Magic: The Gathering C/D

onbviosuly!

well those are all rares besides trophy mage so can't read too much into them

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initial guess is that Energy will be back but Fabricate won't

energy and vehicles are obviously being continued. they said they were going to stop dropping major mechanics in small sets since people get mad every time they do it even when it makes sense

and the couple times i have tried the lookout/skiff deck i have wanted to quit magic

so get this...the 4-5x Night Market Lookout decks are apparently very very good

(not necessarily because of the Lookout, but because of the 2cc Subtle Strike/Rush/Die Young at common)

nah i don't buy it. they are so fragile. if everything goes right they look unstoppable but if a single thing goes wrong they are total garbage.

Since we're talking about black commons, every time I draft Dhund Operative, my brain sings it to the tune of Smooth Operator

i played start your engines for the first time last night and it was good!

lol. just as a bad trumpet blast or did you have a lot of vehicles?

the only time i have ever seen it cast i was wrecked by it

i had a bunch of sky skiffs, a copter, and the aradara express in my deck but was kind of light on actual creatures

it not only won me every game i drew it but would have won me all the games i lost as well had i drawn it on my last turn.

the only time i have ever seen it cast i was wrecked by it

― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, December 2, 2016 9:49 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is kind of definitional with sorcery pump spells

yeah just 2 skiffs and an express and that is 18 hard to stop damage. that time i lost to it, the big thing was the sudden swing of them being able to attack with their regular dorks as well as the vehicles, it just blew open an otherwise stalled board.

i had a v sweet 2-1 draft this week that started flatwheel cruiser into flatwheel cruiser. my loss was to a fumigate/consulate surveillance control deck.

Always wanted to dick around with Start Your Engines - I've never had anyone play it against me even though people seem more than happy to play Inspired Charge (as the most obvious combat trick ever)...there seem to be enough tokens to make it work

As far as the Night Market decks - here's an example of one that went 3-0

http://i.imgur.com/6V49Yj8.png

Like I was saying, I don't think it's the Night Markets itself, it's the 2cc tricks that are so good with them

take those 5 1/1s out and put in 5 playable commons of m/l any colour and that deck is probably better. sometimes you win in 5 or 6 turns and you feel great. sometimes you don't and your opponent is ripping 4/5 drops and you are top decking 1/1s.

otm

a 3-0 GW deck, a rarity for me: http://imgur.com/a/JZnsJ

eddytrail hawk is probably the card i've shifted on the most over the course of the format, i went from never wanting to play it to never wanting to play white unless i'm playing it

yeah, a lot of cards in this set have shifted in my estimation. I don't think it's clear whether Furious Reprisal is better than Chandra's Pyrohelix, which I would have laughed off if you told me at the beginning of the format

reprisal has won me enough games that i'm sure it's better but it's not far and away better

http://mythicspoiler.com/aer/cards/quicksmithrebel.html

this + Staff of Domination seems good

a lot of things combo with staff of domination

Totally going to play the panharmonicon deck. It's a known quantity now, so probably less effective, but it looks really fun

I've gotten to the point where that's a windmill slam in draft - I didn't consider that it worked with Fabricate and all the energy creatures, there's so much value you can grind out of it

i haven't had panharmonicon in limited. i'd want to have a lot of fabricate. getting a bunch more energy doesn't seem like sufficient payoff.

managed another 3-0, the first i think without any bombs or anything broken going on, just a solid curve out. good lesson tho about building a regular deck around a single card. here i got the two marauders in my first 3 picks and so i just went all in on +1/+1 counters. in 8 games i drew a marauder one single time. all i wanted was seedsculptors and rhinos and i was actually a little bummed by the end of the draft, but the deck felt powerful to play. most of the time i could just attack into or past whatever my opponent was doing.

http://i.imgur.com/G3Z9V7H.jpg

xp

Oh it's fun and quite playable. You can build around it easily. Before this format rotates, I want to live the dream of Panharmonicon + Cloudblazer

yeah i have been across the table from that particular experience

i have done that it's okay but not as good as comboing off with whirler virtuoso

oh yeah, that is satisfying. even better when the opponent doesn't know it's there. those Era of Innovation decks are so much fun to play, but you need those Skygates to come down quick

thus far my biggest disappointment has been Fairgrounds Trumpeter, such a cool build-around type card, but the delayed counter makes it so it doesn't fit in a curve. that + Fretwork Colony is such a dream come true though

trumpeter has been good for me and i plya it a lot

it's definitely a good card and one I'll definitely pick very early on the 2nd or 3rd pack, just something I've personally never gotten to work

yeah i really like trumpeter. that are lots of ways of triggering it in green alone. ive been having a insanely hard time winning in the format though. i was planning on going to milwaukee this wknd but the other guys i was travelling with are backing out and i dont feel great about this format/going by myself/need the pro points

yeah I have resigned to not being good at this format. I don't think I really like it that much.

which was fine cause I liked the cube and <3 <3 rtr but gtc is terrible imo

someone just leaked this on reddit http://imgur.com/NHQCJYT

not confirmed real yet but it's got new art of recognizable mtg characters so it seems more likely than not?

yeah seems like faking something at that quality would be a ton of work

atlantean mesoamerica feels very on-the-nose for current mtg creative

agreed. kind of hope these are fake but they do look right.

could be mock-ups for market research, 'atlazan' sounds like a mtg plane name but 'conquest of power' is pretty dumb and could be a placeholder

i like the cat mask guy on the amonkhet pack though

is that vraska?

probably

kinda weird planeswalker for them to bring back but they do keep mentioning here in the stories

'conquest of power' is pretty dumb and could be a placeholder.

2nd/3rd set names are usually awful. That seems like exactly the kind of name they would use

https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/807003341444161536

I don't buy it, wizards

Is anyone else feeling the Frontier hype? Is now the time to start busing up baby Jace's?