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  • posted a message on OK let me get this straight...
    And somehow having artifact lands and Dark Ritual and other broken cards will fix that?

    Rolleyes

    You fail.

    Personal Attacks on other members are not allowed. Flaming Infraction Issued.
    Posted in: Magic General
  • posted a message on Grixis Pitch mechanic
    Quote from RedRascal
    Lifetap (As you play a spell with converted mana cost greater than this creature, you may sacrifice it. If you do, that spell costs UB less to play.)


    That mechanic seems a little awkward. I'm not sure that's the sort of thing they'd design.

    On the other hand, clash is awkward too, so whatever.
    Posted in: Speculation
  • posted a message on [ALA]Seht's Tiger--Viable?
    Quote from wsfm
    ALA has Lions, not Tigers


    I wouldn't so sure. Those things the Bant knights are riding have hooves, and none of the pictures have shown us their teeth yet. They could turn out to be herbivores.
    Posted in: Speculation
  • posted a message on The Alphabetical Card Game
    Volcanic Edict 1R

    Sorcery

    Target player sacrifices a land.

    "Nothing smells better than a burning castle." -- Elyssa, lavamancer adept
    Posted in: Custom Card Contests and Games
  • posted a message on Essence Warden scheduled for a reprint?


    Normally I could too, but considering this is Salvation, everyone will be in soon to object to that on the grounds that they think the entire Ravnica block should be reprinted in 11th Edition, and Serendib is a location clearly not in Ravnica. Rolleyes
    Posted in: Speculation
  • posted a message on Counterspells in Standard: My Ideas and Hopes
    Quote from Jiaozy
    The point is, though, that by taking away the early counterspell, you make the blue strategy worthless



    Then maybe they should find blue a different identity.

    Counterspells are the least fun thing in all of Magic and I wish they would stop making them altogether.
    Posted in: Standard Archives
  • posted a message on How much of Shards of Alara will be gold?
    Every non-land card is going to be multicolored and the only non-basic lands will be the reprinted shocklands.

    That's what you people want, isn't it? Rolleyes
    Posted in: Speculation
  • posted a message on Goyf and Damnation comming in 11th???
    That's the thing, white would have to get something of comparable power in return.

    Mass removal barely exists in white anyway - I think they need to play up its aggro side more than its control side (or at least its aggro-control side with Sunlance, Oblivion Ring, and Glowrider) if they really want it to be both unique and successful.

    Damnation works better for me as a short, punchy name than Wrath of God anyway.
    Posted in: Speculation
  • posted a message on Magic Cruise! - with PTQ & conflux launch party
    Who in the hell would go on a cruise nowadays? If you don't get robbed, you'll get raped. If you don't get raped, you'll get robbed. And having to spend the entire time with Magic players would make it that much worse. Rolleyes
    Posted in: Magic General
  • posted a message on 11th edition reprints... Goyf? Ravnica Duals?
    Quote from amoebasinger


    I think they actually almost excluded the painlands which referred to a place for that very reason, and then decided it would be dumb to make new pain lands with the old functionality but with different names.





    Close. They excluded all ten painlands from Ravnica for that reason. They've been very clear, though, that there are certain sets where plane-specific names are not a barrier to reprints, the Core Set being one of them.
    Posted in: Speculation
  • posted a message on [ALA] Tri Color Lands!!!!?
    Quote from ArcanePie
    How about no? That's insanely broken. No real drawback for 3 different color mana?


    They made shocklands after literally ten years of saying that dual lands with basic land types were off limits.

    They made Teferi.

    They made Tarmogoyf.

    They made Thoughtseize.

    They made Bitterblossom.

    Nothing is off-limits at this point.
    Posted in: Speculation
  • posted a message on My hopes for Tarmogoyf's future
    Quote from nikelrah
    This == boring, imho.


    Yep, that is indeed one reason why I stopped playing Extended tournaments.
    Posted in: Speculation
  • posted a message on How To Make Mythic Rares NOT a Mistake
    Quote from Meatban
    Mythic rares are a problem.


    Emotive, unsupported blanket statement.

    They are the potential for Magic The Gathering to take the fatal plunge towards likeness to its polar opposite, Yugioh.



    Because they necessarily imply that the art, flavor, and gameplay will become like Yu-Gi-Oh!.

    Rolleyes

    As for the rest, tl,b,s;dr.
    Posted in: Magic General
  • posted a message on My hopes for Tarmogoyf's future
    Quote from iRebel
    Hopefully they'll just reprint him anyway, mistake or not.



    Why?
    Posted in: Speculation
  • posted a message on The "Golden Age" of Magic
    Ravnica was the beginning of the end. It was supposed to be about guilds aligned with two-color combinations, and instead it gave us three-color midrange decks with no bad matchups and which wouldn't even die to Blood Moon because of signets. Then they tried to recreate Ravnica's "success" in the Shadowmoor block, and surprise surprise, the exact same thing happened again. Kill the color pie and you kill Magic, and Ravnica's shocklands and signets made the differences between colors negligible.
    Posted in: Opinions & Polls
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