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Apr 17, 2018Arborea posted a message on The Limited Archetypes of DominariaDid you know that Wizards of the Coast linked to this article from their site? Have they forgiven Salvation for rancored_elf and the rest? I thought they even sued someone at one point.Posted in: Articles
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Aug 25, 2017Arborea posted a message on Magic Story: Alara to AmonkhetI know the story is still technically ongoing, but it makes less than no sense to me that Bolas would just tear down Amonkhet once he has a working Eternal factory, not to mention the years he spent setting himself up as the God-Pharaoh. I don't believe there is such a thing as "enough" when it comes to mindless killing machines - and more importantly, I don't believe that Bolas does. And since he's lost his godlike power, you'd think he might hold on to the one place that gives him the respect he feels is his due.Posted in: Articles
I also spotted another curious thing when I was looking at my Empyrial Archangel playmat. They decided for Theros that Elspeth's sword came from there and was made by Purphoros, yet it has the same design as the standard swords on Bant. Many of the angels are shown with similar swords, as is Rafiq of the Many. Now, I don't believe there's any storyline significance to this - I think they just wanted to use Elspeth in Theros and decided to try and make a connection between her and the plane, and they were typically careless and forgot what they had established only four years before. -
May 29, 2011Arborea posted a message on ANGELFIRE - Boros CasualThis is the one from the Casual forum before, yes? Looking good.Posted in: Rowan Blog
As you've noted, there are a few mono-colored cards with guild watermarks. Leave No Trace and Wojek Embermage spring to mind, although both are the kind of card that's either very good or rather sub-par. -
Mar 1, 2010Arborea posted a message on Johnny is wrong, or why R&D's player demographics are not equally valid viewpoints@bloggerPosted in: Let them hate me, as long as they fear me
Have I ever told you that you're an idiot?
Well, you are.
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Feb 26, 2010Arborea posted a message on FML, or, quitting facebook. . . So basically your post is "I'm a shallow dick and all my friends think so?"Posted in: 1-800-cyanide line
Yeah, dude, FYL. You suck. Quit Magic too, I just read one of your posts in the UW control forum and I wish I hadn't. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
Is the only thing Wizards of the Coast has to do to make a "good" product put a bunch of powerful rares in a cheap product? Good business model right there. :|
Personally, I think this is exactly what happened. They stapled every keyword they could think of to Baneslayer Angel because of people saying that about older cards, and some people still even say it about her.
There's a joke out there somewhere about the guy who was ham-fistedly written as screaming "SEE YOU NEVER!" at a group of people being relatable to tournament players, but I'm not sure I'm going to make it. Damn, I think I just did.
You might not have gotten bored. You might have been excited to get more versions of a Modern staple with different art (though to be honest, it sounds like you would be more excited that its price would have fallen below $3). But how can you be sure that nobody else would have been bored?
Oh, and while we're talking about people who supposedly don't exist, I'm one of the players who the LGS-forever faction has been deriding in this thread and others. I've spent thousands of dollars on the game over the last ten years, and own enough rare cards, including fetchlands, that you would probably say I'm part of the problem because they're not in circulation for effectively communal use by rising tournament stars. And I haven't been to a tournament since the Worldwake pre-release. I fulfill my interest in Magic by playing with friends and family, and I have no need for organized play.
Of course, you can all say that I'm doing it wrong, I'm not representative, or maybe I'm just outright lying. After all, it's not like anyone could point those last two accusations at anybody else.
And then people like Card Slinger J wonder why people wouldn't want to go to game stores, and how you could ever play Magic anywhere else.
In the right deck - or, y'know, Theros block - this is a double Regrowth for the cost of Recollect. That's pretty good.
Also, it's a portrayal of Orpheus and Eurydice, and we would all do well to remember stories like that. (I've gotten blank stares when I point out that the Rebecca Guay Path to Exile is Tristan and Isolde.)
I'll also mention Unfulfilled Desires, from Mirage.
Like Day from Night,
I'll live my life apart from you, just glimpsing you across the sky,
because you cannot change, my dear,
and nor can I.
And the Fifth Edition version of Primal Order: "My sorrow: to dream of simple times, and wake in mine . . ."
(I often think of that one when there's some new Magic-related internet scandal or circlejerk.)
There was a lot of heavy flavor text around that time, wasn't there?
As things stand now, I believe you. But we've all undoubtedly seen the articles recently about how formats "need" to have lots of options and the mana available to play those. This is why everyone has been gushing over Innistrad-Ravnica Standard (and conveniently forgetting how everyone complained incessantly about Thragtusk, and about how Cavern of Souls let it beat Mana Leak, and how fast Naya Blitz was). People raised on that might well find Pauper's mana base too slow and too fiddly. If they're used to looking at Modern's fetch-shock nonsense as some sort of pinnacle, are they really going to look favorably on Rugged Highlands and Evolving Wilds?
And the price issues are a good point. I've seen discussions where people got angry that someone suggested they add Boros Guildmage to their deck, because they can't justify spending $1.00 on a playset of an uncommon. There are people out there who don't feel they can afford $100 for a Pauper deck, and I imagine we'll be hearing from them soon.
But I guess we'll find out.
Ash Barrens is a good card, of course, but it's expensive right now because it's only been in Commander supplements.
I've always been confused why the first ability is "Target player gains 7 life", but I suppose it adds utility in multiplayer settings.
I hear you on both of those points. That's exactly why I stopped going to pre-releases. Too much time investment, and not enough in return.
They really need to invent some kind of event that's structured differently, and as such addresses both of those - the first is partly on who's playing, but the time problem is an absolute killer. Do any of you remember the Open Dueling thing they used to do at pre-releases with intro packs?
That would all be fine if there hadn't also been times when they introduced a radical new concept which didn't break Standard in half.
Double-faced cards look insane, but there have never been any power level issues with them. The most powerful werewolf was Huntmaster of the Fells, and he (or she, if you use the From the Vault version) is just fine.
I do not believe for a second that broken Standard seasons are the result of simply "pushing the envelope". If that's what Rosewater really said, he needs to take a break from design for a couple of sets. They do not seem to know how to playtest.
Not quite. What I had in mind was more speculation that given a format-breaking interaction, they chose to ban the uncommon as opposed to the planeswalker that could potentially be a "face card" for the set, and a chase mythic more generally. I am agnostic about that idea myself, but I couldn't recall whether anyone else had mentioned it.
Of course, it turns out that Saheeli Rai is not as good not as part of the combo.
Have they specifically stated whether they missed the interaction? Or that they didn't but thought it would be okay?
*I'm surprised nobody has tried yet to make a conspiracy theory about this one, involving Felidar Guardian being an uncommon and Saheeli Rai being a mythic planeswalker.