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Jokulhaups has been awesome for me. It's the red upheaval. That's of course a bit of an exaggeration, but the best thing is having someone laugh at Jokulhaups during the draft and then get demolished by it in play. This also happens with Death Cloud too, though that's a little harder to get together.

I suggested Jokulhaups months (maybe years?) ago and got laughed at. I'm SO glad someone is using it! hahah

Ah...I wanted to do this this year, but I got suspended during sign up period for telling someone if they thought magic was expensive and caused compulsive spending they should try drugs haha my bad!

Protection from Lands and Dragons?

Never had a problem the last few years and don't anticipate any this year

It's Man-o'-War with point of damage in Izzet...this would never be printed as worded. The only precedent for a 3CMC 2/2 w/ Unsummon is Man-o'-War and Aether Adept. Tacking on a ping might seem like a fair trade for adding a second and different color mana, but when you consider how many times this is a 2-for-1 or quasi-3-for-1, you realize how much that point of damage matters. This sort of design isn't impossible, but I think it needs to be narrowed down a bit:

Joltergeist 1UR
Creature - Spirit
When Joltergeist enters the battlefield, it deals 1 damage to target creature, then return that creature to its owner's hand.
2/2

You can snipe a shrimp or bounce something bigger, not both and no damage to the face. Even still this is an upgrade to Man-o'-War. I think the cube world would still be shocked to see this card printed. It is a hard card to balance. At CMC 4, it loses a lot of its appeal for cubing. At 5 with flying or some other ability, the 1 damage doesn't seem like enough, but bumping to 2 would bring us right back to the start.

I'm a bit torn on this. These accidents make Magic interesting, but I understand that it makes standard uninteresting. No idea how this will affect the game, but I'm excited to find out!

Quote from Cainsson »

If you've only read Jace quotes from the cards you'd think he's an insufferable too cool for school Gary Stu anime protagonist, like Ertai on steroids. But it turns out he's meant to be a mousy nerd pushover with low self esteem who'd get beat in a fistfight by a newborn kitten and is afraid of using his telekinesis to it's full potential.

One more example of WotC's split personality.

Wait wait wait. Don't go condemning WotC for this, because they're actually DEAD ON. How many neckbeards/serial killers/psychos fit that exact description? They're shrimpy, shy, socially awkward losers on the outside, but if you listen to their manifestos, forum posts, youtube comments, etc., you learn that they have these grandiose visions of how they think they really are. I think Jace is simply Magic's neckbeard planeswalker.

Richard Garfield reading this thread like "WHAT HAVE I DONE"

This is when we need a sarcasm font.

In no particular order:

Foil Future Sight Tarmogoyf $900
{All the CE P9} -- Black Lotus (CE) $475
Moat (English) $640
Foil Grim Monolith Only have MP on TCGplayer for $500...graded 9.5 on eBay $1000, so I'm going with $750 for my NM/not graded
Library of Alexandria $700

Totals to around $3500 (only counting Black Lotus from the P9)

Is it just me, or is this looking kinda Hearthstone-y?

Quote from necrogenesis »

That's big news. No My Little Pony crossover.

Considering everything else lately, that actually increases my opinion of WotC a little bit.

It is not the department that is the issue. It is the philosophy.
Creatures. Planeswalkers. Creatures. Planeswalkers. Creatures.

Hand destruction, land destruction, counterspells, taxes, cheap removal and everything else the new players hate have been removed, leaving an anodyne mess of a game and a standard solved in seconds that can't shift once the best two or three creature/planeswalker decks have been esablished per set. Meanwhile those easily irritated new players and more casuals have just sodded off to the commander tables to feed the monster Wizards inadvertently legitimised. You don't need a new department to fix this, you need a new philosophy.
Maro has a philosophy and maxim for many things, he write about them all the time in his columns. Unfortunately his philosophy is "Gatewatch: the gathering" and "zoos are better than spells", both of which are unchallenged axioms that the current team cling to for dear life. Only when the fear of "unfun" changes will things get better.

Sounds good, let's see if this lives up to what it's hoping to be.

my thoughts are simply : Put up or shut up.

Truth be told, I have no faith in anything they do anymore and I suspect we'll get more of the same

Mine has dark confidant. A snuggle buddy, at any cost.

My specialist is also a body pillow but this time it looks like Richard Garfield.

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Quote from Sparki »

A cube is never finished ;).

That's true. A cube is a game, an art form, a collector's dream (and your best pal at lonely nights).

This is why I keep my cards in a body pillow shaped like Jace.

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