New Posts For Thread: 1/7/2013 MM: "Gatecrashing the Party, Part 2"http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29613737/172013_MM:_Gatecrashing_the_Party,_Part_2This thread is for discussion of this week's Making Magic, which goes live Monday morning on magicthegathering.com.The thing about this is that instead of x increasing linearly (every addition is one more) every addition could be for around 4. thats good.http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29613737/172013_MM:_Gatecrashing_the_Party,_Part_2?post_id=527848145#527848145The thing about this is that instead of x increasing linearly (every addition is one more) every addition could be for around 4. thats good.Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:41:42 -0600The unofficial name for abilities like that is "Saboteur", although it includes both negatives and positives: Thieving Magpie and Hypnotic Specter .But they ditched the no-damagehttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29613737/172013_MM:_Gatecrashing_the_Party,_Part_2?post_id=527846241#527846241The unofficial name for abilities like that is "Saboteur", although it includes both negatives and positives: Thieving Magpie and Hypnotic Specter .But they ditched the no-damageMon, 07 Jan 2013 19:05:05 -0600Just so you don't make life hard on yourself, you should know these forums have an autocard feature. Just surruond the card name in "c" tags like this:[c]Glimpse the Unthinkable[/c]and you get Glimpse the Unthinkablehttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29613737/172013_MM:_Gatecrashing_the_Party,_Part_2?post_id=527846163#527846163Just so you don't make life hard on yourself, you should know these forums have an autocard feature. Just surruond the card name in "c" tags like this:[c]Glimpse the Unthinkable[/c]and you get Glimpse the UnthinkableMon, 07 Jan 2013 19:01:14 -0600I think a better mechanic for dimir would be something around a blackmail theme.For exampleBlackmail - You may choose to have CARDNAME deal no damage in combat. If you do, do Xwhere X can be forcing your opponent to discard cards, sacrifice creatureshttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29613737/172013_MM:_Gatecrashing_the_Party,_Part_2?post_id=527846013#527846013I think a better mechanic for dimir would be something around a blackmail theme.For exampleBlackmail - You may choose to have CARDNAME deal no damage in combat. If you do, do Xwhere X can be forcing your opponent to discard cards, sacrifice creaturesMon, 07 Jan 2013 18:54:43 -0600I'd like to point out that most of the arguments made against Mind Grind would apply to Rakdos's Return and Sphinx's Revelation, too. Yet we know those two cards are excellent. I personally expected Sphinx's Revelation to be a bit too slow - after alhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75842/29613737/172013_MM:_Gatecrashing_the_Party,_Part_2?post_id=527845129#527845129I'd like to point out that most of the arguments made against Mind Grind would apply to Rakdos's Return and Sphinx's Revelation, too. Yet we know those two cards are excellent. I personally expected Sphinx's Revelation to be a bit too slow - after alMon, 07 Jan 2013 18:17:16 -0600