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slyboogie
United States3423 Posts
Color Pie Violation! | ||
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Judicator
United States7270 Posts
On January 05 2013 06:52 slyboogie wrote: So I stand by what I said: Color Pie Violation! Bleeding =/= Violation. Dismember a much more egregious example of violation than Pongify. REMOVAL FOR ALL~! (Just read that in Oprah's voice). | ||
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Shotcoder
United States2316 Posts
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deth2munkies
United States4051 Posts
On January 05 2013 06:52 slyboogie wrote: So I stand by what I said: Color Pie Violation! It has the Simic watermark does it not? That basically means that it wasn't viable at UG so they had to just leave it at U but it reflects the UG nature of Simic...I fee like it's a fine card with that in mind. | ||
TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On January 05 2013 06:44 MoonBear wrote: Sunlance Mana Tithe Yeah, Time Spiral was a big "What if the Colour Pie had ended up different" sort of set. The colour-shifted (aka Time-Shifted) cards are still flavourful but weren't the way R&D went with the colour pie. Also had a lot of throwbacks to old stuff too which was cute. Note that while Pongify was printed in Planar Chaos, it's not actually explicitly a color-shifted card (the color-shifted cards have special templating that you can see on Sunlance and Mana Tithe--note that the boxes containing the name and type are colored darker than the background color, while in the normal template, they are a lighter shade of the corresponding color). Which means that they don't explicitly consider it to be a color pie violation. | ||
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slyboogie
United States3423 Posts
But it's a violation. Rationalize it if you want with "bleeding" or Simic watermarks but destroying creatures isn't Blue. Again, I don't care, I just like typing violation. Edit: don't mean to sound hard headed, btw, but that's how my post reads. Basically, I don't think the color pie is particularly sacred, but there is some reason it exists. The card isn't overpowered or anything like that but it's just not particularly Blue. | ||
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billyX333
United States1360 Posts
can't wait to play test it in modern with http://magiccards.info/query?q=!MindCrank not sure if it would would better in a pure combo deck or slower control deck | ||
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cLAN.Anax
United States2847 Posts
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deth2munkies
United States4051 Posts
On January 05 2013 11:27 cLAN.Anax wrote: Playing that Guildmage in Commander looks like it would garner a ton of hate if you have enough opponents and mana to use his first ability every turn. Whew. Next turn play Traumatize and the first ability and instakill someone. | ||
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cLAN.Anax
United States2847 Posts
On January 05 2013 11:42 deth2munkies wrote: Next turn play Traumatize and the first ability and instakill someone. Oh, derp, lol. Milling would be super effective. m-( Lord. I just remembered Mind Funeral. More chancy, but it'll probably cost less. EDIT: Aww darn. Jace, Memory Adept is still viable for standard. Speaking of milling, haha.... | ||
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Judicator
United States7270 Posts
On January 05 2013 11:17 slyboogie wrote: It's not the freaking Constitution. I don't care if they make R: Draw 3 cards and Gain 3 life. But it's a violation. Rationalize it if you want with "bleeding" or Simic watermarks but destroying creatures isn't Blue. Again, I don't care, I just like typing violation. Edit: don't mean to sound hard headed, btw, but that's how my post reads. Basically, I don't think the color pie is particularly sacred, but there is some reason it exists. The card isn't overpowered or anything like that but it's just not particularly Blue. Game would be really boring and Blue would be straight up dominating AND powercreep would be out of control. | ||
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Rainofpain
United States125 Posts
I got 3-1, losing my only match to my friend who got an Entreat the Angels is his AVR.... incase you didn`t know populating 4/4s with flying is good. 1st game I never drew an Island, 2nd game Frostburn Weird brought the beats with Pursuit. 3rd was super close, was stuck on 4 lands for 1-2 turns longer than I needed to be. It came down to me saying F it and stealing an angel with Conscripts and hoping he blocked wrong. My sick deck: 1 Pillar of Flame 2 Frost Weirds 2 Electromancers 2 Pursuit of Flight 1 Nivix Guildmage 1 Izzet Charm 1 Lobber Crew 1 Riot Ringleader 1 Tower Drake 1 Cobblebrue 1 Mist Raven 1 Into the Void 1 Voidwielder 1 Batterhorn 1 Zealous Conscripts (Best card in my deck by an extremley wide margin) 1 Hypersonic Dragon 2 Isperia`s Skywatch 1 Thunderous Wrath 1 Rogue`s Passage 1 Izzet Guildgate 8 Mountains 7Islands If you are looking for a way to reinvigorate draft or just have fun try mixing the packs up! | ||
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ManyCookies
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Kinie
United States3106 Posts
On January 06 2013 03:21 ManyCookies wrote: Speaking of combos, Captain of the Mists+Gilded Lotus+Illusionist's Bracers is a new standard legal one. Tap Lotus for mana, Untap Lotus+Captain with Bracers, net a mana and repeat. Use said mana to a. Go infinite with anything that utilizes infinite mana and/or infinite untaps b. Tap down any number of permanents (say, all of your opponent's permanents at their upkeep) with Captain himself. Rakdos' Return. Go Grixis Control/Ramp, with your win cons being Rakdos' Return, Nicol Bolas, and CMC 5 Jace. There's also Bonfire of the Damned as well. | ||
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slyboogie
United States3423 Posts
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spinesheath
Germany8679 Posts
You can also produce infinite life with Resto + 2 Fiend Hunters + Seraph Sanctuary, which in turn draws you infinite cards with Drogskol Reaver and wins the game with Laboratory Maniac. There are a couple of infinite combos for various things in Standard; I personally think that the Resto + Fiend Hunter one just for the infinite life could even be played in an actual deck since the cards aren't too awful by themselves. And if you happen to have Omniscience or a Tamiyo Emblem in play, you can use a huge variety of combos... | ||
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Judicator
United States7270 Posts
Off-topic thought, I don't think there's more soul crushing moment as a player in RtR drafts than when you realize that you have to kill a Runewing because said Runewing is going to kill you...from 20. The look on people's faces when they spend an Ultimate Price/Stab Wound/Augur Spree to kill it when they are behind on board is just demoralizing. | ||
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NotSorry
United States6722 Posts
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Judicator
United States7270 Posts
On January 06 2013 09:56 NotSorry wrote: Probably not the best place for this but does anyone know how to get mtgpulse streams to work on a new iPhone 4S? If its on twitch.tv, you need to get the twitch.tv app, otherwise it's no good. Adobe Flash will NOT NOT NOT NOT NEVER EVER work on iPhones so you need to either find the app (if they have one) or some kind of alternative. Some sites have mobile versions of their sites and recognize that you are using an iPhone and automatically present you with the alternative. | ||
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slyboogie
United States3423 Posts
On January 06 2013 02:06 Judicator wrote: Game would be really boring and Blue would be straight up dominating AND powercreep would be out of control. I don't understand what you're saying. Under what circumstance are you saying that? Color pie violations? | ||
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