EPTStill a Standard powerhouse, but not broken everywhere else.
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deth2munkies
United States4051 Posts
Still a Standard powerhouse, but not broken everywhere else. | ||
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ahswtini
Northern Ireland22213 Posts
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/3kxtl0/im_no_longer_banned_from_playing_in_magic/ | ||
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WindWolf
Sweden11767 Posts
Personally I think this is going to be an interesting limited format | ||
micronesia
United States24814 Posts
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deth2munkies
United States4051 Posts
On September 19 2015 23:14 micronesia wrote: Last set I played at all was the second set in Theros block... debating if I should buy a few boxes of the various sets since then or if I should just wait for Battle for Zendikar... Khans has all the power cards for the new standard format, except a couple of the walkers from Origins. There's very few cards besides the lands in BFZ, but I'm buying a box just for them. | ||
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WaveofShadow
Canada31495 Posts
On September 20 2015 00:09 deth2munkies wrote: Khans has all the power cards for the new standard format, except a couple of the walkers from Origins. There's very few cards besides the lands in BFZ, but I'm buying a box just for them. That's not true at all. Dragonlords, den protector, Hangarback Walker, languish just to name a few. From DTK and Origins. There are cards from every set right now used in standard and they will continue to be. You also have no idea what kind of decks will send play and what cards from BFZ will see standard play,so to say it's useful only for the lands is silly especially this early. | ||
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malcram
2752 Posts
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deth2munkies
United States4051 Posts
On September 20 2015 00:56 WaveofShadow wrote: That's not true at all. Dragonlords, den protector, Hangarback Walker, languish just to name a few. From DTK and Origins. There are cards from every set right now used in standard and they will continue to be. You also have no idea what kind of decks will send play and what cards from BFZ will see standard play,so to say it's useful only for the lands is silly especially this early. You're agreeing with me on the first point. On the second point, buying a box for the full art lands + shots at an expedition and tangolands is a perfectly valid reason to do so. Compared to Khans block (and Theros for that matter), BFZ (fully spoiled now) is an insanely low power set. There's too much good removal for Eldrazi to be a thing. There will probably be a good 3-4 color Ally deck, but mostly people are going to still be playing Junk, Esper Dragons, and some variant of mono-red as the T1 archetypes. | ||
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dudeman001
United States2412 Posts
On September 20 2015 01:44 deth2munkies wrote: You're agreeing with me on the first point. On the second point, buying a box for the full art lands + shots at an expedition and tangolands is a perfectly valid reason to do so. Compared to Khans block (and Theros for that matter), BFZ (fully spoiled now) is an insanely low power set. There's too much good removal for Eldrazi to be a thing. There will probably be a good 3-4 color Ally deck, but mostly people are going to still be playing Junk, Esper Dragons, and some variant of mono-red as the T1 archetypes. I'm just excited for Theros being gone so I can try to run my green/black megamorph deck which lost 100% of the time to this annoying lady called Elspeth. | ||
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amazingxkcd
GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
On September 20 2015 00:09 deth2munkies wrote: Khans has all the power cards for the new standard format, except a couple of the walkers from Origins. There's very few cards besides the lands in BFZ, but I'm buying a box just for them. Im hopin to crack a fetch at my pre-release so i can sell it and buy normal fetches | ||
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Propelled
Denmark184 Posts
On September 20 2015 01:44 deth2munkies wrote: You're agreeing with me on the first point. On the second point, buying a box for the full art lands + shots at an expedition and tangolands is a perfectly valid reason to do so. Compared to Khans block (and Theros for that matter), BFZ (fully spoiled now) is an insanely low power set. There's too much good removal for Eldrazi to be a thing. There will probably be a good 3-4 color Ally deck, but mostly people are going to still be playing Junk, Esper Dragons, and some variant of mono-red as the T1 archetypes. I'm honestly not sure if mono-red will be viable, considering Searing Blood, Lightning Strike and Stoke the Flames all rotated. The closest thing to a replacement is Touch of the Void, which is basicly Pillar of Flame + 1 damage, except it costs 2R. | ||
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amazingxkcd
GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
On September 20 2015 02:20 Propelled wrote: I'm honestly not sure if mono-red will be viable, considering Searing Blood, Lightning Strike and Stoke the Flames all rotated. The closest thing to a replacement is Touch of the Void, which is basicly Pillar of Flame + 1 damage, except it costs 2R. standard is going to be very very slow. Im hoping the rest of the new zendikar block will have something to offer to compensate for this | ||
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WindWolf
Sweden11767 Posts
On September 20 2015 00:57 malcram wrote: yay, got myself a jace in an origins draft ^_^ Congrats. How is Origins as a draft format? My LGS has a Origins draft next week and I don't think I have drafted it yet. | ||
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amazingxkcd
GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
On September 20 2015 03:56 WindWolf wrote: Congrats. How is Origins as a draft format? My LGS has a Origins draft next week and I don't think I have drafted it yet. Either you're playing 2 drops, or you're fighting the 2 drops. and I have been drafting origins every FNM so thats my general observation on the format | ||
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WaveofShadow
Canada31495 Posts
On September 20 2015 01:44 deth2munkies wrote: You're agreeing with me on the first point. On the second point, buying a box for the full art lands + shots at an expedition and tangolands is a perfectly valid reason to do so. Compared to Khans block (and Theros for that matter), BFZ (fully spoiled now) is an insanely low power set. There's too much good removal for Eldrazi to be a thing. There will probably be a good 3-4 color Ally deck, but mostly people are going to still be playing Junk, Esper Dragons, and some variant of mono-red as the T1 archetypes. Not sure how you think that's agreeing with you but OK. Mono red is dead as of BFZ. There is not a single card from the set useful in a mono red deck and too much was lost from M15/theros. | ||
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deth2munkies
United States4051 Posts
On September 20 2015 04:01 amazingxkcd wrote: Either you're playing 2 drops, or you're fighting the 2 drops. and I have been drafting origins every FNM so thats my general observation on the format Reave Soul is the best card in the format. It kills practically everything that matters. | ||
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malcram
2752 Posts
On September 20 2015 03:56 WindWolf wrote: Congrats. How is Origins as a draft format? My LGS has a Origins draft next week and I don't think I have drafted it yet. thopters are super fun lol. personally, i feel getting 1/2 or 1/3 evasion pingers are the most annoying to deal with. edit: My thoughts when drafting the set: - 3 toughness creatures are hard to deal with. - Renown is good. Forces opponents to deal with your creatures and making them trade you. - Languish and Reave Soul pretty good. - Don't think you can go wrong with UW Flyers if you are able to. - Deathtouch is not fun to play against  | ||
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Kickstart
United States1941 Posts
(1)Can a single 'sacrifice' trigger multiple effects? (for example can I sacrifice a drone and get the 1 colorless mana while also using the ability another creature has to give a target creature -2/-2 for example). (2)Does 'take an extra turn after this one' effect (specifically on Part the Waterveil) work like I think in that you get a complete turn with no restrictions? Does it let you draw, untap, and attack again etc. or are there any restrictions compared to a 'normal' turn? That's all for now but I'm sure I'll have more in the lead-up to the release (this my first pre-release event and I just got into MTG with Origins so all this is new to me). | ||
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Draconicfire
Canada2562 Posts
2) It is a complete turn. You can think of it as skipping your opponent's next turn. | ||
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BallinWitStalin
1177 Posts
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/3ixgbf/he_did_the_math_statistics_of_zendikar/ Those full art basics, on the other hand.... | ||
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