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This new wiki will be 100% ad-free, forever.
Can't overstate how great Scryfall is to the community.
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Mark Rosewater confirms there will be no "Alien" creature type in Edge of Eternities
(markrosewater.tumblr.com)
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Spirit of the Night by Cliff Nielsen
(lemmynsfw.com)
This card made me fall in love with the game. I remember building a Golgari deck trying to use Urborg Panther, Feral Shadow, and Breathstealer to get Spirit of the Night out into play.
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Final Fantasy starter kit leaks
(mtgzone.com)
Some pictures of a recent leak of the FF starter kit:
Rosa, Steadfast White Mage - 3W - Legendary Creature : Noble Human Cleric - Reach; At the beginning of combat on your turn, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature you control. It gains lifelink until end of turn. (2/3).
Beatrix, Loyal General - 4WW - Legendary Creature : Human Soldier - Vigilance; At the beginning of combat on your turn, attach any number of equipment to target creature you control. (4/4).
Lightning, Security Sergeant - 2R - Legendary Creature : Human Soldier - Menace; Whenever Lightning deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of your library. You may cast that card as long as you control Lightning. (2/3).
Rays of Judgement - 3R - Instant - Rays of Judgment deals 5 damage to target creature and X damage to it's controller, where X is the number of equipment you control.
Ultima Weapon - 7 - Legendary Artifact : Equipment - Equip 7; Whenever equipped creature attacks, destroy target creature. Equipped creature gets +7/+7.
Adalbert Steiner - 1W - Legendary Creature : Human Knight - Lifelink; Adalbert Steiner gets +1/+1 for each equipment you control. (2/1)
Cloud Moogle - 3WW - Creature : Moogle - Flying; Whenever this creature enters, put a +1/+1 counter on target creature. Plainscycling 2. (2/3).
Coeurl - 1W - Creature : Cat Beast - 1W + Tap -> Tap target non-enchantment creature. (2/2)
Dwarven Castle Guard - 1W - Creature : Dwarf Soldier - When this creature dies, create a colorless 1/1 hero token. (2/1)
Sun-Cryst's Fate - 4W - Instant - This spell costs 2 less to cast if it targets a tapped creature. Dstroy target nonland permanent.
Blade of Light - 1W - Instant - Blade of Light deals damage equal to the number of creatures and equipment you control to target creature.
White Auracite - 2WW - Artifact - When this artifact enters, exile target non-land permanent an opponent controls until this artifact leaves the battlefield. Tap -> Add W.
White Mage's Rod - 1W - Artifact : Equipment - Choose A Job (When this equipment enters create a colorless 1/1 hero token and attach this to it). Equip 3; The equipped creature gets +1/+1, gains "Whenever this creature attacks you gain 1 life," and is a Cleric in addition to its other types.
The Chosen of the Crystal - 5WW - Sorcery - Create 4 1/1 colorless hero tokens. Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
Dragonspear - 1W - Artifact : Equipment - Choose A Job (When this equipment enters create a colorless 1/1 hero token and attach this to it). Equip 4; Equipped creature gets +1/+0 and is a Knight in addition to it's other types. During your turn equipped creature gets flying.
G'raha Tia - 4W - Legendary Creature : Cat Archer - Reach; Whenever one or more creatures or artifacts you control are put into the graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card. This ability only triggers once per turn. (3/5).
Item Merchant - 1R - Creature : Human Citizen - Whenever you attack, target attacking equipped creature gets menace until the end of the turn. (2/2)
Warrior's Blade - 3R - Artifact : Equipment - Choose A Job (When this equipment enters create a colorless 1/1 hero token and attach this to it). Equip 5; Equipped creature gets +3/+2 and is a Warrior in addition to it's other types.
Suplex - 1R - Sorcery - Choose one: 1) Suplex deals 3 damage to target creature. If that creature would die this turn, exile it instead; 2) Exile target artifact.
Freija Crescent - R - Legendary Creature : Rat Knight - During your turn this creature has flying; Tap -> Add R. Only use this mana to cast equipment or activae abilties of equipment. (1/1)
Samurai Katana - 2R - Artifact : Equipment - Choose A Job (When this equipment enters create a colorless 1/1 hero token and attach this to it). Equip 5; Equipped creature gets +2/+2, has trample and haste, and is a Samurai in addition to it's other types.
Barret Wallace - 3R - Legendary Creature : Human Rebel - Reach; Whenever Barret Wallace attacks, he deals damage equal to the number of equipped creatures you control to defending player. (4/4)
Rabanastre, City of the Kingdom - Land : City - This land enters tapped. Tap -> Add W or R
Ultimecia, Menace of Time - 4UU - Legendary Creature : Human Warlock - Whenever this creature enters, tap all creatures your opponents control. Whenever a creature you control deals combat damage to an opponent, draw a card. (4/4)
Seymour Flux - 4B - Legendary Creature : Spirit Avatar - At the beginning of your upkeep you may pay 1 life. If you do, draw a card and put a +1/+1 counter on Seymour Beta. (5/5)
Deadly Embrace - 3BB - Sorcery - Destroy target creature an opponent controls. Then draw a card for each creature that died this turn.
Xande, Dark Mage - 2UB - Legendary Creature : Human Sorcerer - Menace; Xande gets +1+1 for each non-creature, non-land card in your graveyard. (3/3)
Magitek Scythe - 4 - Artifact : Equipment - When this equipment enters, you may attach it to target creature you control. If you do, that creature gains first strike until end of turn and must be blocked thus turn if able. Equip 2; Equipped creature gets +2/+1.
Sahagin - 1U - Creature : Merfolk Warrior - Whenever you cast a non-creature spell, if at least 4 mana was spent to cast it, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature and it can't be blocked this turn. (1/3)
Fairy of Il Mheg - 1U - Creature : Fairy - Flying; Whenever this creature attacks surveil 1. (2/1)
Go for the Esper - 3U - Sorcery - Create a 3/3 blue Robot artifact creature token. If this spell was cast from a graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on that token. Flashback 5U.
Laguna's Dreams - 1U - Instant - Scry 1 and then draw a card. Flashback 3U.
Relm Drawings - 2UU - Sorcery - Create a token that is a copy of target artifact, creature, or land.
Aqueduct Rat - 1B - Creature : Rat - When this creature dies, create a treasure token. (2/2)
Shinra Reinforcements - 2B - Creature : Human Soldier - When this creature enters, mill 3 cards and gain 3 life. (2/3)
Sephiroth's Intervention - 3B - Instant - Destroy target creature. You gain 2 life.
Walking Cie'th - 2B - Mutant Horror - This creature enters tapped. Whenever you cast a non-creature spell, you may pay B. If you do, return this creature from your graveyard to your hand. (?/?)
Albhed Rescuers - 2B - Creature : Human Artificer Warrior - Whenever this creatue or another creature or artifact you control is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, target opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life. (2/3)
Extermination - 2B - Instant - Target creature gets -0/-9999 until end of turn.
The Return of Evil - 4B - Sorcery - Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield with 2 +1/+1 counters on it.
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/MTGRumors/comments/1jt1xyj/ff_starterkit/
A whole new video game for Commander is kind of interesting, but if it doesn't tie in directly with your Arena collection I think its kind of a non-starter. Also, it feels like that will yet again fragment the community even more. Arena seems to have already killed off in-person Standard, I can't imagine it is going to help store events if they make Commander a digital game.
This is really well written and definitely echoes exactly what I've been feeling. Such a frustrating time right now.
I didn't read the whole thing, mostly because I'm kinda scared to, but if this means UB sets are floating in through Standard and Pioneer than I think I'm done with the game for a little while. Pioneer was the last thing I was interested in and just bought into it in paper simply because it wasn't on Arena and wasn't part of the UB system but this changes that entirely for me. I don't know what the heck they're thinking here.
I think this was the most important part of why Commander grew so big in the first place. Having WoTC/Hasbro decidedly NOT involved in the governing of the format was what allowed it to become and stay fun.
Here's the idea: There are four power brackets, and every Commander deck can be placed in one of those brackets by examining the cards and combinations in your deck and comparing them to lists we'll need community help to create. You can imagine bracket one is the baseline of an average preconstructed deck or below and bracket four is high power. For the lower tiers, we may lean on a mixture of cards and a description of how the deck functions, and the higher tiers are likely defined by more explicit lists of cards.
Ok... I'm listening 🤔
In this system, your deck would be defined by its highest-bracket card or cards.
This now becomes an eternal battle over which cards are in Tier 3 and which cards are in Tier 4 imo.
For example, if Ancient Tomb is a bracket-four card, your deck would generally be considered a four. But if it's part of a Tomb-themed deck, the conversation may be "My deck is a four with Ancient Tomb but a two without it. Is that okay with everyone?"
This seems kinda gnarly to me. Perhaps it can work though by farming this decision out to every single play group.
This comes from the same market research that showed "the vast majority of tabletop Magic players (over 75%) don’t know what a planewalker is, ... don’t know what a format is". Take that for what it's worth. I personally cannot believe it, but if that's what we're dealing with it almost doesn't matter what question they ask, they'll get whatever answer they're looking for.
https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/698478689008189440/a-mistake-folks-in-the-hyper-enfranchised
As the number of cards in circulation grew, Garfield went out of his way to keep common or easier-to-find cards powerful, while also keeping the rare cards narrowly attuned and never so powerful that you needed them to win. He would sometimes demonstrate this by bringing a deck full of common cards to games stores and beating players who had decks stuffed with expensive rares.
Today, getting rich kids to buy 10 sets of the game seems to be Hasbro’s primary business model. Wizards has adopted a punishing release schedule, printing so many new cards that the Bank of America recently reprimanded Hasbro for trying to over-monetize their players and downgraded the company’s stock. When I asked Garfield what he thought about this, he pleaded ignorance and told me he’s been completely disconnected from the game since the pandemic. He’s heard rumors that have alarmed him, but he thinks Wizards of the Coast old-timers like Bill Rose and Mark Rosewater still have the game’s best interests at heart.
I thought this was particularly interesting. I love the original vision Garfield had with commons vs. rares, bring that back!
I honestly don't buy that there is a pristine 10 Alpha Black Lotus in existence. The fact that they're claiming a 10 makes me extremely skeptical of all of this.
This is great, I just want to throw out that MTG Online has "Penny Dreadful" as a format:
Penny Dreadful is an unofficial Magic Online budget format where the legality rules include only cards that cost 0.02 ticket - roughly one penny.
I like your idea a lot! I would certainly play this a ton.
Is this how hydro homies started?
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This is awesome! I love the gameplay videos and I love that you were running this in mythic too.
I think you unfortunately are right, it definitely seems that Tribute to the World tree is too essential here to lose it. I never actually saw that card before now. Crazy to me that Tribute was never successfully built around, but standard must be too fast or too powerful for any 3 mana cards without ETBs that need something else to generate the value. Which is a huge shame.
I was curious -- how did you find this before and after the bans? It seems like you would eat mono red alive but what was the gameplay/success like when Monstrous Rage and Heartfire Hero were being played?