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First pickable. Amirite?
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First pickable.
Amirite?
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>>44457285
Sure if you have a planeswalker to go with it.
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>call the gatewatch
>I don't give a fuck

It's a little weird that it's white. Wouldn't have expected white to be the planeswalker color.
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Fucking wizards ruining the lore because they want marketable characters
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>>44457376
can Planeswalkers not kill Eldrazi?
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>>44457285
i love the flavor text because the planewalkers always run away after fucking everything up in a plane. That said, the card itself definitely wouldn't see play in eternal formats.
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>>44457342
>It's a little weird that it's white. Wouldn't have expected white to be the planeswalker color.
White is the colour of embracing card type words.
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Gatewatch, Assemble!
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>>44457285
>No black planeswalker
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>>44457843
That Nigga fucked everything up, then bounced.
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>>44457285
Neat tutor, should have been an instant though.
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>>44457285
Eh. I'm not sure what the point is. It's not like you're comboing off with planeswalkers, and the type isn't as ubiquitous as other cards. So I don't get why you'd ever want to tutor for one unless you're running fewer than you should.
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>>44457285
I know who to search for!
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>>44457376
Reminder that the Weatherlight Saga was shittier than anything they've put out in the past ten years.
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>>44457934
i love how he is dancing from sheer happiness that he got his powers back
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>>44457843
Justice League expands constantly. You can bet your ass that the Gatewatch will spend the next few blocks recruiting new members.
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>>44458026
At least he's not a futa vampire, like the last time I saw that pose.
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>>44457843
>>44458313
What's the general consensus on Sorin amognst that group of dudes?
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So, aside from popularity, the potential waifu aspect and fireballs, what does Chandra bring to the table?
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>>44458411
>>44458411
you posted them
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>>44458411
She's a hot chick.
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>>44458348

How did they fuck this art up that bad?
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>>44458446
For you
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>>44458446

There is a special, icy corner of hell for you, Carlos.
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>>44458411
She's the rogue. Gideon's the tank, Jace is the mage, Nissa's the support.

Think about it. She's the chaotic one who flouts the law, almost all of her story-relevant appearances have involved her stealing something, and she initially didn't want to join.
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>>44458411
Gideon provides a lot of protection and tankiness thanks to his invulnerability magic. Jace does a lot with mind reading (not really useful at this moment) and illusions. Nissa (at the moment) is providing both support and extra damage (in the form of earth elementals and lots of earth-moving) thanks to her being able to tap directly into the heart of Zendikar and channel it's mana outward.

Chandra's going to be providing a lot of crowd control and burst damage in the form of firewaves, fireballs, and scorching rays. Basically, she's following the tried-and-true combat tactic of, "if it moves, kill it with fire."

Also keep in mind she does know how to do Ghostfire, which may or may not come in handy if Ugin shows up and actually tries to be useful instead of dicking around in his ruined lair on Zendikar.
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>>44457615
Not the new ones. Old walkers like Urza and Nicol sure, since both of them are almost on par if not on the same level of power as Big E in his prime.
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>>44457991
Fuck you.
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A rare that searches for mythic rares. Watch out guys.
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>>44457885
like your dad?
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>>44457892
This.

Also, I rarely play limited, but I don't see how this is first pickable. It's not like like there are any uncommon planeswalkers. Or is OP being sarcastic?
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>>44460149
sarcastic.
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>>44459751
not even close, Old Walkers couldn't fuck on them either, lest you forget.

and Nahiri, Ugin and Sorin are OLDER than Urza by a tad and still couldn't do it, with Nahiri and Ugin being in the top 6 most powerful walkers of all time.
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>>44457285

In what way is this not black?
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>>44461049
why would it be black? do you think only Black got Tutors?

are you high?
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>>44461070

Not exclusively but it is the default tutoring color. Tutoring walkers has never been placed before so why wouldn't it go to the default tutoring color?
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>>44457285
G/R/W tron ?
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>>44461094
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>>44461094
Maybe because you're a Walker and you're calling in another Walker. Its teamwork.
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>>44461094
there is no precedent for Walkers, and alot of Walkers are white.

so there ya go.
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>>44457312
>>44457285
But with the order in which blocks are drafted now, this will only be in the first pack you get. So you'll never be able to first-pick it knowing you'll have a planeswalker to go with it. The best you can do is first-pick a planeswalker and later get this passed to you.
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>>44461158

>not exclusively
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>>44458505
normal people don't actually think about dickgirls 24/7
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>>44459114
Why isn't ugin helping? He's one of the most powerful active planeswalkers and he helped 'defeat' the eldrazi before.
Hopefully he has some scheme up his sleeve and isn't just arseing around planning revenge on Nicol Bolas.
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>>44458348
Wait that's not her leg, is it?
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>>44461228
no one is first picking this ever, if you end up with it and then a walker, all the better.

this is clearly a "constructed" card, so take the uncommon removal in the pack and move on.
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>>44461094

White has a history of tutoring enchantments and equipment so it's not unheard of for white to do some tutoring. Much like those, planeswalkers are (Generally) support pieces more than beatsticks.
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>>44461094
Just be glad it doesn't cos WUBRG
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Where the fuck is Sorin? This is starting to get to me.
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>>44461094

Does black have any 'type' tutoring? Most black tutors I can think of are general purpose 'Grab whatever you want' tutors.

This also lacks a non-mana cost, which is very un-black tutor.
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>>44461406
Black gets to search for demons, swamps, mercenaries and specific converted mana costs (Beseech the Queen and transmute cards). Searching for specific card types is not typically black, because black gets, as you mentioned, vanilla search for any card.

There are many black tutors with no additional costs, so that one shouldn't be a problem.
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>>44461094
Tutoring Walkers seems like a pretty white thing. Like another anon said, it's all related to teamwork. Moreover, white cards supporting planeswalker strategies has a precedent. It's recent, but it exists. See: Ajani, Mentor of Heroes and Ajani Steadfast.
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>>44461392
He's probably fucking around in Innistrad and we're only gonna hear about him next block. I'd guess he's masturbating at his waifu.
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>>44461353
It was supposed to be, clearly she originally had her knee up and they tried to use that art whilst tweaking it slightly. It's pretty lazy of them.
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>>44457285
>PW tutor in white
whelp this is gonna help superfriends in modern a bit.
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>>44461352
His rationale is that he doesn't know what they're for or what their place in their ecosystem is, so killing them might be a very bad idea.

For what it's worth he's probably right, new planes form so without the Eldrazi to recycle mana and destroy planes you could end up with manager being used up in planes or a fifty plane pile up.
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>>44457285
I just love how awkward this will be in limited. There's gonna be many more PW tutors than actual PWs. This is gonna be the very last pick, every time. Well, at least it's not absolutely useless like Prism Array, kek.
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>>44460984
>Nahiri being in the top 6 most powerful walkers of all time
What?
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>>44457991
the Weatherlight Saga was awesome faggot
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>>44458348
Damn, I never noticed that.
Now I can't see it without getting hard.
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>>44459840
>>44461905
>being this delusional
There are so many cards where there is a creature and the flavor text is just Gerrard doing the action hero equivelent of saying 'ooga booga suc muh dick, you a pussy bitch'. There are so many cards where his ugly fucking face is printed and he's such a smug cunt.
I generally shy away from explaining away shit taste by nostalgia, but Gerrard has so little positive qualities I cannot imagine why people would like him otherwise.
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>>44461740
Sorin, Nahiri, and Ugin sealed the eldrazi the first time around. When the seal started weakening Nahiri redid the seal solo after taking a quick vacation to tour Zendikar.
She made the entire hedeon network with Ugin explained how to do the carvings.

Nahiri is one of the stronger oldwalkers.

>>44461905
The Weatherlight saga was an exercise in stupidity and futility at the same time.
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>>44462387
Gerard wasn't all there was to the saga. Personally, I liked the part where the slivers were introduced or squeeze is a general. They made trope characters, but they weren't a gallery of Mary sues like the current story arcs. Planes walkers fuck ed up magic lore for me in a big way and I want them to all embrace the tentacle already.
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>>44462535
Squee, fuck autocorrect.
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>>44457991
I hated the Weatherlight saga itself, but the Artifacts cycle that lead up to it was some of the best writing MtG has ever had.
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New shit.

>"Vile Redeemer" 2G
>Creature - Eldrazi
>Devoid
>Flash
>When you cast Vile Redeemer you may pay â—Š. If you do, put a 1/1 colorless Eldrazi Scion creature token onto the battlefield for each nontoken creature that died under your control this turn. They have " Sacrifice this creature: Add â—Š to your mana pool."
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>"Dominant Will Eldrazi" 2R
>Creature - Eldrazi
>Devoid
>Haste
>When you cast Dominant Will Eldrazi you may pay 1â—Š, If you do, gain control of target creature until end of turn. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.
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>>44458348
Shes holding her dress out you fucking sperglords.
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>>44462804

...Jesus that Support ability is unplayably expensive.
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>>44462815
It's only an uncommon. She's clearly a "well, I have nothing else to do with my mana" card.
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>>44462767
Great potential finisher in limited. I love shit like this.
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Take a look at this huge piece of shit.
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>>44462813
how do these two abilities fit together at all?

I mean, 4 mana super-discard is fairly nice, I guess.
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>>44462788
Perhaps, but it also looks like shes cupping a big fucking stiffy.
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And Linvala's back.

That's it for now.

>>44462837
You mean "can't be blocked" and "opponent discards/exiles a card from their hand"? I assume blue brings the can't be blocked and black brings the hand disruption.
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>>44462822
>what the fuck am I casting
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>>44462535
There are parts of it that I've read that I like (both of what you mention is ok from what I've seen although nothing special) but I've ran into way more bad things from it that good things.
It's not like I've read the novels or anything, so maybe the shit of come across has just been primarily shit.
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>>44462837
It's just a dimir thing to not be blockable.
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>>44462788
See, you can rationalize it like that, but her hand is clearly cupping something. That is not a natural hand orientation for gripping a free cloth. Unless she's twisting her wrist for absolutely no reason.
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>>44462844

Interesting. Have we ever seen a 3/3 Angel token before? I've only seen 4/4s as best as I can recall.
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>>44462788
>holding her dress
>hand is clearly not in a pinching gripping pose but rather in a cupping pose
I mean, it was obviously supposed to be her leg and then was forgot or ignored when the leg was switched to coming down, but come on, it looks nothing like she's holding it.
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>>44462813
one of the best processor enablers so far, but that's not saying much.
Also, unblockable will be great in limited.
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>>44462873
>>44462885
>>44462842

God I fucking hate this community sometimes.
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>>44462876
Technically yes, but not white. Also, on a terrible card.
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>>44462844
Wow, and I thought Avacyn's second incarnation was rough. What a downgrade.
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>>44462844
Linvala you used to be good what happened to you?

Well at least angel shitters like a friend of mine will be happy.
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>>44462919

You know, I'd kinda like to see White/Black Angels some time with Avacyn and everyone's favorite Vampwalker. Guardians of the souls of the dead/the natural order of life and death. After all, people are often asking about 'Good' Black cards.

But then, I suppose mono-white has a strong death/souls theme too.
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>>44462919
Everyone's second turn around on Zendikar has been fucked right over.
Omnath went from fucking radical to stupid only playable in EDH thing.
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>>44462822
Was man-o-war still decent for standard or has been power creeped?
I mean, it clearly has been now, but I don't know how to evaluate this.
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>>44462952
Omnath, Locus of Rage is definitely playable, are you kidding me?
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>>44462822
>>44462834
These two feel like the best spoilers today. Giving your opponent options sucks (especially that creature sacrifice option) but if your opponent has one or fewer creatures and you're at parity then it gives decent value.

I'd still rather be casting Ob himself though
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>>44462901
I understand hating the meme but blatantly bullshitting/lying is in no way more respectable than shitposting.
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>>44460657
Well, white is the color of rallying allies and bringing people together, so I don't see why the flavor would be misplaced, exactly. But mehanicswise, I'm not sure which color would be the right one for planeswalker tutoring
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>>44462844
>Gain 5 life
>Make a 3/3

Hmmm seems familiar...
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>>44462844
Does this mean no new Iona? What the fuck, her "colors matter" ability would be great with some of this devoid shit running around
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>>44463015
Iona's dead.
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>>44463013
Difference is thragtusk isn't shit and wasn't a mythic.
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>>44457285
It should have been flat W and an instant.
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>>44463013
>5 CMC vs 6 CMC
>single color for casting vs double color for casting
>protecting from board wipes vs everything dies all at once
>can cast multiples and keep them all on the board vs. can have one and that's it unless you want to sacrifice the other

Literally the only thing good about Linvala is the token has flying.
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>>44462844
If this costed 1 mana less, it would have been decent.
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>>44463312
No if her abilities were not conditional she would have been good.
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>>44462964
>7 cmc
>landfaller
By the time I can play a 7 cmc I have ramped as hard as I need to end the game and don't need more lands. He is not great for killshots unless you've saved up a lot of easily destroyed elementals. He's swagger in EDH, sure, make a whole damn elemental deck around him there. Maybe he can see minor use in standard where games can drag on a little. But nothing at all beyond that.
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>>44463352
this is white we're talking about, almost everything white does besides lifegain, first strike, flying and protection is conditional.
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>>44458348
That artist is damned good, because I can't see that as her dick: it's too far to the right. Probably just a poorly-worn codpiece.
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>>44463411
Which is the problem. They need to back off on all the conditional effects and bring back the balance and tax effects. Or even go with their original post time spiral idea of giving White passive denial. Let blue have most of the active denial like counters and give white things that deny your opponent from things.

Conditional effects are almost always worse then weaker assured effects.
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>>44462535
>gallery of Mary Sues
Hokay, I'll humor you. You remember Commodore Guff? The guy who REWROTE Phyrexians winning the war and who couldn't keep his dick out of the 4th wall?

Try taking off those rose tinted glasses friend, you might actually find something to like in the neowalkers.
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>>44462778
>Flyer Drone
>no flying
Mark "this would confuse new players" Rosewater
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>>44462387
And Jace and Gideon are different how?
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>>44463486
>Flayer Drone
>Flayer

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>>44462844

>3/3 angel

this triggers my autism.
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>>44462822

This one is alright. Man'o'war with upsides.

>>44462834

I like it. Against a control deck it can straight up win you the match, or put you in the position to to so the next turn.
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>>44463015
But we already got a new Iona!

She just doesn't care about what's happening around her, though.
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>>44463486
Wew lad
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>>44462822
Thats first pickable, shame it doesnt have flash though.
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>>44463041
We have confirmation on that? Don't imagine it'd be easy to miss the corpse of an angel roughly the size of a skyscraper.
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>>44463566
What
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>>44463585
I can't imagine she would fare particularly well against the Eldrazi considering she can only stop colors
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>>44463449
When timely reinforcement was in standard it literally made burn and RDW unviable.

And then there was first response, from the dev notes in that one Mtg article, first response originally costed 2 cmc, and it was so format warping during playtests that the devs felt it will see play despite upping cost to 4.
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>>44463449
Hurr Durr unfun new player tears - MaRo
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>>44463646
Even without that, she's a few pump spells away from holding new Ulamog at bay with a single hand while he flails angrily with his bifurcated arms.
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>>44463693
I know, right? I wish they would just stop focusing on new players and make the game fun again! Fuck new players. Magic has enough players already.
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>>44463693
How? I've been asked how to make it so you are "invincible" and how to make it so your opponent cant do anything by kids at almost every prerelease.

Kids love t he idea of turtling up.
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I wish gatewatch was a government instead of a comic book cape team.
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>>44460984

Who are the Top 6 of All Time?
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>>44463657
Burn is fundamentally flawed because of how MTG was made. There is nothing between 2 or 3 mana. Burn is either ever to good or not good enough.
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>>44461353

She's just holding her just, much like Victorian-era women did when moving in a hurry. It's not a penis or even the artist being lazy, /tg/ is just retarded when it comes to her art.
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>>44461094

Because it's a gatewatch card and they have no black.

>fluff informing rules decisions
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>>44463712
Dumbing down the game to this level of jank is not good for the long term health of the game. I realize that Wizards has basically resorted to GW levels of pump em and dump em but casuals aren't the only people who play the game.

>>44463723
It's unfun for the player who is getting turtled on and that creates a negative play experience full of feel-bad moments, we want to avoid that as much as we can :^)
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>>44463769
If you look closely it appears as though her hand is resting and not actually holding the cloth. I assume the artist changed her pose in the middle of drawing it and never bothered to redraw her hand.
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>>44463751
they could add non-mana cost to a 2 mana spell.
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>>44463789
And how does getting bum rushed but a shit ton of creatures before you can do anything or locked down with counters and pinged for 1 damage every turn not fun?
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I really don't like cards geared to oth planeswalker decks, they're boring and it's not as if they need any help.

I really don't care for this Justice Leaguke of planeswalkers they're going for either. Jeeze.
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>>44463769
>>She's just holding her just,
>Hand is clearly drawn in the resting stance
Okay buddy
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Guess I won't be playing standard again
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>>44461158
That card, being an uncommon and costing 2, compared to the PW tutor we have now, makes me appreciate Kamigawa a lot more. This game is truly dying, at least on quality.
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>>44463826
When they do that its normally not enough to balance it or its to restrictive and no one uses it.

They have hundreds of posts out on how everything RnD tries fails. They have yet to find that sweet spot.

The main problem is burns flexibility and ability to be slotted into other decks. If they make it good enough for burn to be viable every other deck splashes red for that burn. If they scale it back burn decks just cant pump out enough control and damage to kill the opponent before being killed.
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>>44463871
Just stop playing, you annoying, whiny bitch, ok? :^)
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>>44457285
This should have been red.
Red should be the color that interact best with planeswalkers. Also an expansion of its color pie would only be good.
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>>44463892
Stop shitposting.
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>>44463892
Mark "too strong for standard" Rosewater please go
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>>44457285
Why is shit like this even in a rare spot?
If they want to make a planetutor for 3cmc? Sure. Great. That's fine.
Why the fuck is it in a rare spot?
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>>44463900
But why? I can see why White would be calling niggas as backup. Can you explain a bit?
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>>44463907
You first!
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>>44463922
The same excuse wizards can use for anything being shit

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>>44463449

Next you'll be complaining that you have to spend mana to cast spells or even draw the spells before you cast them, both of which are conditions. Like mana and card draw, conditional effects are something you build a deck around not something you throw in and hope they trigger.

Your point
>Conditional effects are almost always worse then weaker assured effects.
only proves that Wizards needs to buff conditional effects or relax the condition, not that there is something fundamentally flawed with conditional effects so they should remove them entirely.
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>>44463900
>Red should be the color that interact best with planeswalkers
Why? White is the color of cooperation and teamwork.
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>>44463923
A planeswalker card represent the bond you have with the summoned walker.
Red is the color of emotion, friendship, love, rivalry, all reasons to bond with a person.
Red nteracting with planeswalker cards would show its power over the bond between the player and the planeswalker or the bonds of your opponents. The color is already able to interact with planeswalkers thanks to direct damage, but if a color has to be the "planeswalker color" it should be red, like white is the main enchantment color and also the best one at dealing with them.
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>>44463922
Because making an uncommon card that only interacts with mythics makes no sense. Do you really want to draft four copies each time no one opens a planeswalker in draft?
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>>44462834
I kinda like this. The fact that is does it twice allows a huge swing. I certainly don't ever see this ending a game, but it can put you in a great position to do so next turn.
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>>44464020
Rather than taking up a rare slot? Yes, very much so.
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>>44463922

>I want good cards in rare slots so I have to spend more money.

Wizards is doing the right thing by using rarity to balance draft, not that they're perfect at it.
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>>44464011
And dragon loving making?
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>>44464011
Or in the case of the card, all these planeswalkers swore an oath to help the plane they fucked up and are showing up mostly out of obligation.

You're not wrong on Red probably being best for future cards that interact with planeswalkers but this one is pretty White.
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>>44464153
Because the flavor of a colation of heroes represented by the card is white.
But "Call a planeswalker bro to your help" should be red in my opinion.
>>44464123
That's a spell of Sarkhan dragonfucker Vol, why are you even asking?
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>>44462901
>No one can have fun unless I say so!

Calm down, faget.

We all know that its a mistake, lets us just have some fun with it.
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>>44462834
This is going to break certain matchups wide open.
But Hangarback decks are gonna shit in its cereal, so I don't think this is maindeckable.
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>>44462834
So if you copy this spell, can you repeat the spell with its ability again?
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>>44464381
yes
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>>44462778
Hangarback Walker says hello.
So do Thopters.
So does that 2 mana enchantment from DTK. So does that BFZ 3-drop that untaps whenever a colorless guy ETBs. And that other enchantment from BFZ.
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>>44462834
I bet it would work nicely with a Demonic Pact package in Standard. Both of them top the curve of that deck and can hit creatures, opponent's cards, and opponent's life totals
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>>44462834
This is a pretty powerful card already, basically half of a Cruel Ultimatum for 5CMC. Will definitely pick it up for EDH.

First-pickable in Draft even?
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>>44464619
>Will definitely pick it up for EDH.
This card is terrible in EDH. It only hits one opponent and the best mode, "lose 10 life" is even worse in a format where players start with 40.
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>>44463442
Looks pretty dead center to me.
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>>44462815
It's a reasonably priced card with vanilla stats. You are not first picking this for ability. That said in bfz draft I have been happy for late game mana sinks. It fills your curve in a slow format and is not a 6 drop.
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>>44462834
I think this has potential. First read through its shit. But then you repeat. As always with opponent chooses spells they will pick the best option for them. Playing this turn 5 with an aggressive deck will be devastating. Being within striking range by turn 5is possible. They must discard 2 not 1if that's all they have in hand.
I think this card reads opponent : pick 3 terrible options twice and suffer a massive down swing.
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>>44466296
Two creatures for 5cmc is shit and will most likely be the common choice. If they had fewer conditions this might be useable, but as is it's just not going to fly.

That said, I'd use it as a curve topper in a discard deck or a burn deck as a 2-of just to test it out. Might give you what you need in a late game stale mate with some anti-token sideboard.
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>>44462834
As long as Hangarback Walker is floating around it's gonna be hard for this to see much play

Still, it's got enough powerful effects you never know.

What's gonna suck is your opponent having you within dead range, pulling this off the top, and your opponent just being like "Ok yeah I'm down 10 life. You done?"
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>>44466181
enchantment search is stronger than walker serch
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>Phyrexian Dreadnaught

WHO IS READY FOR FUN?
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>>44463708
Unless she was what got destroyed/exiled when he was cast.
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>>44466722
True but if you're playing White I imagine you have some countermeasures for that.
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>>44466541

TOOTH AND NAIL
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>>44467080
Can't you just T&N 2 Dreadnaughts and sac one into the other?
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>>44467297
Can't you just pump out the mimic with ancient tomb and kill someone on turn 2 by dropping a dreadnaught and giving him infect?

Seems like a lot less work than getting to Tooth and Nail mana
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>>44461688

They've been imprisoned for quite some time with no apparent ill effects on the multiverse though, right? If something unfortunate does result from their absence it would seem to take a very, very long time to occur, probably slow enough to spot the issue, study it and find a non-eldrazi solution. It's also worth noting that Zendicar is fucked right now, for all the non-planeswalking inhabitants that's a bit like saying "I won't help put out that fire in your house with this hose because in a parallel universe there might be a second coming of Hitler several millennia in the future if I do."
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>>44467507
for a being like ugin who might live those several millennia and have to clean that mess up, taking the slightly harder option now might be worth it to him
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>>44462837

They are both fear/insanity-based.
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>>44461094
Flavor reasons I 'm sure. You don't see a black walker prancing around with that faggy gatewatch.
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>>44467559

That's fine but he's basically giving up any "good guy" credibility he has if that's the stance he takes, it's functionally the same as just declaring the entire mortal population of Zendicar as far beneath him as an ant is to us. Like I can understand why an ancient dragon would hold approach it that way but I can't reconcile that with the idea of a powerful force for good that they seemed to be pushing with him lately. He's basically just a colorless, less directly antagonistic Nicol Bolas at that point.
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>>44458505
>>44461353

If memory serves, it was originally her leg and then they changed it for some reason and just kind of forgot. It's now explained as her holding the dress, despite not having any grip whatsoever - presumably she's using the adhesive vampires use to walk on walls.
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>>44467362
what about using Fling?
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>>44466541
>Until end of turn
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>>44468283
You sacrifice the eldrazi and keep the Dreadnought.
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>>44462847
Did you mean:
>Oh I know exactly what I'm casting
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>>44466367
I didn't say I was evaluating this for limited.
In traditional constructed yes. In limited where I come from you pay 5 for some decent removal. 2 for one is fine in bfz limited. It won't save you when behind but will help when equal. >>44466367
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>>44467972
Good or not, he's still a fucking dragon.
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>>44467972
Here's the thing. Unlike Bolas, he isn't malicious, he isn't power-hungry, and he doesn't find joy in causing others pain. He takes the stance of 'the greatest good for the greatest amount of people' - which, honestly, makes sense, considering his natural lifespan (before accounting for former oldwalkerhood and anything involving his colorlessness). He can't AFFORD to care about individuals, because they'll be dead in the blink of an eye.
That said, doing so doesn't make him a Good Guy. It makes him a Neutral Guy leaning sorta towards good (unlike Bolas' full jackass EEEEEVIL)
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>>44462767
Can't wait to top deck this against a breaker of armies.
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>>44463510
Never said they were, I consider Jace less terrible (I have actually seen him introspect and I can't say the same for Gerrard) but both have the problems of being smug cunts.
Gerrard also has flavor text on cards which are totally unrelated to him, when I want to hear about the fucking card instead of about Gerrard instead. Jace, for the most part, sticks to cards obviously related.
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>>44458367
Near zero. He's got his hands full with his own shit, and is too old and too strong to ever treat the other members as his equals. Plus it's sort of a running theme that although he's white aligned, it's only for his own benefit. Me might have sealed the Eldrazi, but only because of the threat they posed to him. I definitely don't see him joining the mtgusticeleague
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>>44457342
Considering it's an alliance I think it's fine to be white. And there is no planeswalker color, each planeswalker has different colors.
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>>44466541
>stiflenaught immediately gets another tool to not be shit.
holy hell this is gonna cause massive problems in my legacy group.
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>>44466386
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but they don't actually get the tokens until the spell fully resolves. If hangerback walker is their only creatures, they have to use one of the other options for the second go.
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>>44463751
What if they added "tap a land you control, it doesn't untap during your next untap step.". That's sorta a half mana.
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>>44463751
>Burn is either ever to good or not good enough.
Except for all of the times where it wasn't?
I have no idea where you are pulling this from.
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>>44464011
White in general has pretty much included caring about Planeswalkers in its color pie as of... I guess Ajani, Mentor of Heroes. Red is not the the color most about bonding. White is often thought of as the "teamwork" color moreso than any others which is why it mechanically leans heavily on tokens + anthem themes, or is associated with teamwork mechanics (like Support or Cohort or Rally just within Battle for Zendikar). They made White the color that cares about Planeswalkers because it's less an emotional bond (I doubt you form an emotional bond with Ashiok or Liliana or even Xenagos) and more about a general sense of cooperation (Ashiok, Liliana, and I guess Xenagos are probably perfectly willing to cooperate with you). I also kind of feel the relation White has to caring about Legendary creatures as well though that's a loose thread and one also pretty heavily tied to Green from Kamigawa.
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>>44462402
too bad her commander card is so shit
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>>44475301
And Teferi got a second good commander card. Fuck you Wizards.
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>>44475347
part of the color pie
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>>44457285
Maybe in pack two, if you opened a planeswalker in pack one. But even then, I'd probably just take removal or an efficient beater and hope to wheel this.
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>>44476383
I think it was sarcasm. This is a pretty shit card for limited. Like you said even if you did open a laneswalker in pack 1 and got passed this it's probably not even the best pick.
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