So disappointing the moon is not on the card art... That's what ties the Soratami and Innistrad together. I can't understand how Wizards likes it this way.
They should have had the artist move the moon down or just photoshopped it in house. As I'm sure you noticed, the moon is in the larger picture, it was just too high to make the final clipping.
SURPRISE! Didn't see that coming. Then I was surprised that she didn't do something with lands and hands. I don't really care if she's actually "good" or not, I really want to get a couple to play with.
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.
Avacyn Restored isn't gothic horror. As The Tick put it so eloquently, 'This is what we call the dénouement. That's French for "when we beat up the supervillain."'
Well, yeah, but all the super badass good guys are showing up to save Innistrad from the gothic horror setting monsters, so all the super badass bad guys are showing up to try to thwart the good guys...but where did Tamiyo show up from?!?
(Okay, the moon *is* the "obvious" answer. But...er...how? And what does that tell us about Innistrad - and perhaps Kamigawa? No room for flavor text on a planeswalker. :P)
Could Innistrad and Kamigawa be on the same plane, just on different parts of it? Or does the premise of Kamigawa coflict too much with the premise of Innistrad. It would be nice to see a setting get as much development as Dominaria. I haven't read all the books. but with the few I had, and with all the cards I've looked at and read, Dominaria has a rich and complex history. But since they keep planehopping, no setting nearly gets as much development, though they don't write books anymore either which doesn't help. Outside of Dominaria, Mirrodin has had two sets to develop its story, and has actually been connected back to Dominaria and it's enemy Phyrexia. Ravnica will soon be getting two sets, so that will be an interesting addition.
I am both rational and instinctive. I value self-knowledge and understanding of the world; my ultimate goal is self-improvement and improvement of the world around me. At best, I am focused and methodical; at worst, I am obsessive and amoral.
Hey look! A fair blue planeswalker! (sorry...I'm going to be doing that from now on b/c of JTMS...)
I really liked Kamigawa flavorfully myself so I'm glad to see WotC is trying to salvage its poor image with a cool 'Walker.
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the0uroboros asked: How in the same set can we have a hexproof, unsacrificable(not a word) creature AND a land that makes it uncounterable. How does this lead to interactive play?
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I was a big fan of Kamigawa(Not because of the power level of the cards, they were pretty bad) but because of the awesome flavor.
Seeing a Sortami planeswalker is pretty big for me, and although some people may find her out of place, Sortami are pretty darn connected to the moon. They were a mystical people no one knew a whole lot about, just that they lived in the clouds and weren't as involved with the Kami war as everyone else.
However, not having a picture of the moon in the art was a terrible, terrible choice. That was the major connection between the Sortami (Freaking moonfolk!) and Innistrad. The art itself is quite beautiful, depicting curiosity as well as smarts, but they should not have left out the moon on the final card.
The card itself in terms of playability isn't broken nor bad, just typical.
Also would have liked the first ability to return a land you control to your hand, and because of the weakness made it two permanents or something. I mean I always thought that was their way of controlling the "tides" or mana flow in a very unique way, because they are moonfolk after all.
Maybe this is not the best place to ask, but let' see... I'm at most a casual MtG player and I'm instead a big fan of the flavor and story. As soon as I read in the forums about the Soratami in Innistrad spoiler, I researched about them (wasn't around with Kamigawa) and instantly fell in love with them, so much that I wrote a Soratami racial entry for my Zendikar D&D campaign setting project (link in sig), thinking that if they had reached Innistrad, they could have been on Zendikar too. Since the illustration was that of a planeswalker and from what I get there's no other way to perform planar travel in the MtG "canon", I guess we won't see other Soaratami anywhere else. BUT, here's my question at last, what's this connection that Soaratami aka Moonfolk would have with the moon? I know they lived in the clouds of Kamigawa, not the moon. Anybody wanting to explain this to me? Thanks
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Four pages and no one is thinking inside the box. Let's take a look at another card that is coming with Avacyn Restored:
Arcane Melee, 5CMC Enchantment, Instant and sorcery spells cost 2 less to cast.
With that and Tamiyo's emblem, you can effectively play cards like Bone to Ash from Dark Ascension for 2, counter a creature spell, draw a card, and get the card right back. In classic, you can play Counterbore for 3 and exile every card and its copies they try to play, over and over. You can play Desertion for 3 and steal artifacts and creatures they try to play.
The emblem is a free buyback on every card you play. Definitely a strong card. The may clause is superb. Imagine someone playing Traumatize on you while you have the emblem out. They're drawing half your library for you...
Traumatize say's TARGET player...don't mind if I do DRAW HALF OF MY DECK!
