http://mythicspoiler.com/akh/cards/bountyoftheluxa.jpg
feel like this is the most confusing way they could've templated this
― frogbs, Sunday, 9 April 2017 02:18 (seven years ago) link
theres no good way to do it really but yeah
― ciderpress, Sunday, 9 April 2017 02:18 (seven years ago) link
Really cool design for a card, at least
― Vinnie, Sunday, 9 April 2017 03:08 (seven years ago) link
yeah no doubt
― frogbs, Sunday, 9 April 2017 22:19 (seven years ago) link
got11th (11-2-2) at the scg open, lost for t8 on camera :(
― iatee, Monday, 10 April 2017 02:15 (seven years ago) link
had a good on camera miracles blowout match earlier in the day too
― iatee, Monday, 10 April 2017 02:16 (seven years ago) link
Sorry for the loss, but that's an awesome run and a great finish either way! Now I'm eager to see your footage. I missed most of today's coverage because I was busy playing like crap at a modern 1K.
― Moodles, Monday, 10 April 2017 02:19 (seven years ago) link
playing your usual death&taxes deck? i didn't see any of the coverage
― ciderpress, Monday, 10 April 2017 02:19 (seven years ago) link
yeah dnt w/ red splash
― iatee, Monday, 10 April 2017 02:27 (seven years ago) link
what's the red for now that there's a white recruiter?
― ciderpress, Monday, 10 April 2017 02:28 (seven years ago) link
oh moon man
― ciderpress, Monday, 10 April 2017 02:29 (seven years ago) link
yeah moon in the main and cunning sparkmage and pia kiran in the board
― iatee, Monday, 10 April 2017 02:32 (seven years ago) link
I beat elves twice w/ those cards and elves is a total nightmare matchup
that's good shit dude, sorry you just missed
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 10 April 2017 02:40 (seven years ago) link
looks like Roar of the Wurm is back and even better
― frogbs, Monday, 10 April 2017 21:26 (seven years ago) link
amused at all the people getting mad about the cycling force spike because it's not miscalculation. that's a pretty good card!
― ciderpress, Monday, 10 April 2017 21:33 (seven years ago) link
I think this card will be quite good
― iatee, Monday, 10 April 2017 22:22 (seven years ago) link
it seems like drake haven is getting enough support to be a deck, without even seeing all the black cycling cards yet
― ciderpress, Monday, 10 April 2017 23:16 (seven years ago) link
I was gonna say, Censor looks like a card that will definitely get Standard play
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 02:09 (seven years ago) link
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
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 14:13 (seven years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 14:20 (seven years ago) link
cool planeswalker design alert
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 15:03 (seven years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 15:05 (seven years ago) link
jk i would still look at it to read all the bad takes
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 15:06 (seven years ago) link
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
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 15:08 (seven years ago) link
zombie lord looks decent. interesting having that at uncommon. zombie deck will be overdrafted every time, clearly has ackbar.jpg written all over it.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 15:26 (seven years ago) link
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.
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 15:28 (seven years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 16:06 (seven years ago) link
whoa Harsh Mentor seems like a pretty efficient combo killer and potentially maindeckable, if the environment's right
― frogbs, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 15:44 (seven years ago) link
doesn't trigger on planeswalker activated abilities :(
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
it's def gonna see legacy play, prob has some role in modern
― iatee, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 17:49 (seven years ago) link
someone's going to make a hilarious deck with this:
http://mythicspoiler.com/akh/cards/shadowofthegrave.html
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 April 2017 13:01 (seven years ago) link
looks like it has the potential to cause mischief somewhere
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 13 April 2017 13:05 (seven years ago) link
that looks like a card that does something in eternal formats if anywhere
― ciderpress, Thursday, 13 April 2017 13:21 (seven years ago) link
very good with Contract from Below
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 April 2017 13:41 (seven years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Thursday, 13 April 2017 14:59 (seven years ago) link
With the cycling Shatter, a green Manic Vandal, and Shatterstorm x-spell, looks like there is a lot more Standard playable hate for artifacts
― Vinnie, Thursday, 13 April 2017 17:02 (seven years ago) link
i think standard looks pretty grim if they drag their feet on banning saheeli combo again.
― ciderpress, Thursday, 13 April 2017 17:28 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 14 April 2017 16:13 (seven years ago) link
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
― ciderpress, Friday, 14 April 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link
though they didn't do cycling-matters in that set iirc, it was just a smoothing mechanic there
― ciderpress, Friday, 14 April 2017 18:26 (seven years ago) link
does seem like a 'cycling deck' will actually be a viable thing in draft
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 14 April 2017 18:30 (seven years ago) link
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).
― ciderpress, Friday, 14 April 2017 18:37 (seven years ago) link
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)
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 15:32 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 15:40 (seven years ago) link
oh cool I'm def gonna go to that gp
― iatee, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 15:41 (seven years ago) link
looks like the mtgo folks read the email i sent them about the uncommons, they're pretty thoroughly shuffled in this set
― ciderpress, Monday, 24 April 2017 18:29 (seven years ago) link
ha!
― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 24 April 2017 18:50 (seven years ago) link