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5 years ago ::
Mar 30, 2008 - 9:59PM
#11
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Date Joined:
Oct 11, 2005
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This card is a beast. A great control card. It hoses big creatures and makes all of your 0/0 with counters bigger. My jaw dropped when I read it.
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5 years ago ::
Mar 30, 2008 - 10:03PM
#12
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Date Joined:
Oct 13, 2007
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That card is really cool. It's also quite the combo with Night of the Soul's Betrayal  -- although of course that's quite a mana requirement. It will make a lot of Lord of the Pit  s at casual tables very sad.
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5 years ago ::
Mar 30, 2008 - 10:11PM
#13
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Date Joined:
Oct 28, 2006
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I can see where they're going with this: "Whenever you spend  to play a card" for example. It does feel like a fairly rich area, where card interactions are multicolored even if a card itself isn't strictly so. The preview card didn't wow me, but it's not bad. And it does get me interested in these other "demigods".
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5 years ago ::
Mar 30, 2008 - 10:13PM
#14
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5 years ago ::
Mar 30, 2008 - 10:21PM
#15
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Date Joined:
Jan 10, 2004
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Are we missing something?
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5 years ago ::
Mar 30, 2008 - 10:21PM
#16
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Date Joined:
Aug 16, 2006
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Very cool idea and preview card! I do have one big concern, though. Players can't realistically play more than an absolute minimum of colorless utility lands and a minimum of these together for the sake of a healthy manabase. Because of this tension, my fear is a world where Mutavault, Desert, and Urza's Factory see the new hybrid cards, get into a nasty barfight, and come out the winners. If the hybrid cards aren't pushed too hard it won't be a big deal, but if they are, it'll be a serious problem.
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5 years ago ::
Mar 30, 2008 - 10:23PM
#17
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Date Joined:
Jan 10, 2004
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Very cool idea and preview card! I do have one thought on my mind, though, which is that none of the costs on the hybrid mana cards appear to be colorless.
This is fine except, mind you, for the fact that mutavault can't pay for these. Players can't realistically play their colorless utility lands and many of these hybrid cards in their deck. So, that gets me to my fear: Mutavault, desert, urza's factory, and a bunch of very creative hybrid cards get into a barfight, and the utility lands win.
Beseech the Queen had hybrid mana that was part colorless. There's got to be more than just one.
EDIT: I see what you mean - the demigods having *all* hybrid mana instead of part hybrid, part colorless.
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5 years ago ::
Mar 30, 2008 - 10:28PM
#18
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Date Joined:
Dec 31, 2007
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Very cool idea and preview card! I do have one thought on my mind, though, which is that none of the costs on the hybrid mana cards appear to be colorless.
This is fine except, mind you, for the fact that mutavault can't pay for these. Players can't realistically play more than an absolute minimum of colorless utility lands and a minimum of these together for the sake of their manabase. Because of this tension, my fear is a world where Mutavault, Desert, and Urza's Factory see the new hybrid cards, get into a nasty barfight, and win.
The Orb has part colorless/part hybrid mana costs in it; in fact it has more of them than hybrid costs with no colorless. Of course, there's no indication of how many of them will end up being activation costs...
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5 years ago ::
Mar 30, 2008 - 10:31PM
#19
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Date Joined:
Aug 16, 2006
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The Orb has part colorless/part hybrid mana costs in it; in fact it has more of them than hybrid costs with no colorless. Of course, there's no indication of how many of them will end up being activation costs...
Spoiler:
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I know about those as well, and time will tell how it all plays out. With the graven cairns cycle around (which is exceptional at generating lots of one color of mana), though, we will have 3 cycles of allied dual lands. I agree that there is much less of a problem there, even if you're tempted to use the abundance of dual lands to try to pay for those cards with all mana of one color.
BTW, we should use spoiler tags
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5 years ago ::
Mar 30, 2008 - 10:34PM
#20
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Date Joined:
Jan 16, 2008
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I think Demigod of Revenge is awesome - unless this Godhead of Awe is in play. I can't wait to see someone try playing Godhead of Awe and Grim Poppet as a combo. And then realize it doesn't work.
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