MTG Salvation

Quote from Flamebuster »

I personally think a god's stats and abilities should be only as powerful as the devotion of their followers. Because, in "real life," a god is only as potent as the number of people who believe in them.

So maybe a tie-in to devotion or # of creatures of a specific type and/or something else maybe? That'd be cool if we do go that route in the next (few) set(s).

'buster

Eh, it differs from plane to plane, and from god to god. In Theros the gods are empowered by their worshipers (thus being enchantment creatures and use devotion), but in Amonkhet they are expressions of the leylines of the plane (as shown by Nissa's vision, and no devotion). Illhag appears to be some sort of elemental creature and an expression of Ravnica itself.

It's even more obvious in non-mtg fantasy games. In some realms the gods require worship to retain power, while in others, such as the Forgotten Realms, the gods will have power regardless of whether they are worshiped or not.

Quote from fettpett »

Mark will be making the fall set announcement at his SDCC panel. It’s incredibly irritating that they are not streaming it on Twitch, nor recording it. Like, come the f*** on WotC, get your crap together.

Their reasoning for not streaming it is a load of bullcrap. If everyone else are allowed to stream from SDCC, then there is no logical reason WotC can't other than they don't want to. And if they don't want to, they should tell us to our faces instead of saying "sorry, were not allowed to stream from SDCC", particularly when it is very obviously a lie.

Quote from Creedmoor »

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i believe the decks will be the following:
Naya
Dimir
Abzan
Temur

and no tribal theme as the main focus. If you look during the last 2 years, every colors each year, gets depicted at least twice. In 17 white red and black 3 times and in 18 blue 3. green is the only one that hasn't. i expect to see gerrand( and maybe even tacenda pre spark)in the first deck and gix and volrath in the second

I would enjoy this diversity.

So would I, I've always been fond of the Naya combination, and I rather like Temur as well. And both Dimir and Abzan can make for some hella fun decks. With that said, it entirely depends on the decks themes and how they are built.

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Quote from LeviatanCL »

my bet:
nordic/viking theme, with snow theme (lands as non full art), gods and a white villain

If it is a nordic/viking theme, it won't have snow lands. Rosewater pretty much nixed that recently in his blog. He said snow lands are more likely to show up again in a supplemental set than a standard set.

More likely in supplemental =/= as not going to appear in a standard legal set.

He said the same about Madness, and then Shadows over Innistrad happened. Anything that isn't an 11 on the Storm Scale can technically appear. And that means pretty much everything but Bands with other and substance can technically appear in a future standard legal set, it's just more or less likely.

Quote from fettpett »

Bag of Holding explicitly crosses the streams in black border. Yes in the PAST they have wanted to keep them separate, however with the growing popularity of D&D, the success of the Ravinca book, this is the perfect opportunity for a set based on D&D lore. Hell idc if it’s a brand new world or not, the feel of an adventure world not Zendikar with it’s heavy destruction, would be great.

If you think the concept of a Bag of Holding is exclusive to D&D, then you'd be wrong. The concept originally comes from older fantasy literature.

Quote from Raptorchan »

Quote from krishnath »

They don't really want to cross the "streams" so to speak, they only did the guildmaster's guide to Ravnica because people has been bugging them for a D&D campaignsetting based on MTG for nearly over decade.

That said, it is far from impossible.

Speaking of which, MaRo explicitly said there will be a brand new world they tried to make for over a decade...

Brand new = Not existing before.
World based on D&D = Using a previously established world.

D&D in MTG is not going to happen outside of silverborder.

Quote from Ryperior74 »

for the reprints here in core 2020 its looking more and more likely we will be returning to theros some time after rhe fall set

Or, you know, it was just reprints that were needed in Standard in general.

Somehow this always happens, and people end up disappointed when their prediction doesn't happen. I hope we get to Theros soon, but I haven't seen anything even hinting at it. On the contrary, with the number of powerful artifacts we've gotten in WAR and M20, I think it equally likely that we'll visit Kaladesh or Mirrodin. Or the number of vampire and wolf/werewolf tribal cards could be hinting at Innistrad. Or... you see where I am going with this? Sometimes we see patterns where there are none because we want something really bad.

Personally I'd love a return to a number of planes, but until we have more info about what comes after the fall set, it's baseless. We know the next set is a new world, we should concentrate on that one for now.

That card is hilarious, I want four, at least.

Is it just me, or does Winged Words seem pretty pushed for a common?

All in all, a bunch of solid commons. I like them.

Quote from AnImAr_ »

Damn. What has happened to Theros?

The mortals are waging war against the gods, Heliod in particular, after the god of the sun killed their champion.

Quote from fahrenheights »

I hope we get some infinite combo support because that seems to be the way the format is trending, and new players simply can't compete against all these established combo decks.

I hope not. I feel like infinite combos are a blight upon the format, because they promote playing specific decks that either win by turn 3-4 or try to stop other people from winning on turn 3-4.

Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain is pleased.

T1 Colossus Hammer
T2 Ancestral Blade
T3 Saheeli, Sublime Artificer, Blade becomes the Hammer, swing for 11

allow them to attack with high alert.

I believe there is a custom Zombie token in the making, simply titled "You're breathtaking".

They loopholed the reserve list to get lotus vale reprinted

Thank you very much guys I’ve Ben waiting this

And yes I’m aware this enters tapped but this is still strictly better than the original

I hope they do the same thing for scorched ruins

This makes me shiver with antici...

Flash is always a fun thing to give your stuff.

Quote from xaltair »

Netflix may go under before 2020 though. They have the business acumen of bolas so it's fitting they will share his fate.

Not likely, Netflix hasn’t been great financially due to the massive loans that they took out, but they grossed $5 billion in profit last year. Even with Disney+ coming and other streaming services, they are the biggest streamers out there, competition is good.

So MTGSalvation will not be closing in July as expected. I know the news of the closure is still fresh in everyone's minds and this development has only added to the confusion. It does not help matters that the staff had very short notice of the sale of the site as well. Still, I, as well as the entire site staff, wishes the new ownership well; MTGSalvation is as important to us as it is to the rest of the community and we hope for the forums to stay online.

That being said: Once the new site - which I can now say is to be called MTGNexus - is up and running, I will no longer be involved in the Custom Card Creation community on MTGSalvation. MTGNexus is the project of almost all of the current MTGSalvation staff, all of whom I admire and trust, and it is my firm decision to start the custom card community that has been a key part of my life for nigh on fifteen years afresh in newer, hopefully even more fertile soil on a wholly independent site. All future custom card contests I run will take place on MTGNexus and very soon all of the custom card discussion I take part in will be there too.

Anyone who wishes to remain here and try and continue the amazing work that CCC has done on MTGS has all of my love and moral support. I want custom Magic to thrive everywhere, not just in the site that I happen to be active in. But it is my great hope that as many of you as possible will come with me to MTGNexus's Custom Card Creation subforum. It will not have the weight of 15 years of history, but I know that as long as it has you - hands-down my favorite people on the internet - it will have a very, very bright future.

Oh, and I think some of the tools that are planned for the new site are going to help, too. But that's a conversation for another time.

Quote from BlueTronFTW »

The art looks like they hired some feminist from Tumblr who specializes in making women look like twelve year old boys. Pressing F to pay respects.

I think there's more of a chance that people who say things like this wouldn't know what a women looks like if she smacked them across the face.