It sounds like one of your issues is trying to play multiple games all at the same time. If you don't have a lot of disposable income, you may need to decide which game(s) you really want to play and focus on that/those. When I was a kid and didn't have much money (weekly allowance and lawn mowing/snow shoveling money), I had to choose one game to focus on from the 3 I played at the time (Star Trek, Star Wars, and Magic). I chose Star Trek, and put all of my money into it. To play the other two games, I borrowed decks from friends and accepted that this was the best option for me at the time. As it so happens, the Star Trek game was eventually discontinued (as was Star Wars), so I was able to put my money and focus back into Magic.
Goad is such a bad mechanic ...
Its so limited in what it does and even then it doesnt really take something away from the opponent, they still get to attack someone else.
To make even more of them, well, thats pretty lame.
You've clearly never played against a dedicated Goad deck. When 3 of the players are all attacking each other, the Goad player can basically sit back and let everyone kill each other, then clean up the last remaining opponent (who is depleted on life and creatures, due to all the attacking) with their built-up board state. It can be quite powerful.
Little surprised they kept Friends Forever and didn't just change it to partner.
That would be a functional change, since FF cards can only partner with each other, and not the wider collection of Partner cards. And Partner With wouldn't work either, since that includes a tutoring mechanic that these don't have.
They could say Partner With if they listed all those cards, but that's painfully inelegant and space-consuming.
Again, that doesn't work, because Partner With includes a tutor mechanic to go get the other Partner, which FF doesn't have.
Little surprised they kept Friends Forever and didn't just change it to partner.
That would be a functional change, since FF cards can only partner with each other, and not the wider collection of Partner cards. And Partner With wouldn't work either, since that includes a tutoring mechanic that these don't have.
I recommend playing more than 2 games. Sometimes you just end up with too many/too few lands; this happens, the game ends, and you shuffle up to play a new game. Same thing if your opponent plays a card you can't beat; sometimes that happens, they win, and you shuffle up and play again. There's only one Ironscale Hydra in the deck; many games your opponent won't even see that card! Your wife just got lucky two games in a row.
In addition to the removal spells you mentioned, your deck also has Demon of Loathing, which can force the opponent to sacrifice a creature. If the only one they have in play is Ironscale Hydra, they'll have to sacrifice it.
I recommend that you just keep playing the decks! Over time, you should both win your fair share of games; you just got unlucky for the first couple of games.
I just don't see a point in each Standard set having both a Draft and Set Booster release when it should go back to the way it was before where it was just one release with all the cards. I get that Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro wants to provide the Booster Draft experience for those who purchase the Draft Boosters but how often do players do that nowadays? It also incentivizes Whales to hoard the Set Boosters or to be more precise the Collector's Editions just to flip for easy money. On that note why not also get rid of Collector's Editions of these Standard Sets? The point I'm getting at here is that less is more and the sooner Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro figures this out the better.
Disagree 100%. I buy Draft boosters to draft/play sealed with, and otherwise I always buy Set boosters, with their higher likelihood of getting 2 rares, and the 25% chance of getting a List card. Streets of New Capenna is more likely to have many more prereleases and drafts fire (and Kamigawa drafts too), now that COVID restrictions are starting to be lifted (at least in my country). I don't want to draft with Set boosters, so I want them to keep printing both.
Also, nothing wrong with Collector boosters. I like to buy one or two per set for the fun of opening a bunch of cool foils and the chance at some pretty rare chase cards. Plus they have helped to reduce the price of cards in a given set, making it a lot easier to buy all the cards I need.
notable one Jin gitaxias second ability is much worse than it is it just a single spell counter once one is countered then another opponent can instant speed something to get rid of him
Jin-Gitaxias's last ability triggers once each turn, not once each turn per opponent.
Did people actually think that was how it worked? It was pretty clear to me that it was once each turn.
Honestly, the only thing I can think with the second Jin-Gitaxias art is: "Who on Kamigawa did he get to tailor his pants and why."
"OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT METAL MONSTROSITY?!?!"
"Honey, sshhh, be polite. See his pants? It's just a down-on-his-luck samurai. Perfectly normal."
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I for one welcome our Phyrexian overlords and hope for more than just a Jin-Gitaxias card (maybe a couple of spells flavoured as his).
Hello zombie fans! I want to create a zombie deck and was hoping to get some advice on selecting a Commander. I’m leaning toward The Scarab God but wanted to get some opinions before starting the build. My play group is 3 to 4 players so the damage to each opponent works well. I am afraid that it will be the target of everyone’s removal since this would be considered Commander damage. His Exile target creature card in any graveyard and create a 4/4 black Zombie token ability is Pretty darn good—- it can moves pesky creature into exile and gets you a Zombie. Not exactly sure how his triggered death ability works but sounds like it returns to its owners hand at the beginning of the next end step if it dies, which makes it easy to cast.
After doing a lot of reading I decide to go with Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver. It way less expensive and makes for an easy build.
Thanks!
FYI, The Scarab God's ability would not count as Commander Damage, which only happens when it deals combat damage to an opponent (not only that, but the ability doesn't even deal damage, it just causes loss of life).
Wilham is a good choice. I personally have a deck with Gisa and Geralf as the commander, with plenty of self-mill to get my Zombies in the graveyard.
Unstable sold well probably due to the lands and nothing else.
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And you would be incorrect. The limited format was a blast, so lots of people bought boxes to draft. I know of multiple people in my city alone who have Un-cubes, all of which were greatly enhanced with Unstable cards. And don't forget the casual players who would have bought packs of Unstable to add wacky new cards to their kitchen table decks.
The lands certainly helped, but Unstable wouldn't have been printed 4 times on the basis of lands alone.
If your opinion is based on a complete misunderstanding of the facts at hand, then yes, it's not a reasonable opinion. You're still allowed to have it, but having an opinion doesn't automatically make it reasonable.
"Reasonable" does not care about facts.
What is reasonable has many different meanings depending on context (in law its entirely different for example).
There is objective reasonability and subjective reasonability.
(The term "reasonable" is more a estimation of how something is perceived by either the average person or a specific person taking all their knowledge into account, so something can be objectively not reasonable, while subjective it would be reasonable, which makes the entire term highly depending on viewpoint and your estimation of what makes the average)
Both of you are talking about the other.
In a forum like this and in basically any public discussion, a opinion is subjective and the person is most likely reasonable to have it, unless they intentionally want to mislead in some way.
Objectively you cant really have a discussion of what "art" is better and if it fits a theme or not, as the entire point of art is subjective to each person, its a taste you either like it or you dont, the fact that people have vastly different tastes should be evident enough.
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The core draft-set of cards in a set overall follow a art-style guideline for worldbuilding, which kinda makes them look "samish".
In collector packs and the like, WotC throws the entire world-building overboard and goes with more art-direction (here its some cartoonish anime style, "Neon"-colors and on the lands some more historical asian art-style).
So depending on what product you limit your view to, you can like it a lot, or it goes too far into abstract art, if you like that or not, entirely subjective.
If you don't speak English as a first language, maybe don't get into a debate about English semantics. You are wrong.
NO wrong!!! It doesn't fit the subjective criteria for YOUR reasoning. It does fit the subjective criteria for MY reasoning. Hence it is "reasonable".
All opinions ARE equal as well. Some may be true or false if based in fact.
Why people can't grasp that other people have opinions on a subject is beyond me. We agree to disagree and move on. If you can't agree to disagree then that person indeed is the problem. Jeesh.
If your opinion is based on a complete misunderstanding of the facts at hand, then yes, it's not a reasonable opinion. You're still allowed to have it, but having an opinion doesn't automatically make it reasonable.
You've clearly never played against a dedicated Goad deck. When 3 of the players are all attacking each other, the Goad player can basically sit back and let everyone kill each other, then clean up the last remaining opponent (who is depleted on life and creatures, due to all the attacking) with their built-up board state. It can be quite powerful.
Again, that doesn't work, because Partner With includes a tutor mechanic to go get the other Partner, which FF doesn't have.
That would be a functional change, since FF cards can only partner with each other, and not the wider collection of Partner cards. And Partner With wouldn't work either, since that includes a tutoring mechanic that these don't have.
Good, they shouldn't be special. They should be the norm.
Isn't that an Azra?
In addition to the removal spells you mentioned, your deck also has Demon of Loathing, which can force the opponent to sacrifice a creature. If the only one they have in play is Ironscale Hydra, they'll have to sacrifice it.
You can tap Llanowar Visionary at any time to add G.
I recommend that you just keep playing the decks! Over time, you should both win your fair share of games; you just got unlucky for the first couple of games.
Yes. MTG versions will be released in Set Boosters 6 months after the SL releases.
Disagree 100%. I buy Draft boosters to draft/play sealed with, and otherwise I always buy Set boosters, with their higher likelihood of getting 2 rares, and the 25% chance of getting a List card. Streets of New Capenna is more likely to have many more prereleases and drafts fire (and Kamigawa drafts too), now that COVID restrictions are starting to be lifted (at least in my country). I don't want to draft with Set boosters, so I want them to keep printing both.
Also, nothing wrong with Collector boosters. I like to buy one or two per set for the fun of opening a bunch of cool foils and the chance at some pretty rare chase cards. Plus they have helped to reduce the price of cards in a given set, making it a lot easier to buy all the cards I need.
Did people actually think that was how it worked? It was pretty clear to me that it was once each turn.
"OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT METAL MONSTROSITY?!?!"
"Honey, sshhh, be polite. See his pants? It's just a down-on-his-luck samurai. Perfectly normal."
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I for one welcome our Phyrexian overlords and hope for more than just a Jin-Gitaxias card (maybe a couple of spells flavoured as his).
FYI, The Scarab God's ability would not count as Commander Damage, which only happens when it deals combat damage to an opponent (not only that, but the ability doesn't even deal damage, it just causes loss of life).
Wilham is a good choice. I personally have a deck with Gisa and Geralf as the commander, with plenty of self-mill to get my Zombies in the graveyard.
And you would be incorrect. The limited format was a blast, so lots of people bought boxes to draft. I know of multiple people in my city alone who have Un-cubes, all of which were greatly enhanced with Unstable cards. And don't forget the casual players who would have bought packs of Unstable to add wacky new cards to their kitchen table decks.
The lands certainly helped, but Unstable wouldn't have been printed 4 times on the basis of lands alone.
If you don't speak English as a first language, maybe don't get into a debate about English semantics. You are wrong.
If your opinion is based on a complete misunderstanding of the facts at hand, then yes, it's not a reasonable opinion. You're still allowed to have it, but having an opinion doesn't automatically make it reasonable.