MTG Salvation

Having played since The Dark, I remember when Morningtide/Eventide came out and thinking "holy crap, 4 sets?". Remember blocks? Like a main set and 2 smaller expansions, and then a core set each year often felt too much to keep up with as a teenager/20-something.

Now it's insane. This is utterly bonkers and I guarantee it's a result of a money-hungry corporate entity getting its hands into Wizards. I hate this landscape of "big company buys a smaller company and then pumps it for all its worth". Another case would be what Activision has done to Blizzard. It's terrible, caustic, and it will kill lucrative and well-loved IPs.

What is the functional difference between Chroma and Devotion? I've been reading but it almost sounds like they just reworded Chroma.

"...if it's a Thursday and it rained twice since the last full moon, and your opponent is eating a Snickers with their left hand and their dad is named Bruce, Jim, and/or Martin or was named that at some point in their life and you have considered building an Infect deck, you win the game".

Right? I don't understand people who get so irrationally irritated at something like this. Just go to a spoiler compiler and let other people enjoy it their own way. Woof.

I sincerely hope so. Lorwyn/Shadowmoor blocks are by far and away my favorites, with Urza's coming in a close second. So tired of this Avengers crap.

I like the design of a lot of this set's cards. They have a lot going on but it teaches you to be mindful of CIP effects, leaving the battlefield effects, planning for future effects, and being aware of your yard as a resource.



So far this is a really well-designed core set and I dig it.

The art on these is spectacular and the foils are going to be INSANE.

Are they going to Garlic jr Bolas?



"Ah, immortality - now let me summon the Dead Zone and arrrghhhh"

God, this - we need to go back to the days when all the art isn't the exact same comic book garbage. This is awesome

Modern times call for modern uh...Cruel Ultimatums

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I don't think Oko will get banned in Modern (and I'm speaking as a Modern player). He's too vulnerable to immediate hard removal like Assassin's Trophy and Abrupt Decay (he makes a Food token immediately quite often), the counterspells and targeted discard in Modern nab him quickly and harshly enough (heck, Mystical Dispute has risen in maindecks)

Perhaps I am missing something here, but the cards you mention are also legal in Pioneer so why were Pioneer decks having such a difficult time against this particular planeswalker? Trying to use Thoughtseize and Negate were not good enough against other decks? Caveat: I have not played a game of MtG in about a year so there may be nuances I am missing.

Lightning Bolt and Inquisitions are huge reasons why. Also modern is significantly faster than pioneer. Most modern decks don't care about Oko. The only deck that plays it is Urza and that deck doesn't even need to.

mostly for food tokens so urza can make berry pie out of them.

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Meh, I hope they deal these out like candy for this crap. I could say more. But their bad business practices don't see to matter until sales eventually drop and tournaments stop being run. Which might even be there goal at this point to make magic 100% online. Wizards will have to fund this in some hidden way. O yeah guys we total aren't run by Wizards still.
RA – Free
Level 1 – $100
Level 2 – $200
Level 3 – $400

How many times do I have to tell you people

Paper magic is never leaving they are way to far into it and it making far more money than online magic is especially since they don’t want to buy the cards again

... I get six cards, except when I'm on the dealer's right, in which case, I get seven cards. Card #2 is turned up, but not on Tuesday. You'd be pretty happy with two Jacks, but not with three, as you'd be disqualified. Getting a King or a 2 would make your hand even better, unless it's nighttime when you'd be better off with a Queen or a 4. In the end, you might end up with a Royal Fizzbin, but the odds are astronomical and may never even have been computed.

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How can I deck myself even faster than with Mu Yanling?

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their spoiler strategy sucks so much dick and is beyond obnoxious now.

Just keep up that charming personality and you'll be asked to do your own previews, Xcric. The dick sucking will be practically nonexistent once they send the spoilers months in advance since your cooperative nature helps further their interests, what with all the influence you have over your fandom.

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when there's so many different websites, channels, and feeds getting previews that you need to publish an article to track them all, its time to rethink how you ******* preview things.

sweet ******* jesus. no one is going to go to all that ***** to see some damn spoilers. they're going to just go somewhere that shows them all at once.

their spoiler strategy sucks so much dick and is beyond obnoxious now.

You're right, they should just go back to their original system of not publishing a schedule and just having people scour the internet looking for the previews on their own. That's how it used to be. The current way is much better.

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when there's so many different websites, channels, and feeds getting previews that you need to publish an article to track them all, its time to rethink how you ******* preview things.

sweet ******* jesus. no one is going to go to all that ***** to see some damn spoilers. they're going to just go somewhere that shows them all at once.

their spoiler strategy sucks so much dick and is beyond obnoxious now.

Then don’t follow all those sites. WotC is trying to give as much of the content creators a chance to have fun and show some cool things off. Either come here, or go to another spoiler site.

Could this be a return to MTG's high fantasy roots?

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