Why doesn't Glint Hawk Idol gain the bird subtype when it becomes a creature?
Here's hoping Cloudpost is in the next two sets of the block, otherwise Glimmerpost isn't going to be doing much. Personally I like it, but I can see how others will see it as not that impressive on it's own.
Oh, and, rare dual lands, what a surprise.
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"...but the time has come when lands just need to be better. Creatures have gotten stronger, spells have always been insane, and lands just sat in this awkward place of necessity." Jacob Van Lunen on the refuge duals, 16 Sep 2009.
Why doesn't Glint Hawk Idol gain the bird subtype when it becomes a creature?
Here's hoping Cloudpost is in the next two sets of the block, otherwise Glimmerpost isn't going to be doing much. Personally I like it, but I can see how others will see it as not that impressive on it's own.
Oh, and, rare dual lands, what a surprise.
While I would hope that Cloudpost or another Locus would be printed in a future SoM block set, I doubt it will happen. With this land alone you could gain up to 10 life if you are the only one using them. You can gain even more if your opponent also happens to be using them, of course your opponent also benefits from your Locuses as well. They come into play untapped so they don't really slow you down (unless you really need the colored mana).
Why doesn't Glint Hawk Idol gain the bird subtype when it becomes a creature?
Here's hoping Cloudpost is in the next two sets of the block, otherwise Glimmerpost isn't going to be doing much. Personally I like it, but I can see how others will see it as not that impressive on it's own.
Oh, and, rare dual lands, what a surprise.
While I would hope that Cloudpost or another Locus would be printed in a future SoM block set, I doubt it will happen. With this land alone you could gain up to 10 life if you are the only one using them. You can gain even more if your opponent also happens to be using them, of course your opponent also benefits from your Locuses as well. They come into play untapped so they don't really slow you down (unless you really need the colored mana).
Hmm, I didn't realize it counted everybody's Locuses. That's an improvement, but I'm still not sure it's enough to sway players who will still want Cloudpost back to use with it.
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"...but the time has come when lands just need to be better. Creatures have gotten stronger, spells have always been insane, and lands just sat in this awkward place of necessity." Jacob Van Lunen on the refuge duals, 16 Sep 2009.
Glint Hawk Idol does become a Bird as a result of both abilities. It's received errata that wasn't mentioned in the Update Bulletin, but is in the FAQ and will be in Gatherer.
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I'll have to admit that I was disappointed in today's article on White-Blue Control. I was expecting a discussion of the different cards in Scars of Mirrodin that could be added to it, and which ones were best, and so on - not simply the deck list and a pointer to the Visual Spoiler.
That may be all the experts on deckbuilding need, but I was hoping for an article I could learn something from.
Coming up with weird ideas to make everyone happy since 2008!
I have now started a blog as an appropriate place to put my crazy ideas.
I agree with you Quadibloc i was a little disapointed too.
U/W loses a fair few staple cards, Path to Exile, Oblivion Ring, Elspeth - Knight Errant so its not just a case of adding in some SoM cards but more like a rebuild
Glint Hawk Idol does become a Bird as a result of both abilities. It's received errata that wasn't mentioned in the Update Bulletin, but is in the FAQ and will be in Gatherer.
Good to hear, though as a paper only player it won't really show up on my cards (unless it shows up in a future printing). Do things like this get fixed in the life of a set's print run?
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"...but the time has come when lands just need to be better. Creatures have gotten stronger, spells have always been insane, and lands just sat in this awkward place of necessity." Jacob Van Lunen on the refuge duals, 16 Sep 2009.
I fell in love with R/W aggro back in highschool (Boros ftw).
On a side note: I've seen some decks include fetchlands like marsh flats for seemingly no reason. They don't have any landfall triggers or swamps or any benefit other than shuffling their library. Why is this?
Some Vampires lists included fetchlands to help improve their chances with Vampire Nocturnus ; fetchlands can also be used in combination with cards such as Sensei's Divining Top to 'reset' a known portion of the library. It's also possible they were being used purely as deck-thinning, but it's not totally clear whether the life is worth the miniscule odds increase.
And so people say to me, "How do I know if a word is real?" You know, anyone who's read a children's book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it! That makes it real. Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction; it doesn't make the word any more real than any other word. If you love a word, it becomes real. --Erin McKean, Redefining the Dictionary
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.
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