Magic: The Gathering C/D

looks like Roar of the Wurm is back and even better

amused at all the people getting mad about the cycling force spike because it's not miscalculation. that's a pretty good card!

I think this card will be quite good

it seems like drake haven is getting enough support to be a deck, without even seeing all the black cycling cards yet

I was gonna say, Censor looks like a card that will definitely get Standard play

amused at all the people getting mad about the cycling force spike because it's not miscalculation. that's a pretty good card!

I know everyone on ilx etc etc but reddit really has been uniquely maddening this spoiler season, the particular blend of entitlement and metronome-regular getting every single card-evaluation wrong is so unbearable

yeah the reddit MTG crowd is especially whiny. I mean most Magic online communities are but Reddit definitely seems a bit worse. Censor definitely looks like it'll see some play - it's worse than Miscalculation but I like that you can cycle it Turn 1 if you have a Turn 2 play, for example.

cool planeswalker design alert

i wouldnt even look at the mtg reddit if it wasn't the board that's the fastest at getting all the preview card links in one place

jk i would still look at it to read all the bad takes

idk why nissa is blue now but that's at least an interesting pw card

interplay between the 1st and 2nd ability is super sweet design imo. should stay on the good side of swingy rather than the marvel side. just seems like it has a ton of play to it, strong but pretty balanced.

oh yeah, didn't even think about the blue. weird

zombie lord looks decent. interesting having that at uncommon. zombie deck will be overdrafted every time, clearly has ackbar.jpg written all over it.

yeah that Nissa design is cool, even if the ultimate is a bit underwhelming. Scry 2 is pretty interesting since you can't put either on the bottom for it to work with the 2nd ability. Also I was kinda wondering when they'd do a 'walker with an X in the cost

Green god looks awesome

the ultimate is only underwhelming if you were expecting to be able to cast a 8 mana 'you win the game' or whatever, and that didn't work out so well with emrakul. it has to be something that doesn't auto-win.

its more the fact that the lands revert at end of turn, you'd expect a Nissa ultimate to make them creatures permanently

that said it is kind of an instant 10 damage in a lot of cases, so maybe not so bad

whoa Harsh Mentor seems like a pretty efficient combo killer and potentially maindeckable, if the environment's right

doesn't trigger on planeswalker activated abilities :(

it's def gonna see legacy play, prob has some role in modern

someone's going to make a hilarious deck with this:

http://mythicspoiler.com/akh/cards/shadowofthegrave.html

looks like it has the potential to cause mischief somewhere

that looks like a card that does something in eternal formats if anywhere

very good with Contract from Below

I think this is good:

http://mythicspoiler.com/akh/cards/hieroglyphicillumination.html

missed this card yesterday, think there's a potentially very fun Improvise deck brewing here. if I was still building Standard decks I'd take something like this to FNM

http://mythicspoiler.com/akh/cards/harvestseason.html

With the cycling Shatter, a green Manic Vandal, and Shatterstorm x-spell, looks like there is a lot more Standard playable hate for artifacts

i think standard looks pretty grim if they drag their feet on banning saheeli combo again.

set is very interesting for limited on first look through. there's some extreme durdle/value but also hellbent aggro in red and huge efficient beaters in green. an the former might be string enough not to be totally crowded out by the latter. the uncommon 2U instant bounce tapped creature cantrip is going to be first pickable is my prediction, with things like the cartouches, but also all of these giant idiots that come into play way undercosted but make you put -1/-1s on your own stuff. there are a few 1/3s and 1/4s that may be in demand because of that theme too.

i'm surprised at the raw volume of cards with cycling - last time they brought it back in alara i don't remember nearly this much

though they didn't do cycling-matters in that set iirc, it was just a smoothing mechanic there

does seem like a 'cycling deck' will actually be a viable thing in draft

other observation is the common creature quality is really high - and in addition to that a few colors have an extra creature over what they usually do (black and red have an extra 2-drop, blue has an extra 3-drop).

fall set is called Ixalan, sounds as if that'll be the mesoamerica-themed thing we saw fake booster art for previously

also GP Providence in september will be a release weekend event for it (team sealed)

makes sense, nice idea for a theme tho kind of funny right on the heels of amonkhet. also, i wonder how they are pronouncing that.

oh cool I'm def gonna go to that gp

looks like the mtgo folks read the email i sent them about the uncommons, they're pretty thoroughly shuffled in this set

ha!

apparently exert doesn't work with "attack with all" on mtgo. if you want to choose to exert you have to click attackers individually or else the option is not presented

yeah it's not a trigger, it's just an additional choice you make when you declare attackers

big shakeups in the eternal scene

What changed that made top/miracles a ban target?

miracles had been the best deck for a while, at least in the hands of experienced players

4-5 in my first Amonkhet sealed league. Thought it was supposed to be a friendly league ;_;

Exert made combat much trickier than I thought it would. Rather than figuring out what creatures should attack and what creatures should block, you have three states now. And exerting forces you to think a turn ahead. And then you have to do the same thing for your opponents creatures. I thought it would be straightforward, but there were several times I wasn't sure I was making the right play

I don't play Legacy but I really hate Top, so good riddance

miracles was the best deck for like 4 years straight, which is pretty unprecedented

I think it was mostly just them listening to people complaining though, I liked the legacy meta under pax miraclecana. it's probably going to be like souped up modern now.

top is the 2nd most miserable card ever printed and i approve of its removal from every format possible

ok, what's the 1st

mental misstep

the actual answer is probably shahrazad but that card is so miserable that it's banned in vintage which means it transcends any list placement

idk I think if you include MTGO then Top is way more obnoxious, it pretty much singlehandedly adds 5+ extra minutes to the match, can't think of another card like that offhand

personally I find Jace TMS the most miserable card to play against, I was so happy when that got banned

top in cube is particularly obnoxious. overall if my opponent is playing top i figure i am getting like +5% win equity at the cost of sitting through 10 minutes additional pointless fucking around time.

top can be strong in cube in decks that look more or less like legacy miracles (lotta fetches, maybe some actual miracles)

the card is obviously very poorly designed, for sure. it's funny can any number of small tweaks (add a mana here or there, make the draw effect sorcery speed, etc.) would have made it a totally fine card, but in the end it's just a little bit too efficient.