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4 years ago ::
Sep 02, 2009 - 11:56AM
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This thread is for discussion of this week's From the Lab, which goes live Wednesday morning on magicthegathering.com.
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4 years ago ::
Sep 02, 2009 - 9:52PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 14, 2006
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Totally missed the Glimmervoid + Brightflame interaction. even though it hits every creature, it still has a single target, so it'll reflect onto every creature, and each reflection will also hit every creature that shares a color with its target. And of course you gain life equal to all the damage dealt. Congregate, eat your heart out, right?
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4 years ago ::
Sep 02, 2009 - 11:21PM
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I just want to say that Noel's is my favourite weekly column. Although I've no interest in buying any Planechase, the play-by-play was still entertaining to read.
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4 years ago ::
Sep 02, 2009 - 11:53PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 23, 2003
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Totally missed the Glimmervoid + Brightflame interaction. even though it hits every creature, it still has a single target, so it'll reflect onto every creature, and each reflection will also hit every creature that shares a color with its target. And of course you gain life equal to all the damage dealt. Congregate, eat your heart out, right?
Doesn't entirely work. Say there are ten Saprolings in play... the first Brightflame to resolve will kill them all, so then the others are countered for lack of a target. So it's not _that_ much better than a single Brightflame, unless there are creatures that could survive just one.
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4 years ago ::
Sep 03, 2009 - 12:07AM
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Nov 18, 2004
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What's even better about spells copied by other players with targets is that the last copy put on the stack is the only one that will resolve, and you may not be that spell's controller. Enjoy. This does work with spells in which you are set up for being the oly player to benefit, however, such as spells with targetting restrictions you are not vulnerable to, but they are.
"Possibilities abound, too numerous to count."
"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)
"Ever since man first left his cave and met a stranger with a different language and a new way of looking at things, the human race has had a dream: to kill him, so we don't have to learn his language or his new way of looking at things." --- Zapp Brannigan (Beast With a Billion Backs)
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4 years ago ::
Sep 03, 2009 - 12:35AM
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Feb 26, 2004
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Disappointing week; only one deck. I would have liked to see him talk about three topics this week: incorporating promo plane Tazeem into each of the existing decks and picking the best plane to remove for it and perhaps putting that plane in another deck until the "benched" plane was whatever you least wanted to use; building a planar deck using your choice of planes to create something likely to survive against others doing the same; and building decks to function in 40- or 41-plane common-stack games. We got only the second one, and not even more than one deck of it, though it was a neat one as usual. Instead, what do we get? Another "hey look how much fun we had playing this awesome new product, coming soon to a retailer near you!" report, much like the one on Tuesday. Guys, I know the economy is tough, but people can smell desperation and they don't care for the bouquet. Stop showing how badly you want us to give you money, and put some actual effort into this job.
My New Phyrexia Writing CreditsMy M12 Writing CreditsAs far as the benefit of the rest of Magic is concerned, gold cards in Legends were executed perfectly. They got all the excitement a designer could hope out of a splashy new mechanic without using up any of the valuable design space. Truly amazing.
--Aaron Forsythe's Random Card Comment on Kei Takahashi 
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4 years ago ::
Sep 03, 2009 - 3:30PM
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Instead, what do we get? Another "hey look how much fun we had playing this awesome new product, coming soon to a retailer near you!" report, much like the one on Tuesday.
I gotta admit, I was also disappointed that it was basically the same thing as Tuesday. It's just that . . . can't . . . stop . . . enjoying . . . reading . . . about . . . Planechase . . . Aaaargh! 
"We will all be purified in Wurm.
What is good will be used to heal Wurm, or grow Wurm, or to fuel Wurm's path. What is vile will be extruded, and we will be free of it forever."
--Prophet of the Cult of Wurm
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4 years ago ::
Sep 04, 2009 - 5:00PM
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- Jawsome UnCon Prizewinner
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Fun article, I love radiate-style effects. I have no idea why clicking on the link from the article doesn't take me directly to the forum, though.
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4 years ago ::
Sep 07, 2009 - 11:18AM
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Date Joined:
Feb 22, 2005
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Hrmm... Question: If you cast a wish with Glimmervoid Basin in play, do you get EVERYTHING?
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Kicker Aggro (Invasion Block)
