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Magic: the Gathering |OT| Theros: Beyond Death - Zombie Land Saga
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Huh, the demigods are more similar to each other than I expected. Doesn't seem great.
Not bad for a 2-drop in standard mono-black devotion, bordering on good depending on how much graveyard hate is wanted. Don't know if I'd want to play it in any other deck.
what part of the color pie is being completely nonplussed and dismissive to preview cards only to get stomped by them a few months later and call for a ban
This is hideous, and from what I hear the blue one is unfortunately also pretty terrible. Is there any enchantment exile in standard? the last I remember is Forsake the Wordly.
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There's also Conclave Tribunal and Crush Contraband from Guilds of Ravnica (which will still be around until the rotation later this year).
And his art is AWESOME. Seriously. I saw the card, was excited immediately and just crushed by how garbo he is. At least give him Deathtouch or something.
BBD mentioned wanting these white exile removal enchantments to become more like Baffling End, where the permanent itself never comes back but the opponent gets something in return.
I agree. Walkers coming back in fully reset or creatures with ETB is brutal.
Let them draw a card, or get a token, or some shit.
I agree. Walkers coming back in fully reset or creatures with ETB is brutal.
Let them draw a card, or get a token, or some shit.
Yeah cause they are from another era, standard is power crept to hell and back, this kind of removal does not cut it anymore. No reason Revoke Existence shouldn't be an instant. Fuck not hosing the set mechanics.
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Read the new Destroy All Humanity chapter (13), and it's funny how much Urza's Saga makes Magic games play out like anime card battles, with the hero on the ropes until he's able to instantly defeat the opponent with a single card. In this case, the opponent was playing a Mind Over Matter deck and was going to defeat the hero on his turn 4, but the hero is able to beat him with Hatred cast on a Carnophage, with only two lands on the battlefield.
Volrath is a wonderful casual goodstuff commander. You don't need to build around him, just plop him in whatever BUG shell you want and he does work without drawing hate.
I got my brother the Faceless Menace deck for Christmas and he loved Volrath.
So what's the ideal curve for standard mono-black devotion looking like so far?
Knight of Ebon Legion -> Tymaret -> Ayara -> Deathless Knight -> Gray Merchant ?
Knight of Ebon Legion -> Tymaret -> Ayara -> Deathless Knight -> Gray Merchant ?
Yup, yup. When I was looking at which deck to buy, it seemed the 2019s were a bit underpowered--at least from the "oversized" commanders... it took us a few games, and changing commanders, to see the power in that deck.
Now I need to double-check the commanders in Merciless Rage.
It won't be a deck if they're just playing bad to medium creatures.
Well it would be, it'd just be a bad to medium deck i.e. every deck I try to make myself.
Well I think you'd have better luck with playing lots of removal and ways to draw/play multiple Grey Merchants rather than building to 1 big one. Bolas's Citadel seems like an auto include. Erobos and Woe Strider might be good enough. Caldron of Eternity seems interesting as a Whip of Erobos pretender but might be too deep. It would be good if they spoiled a Phyrexian Arena variant.
I think the problem is the creatures are all a bit shit.
A control setup would probably be more viable, I agree. The only thing is getting enough black pips from permanents on the board to make Gray Merchant actually threatening. There was a BBB enchantment spoiled a while ago that pings the opponent on card draw but it feels very slow. Maybe Gray Merchant fits better as part of a non-devotion deck.
Treacherous Blessing seems good for mono-black card draw, and its downside (minor as it is) is negated once you've got Gray Merchant healing you up.
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Seems like good removal.
It's weird, I would have figured the Ball Lightning side would have the twice X, not the Blaze side.
Regrow X enchantments, put a +1/+1 counter on X target creatures. Gaining twice X life seems too obvious, and too close to the red one.
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Seems fine for Limited. Not sure what's going on in the art.
Was leaked before. Weird to see a male nymph.
None of the new cards seem like they'll be considered, except maybe Wavebreak Hippocamp. Even then a 3-mana non-flash creature isn't going to set the world on fire.
There's certainly nothing on par with Brazen Borrower or Wildborn Preserver to make my heart sink like in the Eldraine previews.
having blue/simic instant speed stuff be so rampant compounded with mostly playing arena is possibly the worst thing that has ever happened to me in magic
i mean realistically it was worse when people were playing nexus reclamation but still, same colors man!
i mean realistically it was worse when people were playing nexus reclamation but still, same colors man!
UG is the best commander color pair by far IMO.
Oh you meant that ironically. Uhhhh - vintage maybe?
What can go wrong with giving blue access to synergistic (often instant speed!) creatures above rate and green access to permission and instant speed creatures and tempo etc etc
Onslaught UG Madness was the last paper format I played before I quit for a decade, so yes i dislike the pairing.
Onslaught UG Madness was the last paper format I played before I quit for a decade, so yes i dislike the pairing.
UG Madness was actually awesome though, because most of the cards were commons or uncommons and so the deck was super cheap to acquire. That's a thing to laud IMO.
ugh i didnt really play then other than in the cafeteria at school but playing against wild mongrel circular logic would admittedly be probably worse
onslaught was the first time i played magic, i only wanted to play mono black zombies or wb clerics
onslaught was the first time i played magic, i only wanted to play mono black zombies or wb clerics
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I want a Myr commander. They made Morophon to be the commander for the tribes without one, and Brudiclad is almost there, but I want to build a shitty colorless Myr deck.
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