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Feb 3, 2014Jenesis posted a message on Launch Giveaway!My favorite card is Steppe Lynx. It's a cute and cuddly kitty that looks harmless at first, but ends up beating for tons of damage!Posted in: Announcements
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Oct 16, 2012Jenesis posted a message on Maelstrom Wanderer EDHWow, didn't see this comment for a month. Derp.Posted in: Jenesis Blog
Quote from MorrainTheCorruptorPlease realize read over all land quantitys again. Overall good deck! You have restored my faith in cascade decks! So many people jam in all cascade cards. Ive faced one and ran over it with my one and only Riku deck! I'll definently have more trouble with this deck though. You did a nice job with it, but I have a Yeva in the deck. Who doesn't want to give a cascade cascade general flash! good luck with the deck though.
The land quantities are 1x of each with the exception of the basic lands. The "0" represents their CMC, but since they don't proc cascade I suppose that isn't necessary.
Yeva seems like a good idea for some early defense as well, since the 3 mana for Alchemist's Refuge can be problematic at times. I'll look toward making a spot for her. The list hasn't been updated since the Primeval Titan ban, anyway.
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Feb 20, 2010Jenesis posted a message on Legendary Artifact Land Enchantment Creature Land PlaneswalkerThere is an immensely convoluted way to give a planeswalker permanent named "Chandra Ablaze" a Licid's ability. However, since an Aura that's also a creature can't enchant anything, it's put into the graveyard as a state-based action, before any more type-changing effects can be piled onto the Chandra-Licid's Enchantment - Aura. (And to think, all that time I wasted when I could have just looked up the CR...)Posted in: bert Blog
There is an Aura that gives enchanted creature banding. Unfortunately, since Chandra is colorless due to the Mycosynth Lattice, she can't band with other without help... - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
When she gets back to Kozal, she's going to have some hard questions for the general.
Kylie, Honor's Pride 2W
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier (R)
Vigilance, Renown 2 (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and it becomes renowned.)
2/3
Exp: 49.5/75
Mana: 1GGWWWW
Inventory: None
It's not a contradiction because Nik wrote both stories (also the repeat of the phrase "beings of power want to be called" makes me think he had that UR in mind when writing this one). Looks like Ob's decreased his bloodthirstiness in favor of survival in the long years since his fight with Nahiri.
I've been a fan of the four-armed blob of pure volatile energy ever since he appeared in Original Zendikar. If Zada can get a one-off cameo surely Omnath can, too? He's even MYTHIC! In both versions!
This makes me worry that they're going to have to pull an even more ridiculous suspension of disbelief than "Gideon holds off Ulamog single-handedly" to get the Oath of the Gatewatch into any kind of reasonable shape, though.
Yes, Chandra shows up to help, but literally all she can do is light things on fire.
Cage of Cowardice 1W
Enchantment - Aura (C)
Enchant creature with power 3 or less
Enchanted creature can't attack or block, and its activated abilities can't be activated.
Although Kylie had never personally cast the spell on another human being before, she had seen it in action in some of the city-fortresses she had been stationed in over her time of service. A fitting punishment, it was deemed, for one who was unwilling to take up arms in battle, to be denied that very reaction when Kozal's enforcers finally caught up with him. Although it did no harm to the prisoner, it was merely a test. Those who proved their resolve and broke free of the cage were welcomed into the ranks of the army. Those who did not awaited a more...permanent fate.
Kylie, Honor's Pride 2W
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier (R)
Vigilance, Renown 2 (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and it becomes renowned.)
2/3
Exp: 49.5/75
Mana: 1GGWWWW
Inventory: None
Yeah, I want to dig a Shredder out of my random commons box to add to my list at some point. Fills the yard for Daretti and can get back non-artifact things like the aforementioned Goblin Welder.
I notice you picked up a Recruiter! How's he been doing for you? (Also, Forcefield is a 3cc card, not 1cc.)
Her whole revenge seems very emotionally driven. Hence red. A blue character wouldn't go "You tried to kill me, therefore I will devote years of my life solely to ensuring I can enjoy the look on your face as you realize how wrong you were to have wronged me." As far as that goes, she also doesn't seem to have thought through this "destroy all the green magic in Jund" thing too much.
If she wasn't a shaman, I'd have pegged her as BR.
I hope the next story isn't about Kalemne. We had plenty of URs devoted to Akros and Iroas worship. Visit someplace else for a while.
Agreed. They could have played up the green more by, instead of revenge, having her embrace her "destiny" or "natural gifts" or whatnot. The fight with the shaman clan would have been justified as survival of the fittest (green) or preemptively killing them to be sure they would never hunt down and kill her (black).
My theory is that "revenge" is just an easier, all-encompassing story motivation to write.
As curious as I am about UR sphinx dude...I really want next week's story to be about Karlov. Just to check in on the whole "Teysa vs the Obzedat" subplot that got briefly mentioned then abandoned in RTR.
If only he was a 2/2 so I could fetch him with Imperial Recruiter... Yeah I might be a bit greedy.
I'm actually looking at Blade of Selves, I think it might be fun to pair up with some of the value fatties in my deck.
Kylie, Honor's Pride 2W
Legendary Creature - Human Soldier (R)
Vigilance, Renown 2 (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and it becomes renowned.)
2/3
Exp: 49.5/75
Mana: 2GGWWWWW
Inventory: None
I figure Ulamog locomotes like an octopus. I mean, he does have all those tentacles. Emrakul floats, and Kozilek...I'm not actually sure what's going on with the lower half of that one.
Now while Gideon has a savior complex, we know that even he doesn't think he has to do everything on his own (he did send those 100 Kor to Guul Draz to do recruitment). So the fact that he specifically appeared in person to recruit Noyan Dar would mean that, having heard of the roilmage's abilities, he would have conceived of some sort of a battle plan that would incorporate those decidedly un-Gideon-like abilities, no? And yet we don't hear about what Noyan Dar is doing during the first attack at all, which means that either 1) the roilmages were part of the initial "walk forward" plan and Noyan Dar somehow didn't raise a snarky stink about it, or 2) Gideon went to all that trouble to recruit the roilmages and then decided he could win without them. Neither one makes much sense.
It's almost like the writers didn't communicate with each other what story they were trying to tell.
Tazri is human.
As for Gideon's plan, it seemed like the writers tunneled in on one character's viewpoint and kind of...forgot that they had an ensemble cast.* Or forgot that we care about characters other than Gideon. Surely Gideon would have had to float this plan past Tazri and Munda to get all the soldiers together in one place to begin with? Why wouldn't they object then, before all the casualties? What about Drana and Noyan Dar? Their magical skills are wasted on this "run straight at the enemy" plan. I mean, I'm someone who likes Gideon as a character, and would still rather have had all of the characters get actual speaking lines, perhaps in a "war council" using the Kieran Yanner art, than a section of plot spent on Gideon reminiscing and angsting.
*Heck, this is a story with more named female than male characters that fails the Bechdel Test, because every single scene has Gideon in it.