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  • posted a message on Box Mapping-- Mirrodin Besieged Edition
    Cracked a box, here are the results from top to bottom of box:

    Left
    Massacre Wurm (Foil Strandwalker)
    Darksteel Plate
    Blue Sun's Zenith
    Slagstorm
    Bonehoard
    Galvanoth
    Blightsteel Colossus (Foil Spin Engine)
    Thopter Assembly
    Knowledge Pool (Foil Ardent Recruit)
    Hellkite Igniter
    Mitotic Manipulation (Foil Viridian Emissary)
    Phyrexian Hydra

    Middle
    Distant Memories
    Black Sun's Zenith
    Shimmer Myr
    Contested War Zone (Foil Mirrorworks)
    Sword of Feast and Famine (Foil Koth's Courier)
    Spine of Ish Sah
    Shimmer Myr
    Black Sun's Zenith
    Titan Forge
    Praetor's Counsel
    Inkmoth Nexus
    Myr Turbine

    Right
    Phyrexian Hydra
    Magnetic Mine
    Mirrorworks (Foil Myr Sire)
    Sangromancer
    Mitotic Manipulation
    Green Sun's Zenith
    Mirran Crusader (Foil Steel Sabotage)
    Decimator Web
    Phyrexian Vatmother
    Victory's Herald
    Red Sun's Zentih
    Magnetic Mine

    I can also provide uncommon/commons (in order from back to front) from each of these packs, if you guys want.
    Posted in: New Card Discussion
  • posted a message on Bad pool?
    The only other possible consideration would be to splash blue for Corrupted Conscience, Vedalken Anatomist, and Bonds of Quicksilver, but that's not a lot of blue playables.
    Posted in: Limited Archives
  • posted a message on [MBS] Visual Spoiler: Distant Memories, Crush
    Comp rules says this:

    406.3. Exiled cards are, by default, kept face up and may be examined by any player at any time. Cards “exiled face down” can’t be examined by any player except when instructions allow it.


    So, I believe the card you exile with Distant Memories must be revealed.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • posted a message on [MBS] Maro's Twitter Spoiler - Myr Welder
    RE: Making things with Myr Welder with a Mimic Vat.

    I don't think you can imprint a Vat onto Myr Welder and start making Wurmcoil Engines because the Engine isn't imprinted on the Vat. See, the Engine and the Vat are imprinted on the Myr, but the Engine isn't imprinted on the Vat. Plus, as stated earlier, it doesn't copy entire cards, so there would be no way to imprint anything onto the Vat after imprinting the Vat on the Myr.

    Crap, I hope that's clear enough.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • posted a message on [MBS] Pre-release/release promos: Glissa the Traitor, Thopter Assembly
    Re: "Battle cry" rules text

    I wouldn't guess so quickly that each "something" has to represent a word, though the only reason I'm saying that is because my guess is more wordy.

    My guess: "Battle cry - When CARDNAME attacks, each other attacking creature you control gets +1/+1 until end of turn."

    Could be variable, like Battle cry 2 that gives +2/+2, but I think that's way too powerful.

    As for her second ability, my guess is:
    "Whenever Hero of Bladehold attacks, you may put two 1/1 white soldier tokens onto the battlefield."

    Stats Guess: 3/3 for 2WW

    Seems too weak for a mythic, but then again, we have had bad mythics.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • posted a message on How did you go at the SoM Prerelease?
    2-2 at a local prerelease with a WBr Myr Deck featuring 2(!) Prototype Portals, 2 Galvanizers, and a single Skithiryx just because it was so bombacious. One of my opponents (who I lost to) remarked that the set is a lot faster than he thought.

    Rares: 2 Prototype Portals, Ascetism, Nim Deathmantle, Skithiryx, and Tower of Calamities.

    Tower of Calamities was incredibly useful since I could easily ramp to 8 with Myr and Horizon Spellbombs. And no, I didn't get to live the dream of infinite mana (No Exsanguinate and no Untamed Might, unfortunately) with the Galvanizers or imprinting a Prototype Portal on a Prototype Portal.
    Posted in: New Card Discussion
  • posted a message on Value-wise, SOM feels like the worst set in a long, long time.
    The problem with Scars is that there aren't a whole lot of cards you can slide into archetypes that already exist in Standard. Scars feels more like a set made for Limited play due to the high amount of interactions it has with other cards of the set and lack of interactions with other Standard cards.
    Posted in: New Card Discussion
  • posted a message on [SOM] Trigon of Thought
    Quote from Arnnaria
    I totally glazed over the reference to the Golem. I thought you were just struggling between Ingenuity and Trigon in a vacuum. That being said, six or seven for three at instant speed still might be more of an advantage over a slower sorcery speed card.


    ...But Jace's Ingenuity is an Instant....

    In any case, we've got tons of cards that use charge counters and Proliferate to profit off them in Scars. It seems like a decent way to get some cards in Limited. I don't anticipate it will be Constructed-playable, but you never know.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • posted a message on [SOM] Painful Quandary
    When I saw it can make them lose 5 life, I did a dry spit-take (don't ask me how that works).

    It looks like Discard.dec might actually work out. Although it almost seems like a Sanguine Bond (5 cost that can swing things in your favor) except a little better. The card advantage has me sold though. I want 3 copies! (4 seems a bit much.)
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • posted a message on [SOM] Tower of Calamities
    Hm...it can keep most generals off the battlefield in EDH, and maybe blow up some creatures in between general summoning, but that's about it.

    If you really need to kill an Emrakul, use this and a Molten-Core Masticore or similar colorless damage-dealer (even though it's extremely unlikely). I think it can also be a poor response to an Iona or Platinum Angel.

    It's too slow/expensive for competitive Constructed. For Limited, assuming you can hold out until you get this active (and that depends on how fast the set is in general), I think you can pretty much lock down the opponent, play your bomb, and win the game.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • posted a message on [SoM] Orb of Insight Compiled Data (ONLY)
    Hm. No extra turns.
    Corrupted: 2
    Infected: 0
    Loxodon: 1
    Elephant: 2
    Mirror: 0
    Atog: 0
    Chronic: 0
    Extra: 0
    Fairy: 0
    Bow: 0
    Blade: 0
    Archer: 1
    Lancer: 0
    Assassin: 0
    Striker: 0
    Burning: 0
    Amethyst: 0
    Altar: 0
    Arc-Slogger: 0
    Auriok: 6
    Blinkmoth: 0
    Leonin: 1 (Leonin Arbiter)
    Scimitar: 0 (Darn it!)
    Bonesplitter: 0
    Clockwork: 0
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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