A card I've had a lot of success with in the side-board is magma spray. It takes care of any annoying recursion, such as bloodghast or hellspark elemental and is the perfect board against RDW. Also useful against Boros.
i was thinking about that too when people were talking about having trouble with bloodghast and i was wondering if anyone had actually tested it out
I hope they don't try this after all the ribbing we've given them about Bolas eating up all the mana... I could just see it now...
Well Bolas tried to eat up all the mana in Alara... how can we make the Eldrazi eviler? ... Ummm, they can try to eat up all the mana in the multiverse.
[five hours of victory partying]
god that would be horrible. especially after they made that big hullabaloo to de power planeswalkers because they were becoming too godlike and impossible to connect with/kill off without world changing events. it'd be pretty irritating if they started making the villains increasingly more powerful to the point where they were only capable of effecting the worlds through catastrophic events...
i miss the days where they use to say tap to add, i hate that big stupid mana symbol in the text box it makes me feel like i'm playing pokemon and like we're too stupid to know what a land does so we need a giant symbol to remind us rather than to be able to read the cards...
that really has no bearing on anything so i guess my point was that i really like the full art lands because it minimizes that feeling of stupidity by not having a giant mana symbol where text should be.
edit: i just wish the art for the zendikar ones had been better, more like the m10 islands, those are some amazing lands.
i think if he were a rare instead of a mythic rare, he'd still be one of the most expensive rares in the set. that said, i think his incredibly high price tag at the moment is partly caused by there not be any comparable blue cards in standard. if all the blue out there is weak by comparison, its easier for something thats not to really really stand out and drive up demand even further than his mythic status does.
edit: but yes i think his price tag is worth it because a free brainstorm is awesome, the ability to bounce creatures is amazing, and his ultimate wins you the game while not being that difficult to get off in the right situations.
Without mythic rares people would complain about ZEN fetchlands being $20+ each and WWK manlands being $10+ each making manabases ridiculously expensive. A Jace-like mythic here and there is the tradeoff for cheaper rares.
...and what exactly would make the fetches/manlands cost that much? their rarity wouldn't be changed, and the onslaught fetches were fairly reasonably priced...
i think you're all a little too focused on comparing the op's first mock up to wrath/damnation.
destroying things that aren't creatures or lands, you know, enchantments and artifacts (and planeswalkers) thats totally green. especially given all the green lately thats been in that vein. like that new elephant, acidic slime, and mold shambler.
does day of judgement and chain reaction point to a cycle of 4cc sweepers in this block? probably not.
is it fair to say that first card would never be printed because its too much like white's part of the color pie and not greens? not really
And with Jace nearing the 40 dollar mark, I'm bidding MTG goodbye. If Baneslayer had been an isolated incident, it would be one thing. But with one mythic a set going insane and the probability of actually pulling one from a box being too low for my liking (1 in 3 is depressing), I just can't justify the cost to keep up with this game.
Thanks for the memories, Wizards, it's been a fun 17 years. But now my entertainment dollars are going elsewhere.
while i agree the mythic rarity overly inflates the price of cards due to smaller supply while maintaining a large demand, and that it has a negative impact on the fun factor of constructed play when you can't afford new, powerful, mythics... you've been playing for that long and high priced cards that are hard to get is something new and offensive to you? ...i dunno, i've been playing just as long and high priced stuff in standard just makes me roll my eyes.
oh plus you can't even buy packs yet, i suspect jace will drop and this is just initial hype, like the cobra, who was pushing what? 30-40 at one point? yeah...
i agree with everything the op said. it doesn't feel very landy, and it didn't explore landfall worth a damn. actually for that matter theres a lot they could have done with multikicker that they didn't bother with too. it feels less like a new set and more like whatever they had left over from zendikar.
i was thinking about that too when people were talking about having trouble with bloodghast and i was wondering if anyone had actually tested it out
god that would be horrible. especially after they made that big hullabaloo to de power planeswalkers because they were becoming too godlike and impossible to connect with/kill off without world changing events. it'd be pretty irritating if they started making the villains increasingly more powerful to the point where they were only capable of effecting the worlds through catastrophic events...
...oh wait its trending that way.
that really has no bearing on anything so i guess my point was that i really like the full art lands because it minimizes that feeling of stupidity by not having a giant mana symbol where text should be.
edit: i just wish the art for the zendikar ones had been better, more like the m10 islands, those are some amazing lands.
edit: i forgot all about the fact that i got two foil rares and two foil commons, that was it for the entire box.
edit: but yes i think his price tag is worth it because a free brainstorm is awesome, the ability to bounce creatures is amazing, and his ultimate wins you the game while not being that difficult to get off in the right situations.
...and what exactly would make the fetches/manlands cost that much? their rarity wouldn't be changed, and the onslaught fetches were fairly reasonably priced...
destroying things that aren't creatures or lands, you know, enchantments and artifacts (and planeswalkers) thats totally green. especially given all the green lately thats been in that vein. like that new elephant, acidic slime, and mold shambler.
does day of judgement and chain reaction point to a cycle of 4cc sweepers in this block? probably not.
is it fair to say that first card would never be printed because its too much like white's part of the color pie and not greens? not really
while i agree the mythic rarity overly inflates the price of cards due to smaller supply while maintaining a large demand, and that it has a negative impact on the fun factor of constructed play when you can't afford new, powerful, mythics... you've been playing for that long and high priced cards that are hard to get is something new and offensive to you? ...i dunno, i've been playing just as long and high priced stuff in standard just makes me roll my eyes.
oh plus you can't even buy packs yet, i suspect jace will drop and this is just initial hype, like the cobra, who was pushing what? 30-40 at one point? yeah...
i thought they both had sparks? glacians was absorbed in the powerstones and urza's was later ignited by the joining of them.
i agree with everything the op said. it doesn't feel very landy, and it didn't explore landfall worth a damn. actually for that matter theres a lot they could have done with multikicker that they didn't bother with too. it feels less like a new set and more like whatever they had left over from zendikar.
no that i agree with, but islandwalk/swampwalk just feels so... i don't know. generic?
the point is more how much you have to invest into the creature, and how much your opponent has to invest in getting rid of it...
i think this thing would've been better with something other than islandwalk/swampwalk. seems kinda useless and out of place.