It's swarmpires. It swarms you, but with vampires. And then contaminates you, with contamination. Swarmpires contamination. I don't know how many points I give this title, but I don't think it matters. The goal here is quite explicitly to lock your opponents out of non-black mana with Contamination and never have to sacrifice the enchantment because Edgar gives you an unstoppable river of 1/1 sac fodder. It's an aggressive vampire tribal shell that by virtue of its design gets to pretty freely play a card that's like 4 copies of Iona, Shield of Emeria for 3 mana.
Huh. Talk about your Near-Death Experience. (God, I've been waiting a long time for the opportunity to use that pun). Idk what to think, the fact that Curse was nonchalantly ready to wash their hands of the site only to introduce some flyby night last minute site I've never heard of to take ownership...what? Doesn't scream to me like a lot of forethought and planning went into this. Pretty hard to put my faith behind a management team like that. And what happens when they bow out? Then we go through all this again? I'm tendering a [temporary] vote of no confidence in that entity until we know anything about them.
I can't help but feel a stronger future with the Airli/Cryo project.
Some google research suggests to me that the buyer is someone from the Hearthstone equivalent Curse property who helped build that site, and then I got sucked into a black hole cause there's something really nostalgic about forum drama dumpster fires, and they've got a s'more worthy fire going right now.
Comparatively, Minecraft Forum was apparently also a part of this transaction, where the response was basically: "oh... neat."
This is a rather diagonal connection, but on the subject of cutting SoFaF, if the argument in favor of keeping it without Trophy Mage to tutor for it is that it's good for casting things on your turn (which I take to mean casting things while still having mana untapped for everyone else's turn), Soulherder kind of fills a similar role in that it gets the Ephara trigger from a creature entering on your turn without having to tap lands for it. The two cards are very different in many ways, but if passing with all your mana open while still drawing a card is the appeal, that role is preserved by Soulherder.
Well, that's a rough plot twist. Being completely honest, MTGS getting to close with dignity was kind of appealing. MTGSalvation has gotten dragged down over the years by people with old grudges, the weird Curse and Twitch account connections, a sometimes offensive mobile experience based on the ads, (being blocked at my work), and significant degradation of the technology. God knows how many things have broken here on what I'm now hearing is unworkably proprietary software. It's unclear whether new ownership would fix any of those issues or potentially make them worse, but a new website to migrate to seems well positioned to fix all of them. Certainly, porque no los dos, but I still anxiously await the new experience.
This Ephara, God of the Polis deck is a hatebear deck, as you might tell from the thread title. The thing about hatebears is that sometimes they're backbreaking disruption, sometimes they're vanilla creatures, and sometimes they're just dead to a boardwipe. I can think of no better way of mitigating the floor of these cards than by turning every single one into a cantrip. This is a great example of a general that rather than playing further into the theme itself (like something like Grand Arbiter Augustin or Lavinia, Azorius Renegade would have), it is a support card related to the archetype (hatebears are creatures, some of them have flash) that acts as an engine that ticks up the power level of the whole deck.
I just want to say, as a straight man, the most sexual planeswalker will forever be Venser's sideburns.
OT: I think I like the uncommon Chandra the best. Multiple rituals and/or multiple shocks is pretty sweet an on 4 mana uncommon. I first picked a Jaya in WAR draft at some point, and that had half the options for 1 more mana.
I believe this is the only untapped cycling land.
Believe it or not, Mirror Entity fills this role as well (on top of killing people and being a spirit).
Also, Leave // Chance is an excellent card that also lets you recast all your non-creature permanents for triggers.
What in the Searing Blazes!?
3drinks: Edgar Markov Swarmpires Contamination
It's swarmpires. It swarms you, but with vampires. And then contaminates you, with contamination. Swarmpires contamination. I don't know how many points I give this title, but I don't think it matters. The goal here is quite explicitly to lock your opponents out of non-black mana with Contamination and never have to sacrifice the enchantment because Edgar gives you an unstoppable river of 1/1 sac fodder. It's an aggressive vampire tribal shell that by virtue of its design gets to pretty freely play a card that's like 4 copies of Iona, Shield of Emeria for 3 mana.
This card is weird, but very neat once you dive into the synergy rabbit hole. Mirror Mirror Plague Wind
Some clean 2-for-1 options in here.
Go to sleep... forever!
This is a little bit why I run Reliquary Tower, but close to 100% why I run Gemstone Caverns.
Know that I do not blame you for destroying my Howling Mine, but I will lead the chorus of boos that greets you.
Some google research suggests to me that the buyer is someone from the Hearthstone equivalent Curse property who helped build that site, and then I got sucked into a black hole cause there's something really nostalgic about forum drama dumpster fires, and they've got a s'more worthy fire going right now.
Comparatively, Minecraft Forum was apparently also a part of this transaction, where the response was basically: "oh... neat."
It's amazing that they printed a card that destroys target totem armor decades before totem armor existed.
Pokken: Ephara, God of the Polis - Flash Hatebears
This Ephara, God of the Polis deck is a hatebear deck, as you might tell from the thread title. The thing about hatebears is that sometimes they're backbreaking disruption, sometimes they're vanilla creatures, and sometimes they're just dead to a boardwipe. I can think of no better way of mitigating the floor of these cards than by turning every single one into a cantrip. This is a great example of a general that rather than playing further into the theme itself (like something like Grand Arbiter Augustin or Lavinia, Azorius Renegade would have), it is a support card related to the archetype (hatebears are creatures, some of them have flash) that acts as an engine that ticks up the power level of the whole deck.
OT: I think I like the uncommon Chandra the best. Multiple rituals and/or multiple shocks is pretty sweet an on 4 mana uncommon. I first picked a Jaya in WAR draft at some point, and that had half the options for 1 more mana.