Kinda silly, unless you're playing Legacy, you can't play Uro and Primeval in the same deck, or even the same format.
I adore the faeries, but that Valentine's one... this is the first one I've ever truly hated. It's uglier than than the tattoo pack, and it isn't even as poorly executed. The artist actually knew what they were doing, and what they is... bad.
Looking forward to picking up Glen Elendra Archmages on the secondary market, though.
So much woke in Magic: the Gathering where escapism should be at it's peak. Glad to see so many woke people on this forum too. Glad y'all have a place to remind everyone how with it you are. Product is 100% pandering. Could've released this at any time - but it wasn't, it was done now. And that's why it's off. It has nothing to do with the product itself and some of you can't see that. That being said, this is nothing to be surprised about from WOTC.
Magic is absolutely a place for escapism. What your not realizing is that seeing yourself in the characters is a big part of escapism. Black Magic players deserve escapism just as much as you do. Sure, people can see themselves in characters with different skin color from their own, but that just makes your complaint all the more absurd.
In case you guys haven't noticed, Magic is all about pandering. They literally just released a set pandering to Norse mythology fans, then they're going to pander to Harry Potter fans, then D&D fans, then horror fans. How about when they pander to someone who isn't you, you can just, like, not throw a fit?
Ok, so Runed Crown is a guaranteed cantrip that grants your choice of lifelink, flying, deathtouch, haste, or trample and up to +2/+2. That's... actually kinda good? Like, each individual mode is weak, but that flexibility makes the card. Now, is it worth running 2+ runes?
Note that it does not say "You may choose new targets for the copy," so you can't enchant two creatures with Eldrazi Conscriptions, but you can get a 21/21 with trample and annihilator 4, for example. Also notable for your Crib Swaps and your Lignifys and what have you.
Is it me or Masked Vandal is secretly one of the best cards spoiled today? Damn. A Reclamation Sage for 1 less, that exiles instead of destroy, given you can exile a creature from your grave? And it's a changeling? I'll be playing this guy for sure.
That thing is practically rare quality. I can't believe it's a common. That said, that's probably because it will be a one-drop in my tribal tribal deck.
He's good, but he's weaker than he looks. First you have to wait a turn so he can attack then you have to wait another turn to draw the card, and he has to survive combat to actually be better than Grim Tutor. He's ridiculous with haste, card draw, and evasion, but that's a lot of work to put in for that payoff.
Borca may be the best design in the set. Untapped design space, much needed card advantage in Boros, and he still feels like a Boros commander thanks to his potentially huge power.
That might be nontoken creatures, brooding saurian uses the same German phrase and references nontoken permanent (I believe it means "permanent cards" from my bad German)
I specifically checked that one before posting, and it contains the phrase "und die keine spielsteine sind" or "and they're not tokens". You'll find this kind of wording often on English cards when an effect cares about two qualities, like the nonlegendary nonland cards exiled by Urza's Ruinous Blast.
I beleive it is nontoken permanent, comparing it to the wording on similar cards "bleibenden karte", any German players confirm?
"Bleiben" means "to stay", so I would presume "bleibende Karte" just means "permanents". The word for token is "spielstein", and cards like Always Watching use the phrase "nichtspielstein-"
Mark being the one who designed Hybrid Mana, it's hard to think he "misunderstands" it.
He may have designed it, but he does misunderstand how it fits into Commander, a format he neither plays nor particularly likes. There are already hundreds or thousands of posts on this subject, so we shouldn't delve into it too much here, but I'll respond in brief.
So, while in any format a monoblue deck can play U/R, U/G, U/W and U/B hybrid cards. In commander, none of these cards can be in a monoblue deck. So it doesn't care about what cards you are able to cast, but about other qualities of the card.
Not to play semantics, but is a mono-blue deck with red, green, white, and black cards in it really a mono-blue deck? You may only have Islands, but if your card can be countered by Blue Elemental Blast or Lifeforce, destroyed by Deathmark or Noxious Grasp, searched for with a Sunforger or Natural Order, or is an illegal target for Doom Blade because it's black, it aint mono-blue!
Now, in most formats, you may call a deck a certain color based on its mana-base, sort of like how a "mono-black" reanimator deck can run Avacyn, Angel of Hope or Inkwell Leviathan even though it has no way to cast said card and must rely on discarding and reanimating them.
But Commander cares about the color of the cards during deckbuilding, and this is where Mark fails to understand.
They could very well have chosen to rule that the color identity of hybrid mana is either or both of the colors, but they've chosen to make it always be both. Maro says that he would've chosen differently, and that's all to his point.
They didn't choose it to always be both - the rules say that. They did choose to have it matter in deckbuilding and not just game play. Mark may have chosen otherwise, but A) he's not in charge of the format and should give it a rest, and B) his way would lead to more confusion.
"Here's my mono-white deck. I tap five plains and cast Divinity of Pride."
"I hit it with Doom Blade."
"You can't do that, it's black."
"You said it was mono-white. You tapped all white."
"Yeah, but it's both. At all times. In every zone."
"So your deck is white and black? But your commander is mono-white."
"It is, but I also have a green Kitchen Finks, a red..."
"This game is stupid and makes no sense!"
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Briarblade Adept gives me hope for encore - not because I think it's a particularly good card, but because it has a cheap encore cost (even cheaper than it's regular cost). I was worried they might all be outrageously expensive like Phyrexian Triniform.
Dude, color and color identity have never been the same thing. Every single effect in the game treats Alesha, Who Smiles at Death as a monored creature, but she hasa Mardu color identity. Doom Blade kills her, Lifeforce doesn't counter her, etc. Why is the reverse, multicolored cards having monocolor identities, so absurd when hybrid was designed that way?
I adore the faeries, but that Valentine's one... this is the first one I've ever truly hated. It's uglier than than the tattoo pack, and it isn't even as poorly executed. The artist actually knew what they were doing, and what they is... bad.
Looking forward to picking up Glen Elendra Archmages on the secondary market, though.
Magic is absolutely a place for escapism. What your not realizing is that seeing yourself in the characters is a big part of escapism. Black Magic players deserve escapism just as much as you do. Sure, people can see themselves in characters with different skin color from their own, but that just makes your complaint all the more absurd.
In case you guys haven't noticed, Magic is all about pandering. They literally just released a set pandering to Norse mythology fans, then they're going to pander to Harry Potter fans, then D&D fans, then horror fans. How about when they pander to someone who isn't you, you can just, like, not throw a fit?
Is anybody hankering for a mana rock as a commander?
That thing is practically rare quality. I can't believe it's a common. That said, that's probably because it will be a one-drop in my tribal tribal deck.
He's good, but he's weaker than he looks. First you have to wait a turn so he can attack then you have to wait another turn to draw the card, and he has to survive combat to actually be better than Grim Tutor. He's ridiculous with haste, card draw, and evasion, but that's a lot of work to put in for that payoff.
Dude, color and color identity have never been the same thing. Every single effect in the game treats Alesha, Who Smiles at Death as a monored creature, but she hasa Mardu color identity. Doom Blade kills her, Lifeforce doesn't counter her, etc. Why is the reverse, multicolored cards having monocolor identities, so absurd when hybrid was designed that way?