But, as I see and agree, Magic sells to a casual crowd, and I prefer it that way. From my LGS casual players will buy more sealed products than competitive players who will most likely put their money down on the secondary market.
I have personally witnessed someone purchase more boosters in the hopes of obtaining a Shriekhorn playset for his deck. Ignorance must indeed be bliss.
you can see it that way all you'd like. but mythics sell sets. the better the mytchics the more packs an online store or your lgs is going to open. the more they open the more are sold. short of mythics comes rares. this guy will never be a 4 of in any deck, kitchen table or not. too many conditions to be viable.
I think they just broke Thrax in EDH. Once it's out, he just stupidly recurable
except that if your edh can't kill an enchantment in edh, you have a bad edh deck. and lets not forget that its ONE IN NINETY NINE CARDS. sure blue/black has a lot of ways to draw, but its still one in ninety nine. oh, and then theres the whole 6 mana? 7 mana? i don't know i'm drunk, thing. it'll be a neat trick in thrax, but thats it. not game breaking.
The kitchen table is more important than standard, always. Don't let your single-buying, tournament-playing bias confuse you. Rares like this end up as cool singletons in terrible casual decks, and get people to buy more packs hoping to get more copies or more cards that help to summon demons via cultists instead of just by demon creature spells.
WOTC knows how to sell Magic by now, and a lot of that comes down to putting cards like this at rare.
i haven't played standard since alara rotated. i would not play this thing at the kitchen table. he gets a spot in 1 of 7 edh decks. thats it. thats all he'll ever get. he is jank. he does not deserve to be a rare. not now, not ever.
Love the flavor. Seems like a fun card. Not necessarily a good one. In fact, it's pretty much unplayable.
You need at least 3 guys in play (4 if they don't have any), and you need them to be doing nothing so that they can tap to make a demon.
Again, cool card. I like morbid, just not exactly awesome constructed material. They can't all be competitive winners.
at rare, they should be at least moderately playable in standard. the poster child for magic. whats the point in having rares that aren't standard playable at all?
some of you need to grow up a bit, not everyone finds magic attractive and you make me sad that i have to associate with you people, others of you have totally made my night though by being reasonable and logical in calling this woman out for what she is. an idiot.
i use to buy a box of every new set, and draft every weekend. i don't any more, so yes. i'd say they're out of touch. the ridiculousness of mythics, and how expensive some of them are to get keeps me out of standard. it also keeps me from drafting because even rares are so worthless that i cna't recoup cost even if i place first, unless i pull a mythic. the new keywords are very... linear? i guess thats the best way to put it. infect sucks unless i build around it, landfall was lackluster and barely explored, allies weren't explored at all, metalcraft exists in a block that barely supports it. and m12? what incentive do i have to buy m12 if i already bought m10 and m11? planeswalkers are either too good (see jace 2.0) are completely terrible (see almost all the rest of them) but they still command an artificially inflated price tag because of their rarity. the storyline is a mess, i use to read all the books, and love most of them, these days i barely even check the storyline forum because it changes from block to block. what was done in a previous set is completely negated in the next, or just makes no damned sense.
i hate the idea of flip cards. i have to run a checklist if i want to not desleeve/resleeve constantly? it skews draft, it skews casual where most people aren't using sleeves. it forces me to use opaque sleeves.
wait until the set is released. its a bad card. three conditions to get a 5/5 doesn't even fly in the kitchen table crowd.
because he facilitates THE REST OF THE GOD DAMNED DECK!
this guy is trash out side of turn 1.
you can see it that way all you'd like. but mythics sell sets. the better the mytchics the more packs an online store or your lgs is going to open. the more they open the more are sold. short of mythics comes rares. this guy will never be a 4 of in any deck, kitchen table or not. too many conditions to be viable.
except that if your edh can't kill an enchantment in edh, you have a bad edh deck. and lets not forget that its ONE IN NINETY NINE CARDS. sure blue/black has a lot of ways to draw, but its still one in ninety nine. oh, and then theres the whole 6 mana? 7 mana? i don't know i'm drunk, thing. it'll be a neat trick in thrax, but thats it. not game breaking.
i haven't played standard since alara rotated. i would not play this thing at the kitchen table. he gets a spot in 1 of 7 edh decks. thats it. thats all he'll ever get. he is jank. he does not deserve to be a rare. not now, not ever.
at rare, they should be at least moderately playable in standard. the poster child for magic. whats the point in having rares that aren't standard playable at all?
edit: this guy is an uncommon at best.
because why the **** is phage a zombie!
until they block it with a nonhuman am i rite?
both of these are kinda mediocre. except maybe the zombie enchantment in a thraximundar edh deck.
...wont' see play anywhere else though. neither will the other card. oh wait, limited, thats about all.
i hate the idea of flip cards. i have to run a checklist if i want to not desleeve/resleeve constantly? it skews draft, it skews casual where most people aren't using sleeves. it forces me to use opaque sleeves.