hmmm, ratchet bomb, gaze of granite, 2 harvesters, detention sphere for regular heads, anger of the gods, curse of swine, homing lightning, restore the peace, spear of helioid...
nyx seems bad in this deck. after a sweeper its almost a dead land in this deck, and god forbid you draw 2 of them. and rakdos return is the only thing you really accel into.
1. The Guildgates are a bit of an anomoly. Only twice ever have a cycle of honest to goodness dual lands been printed at common, the Guildgates and the Ravnica Boucelands. Common duals is a rare event saved for gold heavy blocks and shouldn't be used as a basis of comparison outside those blocks.
2. A better comparison is the Refuges. If you honestly believe that Scry 1 for free is on par with or worse than gaining 1 life, I don't know what to tell you.
3. Going by my first two points, this should not be looked at as an existing common cycle with some worthless mechanic tacked on and bumped up two rarities. This is an existing uncommon card given the ability to create an additional color of mana and bumped up on rarity.
You may not think the lands will be very good, but they are perfectly reasonable.
no one is arguing that the lands are good or bad. they are arguing that the rarity is higher than it should be. a better comparison is as arcane sanctum is to the refuge's which is an uncommon as all other dual cipt lands have been lately. yes it is better than the refuge's but honestly, it is in many cases weaker than the tri/vivid lands. should the ability to make an additional color of mana be worth less than being able to scry once?
akroan crusader and pyromancer are out of place here. They force you to run inferior cards like basicallly all your instants. dynacharge will not make a token while targetting akroan crusader if you overload it which is really all you want it for. Your curve is weird skipping the 3 drop, with only 1 4 one drops and 8 2 drops, and no accelerator. If they have an answer to your 2 drop with something like tidebinder mage, or banisher priest, you will usually have an empty board until turn 4. Youll have an instant or 2 that you have no targets for. also since you only have 8 2 drops the emissary's ability will often be irrelevant.
Also to get the dragon out turn 4, you are assuming you have 5 creatures by turn 4, which would mean your opening is akroan crusader, young pyromancer, then 1 or 2 instants or on turn 3 depending if you also had a burning tree emissary on turn 2. so basically by turn 4, you need to have drawn Land, Land, Land, Land, akroan crusader, young pyromancer, Xenagos the Reveler, Stormbreath dragon, Instant, Emissary. That is 9 cards out of the 10 you will have drawn.
awesome card. not too powerful for constructed, but very well designed. It's no scepter, but will be a fun casual card. really wish it had haste though, but i understand for 6 mana you get this guy and counter backup to avoid the 2 for 1 risk
So, I am pleased to learn that online vendors shall indeed be carrying singles of the cards in this set, but I am displeased to learn that those singles may be the same price as the original printings of those cards, or only several dollars less. Why is that the case, and will the prices of these reprints decrease at all?
The cards people want to drop are cards like goyf bob and clique. Think about it this way. your odds of opening a mythic are 1/8. There are 24 packs in a box. so on average you will get 24/8 or 3 mythics in a box. Since there are 15 mythics, your odds of getting any given mythic in a box is 24/(8*15) or 24/120 or 1/5. So that means 5 boxes need to be opened to get 1 of each mythic. Stores are only getting around 3 crates, or 18 boxes, that means that with all of the boxes being opened, there will less than a playset of any given mythic per store. That is really an incredibly small increase in the supply of any mythic in this set. not enough to make much difference at all.
is anyone else curious about the fact we have 11 multicolored card slots, one is progenitus, but we have 2 U/R cards already, meaning a color pair will be left out.
Could you expand on your last possibility? I'm very confused about the stack and priority in this situation. Thanks
Basically its a last in first out situation. Everything that he does after you try to kill it will resolve before your kill spell. if you play a kill spell with a +2/+2 trigger on the stack, then he won't get that +2/+2, but responding by saccing the rest of his artifacts and flinging will still make it a 19/20. Sudden shock or sudden death are really your best answers.
Try 200+
then when it dies, and you cast it again, it is no longer monstrous so you can wipe again.
no one is arguing that the lands are good or bad. they are arguing that the rarity is higher than it should be. a better comparison is as arcane sanctum is to the refuge's which is an uncommon as all other dual cipt lands have been lately. yes it is better than the refuge's but honestly, it is in many cases weaker than the tri/vivid lands. should the ability to make an additional color of mana be worth less than being able to scry once?
Also to get the dragon out turn 4, you are assuming you have 5 creatures by turn 4, which would mean your opening is akroan crusader, young pyromancer, then 1 or 2 instants or on turn 3 depending if you also had a burning tree emissary on turn 2. so basically by turn 4, you need to have drawn Land, Land, Land, Land, akroan crusader, young pyromancer, Xenagos the Reveler, Stormbreath dragon, Instant, Emissary. That is 9 cards out of the 10 you will have drawn.
The cards people want to drop are cards like goyf bob and clique. Think about it this way. your odds of opening a mythic are 1/8. There are 24 packs in a box. so on average you will get 24/8 or 3 mythics in a box. Since there are 15 mythics, your odds of getting any given mythic in a box is 24/(8*15) or 24/120 or 1/5. So that means 5 boxes need to be opened to get 1 of each mythic. Stores are only getting around 3 crates, or 18 boxes, that means that with all of the boxes being opened, there will less than a playset of any given mythic per store. That is really an incredibly small increase in the supply of any mythic in this set. not enough to make much difference at all.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AiMEVXuXReaDdHJqbGdGZnFiWnB5c19GaTFlMzVnTHc#gid=0
Basically its a last in first out situation. Everything that he does after you try to kill it will resolve before your kill spell. if you play a kill spell with a +2/+2 trigger on the stack, then he won't get that +2/+2, but responding by saccing the rest of his artifacts and flinging will still make it a 19/20. Sudden shock or sudden death are really your best answers.