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This is one case where I like the sketch WAY more than I like the final art.

Jul 17, 2011 -- 9:56PM, willpell wrote:

Does anyone get how the Daily Deck qualifies as combo?  All I see is  Kuldotha Forgemaster + 2 other artifacts = BSC; a fairly strong play,  but is it enough to make this a "combo/control deck"?  Are they counting  Tezzeret as a one-card combo or something?  If so, I'd regard this as  dirty pool.

Jul 5, 2011 -- 8:15AM, Amarsir wrote:

I know it's not a new  announcement, but man that Duel Deck pairing seems oddly placed every  time I see it.  Ajani vs Nicol Bolas was the climax of the Alara block,  two years ago!. It made sense then for them to be dueling.  Now  it seems about as relevant as Kamahl vs Akroma.

You mean Kamahl vs. Ixidor or Phage vs. Akroma, but I would love to see  those as Duel Decks even now (and 8 years is slightly different from 2).

Maybe they define "combo" as "winning by specific cards"? So that a deck that wins by getting out a Blightsteel Colossus, by any means, is more combo than aggro? I don't really agree with the definition, but it's the only way I can see this being a combo deck.

Also: Yes, please! to the Phage vs. Akroma Duel Deck!

Jul 17, 2011 -- 9:51PM, Landiur wrote:

This is one case where I like the sketch WAY more than I like the final art.

I agree. I love the final art too, but the color washes out the details.

@ Landiur:  I admit to being curious myself how Sorin fits into the current planeswalker paradigm.  It'd be one thing if he'd been a thousands-of-years-old vampire whose Spark awakened post-Mending, but that's clearly not the case.  And it definitely hasn't been thousands of years since the Mending, since Venser was perfectly mortal and is in both Future Sight and Scars of Mirrodin.  So Sorin is either another surviving oldwalker who was simply depowered (like Nicol Bolas, only he didn't go all schizo over it, which makes sense given that UBR is a color combo far more consistent with being bat#$&% insane than mono-black, though it can happen there too), or he was some sort of anomalous pre-Mending example of what would become the default form of planeswalker post-Mending.  Or, most likely, someone didn't quite think the concept through when they wrote his backstory...I for one would be perfectly fine with that, as it's not like previous awesome characters such as Taysir and Tevesh Szat haven't had a few slightly stupid assumptions in their conceptualization, which are worth glossing over in view of their overall coolness.

Warstorm Surge - Back when I was writing, I took one look at the art description of this card and went completely overboard with excitement.  I loved the idea of the Core Set doing some of the long-neglected followup on Future Sight and Planechase, and tried to work allusions to the known planes into my submissions wherever I could.  Sadly, I don't believe any such examples get through...I like to imagine this was because there was a continuity manager somewhere in Wizards that went through the submissions scrubbing things that contradicted yet-to-be-revealed canon info for upcoming sets, but this is probably a distinctly overblown fantasy on my part.

Ooh, this sounds like a ton of fun. I just wish my local store was doing it :/