There's always that ******** running Wanderer or Narset who clearly really wishes he was playing Dominion instead of Magic.
I travel a lot and have seen my fair bit of tables with socially challenged adults acting like children because you try to play a game WITH them instead of just sitting in their general vicinity and playing competitive solitaire.
Ultimatedly this pushed me towards 1vs1 and I haven't even tried to play multiplayer with anyone but my hometown playgroup who all play interactive battlecruiser style decks or combos that actually need to be carefully assembled instead of just popping off the top of your deck at random.
And we're being pretty conservative thinking from the a perspective where they'll take what's been done in mind.
They may not ban some of the most opressive commanders ever (Zur, Darevi).
They may ban cards because they bug MOL rather than because of power level.
They may dismiss the tuck rule.
They may add sideboards.
There's too many possibilities for change in the horizon, and that's before taking into account that Amonkhet will be brand new at the format's birth, wich may bring even more variables to even speculatively brew around.
Yeah the sum taxing would just inconvenience Vial/Kraum while destroying Boros Partners, Bruse/Reyhan Thrasios/Tymna and Reyhan/Thrasios.
If you want to nerf Vial Smasher but keep it legal and the others playable, ban Kraum. It isn't played in any other deck and having to play Ludevic or go 4c for blue would be a decent punishment.
As for the point about already having plenty of superhero-themed media in the cinemas...You do realize that's what inspired the Gatewatch conceit in the first place, right? WotC is trying to capitalize on that particular pop culture wave.
Two years old and stale "pop culture".
Don't be surprised if we have our "Suicide Squad" show up next year, and Elspeth coming back two years from Wonder Woman's premier if it's anywhere near successful.
WotC is the guy who tried to encore a joke fart, forced it for too long and pooed their pants.
I won't even consider it as long as Gideon, Ally of Zendikar is legal. That card is head and shoulders above the competition.
Shamefully SOI and EMN rotate with him so there will be a lot of very interesting cards that never had a chance.
Liliana is worse than Tibalt and her tutor is ridiculously bad, it could have been 2 -1/-1 counters and still barely worth it in the casualests of casual tables.
I could live with Marath, Tasigur, Edric and Oloro, but Yisan, Zur, Darevi and Erayo need to stay go forever.
Rofellos is also banned, nobody seems to care, we have Selvala.
Really? I have always thought of Lavamancer as a control card, seldom did I target the opponent with it, it's damage usually went towards Mom, Stoneforge or Deadrite.
Right now I tend towards the classic 20 Land, 24 Burn Spells, 12 creatures plus 2 Lavamancer and 2 mainboard Sulfuric Vortex instead of Flame Rifts and was wondering if there really had been a change in meta that made Rift optimal again.
The deck seems super fun, and BW gives you what are probably the best sideboard options to combat most decks, I'm testing AkaBuG's latest list with Wasteland instead of Vaults and two Call the Bloodline in place of two Bitterblossoms. Doing decent so far, specially against slower creature decks like BUG, Eldrazi and Maverick.
As for the Jitte problem, the answer is more removal. They cannot equip a creature if they don't have a creature.
Looks like Nicol Bolas has constructed his own containment paradise a la The Island movie.
Funnily enough, it seems there's enough general peace and happiness abound that an average resident would be much better off here than living on Innistrad, Zendikar or even Ravnica.
It would be nice to see the Gatewatch coming to realize that dispatching Nicol Bolas would probably mean plunging the city into chaos.
I'd place it on par with Zendikar myself. Having to live a life of fighting and trials seems about par with adventure and treasure. Pre-Eldrazi that is. Ravnica seems better.
Ravnica does has all the conveniences of an industrialized city, but there are numerous legalized murder guilds that can kill you for a variety of reasons, like because someone paid them off to (Dimir) or for fun (Rakdos). And I think RtR block made it clear that guildless Ravnicans have kind of a *****ty life.
I mean, it's still infinitely better than Innistrad. I think pre-Aurora Lorwyn was technically the nicest plane to live on we've seen thus far, but for the essential tension of what we've seen so far to work, the city has to be a paradise and the rest of Amonkhet has to be a hellscape.
Lorwyn was definitely the "nicest" of the planes in general. I'm not sure we will ever see a plane nicer than it. Maybe Bant was pretty nice too I suppose.
As far as Ravnica goes, I doubt everything is horrible for them all the time. We're going to see the combat-focused aspects because of Magic, but at least the novels don't seem to indicate it's that bad. But it also depends on personal proclivities and such. Almost every plane there are trade offs going on, it's a matter of what you want and what you don't mind as opposed to one being leaps and bounds above the others barring rare exceptions like Lorwyn for good, or Shadowmoor for bad, though others exist for both especially the bad.
Pretty much everyone in Ravnica ends up indebted to the Obzedat. And Kaladesh was filled with crime and chaos for non-inventors/non-consulate members.
Lorwyn really does seem the best plane to live in. Sure Ravnica and Kaladesh are super cool if you're living the exiting life of the 1% named character, but for most of the population society seems unfair to unbearable. And if I got to chose a 1% life, it'd rather be Tom Brady in this here world than a named character in pretty much any MtG plane.
It's worse to pretend they aren't gay than just accept and be happy and move on. We know they are subtly including minorities into all of the planes of magic and this is an example.
I've slept with my friend in a twin bed before (due to lack of space), I've also hooked my arm around his shoulder and he held my hand on the street as he led me to see something. We're Chinese, and we believe people with good friendship are welcome to behave intimately in the public, that does not mean we're involved.
There's no pretense here, the art suggests that the two men have very good relationship, but it doesn't have to be romantic or sexual. Were two women doing it, people would less likely see them as lesbian. I'm not denying the possibility either, but it is presumptuous to see all good relationship as potential romance.
They could as well be brothers, but social media is the world of virtue signaling nuts where neutrality means youre a "nazi".
The thread was redtexted to stop this discussion. Warning issued.
I travel a lot and have seen my fair bit of tables with socially challenged adults acting like children because you try to play a game WITH them instead of just sitting in their general vicinity and playing competitive solitaire.
Ultimatedly this pushed me towards 1vs1 and I haven't even tried to play multiplayer with anyone but my hometown playgroup who all play interactive battlecruiser style decks or combos that actually need to be carefully assembled instead of just popping off the top of your deck at random.
"Diversity" at all costs is the modern "creative team"s motto.
Leyline has been the least of Burn's worries for a long while now.
They may not ban some of the most opressive commanders ever (Zur, Darevi).
They may ban cards because they bug MOL rather than because of power level.
They may dismiss the tuck rule.
They may add sideboards.
There's too many possibilities for change in the horizon, and that's before taking into account that Amonkhet will be brand new at the format's birth, wich may bring even more variables to even speculatively brew around.
If you want to nerf Vial Smasher but keep it legal and the others playable, ban Kraum. It isn't played in any other deck and having to play Ludevic or go 4c for blue would be a decent punishment.
Two years old and stale "pop culture".
Don't be surprised if we have our "Suicide Squad" show up next year, and Elspeth coming back two years from Wonder Woman's premier if it's anywhere near successful.
WotC is the guy who tried to encore a joke fart, forced it for too long and pooed their pants.
Shamefully SOI and EMN rotate with him so there will be a lot of very interesting cards that never had a chance.
Rofellos is also banned, nobody seems to care, we have Selvala.
Right now I tend towards the classic 20 Land, 24 Burn Spells, 12 creatures plus 2 Lavamancer and 2 mainboard Sulfuric Vortex instead of Flame Rifts and was wondering if there really had been a change in meta that made Rift optimal again.
As for the Jitte problem, the answer is more removal. They cannot equip a creature if they don't have a creature.
Pretty much everyone in Ravnica ends up indebted to the Obzedat. And Kaladesh was filled with crime and chaos for non-inventors/non-consulate members.
Lorwyn really does seem the best plane to live in. Sure Ravnica and Kaladesh are super cool if you're living the exiting life of the 1% named character, but for most of the population society seems unfair to unbearable. And if I got to chose a 1% life, it'd rather be Tom Brady in this here world than a named character in pretty much any MtG plane.
They could as well be brothers, but social media is the world of virtue signaling nuts where neutrality means youre a "nazi".
The thread was redtexted to stop this discussion. Warning issued.