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2 years ago ::
Sep 01, 2011 - 9:04AM
#31
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Are people really dissing Liliana? That's insane - she's simply awesome and is going to be in at least one high tier deck when Innistrad comes in.
In the main, I don't think they are. I think they were building up for a bigger splashier Lily, and got a slimline version. She's also more bespoke than the all-comers toolkit of PWs past.
That said, within the GY block she is amazing. and of course the market still tolerates the silly pricetags traders now get away with, so expect her to be £25 ($35) for openers, which is ridiculous.
Back on point, I think this card gets a lil eclipsed by the 2/2 zombie.
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2 years ago ::
Sep 01, 2011 - 9:23AM
#32
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Date Joined:
Oct 11, 2007
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...Why is the Slith Firewalker  update rare? This makes even less sense to me than Goblin Guide  did. Granted, he's potentially a very good card, but I just don't see why creatures like this are put at rare.
As pointed out in the article, we've already seen Bloodcrazed Neonate, another red vampire with the slith ability. If there are a number of those in red at all rarities, having their "leader" at rare makes sense to me.
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2 years ago ::
Sep 01, 2011 - 9:33AM
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Didn't they say we'd never have a 'human lord' for all the problems it'd bring?
I believe their wording implied that they wouldn't make a human lord in the near future (this was in, what, 2003?), because we-- as players-- weren't ready for it. This is a clear sign that we are ready. Also, MaRo is pretty careful to avoid the word "never."
The big difference is that at the time plenty of recently-printed cards had human erratta that wasn't on the typeline. Printing a lord then (especially one that affected the opponent's cards) would mean lots of looking up or guessing. Nowadays the number of Fresh Volunteers  seeing play is low so we don't have to guess if they're human or not. Though I do doubt Marketing will let them print a "Destroy all Humans " card soon.
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2 years ago ::
Sep 01, 2011 - 9:37AM
#34
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Jul 11, 2011
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most underwhelming preview card ever. the art is stupid looking like someone just did a wow screencap and the card itself is ver marginal. The dervish is way better.
Were you not here on Tuesday for that Silent Departure Card? This is far more exciting compared to that one...
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2 years ago ::
Sep 01, 2011 - 9:51AM
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As for the article itself, I only skimmed it, because I hate these 'interview' style articles (even when Maro does them). Also, someone needs to tell Mike that (a) Vampires don't eat people, they drink their blood,
Only doesn't count as eating people if Black Pudding doesn't count as eating cows. (They merely consume the blood significantly fresher.)
They're consuming part of a human which, at least as far as pretty much every piece of culinary definition goes, means they're eating human.
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2 years ago ::
Sep 01, 2011 - 10:28AM
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They're consuming part of a human which, at least as far as pretty much every piece of culinary definition goes, means they're eating human.
Isnt that "drinking", not "eating"?
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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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2 years ago ::
Sep 01, 2011 - 11:48AM
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While it is nice to have had the card right on top of the article, it would have been even nicer to put a spoiler after it, warning us that the entire article afterwards would be completetly pointless. Honestly, I complain about something once every 8 months only, but if you have nothing to say, just don't say anything... This was a huge waste of time. A chance I had the willpower to just give up looking for gems and skipped 50% of the lower half. The card itself seems all right. Obviously good with haste and/or removal. The deck it goes into seems quite straightforward, but it will probably be a good addition to that deck.
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2 years ago ::
Sep 01, 2011 - 4:09PM
#38
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MJ? What's your're creepy face doing on Innistrad!?
Gentlemen: The King of Pop is back. And he can't be blocked by humans. Guard your chillins with Vedalken Certarchs baby.
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2 years ago ::
Sep 01, 2011 - 5:45PM
#39
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Worst Flores article ever, and that is saying something. A garbage, gimmicky way to present information, and sorry, not a good enough writer to pull it off. I don't post much, but this is a dog.
It is much more entertaining when you post one week that Caw Blade is not a problem with cherry-picked statistics, and then have to come back after the banning with statistics that show completely the opposite, and act like you knew it all the time. Now that's entertainment!
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2 years ago ::
Sep 01, 2011 - 6:52PM
#40
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I didnt really like the article though. You should let MaRo do the gimmick articles like this.
Eh. Mike's sat out enough of the goofier theme weeks that he's allowed one of these in my book.
But fair warning: start making a habit of this and we will start calling you MiFlo.
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