There's any mechanical reasons, besides flavor, of why the creatures has to have a "corpse counter" on it? Isn't "is a zombie in addition to its other types" flavorful enough? Am I missing something? I tought the corpse counters were related on the exiling part but really the creature would be exiled even without the counter, the 2 things are not related.
To force a distinction between which is affected by Isareth's triggered ability and which aren't for the sake of clarity.
Lets say I have a Death Baron in the graveyard, Isareth on the battlefield with another Death Baron. When I attack with Isareth and the Death Baron, I can pay 3 to retrieve the Death Baron and put it onto the battlefield. The two barons buff each other to become 3/3s. The corpse counter on the reanimated baron helps as an indicator and reminder of what occurred and that way there is less confusion
I can even explain her reddish skin. As aside from her surname of Reid "Red", Vivian's race would be the equivalent of the Thule people, the prototype of Inuits.
Um, inuitis the plural. The singular is inuk.
Yes. They are using the plural in that sentence you quoted as they are referring to a group.
I'd be screeching as well if I were screeching phoenix. That is such an awful phoenix card. A bad body for its cost and a activated ability that looks like it was nicked from purphoros. Because I saw the phoenix artwork and got excited, but the card itself is just bad. It doesn't do the one of the single thing that is expected of a phoenix: revive itself from the graveyard.
Also I will echo the statement. I hate the mostly draft fodder in this. New players are going to think its bad when they see what gets played at FNMs. Old players aren't going to buy it except for the two planeswalkers, the dragon, the basic lands, and a few fodder pieces because they like the look. If they wanted it to resemble draft decks, why not emulate the prebuilt ones that can be bought online? As those are affordable yet they are well constructed decks made up of mostly commons and uncommons that usually have a full playset of each card.
Also why did they skimp out and make the tiger and turtle into vanillas? As the turtle, tiger, dragon, and phoenix are meant to represent the four cardinal directions. Its like if Theros spoilers were happening and the last god that was revealed was Heliod, God of the Sun but for some random reason was a common and vanilla. Why?
Flipped a coin. While going upwards, it bounced off a hanging adornment in which it speeded back down. It slammed onto a Liliana of the Veil that wasn't even in the same game or table.
Isn't that kind of the point of a general discussion thread? It's supposed to be a free-flowing, wide-ranging discussion of anything related to the ban list. The fact that Sol Ring is brought up so often should be a massive warning flag about the card, not about the style of discussion. But, if you would like to change topics... can we have a serious discussion about the prices of cards going forward? For example, the Gold-Bordered Gaea's Cradle from the World Championship decks is currently around $80 US. For a fake card that is unplayable in any non-kitchen-table Magic. That's absurd. Not to mention the increasing frequency of Reserved List buyouts that are pushing cards to astronomical levels. I'm not even talking about the ABUR duals, I'm talking about stuff like Academy Rector which just a few years ago was a moderately expensive card at ~$20 and is now almost $100.
I am worried that at some point in the near future games of EDH are going to devolve into the 'haves' and the 'have-nots'. EDH was already kind of pricey to jump into if you didn't previously have a robust collection. Even then, players with older collections are often priced out of some of the more unique cards (*cough cough* Tabernacle *cough cough*). Hey little Timmy, you want to build a cool Sliver Queen deck? I hope you've got $70 for just the commander. Want to put Serra's Sanctum in your cool new Enchantress deck? That'll be $85 please. Stupid ol' Gate to Phyrexia is $30. So on and so forth. This feels like it is going to lead to a bunch of new players abandoning the format when they realize how absurdly expensive it is to build even a single deck if you want to play with basically any Reserved List cards.
This is very much true of commander and something I've noted as the buyouts and price spikes are becoming to high. I remember every now and then playing EDH with friends before the change of it becoming Commander. How it was much more of a wild west environment for prices and purchases; not much in the way of guides on what to really buy. The fake cradle are likely being run in decks that can compete in tournaments that allow a certain amount of proxies. The matter of commander 'haves' such as Serra's Sanctum or Sliver Queen or Academy Rector are troubling due to being on the reserved list especially with the buy outs. That the danger of the RL for cards that suddenly or already have been seeing play in Commander is that there is no hope of reprints to lower that price. Especially with one of the ban criteria being 'price'.
There is also the matter of not necessarily diamonds, but pebbles becoming diamonds. Why did this cheap RL card spike in price? Oh, buyouts. The shorter the quantity of a RL card, the more likely it can be made into a more expensive card.
Well, to be fair, neither of those were “arguments”, just matters of opinion. I was asked why I wouldn’t keep a hand with a swamp ritual and Necro, so I answered with my opinion based on my playstyle. What, you want to argue that I’m playing the game incorrectly? Lol.
No, you are wrong.
But honestly this general discussion thread plays out like an unending theatrical play.
User 1: I want to see biorhythm unbanned.
User 2: That is a bad idea for... [insert text wall]
User 3: That is such an idiotic idea and would never happen.
User 1: [counterpoints]
User 4: [joins the dogpile of User 1]
User 5: So how about banning sol ring?
Lets say I have a Death Baron in the graveyard, Isareth on the battlefield with another Death Baron. When I attack with Isareth and the Death Baron, I can pay 3 to retrieve the Death Baron and put it onto the battlefield. The two barons buff each other to become 3/3s. The corpse counter on the reanimated baron helps as an indicator and reminder of what occurred and that way there is less confusion
Also I will echo the statement. I hate the mostly draft fodder in this. New players are going to think its bad when they see what gets played at FNMs. Old players aren't going to buy it except for the two planeswalkers, the dragon, the basic lands, and a few fodder pieces because they like the look. If they wanted it to resemble draft decks, why not emulate the prebuilt ones that can be bought online? As those are affordable yet they are well constructed decks made up of mostly commons and uncommons that usually have a full playset of each card.
Also why did they skimp out and make the tiger and turtle into vanillas? As the turtle, tiger, dragon, and phoenix are meant to represent the four cardinal directions. Its like if Theros spoilers were happening and the last god that was revealed was Heliod, God of the Sun but for some random reason was a common and vanilla. Why?
But honestly this general discussion thread plays out like an unending theatrical play.
User 1: I want to see biorhythm unbanned.
User 2: That is a bad idea for... [insert text wall]
User 3: That is such an idiotic idea and would never happen.
User 1: [counterpoints]
User 4: [joins the dogpile of User 1]
User 5: So how about banning sol ring?
Rinse, Change the card names, Repeat.