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3 years ago ::
Jun 01, 2010 - 7:39AM
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I'm happy i preordered one of each for $13 a piece. I figured it would be a good deal regardless of what the cards are in the sets. They aren't going to dip lower than that for a while i figure. Good move?
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3 years ago ::
Jun 01, 2010 - 7:45AM
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I'm happy i preordered one of each for $13 a piece. I figured it would be a good deal regardless of what the cards are in the sets. They aren't going to dip lower than that for a while i figure. Good move?
Err yes. Thats less than half what they are going to cost me here in the UK. At that price I would have bought them all too! (instead I am going to wait for decklists and then buy 1, maybe 2)
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That makes no sense to me.
If they spelled the ability out on the card in full then it would not be allowed in a mono-black Commander deck, but because they used a keyword to save space it is allowed?
~ Tim
Yup, just like you can have Birds of paradise  in a mono green deck but not Noble Hierarch  . YAY COLOR IDENTITY 
Is algebra really that difficult?
Survey says yes.
You want to make a milky drink. You squeeze a cow.
I love this description. Like the cows are sponges filled with milk. I can see it all Nick Parks claymation-style with the cow's eyes bugging out momentarily as a giant farmer squeezes it like a squeaky dog toy, and milk shoots out of it.
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3 years ago ::
Jun 01, 2010 - 11:21AM
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I'm actually just a little disappointed. I was hoping a deck from such a flavorful format called "Assemble the Doomsday Machine" would somehow evoke the flavor of, y'know... assembling some kind of doomsday machine. I mean sure, the artifacts are there, but there's nothing like, "as soon as I put together the last piece of this combo, you're ALL DOOMED," or something like that. Is the machine in question just a lot of artifacts and mechanical-sounding schemes that I will use at once to kill you?
Generally awesome, though. And if Planechase was any example, each deck is probably going to have another preview card.
"The truth resists simplicity." Some memorable quotes
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I know, as a good liberal scholar, that I'm supposed to respect every other belief and culture and what have you that comes along but... at the end of the day, when all is said and done, some things are just plain wrong.
Venser "Ah, Hello Myr. This is the King. Long Time no see. We thought today would be a good day for rolling. The Myr Battlesphere. The Myr. Where the first rolls and the second follows. Roll, roll, roll. For that purpose we went to the bother, the bother of fixing up Mirrodin. The King of the Multiverse going to the bother just for rolling a Myr Battlephere, just for that, we went to the bother."
Heard a joke once: Mare goes to doctor. Says she's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says she feels all alone in a threatening world where even ponies you thought were your friends can't be trusted. Doctor says "Treatment is simple. Go to one of Pinkie Pie's great parties tonight. Party hard. That should pick you up." Mare bursts into tears. Says "But, doctor...I am Pinkie Pie." Good joke. Everypony laughs. Roll on snare drum. Curtains. Fade to black.
Sure, "the average person" might go see Transformers 3 if s/he wants a good story, but that doesn't stop people from making decent movies. Hell, they even managed to make Batman into a respectable movie. "The average" person might like American Idol or Jersey Shore, but people still made The Wire.
I think the people who would sit down and listen to a minstrel reciting Homer, or thought that novels were art, or read poetry were always a minority. It's a common viewpoint that art was better in the past because everyone's forgotten the bad stuff, while we haven't had time to forget the awful stuff that is current.
For almost all Magic fans, the "story" of Ravnica, for example, is that it's a city world with ten guilds -- yes, for most, that's a "story." All but a tiny fraction of the fan base are entirely unaware of an elaborate plot perpetrated by Augustin IV to trick Agrus Kos and Szadek into breaking the Guildpact, thereby enabling the Azorius to take control. Likewise, the vast majority of Magic players don't know who Harbin is, or Nivea, or Al-Hayat, or Feather, or Jared Carthalion, or Rebbec, or Zagorka ... the list goes on and on.
I'm pulling this out of nowhere and it has nothing like fact attached to it, but it cannot be disproven without breaking the fourth wall, and this is going to be my headcanon because it makes perfect sense.
I posit [Tamiyo, the Moon Sage] writes the Planeswalker's Guides to planes.
CANON is the collected events and details of a fictional work that come directly from its author or someone with equal authority to the author.
CANNON is a weapon that fires metal balls at a target, usually a structure or a crowd of enemy combatants.
Every time you confuse the two, I'm forced to break one of my own fingers.
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3 years ago ::
Jun 01, 2010 - 11:57AM
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I'm actually just a little disappointed. I was hoping a deck from such a flavorful format called "Assemble the Doomsday Machine" would somehow evoke the flavor of, y'know... assembling some kind of doomsday machine.
Like what, Station  ? Voltron  ?
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3 years ago ::
Jun 01, 2010 - 8:10PM
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I'm actually just a little disappointed. I was hoping a deck from such a flavorful format called "Assemble the Doomsday Machine" would somehow evoke the flavor of, y'know... assembling some kind of doomsday machine.
Like what, Station ? Voltron ?
Exactly. Except that the chimeras pretty much stink - all cost 4, you can't combine two that have combined with two others, and one Dark Banishing kills the whole mass. If we're lucky maybe Scars of Mirrodin will have something similar but decent-quality, although it'll come too late for our mad machinist here.
I'll agree with Carlown that the "BWAHAHAHAHAH!!!" flavor seems to have been done rather excellently and is most of the appeal here. And curse you, Guest, for getting that deep a discount. I could have afforded them at that price, but not their actual one.
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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3 years ago ::
Jun 01, 2010 - 8:12PM
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I'm happy i preordered one of each for $13 a piece. I figured it would be a good deal regardless of what the cards are in the sets. They aren't going to dip lower than that for a while i figure. Good move?
I would have waited for release celebration. If there is a promo scheme that would be hot!
I'm actually just a little disappointed. I was hoping a deck from such a flavorful format called "Assemble the Doomsday Machine" would somehow evoke the flavor of, y'know... assembling some kind of doomsday machine.
It would seem to me that with 15 artifacts that March of the Machines is the "assembling of doom" which is kind of cool. Too bad there isn't a Tezzeret.
Curious though what did you have in mind for the Doomsday assemble?
Voltron? Thats funny! I could hear it now "AND I'LL FORM THE HEAD!!!"
I guess these are as close as it gets?:
Helm of Kaldra
Sheild of Kaldra
Sword of Kaldra
KAAAAALLLLDRA!!! Defender of the Universe!
I plan on getting all 4. I want all the schemes. I plan to play the heck out of this format.
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3 years ago ::
Jun 01, 2010 - 11:09PM
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Steam, huh? It's probably the least offensive of it's kind, but I'm trying so hard to avoid those persistent gaming connection installs. I'd probably buy DotP otherwise, but this makes me a little hesitant.
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3 years ago ::
Jun 02, 2010 - 12:05AM
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So I went to Steam, created an account just to buy this game, and apparently it can't be bought yet. WTF? What tease Wizards, when is it going to be available for purchase?
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3 years ago ::
Jun 02, 2010 - 12:54AM
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I'm definitely getting this on Steam. And if the price tag is still a bit high for your tastes, there's always the chance it'll be put on sale on Steam during the weekly weekend sales sometime in the future.
Been using the service for years now and it's been reliable with only a few hiccups every now and then when Gabe Newell decides to eat the servers. It also has an offline mode for single player, although achievements don't get updated that way.
I've also got a couple of friends on Steam who play Magic with me along with the usual TF2 and L4D/L4D2, so this should be a good way to play two headed giant with them.
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3 years ago ::
Jun 02, 2010 - 3:02AM
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So it comes to PC at last.
PS Impulse > Steam.
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