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It would have to be enough life to stave off death from aggro attacks for 2-3 turns because (a) you wasted a turn casting it and (b) you still need to naturally draw into whatever answer you’re looking for within the window the life gain gives you.
I’d say 12 might be borderline playable, depending on the environment. 15 is already reasonable and will probably see sideboard play. 20 seems a bit overboard, but it could be balanced if aggro becomes really strong/fast
Spend (this mana only) to cast a creature spell of the chosen type
vs
Spend this mana (only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type)
I can see where the parsing might have been misunderstandable.
Anyway, just show him this thread. Or ask a judge. Or show him some youtube videos on MTGO/pro level play of how it’s used.
Op’s friend: Your interpretation is wrong, sorry!
I don’t see it as a problem. We don’t know how large the print run is going to be (people are just speculating about it), and no matter how limited it was, it’s still adding some N number of modern legal cards into the wild, which is better than adding 0.
“unmanipulated open market” is exactly why MM is expensive - demand is high and buyers are willing to pay at a high price and sellers are free to sell at the price (because the market is “unmanipulated” and “open”)
How would you feel if you ripped a Voice of Resurgence from a booster pack and Wizards told you that you could only sell it for $5 or trade for another card with the same rarity 1:1?
Even if there was some magical way to force retailers to sell product at MSRP, buyers will just turn around and sell them at expensive prices because that’s what the market is willing to pay. Again, supply and demand.
Not everyone has a DCI#!
I’m not saying I expect the meta to change when MM comes out, just that hopefully someday the meta gives me something nice and easy to build :p
I have most of these cards. I hope the Modern metagame comes up with a viable deck where I don’t have to get any new cards :p I mostly don’t have original Mirrodin block cards and very few Kami block
It’s cruel fate.
Dawntreader elk does not use up a land drop. (I don’t know what they were thinking with the term “land play”
Yes, that is correct. The number of cards of each type does not matter.
RR
Creature - Whatever
2/1
Haste, First Strike
Whenever CARDNAME deals combat damage to a player, you may pay RR. If you do, [Relentless Assault]
There’s more info from the article:
Special Edition Release including the base game and exciting mix of additional content (Steam only)
Loyalty Offer for players who previously purchased Magic 2013 (Steam and Xbox only) (woohoo~)
Liliana’s Reaver, Garruk’s Horde, Chandra’s Phoenix, Jace’s Mindseeker, and Ajani’s Chosen will be the foil face cards for the M14 intro packs
You are confused. The bonus from giant growth does not yet exist at the time your thaumaturgist ability resolves (since the giant growth has not yet resolved). Therefore the creature dies.
Layering does not interact with the stack at all; the stack if for spells and effects currently being played to determine in what order their effects happen. Layers determine how different type of effects combine.
To put it another way: The stack resolves effects one at a time so that they can change the current state. Layering tells you what the current state it when multiple effects have changed it in conflicting ways.
Hey, while you’re here: Any chance of DOTP providing something extra for buyers of the previous version(s)? Maybe make some of the decks from older versions available in the new one?
It’s great seeing all of these side-by-side. And now I kind of wish I had a Quinton Hoover (RIP) Ivory Gargoyle wallpaper
Hey OP, are you attending the prerelease this weekend? I might not be able to play
In response to sweeper/sac effect, activate “U: Exile Aetherling. Return it to the battlefield under its owner’s control at the beginning of the next end step.”
Tournament-level constructed isn’t the only format people play.
Anyway, here’s a recent Mark Rosewater post about bad cards: http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/48263537056/you-often-defend-the-printing-of-bad-cards-however-it
Where can I read more about this ruling?
if it flickers, you get to name a new card
Straight from the head designer: http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/45692475183/does-it-cost-more-to-make-full-art-lands-like-the
I am disappointed that Wolverine doesn’t regenerate.
These are qualifiers for the World Magic Cup, which is a large team-based tournament with each country sending a team. There are 3 qualifiers per country.
Straight from the head designer himself: http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/23068499904/what-is-the-reason-for-functional-reprints-there-are
I’m planning to play in a WMCQ in a couple of weeks, but I haven’t played Standard in a while (like for half a year maybe). I have the shell of a UW Delver deck available (Snapcasters, Restoration Angels, etc) that I can try to fill out until then, but will it have a fighting chance in standard at the moment?
EDIT: Thanks for the feedback guys, looks like I’ll have to look for other options.
Yes, they are allowed to count. The number of cards in each library is public information.
That’d be annoying when it gets knocked over.
Mtgo doesnt have an open api - most bots do it through some sort of screen scraping approach. None of them are open either, since most bots are used for profit.
It’s probably not an artifact or enchantment, so nope.
Did you have a sideboard?
It would be exactly like Magic, except not as expensive
What is the Boros Reckoner infinite life combo?
Play is the same as cast, so no, the spell has already been cast if it is on the stack
The spell will still resolve as it was already cast
Cool! I’ll only be registering Saturday morning though, hope they still have stocks then.
I be going to Singapore. How do I get one of these?
There is no damage dealt by Supreme Verdict.
Why not cast four emissaries on turn 2? Lol
Seriously, there’s always people around who blame their losses on the shuffler or to mana screw. It’s like deck building and mulliganing decisions aren’t relevant. A lot of people don’t understand randomness either - people complain about not having mana screw runs in real life compared to mtgo are often unaware of their own negative bias and most probably are not sufficiently randomizing their decks in real life.
Earlier, there was this guy complaining to me about mana screw and I was like “dude I have 3 lands to your 6”. And he replied that at least I was casting my spells. Well maybe I had a smaller curve and only two colors (he had 4 colors of land out by the time the game ended) and I kept my hand even with 2 lands because it already had 3 two-drops. When your opening hand is 2 forests, a green card and 3 white cards and you think to yourself “Surely I’ll draw a plains!” then you don’t draw one for seven turns, that’s not really mana screw, that was a bad keep.
Sigh, sorry about the rant. I just hate it when people complain so much about the same things. (Yet they still keep coming back to play magic)
When are you playing in a prerelease? The next prereleases are for Gatecrash at the end of January
Sorry, it’s just not as good as you think it is. The bar is set pretty high in order for creatures to be playable in constructed. They either have to have really, really good stats (power, toughness, combat abilities) for their casting cost or be able to generate card advantage (not just 1-for-1)
In that case, do you know what were the circumstances leading to the ruling that the player forgot the trigger? Is it because the attacking player made no sign of any sort to acknowledge the trigger?
I would think swinging a Pyreheart Wolf into an Augur of Bolas that could block and kill it without the trigger means he was expecting to get through with damage. I guess that’s what bothering a lot of people, such an attack seems to indicate that you assume you’re getting through and therefore are aware of the trigger.
How about the story the other day of a craterhoof player saying he was attacking for lethal, and the opponent later claiming that the craterhoof trigger had been missed. (I believe this was from the Melissa deTora article). Is this also “not a great example”?
BTW, I fully support this discussion and agree that on its face the current trigger rules are probably better than earlier incarnations, I just want a clearer guideline of when I would be considered to have forgotten my trigger.
Edit: Fixed some words
If your opponent starts to declare blockers, and you interrupt and point out the trigger at that point, it’s fine.
Sorry, but I’m unclear on this, isn’t this what happened in Owen’s case, except that there was something about Owen waiting a few seconds after the attack to declare blocks?
Yeah I get that, but the effect doesn’t seem to be big enough to be worth it; I can understand how big it would be if there were multiples, but he only has 1 in the main, and they really only pump up the Staticasters for a single attack (the rest won’t be able to attack on the same turn)
What’s up with the Goldnight Commanders
That ability’s still going to resolve though, it’s just that the negative power makes use it useless. If the Elder was killed by some other means (Lightning Bolt), the damage would still go through using the last known information about the Elder’s power
Battle of Wits is useful for example if you have more than 200 cards in your library. Here’s an example to kick you off: http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/deck/1026
I dont follow him on twitter or read his articles so when people talked about him i always visualized him looking like owen wilson. So yes, i’ve imagined owen wilson single-blocking a pyreheart wolf. Also, owen is totally in the right here. The rules may be terrible at the moment, but until a better solution is found one should follow the rules as given
I know there’s the IRL trading thread, do we have any trading thread for MTGO? If not, can it be this one? Lol
I found this website enjoyable.