Having a template to apply to any deckbuilding means you have some sense of direction when making a new deck.
And interaction with other players is the far more interesting part of the multiplayer experience over solitairing your own cards.
The deckbuilding is(was) the interesting part of the game. If that's just a template now there is nothing left in this game for me to enjoy.
A template that is great for beginners to grasp better. Not every deck is going to follow this formula. For example a Tainted Pact deck that wants to draw their whole deck but the deck design itself means no dupes. There is a lot of actual nuance that goes into this. Some might run only 1 mass removal spell, a couple counterspells, but are primarily a combo deck such as a Laboratory Maniac deck. Some might be more creature centric and have little need of instants or sorceries like a Primal Surge deck.
So its clearly meant to be a saga, based on the events of Godsend where Elspeth was tricked into killing her lover Daxos in believing he was a Phyrexian Negator.
T1: G source, Mana Dork
T2: 2nd land, cast Burning-Tree Emissary into Klothys bringing her to 7 devotion.
T3: Attack for 6 or 7???
Kinda fast but just for a 4/5 indestructible attacking on turn 3 seems a bit mundane.
Looks like a Jund card if you ask me.
I don't know where you are pulling +4 devotion from. Burning-Tree Emissary only counts as 2 , 2 , or 2 . Sure with a second Emissary you get fulfilled devotion.
or better yet, just challenge them to build a mono white deck and try to not run things like tutors or plains-fetchers, after all don't want to be too consistent now.
Honestly i don't get what they think will gain from such sterile and toxic discussion.
The whole level of toxicity is quite fun actually, considering it's probably what convinced wotc to cancel the novel in the first place
wotc: release a bad novel
mtg community: instead of providing constructive criticism, spam "biphobia! biphobia!" on every wotc channel, especially the unrelated ones (like secret lair announcements)
wotc: decided to not release novels anymore
mtg community: *surprised pikachu*, more toxicity
Zendikar vs Rath, Zendikar winning with 74%. I don't know why Mark put Dominaria twice in this poll.
small correction: Rath is not Dominaria.
Rath was a separate, artificial plane made to fuse with Dominaria during the phyrexian invasion.
Rath's current status: overlayed with Dominaria. As in part of it and that if you planeswalked to Rath, you also planeswalked to Dominaria and vice-a-versa.
But I get what you're saying.
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New Phyrexia and Mirrodin are seperate for a good reason: they would be different sets with different fanbases. Rath is a separate plane, it just got merged with Dominaria; theoretically it could be separated again. Whether or not either of them *should* be separate options is rather subjective.
Seems like splitting hairs for Argentum/Mirrodin/New Phyrexia.
EDIT: If your goal is the link go visit his blog for the post. But the post is basically a list of planes and the people would comment. The next post is the tallied amount. Essentially its a free for all instead of a bracket-system. He also did something similar for a 'type' of plane such as 'water plane' or 'steampunk plane' and one of stipulations of that is 'no wild west plane' as the last time he tried that it got hijacked by 'wild west'.
Regatha vs Ravnica, Ravnica winning with 89%. Most people don't know what the heck Regatha is, so putting Ravnica next to it is dubious.
Kamigawa vs New Phyrexia, New Phyrexia only winning by 57%. Seems pretty close.
Dominaria vs Vryn, Dominaria winning with 79%. Another dubious one. As we have never visited Vryn proper.
Theros vs Kaladesh, Theros winning with 61%. I seem to recall others were saying that Theros was not as popular.
Zendikar vs Rath, Zendikar winning with 74%. I don't know why Mark put Dominaria twice in this poll.
Tarkir vs, Alara, Alara winning with 53%. Which is almost a coinflip.
Shandalar vs Innistrad, Innistrad winning with 83%. See the 'Ravnica vs Regatha' comment.
Mirrodin vs Shadowmoor-Lorwyn, S-L winning by 56%. Aside from being close just like 'New Phyrexia Vs Kamigawa' one, this is a joke right? In the same vein as the 'Zendikar vs Rath' one.
The reason a number of the early brackets are disparate is because that's intentional. If you were to put the most competetive choices together in brackets, it would biases the results in favour of less competetive choices because you would eliminate some of the more popular choices before they have a chance to compete against the less popular ones. https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/175440856418/how-do-you-decide-the-bracketing-for-head-to-head
Any which way you do it though, bracketing like this is not a very representative survey method as it will always bias results based on bracketing choices which resrict competetition between all of the different options.
the free for all style where people just literally submitted what they wanted to see and there was no "Vote for X or Vote for Y". But I see you aren't commenting on the two instances of dominaria and the two instances of new phyrexia in there.
Might as well have another section in that bracket that reads: "Zhalfir Vs Argentum".
When I said his polls, I didn't mean this 'head-to-head' nonsense. But alright lets have a proper lark at this poll.
Regatha vs Ravnica, Ravnica winning with 89%. Most people don't know what the heck Regatha is, so putting Ravnica next to it is dubious.
Kamigawa vs New Phyrexia, New Phyrexia only winning by 57%. Seems pretty close.
Dominaria vs Vryn, Dominaria winning with 79%. Another dubious one. As we have never visited Vryn proper.
Theros vs Kaladesh, Theros winning with 61%. I seem to recall others were saying that Theros was not as popular.
Zendikar vs Rath, Zendikar winning with 74%. I don't know why Mark put Dominaria twice in this poll.
Tarkir vs, Alara, Alara winning with 53%. Which is almost a coinflip.
Shandalar vs Innistrad, Innistrad winning with 83%. See the 'Ravnica vs Regatha' comment.
Mirrodin vs Shadowmoor-Lorwyn, S-L winning by 56%. Aside from being close just like 'New Phyrexia Vs Kamigawa' one, this is a joke right? In the same vein as the 'Zendikar vs Rath' one.
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No, that isn't being argued. Then again, I'm not surprised you got that jumbled up considering your previous argumentative points.Rath's current status: overlayed with Dominaria. As in part of it and that if you planeswalked to Rath, you also planeswalked to Dominaria and vice-a-versa.
But I get what you're saying.
Seems like splitting hairs for Argentum/Mirrodin/New Phyrexia.
EDIT: If your goal is the link go visit his blog for the post. But the post is basically a list of planes and the people would comment. The next post is the tallied amount. Essentially its a free for all instead of a bracket-system. He also did something similar for a 'type' of plane such as 'water plane' or 'steampunk plane' and one of stipulations of that is 'no wild west plane' as the last time he tried that it got hijacked by 'wild west'.
Might as well have another section in that bracket that reads: "Zhalfir Vs Argentum".
Regatha vs Ravnica, Ravnica winning with 89%. Most people don't know what the heck Regatha is, so putting Ravnica next to it is dubious.
Kamigawa vs New Phyrexia, New Phyrexia only winning by 57%. Seems pretty close.
Dominaria vs Vryn, Dominaria winning with 79%. Another dubious one. As we have never visited Vryn proper.
Theros vs Kaladesh, Theros winning with 61%. I seem to recall others were saying that Theros was not as popular.
Zendikar vs Rath, Zendikar winning with 74%. I don't know why Mark put Dominaria twice in this poll.
Tarkir vs, Alara, Alara winning with 53%. Which is almost a coinflip.
Shandalar vs Innistrad, Innistrad winning with 83%. See the 'Ravnica vs Regatha' comment.
Mirrodin vs Shadowmoor-Lorwyn, S-L winning by 56%. Aside from being close just like 'New Phyrexia Vs Kamigawa' one, this is a joke right? In the same vein as the 'Zendikar vs Rath' one.