Kae, Oboro Courtier1UU
Legendary Creature - Moonfolk Advisor {R}
Flying
Creatures with power exactly 2 can't attack. U, :symq:, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Remove target creature from combat. Her words do not destroy men... They destroy armies.
1/3
((Note: It appears the untap symbol is broken on MTGS at present..))
You know what's misleading? Printing terrible cards in Commander decks. Bouncelands/Karoo lands, a bunch of lands that enter tapped, Sol Ring as the only mana rock, a bunch of fetching strategies, etc. It's all fragile. I'm not saying that every Commander set needs to have the most broken P3K and Legends Stax pieces, but Wizards could at least realize that the Commander decks set you up for failure. /rant
L5R will never outrun Magic's profits and player base as long as players are only interested in playing casually, regardless of the fact that L5R is cheaper to play competitively.
Forgot to reply to this, my apologies.
I think the mentality with the commander decks was similar to that of the event decks, where they have explicitly stated they are meant to win 25% of games (with even skill). I expect the commander decks are meant to have half as many wins as anyone else at the table as well, and in multiplayer especially that's very easy to do. That said, yes, the commander decks are much worse than you'd expect.
Beware, L5R below:
L5R recently went through a rules change during Emperor Edition that took off the rulebook "triggers and actions are once per turn" clause. Needless to say, it spun out of control, so they brought it back. Cards still don't say "once per turn," but instead are just understood as such. Repeatable actions are noted as such "Repeatable Battle," "Rpeatable Limited" (usually followed by a gold cost), and reaction was even changed to "interrupt" as it no longer responds to a particular clause, but resolves after the action to which it is responding.
Clarification: This is not true.
The big change was that "Reaction: Any number of times per turn, after {trigger}: {Effect}" was formerly understood to mean "Reaction: Any number of times per turn, but only once per trigger, after {trigger}: {Effect}." With Emperor, this was removed (and later readded when they realized how broken it was.)
...Anyways, any thoughts on Ivory? Personally, I think it'll be a lot of a fun. ("Tireless Open: Name a" - I was pretty much sold on my stronghold when I got that far.)
Thought I'd say hello to the Academy, if only because I'm playing more Magic again and thus trying to decide what to play that is sufficiently... well, controlling. (Playing UB Teachings in pauper right now, for one; that's been fun. Not sure what I want for EDH.)
Also, I see a Lion here.
...Well, it could be worse.
Hug Elementals? That seems good. Is there an Elemental Plane of Hugs?
@Nate: The 4/1 seems unplayable, I can just go Desert to hold it back and cycle Slice and Dice later to kill it.
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Hey, thanks! Three more and I'll get myself a brand new Data Raven.
Even if the title suggests otherwise, I actually prefer NBN shenanigans, such as Midseason Replacements. So, you stole my agenda? Congrats, you're on TV now - have some tags!
Also, only runner I seem to be capable of playing is Kate. Look at all the shiny programs!
If we finally get Mala Tempora (my LGS is a bit behind, unfortunately), I might look into some sort of combo involving Accelerated Diagnostics.
Also, I have to get a third friend into the game, so we can try out 2-headed Giant Netrunner-style (runner + corp against runner + corp, first team to score 14 agendas wins).
Cryptography that drives insane somehow reminds me of my very first Netrunner game. Hey, no ice in front of R+D, let's Maker's Eye right away and check out the top 3 cards.
Yes, my opponent played core Jinteki. I went from surprised to flatlined in less than a second.
Heh... Midseason is silly. Looking forward to TGTBT?
Interesting deck choices. I play Anarch/Jin... well, that's what I'd like to say. Post-Jackson and with current Corp power levels, I've been playing Criminal/NBN (Gabe/TWIY*, specifically - got me 3rd at a Plugged In Tour event); I intend to build Rosa/Not Doomsday At All for my next decks, and Jinteki when the big box comes out.)
And yeah, that sounds very Jinteki.
..What do you think of Mushin no Shin?
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Does it count as cryptography if they can understand the message but go insane immediately afterwards?
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{teaching-related things}
What I've generally done is used theme decks (not new intro packs) to teach the game. Pick sets with simple mechanics (Invasion block, for instance, has kicker as its only keyword mechanic) and it should all work out. (Disclaimer: Thelas is biased in favour of pre-NWO sets and thinks even for teaching the old products were better; Thelas takes no responsibility for any trainwrecks that may result.)
...Certainly been a while since I had a chance to visit this library. Doubt I am remembered at all, but...
Oh, a friend asked me to return this book in their stead. Here you are. (As the librarian takes the book, a slip of paper falls out from it. Thelas is already elsewhere. See here for the contents of the slip.)
Legendary Creature - Moonfolk Advisor {R}
Flying
Creatures with power exactly 2 can't attack.
U, :symq:, Return a land you control to its owner's hand: Remove target creature from combat.
Her words do not destroy men... They destroy armies.
1/3
((Note: It appears the untap symbol is broken on MTGS at present..))
Not mine, though. I don't want to be traceable that easily.
But seriously. Nobody likes green here, right...?
Resolving Oath of Druids triggers is actually kinda fun...
Forgot to reply to this, my apologies.
I think the mentality with the commander decks was similar to that of the event decks, where they have explicitly stated they are meant to win 25% of games (with even skill). I expect the commander decks are meant to have half as many wins as anyone else at the table as well, and in multiplayer especially that's very easy to do. That said, yes, the commander decks are much worse than you'd expect.
Beware, L5R below:
Clarification: This is not true.
The big change was that "Reaction: Any number of times per turn, after {trigger}: {Effect}" was formerly understood to mean "Reaction: Any number of times per turn, but only once per trigger, after {trigger}: {Effect}." With Emperor, this was removed (and later readded when they realized how broken it was.)
...Anyways, any thoughts on Ivory? Personally, I think it'll be a lot of a fun. ("Tireless Open: Name a" - I was pretty much sold on my stronghold when I got that far.)
Random card for discussion: what do you think of curtain wall?
@: End the game.
Just kidding.
Thought you were [REDACTED], not a white card.
Yeah, it's still alive. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if L5R managed to beat Alpha to print...
Also, I see a Lion here.
...Well, it could be worse.
Some of you got it right.
Hug Elementals? That seems good. Is there an Elemental Plane of Hugs?
@Nate: The 4/1 seems unplayable, I can just go Desert to hold it back and cycle Slice and Dice later to kill it.
Heh... Midseason is silly. Looking forward to TGTBT?
Interesting deck choices. I play Anarch/Jin... well, that's what I'd like to say. Post-Jackson and with current Corp power levels, I've been playing Criminal/NBN (Gabe/TWIY*, specifically - got me 3rd at a Plugged In Tour event); I intend to build Rosa/Not Doomsday At All for my next decks, and Jinteki when the big box comes out.)
And yeah, that sounds very Jinteki.
..What do you think of Mushin no Shin?
Better not decipher it. You could go insane.
Not to make them misunderstand the message and then go insane? That seems strictly better.
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Does it count as cryptography if they can understand the message but go insane immediately afterwards?
What I've generally done is used theme decks (not new intro packs) to teach the game. Pick sets with simple mechanics (Invasion block, for instance, has kicker as its only keyword mechanic) and it should all work out.
(Disclaimer: Thelas is biased in favour of pre-NWO sets and thinks even for teaching the old products were better; Thelas takes no responsibility for any trainwrecks that may result.)
Thank you. Do you happen to have a book to recommend?
Oh, a friend asked me to return this book in their stead. Here you are.
(As the librarian takes the book, a slip of paper falls out from it. Thelas is already elsewhere. See here for the contents of the slip.)