MTG Salvation

Give me a black/white voltron general. And yes, I know the ability is broken as hell

Counter Guardian Emiya 3BW

Legendary Creature - Human Spirit Soldier

1W, pay three life; Search your library for an equipment card and put it into play attached to Counter Guardian Emiya. If you do, put it on the bottom of your library at end of turn.

"So as I pray, unlimited blade works."
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I dunno about a Franken Fran Anime. The problem with it is that a lot of the dark humor contains no small measure of gore and body horror. I question how much of it would need to be censored in order to get it approved for airing, as opposed to what the mangaka can get away with because of the fact that it was in print.

And this last episode of Fate/Stay:UBW was pretty sweet. Since I've already read the visual novel, I was expecting the fight but it was still pretty awesome.

It's a bad ad, and they've been getting worse with each passing week to be honest. It's making mobile reading a bit of a chore.

The only time I have a problem with politics is when it becomes straight up collusion. There's only so much policing you can do for the politicking but all's fair in love and war - except for blatant "we're allies, it's now a 2v1v1v1 - deal with it". King making and acceleration so that one of them can win unimpeded is extremely frustrating.

Of course the proper response is to focus them down hard, but getting the other people to understand that they need to team with you is super hard unless you flat out tell the table that there's collusion going on.

I don't really like elspeth 2.0, gideon, or jace AoT - I play an American superfriends deck and I ended up cutting all of them because they kinda just sucked hard. You should strongly consider running Dack Fayden, though, because he basically reads as 1UR - "steal the best artifact on the board". If he lives, you get some super powered filtration and a chance to steal even more artifacts. He's easily one of the strongest planeswalkers in my build.

Tezzeret 1.0 takes any of the 3-mana rocks (mana vault, grim monolith, thran dynamo, gilded lotus) and a chain veil and makes all of your other planeswalkers go near-infinite. In a superfriends deck, letting tezzeret survive with 5 loyalty is the end of the game, because he's going to survive getting the win condition and then your other planeswalkers are going to start ulting off.

I know that feeling. Ever since I left my old LGS (long story involving a ban list i disagreed with ) I haven't been able to get myself to go to any of the other dozen nearby stores more than once a month. I keep on ending up either way too high or way to low in the power level, which is odd considering that I designed it to be a tier 2 deck... Ultimately I'm just slowly tweaking the mana base of my American superfriends deck while making a few adaptations as the sets release.

I find that the most important thing, when facing burnout, is just to set it down for a bit and then pick it up later. It may be a few weeks, a few months, or even a year, but if you keep forcing through the burnout you're going to end up disliking it even more. Eventually you'll get a magical idea, concept, or see a card that you really want to build around and you can go from there.

As a side note, American generals are weird. Ruhan's the only one that you can build flexibly that won't get you immediately hated off the table - and he's still wonky in a fun way. Numot and narset will get you massive unwanted attention and zedruu requires you to play the donation game

Ugh, braids was such an awful general to play against. I'm glad she got banned.

Aside from the decks abusing death triggers, I would rather run a bunch of different wrath effects before this one.

Wrath of god, day of judgment, supreme verdict at 4

Hallowed burial, rout at 5

Terminus, akroma's wrath, austere command at 6


So that's 8 white board wipes, and I know I'm missing some of them. I wouldn't run the card of the day over any of them.

The biggest thing about EDH tournaments is that they really need to be in the duel format (1v1, 2hg, 3hg) otherwise the collusion is just ridiculous. It's not really something that you can prevent, either, as people will do whatever it takes to win those packs.

Establish a ban list and have it in typing. Whether it be regular, french, or custom bannings, make sure that you have it somewhere that people can find it. If you're going to do this over the course of a single day, I would really limit the pod size. It's not uncommon for 4 man edh games to take several hours, so a time limit on rounds might help as well.

A points/rules system has very mixed responses here on mtgs. If you're doing a duel format tournament don't use it. If you're using a multiplayer format use it sparingly. The general consensus is that too many penalties harshly restricts the way you play and too many ways to get points creates decks that don't try to win but rather farm points.

Sample points system:

• 1 point for playing.
• .5 points for dying at the same time as another player.
• 1 point for seeing another player die without dying yourself.
• 1 point for directly killing another player.
• -.5 points for each player killed at the same time past 2.
• .5 points given to each player that survives when time is called.

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Looking for suggestions on some animes to watch.

Fate: Stay/Night Unlimited Blade Works. Great plot, good animation, and compelling characters.

This is a problem of when metagaming and politics goes too far. It's inevitable that people are going to start targeting others based off out-of-game knowledge but there isn't much you can do about it short of changing the format (because politicians are gonna be politicians).

Try moving into variant formats such as 2hg, 3hg, pentagram, and others. If they refuse, explain to them that the politicking of the FFA format is starting to make the games unenjoyable.

"Huh, that's a cool ability, what's his cmc... Oh nevermind."

Seven mana is a lot. I can think of much better uses for that than just one dude.

My honest experience with the card is that it's one of the least threatening walkers out there. While the ultimate is strong, it still takes 3 turns to get there without shenanigans and that gives you about 2 turns to prepare for it.

But having used her, she's actually pretty good. Mana dorks that can chump for her as well as a naturalize is really nice. She won't draw much hate relative to other planeswalkers and that's a plus in my book. Any superfriends deck that runs green really wants her.

I've used Wall of Denial to great effect, the fact that it has a disgusting 8 defense and shroud makes it disgustingly difficult to power through with a single creature (bonus points for being good against most voltron commanders too). Clogging the board with mass tokens is also a great way at stopping non-trample, and a bunch of the planeswalkers have the ability to make the dudes.