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Huatli and saheeli is literally just the Latin American version of Chandra and Nissa
less racist at least...
artifact players cant claim karn cus tron/eldrazi players already did that
so they gotta go after their own guy
Does tezzeret have the highest success ratio of any pw
As far as card quality
Or is it Elspeth
and i wont count minsc and boo of course
Yay stolen art controversy again
There were a few teferi stinkers weren’t there
I’m p sure every elspeth saw play in their standards
not really
outside of the duel decks
the really weird 7 mana teferi of course
but
all others have seen play in some capacity or better
I thought the 6 mana one was p bad too no?
uhh the one from bro?
Also there’s the invasion flip teferi so he’s bad gg
no that one was playable
The one from m21
ah yeah i think that one is from a duel deck not main set
mu yanling was the actual walker from the set there
Thats [[timebender]]
https://melee.gg/Decklist/View/a95103f3-8090-4ac3-8078-b43b0052d4e8 holy fuck swallowed by leviathan
no timebender was from dominaria
With the one ring now how close are we to a full plagiarize art commander deck
Do I have them backwards
yea
Was this one not also bad though
the teferi in the actual set was hero of dominaria
temporal pilgrim saw play
temporal archmage sees commander playe
who slows the sunset has seen play
time raveler
master of time has seen play
invasion of new phyrexia is the only one yeah
and honestly?
in another meta, that card would have been insane
Ok for Elspeth there was
OG saw play in standard
knight errant saw play
Suns champion was a goat card
Suns nemesis saw some play didn’t it
undaunted hero doesnt count
sun's nemesis was fine-ish
honestly i lowkey wanna include her in shit in formats like historic but shes just not good
Elspeth deserves bonus points for ecd
then teferi gets bonus points for teferi's protection
That card should’ve been a planeswalker
Ok then Elspeth also gets bonus points for Elspeths smite gg
puzzle box is part of a lock in commander and a relatively popular one
HOLY fuck based list
I mean, how many different ways can you draw a ring with little to no significant detail 
Ok let’s just agree that elspeth and teferi are equal
also i think time raveler has been traumatizing eternal format players for longer than any elspeth card
got the horses in the back
No look at the reflection placement
It's quite literally the exact same art
You know what pw has a sleeper insane record
ok this maestro list makes a lot more sense
I can't believe that Dan Frazier would steal art tho? So I'm not sure what happened
Vivien oth redid copycat
A bunch of random other viviens have historically been played as overruns in the sideboard
monster advocate is lowkey kinda good
Aside from that I’m pretty sure kiora has a 100% success rate…?
unfortunately never had a chance in the standard it was in
Behemoth beckoner was a super lol card
kiora has only had that tho
Weren’t the other 2 both playable
crashing wave was kinda weird (still is)
4 mana and 2 loyalty like fuck off lol
master of the depths has never been anything ever...?
idt she was awful awful
just
not great
I thought it saw play guess I’m misremembering
Wrenn on the other hand… now that’s my goat
literally
They only printed 3 of her because they knew a 4th one would blow up the universe
she needs maybe like
2 more cards
that are all goated?
and she'll take the all time
Wrenn and realmbreaker was the worst one and still extremely playable
wrenn's resolve... goated storm card
W7 has some of the actual funniest words on it I’ve ever read
+1 that can draw 4 +0 fastbond
Ntm the ultimate 
ultimate 5 mana ramp piece for sure
i remember titan played her a bit
had a titan player +1 on me and draw 4 extremely busted lands
and then w6's dominance in legacy
yeah no she's the goat
she needs like another 2-3 cards
to catch up to teferi and elspeth
Let’s get W1-5
An extremely funny bit would be making her cost more the lower numbered the tree gets 
But I fear W6 is already 5 and u can’t really do too much more than that
Wrenn is actually just such a cool char it’s v unfortunate they wrote her out of the plot
They really found the one scenario where she was turbo broken and then got rid of her
something about wotc and writing out cool women planeswalkers...
Imagine if she was around for mkm too though… she’d fucking fry trostani
Ok actually it’s odd that they managed to do 2 sets b2b centered around trees being the central villain
Odd…
they hate nature
Same
Maybe they’re saving wrenn for the next tree based villain
Or when she comes back she’ll uh… have legs or something
I’m actually confused on the anatomy of dryads in mtg
Are they transferable? Or is Wrenn just unique
If the former then wtf is the deal with trostani
Wrenn just swaps before she kills the tree right
trostani is parked on that thang (the giant ravnica tree)
yea
Ok followup is trostani built diff bc of vitu ghazi or is vitu ghazi built diff bc of trostani
idr her exact case
Also are they conjoined or
its both iirc
With her it’s because of the red mana
Iirc she literally burns trees from the inside out when she’s in them
vitu ghazi is just crazy old and powerful and the trio of course, goes crazy cus of it but they also tend to the tree more and more
right
So they have power from the tree
Not the other way around
Also are they conjoined or just like. Scissor sisters or something
Also Wrenn and realmbreaker makes me wonder what would’ve happened if she pulled up on the actual world tree
wubrg wrenn
Or idk vitu ghazi or boseiju or any other ancient magical tree
This is gonna be her in reality fracture
wrenn and world tree wurbg
5 loyalty
+2 win the game
+0 win the game
-3 win the game
-8 win the game
-10 win the match -12 shoot your opponent
wrenn and boseiju and she just strip mines you every turn on a +1
Wait why’d you make her the same was W6
Are you
Kidsing
Me
Standard won't fire cause there arent enough ppl
"they're all watching the pro tour"
I WAITED LIKE 5 WEEKS FOR THIS
MTG IS DOGSHIT
Ok tbf next week is store championship so I can play then
lmao
Like it's crazy
I'm not even necessarily mad that one format doesn't fire
Or isn't as popular
Whatever
That's fine
Just ask to play commander to get your mtg fix in
But why is the only way to play the other popular format on some program that makes you pay and looks like it's from 1993
It's just unreal
wtf why 30 and 65?
What card is the Japanese one
[[bitter triumph]]
Show the good stuff spat
WTF I SHOULDVE BOUGHT THIS
No way [[guardian of faith]] is over $4
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Pretty good card for casual
Sorry
by accident
also didnt realise they printed a blue dreadhorde arcanist lmao
obviously nowhere near as broken bc it doesn't cast for free but no doubt it will feel crazy with stuff like flow state
Ehh could be they have a contract to allow internal art reusage
When’s the roadmap reveal, tomorrow or Sunday?
Cheering for them
[[case of the crimson pulse]]
Wait huh show
I agree when it’s 5c commanders/in the only relevant colors you have
But I don’t think the concept of type supporting commanders is bad
It’s really hard to find a reason to play spiders that isn’t Omni spider and we’ve seen how broken dragons have to be to be worth over ur dragon
I think lathiril is much more minor of an offender though idk
That’s a twitch extension isn’t it
lathrill is a minor offender for people who are more ingrained in the game
for more casual gamers he's a pest that's all over the game
one of the most played commanders
She grr…
Well is the complaint of the video not just that tribal commanders homogenize types
Yes @knotty ferry
whats it called
Thanks @knotty ferry
i need that
Not necessarily related to power level if we’re whinging about Omni spider
Uhhhh
Let me see if I can find it for you
Currently watching my Pistons force a game 7
[[avatar's wrath]]
the most boring decks come from typal slop where it's just top X cards from scryfall 
better than emry in some cases even if more expensive generally
honestly hes kinda goated
yeah I think the range on the card is what makes it the most
being able to do 3 card types is huge
is it time to play some weird temur list using him and doc aurlock to reduce what you cast from yard by 3
We got to qualify dog
And qualifying isn’t easy
You have to win an RCQ to get your RC invite (this is the easiest of the steps) then you got to top 4-8 an RC
You can also qualify via arena
pro tour qualifications are hard yep
so i might have a line to get the modern goryo's deck for super cheap
should i go for it? 
Hasn’t goryo fallen off a lot?
exactly why this guy's trying to sell it for hella cheap
it's like belcher, it preys on certain metagames then just dies
I wouldn't say no to picking it up
it'll always be solid unless they hit something you reanimate which is doubtful
the main reason why i'm considering it is because psychic frog is such a cool card
I mean if the price is right
the frog is cool
i get to play frog and griselbrand and rizzler and solitude and ephem in the same deck 
what could go wrong
Oh I didn’t even register that’s what this was
Cool card but I wish it had evasion
Upside over dha is that it can hit artifacts
dha free casts too
- the first line of text
Yeah and has trample
And is in better colors for that effect
But this could be decent probably
yeah i think affinity lists may try him out
he has upsides over emry in some spots
5-0 so far at PT Strixhaven! The team cooked up a sick GW landfall deck, and I 3-0d draft with the @GeneralQuinniac special of bulk up +2 monstrous rage (will post later)
I’ve been looking at that EoE card a lot the last few weeks
Glad it’s finally seeing play
Sidegrade but it’s nice you can have both at once
I might unironically build UB mid in modern with the goryo’s pieces I’ll get
Deck usually sucks but idk
Holy shit ban every green card
Decided to queue up for a game on magic the gathering arena
First game
2 Badgermole cub into the behemoth guy and the enchantment that makes ur creatures fight ur opps b4 combat
HAHAHAHA
THIS IS SO UNSERIOUS BRO
Wait why is craterhoof an innistrad card
Those things are around on innistrad and they’re worried about some dogs bro??
I always figured it would’ve been from Alara/Tarkir or smth
the thing about innistrad is that the world is constantly ending there
they had like three apocalypses (eldritch moon, crimson vow, and march of the machines) in less than two years
Potential woat plane to live on
But it’s prob nice to have an afterlife like that where a lot of the ghosts are pretty content
Though I guess the eldrazi/phyrexian invasions did not allow that
what exactly is the flavor for him giving offspring to a creature in your hand supposed to be?
what did wotc mean by this
U know I was about to ask why zinnia gives all your guys offspring but actually she’s a stork so she brings babies
Holy
yeah all evidence points to this guy impregnating the creature
well, they are a rabbit
damn so all of those kids are half rabbit?
Uh, I say think of it as him raising them to a point where they can then reproduce
Not him impregnating them 
I hope we get new founder dragons in reality fracture
or (cuz hexhaven AU), they change it from dragons to another large animal like dinosaurs
I think the real answer is don’t think too hard about it
Something something, high functioning autism
-Gaytor
HUH
Huh what, I was just quoting you
You stretch that thinner every day
So according to Dan Frazier's agent, that one ring isn't what he submitted and he didn't see it until the livestream... Something funky happened with that art somewhere behind the scenes
which art was that?
The box topper One Ring is stolen art from the Bundle one with the text scrubbed off and Dan Frazier credited
oh yeah it def is the same ring just with text removed
and well mirrored
which is why the text is removed
Yeah I dunno what happened here
WoTC needs to make a statement because this is crazy
like if it was the artist who stole smth that wouldn't be good but "understandable" in that stealing happens and there's motive in that
but someone else stealing and then slapping another name?
wtf
They likely had the Dan Frazier background and someone sloppily did the rest in like 20 minutes
Because the ring doesn't even look like how he draws artifacts
Compare to his recent Sol Ring
This definitely doesn't look like how he'd have drawn the ring
it being all the urza lands would be pretty broken right
like for no other reason than that turns on all the ones you already have
ig just playing a second urza land achieves the same 
unless you have tower
It’s pretty broken
It’s the reason why it’s played in legacy 
Or a similar card at least
city of ass?
[[planar nexus]]
what are the nonbasic land types
they're literally listed right there 
It’s a worse version of a card that already exists
Admittedly a good card but
That card also literally does nothing
im ngl when it said it was all the land types i assumed it tapped for them
That's only for the 5 basic ones
Ok I didn’t realize it was basics
So it does tap for wubrg
Nonbasic land types don’t work the same though
i see
Every land type that isn’t wubrg basics
does it being wubrg change ur evaluation
Not really
Pay 1 when it enters + it enters tapped means it’s sort of a land drop that puts you 2 behind
Yes
sounds pretty good there idk
But at most you’d have 2 colorless if you’re playing this on 2 for example
[[expedition map]]
sounds good to me idk
I mean it would be fine
You’d probably play it
But it’s not turbo broken or anything lol
Certainly not strong enough to specifically choose to not allow in any organized play
u play urza land on 1, drop it, second urza land, tap for 2 colorless, and this searches the third one
Real tron gamers always hard draw it
and the opp casts boseiju and u lose gg
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bro had quite a few weird choices i wonder why he went 3-5
like, edge rover????
bruh
i don't think i've see a list on sniper either
[[edge rover]]
[[dragon sniper]]
oh and cavern of souls???????
i think there are better ways to flex expensive lands
also i find it interesting that almost all lessons builds are the old ones
don't think i've seen a solo stormchasers crab build
I said this lol
Lessons is better without storm chasers
This was confirmed by pros weeks before the PT
it's less so about stormchasers and more so with bouncing sauna
it's just that there's no other real wincon if you wanna play 4 boomerang
Boomerang is just a top 3 removal in the format, even if you’re not playing stormchasers to get the self draw
Also, no other deck draws while being proactive early like lessons
So you don’t need the boomerang draw
ig
that reminds me to test jeskai lessons more
ik just playing artists endurance is better but i don't vibe with it
Not a fan of the rest of the year besides Marvel and Reality Fracture. Gonna probably splurge on Marvel
Idk why people just assume super heroes is going to be another Spiderman, when Spiderman had some insane circumstances behind it
Mostly because of Disney
Super Heroes will actually be designed to be a full set
You say that but TMNT and the Hobbit were also aftermath sets
Tmnt was a good set
And the draft environment was also enjoyable
To the same degree if not more than SoS currently is
There’s a difference between planned small sets, and a planned small set that got pushed to be bigger than it was, so they had to add generic draft chaff to it
What's an aftermath set
do you kids wanna talk about hexhaven
Oh I assumed every set was about the same size
Small sets have existed forever. More famously, we used to have the 2nd set of 3 block story sets be a small set
And guess what, people hated a lot of them
But once aftermath came out, boomers decided they hated small sets, so they turned against them
Also, these are the same people asking for blocks back
Oh right I've heard about this
innistrad wasnt a block right we just had crimson vow and midnight hunt together
duology
Bro the way this guy organizes the field pisses me off
PUT THE ENCHANTMENT ON THE SIDE LIKE IN ARENA
YOUR ENCHANTMENT IS NOT A CREATURE
STOP PUTTING IT IN THE CREATURE ZONES
I say this to say spat, never listen to an mtg player’s opinion who is over the age of 35
@knotty ferry if lamb played magic he would say your green rants were equivalent to my ygo rants
Interesting...
There is no creature zone little spat
Spat is turning into needle... holy
There is, it goes in front of your lands
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS
🦧
Bro, this is how shiv used to organize his gy
I mean it makes sense so both players can see what’s in it
especially when it's a deck like lessons where it matters
i usually do the same thing until there's enough lessons where both players kinda know there's enough
You’ll never want to see me play
sigh
Fuck, hopefully reality fracture has the 2nd set of slow lands and not the missing set of snarls
Though I guess snarls feel less bad with shocks in the meta
But still
wdym missing set of snarls
[[necroblossom snarl]]
I separate my graveyard by card types, group lands however, my stack is right below my lands, and my creatures/enchantments/artifacts/planeswalkers are all in the row all mixed up from right to left by how often I use them 

we should be getting slow lands in fracture
it would be fucking stupid if we didn't
Yeah that basically confirms the other side of slow lands
Which is fine, those are solid lands
As a control freak I prefer lands that enter untapped 
well they are from like 5 years before strixhaven came out
???
I mean you did get banned for being 12
They’re almost certainly gonna finish out slowlands somewhere
When’s the last time they didn’t finish a land cycle
This happens pretty often actually
Yeah just last year they got some shit for that
But I can’t remember if they finished it since
I pulled the trigger on UB mid 
Time to go 0-4 every time I play it
I'm glad I could inspire you
Nah I had my eye on frogtide for a while
No.
izzn't
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Nah 1 of those is clearly on lessons 
smh some of them hid their lists now
Oh true. 3 prowess, 1 lessons
i could see all 8 of them a few hours ago
simic omni being 6-2 is interesting
there's also a mardu discard that's 6-2
oh and a momo
Momo has a solid matchup into Izzet
They go wide enough they're hard to cleanly answer
It just has trouble into other threats
yeah uh they hid all the decklists lmao
what was the point of revealing them before
then hiding
unless it was a mistake which
lmao
Probably a mistake then, but funky since you can now meta game the opponents deck
crazy
i just wanted to see if control is more on lute or tablet
anyways the selesnya builds are on 4 erode
kinda wild to me
simply cause it's also synergy for them
lmao ok bud
No more open decklists?
nope
apparently
it was either a mistake or idk
like you could have taken them before what's the point now
Yeah feels like some teams will now have field knowledge and others won't
god can magiccon fuck off with mood swings
hello i'm mark rosewater the head dick of magic the gathering
WHOA
like ik it's great that they have community outreach from the designers but the fucker is so unlikeable to me
get him off my screen
Give him a break, the execs are allowing him to do a pet project for once
After they burned him so many times by making him lie to the community
i mean, fair, but i really couldn't care less about mood swings
head dick of magic is crazy
yeah I can't say maro is my favourite human being on planet earth
the implication of other dicks involved in magic the gathering (like actual dicks) is funny to me
look i'm just annoyed that's his introduction every single fucking time
his tumblr is what put me off him to begin with and then hearing him shout down the mic at every magiccon sealed the deal
He did wot 
it's just how he speaks
I'm glad he gets to do his passion project but yeah, Maro just comes off a bit too abrasive and corporate for me
Tbf I do like him better than Gavin Verhey
i fucking remembered what vibe he gives me
and why i hate it
fucking tommy tallarico
Gavin pisses me off. He comes off elitist and goes "Oh yeah sorry guys I just wanted to make things special for me and my friends because I'm THE Commander designer guy"
Maro is annoying but like he's earned it
sure but annoying is annoying at the end of the day
Yeah true. And I'm not defending Maro being annoying
Gavin is annoying in the commander-only player way
I just think his track record does show he at least knows what he's talking about
Maro is annoying in the hyper excitable puppy type of way
Gavin meanwhile keeps breaking shit and going "haha guys sorry we just thought it'd be funny"
Like Gavin's literal excuse for Vivi being disgusting was "guys FF9 is my favorite so we wanted to capture the feeling of Vivi being strong because he's my favorite character... Sorry it broke standard and no one likes him :("
you know, the funniest thing is that as a new player, my only impression is from this magic con and occasional tumblr posts of him before a set
Certain some healthy mentalities going on here /s
and that's it
tbf if the vivi card was was bad then people would definitely be mad about it
my impression is that he's fucking annoying
I'll forever also be mad that Gavin has a REALLY good drag name on Spell Slayers
Oh true, but it could've just been the alchemy rebalance from the start
that would require them to have put more thought into it
Like there's no world where you don't see that a 0 activated ability is disgusting
I mean, I was mad that Zidane was bad, Zidane is the best main FF character in FF other than Ramza
even tapping is kinda busted ngl
Nah they originally did, but Gavin intentionally pushed the card because it was his favorite
And Ramza didn’t even get a card
If Vivi was bad people would just accept it like literally every bad legend in the set that already exists
is vivi that popular
Oh I agree, but again, Gavin outright said Vivi was like that because he wanted it to be
i never played a single ff game
Sorry to hear that
me neither
You missed out on some goated games
Besides, we got a mid cloud in the main set and no one is mad that Cloud, the Final Fantasy guy, isn't broken
idk if vivi is an actually popular/iconic character
Mainly 6, 9, 10 and tactics
I think if Vivi was fine but interesting, people wouldn't have been pissed
vivi is one of the most popular characters in the series
Thugs...
Vivi is popular in the sense that lil guys that are black blobs with yellow/white eyes are popular
Like reverse slugcat
People are honestly probably more upset that he's broken and boring
worst fate imagineable: you are busted but boring
Yeah broken but boring is worse than bad but interesting
Who plays final fantasy for the story 
The reveal of what Vivi is and isn’t is why Vivi as a character took off
Like at least bad but interesting is okay for commander players
which game is vivi from?
9
Imagine getting baited by Mudkip
IX, as we would call it
6
might as well get it on my backlog
6 is goated
Start with tactics
any of them except for 2 or 3
Tbh I think everyone should play 7
i saw some speedruns but that's it
i started with 6
I know it's overrated or whatever but it's still super influential
No one is mad about stuff like Azula being mid because her card is interesting
Can confirm on 6
6 is my fav tho
6 is terra, right?
Yep
6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and finally tactics should be the order
6 is good
And the 🐐 gogo
So yeah, imo busted and boring is the worst fate you can have
I’m not a huge fan of 7, but I can’t deny the cultural impact its had, it’s just extremely overrated
Actually I'd argue that's even worse than bad and boring
The world may never know
Like who give a fuck about Cosmic Spiderman
Triad?
Yeah

7 has a lot of stupid mini games too
Every ff game
Yes it's a Japanese game
Oh 15 would be your favorite game then
Easily
15 is literally the GX theme song in real life
olivert my beloved
Suggestion that is the full FFXIV copypasta here
You should play 15 just so you can drive around with knockoff cloud
Jimbo Balatro himself
Nah but you should consider: Jill from 16 is cool
This guy is the goat
But yeah in terms of over all games, I would rank them as tactics > 9 = 6 > 10 >>>>> 7 >>> 8
yea olivert is consistently the best character in every game
both in story and party wise
Only old people like me have played ff11
Also I’m still reminded of Locke’s theme being so epic for a “treasure hunter” when I first played that it made me laugh
sigh you guys just added like 5 games to my backlog
Actually, are the servers for ff11 still up?
I mean the good thing about ff games is that you don’t have to play them in order
Though I would say 9 has A LOT of fan service and call backs to previous games
The only thing you should do is ignore all the dialogue and watch videos about the story
can someone ping me when maro is done talking about his mood swings
I have the lightning deckbox
imma go play bg3
Lightning’s so pretty
I would argue lightning is the worst FF main character
Great character too
My pp would disagree
She’s not Terra, that is true
Villa loves Goku
Mfs will say cloud’s the goat but Lightning’s mid
I think both are bad
Cloud’s boring af but at least Lightning’s hot 
The supporting cast in 7 carries the fuck out of cloud
So he’s Yusei from 5D’s
Noctis is also a terrible MC for other reasons, he’s literally just a fucking dumbass
I love how in E3 people were getting hyped about lightning when she was described by the designers as “cloud but woman”
Folks, you know I’m not making an unfounded comparison
FFXV was the first time I played a game and got frustrated at having to play as an MC that just keeps making the wrong decision for 60-70% of the base game
Thank you son
And then people started hating on lightning and then never reflected on cloud
Because nostalgia is brainworms
I call it the street fighter effect 
Idt cloud is that bad but I see why people hate him
The goat is bartz
But y'all ain't ready for that convo
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Damn Maro can yap with the best of them
Hes still going?
That’s what happens when you become old and no one is there to stop you
@glad peak take notes my little kitten
he's been trying to get this game released for almost 30 years now, i'd be surprised if he didn't have a lot to say about it
I mean it used to but when was the last one
I guess we never got Alara shard counterparts for the trilands in tdm?
Actually no we did in spiderman
Oh that was only grixis and bant actually nvm
That’s even weirder than not finishing the whole cycle 
Maybe it's like a 3 set cycle
Idk
Maybe there's more in marvel and then in star trek
I'm coping ofc but
I mean the tdm trilands were shit lol
Where can I get one of those
Also naya/jund aren’t exactly dying for stronger mana when nobody plays the colors anyways
Gamegenic
Ye there's an instant stock up

It's a lot worse but it's still a plus 1
Ben Bateman is doing pack it up on the mtg stage right now
@knotty ferry take notes, Ben Bateman is the goat
I want to be just like him when I grow up
@sleek ferry
Was this ever posted yesterday
idk if here
They're kinda cute i wish they weren't 5 mana
This sounds nutty with evoke but at that point in the game do you even care about draw 5 for a million mana
Cause this isn't sorc speed
I wanted to do memes with the sos cauldron but it's sorc speed
yeah
shove this guy under agatha's cauldron tho
they did try to balance it around that it feels with it coming back as an artifact if it dies but discarding it to fomo for instance
Oh boy
You could still cauldron in response to the die trigger no?
yes
They were posted here and their effects are pretty pretty good
Not sure how fast you can turbo them out
[[Rakdos the muscle]]
Legendary Creature — Demon Mercenary
Flying, trample
Whenever you sacrifice another creature, exile cards equal to its mana value from the top of target player's library. Until your next end step, you may play those cards, and mana of any type can be spent to cast those spells.
Sacrifice another creature: Rakdos gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it. Activate only once each turn.
6/5
Oh was it an old reveal
I was just searching for the fact or fiction again and saw it
Nvr mind I forgot rakdos had a free sac ability
This one’s is a bit more reusable but the mana cost is pretty high
Rakdos peed...
i'm surprised that it really was dan frazier's fault
Shockingly well handled
Also is it real that Jace is actually letting Nicol bolas out of meditation realm or is that just speculation
Idk this isnt even like a mistake this is legit "i painted over their art (to remove the text on it) and passed it off as my own but I got caught lol"
Like you don't not know what you're doing here
I will say that there’s only so many ways you can draw a ring
yeah that happened
it wasn't on purpose
it happened while jace was using the meditation realm to create the alternate universe
Different lighting different position, different scene, etc
All things this guy could've done
Holy shit I hope he actually dies dude
i guess he figured that it wouldn't matter since if it worked then bolas wouldn't be a problem in the new universe
I mean for the record it’s a shitty thing to do but I have to assume he wasn’t just lackadaisically choosing to scrub someone’s art to draw a circle
I would like to give benefit of the doubt to an artist who has up to this point basically only made consistent and positive contributions to the game
This may sound uncouth but it’s also just quite shocking how ugly the Frazier ring art is/was
I have to wonder how impromptu the art was
Whats the alternative position to take here though? Like are you believing he was forced to draw it in too short a time frame? Which also doesn't excuse his actions to any degree
The alternative position to take here is to wait and see if we receive literally any more substantive information before forming an opinion
Again I’m not saying that what he did is fine but we also know literally nothing about anything involved in the circumstances
I mean this does keep on happening 😬 I gotta wonder if a tight schedule is putting pressure on these artists
I’m just happy they fessed up and apologised
there are more sets than ever
But I definitely do not think that Frazier just decided with no outward pressure to just do a shitty plagiarism of another artist
We have way more sets that are way larger and all have multiple commander precons attached to each each year
It is very clearly the reason this keeps happening
This is the damage control statement from a company who's best interest is sweeping this under the rug as quickly as possible which also states what he did is wrong. Im not sure much else would exhonorate him from this other than this statement being a lie and wotc just slapped the art together themselves and didnt involve him in it

I’m not sure how exactly you would do it but wotc clearly needs to reevaluate how many artists they take work from/ the process if they’re just gonna keep ramping out sets like this
I just understand tracing is the art community’s biggest sin
It is
All further art from him will be heavily scrutinised
Its a massive reputational hit
Only thing worse is an artist using AI art or elements of it iirc
bring back that artist from avatar and let's get some ai art in here /s
Truly if I have to read one more post of people taking up arms because of perceived AI with little to no foundation I might actually just delete all social media
I still remember spider UK…
get ready to delete then cause people love a witch hunt 😌
Like do I believe it's possible wotc works their artsist too hard? Absolutely. Do I believe that passing off touched up traced art as your own in response to a short deadline is still an awful thing to do and very much not a mistake or accident? Absolutely
the mtg sub even put out a rule saying if you accuse someone of AI art and it's false you get perma banned and people still do it
Good. 
I hope all people who try to instigate artists out of their jobs based on unfounded suspicions actually receive a much more significant punishment than being banned on Reddit 
I’m reminded of the pizza lands guy having to post the process after they got accused of being AI
I’m also still not entirely convinced the work of Ruwen Liu for ATLA was AI
Was she still bad optics for WOTC to hire, absolutely
I think the main thing that throws me off about the toph is the lighting
Not even saying it's ai it's just odd looking
did anybody call her work AI? I think people just hated her cause she did AI art elsewhere
Word "probably" got thrown around a lot
"They openly use ai so the toph is probably ai too"
Yes lol
I mean when someone openly posts AI art constantly the accusations are a lot less out of nowhere
As far I was aware it was just the circumstantial evidence of her involvement with the AI company WaifuLabs
I guess that was a dumb question
Wotc places them under contract not to do AI right
do they?
From someone who has done regular artwork in the past and is possibly contracted not to
Even if she outwardly uses AI and actually even moreso because she does I cannot imagine why people don’t think they would make sure she’s not just genning lol
I was led to believe so the last time this round of discourse happened
It did get her harassed off social media too iirc
I was led to believe many things but the subreddit is not a reliable source of information
in the slightest
Not from subreddit
I have not once in my life used Reddit as a primary source of info
Getting one’s sources from Reddit is a crimson flag
You think I would use discord for my information???
Not just red, crimson
I actually don’t know where I heard it but it was probably somewhere in the annals of Twitter 
Wherever it was was definitely not Reddit though lol
twitter is not better oomfie
I get my news from the dark voices within my crystal ball
Where exactly am I supposed to find pertinent info on this subject
Should I get hired as a wotc artist
don't, drink dumb bitch juice and live happily ignorant
Just to tell you about it after I break NDA
Like I’d be able to retire now if I got a dollar for everytime someone used Arma III footage to fake military actions on Twitter
Regardless of if it’s contractual or not after making statements against ai art in sets I don’t see why people don’t think wotc would be checking for it 
I imagine more enfranchised folks are far more disappointed in Dan than me
I just know he is one of the big Magic artists
Even if I’m more a Mayer and Villeneuve guy
I mean my stance on this is that Dan Frazier has done amazing art for years without any controversy. Like cake mentioned, there’s only so many ways you can draw the one ring. I don’t think it’s a schedule issue either because artists are allowed to turn down some of these requests by WotC, and Magic had a plethora of underrated/underused artists who I’m sure would love more opportunity
I just can’t imagine any other reason that type of thing would happen though
I also again just think it’s uncharacteristically ugly
I’m only assuming here, but I think he probably wanted to sketch the OG one ring art and then differentiate it enough to make it his own as a homage to the OG art, but there’s not much you can do to the one ring that wasn’t already perfectly captured with the OG art
But, I think out of all the mtg artists, Dan Frazier is credentialed enough, and historically great enough to get off on a warning and be given a pass
I think he was probably planning on making it way more distinct and rushed it out
I mean I would also say
Iirc there's a lot of crunch on artists rn
If we only ever saw the weird colored version of the art
So he probably rushed it out unfortunately
I think people would probably just not have noticed
Bc it was the reflections that set ppl off wasn’t it
The smeared text is a big giveaway that he definitely outright inserted her ring, but I don't think he was planning to leave it like that
I imagine that their schedule is set to finish long before previews yeah? cause rushing it out for the panel doesn't make sense to me
Like this is also ugly as fuck but I don’t think people would have seen this and immediately realized 
I just think it’s so weird that they decided they need to make another new art for this card
And I think it’s even weirder that they saw the Frazier art and decided “yeah this looks good enough to be a box topper” even ignoring the plagiarism
Honestly it's a little more on art director than Dan, as much as he shouldn't have used hers as a placeholder
They should've caught this
Just a whole systematic failure
I also don’t want to keep hammering a nail but again I’m also just appalled by how bland and bad the card even looked
Which, again, art direction should’ve caught
Yeah, someone somewhere should've caught it
Yeah, as much as it's sad for Marta and as much as it's gonna hurt Dan's image, this is a WoTC failure
Lowk if I’m marta I’m laughing to the bank they said they’re recompensating her for it
i feel like this is like significantly worse than just generating some garbage and putting it on there
what he did is directly stealing with no ambiguity or room for disagreement
Oh god, Twitter now with the conspiracy theories
“Wotc made Dan take the blame on this”
Is there an mtg commentator that's considered the best
what kinda puzzles me is a ring should have a million references no? especially if you don't include the inscription
this seems more to me like he submitted a temp by accident than anything. this isn't like trouble in pairs where you're tracing multiple characters
cedric philips is pretty good iirc
Maybe this is just wotc’s way of cutting people’s contracts 
Put wrong art, make the artist take the player hate, cite that as a reason why theyre not going to them for art anymore when they ask, repeat 
||yes I know, this is a joke||
What was the trouble in pairs one again
Holy, even wizards agrees with me
Remember when we were talking about how cub was a bad card
Who was we
almost all of it was collage of other people's art
[[trouble in pairs]]
Enchantment
If an opponent would begin an extra turn, that player skips that turn instead.
Whenever an opponent attacks you with two or more creatures, draws their second card each turn, or casts their second spell each turn, you draw a card.
Together, they're greater than the sum of their rap sheets.
Crazy
all of this except for the axe was drawn by people who aren't fay dalton
who actually is we lol
Copy pasting from not just one but multiple people seems especially ironic given the theme for the card 
i remember thinking cub was pretty strong, just not as strong as it ended up being
I thought it untapped the land at first too 
I thought cub was a good card but overhyped
I’m not naming names, there just was some discourse about how cub was washed 
I still think cub is a good card, but also still overhyped 
She’s one of the hundred girls who love me very very very very much so I cannot or I will die
You can ask theoretical questions to judges in yugioh
They won't answer them
That’s their job 
🐒
wow that's a deep cut
I referenced it just a couple hours ago too 
Komi is old, forgive them
Playing with some of these celebrities… holy
It’s a good thing they have real jobs because magic ain’t it 
I hope most old people don't know about this show 😭
Rn?
This was in the front display of Barnes and nobles
Holy sleepy card
lmfao
welcome to magic!
First Strixhaven pulls
HOLYYY SHITTTT @golden plover
LMAO!!!!
Also just saw someone say but it would unironically be the best set oat if we had a return to duskmourn but for some reason the eldrazi were there
Maybe not for plot reasons but…
Eldrazi vs the house would be absolute peak
Phyrexians vs the house would also be cool but that was something already pretty fully explored to its peak with ashiok
All of the horror genres meshing together would be peak
A lot of the horrors of the house are also just extensions of valgavoth himself right
This is also something ppl talked about with phyrexians but it would be cool to see an incorruptible force vs them
Phyrexians vs eldrazi are still not being explored
Eldrazi vs innistrad was a wipeout
Valgavoth vs innistrad’s civilians would be interesting
Innistrad’s citizens survived so much, can they survive horrors they’ve never even thought of
Phyrexians vs eldrazi will realistically never be explored lol
Honestly after eldrazi I’m pretty sure they can probably think of literally anything
A lot of the duskmourn guys seem pretty banal compared to Phyrexians + Eldrazi
Truly the scariest part of the house is prob the people in it
also the fact that you can’t actually get out more than anything else
As cool as valgavoth would be to be the next big bad it’s hard to imagine him posing a danger outside of the house
And it’s even harder to imagine a sudden status quo shift where the house just gobbles up amonkhet or something
yo! The portal to hexhaven art! Nice!!!
You can also take back plays if they make the opponent show information
a godzilla vs king kong kind of set sounds really fun, but also I'm kinda scared given how they've treated other tropes in the past 😬
maybe they've learned though. plus an oportunity for some cool battle cards maybe?
what's the rest of the top 8?
was there a typo?
Bro didn't burst lightning himself to make it not 10...
they put pro tour lists up again

interesting, the tablet leviathan control list is top 16 rn
perhaps i discounted tablet too fast
leviathan over something like three steps is kinda wild tho
actually no the whole list is kinda wild
the only white card here is rev
i kinda was fucking around with this concept
if this places high it'll be wild
no nml no helix just so that you can hit the red removal off tablet
and ig leviathan doesn't need 2 blue so you can use an island plus tabled to counter stuff
yeah this kinda fucks
i should get some hamlets tho
wait doesn't [[petrified hamlet]] kill the fetch lands green plays
holy this card is goated

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