Magic: The Gathering C/D

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this card is insane

is it the first 2cmc 'destroy target permanent'? i can't think of another.

what is the flavour of this card??

it's probably the first 2 cmc vindicate, and it's instant speed. this is the most pushed card since the delve stuff imo.

nice card

it's weird to call these efficient removal spells pushed though, they're never going to break the game like the delve draw spells or whatever. i don't think this is a bigger deal than fatal push

lmao

http://mythicspoiler.com/grn/cards/imperviousgreatwurm.html

it's funny, obv it is a powerful card but i wonder if there is a modern deck that even wants this? e.g. jund, would you swap any number of terminates or abrupt decays for this?

the big convoke beefer that had me rolling my eyes was the 7/5 hexproof uncommon. why does every set have to have a variation on a large hexproof dork now?

in bigger formats abrupt decay hits a really high % of things so this might be relegated to sideboard

if I were building a jund deck I would start with this as a 4-of

being able to hit lands is no joke though

yeah, in legacy half the decks literally don't play basics

in modern, jund gets perpetually wrecked by stuff like tron-lands

I'm sure everyone's experienced dying to inkmoth nexus with an abrupt decay in hand

ah v good point, ghost quarter alternate mode is definitely relevant, hadn't considered that

This seems straight up better than Decay in Modern. How relevant is can't be countered at this point?

in modern, vs death's shadow + stubborn denial (but this also has the upside of hitting angler) or maybe like, goblin electromancer + remand type situations. it's pretty low-relevance, there aren't any real delver decks at the moment. the get-a-basic drawback matters a little more, since your opponent is probably doing something stupid and you're ramping them.

in legacy counterbalance is still around (and was the reason abrupt decay was printed) and daze is never going away, so it matters more, but the card is also more powerful in legacy.

death's shadow seems to be rapidly dying out in Modern

yeah I thought it was overrated even when it was good

a deck like jund in particular, with a resource denial element, suffers from giving the opponent a land

the can't be countered text on abrupt decay was a pretty big deal vs delver, before RTR uwr delver was a major modern deck and it pretty much vanished because that card swung the midrange matchups away from it too hard

well that card plus deathrite shaman i should say

i forgot how cringey izzet spell names are

guild aesthetics tier list

A tier: selesnya, orzhov, rakdos
B tier: golgari, simic, azorius, dimir, gruul
C tier: izzet, boros

Trophy currently getting snapped up at $20 a pop

it's a large set rare cmon

2 color too

this isn't a bigger deal than abrupt decay which was like 5-8 bucks during its standard run iirc

stil sad about Mt. Gox

http://mythicspoiler.com/grn/cards/guildsummit.jpg

i hope this is a fun card to build around in draft, but it looks like it might be a clunky trap. maybe a sideboard card for a control match up when your deck already wants gates.

ionize is clean

district guide is a candidate for my favorite card in the set

art in this set is standing out a little more than usual too

3u draw 2 instant with jump-start - better than hiero illumination? is amonkhet even in standard anymore? probably overall better than glimmer was too, esp in a world without gearhulk

amonkhet was never in standard

but yeah that's obv the glimmer equivalent going forward

still hilarious to me that after rotation the standard ban list is going to consist of "the second best red 3/3 for 3"

based on the 2 spoiled so far, the new guildmages are a little sad compared to their predecessors

they're more old-school guildmages

gates instead of basics in every booster and an explosive vegetation that also gets gates. this set is going to be so good for both draft and sealed.

knight of autumn is unreal

i still had harmonic sliver in my modern deck a few years ago, how far we've come

this cycle of AABB uncommons all seem very good, the tension between getting those out on 4/5 lands vs ppl wanting to play 4/5 colour decks is going to be really interesting i think. everyone is going to want gates, which will slow the format by at least a turn on its own. will also be very interesting to see the common 1-3 drops in red and white, figure out how strong a gateless aggro deck might be.

yeah i assume the idea behind those is to have a payoff for playing a 2 color deck that's not accessible to the guildgate abusers

glad they acknowledged the issue i had with the last ravnica go around esp gatecrash where with 5 guilds and 8 drafters, 2 people would always come away with much tighter decks, the solution being to push more people into 3+ colors

I'm really enjoying the pvd/sam black/mike sigrist podcasts, I'm not a podcast person at all and it's def the first magic podcast where I feel like it's worth it to listen to every episode

gerry t's podcast is the only one i feel like that about

it's obv not as relevant if you don't play a lot of constructed though

yeah I like gerry t but don't play enough standard to care

i've caught pro points once or twice and it is good, PV and sam in particular are smart, articulate, interesting dudes. i listen to the first couple of episodes of lord of limited after a new set comes out, those guys are very good at quickly nailing down a few key things about a new draft format in a way pre-LSV LR used to be.

I'll check that one out. LR has always been kind of wack, they have a pretty narrow minded approach to the point where in certain formats it's been easy to identify the LR listeners just by how they draft and play

man these spoilers are really making me wanna get back into Magic Online

i went on my account the other day and bought playsets of glacial fortress and friends...

i was playing a lot of live poker this summer and came to really enjoy both pro points and gam podcasts, as a person who previously never listened to podcasts

most standard stuff is really cheap rn on mtgo

I've been playing standard on arena and enjoying it, it's not super competitive compared to mtgo but I've grown to like the arena software and I think that mtgo straight up won't exist in 3 years