I really do not find that card at all impressive. A 5/5 artifact flyer will get killed eight ways before you untap. Beyond that, its abilities are anti-synergistic: if you spend too much mana looking for a few more points of damage, you can't explode on your opponent. And no one really cares to tie up two mana for one more damage unless the opponent goes in at 6 life.
It's... just so underwhelming and clunky. And it dies a lot. And I already opened one. Oh well. Maybe I can trade it off for some junk rare I actually care about. They can't all be Wurmcoil Engine s...
For linking a card to Gatherer without writting the name of said card for readers, use the autocard brackets together with and equal sign and right the name of the real card. Then put the message you want inside the tags, like you would do with autocarding. Like this:
I like storm crow because I really like crows in real life, as an animal, and the card isn't terribly stupid, but packs a good deal of nostalgia and also a chunck of the game's history. So it's perhaps one of the cards I have most affection to, but not because "lol storm crow is bad hurr hurr durr".
Although I do assume you deliberately refer to them (DCI) as The Grand Imperial Convocation of Evil just for the purposes of making them sound like an ancient and terrible conspiracy.
Now, now. 1994 doesn't quite qualify as "ancient".
Oh, it's a brilliant plan. You see, Bolas was travelling through shadowmoor, causing trouble, when he saw a Wickerbough Elder with its stylin' dead scarecrow hat. Now, Bolas being Bolas took the awesome hat and he put it on his head, but even with all his titanic powers of magic he couldn't make it fit. He grabbed some more scarecrows, but then a little kithkin girl asked if he was trying to build a toupee. "BY ALL THE POWERS IN THE MULTIVERSE!" he roared, "I WILL HAVE A HAT WORTHY OF MY GLORY." and so he went through his Dark Lore of Doom (tm) looking for something he could make into a hat that would look as stylish on him as a scarecrow does on a treefolk. He thought about the Phyrexians, but they were covered in goopy oil that would make his nonexistant hair greasy. He Tried out angels for a while but they didn't sit quite right. Then, he looked under "e" (because in the Elder Draconic alphabet, "e" for Eldrazi is right next to "h" for Hat) in his Dark Lore of Doom and saw depictions of the Eldrazi, and all their forms. "THIS SHALL BE MY HAT!" he declared, poking a picture of Emrakul, "AND WITH IT I WILL USHER IN A NEW AGE OF DARKNESS -- ER, I MEAN A NEW AGE OF FASHION!"
And so Nicol Bolas masterminded the release of the Eldrazi.
The last couple days have been roughly every perverse fetish imaginable, but it only got "creepy" when speculation on Mother of Runes's mob affiliation came up?
I like to think up what I consider clever names for my decks, only later to be laughed at by my wife. It kills me a little on the inside, but thats what marriage is about.
Of course, the best use [of tolaria west ] is transmuting for the real Tolaria.
Absolutely. I used to loose to my buddy's Banding deck for ages, it was then that I found out about Tolaria , and I was finally able win my first game.
Browbeat is a card that is an appropriate deck choice when there's no better idea available. "No better idea available" was pretty much the running theme of Odyssey era.
Modern is like playing a new tournament every time : you build a deck, you win with it, don't bother keeping it. Just build another, its key pieces will get banned.
I always find it helpful when im angry to dress up in an owl costume and rub pennies all over my body in front of a full body mirror next to the window.
Dymecoar:
Playing Magic without Blue is like sleeping without any sheets or blankets. You can do it...but why?
Omega137:
Me: "I love the moment when a control deck stabilizes. It feels so... right." Omega137: "I like the life drop part until you get there, it's the MtG variant of bungee jumping"
Zigeif777:
Just do it like Yu-Gi-Oh or monkeys: throw all the crap you got at them and hope it works or else the by-standers (or opponents) just get dirty and pissed.
Normally it's difficult to pick up on your jokes/sarcasm. But this one's pretty much out there. Good progress. You have moved up to Humanoid. You'll be Human in no time.
I really do not find that card at all impressive. A 5/5 artifact flyer will get killed eight ways before you untap. Beyond that, its abilities are anti-synergistic: if you spend too much mana looking for a few more points of damage, you can't explode on your opponent. And no one really cares to tie up two mana for one more damage unless the opponent goes in at 6 life.
It's... just so underwhelming and clunky. And it dies a lot. And I already opened one. Oh well. Maybe I can trade it off for some junk rare I actually care about. They can't all be Wurmcoil Engines...
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Ew. That Infectious deck shows off all my worst fears for infect. I had been planning on picking up some Scars boosters for a draft (having had an unavoidable clash with the prerelease), but that deck just looks irritatingly overpowered, in a way I've not felt since Onslaught-block Zombies, so I'm feeling rather less inclined to do that now.
I have played the Onslaught Zombie precon and don't recall it being OP; what was so was the Skullclamp + Arcbound Worker deck from Mirrodin. Awesomely fun, but in a weight class entirely separate from the other precons. No Ravager, but it did have Arcbound Crusher which was almost as absurd.
I agree that Steel Hellkite is an underwhelming card, let alone a release card. But I don't know what I would have picked instead. (I think we can all agree that Wurmcoil Engine was an absolutely epic choice for the Prerelease foil though. The only thing that would have been better is if you'd gotten the tokens to go with it.)
As 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
