Someone’s stab at the set.
Some got a hold of four Magic the Gathering Deck Builders Toolkit in a sealed Box (2012) and posted it on eBay.
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Early Magic 2013 Spoilers - Arbor Elf and Evolving Wilds make the cut.
That pack looks sexy.
Hahaha! Planechase has just helped ninjas become very nasty in multiplayer. “Why yes I will have a copy of that MASSIVE creature over there, and oh by the way, it’s attacking and not blocked!”
NINJA CLONE
All the feels.
I’m so bummed
All these people keep talking “OH EM GEE I PULLED A TEMPORAL MASTERY YAYS” And I have yet to buy anything Avacyn restored related due to lack of funds. FUCK YOU PEOPLE WITH MONEY. FUCK YOU RIGHT IN YOUR WALLET.
Yes. Hate me and my wallet and my job and my degree and all the things you can’t afford to get. Because, like alot of other people, I too pulled a Temporal Mastery. And it was good. xD
Fuck Temporal Mastery, It’s about Entreat The Angles.
Oh you take 2 turns…ok think twice Entreat Angels for four….
(sorry for my absence)
So over the last 3 days, I’ve had an interesting experience in mtg.In my luchtime casual at school, my BW $200 Sanguine Bond/destroy deck got devastated by a GW infect STARTER DECK. TWICE
I’ll give him that I never drew any of my strong creatures (Avatar of Woe, Bloodgift Demon, Pestilence Demon) but this is unacceptable. He had no enchanment destruction, no creature destruction and no mana acceleration and he still won. Like fuck dude. I mean, I got unlucky, Exquisite Blood was no where to be found and 4 Suture Priests and 2 Soul Wardens on the field can only help so much.
okay, so this story isn’t entirely truthful, I DID lose to the GW started deck with mine, but it was my fault. He was new and claimed his Inkmoth Nexus couldn’t be destroyed by combat because it was still a land. I knew this was bullshit but whatever so i let him basically have an indestructible flying 1/1 with infect. So that killed me. And Phyrexian Juggernaut
I’m going to fucking rip up the nex Phyrexian Juggernaut I see I swear to godSo on Monday I’m going back with a different deck, which should I try, W human tribal or monogreen Primordial Hydra ramp? I say the hydra because infect barely phases him but my human deck is overall more balanced and usable in most situations.
fucking newfags
Sir….just play a spellkite.
The results are in!
Of the 239 responses, Blue and White were the dominant colors chosen! Two was the number of top colors to use, and Legendary Creature is the super type!
Now choose the rarity! Reblog and spread the word!
I can’t wait for the return
Dimir.
Simic.
Orzhova.
Which will I rejoin..
CAN’T REJOIN DIMIR, THEY GOT REMOVED FROM THE CONTRACT.
Didn’t the Guildpact get dissolved completely anyway? To say nothing of the guilds that collapsed entirely for one reason or another. We’re going to be seeing something else at work here.
though Szadek is still hanging around in Agryem, the Ghost Quarter, if I recall correctly so maybe he’ll show up againSadly…
Probably, few remnants of Guilds are still in current Ravnica, but I doubt whether Creative retcon that on a large scale.
I’m gonna become really good and magic so I can racists say “
“Fucking nigger Topped @ ….”
Like It’s one thing to be sad because of a loss but damn hockey fans..damn.
Wizard’s Lack of Diversity, Why Avacyn Restored is a Great Disappointment
I’m not excited for Avacyn Restored. Angel’s have never really been my thing, and with the release of AR I have come to hate them. Every single non metal-angel, EVERY SINGLE ONE, is a white female. There is one debatable exception with Malach of the Dawn- it’s androgynous but definitely not white. With no diversity I find angels one of the most boring and predictable creature types. There has never been any good reason issued by Wizards as to why this problem exists. It’s very disappointing and narrow minded, and maybe even a little bit racist. Avacyn Restored was the perfect opportunity to bring something fresh to the game, even a plain creature with no abilities that had art portraying the angel as male or ethnic would have made me fall in love with the block. However Angels weren’t the only creature type that Wizards fumbled.
Whatever happened to werewolves? Lycanthropy was a cool, new, exciting mythology that fit perfectly into the multiverse. Avacyn Restored sets werewolves in the sidelines and robs them of their most distinguishing and exciting feature of transformation. No werewolf legend in the block and hardly a presence in the third set- oh, but you get 23 (I counted) new/rare/legendary flying white girls.
I love spirits and wanted them to have a bigger show in the AR, but I guess I can’t really complain since there were some interesting ones. I felt like there should have been at least one more rare demon.
Anyway, as everyone knows the full set has been spoiled, and there are very few cards I find interesting and only two that I’m excited for. This will be the first prerelease in a long time that I will not be attending.
I’ll use Latch Seeker, Lone Revenant, and Deadeye Navigator in my geist deck. They are okay, pretty interesting but nothing I’m losing my mind for. Treacherous Pit-Dweller and Descent into Madness are okay. And the two cards I really want are:
I love the flavor and the manna cost.
Excellent flavor, lovable, the concept stifles the playability of the card but that’s okay with me : )
Sacrificing Flavor and Canon for the sake of appeasement. That’s in the same field as fan service. A lot of creature type look alike. Merfolks are mainly blue minus a few. Goblins are usually greenish/red/brown. All the Demons were black.
How do Magic players bitch about blue getting worse?
How can these malcontents say blue isn’t powerful enough or getting any love in recent sets? What and where have they been playing — in any format — in the last 5 years? I shouldn’t even have to talk about Legacy. Modern is pretty open right now, but blue is a significant part of almost every deck in the field that isn’t Jund or Tron (and WU Tron is a thing in its own right), from aggro Delver decks to control decks to RU combo decks. When Extended was a format anyone played, Fae was the deck to beat, and before the format got circumcised damn near every deck ran blue to put together all the degenerate combos that killed the format.
Standard has, consistently for as long as I’ve been playing (since Shadowmoor), been dominated by control and other decks with blue. Faeries crushed the meta until Zendikar and rotation. 5CC might have been technically 5 colors, but the cards that made it really work were Cryptic Command and Cruel Ultimatum (BBE gets some credit). Jund, Valakut, Vamps, and Bushwhacker were all great, but UW, Esper, and Next Level Bant were just as strong. And arguably, one of the best decks of that time was Mythic/Superfriends, which could kill you turn 3 thanks to a blue card that fetched auras from your library. And I doubt I have to remind anyone that the best card printed in a long, long time was a blue walker who enabled every control deck and degenerated the format so badly he was was among the first cards banned from standard in an era, after a world tournament featuring two players from the same country with the same name and the same deck—a UB Jace deck. Then Caw-Blade, Dark Blade, Angry Birds, RUG, BUG, and any other Jace deck was the entire field until the bastard got banned. Since Innistrad we’ve seen blue power Solar Flare, WU Humans, UB zombies, UB control suites ranging from hard control to strange Heartless Summoning decks, and all the Delver and Mage Blade builds that control a stark percentage of the format.
Mana Leak continues to be versatile, cheap, effective permission that defines Standard for Control, Aggro Control, and Tempo decks alike. Snapcaster Mage is the most insane two-drop to singularly warp <s>Standard</s> everyformat, excluding Stoneforge Mystic, since Tarmogyf all the way back in Future Sight, and you’ll be seeing Tiago’s face at FNM until the fall afterthis one. Delver plays as a 3/2 flier for one mana. Read that sentence again if you don’t think Blue has gotten love recently. A 3/2 flier for one mana. Snapping Drake costs 4, if you need a reminder where the curve is supposed to be. Invisible Stalkers was so strong he redefined how R&D thinks about applying Hexproof to creatures.
Look at any online retailer’s preorder section for Avacyn Restored. The most exciting card in the Angels vs Demons set isn’t an Angel or a Demon, nor is it even white or black. It’s goddamn miracle Time Walk. Time. Walk. R&D’s recent attempts to reprint Power 9 cards at balanced mana costs hasn’t resulted in anything to write home about (save for Time Warp’s brief affair with Pyromancer Ascension), but I’d bet every card I own that this most recent incarnation of probably the third most powerful card the game has seen in its 20 years will do crazy if not degenerate things to Standard.
There is no question that Blue is very good now, has been very good for years, and will continue to be very good for the foreseeable future (especially if Jace and Niv-Mizzet are the flagships for Return to Ravnica).
