...Magic has lasted as long as it has is because it uses the basic iconographies of human culture to make us all have fun, and even if the nerds sitting around the kitchen table don't realize it, they love this game so much because it makes us realize why we love life, and why we love being human so much, without even telling us what we already know: that it's all just fiction, that the art was all just drawn by a clever hand, and that the game itself is all just numbers anyway. It takes us out of the troubles of life by bringing us into a world that's even more fantastic.
All non-Planeswalker cards in Scars of Mirrodin are watermarked with either a Mirran or Phyrexian symbol to represent the card’s affiliation. You can build your Game Day deck to be affiliated with one of the two sides; this makes you eligible to win theMirrodin Besieged preview cards. (Having an affiliated deck is not required for Game Day; you can play any Standard-legal deck you choose.)
An affiliated deck must have at least ten watermarked cards from its affiliated faction in its main deck, and no watermarked cards from the opposing faction in its main deck or sideboard. The deck must still be Standard-legal.
So if someone puts a myr or mindslaver from the original Mirrodin set into their phyrexian deck, will it count as affiliated?
Very cool preview cards. But it makes me wonder about the effect of the phyrexian card. Isn't this the first phyrexian card that does life point damage in this block? And the symbol looks really cool too. I wonder which symbol will remain after this war.
Very cool preview cards. But it makes me wonder about the effect of the phyrexian card. Isn't this the first phyrexian card that does life point damage in this block? And the symbol looks really cool too. I wonder which symbol will remain after this war.
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.
When I first read about the affiliated deck thing a couple weeks ago and it was still vague, I thought the decks would require a stronger commitment than that, like 20 cards, and so that few serious players would make the effort of weakening their decks to attain it. As it stands, with a requirement of only 10 cards, I think a good number of Standard decks will be able to qualify without changing anything.
There is surprisingly little natural mixing of the two factions since very few of the Phyrexian cards are really constructed-worthy outside of the possible Infect deck. That deck is probably not very good with only one set out anyway, but for someone willing to try it, it would easily qualify as Phyrexian. I don't think it would really need any Mirran cards, except maybe for the sideboard, where having to pass on Ratchet Bomb and good Mirran black cards like Memoricide or Nihil Spellbomb might hurt a little.
As for the numerous non-infect decks that would qualify as Mirran, I only see three Phyrexian cards that some might want to play : Skinrender , Wurmcoil Engine , and Contagion Clasp . All the other relevant SoM cards except for planeswalkers and basic lands are Miran-marked, even the dual lands, so any deck that doesn't need one of those Phyrexian cards and that plays some number of SoM cards is de facto Mirran or very nearly so. My current deck, a UB Control build, has already nine Mirran cards and no Phyrexian ones. It has four of the new dual land and three Trinket Mage , with two of the Mage targets being Mirran artifacts (Nihil Spellbomb and Chimeric Mass ). I could easily add a fourth Mage or a Grasp of Darkness , which I was considering anyway.
But, with all that said, let's be realistic : few people are gonna go out of their way to affiliate their deck, because if those two Mirrodin Besieged uncommons are all you get for your trouble, it's just not worth it. It's obvious that these are hardly constructed playable. Maybe recurring Pierce Strider with something like Master Transmuter could be interesting in casual, but it's nothing tournament-relevant.
I'm not even sure the Game Day tournament organizers are gonna distribute the preview promos in the indented way, anyway : depending on supplies, they might just give some to everyone and not bother with it.
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Very cool preview cards. But it makes me wonder about the effect of the phyrexian card. Isn't this the first phyrexian card that does life point damage in this block? And the symbol looks really cool too. I wonder which symbol will remain after this war.
I'm not even sure the Game Day tournament organizers are gonna distribute the preview promos in the indented way, anyway : depending on supplies, they might just give some to everyone and not bother with it.
They're only getting 4: 2 Mirran and 2 Phyrexian. The Mirran ones should be easy enough to give away; I'm sure at least two decks will qualify as Mirran-affiliated randomly (unless they're all running promo Wurmcoil Engines or something). The Phyrexian ones will be hindered by potentially eligible decks not being able to use a little less than 80% of the new set, including the new dual lands that are Mirran watermarked for some stupid reason.
I'm not even sure the Game Day tournament organizers are gonna distribute the preview promos in the indented way, anyway : depending on supplies, they might just give some to everyone and not bother with it.
They're only getting 4: 2 Mirran and 2 Phyrexian. The Mirran ones should be easy enough to give away; I'm sure at least two decks will qualify as Mirran-affiliated randomly (unless they're all running promo Wurmcoil Engines or something). The Phyrexian ones will be hindered by potentially eligible decks not being able to use a little less than 80% of the new set, including the new dual lands that are Mirran watermarked for some stupid reason.
Oh right, I should have got that : if you're Mirran, you get the worst of the two promos . As I said, it seems pretty much only the Infect deck could qualify as Phyrexian; I don't see an other kind of deck having both enough Phyrexian cards and passing on almost all other SoM cards while still being strong and interesting.
Flavor wise, I think the blue-black dual land, which happens to be 20% of the cycle, should have been Phyrexian marked. The Darkslick Shores are supposed to be the shores of the Quicksilver Sea that are infected with phyrexian oil.
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. As I said, it seems pretty much only the Infect deck could qualify as Phyrexian; I don't see an other kind of deck having both enough Phyrexian cards and passing on almost all other SoM cards while still being strong and interesting.