something similar happened to me once where it gave me a 70 card deck with a ton of extra basic lands but not the cards that I wasn't playing. I have no clue what happened but it was as if the submit didn't take and it just gave me the standard 80 (or whatever) card deck that's every card you drafted plus an "auto" assortment of lands, but then it took out every non-land I didn't submit. I don't even know how a glitch like that could happen.
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 01:09 (nine years ago) link
new archetype discovered by draft opponent
http://i.imgur.com/m4K9oHU.png
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 23 August 2014 15:07 (nine years ago) link
that seems fine if his deck is full of like wall of mulch & hornet nest & red removal
― ciderpress, Saturday, 23 August 2014 15:33 (nine years ago) link
that is fair. it did make me lol tho. and...it wasn't.
― Roberto Spiralli, Saturday, 23 August 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
any thoughts on the maro bomb?
― iatee, Monday, 25 August 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
you'll have to explain
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Monday, 25 August 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
no more core sets, all blocks will be 2 sets
― iatee, Monday, 25 August 2014 17:51 (nine years ago) link
wow, that's nuts. I guess that solves the "3rd set problem" huh?
what's the release schedule for these going to be? it's not gonna be every 3 months now is it?
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Monday, 25 August 2014 17:53 (nine years ago) link
standard rotates spring and fall with each block, 18 month cycle instead of 24
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 25 August 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mm/metamorphosis
― iatee, Monday, 25 August 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
that's pretty big news, but as someone who plays 95% limited I do find it rather exciting, drafting one set for an entire year is boring and I always found full-block draft to be a little awkward
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Monday, 25 August 2014 18:07 (nine years ago) link
yeah I think it's pretty tricky to design in a way to ensure drafting both the first set and full block will create coherent/dynamic limited metas
it's pretty hard to ensure that full block 'does something' cause the variance between pools is always so high
― iatee, Monday, 25 August 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
yeah this is a pretty universally positive change imo. more 'expert-level' limited formats and more standard rotations is exactly what the game needs to stay fresh in the twitch.tv era
― ciderpress, Monday, 25 August 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
especially since people are figuring out very very quickly what the best decks are and fine-tuning them into oblivion, reducing the amount of time something like Caw-blade or Monoblack devotion would be in Standard is probably a good thing
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Monday, 25 August 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
I'm sure it's a good change, but I suspect it will end up making it that much more expensive to keep up with standard
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Monday, 25 August 2014 19:00 (nine years ago) link
my fuzzy logic suggests that it'll be around 10% more expensive to keep up with standard, which is worth it for a more dynamic format imo
― ciderpress, Monday, 25 August 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
http://techcrunch.com/2014/08/25/amazon-will-officially-acquire-twitch/?ncid=rss
― iatee, Monday, 25 August 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
It'll be interesting to see how that impacts Twitch. I hope it doesn't change too much. I've been loving watching live MTG tournaments every weekend on the big screen via Roku.
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Monday, 25 August 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/mechanics-khans-tarkir
bunch of preview cards up from the PAX event too, most notably reprints of the onslaught fetchlands, which i guess is a good way to guarantee that the set flies off the shelves
― ciderpress, Sunday, 31 August 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
Thought we had a confirmation that fetches were NOT going to be in Khans. Not that I'm unhappy to see them. I guess the enemy fetches have to be in one of the next two sets now.
― Vinnie, Monday, 1 September 2014 00:48 (nine years ago) link
we had confirmation that the zendikar (enemy) ones were not in the block iirc
― ciderpress, Monday, 1 September 2014 00:53 (nine years ago) link
haha its been a rollercoast mtg ride today for me - i forgot that the mtgo ptq was today and that i was qualified and spent the afternoon playing paper sealed deck which is kinda w/e but i also have been pretty aggressively buying foil onslaught fetches under the assumption that they would get reprinted and thus be modern legal so i am happy to hear that this is in fact the case.
khans has me fairly excited for a new draft and standard format and its interesting to think about what decks the allied fetches open up in modern.
― Lamp, Monday, 1 September 2014 01:09 (nine years ago) link
khans looks pretty promising to me so far, theres a ton of variety just in the handful of commons/uncommons we've seen
― ciderpress, Monday, 1 September 2014 01:36 (nine years ago) link
sultai charm seems modern playable? like how is that card ever bad
― iatee, Monday, 1 September 2014 04:49 (nine years ago) link
http://cdn.magicspoiler.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Ankle-Shanker-spoilers.jpg
this guy seems fun
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 12:13 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, he seems like he'd be a good pal for Goblin Rabblemaster
― odd proggy geezer (Moodles), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 12:45 (nine years ago) link
first week of previews is in the books and this set's looking pretty low-key other than the fetchalnds, which is fine i guess. looks fun for drafting but there's no real constructed firestarters yet
― ciderpress, Friday, 5 September 2014 15:31 (nine years ago) link
yeah the fetch craze might have made them think they didn't have to include any other chase cards
― iatee, Friday, 5 September 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
though if nothing else explosive comes out it will be kinda funny how large the power gap is between ths/khans standard and some of the previous standards
― iatee, Friday, 5 September 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
Some of the 3-mana tricolor cards look great, though it depends on how the mana's gonna work. fetchlands are kind of an odd fit for a set based off wedges, aren't they? if anything the enemy color ones would've fit here.
I mean there's nothing that looks super broken the way Brimaz or Voice of Resurgence did, but a lot of these cards look very playable.
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Friday, 5 September 2014 15:41 (nine years ago) link
i think original ravnica block is still the lowest power level block they've made, people just liked it so much that they didn't notice that dryad sophisticate and ravenous rats were being played in top standard decks
― ciderpress, Friday, 5 September 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
i just saw Empty the Pits - surely someone is going to figure out something messed up with that.
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 5 September 2014 15:49 (nine years ago) link
I feel like the formats where it's easy to get delve-bait are not the formats that want to be paying BBBB (okay maybe edh)
― iatee, Friday, 5 September 2014 15:53 (nine years ago) link
oh wait lol fetches are coming back to standard
pretty happy about these common dual-lands, those are exactly what i like to see for limited
― ciderpress, Monday, 8 September 2014 15:34 (nine years ago) link
Siege Rhino looks pretty damn legit
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Monday, 8 September 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
the 4B delve removal seems potentially modern/legacy playable
― iatee, Monday, 8 September 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
yeah those were the 2 cards that jumped out at me today. given how removal has been shifting, a kindasorta doom blade at uncommon is not too shabby.
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 8 September 2014 20:22 (nine years ago) link
i think that card's too unreliable to see modern/legacy play in a world where go for the throat and doom blade no longer show up
― ciderpress, Monday, 8 September 2014 20:34 (nine years ago) link
it's a good card nonetheless
― ciderpress, Monday, 8 September 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
I feel like an esper control deck in modern could def play it
― iatee, Monday, 8 September 2014 21:58 (nine years ago) link
common lands, uncommon lands, rare land *and* cluestonesjeez
― iatee, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 16:07 (nine years ago) link
probably best to overcompensate, full-block RTR had lots of mana fixing but sometimes you'd get a 5-color drafter next to you and wouldn't pick up much, and the result would be miserable
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 16:11 (nine years ago) link
shards of alara had the uncommon lands, obelisks, and a 5-cycle of common lands that kind of sucked, and the fixing in that format wasn't quite good enough, so switching the common lands to a 10-cycle of good ones should hopefully get it there
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 16:12 (nine years ago) link
also this set isn't going to be as heavily multicolor, though you wouldnt know it from the cards they've previewed since the multicolor stuff is mostly at rare
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
Less than half as many multicolor cards as RTR, I saw somewhere.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 16:35 (nine years ago) link
it was half as many per pack, not necessarily by overall count. meaning there wont be many at common
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
that makes sense
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
I am having cluestone-related war flashbacks to dgm, I guess in a large set you probably won't open 5 in a pack
― iatee, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 16:52 (nine years ago) link
these do seem worse (pretty hard to crack) than the cluestones, which already weren't very good (in a slow format that could accommodate them)
― iatee, Tuesday, 9 September 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link