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2 years ago ::
May 29, 2008 - 5:25PM
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This thread is for discussion of this week's Latest Developments, which goes live Friday morning on magicthegathering.com.
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2 years ago ::
May 29, 2008 - 8:09PM
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Assuming TWTW isn't on-theme, this will make, what, 8/10 on-theme columns for the week? That's a lot more than usual, right?
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2 years ago ::
May 29, 2008 - 9:07PM
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Couldn't you compare Gifts Ungiven to a sort of bad Intuition?
It'd be wrong, but you could do it, right?
EDIT: Also, I voted shuffling. Everything else I can come out of with a win. Shuffling? EVERYONE loses.
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2 years ago ::
May 29, 2008 - 9:12PM
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Loved the article. Very, very amusing and entertaining.
I wish the poll had had multiple choice, though. I voted for counterspells, but I also would have voted for Story Circle/Teferi's Moat/Worship and combo decks.
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2 years ago ::
May 29, 2008 - 9:17PM
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Regarding the Augury Adept poll...I'm amazed that, after wading through those weeks of articles, more people didn't choose "It's complicated"! I certainly thought it was... I voted "Counterspells", because it's hard enough getting together all those combo pieces out of one's deck to play them without having them countered as well... (Although "All my creatures dying" is also really annoying, after using something like Assembly Station, Lotus Bloom and Spawning Pit to create a bunch of Twilight Shepherd tokens...)
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2 years ago ::
May 29, 2008 - 9:27PM
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Say Sensei's Divining Top had been a white enchantment costing W instead of an artifact costing 1 Mana. It still would have been powerful in some decks in Standard and Block and Extended, namely the ones combining white mana with abundant shuffle effects.
Please print that card. Monowhite needs something to smooth its draws since Land tax effects left.
I voted Counterspells but I meant counterspells' broken complement: blue creatures with flash, even though that could be a design issue. My apologies if somehow Cancel ends being the most playable counterspell in Standard (in an evil sense, that would be hilarious).
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2 years ago ::
May 29, 2008 - 9:44PM
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jesus, those numbers on the poll from last week are stupid low!
i guess you succeeded, devin, in managing to rebuff most people with your dragged-out series of articles (three weeks longer tan it should have been).
less people voted in the augury adept poll than voted in the 'morningtide rare' poll. almost unbelievable.
the article this week was alright. it was too short, and the categories could have been fleshed out a lot more - for the most part it boiled down to 'oops, we forgot to playtest'
in good news, evil devin low's picture is friggin' awesome!!
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2 years ago ::
May 29, 2008 - 10:11PM
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Please print that card.
Seconded. That would be very interesting.
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2 years ago ::
May 29, 2008 - 10:20PM
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Story Circle / Moat etc. for sure!
There's nothing worse than making a Red Agro deck, and having a card like Story Circle just invalidate your entire deck. There isn't even anything in a red sideboard to deal with it, except one expensive rare artifact Pithing Needle.
The game is fun when there's interactions. Counterspells cause interactions, dealing with agro causes interactions, etc. Something that invalidates an entire deck like Moat or Story Circle prevents interactions.
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2 years ago ::
May 29, 2008 - 10:23PM
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jesus, those numbers on the poll from last week are stupid low!
Yeah, I was thinking that too, but didn't realize how extreme it was. Does this mean that Devin is losing readers? It seems like the last couple polls have been dropping in quantity, too.
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