MTG Salvation

I think it's really really weird that sticker sheets are going to be Eternal legal. It just feels off to me.

Weird that it says WHENEVER it enters the battlefield instead of WHEN it enters the battlefield.

Well, I'm glad that they just dumped all the leaked cards here instead of having them scattered across all the other previews.

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That Wayfarer·s Bauble . Whew .

Lmao what's the point of using a card tag if you know it's not going to work because you use a center dot instead of an apostrophe

I think this is a cool Secret Lair. Even if it feels like pandering, it doesn't negatively affect me at all, just like it doesn't negatively affect any anti-LGBT people.

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And they'll mass report anyone who doesn't like it. The inclusive and tolerant are anything but that.

Well I mean, yeah. They call it the paradox of tolerance, right? "In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance"?

Granted, that's become an awfully slippery slope in recent times...

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@whoever complained it's green: It's 5G... In a treasure deck... Mise as well be colorless.

I think their complaint was more that it has a green color identity, so it can't be run in nongreen EDH decks.

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yes? (You know I was infact talking about mirrodin besieged block and not 2023/2024 right?)

no matter the system before or after of hiding/prevent cards from being leaked new phyrexia was the worst one. (Though I hear judgement was pretty close to a similar leveled leak)

The guy said "I haven't seen a leak this bad since 2017", and for some reason you decide to respond with "ACKCHYUALLY there was an even worse leak back in 2011!!"? Literally no one was talking about older leaks?

Judgment was just as bad, but unlike NPH, it was leaked by Wizards themselves.

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So the Stranger things cards are being reprinted as normal Magic cards....... but in a Secret Lair, not a set? Ok then

This is completely factually inaccurate. Like, bafflingly so.

Wizards: "The Stranger Things cards are being reprinted as normal cards on the List in 1 out of every 8 set boosters!"
You: "So they're appearing in a Secret Lair and not a set?"

No seriously, where did you even get this idea?

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The ikoria triomes don’t have the original names (femur, sultai, etc) so why does it matter if these do?

Because the Ikoria triomes set the precedent for these lands, and the Tarkir clans didn't? I didn't think that needed to be explained.
I'm not saying that they NEED to follow the same naming convention. I just think it was a missed opportunity, and that "triome" is an elegant name to retain for the allied cycle.

Not gonna lie, I kinda wish they had saved the triomes for a return to Alara and named them Bant Triome, Esper Triome, etc just to keep the names consistent. I think it would have been perfect, especially since the original Alara block featured cycling as well.

I suppose they can give us a Secret Lair or something with Alara-themed renamed versions of these triomes (like the Godzilla or Dracula cards), but "Ziatora's Proving Ground" sound more like a rename than something more simple like "Jund Triome."

Also, the flavor of these lands feels off. You mean to tell me that a giant tower is somehow a Plains, an Island, and a Swamp? Was it built on a site where three of those leylines intersected, and retained their mana-producing properties?
(Yeah yeah, I know that that argument can be applied to shocklands too)

I think it would be much cleaner flavor-wise if these cards were just triomes, and saved for a set where triomes as a natural setting would make sense.

I dunno why you always assume that Wizards “forgets” about certain aspects of the game just because they have the potential to combo with a new card

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So 90 minutes pass since the thread is created and only one person mentions the set symbol, so you conclude that no one noticed that the set symbol looks like the Invasion set symbol? That's literally the first thing that's noticeable about it.

I'd say it's so easy to notice that it's really not worth talking about. Like noticing the green mana symbol is a tree.

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I hate that people will gobble up all these garbage DND, 40K and LotR sets.

Nom,nom,nom.

Also, why do you care what other people like?

Wait there are still people offended by this? Well all three of them can enjoy being offended.

The rest of us will either think this is adorable and wholesome, or just not care. Culture has moved on from this being a big deal.

Who even has the energy to get offended over stuff like this anymore? "Urgh, how dare those people be depicted enjoying their lives?! Why back in my day, everybody pretended queer folk didn't exist, and it was great! Let's just go back to pretending!"

It's 10 years too late for this to be a real controversy. There are probably ten times more queer people playing magic than there are people who are truly made uncomfortable with depictions of queer people. If that's your battle, you lost a long time ago.

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It's going to be amusing to see how many people get triggered and complain that they are just trying to get people's money. It's literally part of their job as a company to get people's money, and inclusion is at least meaningful way of doing so.

The first one has arrived

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Magic the Pandering keeps on going.

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Minsc as a Planeswalker is nonsensical. He is a feebleminded basic fighter who has mental issues.

That didn't stop Gideon...

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Jesus Christ is not fantasy. Show some respect. Defending a card game only to insult one of the leading worldwide faiths?

Talking animals, resurrections, grand magical people that rule universal forces, and more definitely are all parts of fantasy. I'm not trying to insult, and I apologize if it comes out that way, but faith or not you can't look at those aspects and say "that's reality."

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The ikoria triomes don’t have the original names (femur, sultai, etc) so why does it matter if these do?

Because the Ikoria triomes set the precedent for these lands, and the Tarkir clans didn't? I didn't think that needed to be explained.
I'm not saying that they NEED to follow the same naming convention. I just think it was a missed opportunity, and that "triome" is an elegant name to retain for the allied cycle.

Ah I see, I thought you were upset about the new triomes being named for their in world locations instead of the Alara shards (as you stated); which is why I referenced the current triomes not being named after the enemy shards (khans). I guess I just didn’t understand why you were upset in conjunction with your reference of shards of alara. Either way, all ten will be called triomes by players and the UBR one will be called the “grixis triome” just like the current URG is called the “temur” or “rug” triome by enfranchised players. I wouldn’t sweat what there actual names are, barely anyone will know them.

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Eyyy fun demon fella

What do you mean by " eyyy"?

Just excitedly exclaiming my friend

What country are you from?

I don't listen to country music

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This is needlessly pedantic for something that's effectively going to function like multikicker 90+% of the time it's used.

"this wording is better if you clone or reanimate it"
"yeah that's never going to happen"

Bro do you even EDH?

I'm not exactly sure what EDH deck is going to care a lot about the possibility of reanimating a small creature that you can pump mana into (in that moment) to get an anthem effect. The synergy with Sun Titan is definitely there, but you'd probably have to be running a token strategy or something that especially synergizes with a size boost in order to really care.