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It seems somewhat dubious that Liliana would join the Gatewatch Avengers thing that's happening but it sounds like fun to try and design what her Oath would do. Although thinking on it while designing these, I realized that Sorin would be a much more likely candidate for GateAvengeWatchers thing.

The essential Oath format is:
- Legendary Enchantment, to allow a bit of power creep.
- When it ETB, either a Card Advantage effect or a defensive effect.
- Ability that helps you cast, find, protect, etc your planeswalkers.


A very proactively defensive idea. Alternatives could be: discard two, discard two at random with an increased mana cost, that creature gets -2/-1, or -2/-2, with an increased mana cost for the latter. If it ended up being Sorin, I think the discard would become a life drain effect, 1 or 2 points per opponent and you gain that life.


This one could easily work for either Planeswalker. Night's Whisper with a constant hand-reanimation effect seems decent for 2 mana. If this needed balancing, upping the cost to 3 mana seems best.


Chandra's cards have dabbled with the exile draw ability Red has been getting of late, and with flashback so the first ability works well with both and counteracts a bit of the disadvantage inherent in that effect. The defensive ability was harder, because I'm not sure what else to do for a defensive red ability that 1) wouldn't require a higher mana cost which would screw with the exile draw and that 2) wouldn't be overpowered. I was thinking some kind of a burn effect to your opponents or their planeswalkers but that would probably need a higher mana cost and the earlier problems etc etc.

Let me know what you think.

Lou's link goes to the card below. I'm lazy and like having the card text in this thread so I don't have to click over to the Mill so frequently.

Eldrazi Displacer 2W
Creature - Eldrazi (R)
Devoid
2<>: Exile another target creature, then return it to the battlefield tapped under its owner's control.
3/3

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The Rumor Mill thread points out that opponents can still point multiple counterspells at the original card you want to protect, though. Useful for us as a secondary Last Word I suppose.

Secondary? Isn't it strictly-better than Last Word?

I'll leave that discussion to the stronger Blue mages. Or something.

The Rumor Mill thread points out that opponents can still point multiple counterspells at the original card you want to protect, though. Useful for us as a secondary Last Word I suppose.

http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/magic-fundamentals/the-rumor-mill/658789-overwhelming-denial

"Overwhelming Denial" 2UU
Instant (R)
Surge UU
Overwhelming Denial can't be countered by spells or abilities.
Counter target spell.

Gaze ye not into the abyss, lest the abyss's boyfriend gets narky.

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I love the flavor behind this but it is really bad. I might pick one up for a very casual deck at some point, but I can't see every actually using it seriously.

My thoughts here as well. Falls into the category of "awesome but awful".

I think the term you mean is Awesome, but Impractical.

Do you want me to waste my day on tvtropes? Because thanks.

Tvtropes is a bit of a time-sink in the sense of today's COTD being an interesting if not exactly good card.

Various RPG's. Dragon Age, Skyrim, Dark Souls I and II mainly. I want to play chess more often too.

^ If only Maelstrom Archangel was legendary

We could be talking about the banlist discussion...

...or off-color fetches...

Would those two effects just cancel each other out, or is it a time-stamp issue? I imagine the former, but I do need to brush up on my rulings again.

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I don't have a LGS. I have shops in my area but the thought of going to any of them to interact with people and pay money is...

^ This.

There used to be a Bonnie Brae Hobby Shop just on Broadway near-ish to my house, but they wrapped up shop. I think a small apartment complex is gonna be built there or something. Denver's going through a massive building boom and it's annoying. Bloody out of staters moving here for legal pot.

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Forgive everyone who is trying to troll you Cryo.
Everyone is just having a good time.
There is no harm meant.
Can't you see that?
Hope you don't stay upset.
Eat some food and get some rest.
Sour puss.

Haha.

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I hate you all.

We love off-color fetch discussions I mean you Cryo.

The art for Nissa in her Oath looks like she has male pattern baldness, with that forehead tattoo spike. Decent card I guess for Superfriends/Avengers, Assemble decks. EDIT: Not that the art is bad, it's pretty good.

I suppose the UR manland is alright. Animate it as is for a blocker, then animate it and switch its stats to attack.

Did we talk about the BG manland in here? http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/magic-fundamentals/the-rumor-mill/657682-tcgplayer-preview-card-hissing-quagmire

Hissing Quagmire
Land (R)
~ ETB.
: Add or to your mana pool.
1 : ~ becomes a 2/2 black and green Elemental creature with Deathtouch until end of turn. It's still a land.

Cryogen: I meant the Commander 2016 yearly release, sorry.

I'd like to see a Dimir vampire commander that's actually interesting (ie NOT mill), or a Mardu vampire etc.

I want to see what Wizards does with the Dimir, Rakdos, and Gruul generals in the yearly release. I suppose I'm curious to see if they do a Selesnya enchantress general, otherwise I'm basically whatever on that color pair and Azorius.