#Magic the Gathering

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trail anvil
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for the one time I'm gonna praise wotc arena dev team, apparently with deathtouch now damage is auto-distributed as 1 to every creature besides the last?

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it might just be with first strike too idk, but it did that with my sheoldred and that's pretty nice to have

fallow citrus
golden plover
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Metahook banned in standard
Yorion in modern

fallow citrus
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could have seen meathook ban coming from a mile away tbh

atomic harness
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Ah rip

golden plover
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Yeah, meathook was guaranteed tbh

lusty trench
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Guaranteed meathook doesn't drop a penny in price cause the things still stupid good elsewhere

golden plover
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Hey it went down to $65... From $70

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So like it very slightly dropped

atomic harness
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should prolly play more since I have 2 more days before it goes away in arena standard

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Nyaruhodo

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Hey thats a good rare

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I'll get dia before oct 13 copium

sleek ferry
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wait

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meathook being banned means I get 4 mythic wild cards

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lets goooooo

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good choice of them to not hit kikijiki though

twilit canyon
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@atomic harness craft all the meathooks

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they will give you wc comp for them

atomic harness
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Oh pog

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how does this work exactly? I own 2 meats do I craft 2 more

sleek ferry
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yes

atomic harness
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am gonna go abuse meathook some more tomorrow before it goes away

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clutched a ton vs these weird boros aggro plat lists

sleek ferry
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i've been seeing boros aggro pop up

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looks ok

atomic harness
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it's very scary im ngl

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every bungus has haste and they have that trample knight thing that changes night/day

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also the indestructible gaining whatever, and the 2/3 bird

sleek ferry
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I honestly just hate vsing mono blue and their 16 counter spells

atomic harness
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I wanted to build rdw or some version of it because of blue yeah

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but maybe ill just wait until brothers war to pick up a new deck

lusty trench
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Me when the cards turn sideways

sleek ferry
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I have a concept for gruul goblins, but it's not competitively viable unless we get some goblins in brothers war

fallow citrus
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I hope we get some more merfolk in brother's war even if it's unlikely, I wanna play em in standard

twilit canyon
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no reason to play goblins in standard

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alchemy goblins tho? real deck

sleek ferry
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yeah but like i said, the buy in for alchemy is too high for me

twilit canyon
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not for gobbos

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4 rares + a bunch of uncommons

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[[goblin array]]

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No card found for “goblin array”

sleek ferry
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send a deck list, i'll look at it

lusty trench
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Man I gotta try more formats other than edh

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But I'm a mono black player at heart and that's one expensive buy in

twilit canyon
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[[goblin influx array]]

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twilit canyon
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this + fable

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sokenzan and squee are your rares

twilit canyon
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wait there is 1 more rare i think

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influx array is a side card for the most part anyways

lusty trench
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By the way what is Liliana of the veil doing in standard

sleek ferry
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mostly nothing

lusty trench
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Awesome

twilit canyon
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she is doing something alright

sleek ferry
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I'm running out of ideas for decks, might fuck around and make mardu vampires

twilit canyon
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grixis

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[[evelyn the covetus]]

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Legendary Creature — Vampire Rogue
Flash
Whenever Evelyn, the Covetous or another Vampire enters the battlefield under your control, exile the top card of each player's library with a collection counter on it.
Once each turn, you may play a card from exile with a collection counter on it if it was exiled by an ability you controlled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast it.
2/5

twilit canyon
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[[corpse appraiser]]

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Creature — Vampire Rogue
When Corpse Appraiser enters the battlefield, exile up to one target creature card from a graveyard. If a card is put into exile this way, look at the top three cards of your library, then put one of those cards into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
"Scarcely a mark. A true work of art!"
3/3

sleek ferry
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you know what, that's a better idea, and i dont think I've played blue this standard yet

lusty trench
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Building ninjas cause I got an absolute deal on a deck core for it

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Shame sakashimas do not exist in the UK rn tho

golden plover
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▶ Play video
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Welp there's the video

languid quest
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what WotC is doing

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this isn't how one should handle important anniversary like this

golden plover
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Definitely not, it's like the shittiest thing they could have done. Goes "oh yeah the fanbase that made this game last 30 years? Fuck them, give us $1000"

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Also damn, I didn't even realize that Collector's Edition was $50

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I knew the worlds deck lists were $20 a pop

trail anvil
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god I can't wait for the meathook ban to take effect, hopefully it opens up the meta

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honestly I kinda wanna get into more monored with it gone

golden plover
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Man I didn't even know that for the 20th they had a from the vault which was 20 of the most iconic cards for $50

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It's a card a year from all the 20 years at that point and this was an insane reprint value

glad peak
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iconic cards
doesn’t have bolt

golden plover
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Bolt wasn't in the worlds list at the time

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Each of these cards came from their respective worlds list, with a booklet explaining what it did for the deck

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Also most of those were the first time that art was used

lusty trench
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The Jace alone back in the day more than covered the cost

golden plover
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Yup. Crazy how 10 years ago, this was an actual product for the fans

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And this year's "anniversary" content is $1000 proxies and an advent calendar lair of cards they cut from other lairs (because they'd be too good of value then) and both are limited run

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Like the 30 card lair is cool, but the art tells me it was cards that were supposed to be the bonus card in lairs this year but would cost too much, and they're now being sold separately to the first 10,000 bots

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Honestly, I'm convinced WoTC is going full gacha/investors at this point

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Standard sets keep the people around for the whales to flex on

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But when the $1000 proxies sell out instantly, they'll realize they can keep making more and more absurd priced products for mega whales only

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They'll probably never stop making regular packs and shit, but their interest lies exclusively in the mega whales now

languid quest
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it does make me disheartened to see MtG go this direction

golden plover
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The proxy shit might as well have been NFTs tbh

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Hasbro wants the shareholders to get more money forever, and it'll eventually compromise on the game

lusty trench
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As a player who rejoined in AFR, Double masters 2022 cemented for me that there was no low they couldn't sink to

golden plover
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I mean, looking at the quality control on Unfinity and the 40k decks, it looks like it already has

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Also, the boxes for brothers war bundles have a huge "One transformers card in every bundle" and a transformers spindown now

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So it looks like they're gonna just keep moving to more crossovers and more expensive cardboard with your favorite IPs on it, and let the game suffer because of it

lusty trench
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It's amazing to me because the transformers cards are such... Eh cards flavour wise

languid quest
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after they messed up TCG that they had made for that IP

golden plover
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I hate that their art is just drawn to look like screencaps from the show

lusty trench
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Like there's a lot you could do with a transformers magic card

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And they just... Went with the first thing that came to mind

golden plover
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It looks so lazy. Like I know it's original art, but it looks like something you'd see someone post on custommagic or whatever

languid quest
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lol with TF TCG they used art from IDW comic books and from mobile game

golden plover
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I'm curious how long it's gonna be until we actually get mechanically unique UB cards in standard at this point btw

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Because I'm sure the game is gonna go full Weiss Schwarz from here

languid quest
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ah yes, Weiss Schwarz, TCG that's mainly popular in Japan but no were else

golden plover
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I'm gonna give it 2 years at most. When LOTR horizons sells super well, and the doctor who ones do, we'll get a slot in Eldraine 3 draft packs or whatever with a Futurama card in it

golden plover
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Weiss is exclusively a collector product, and it's honestly pretty clear that's what Wotc wants MTG to be at this point too

languid quest
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in west? yes. in Japan? maybe

golden plover
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I'm pretty sure Weiss is hardly played in Japan too

lusty trench
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Iirc it's not top 5

languid quest
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I would like to see they current top 10 for TCGs

lusty trench
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Iirc Weiss is a mess of a game with some expensive ass cards that make the game hard to get into

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The amount of product available in the west is also an issue iirc

languid quest
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like is YGO still number 1 and how popular DM still is and of course how popular CFV is in there

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Japanese Weiss cards are lot cheaper that's for sure because they open those more in there

golden plover
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It looks like the top 5 are Yugioh, Pokemon, Vanguard/Bushiroad games, Digimon, and sometimes mtg

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Nothing I'm looking at has Weiss anywhere above 7th most played tcg in japan

languid quest
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western signed Weiss card can be $10 or $20 more expensive than Japanese one

golden plover
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MTG is also only sometimes in the top 5

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Depends on how big other games are at the time

languid quest
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Bushiroad tend to have strong grip in there

golden plover
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Yup

languid quest
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they also advertise CFV a lot

lusty trench
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I'm amazed vanguard has survived considering its meta's have been egregious and it's had to reset twice due to power creep

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Iirc they're now on the second series of overdress?

golden plover
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Sidenote, but I was mildly concerned about the limited number of BRO archive foils (each being numbered X/500) but with the anniversary packs thing, they're probably gonna move more into sports card territory too with those

languid quest
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YGO stays on top in there mainly because of nostalgia

golden plover
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I wouldn't be surprised if the numbered foils thing happens every set in the future

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And various specific alt style treatments

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Sports cards have been doing it forever and it's always a big cash grab for them

languid quest
lusty trench
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Yes but YGO has the nostalgia train backing it

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Also I've never seen a format in YGO in my time playing it as bad as zodiac time beasts

languid quest
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ZTBs were mistake from Bushiroad pure and simple

copper pecan
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if these end up working the way masterpieces did, it will make standard a lot cheaper to get into by driving down the price of everything in the sets other than the numbered foils

languid quest
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honestly for alt art treatment numbering would make lot of sense

lusty trench
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I'm fine with collectors stuff in regular packs cause it makes the normal cards easier to get, so long as they have easier to get versions that aren't as pretty

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Like Digimon has alt arts or rare chase cards so people go for those, and thus the singles that aren't those go down in price

golden plover
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Yeah, it'd be fine if it helped drop the price of the regular versions (like pokemon does)

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But there's the way sports cards do it too where it doesn't affect the regular ones

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The rest of this 30th stuff and BRO is looking to be a mess for sure tho

copper pecan
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it's way too early to say that bro will be a mess

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we've seen like 3 cards from the set

lusty trench
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Me who's buying gix, urza and Mishra then dipping

golden plover
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I mean, Bro might not be bad card wise, but they're doing some fucky stuff tbh

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Like I said, it's weird they have the transformers stuff taking main priority on the set bundle

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Not even gonna have a set bundle dice, it's transformers themed

lusty trench
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Gonna be honest was hoping for urza Vs Mishra theme dice

golden plover
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I like the set dice. I usually pick up a bundle just to have some cool dice variety

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But this one is unfortunately transformers themed instead

lusty trench
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I like that furnace golem art at least copium

golden plover
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Yeah that art is pretty cool

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Wish there wasn't a "transformers card included" right on top of it tho

lusty trench
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I want to see some old dominaria dragons

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Show us new versions of the elder dragons

golden plover
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Maybe we'll get a chromium

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They'd fit the most

lusty trench
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I just realised they can shoehorn nicol bolas into this

golden plover
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Theoretically, yup

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I think if we're gonna see a dragon tho, they'd be Chromium

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[[Chromium]] could use a good card tbh

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Legendary Creature — Elder Dragon
Flying
Rampage 2 (Whenever this creature becomes blocked, it gets +2/+2 until end of turn for each creature blocking it beyond the first.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, sacrifice Chromium unless you pay manawmanaumanab.
7/7

golden plover
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Both of his suck

lusty trench
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Hopefully they get a good card this time

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Ye

golden plover
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Yeah

lusty trench
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Maybe they'll be a new artifact dragon

golden plover
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Urza is already in esper, so it'd make sense to have some support for him in the main set

lusty trench
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I just want more dragons for my dragon deck tbh

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(I am fighting for slots at the moment yet am greedy)

golden plover
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Imma eventually proxy a deck for every color combo and Esper has nothing I'm super interested in rn

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It'll probably be new urza, but Chromium could be fun

lusty trench
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Gonna be honest I'm not impressed with either urza or Mishra from the precons

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The urza is good but like... In the 99 good

golden plover
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Mishra is really good actually

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You can copy stuff with a name change

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Using like [[Gonti's Aether Heart]] for extra turns

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lusty trench
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Mishra I don't doubt has good synergies it's just... Not how I imagined grixis artifacts

golden plover
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Yeah that's fair. But we do have other options for artifact grixis already

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[[Silas Renn]] and someone like Jeska or [[Vial Smasher]]

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golden plover
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LMAO WOTC flagged my Makeplayingcards order for using this back

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Oh it still shipped. They just flagged it for no reason

lusty trench
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Lmao

atomic harness
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the boy himself

lusty trench
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When the leyline is binding

atomic harness
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we're getting there

golden plover
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I just realized [[Vexilus Praetor]] is the only creature with "Custodes" for a typeline

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golden plover
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Why

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Why not just make him whatever the other ones were then

copper pecan
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why even have astartes be a creature type

golden plover
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Honestly

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They should have genericized all their creature types

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Just have the Marines be human or mutants if you really wanna argue that
Necrons just be skeletons
Tyranids just be Horrors or Beasts

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And then there's cards like Vexilus where he is the ONLY custodes

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He's likely one that would get a UW printing too, because he's probably gonna see a lot of play in anything with white that cares about the commander

copper pecan
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alien is literally a creature type now so i don't know why they didn't use that for the tyranids

golden plover
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Meaning they'll have to make a different creature type for another single card

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Oh yeah, Alien is. Just use that tbh

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It's not like every ikoria monster or anything got its own creature type

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Hell, they didn't give the stranger things kids Gamer (which was at the time silver border) despite it being thematic

copper pecan
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i still love the most dangerous gamer though

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very funny card name

golden plover
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True. Sorta wish he was acorn only but I feel like the whole set would have benefited from that

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Could have been way wackier with stickers if they're supposed to go on during the draft and never come off

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Especially considering the stickers sorta fall apart after one use

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Oh lmao they messed up the border in this lair even

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Good ol WoTC QC

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(Reflector Mage has the legend crown)

languid quest
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I do like that art for Azami

golden plover
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The art is sick

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But it's just funny they messed up the printing on one of 4 cards in the set

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Actually considering Unfinity and Warhammer, that's pretty standard

languid quest
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lol does WotC want to compete with Bushiroad when it comes to misprints

golden plover
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It's probably just they shit out product so fast now they don't care about quality control

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Old misprints used to be expensive, but if you get the wrong stamp on your unfinity card or anything, it's just "yeah half of them have that"

languid quest
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that is yikes

golden plover
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Tbh I'm sure that about 1/4th the cards in the $1000 packs are gonna be misprinted somehow

languid quest
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oh for sure that's more than possible

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but WotC and Hasbro won't care because they have gotten whales' money

golden plover
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Honestly, I'm surprised with how many misprints and wrong cards have been in the 40k decks tho

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Like usually, a few people will find an extra land in place of a rare or something, but it's better like 50% of the decks have missing cards and dupes

languid quest
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that makes me want even less to buy any of those 40k precons

golden plover
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Gotta love charging $20 more and having more errors than usual

languid quest
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one of Neo Dynasty and New Capenna precons were already really bad when it comes to dupes

sudden lava
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I need help remembering a card name

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I remember it being a red legendary creature (?) that when something takes 1 damage it takes like 2 more damage on top of the 1 damage

golden plover
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Aesthetic Neutral, Printing Rebel

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golden plover
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Huh what's his name

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[[Torbran, Thane]]

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sudden lava
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huh, couldve sworn it was a different card? But technically this works (maybe there is multiple with this effect?)

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ty

golden plover
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There's [[Molten Immolation]] too that's similar

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No card found for “Molten Immolation”

golden plover
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Not sure what the name is. There's a 6 mana enchantment that doubles damage

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[[Fiery Emancipation]]

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golden plover
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Damn, this isn't even including lairs

sudden lava
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OH THAT'S WHAT IT WAS

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I remembered it as plus 2

lusty trench
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That's a super nice build around

glad peak
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There was another that’s from the warhammer deck

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It’s the blue red one

golden plover
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Oh thank god the post Malone lair is Godzilla styled and not his deck

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(if it was his Zur deck you'd see it in like 5 years)

lusty trench
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Post Malone phyrexian agent confirmed

golden plover
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Now they always say compleations

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Also, I think the "wizards realized the deck looked like shit with 50 foils, 50 non-foil" theory is the reason they've delayed the deck for ALMOST A WHOLE YEAR

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Because if it was the coin, they'd go "oh yeah we're having issues with the coin" but they can't blame anyone else for the decks looking like shit and falling over when it's their own foils causing the issue

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And they haven't said anything because obviously they don't wanna look bad and admit their foil quality has been shit forever

twilit canyon
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super disappointed we wont get mechanically unique post malone cards

languid quest
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after all this time they don't seem to bother to improve they foiling process

golden plover
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Compare any foil pre-2015ish to any modern foil

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The old ones don't have any issues. It's only 2015 onwards that they're nearly unplayable

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It's also an English only problem. The Japanese printers don't have foil issues

lusty trench
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I have a resplendent angel from 2019 promo stamped that had been sitting in a box for 2 years unsleeved

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Not curled or dented in the slightest

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I opened a collector's pack of unfinity and it looked like I had just received cards from a pringles can

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It's to the point now I consider foils undesirable

languid quest
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I have never been big on foils outside games like YGO and CFV for practical reasons unless it's special like Judge Promo Avacyn or full art Deathless Angel

languid quest
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yup

lusty trench
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Angels are so based

languid quest
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those two are there among my favourites in my collection

glad peak
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Angels are just humans that can fly

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Without tribal support

lusty trench
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...? Got plenty of tribal support

golden plover
lusty trench
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More than a lot of tribes

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I mean it's not like merfolk goblins or elves but

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It's up there

glad peak
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I’m talking about human tribal support

golden plover
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Angels are arguably the most supported white tribe

glad peak
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It makes more sense if you put the two sentences together

languid quest
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they are there with soldiers

lusty trench
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Ah I get it no worries

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Best I can give you is a human lord angel

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Honestly I need to do a double check on all the angels and dragons released cause every time I think I've seen them all I get surprised

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Like midnight hunt has 3 mythic angels

languid quest
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there is also this one [[sigarda, heron's grace]]

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lusty trench
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DO I HEAR 4

golden plover
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Chaos Warp?

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Genuinely no clue on this one?

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And a separate set of 5 lands for $30 lmao

twilit canyon
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i think u should unplug from magic

zinc shard
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is he signing every land?

twilit canyon
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yea cus i see nothing wrong with this

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this is a collectors item

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for a very popular artist

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no vital game piece is being sold here

golden plover
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I mean, I think it's fine. It's just kinda funny they still do that

twilit canyon
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why

golden plover
twilit canyon
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it makes logical sense

zinc shard
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figured

twilit canyon
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people already pay more for lands

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we have known this

golden plover
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5 lands for $30 is a ridiculous deal for basics, but they've literally always done it with lairs

twilit canyon
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and those lands then hold even more value

golden plover
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The Godzilla ones are $10, no one breaks $5

glad peak
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Let people pay the amount they want for their silly cardboard

twilit canyon
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yea

glad peak
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If they want to spend 30 then let them

golden plover
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It's fine tho because it's just full art lands. It's just wild that it's $30 for a basic of each color in all these land lairs

twilit canyon
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the godzilla lands are also just not the most appealing lands for everyone

glad peak
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If they want to spend 1000 then let them

twilit canyon
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yep

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they arent essential game pieces at all

glad peak
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People spend hundreds on getting people to sign their cards

twilit canyon
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but if it upsets u that they even exist please just stop playing magic or interacting with magic

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its clearly not making u happy

glad peak
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Literally spending money to damage your cards

clever sun
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Only from someone extremely famous like Post would I be okay with someone signing my card(s)

glad peak
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Good news

zinc shard
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he's just expressing his opinion. abit rude to tell someone to stop playing cuz they want to criticize part of the game.

glad peak
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You can get cards with his skins

clever sun
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People need to unplug from stuff that no longer makes them happy

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It's one thing to express an opinion

glad peak
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It’s more rude to continuously imposing your hatred for something instead of seeing it and moving from it

clever sun
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Lord knows I have my criticism over recent WotC decisions

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But I also won't stay mad about it

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Like I don't play Yugioh anymore cus that game and the direction it moved into didn't make me happy

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I don't go to banlist threads or gen_ygo or MD Chat to complain about every last decision done

zinc shard
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guess i missed him doing that

glad peak
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He does it literally every day

clever sun
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Quite literally 90% of this thread is just complaints about Magic

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Or arguments about X new product

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or X format

languid quest
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people still have right to express to opinions regardless does some other people like it or not

clever sun
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Sure

glad peak
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All of them being super cold takes that anyone would’ve heard millions of times already

languid quest
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we are not some hive mind after all

clever sun
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Correct

glad peak
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Idk, have you seen some of their posts?

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Feels sort of like one

clever sun
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This does not mean you are entitled to also then trample on and complain ad nauseam

glad peak
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Not just pope’s

clever sun
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If someone is not enjoying something the best thing for one person to do is to disconnect from said thing and move on

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You can come back later on

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maybe not

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But why spend time being miserable?

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or upset?

languid quest
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because there is still some aspect of game that they still enjoy?

clever sun
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Doesn't matter

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If the majority the things around a game upsets me I'm just not playing it anymore or engaging with it further

glad peak
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I don’t have a problem with complaints, what I do have a problem with is when people do the same thing over and over again with the punchline being “haha money”

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Just like how he hates “haha amogus” jokes

clever sun
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Yeah basically

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I have my own set of complaints regarding new product releases

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and foil quality and nany more things

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But I also recognize that going on about it endlessly is pointless

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Personally, because I will be spending money regardless

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So my complaints are useless if I'm still buying about one or two cases per set

languid quest
clever sun
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Correct and if someone wishes to spend their life bitter about things

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Sure they may

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But that is also why I have mod powers here and can curate the space I have here

glad peak
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They’re free to be upset all the time but we’re free to criticize them for being upset all the time

clever sun
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Just as Misty is free to tell them "Hey it might not be in your best interest to always be upset at a hobby of yours"

glad peak
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Anyways I had a funny commander game with randoms that started with them having tons of salt

clever sun
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Nice

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I actually had a good game of casual the other day

glad peak
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Turn 2 cursed totem on my board and they complained they couldn’t play and attacked me every turn with… 4/4s and 5/5s

clever sun
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I feel like I need to get some sort of marker or indicator on the times Keranos bolts someone to death

languid quest
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honestly no one in here will convince each other that they view is only correct one so at end of day arguing about this leads to nothing

glad peak
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So I made a deal with them, for me to kill my own totem and everyone will not kill me for a certain amount of turns and they all agreed

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Little did they know, turning on their mana dorks meant handing the krenko player a 30 minute turn where everyone except me died and I killed him on the crackback nyaruhodo

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Bad threat assessment strikes again

clever sun
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Poor threat assesment is the biggest killer in all games of Commander

glad peak
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Yeah idk why they get mad at the only thing keeping them alive

golden plover
clever sun
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Yeah it's good to take a step back and down the line who knows

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Maybe you come back

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if not at least it isn't making you upset anymore

golden plover
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Maybe. I feel like management for the game would have to change for that. I'll probably still go to my lgs here and there, but it's probably best not to keep up with it anymore

languid quest
#

right but still it was rude from Misty to demand that you should disconnect from game just because he didn't like your opinion

golden plover
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Nah, it's fine

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It's been a long time coming

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Sidenote can threads not make me follow every time I reply

clever sun
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Click unfollow and mute

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Not sure how it works otherwise

glad peak
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As much as we clown you, we’re not coming from bad intentions, it really isn’t heathy dwelling on things that make you unhappy

golden plover
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I've left the thread, any time I say anything about it, it auto follows, which is weird but whatever

languid quest
clever sun
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Yes commenting auto follows

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I forgot I made a comment on the OW thread and it auto-followed too

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Hmmm one sec

golden plover
clever sun
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Yeah it's what I experienced with Yugioh

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Didn't like how the game went

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Wanted to keep liking it but I knew

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if I kept going it would have made me more miserable

golden plover
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Yeah, at least with yugioh it was kind of a more gradual decline for me tbh. Like I just stopped caring about formats and now the card loop is a mess

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Magic was kinda "oh here's a ton of bad decisions and a ton of good ones" so I just kinda kept hoping the good ones would win out

sleek ferry
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At least magic gives you options. You don’t have to like every meta but there’s got to be one meta that you at least somewhat enjoy

languid quest
#

with YGO I mostly keep up because of nostalgia

sleek ferry
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Yugioh is currently in the darkest times it’s been in in over a decade

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And there’s no end in sight

clever sun
golden plover
clever sun
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I have my own critiques but

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I am the whale they appeal to

languid quest
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as far as Magic goes I still like playing EDH so I haven't stopped playing it

clever sun
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So for me nothing enough to get me to drop this game

golden plover
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Like I'll keep up with my formats, but it's impossible to play magic without having to interact with that kinda stuff now

clever sun
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Like I have a big complaint with format management

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Sure we just had a banlist for Standard and Modern

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But Pioneer, Legacy, Pauper and Alchemy all could use some sort of change

languid quest
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unfortunately that stuff is every were so you can't really avoid it

golden plover
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Yeah, it's not limited to a single format or anything

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And yeah, nykthos should have gone too this list

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I know it's a cornerstone of the format, but when half the decks are devotion, it's a bit too present

sleek ferry
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Idk about the other formats, but it makes sense that standard, modern and edh get preferred treatment since they’re the most popular ones

clever sun
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Pioneer Fable of the Mirror Breaker is definitely too good and so is Nykthos
Pauper combo might be too good (again)
Legacy Delver feels the most oppressive and yet painfully dull it's been

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Alchemy has the same issues Standard has which is insane to me given they can literally rebalance stuff and change it back if it's wrong or too far

golden plover
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Isn't Murktide also like sorta creating issues of being entire arhcetypes in legacy rn?

languid quest
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Nykthos is basically staple in devotion so it tends to be required in those

clever sun
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Murktide and DRC are both absurd in Legacy

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Both fit in Delver

golden plover
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Like sure it dies before it can pop off against faster decks, but it can kinda do everything faster than the rest of the field

sleek ferry
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My only issue with standard right now is the post DMU format feels like it got solved way too fast, and now we’re stuck in a stale format

glad peak
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Honestly modern is pretty healthy and didn’t need a power related ban, even if the 4c decks were boring

clever sun
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Expressive Iteration also continues being the best spell in every format it's in

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I'd say EI is the best card in Vintage atm too

glad peak
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Yes yes mh2 or whatever but that was the point of that set and it made the format much more interactive

clever sun
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Only Commander is really saved but even then it's just because the strength of cantrips and stuff is weaker there

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Yeah Modern is in a good spot

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4c is boring but it is whatever

sleek ferry
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#bringbackizzetdragons

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Is it bad that I miss Goldspan?

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In standard

clever sun
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No

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Card was pretty broken but fun

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I wish it got a Historic buff

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Unlike Chariot, Luminarch, or Faceless Haven

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It is definitely too far gone from Historic playability

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Same with Divide by Zero but mostly because of the counters it competes with at the same cost

sleek ferry
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We’re in that weird period in standard where after goldspan we’ve gotten a red legendary dragon like every set, but all of them are mid af

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Like uh moonveil whatever the fuck is called

clever sun
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Overcorrection

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Oh Moonveil is great

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This Standard has too much card advantage to run though

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So Moonveil is a bit useless

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And in Alchemy it fits weird on the curve

sleek ferry
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Yeah that’s mostly what I mean, only other red dragon that sees some play rn is shivan devastator

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And that’s very eh

clever sun
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Turn 2 Whelp turn 3 four drop is the dream

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Is Moonveil the one you want? Ideally it curves into Darigaaz or Rith and then you draw 3 to refresh

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But the issue then lies in that your 3 mana play is vital to either ramp or interact here

sleek ferry
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I’m not sure what Izzet and Mono Red need right now, izzet is probably closer to being meta relevant though, mono red is going to get gatekept by sheoldred unless they get something big

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Meathook ban helps though

clever sun
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I don't think you need Red in Standard for Blue

sleek ferry
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Yeah mono blue already does things

clever sun
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Same with Alchemy. Just make your mana consistent

sleek ferry
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Mainly be obnoxious as all fuck

clever sun
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I think the deck itself is medium

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But it attacks an angle that the current decks suck fighting against

sleek ferry
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Yeah, I mean I think the deck is fine, but holy shit the deck represents all the blue stereotypes

clever sun
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Fair lol

sleek ferry
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Misty gave me the idea of grixis vampires and after doing some research, I decided I hated all the builds on YouTube

clever sun
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Oh ew don't go to Youtube

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Grixis Vampires though? I tried em

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They were okay

sleek ferry
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They’re fun if nothing else, been messing around with ratios and stuff, having access to certain blue cards makes some matchups way easier which I like

clever sun
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I can whip up the decklist again in a bit

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If I play Arena I'm playing Alchemy or Historic though

sleek ferry
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I’m basically only logging in to do daily quests and then logging off

clever sun
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I do play more than just daily quests

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But I'm not grinding to Mythic monthly

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Too busy

sleek ferry
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I had a nice little push for mythic last season, but then got caught up with projects at work so yeah

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I live vicariously through Ren

clever sun
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LOL yeah

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I'm watching Misty and Ren get to Mythic before the halfway point of the month and Idk

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It makes me a bit proud

sleek ferry
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Well we know Misty is great at the game, I’m more proud of how good Ren became so quickly tbh

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You guys guided him, he listened and now he’s chilling

clever sun
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Yugioh knowledge transfers for sure

lusty trench
twilit canyon
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magic knowledge also transfers to ygo from my experience

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i really had an easy time getting a hang of yugioh

clever sun
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I am slightly more surprised you actually liked Yugioh lol

glad peak
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Sometimes you have to take a good hard look into the abyss

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And sometimes the abyss stares back

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And you like it

twilit canyon
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ygo is objectively shit, unbalanced mess

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but thats what makes it kinda fun at times

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opp will set up the most disgusting unbreakable board and i will draw the exact outs and lague

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*laug

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laugh

clever sun
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LOL yeah

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Those high rolls are pretty funny

glad peak
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It’s like playing fighting games and playing a kusoge for shits and giggles

atomic harness
zinc shard
twilit canyon
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just diviner of fates as the only nerf in alchemy for tomorrow

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and honestly deserved

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going from a 2/3 to a 2/1 so it dies to more thingd after conniving is good

atomic harness
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and I lost because I got flooded out, thanks lads

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g3 time

twilit canyon
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it be like that

atomic harness
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I like the game but man flooding sucks. I was 1 win away from dia now im back to where I started

twilit canyon
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dont play while tilted

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its how u drop ranks faster

atomic harness
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mm alright, I only have a few hours until meathook goes though I think

twilit canyon
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yep

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did u craft the remaining meathooks?

atomic harness
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so yea im trying to get dia before that

twilit canyon
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they are free rn

atomic harness
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mhm

twilit canyon
#

oh

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climbing post-meathook will probs be easier

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1 sec

atomic harness
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oh rly?

twilit canyon
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you will be facing a lot of aggro cus it will finally be free

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but that just leaves esper in a more proper position

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cus esper actually has life gain

atomic harness
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do you have an updated list? umuthink

twilit canyon
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a lot of the other colors relied on meathook vs aggro to gain life

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meathook and sheoldred

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to be precise

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but esper naturally has dennick and interceptor

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emperor

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as life gain

atomic harness
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I did pull a third dennick

twilit canyon
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this is where im sitting atm

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im primarily playing alchemy esper or historic izzet

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but anytime i dip into standard this is what im on

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also i really gotta replace the shitty non-full art on the lands and get the dennick and destroy evil styles

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but yea this deck is great

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maybe 2 farewells is too much

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but u dont have the consistency that alchemy esper gets

atomic harness
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oh that list is a lot heavier huh

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lots of 4s and 5s

twilit canyon
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yep

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u need to have the bulk vs midrange

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like my list destroys midrange mirrors

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this build however is also very strong into aggro

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4 cut downs

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2 march

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3 dennick

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4 interceptor

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2 emperor to gain life

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interceptor and dennick are also gonna carry raffine counters

copper pecan
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it was way too strong

twilit canyon
#

ya

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diviner of fate is my baby but

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card had to get nerfed

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i like this nerf a lot actually

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didnt weaken the ability

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just hurt the defensive capabilities of it

atomic harness
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Neat

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I gotta try it

twilit canyon
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diviner of fates is 1 of the best midrange cards ever made tbh

atomic harness
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[[diviner of fates]]

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twilit canyon
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yes they stack in multiples

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so going t3 diviner

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discard draw 1 that shares the same type

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t4 diviner #2 discard

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draw 2

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that share that same type

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and yes they trigger off any discard

atomic harness
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[[toluz]]

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I see

twilit canyon
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opponent casts lili of the veil vs u?

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they better downtick

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Legendary Creature — Human Rogue
When Toluz, Clever Conductor enters the battlefield, it connives. (Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.)
Whenever you discard one or more cards, exile them from your graveyard.
When Toluz dies, put the cards exiled with it into their owner's hand.
3/1

twilit canyon
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or that lili + is going -1

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your own lili?

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it draws u a card

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[[calim djinn emperor]] discards itself for his ability?

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you are now infinitely more likely for calim to be a 2 mana 5/6 ward 2 flyer

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Legendary Creature — Djinn Noble
Flying
Ward mana2
Calim's Breathmana1manau, Discard Calim: Tap up to one target nonland permanent. Draw a card. Then you may exile two other cards named Calim, Djinn Emperor from your graveyard. When you do, return Calim, Djinn Emperor from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
When you discard Calim, conjure a card named Calim, Djinn Emperor into your library seventh from the top.
5/6

atomic harness
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I'm a little short on the rares, one sec

twilit canyon
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oh yea dw about alchemy esper midrange

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this deck is def more expensive than other alchemy decks bc its a midrange deck

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so it wants you to go ultra greedy

atomic harness
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wow thats a pull

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not sure what rares to prioritize and im prolly gonna run budget options over the missing stuff

twilit canyon
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a suggestion to shore up missing cards

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go 7-1 or better whenever an open comes up

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those 2500$ do a ton to patch up cards

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hell even 6-2

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thats 1k

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iirc

atomic harness
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I'll look into it

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idt my skill level is up for it though I do tend to get tilted

clever sun
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You gotta go through a day one and then a day 2

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It is not as simple as "Just win the 1-2.5"

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It is possible though

atomic harness
#

aye

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swolenick

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also im surprised I dont see cemetery prowler more, first time running into it

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3/4 vigilance non targeting gy hate chungus that also cheats mana

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for 3

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dude spammed like all 4 on me this game

twilit canyon
#

green is just kinda whatever in standard rn

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also

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trespasser has it beat soooo much

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same mana cost

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way more splashable

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ward - discard

atomic harness
#

oh the extra toughness not a factor bc ward is cooler?

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and the life swing

twilit canyon
#

flips into a 4/4

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eats for a drain

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flipped eats 2 for drain 2

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yea it just does a ton

atomic harness
#

Yeah trespasser is best girl

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hmm maybe if prowler was 2G instead of 1GG?

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but then you're playing green PepePoint

atomic harness
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and the whole adventurer 1/1 asshole draw guy

twilit canyon
#

they lost a ton of cards

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check their cards

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they dont have creature lands

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ranger class is gone

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they are just

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mid

atomic harness
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Oh yeah ranger died too

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and hydra

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I miss the manlands honestly

sleek ferry
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Green needs meaningful 2-3 drops that makes it so something besides defiler/titan are threatening

twilit canyon
#

yea

sleek ferry
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Like why would I play green instead of green white

twilit canyon
#

standard mana bases are just boring atm

atomic harness
#

ironically meathook hasnt been helping me in any of these games

#

goal completed misty caster nyaruhodo

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I wanted to test out spell pierce again, I haven't drawn it all that much so I can't tell if it's any good or not. Circle of confinement has been extremely good

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rip meathook PeepoCry

twilit canyon
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spell pierce isnt for this deck

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trust

atomic harness
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wbout make disappear?

#

I just want stuff for the annoying big bombs that's cheapo

twilit canyon
#

make disappear is ok

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but this deck just doesnt wanna counterpsell

#

cus lili puts pressure on your hand

atomic harness
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oh hmm

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so counterspells are just better in the side yeah when you know you rly need it in the matchup?

#

since like negate/stroke are v nice

#

in g1 you kinda just prefer removal on threats

twilit canyon
#

yep

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g1 you want removal and wincons

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g2-3 against a control heavy deck

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where you can afford to go slow

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and need to keep them off specific cards from resolving

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thats when you play counters

atomic harness
#

since meathook is gone does that mean I have to play the cleave thing

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or that enchantment that nukes all 2 drops

twilit canyon
#

theres a few things

atomic harness
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the lifegain loss is sucky sure but esper always had lifegain so its fine

twilit canyon
#

path of peril is good bc it can become a full on sweeper

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depopulate is just a sweeper

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farewell is solid but expensive

atomic harness
#

yeah I dont think I can rely on farewell

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peril might be the move

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[[path of peril]]

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twilit canyon
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i am playing both peril and farewell

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bc farewell is better in the midrange mirrors

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while peril is better vs aggro

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which u must respect

twilit canyon
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i hate magic players

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im up 7 minutes vs mono-red

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im playing fucking esper

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how

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up 8 now

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this is so dumb

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9

#

10

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all that to concede

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been testing historic decks atm

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done for tonight but rakdos is def powerful

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very swole very strong

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running decks like a league

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5 matches

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stats for this league

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this puts me at mythic top 300 for the month

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and i think im gonna make a legit push to #1 this month

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its been a long time coming

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my highest ever is 137

#

is this the deck that im gonna do this with? idk yet

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its this or izzet

#

no other historic deck feels nearly as good as these decks besides goblins

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but people are gonna be hardcore prepping for goblins

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like this deck is pretty adept at beating em with all the removal and molten impacts

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the other big decks are azorius and boros affinity

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both of which im fully prepared for

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shatterstorm and hidetsugu consumes all are insanely good in historic rn

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slight thoughts on no chandra: i didnt miss her

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shes not bad

#

but i felt every single card i ran in this 75 was extremely impactful in all match ups and i cant think of a point where i would have rather had chandra in one of those slots

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this is a very adult decklist with so many 4 ofs and the few ones that are less than 4 ofs being cards you dont want as 4 ofs main

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so intentionally hurting my consistency in impact plays by splashing say

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2 chandras as fun-ofs would have easily cost me matches

#

right the match ups real quick:
1st was vs golgari midrange. extremely easy. my card quality > their card quality. i easily dredged through them game 1. game 2 they left discard spells in for some reason but pulled ahead after i missed a few lands. game 3 i showed them why you side out discard spells in midrange match ups as i kept accruing card advantage with my topdecks while they drew ioks and ts.
2nd was vs jeskai lotus: they turn 2ed strict proctor i immediately cast kroxa into it and they conceded. g2 they couldnt answer 2 bloodtithe harvester on board as they spent the rest of the game countering lilis and fables and a kroxa and died.
3rd was vs azorius affinity. game 1 i beat them by removing all their permanents as they came in and then locked them out of cards with citystalker + fable as they tried to topdeck to come back. g2 they got ahead as i flooded and then closed the game out quick with nettlecysts on thopers. g3 i hidetsugu'd them and then shatterstormed them on their recovery and they died.
4th was vs mono-red: the aforementioned piece of shit took forever g1 but died to my own beatdown and i won by the skin of my teeth at 1 life with graveyard tespassers gaining me a lot of life. g2 they roped me for like 10 minutes and conceded to sheoldred.
5th game was vs mardu sacrifice and this match up was fucked. game 1 they made all the wrong plays into graveyard trespasser and then they never saw a 4th land. g2 i overwhelmed them with trespassers and seasoned pyro and then they finally cast a yawgmoth and died to burn from kolaghan's command and trespasser burn.

atomic harness
#

I cant believe historic has both fatal push and thoughtseize

twilit canyon
#

and inquisition of kozilek

#

amd seasoned pyro

#

these are modern cards lmao

#

so is shatterstorm tbh

atomic harness
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Kozliek too booba

#

sounds fun

twilit canyon
#

fuck lol so is lili of the veil

#

this is like 3 lands removed from a modern deck

atomic harness
#

black eating good in historic huh

twilit canyon
#

rt tho its the zoomer cards that carry

#

citystalker is busted

atomic harness
#

[[citystalker]]

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No card found for “citystalker”

twilit canyon
#

[[citystalker connisseur]]

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twilit canyon
#

also graveyard trespaaser

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*trespasser

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lowkey the 2nd card that carries hardest besides fable

atomic harness
#

she's broken here too

#

yooo

sleek ferry
#

I've been really liking Falkenrath Forebear vs mono blue as a way to keep tempo vs them

#

especially since half these players just sit on 2-3 open mana at all times

atomic harness
#

[[forebear]]

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Multiple cards match “forebear”, can you be more specific?

atomic harness
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[[falkenrath forebear]]

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sleek ferry
#

god Cemetery Gatekeeper shits on selesnya so hard

zinc shard
#

in case ppl wondered what 100% looked like

lusty trench
#

Jesus that post Malone one is value

zinc shard
#

is Totally Spaced out only in Foil?

lusty trench
#

Probably cause it's in galaxy foil

zinc shard
#

yea shame... good lands but not worth $50 to me

lusty trench
#

Might pick up the post Malone one for the medallion alone, and the yoji shinkawa one because GOD DAMN

fallow citrus
#

hot damn the junji ito and yoji shinkawa ones are so good

lusty trench
#

Junji ito sadly isn't for me, but I'm super happy he got one cause his work is legendary

hidden ermine
#

Wait, Yoji Shinkawa, is that the guy who did the iconic Metal Gear artworks?

copper pecan
#

yes

#

he also did one of the arts for kaito from neon dynasty

atomic harness
#

Post malone pog

sudden lava
#

the stitchers supplier is cute

languid quest
#

I have seen Post Malone in Game Knight but I have no idea why he is supposed to be big deal since I am not American and I don't follow mainstream music genres

#

maybe that makes me ignorant that I don't know who some famous person is but so be it

glad peak
#

He’s a meh song guy who was popular for a song or so

#

Very good at leveraging that to get into edh shows though

twilit canyon
#

post has had some of the biggest pop/hip hop hits of the 2010s

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sunflower, congratulations, white iverson, psycho

#

rockstar

glad peak
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Oh right he did congratulations

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I forgot

trail anvil
#

also wow and circles

glad peak
#

Don’t know those ones

languid quest
#

like I said I don't follow those genre

lusty trench
#

Had a commander party at my lgs tonight

#

We had two hours to play a game

#

I won in ten minutes

languid quest
#

I assume it was cEDH since you won so fast

lusty trench
#

No I just had a cracked hand

#

Sol ring, mana cost reducers the whole kit and caboodle

glad peak
#

I remember doing the same because someone flooded the board on 3 and I happened to clear it with extra damage coming from toralf

#

He got pissed real quick

#

Something something “blasphemous act is a cedh only card”

lusty trench
#

There was a DMU sheoldred player

#

Nearly killed us using puzzle box and underworld connections

#

I managed to win thanks to a turn 3 terror of the peaks which spiraled from there

#

The deck I was using was Ur dragon tribal

copper pecan
#

tbh a big part of why i stopped playing edh was i got sick of having to watch people get into arguments over what does or doesn't count as "cedh"

#

a lot of the time it seemed to just be "anything that wins against my deck is cedh"

#

or that any removal or countering is cedh

#

or that attacking before turn 3 is cedh

languid quest
#

IMO it's certain builds and combos that make it cEDH, not any single card

#

I mean I have used and seen many cards that you see in cEDH also in casual EDH decks

copper pecan
#

the straw that broke the camel's back for me was when someone said that me using [[shriekmaw]] on their llanowar elves was cedh

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lusty trench
#

In a world where swords to plowshares exists

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And is a precon card

languid quest
#

not to mention Path to Exile

broken fjord
#

Had some fun games last night. Won a game on turn 5 thanks to krark(though he wasn't the commander). Seething Song into Jeska's Will into full Jaxis combo.

golden plover
#

Had a game at my lgs last night where they were on gruul urza and pithing needled top t1

#

Went exactly as I expected while I searched for my abrade/vandalblast

#

That gruul girl is kinda nuts

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(Gruul urza is Meria)

atomic harness
copper pecan
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apparently a bunch of cards just got errataed to have surveil or landfall if they had functionally identical effects

glad peak
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Yep

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Pretty cool

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Sure people are saying disinformation campaign is too good now but

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No it just isn’t that good idk what people are on about

copper pecan
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yeah disinformation campaign isn't going to see competitive play

glad peak
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Turns it into a decent build around like a weaker kiki combo or opposition in lower power cubes though since the surveil errata cards are good enough for cube

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Grim flayer having both surveil and delirium finally makes it a retroactive grandpa to drc

lusty trench
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I would like to build a surveil deck now

hidden ermine
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Poison counters

copper pecan
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i mean

lusty trench
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Thrumming bird reprent is nice

copper pecan
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if they didn't bring those back i would be shocked

sudden lava
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the thrumming bird is pretty

copper pecan
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also these are almost definitely legit

lusty trench
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Oil counters are neat

sudden lava
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compare to its old art

lusty trench
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Most definitely just more interactive energy though

sudden lava
lusty trench
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Which iirc was its main complaint

sudden lava
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wait the reprint added a type onto it

copper pecan
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the guy who is listed as the artist for one of them (idr which one) says on his instagram profile that he's made art for wotc but according to scryfall no card with art by him has currently been released

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also oil counters are probably just a one off thing and not an entire set mechanic

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they do stuff like it every set

copper pecan
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confirmation on surveil and landfall becoming deciduous

lusty trench
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What does that mean

copper pecan
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they can just randomly show up in sets now even if it's not a major theme of the set

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like how prowess just sort of randomly shows up sometimes

glad peak
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Random question: when does hasbro generally start shipping product

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Let’s see if I can a friend to snipe packages

waxen timber
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Now cards like dimir spybug or thoughtbound phantasm can get massive with the help of channeler

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I kinda want to make izzet breach surveil now

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I think breach, channeler, [[enhanced surveillance]] and a 0 cost that saccs gets your whole grave in deck

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waxen timber
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And if you have 2 channeler or 2 enchaned surveillance in that set up you should be able to win since you can mill the entire deck while getting enough mana to cast thassa's oracle you mill

copper pecan
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wonder what toxic does

lusty trench
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Might give you a poison counter?

copper pecan
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also that card is gonna be very good in historic brawl probably

lusty trench
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Cause this is above rate for a myr rock

copper pecan
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i don't think they do named mechanics that are entirely downside anymore

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except for defender but that was sort of grandfathered into the game at this point

lusty trench
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I have zero clue what it could be then, it's likely something to do with poison counter given the name but... I don't know

copper pecan
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i guess it's probably a variant of infect/poisonous

twilit canyon
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i am willing to bet it is just poisons you or itself after some turns

lusty trench
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Something I would like but is pretty much definitely not happening due to how niche it is is complaetion counters, get enough on a planeswalker and they get removed and you gain control of it

hidden ermine
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My guess is if it dies, it gives your opponent a poison counter?

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I don't think it's a drawback, but I also struggle to think of a variant of infect/poisonous

atomic harness
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New keyword blobsweat

hidden ermine
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That they could still do

atomic harness
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Is it not common to put reminder text on new stuff?

lusty trench
hidden ermine
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We have dealing damage in poison counters

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And we have doing poison counters on damage

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What else is there?

lusty trench
hidden ermine
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Well, at least not all Alt arts do

atomic harness
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Do we have regular art of myr convert

lusty trench
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No only alts so far

hidden ermine
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Its a leak of a test card, and seems to be a set of alt art test cards

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So its unlikely

lusty trench
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I'm trying to view this under the lens of elesh norn, and the on death poison counters makes sense tbh

hidden ermine
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I thought etb first but

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Flickers

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Just ... flickers

lusty trench
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Artifact recursion is strong but it's not strong in standard rn iirc?

hidden ermine
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Plus if you have a sac and a recursion outlet

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Youre probably winning anyway

lusty trench
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Trying to think of how to recur it with ashnods but coming up with a blank

hidden ermine
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Whatever the KCI combo was

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Thats what I'd look at

copper pecan
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my guess is it's infect but it gives a fixed amount of poison rather than scaling it to power

hidden ermine
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Thats already what Poisonous is no?

copper pecan
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poisonous doesn't do -1/-1 counters to creatures though

lusty trench
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Trying to think how they're going to do the new elesh, considering the last one was a considerable pie break

hidden ermine
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Why even give it 2 attack then though

copper pecan
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so that it can't just win the game out of nowhere with a combat trick

hidden ermine
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No I mean

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If it's damage is always the poisonous value

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Why does it have attack?

copper pecan
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it would do the poison counters in addition to the damage

hidden ermine
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So just Poisonous + Wither?

copper pecan
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ye

hidden ermine
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Idk, that seems too similar to Infect to not just ... do infect

copper pecan
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a lot of people really hated how infect can just end the game out of nowhere with combat tricks

lusty trench
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A lot of the used combat tricks just... Give infect though

hidden ermine
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I mean sure, but thats like

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In modern

lusty trench
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Inb4 they make elesh norn "if you were to gain life, gain double, if an opponent were to gain life, gain half"

hidden ermine
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Pretty sure infect never did anything in standard

copper pecan
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infect didn't do anything in standard because people were focused on all the busted artifacts that were in the scars block

hidden ermine
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Tbh, dont see it doing much better in a modern standard metagame

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Theyre not gonna print an unblockable one

lusty trench
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Huh I just thought of something elesh norn could be

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Something Thalia like but it reduces cost for you

copper pecan
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yeah i could see them doing that

lusty trench
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Works with the way elesh norn "recruits" and rally's people, makes it hard for people to be motivated to fight against her (and thus cost more to cast), where as it's easier for her

trail anvil
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man I have no idea how people actually complained about meathook being knocked out of the meta

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monowhite, red and gruul getting more space in the meta should be nothing but fantastic for diversity

trail anvil
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completely unrelated but holy shit monored feels so good, I've been undefeated bo1 throughout all of gold so far

fallow citrus
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I mean I can understand people not wanting to see monowhite anymore lmao

copper pecan
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i'd prefer mono white existing over like 50% of all decks in the meta running black

trail anvil
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I can't understand it lmao, monowhite is actually a pretty easy deck to handle

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especially in bo3

fallow citrus
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it's just a boring deck

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and considering monowhite aggro was the best standard deck until sets rotated I don't think people are over the moon to see it back

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could be wrong though

trail anvil
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I don't even remember tbh, I checked out for a lot of that format

fallow citrus
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I'm pretty sure it was at least the most represented deck

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alongside the funny izzet goldspan deck until that got hit and then rotation happened

sleek ferry
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I have 0 issues with decks running black

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White though, it feels as if white has everything rn

trail anvil
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really? I'm still seeing a lot of monoblack

fallow citrus
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goldfish telling me mono blue delver is a real deck rn

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please be real

atomic harness
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Real Aeri pog

atomic harness
fallow citrus
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ye

atomic harness
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I've run into it a few times it's super gross to fight

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t1 delver/consider then insane godcurve

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then they play the topless flying shtstain

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imo it's the hardest deck to play against

fallow citrus
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tolarian terror is also one of the cards of all time

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standard's bootleg murktide

atomic harness
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Yeah. They have a billion instants that do so much for only U

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shore up, slip out the back, fading hope

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theres also march of swirling mist to clean up the game

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I think the only deck that has a good time vs it is like RDW

fallow citrus
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interesting

twilit canyon
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my opinion on blue delver is that the deck is very very prone to good card density

trail anvil
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I think it was even better when meathook was around cause it really liked going into midrange like monoblack

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lots of nice stuff to counter and prey on decks that prioritized lots of advantage cards

trail anvil
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graphical glitch? my opp only paid W for this with no other effects applying

waxen timber
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Are you playing standard or alchemy?

trail anvil
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standard

trail anvil
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(I'm never playing alchemy unless it's one of those free events they have at the start of each balance change format)

atomic harness
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Mood komi

twilit canyon
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probs a glitch then

viral marsh
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What’s the best way to play a commander deck online before buying it

fallow citrus
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cockatrice probably

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you can join spelltable games using moxfield and obs if you want to

viral marsh
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Thanks

clever sun
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Proxies are not a bad idea either

sleek ferry
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What world is this

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Also Cam is my guy, never heard of the other 3 though

lusty trench
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DOMINIK MAYER GIX

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HOLY SHIT

trail anvil
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hell yeah inject it straight into my veins

copper pecan
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honestly it's kinda wild how many early magic characters didn't get cards despite being super important to the story

sleek ferry
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Cemetery Gatekeeper takes a massive dump on mono blue @atomic harness

fallow aspen
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So...ehem...

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How to make a Red Deck in 2022?

glad peak
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Mountains in deck