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    posted a message on Regular packs having extended art
    Okay, so that is in agreement with a statement I remember: The the common and uncommon Showcase Adventure cards (and their foils) can ONLY be gotten in the Collector's Boosters - therefore, inversely, the rares and mythics may show up in normal packs (just at a much lower rate, obviously).


    In regular draft boosters (the ones you get from a regular box) contain:

    Showcase card - Uncommon, Rare, and Mythic (Non-Foil) and all rarities (Foil)
    Borderless Planeswalkers

    The Extended Art are only on non-planeswalker, non-showcase rares and mythics and can only be opened from Collector's Boosters. There is one dedicated slot per pack for Extended Art, but then you may also get one in your Foil Rare/Mythic slot. Collector's boosters are also the only place you can get non-foil commons in one of the three Special Frame slots.

    This means that the rarer cards in the sets will be the extended arts (which can also be found in foil) and the non-foil common showcases. Borderless Walkers can be found in both products.
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    posted a message on [ELD] hushbringer
    Anyone else... mildly turned on?

    I consider this quite an improvement compared to Tocatli Honor Guard. It trades one point of toughness for flying, lifelink and preventing death triggers.


    Was just going to google what "lip fetish" was called, but then remembered I am at work and probably shouldn't.
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    posted a message on [ELD] Torbran, Thane of Red Fell— ZiggyD preview
    Quote from Auspicious »
    The fact that it's a 2/4 is going to cause some serious miscalculations at prerelease, your opponent is going to block with an X/3 not realizing that the creature will die due to the +2 damage. If your opponent doesn't bother to read the card I don't believe that you are required to remind your opponent about the effect until damage is assigned. Going to be lots of feel bads at prerelease lol.


    If your pre-releases are not going to let your opponent go back on this misunderstanding once, then they are not enforcing the fact that it is casual REL. Typically you get one freebie if you can state your case enough and it is easy to go back a few steps based on known information, then the judge/rules advisor should keep note in case they try to do it again. At that point it can be dealt with accordingly (probably lying to an official if they said they didn't know after you explained it once).

    Your opponent (and even you) can read a card and not parse it properly, especially ones where there are more than a couple lines of text. It is even worse for people who have played the game longer because they are used to seeing things templated one way for a while and just assume it works like older cards. Everyone is going to be new to these things at some point and will miss it, don't be a rules lawyer at a pre-release.

    You may not be required to tell them, but it also doesn't take much to say "are you sure you want to block like that?" to give them a chance to re-assess the field without flat out telling them their error. I would rather someone remember me for explaining something kindly that might not be obvious and have them seek me out with more questions versus win an extra booster pack and not see them at the store again because Magic IS hard.
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    posted a message on 5/28 Mothership Spoilers Endling, Future Sight, Throes of Chaos
    Quote from Pouncing Kavu »


    Also, with the cycle complete, they really need to reprint Thornling with mirroring art!


    Thornling has a face on its butt, you just can't see it.
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    posted a message on Wrenn And Six - Tom Ross SCG preview
    Wrenn and Stumpy
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    posted a message on Rakdos, the Showstopper
    Quote from Raptorchan »
    Too bad Okaun, Eye of Chaos is a Cyclops.


    Does destroying a creature on tails constitute a player winning a flip?
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    posted a message on "Spore Swarm"
    Loving this saproling day, but... is this card good enough? scatter the seeds wasn't sadly..


    Scatter the Seeds saw plenty of play and was recently bonkers in Modern Masters draft when it was reprinted.
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    posted a message on Dominaria Name and Number Crunch
    Really hoping for Flametongue Kavu for 124 after reading the story today wher Tiana fended off "a kavu, its tongue aflame".
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    posted a message on infinite combination ?
    Quote from Courier7 »
    The only weak point is that the copy of Combat Celebrant which is wearing the Helm of the Host needs to survive to create a token copy at the beginning of every extra combat phase.


    While the 1 toughness is fragile statwise, the equipped creature never has to enter combat. You just make the token at the beginning of combat and only attack with that one, exert the token and get a new combat step. Even if they have blockers, they will eventually all die by making a new token over and over running them to their deaths.
    Posted in: New Card Discussion
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    posted a message on Heart of Kiran - MtG Facebook video spoiler
    Quote from Stoogeslap »
    It's gorgeous... The Kaladesh answer to the Millennial Falcon (but w/o as many parsecs).


    Gideon and Lupine Prototype are now Han Solo and Chewbacca as they can pilot anything
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