I like what it does, but dislike the artwork. Ill definitely try it out, it works fine with stuff like boartusk liege and spellbreaker behemoth, and its absolutely nuts with rafiq and noble hierarch. swing for 18 anyone?
that art is terrible .... perhaps the worst in last 2 blocks ...
I can only agree. argyle painted only creas so far, but maybe he should have stayed with it before making a card that ends up like this. i liked naya battlemage, scattershot archer and matca rioters, but this? bad perspective I think...
Once again, two colors were put on a card just so they can say: "look it's a shard card". This is the worst possible level of multicolored card design.
thats for certain. its simply bad, and its just to justify the multicolored shard theme. Even then, making it something like RB/GX would have been better for the card, flavor- and gameplay wise.
Im quite dissapointed. As many stated, both have absolutely no legitimation to be mythic. legendary here and there, its not special what they do gameplay wise, cause since when was putting +1/+1 counters on a single permanent something epic deserving to be mythic?
If you would see it this way, even figure of destiny could have been mythic, because it does something more special than these two. what will we see in the future, a legendary pseudo arcbound ravager mythic? well it cant be helped, Id just be happy if they made them normal rares and used the mythic status for appropriate cards like progenitus.
ah, and am I glad that this sets art continues to be really outstanding.
I also really like this dude, no matter if he will change the meta or not. a lot of countermagic is played at my location, so I cant wait to get 4 of them. I also agree that uncounterable cloudthreshers, thoctars and even meglonoths are really sweet.
bant catched up nicely of course everyone can make suggestion what I should use. but I allready got something for jund in mind. i love violent ultimatum and form of the dragon with sarkhan vol...
slightly updated the pic. cleaned some stuff up and added mana symbols. Ill now get to work on the bant one. If you got any requests just post them.
nice you like it. I just wanted to post that one and wait for feedback, because its no good if I make more of those while noone is interested. I though about the poll before I started the thread, but then again it was just about the esper stuff.
but youre right nonetheless, its better trackable with one, so lets see which shard will be next.
Hideaway was SO stupid because it included the Comes into Play Tapped clause. If it didn't do that, it would applicable in more places.
the keyword itself is binded to that, true, but the ability to put the hidden stuff into play isnt. so it just could be W: You may play the removed card without paying its mana cost if you attacked with three or more creatures this turn
havent seen a thread about this, so I hope Im starting the right one... I allways loved those "Iam red, Im this and that, my enemies are..." so I thought about creating such stuff for the ala shards. My shard is esper, so I decided to go with that first.
- Only design stuff below, check the attachment for the pic -
Since my u***a-p*o folders have a toughness of 0, I mean zero durability, and started to fall appart, I decided to make a cover art to replace the damaged front. Its designed to be glued, taped or whatever on a standard portfolio.
First of all, I seldomly have the urge to do something with PS, so please forgive my horrible skills, allthough Im happy to get feedback and tips.
Originally, I wanted to include most of my favourite esper creas, like transmuter, sculler and sharuum. But sharuum was so bulky it was hard to use her, and I felt the transmuters pose wasnt right either. i couldnt test the sculler cause I wasnt able to find any reasonable sized art anywhere I looked.
Seeing tezzeret and windwright mage, I decided to go with those two. I tried to put more characters into the picture, but it looked overloaded and started to lose flair. in the end, I put one on each side, so the pose fitted nicely into the picture. The mage extending her arm and tezzeret his, brought me to the idea of including an esper charm, (the probably worst thing in the whole pic...) which they are conjuring.
The idea was ok, but the execution wasnt, because of the angle tezzerets arm was, and the way the mage pointed hers. To work around this, I shortened the mages arm, flipped her hand, and completely twisted tezzerets arm upwards and extended his hand. To make the mage gain height, I raised the plateau on which shes standing. Im satisfied with the result, compared to the one digit times I use photoshop in months...
the background was obvious: Arcane sanctum has such gorgeous artwork, nothing to think twice about. lastly a little light effect to make the charm flashier.
so, thats it more or less, hope someone finds a liking to it.
I hope it is not hideaway. hideaway was a lame mechanic... no offense if you like it. It was really just a throw in for Lorwyn. I don't like how they have reduced mechanics in Alara either, I personally miss the days of TS Block with 1000 mechanics tons of room for creative decks.
The game is just so pre-built lately. I hope whatever the mechanic it is it opens up more creativity and new combos. I would like to see a true recurring graveyard mechanic personally (dredge, threshhold, etc...).
no prob, thats exactly what I also want to see: creative and interesting new stuff. hide was undoubtely a throw-in sure, but just because a mechanic was badly introduced doesnt mean it cant be expanded upon. I dont like hideaway as its used now, I just felt that the slogan would go nicely with it.
just from the name and the logo this set looks so primal and jungle like, so I think we'll see poison again.
about maros mechanic, sentence wise, the splice thing would make the most sense. but just thinking, from the sentence "Deadly Perils, Priceless Treasures" someone allready suspected the return of hideaway. this would really make sense, flavorwise imo. The "peril" is the requirement of the hide object, maybe even losing life of permanents in return for the "treasure" it hides. Id look forward to that
I would be really surprised to see a soon return of mirrodin. After reading the books, I just had this "its done" feeling, and I couldnt imagine a meaningful sequel to the events.
Omega Gir pointed out some very good facts about the myr and the material darksteel itself. With the allmost infinite multiverse, so much could happen, so we cant tell how things exactly happened or will develop. imo the garrisson was just included to remind us on mirrodin, and introduce fortify, a mechanic that may appear someday or even never. "darksteel" in terms of the garrison, could also just be there so the players are familiar with its wording (ds = indestructible), because when I look at the garrison I dont see any resemblance in design art to a mirrodin land...
Now that may be nonsense, but in the books, memnarch tries to transform himself back to perfection, making himself completely metal again. If we look at esper, thats the same philosophy: they see etherium as perfection, so they want to transform everything, including the world. Im really curious if memnarch or esper are connected somehow, as they also share vedalken as a creature type. Maybe esper mages discover one day that theres something even stronger than etherium, and... I guess you know what I mean - darksteel, thats where and when I could see the garrison returning.
after lurking around for quite some time now I finally got my ass up and registered. a lot originates from salvation, especially rumors about new cards and sets, so Im looking forward to some interesting discussions. Theres also a bunch of really funny guys around here, with a somewhat unique and weird sense of humor...
anyway, Im from that tiny country called austria (europe), and well what to say, I like magic among other things ^^.
Dont know how many ppl care about infos bout myself anyway, so Ill stop for now until someone requests em
I can only agree. argyle painted only creas so far, but maybe he should have stayed with it before making a card that ends up like this. i liked naya battlemage, scattershot archer and matca rioters, but this? bad perspective I think...
thats for certain. its simply bad, and its just to justify the multicolored shard theme. Even then, making it something like RB/GX would have been better for the card, flavor- and gameplay wise.
If you would see it this way, even figure of destiny could have been mythic, because it does something more special than these two. what will we see in the future, a legendary pseudo arcbound ravager mythic? well it cant be helped, Id just be happy if they made them normal rares and used the mythic status for appropriate cards like progenitus.
ah, and am I glad that this sets art continues to be really outstanding.
etherium - 1
will - 2
riddles - 1
vengeful - 3
slayer - 1
enigma - 2
vectis - 1
vithian - 2
btw sick list hunter!
slightly updated the pic. cleaned some stuff up and added mana symbols. Ill now get to work on the bant one. If you got any requests just post them.
Double Posting = NoNo, use the EDIT button. -ChKl
but youre right nonetheless, its better trackable with one, so lets see which shard will be next.
the keyword itself is binded to that, true, but the ability to put the hidden stuff into play isnt. so it just could be W: You may play the removed card without paying its mana cost if you attacked with three or more creatures this turn
without the tap in it, that would speed it up.
havent seen a thread about this, so I hope Im starting the right one... I allways loved those "Iam red, Im this and that, my enemies are..." so I thought about creating such stuff for the ala shards. My shard is esper, so I decided to go with that first.
- Only design stuff below, check the attachment for the pic -
Since my u***a-p*o folders have a toughness of 0, I mean zero durability, and started to fall appart, I decided to make a cover art to replace the damaged front. Its designed to be glued, taped or whatever on a standard portfolio.
First of all, I seldomly have the urge to do something with PS, so please forgive my horrible skills, allthough Im happy to get feedback and tips.
Originally, I wanted to include most of my favourite esper creas, like transmuter, sculler and sharuum. But sharuum was so bulky it was hard to use her, and I felt the transmuters pose wasnt right either. i couldnt test the sculler cause I wasnt able to find any reasonable sized art anywhere I looked.
Seeing tezzeret and windwright mage, I decided to go with those two. I tried to put more characters into the picture, but it looked overloaded and started to lose flair. in the end, I put one on each side, so the pose fitted nicely into the picture. The mage extending her arm and tezzeret his, brought me to the idea of including an esper charm, (the probably worst thing in the whole pic...) which they are conjuring.
The idea was ok, but the execution wasnt, because of the angle tezzerets arm was, and the way the mage pointed hers. To work around this, I shortened the mages arm, flipped her hand, and completely twisted tezzerets arm upwards and extended his hand. To make the mage gain height, I raised the plateau on which shes standing. Im satisfied with the result, compared to the one digit times I use photoshop in months...
the background was obvious: Arcane sanctum has such gorgeous artwork, nothing to think twice about. lastly a little light effect to make the charm flashier.
so, thats it more or less, hope someone finds a liking to it.
regards
mike
no prob, thats exactly what I also want to see: creative and interesting new stuff. hide was undoubtely a throw-in sure, but just because a mechanic was badly introduced doesnt mean it cant be expanded upon. I dont like hideaway as its used now, I just felt that the slogan would go nicely with it.
about maros mechanic, sentence wise, the splice thing would make the most sense. but just thinking, from the sentence "Deadly Perils, Priceless Treasures" someone allready suspected the return of hideaway. this would really make sense, flavorwise imo. The "peril" is the requirement of the hide object, maybe even losing life of permanents in return for the "treasure" it hides. Id look forward to that
Omega Gir pointed out some very good facts about the myr and the material darksteel itself. With the allmost infinite multiverse, so much could happen, so we cant tell how things exactly happened or will develop. imo the garrisson was just included to remind us on mirrodin, and introduce fortify, a mechanic that may appear someday or even never. "darksteel" in terms of the garrison, could also just be there so the players are familiar with its wording (ds = indestructible), because when I look at the garrison I dont see any resemblance in design art to a mirrodin land...
Now that may be nonsense, but in the books, memnarch tries to transform himself back to perfection, making himself completely metal again. If we look at esper, thats the same philosophy: they see etherium as perfection, so they want to transform everything, including the world. Im really curious if memnarch or esper are connected somehow, as they also share vedalken as a creature type. Maybe esper mages discover one day that theres something even stronger than etherium, and... I guess you know what I mean - darksteel, thats where and when I could see the garrison returning.
after lurking around for quite some time now I finally got my ass up and registered. a lot originates from salvation, especially rumors about new cards and sets, so Im looking forward to some interesting discussions. Theres also a bunch of really funny guys around here, with a somewhat unique and weird sense of humor...
anyway, Im from that tiny country called austria (europe), and well what to say, I like magic among other things ^^.
Dont know how many ppl care about infos bout myself anyway, so Ill stop for now until someone requests em
kind regards
Mike