe not. idk. I enjoyed my 2-1 deck enough to share it.

I really enjoyed pinging my opponent's creatures and face 1-2 times with Gelectrode, while having a wall of elemental/goblin tokens, Calcite Snapper and things like Abrade/Unsummon to kill/bounce anything that made it to the board past my 3 counterspells. Finished games by tickling them to death with Faerie Conclave, Gelectrode. I got four, four, three and four 2/2 zombies when I cast Rise from the Tides.

I appreciate the analysis and organization that has been done here. I wanted to check the card rankings against my own collection to see what I may have missed, so I ported the first page to excel and shared it here if anyone is interested.

Quote from Watchwolf »

@Antiantiserum: Every time you post something with this box formatting, half of the text gets cut out of the screen when viewing on mobile. Can you please just post the card text? Like, without any fancy formatting stuff?

I was not aware, will do!

@Antiantiserum: Every time you post something with this box formatting, half of the text gets cut out of the screen when viewing on mobile. Can you please just post the card text? Like, without any fancy formatting stuff?

Hello Everyone,
Long time lurker, first time poster (in fact, I'm brand new to posting on any online forum, so please bear with me as I get the hang of things)

For a while I was the only person in my local area who owned a Peasant Cube. Sadly, about a year ago, I took a break from curating my Peasant Cube and dissembled it entirely. The common thought at the time was that my weekly drafters would rather draft my Unpowered Cube than draft my Peasant Cube. I've come to realize this was a mistake. I should not have dissembled my 80% foiled out Peasant Cube. As a 10-year-long Magic player and 6-year-long multiple Cube owner and curator, I've come to realize that with this iteration of my Peasant Cube I should try and be a more active and contributing member of the Peasant Cube community.

First off, I'd like to go ahead and thank a couple of people who I've taken most of my Peasant Cube ideas from (directly, or through inspiration) over the years (as they deserve credit for their inspiration in both the first iteration of my Peasant Cube, and the current iteration of my Peasant Cube):

Leelue - For introducing me to the "Hybrid System", for "Depowering Removal" (a problem I had identified myself yet had no idea how to solve until Leelue implemented the solution in his own Cube), and for providing several great Peasant Cube articles for people like myself to reference and compare ideas with. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Squirrely - For ALWAYS thinking of off-the-wall ideas to test out new mechanics and ideas for Peasant Cube. Some of my most fun and innovative ideas have been tested by you in your Peasant Cube, tangentially to my Peasant Cube or prior to my implementation (providing me with evidence and feedback on my own ideas). Keep challenging the normal boundaries of Peasant Cube limitations!

n00b1n8R - For providing so much of your feedback from testing that at times, between you and Leelue, I've decided on whether or not to try out a card or archetype long before I even sleeve it up. Thank you and Leelue both in this regard!

BrownDog5117 - For being the first Peasant Cube curator I stumbled across when I was browsing the forums for ideas for my Unpowered Cube to truly inspire me. Your Cube was such an inspiration that I decided I had to have one for myself all those years ago. So, I set out to discover just what a Peasant Cube was and how to build one for myself.

Lastly, I'd like to ask for any constructive feedback, at all, on my Peasant Cube. The link is: My Peasant Cube

Thank you so much for everyone putting up with my long post. I hope to become a regularly contributing member of the Peasant Cube community on this forum and others like it. If this post isn't the type of thing that would normally go in this topic thread (perhaps the moderators will be kind to me and help me relocate it?), I apologize (if this is the case, if not: this part will look silly) and blame my newbie status to both posting in the mtgsalvation threads, and my ignorance of how to make posts period.

Molderhulk seems like a overpriced multicoloured Nemesis of Mortals with a pretty redundant rider.

I want Nightveil Faerie to be good, but its stats are probably just too low. Maybe if it was a 1/3.

Inspiration isn't good enough, and spending 8 mana to go +2.5 isn't worthwhile most of the time. As a graveyard synergy card it's a 4 mana Tormenting Voice, which isn't a good payoff. I would rather just play Glimmer of Genius or a different graveyard payoff, rather than having a card that's not good at either role.

My experience so far with Cheering Fanatic is as a bad Nest Invader. The only possible upside to Cheering Fanatic is that it is re-usable is you can get multiple attacks and multiple discounts, but I have not found that to be at all likely in games.

I do like Nest Invader a fair amount, so I will keep trying Cheering Fanatic, but it is certainly my first red two drop to be kicked out.