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May 18, 2018Boyachi posted a message on A Brief History of Dominaria's ThallidsVery surprising lore! I really had no idea about it and it was an entertaining post. Thank you!Posted in: Articles
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Mar 16, 2018Boyachi posted a message on All Sets Are Good: Saviors of KamigawaMeasure of Wickedness is a superfun multiplayer EDH card. It forces action to take place be it sorceries and instants or changes to the boardstate. Fun times.Posted in: Articles
I'm surprised more Golgari counter decks don't run Maga as a finisher.
Lastly, Eternal Dominion, especially Forked or Twincasted on the original casting means multiple Epic triggers. -
Feb 19, 2018Boyachi posted a message on The Role of Ecosystems in Fantasy WorldbuildingSweet article! Two thumbs up!Posted in: Articles
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Oct 31, 2017Boyachi posted a message on The 13 Scariest Pieces of Magic ArtI agree with your selections. Living Wall is has not been trumped in...whatever creepiness it is doing. The Fallen is up there with the old-school scariness, but I have a special place for Chains of Mephistopheles, what with the third horn and the sinister eyes that seem to be looking directly at you.Posted in: Articles
There has only been one card that jump-scared me when I opened a pack of cards: Rotting Fensnake. I made it my laptop background for class so if I jump straight to the desktop I can hear the reactions of the people that were looking at my screen. -
Aug 15, 2017Boyachi posted a message on Commander 2017 DigestMairsil, the Pretender doesn't need to worry about using the abilities only once with proper setup. First off you already mentioned Aetherling (or better yet Deadeye Navigator) which can reset Mairsil for non-tap abilities. After that you need something as simple as Crimson Mage to grant haste to reuse those tap abilities. Finish it off with a Gilded Lotus and you have infinite Mairsil abilities each turn (and mana, but I mean, nothing new with Gilded Lotus) .Posted in: Articles
Also Shifty Doppelganger is actually looking like it could be star (support) material! Maybe!
I'm glad to see a shout-out going to Bounty Hunter and the Myojins! You did your research and it shows! -
Apr 3, 2017Boyachi posted a message on MTG Salvation Deck Builder Coming SoonMove over, Tappedout.net, you have competition!Posted in: Articles
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The point of Singleton is to push game variety. Searching for your cards is a crutch.
There, I said it.
Humans are afraid of the unknown and don’t like putting things up to chance, it is scary for them. Many people play Magic because it is something they understand and can control, granting them stability.
I have to keep my hands busy and have background noise else my focus greatly diminishes. I acknowledge MtG is an escape and probably the most controlled part of my life.
Having played of over 20 years I have learned winning isn’t everything, or rather, I define what it means to win. Maybe I win by killing my opponents, maybe I win by stealing someone’s creature and hitting them in the face with it, maybe I win by dealing at least 5 damage to all creatures on the board with a source that has lifelink, or block an all out effect with a Fog effect, or politic my way to second place.
I enjoy many decks, but my chaos deck was built for Chaos and only Chaos. The deck has three missions: don’t be the last one standing, creature as much chaos as possible, and don’t be the first eliminated. If I rules-win with that deck, I did something wrong, and if one card causes a win repeatedly (like Forced Fruition) it is cut from the deck.
I used to game to be the best and in one game I spent hours perfecting everything and four hours in to a typical six hour practice session, I realized I had wanted to throw my laptop across the room for the past few days. This “game” wasn’t fun for me, winning had become everything and ruined what little joy I had.
I’ve returned to that game, but only to play casually. Just like Magic. I could have quit my summer job and ran the GPs during Theros block. Spent my time traveling away from my S.O. and said summer job I wish I still had (but I needed to pay bills :/). I almost sacrificed the joy in my life to be the best... until rotation.
TL;DR = if your Meta is too competitive, try something more casual. Your soul will thank you.
There are also no shortage of removal spells. Even if every player followed these numbers rigidly there would still be a great variety in each section.
Are we a joke to you?
Citadel of Pain and Manabarbs made sure each turn players took damage equal to the number of lands they controlled.
A good example of something similar is Cumulative upkeep with Eon Hub. Since there haven’t been upkeeps, no age counters are added, thus if Hub is destroyed, the permanent with cumulative upkeep would only get one more counter said following upkeep than it had prior to Eon Hub first entering the battlefield.
As is bursting vigor should cost one less, considering hunger of the howlpack if you switch it to be just a creature enters your battlefield it would be broken, especially at that mana cost.
For rabid looter, I am imagining a rare/mythic spellshaper type card that has “at the beginning of your first main phase, exile the top card of each opponents/players? Library face up. Until the end of turn, you may cast cards exiled this turn this way by tapping ~ and discarding a card”. Yes, I agree my idea could be worded much better.
As it stands this is a better Ingest.
I Like the ambush spin.
Plot also reminds me of the trap mechanic. For a common Grave Return seems fairly costed.
Question about number 4:
How do you use possibility storm to free cast Borborygmos if Enter the Infinite has put your entire library into your hand thus leaving nothing left in your library for possibility storm?
Wouldn’t you have to attempt to cast Borborygmos first and then 0 cast Ballista to actually get Borborygmos out, or am I missing something?
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Next up, find out what she likes. My S.O. Was big into Vampires and as luck would have it, Innistrad was on the shelves. I would look at the spoilers and share news of new vampires (still do to this day). I made sure to trade for things my SO would like and even fund the hobby for both of us.
Lastly, you want to start with low power and work up. One of our LGSes has chaff boxes with each card being 10 cents. We both grabbed cards for ourselves and once colors were obvious I recommended a few cards (removal, acceleration, mana fixing) and we had our own personal chaff decks. My SO’s deck grew and shifted to be a monoblack +1/+1 vampire tribal deck with an imposing late game board...Then they opened Olivia Voldaren that was the start of the RB vampire deck that it got so big while being almost singleton it became a commander deck.
Last year we made each other Commander decks. I am looking forward to using the one made for me at the upcoming convention.
Best of luck to the two of you! Tell us what color(s) she picks!
The duel deck art makes perfect sense with the Heroes vs Monsters vibe and may be what some people are looking for art wise, but Original Art Sun Titan is my favorite.
As for symbol, I like M12, since it is a 6/6 and 6+6=12.