Hmmm... Am I the only one who is now wanting a mono-blue witch to show up? If nothing else, but for flavor reasons. I mean, why would a witch eating wolf hate blue if there aren't any blue witches?
So out of the remaining teams... who wants who in the finals and who do you want to win it? And why to both of those questions.
Personally I would like to a Golden State Warrior vs. Indiana Pacers. Golden State in because we have a decent number of fans here in Sacramento and it would be good for business. More than a few of them might be fair weather fans, but their money still spends good and I work in the food service industry. Indiana because I would like to see another ABA team win the finals. Of course I would like it to go to 7 games.
It is unlikely they will get reprinted in the core, as it would need 20 cards total to finish the cycle.
I can't help but wonder, did you actually read my previous quote for any thing other than some point to correct? In it, I mentioned it would need 20 cards to be a complete cycle. It isn't as if you are actually informing me of anything I didn't already state in this very exact thread.
If they are willing to throw in 10 different clue stones for limited reasons, then I can see them putting in 20 different lands for limited reasons as well. Having more of them means they are more likely to show up and make limited fixing better to make drafting slivers more viable. Besides, they are decent enough that budget players would be able to use them in standard.
For a tribe to be playable as such in limited, all it needs is two to three commons, one to two uncommons, and a lord. Five creatures total. For standard, that number goes up to about eight, divided between mostly commons and uncommons with one or two rares (including the lord).
Some worlds (Llorwyn, lol) have considerably more than this, but such sets generally have tribal as the main focus (like Onslaught).
Now, it is quite possible that Theros only ends up with three minotaur creatures (In Theros proper), including a lord. Or it may end up without a lord, but still with three minotaurs, and the lord in the second or third set. However, logically, the lord should show up in the first set of the block due to drafting concerns. There are certainly enough minotaurs in standard after Theros hits for a Lord to be worth printing for the tribe.
Okay... so you are suggesting that there might be a tribal lord in the next block where they have the space to develop, but the point of this thread was to speculate if there where going to be any lords in M14 due to all of the space that slivers will take up not to mention how tribal slivers are.
Uncommon lands. They where never powerful enough to be rare.
Okay. I was mistaken about their rarity. A cycle of them at uncommon would make color fixing in limited a lot easier and with Slivers in the core set that would be a pretty good thing. At this point I really do hope they reprint the tainted lands along with new similar lands to complete the cycle.
@ those of you who keep on comparing this to team names like the black hawks, Seminoles, the fighting Irish, none of those are the same thing.
Imagine if the team were called something like The Fighting Drunks and their mascot was a leprechaun who hit women and drank beer.
Or if it was called the ******s and featured a mascot in black-face, or the *******s and featured a mascot in brown-face?
Would you want to change the name then?
Secondly, it doesn't matter how long the team has had the name, time doesn't absolve something of racism.
I think the comparisons will continue because a lot of the people offended by Redskins are also offended by the others. The fact that you aren't is interesting, but I've known Native Americans who where offended by all and any mascot or names based on them. That is why NCAA has cracked down so hard on them right no mater if the name/mascot is something that you personally think is racist.
Although nice, it would force people to play black in limited, thus it is unlikely we will see them.
I was thinking, since they could print new cards in the core set, what would be to stop them from printing similar lands that gave you multiple mana types only if you controlled a plains or a island or a mountain or a forest. For example the forest based ones could be overgrown. Overgrown Coastline would give colorless unless you had a forest when you could have it give you green or blue. The main problem would be how many slots in would take to make this work. If newer players complain about 10 slots being utility lands, I doubt they would be happy with M14 having 20 rare lands. Personally I think it would be pretty cool and hope this happens though.
Everybody: I was thinking, goblins and elves could be shoehorned into a Greek/Roman mythology setting but many would find them out of place. Innirstrad and Lorwyn both showed that they are willing to go without specific races that where previously assumed to be givens (Elves/goblins and Humans respectively). If they where to not have many of the traditional tribes in the next block there might not be enough of either tribe to make giving them tribal lords worthwhile in standard. In RtR block, both elves and goblins where divided by guilds and for most part not lending themselves to a cohesive tribal strategy, they would need a lot of slots in M14 to pull it off. But I wonder if they will have room for those slots with all of the space needed to give to slivers.
With every Sliver acting like a tribal lord. I wonder if the set will have room or the need for other tribal effects. Perhaps no elf, goblin, vampire, soldier, merfolk, or whatever lords for one core set?
Sliver walker?? What comes next, a squirrel igniting the spark?
Some of can only dream.
Damn it, now I want my Squirrel walker... and I don't just mean a green walker that interacts with squirrels like Nissa interacted with Elves. If they ever do another un-set, I could see one put there.
I do this stuff all of the time. These are the ones that I can think of off the top of my head. For the record, I make them for immediate consumption so the fact that they aren't as carbonated isn't much of an issue.
Cherry Coke + Chocolate Syrup + Cranberry Juice
Orange Soda (or Juice) + Root Beer
Strawberry Soda + Dr. Pepper (or Mr. Pibb)
Lemon Lime Soda + Slices of Citrus Fruit (be sure to have the soda filter through the fruit).
Pulpy Apple Juice + Lemon Lime Soda + a bit of Lemon Juice
Chocolate Syrup + Root Beer
Lemonade + Soda Water
Mountain Dew + Grenadine
Orange Soda (or Juice) + Carrot Juice
Right now.... I'm at a loss of ideas how to make it look good without it being looking ordinary. @-@
Perhaps have the symbols blur together or something? Perhaps have little versions of them in the background which are semitransparent. Perhaps label the magic symbols "White" "Blue" "Black" "Red" "Green" and the kaijudo symbols "Light" "Water" "Darkness" "Fire" "Nature"?
Perhaps if you haven't started it have it be "WUBRG" on top (magic symbols in that order and "RUGBY" on bottom (kaijudo symbols Red, BlUe, Green, Black, Yellow) and have it labeled "WUBRG RUGBY" as a joke.
Final idea, have me pick some iconic creatures for each color/game and have those be the background with the symbol in white laid on top like a cut out.
EDIT: Okay, ignore all of the above. Instead I would like a banner with Sasha and Serra Angel on one side of the banner and Megaria and Fallen Angel on the other. Have them facing each other with the words "Shades of Gray" on the banner. Have them facing each other. For the Avatar, have it rotate around close ups of the 4 images. Would this be a cool enough of a banner/avatar idea?
DNC: I know that you computer access is really limited, but is there any chance that you could give me a rough guide to when you might expect my banner/avatar combo to be made?
Personally I would like to a Golden State Warrior vs. Indiana Pacers. Golden State in because we have a decent number of fans here in Sacramento and it would be good for business. More than a few of them might be fair weather fans, but their money still spends good and I work in the food service industry. Indiana because I would like to see another ABA team win the finals. Of course I would like it to go to 7 games.
I can't help but wonder, did you actually read my previous quote for any thing other than some point to correct? In it, I mentioned it would need 20 cards to be a complete cycle. It isn't as if you are actually informing me of anything I didn't already state in this very exact thread.
If they are willing to throw in 10 different clue stones for limited reasons, then I can see them putting in 20 different lands for limited reasons as well. Having more of them means they are more likely to show up and make limited fixing better to make drafting slivers more viable. Besides, they are decent enough that budget players would be able to use them in standard.
Okay... so you are suggesting that there might be a tribal lord in the next block where they have the space to develop, but the point of this thread was to speculate if there where going to be any lords in M14 due to all of the space that slivers will take up not to mention how tribal slivers are.
Okay. I was mistaken about their rarity. A cycle of them at uncommon would make color fixing in limited a lot easier and with Slivers in the core set that would be a pretty good thing. At this point I really do hope they reprint the tainted lands along with new similar lands to complete the cycle.
I think the comparisons will continue because a lot of the people offended by Redskins are also offended by the others. The fact that you aren't is interesting, but I've known Native Americans who where offended by all and any mascot or names based on them. That is why NCAA has cracked down so hard on them right no mater if the name/mascot is something that you personally think is racist.
I was thinking, since they could print new cards in the core set, what would be to stop them from printing similar lands that gave you multiple mana types only if you controlled a plains or a island or a mountain or a forest. For example the forest based ones could be overgrown. Overgrown Coastline would give colorless unless you had a forest when you could have it give you green or blue. The main problem would be how many slots in would take to make this work. If newer players complain about 10 slots being utility lands, I doubt they would be happy with M14 having 20 rare lands. Personally I think it would be pretty cool and hope this happens though.
Everybody: I was thinking, goblins and elves could be shoehorned into a Greek/Roman mythology setting but many would find them out of place. Innirstrad and Lorwyn both showed that they are willing to go without specific races that where previously assumed to be givens (Elves/goblins and Humans respectively). If they where to not have many of the traditional tribes in the next block there might not be enough of either tribe to make giving them tribal lords worthwhile in standard. In RtR block, both elves and goblins where divided by guilds and for most part not lending themselves to a cohesive tribal strategy, they would need a lot of slots in M14 to pull it off. But I wonder if they will have room for those slots with all of the space needed to give to slivers.
Some of can only dream.
Damn it, now I want my Squirrel walker... and I don't just mean a green walker that interacts with squirrels like Nissa interacted with Elves. If they ever do another un-set, I could see one put there.
Cherry Coke + Chocolate Syrup + Cranberry Juice
Orange Soda (or Juice) + Root Beer
Strawberry Soda + Dr. Pepper (or Mr. Pibb)
Lemon Lime Soda + Slices of Citrus Fruit (be sure to have the soda filter through the fruit).
Pulpy Apple Juice + Lemon Lime Soda + a bit of Lemon Juice
Chocolate Syrup + Root Beer
Lemonade + Soda Water
Mountain Dew + Grenadine
Orange Soda (or Juice) + Carrot Juice
Perhaps have the symbols blur together or something? Perhaps have little versions of them in the background which are semitransparent. Perhaps label the magic symbols "White" "Blue" "Black" "Red" "Green" and the kaijudo symbols "Light" "Water" "Darkness" "Fire" "Nature"?
Perhaps if you haven't started it have it be "WUBRG" on top (magic symbols in that order and "RUGBY" on bottom (kaijudo symbols Red, BlUe, Green, Black, Yellow) and have it labeled "WUBRG RUGBY" as a joke.
Final idea, have me pick some iconic creatures for each color/game and have those be the background with the symbol in white laid on top like a cut out.
EDIT: Okay, ignore all of the above. Instead I would like a banner with Sasha and Serra Angel on one side of the banner and Megaria and Fallen Angel on the other. Have them facing each other with the words "Shades of Gray" on the banner. Have them facing each other. For the Avatar, have it rotate around close ups of the 4 images. Would this be a cool enough of a banner/avatar idea?
IT'S ADVENTURE TIME!!!
*starts humming the theme song in my head*