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Quote from Shiroe The Enchanter »Quote from SpeedGrapher »I don't think they need to purchase anything. They could secretly print the cards. Then just put them in the packs. It's not difficult to make up paper work. O yeah, we purchased all of these from lots of Cards big game store. Which is a fake company Wizards made up. That ordered the printed cards from their regular printer. Wizards could print reserved list cards again in secret, but someone eventually could figure out when it was made. Like carbon dating for cardboard. If Wizard did this and were caught, it would cause a huge uproar in the Magic finance community. I don't think a "secret" like this could remain secret forever.
Quote from SpeedGrapher »I don't think they need to purchase anything. They could secretly print the cards. Then just put them in the packs. It's not difficult to make up paper work. O yeah, we purchased all of these from lots of Cards big game store. Which is a fake company Wizards made up. That ordered the printed cards from their regular printer.
Quote from Xcric »i've been playing this format a lot on arena over the past 2 months, and i have to know: how do you guys contend with that this format actually sucks and is extremely unhealthy? it has none of the joy of edh, and all of the frustrations of standard. over the past 2 months every single deck that's successful has devolved into nothing more than a pile of removal with almost no wincons. every game has just turned into remove everything and whoever keeps a 2/2 the longest wins. ashiok, illuna, narset, kenrith, its just the same deck with a different commander. on top of that, because its 1v1 often if they disrupt your turns 2/3/4 you lose. you get put so far behind that you just can't get back. the disparity between a strong brawl deck, and a more casual one, is extremely wide too. if you've a more casual build, or a less removal oriented commander, forget it you'll get blown out against any of the others every time, no contest. the games are largely miserable. if you go the same removal heavy route the game is an interminable slog, if you don't you lose because of the sheer volume of disruption people pack. despite the abundance of commanders the large majority just don't do anything worth building around if you can just jam a ton of removal - and there is a ******* ton of removal in standard right now. in normal multiplayer edh, you can escape all of this by flying under the radar, your opponents can run out of steam because theres too many targets, you can politics your way through... you can't do any of that here. almost every game is decided by about turn 4. if you're pressing ahead with advantage, ie removing threats, your opponent scoops. if you're dropping threats and they keep getting removed, you get pushed down so far you can't recover. there is zero balance. i'm not at all surprised that this format failed in paper, and if it wasn't for covid + brawl being temporarily free i'm sure it'd fail on arena too.
Quote from findogul » Yeah, for sure, I realize this is finalized long before the other stuff happened, I was just pointing at that at this point that middle line of text is basically moot. I mean it shares the same problem that Drannith Magistrate now has, in Standard at least. It's basically useless. the creature half of adventure cards cast from exile. also i’m not saying the deck is great but i’ve seen a mono u build on arena recently that features gadwick, maybe it has a home there? i also agree with the idea that the discard outlet could be its main function and every other feature just extra goodies.
Yeah, for sure, I realize this is finalized long before the other stuff happened, I was just pointing at that at this point that middle line of text is basically moot. I mean it shares the same problem that Drannith Magistrate now has, in Standard at least. It's basically useless.
Quote from mikeyG »Sunken Hope! I'm so happy that Barrin's new card is potent and fun, I like that he leans into blue's bounce mechanic. I do kinda wish he triggered off bounce to anyone's hand and wasn't limited to your turn, but this will do. A lot of cards bounce to your hand as a drawback or cost, I love that Barrin breaks that. Ancestral Statue Azorius Chancery Blood Clock Cartographer's Hawk Cloud Cover Cunning Evasion Dovin's Acuity Dust Elemental Emancipation Angel Equilibrium Ensnare Gush Kefnet, the Mindful Meloku the Clouded Mirror and Moonfolk friends Noetic Scales Oboro, Palace in the Clouds Sawtooth Loon/Silver Drake Stormfront Riders Trade Routes Walker of Secret Ways and Ninjas generally Words of Wind Aethermage's Touch and Azorius Aethermage A ton of cards have synergy with barrin, and I think he can do some fairly unique things.
Quote from sleeper agent 2.0 »Quote from boombox_smk »I like the discard ability for reanimator decks, but the second ability is a response to what? Escape (that's proven an answer isn't necessary to solve it) and Companion (which are now mostly unplayable from the sideboard)? The card draw is more mana efficient that Spectral Sailor, at least. I like it, but I'm not sure what home it has in Standard atm. This card's design was finalized long before the companion rules change, so companion could have been part of it. I think it is a neat general catch-all that can hit lots of things and not limited to standard. Flashback, for instance. edit: I also just noticed the creature types. MaRo said in his article today that they gave each color a rare tribal lord or pseudo-lord - blue got spirits and black got rogues. This nicely works with both. Also, would have been funnier if it was instead a human that was shown to be holding a Key to the City. Maybe it's the ghost of a guy that tried to hide the Key after being identified, and choked on it. Ha, that's great! Definitely strong key to the city vibes on this one. I'm also wondering what those other two hands are in the art - multiple other pilferers coming in behind him? Or does he have 4 arms (with backwards hands)?
Quote from boombox_smk »I like the discard ability for reanimator decks, but the second ability is a response to what? Escape (that's proven an answer isn't necessary to solve it) and Companion (which are now mostly unplayable from the sideboard)? The card draw is more mana efficient that Spectral Sailor, at least. I like it, but I'm not sure what home it has in Standard atm.
Also, would have been funnier if it was instead a human that was shown to be holding a Key to the City. Maybe it's the ghost of a guy that tried to hide the Key after being identified, and choked on it.
Quote from CatParty »How does the Shrine deck work? The White one is the only 1-drop, and it essentially does nothing until there are a few more shrines in play. Seems like terrible design. Turn 1: White Shrine, Turn 2 Black shrine (Drain trigger), Turn 3 Drain trigger, you can't do anything else if you want to activate the white shrine... Seems bad.
Quote from TheOnlyOne652089 »The 5-color one seems to be as parasitic as it gets. It does basically nothing if you dont go all in on shrines. The green/blue/black ones might be worth playing, even for a deck that isnt all about shrines, as they curve quite nicely into each other and provide a substantial advantage that will win the game and allows you to do your regular stuff. The white and red one look tremendously "limited" as they deal with creatures and do so in a way that is only really appealing in draft/sealed.
Quote from Gutterstorm »Remember who you aaaaaaarrrrrre. Sorry. Couldn’t help myself. Cute card it’d be a shame if I overloaded Cyclonic Rift while you had it in play.
Quote from seilaoque »I just want to Donate or Harmless Offering it and then do an enchantment mass removal of some kind.
Quote from The Lord of Tresserhorn »Quote from Ryperior74 »In 1 millisecond solemnity is the first card to mind for making yourself unbreakableThis actually makes me wonder if there is some card combination to make yourself invulnerable, no matter how complicated. Probably not. I had been thinking of using Opalescence to make Solemnity and Nine Lives creatures and adding Avacyn, Angel of Hope... Hm, no real need for Opalescence, I see. But add Privileged Position and slap a Diplomatic Immunity on it. Then everything you control should have Hexproof/Shroud, and Indestructible, and can't get counters placed on them. However, nothing prevents the Apocalypse, and then you lose immediately.
Quote from Ryperior74 »In 1 millisecond solemnity is the first card to mind for making yourself unbreakable
Quote from lookingupanddown » Today, Mark talks about the story of how Hounds became Dogs, and how Shrines are the Slivers of enchantments
Quote from Flisch »I'm honestly not too concerned about the counters but the enchantment being destroyed through Mythos of Snapdax or Shadowspear.
Quote from sleeper agent 2.0 »Were they worried spirits wasn't annoying enough already?
Quote from Ryperior74 »All these spirit tribal support cards from kamigawa and the occasional sets And we still don't have a good 5-color legend for commander, good red spirits exist and do have tribal support from kamigawa for a reminder. (O-Kagachi, Vengeful Kami is one but it doesn’t have tribal support besides being cast from some in play)