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Switch to Forum Live View 4/17/2012 ReConstructed: "Demon Level: Rising!"
1 year ago  ::  Apr 17, 2012 - 9:29AM #11
Flyheight
Date Joined: Jan 19, 2010
Posts: 1,139
hm...alextfish brings up an interesting point regarding sac engines in standard.  But more importantly it gave me an idea.  While there are no sac ENGINES that care about p/t, there are a few individual sac cards that care about p/t.  the first one that comes to mind:
Fling

Normally Fling is card disadvantage b/c it's 2-for-1ing yourself and is only useful as a finisher.  However, I think this card helps enable fling.dec b/c it keeps giving you more large creatures to pitch at your opponent's face.  I realize it costs 5 mana but we can get there.  Here's my crack at it:

Creatures
2 x Fume Spitter
2 x Mortarpod
4 x Reassembling Skeleton
2 x Demonic Taskmaster
2 x Geralf's Messenger
4 x Demonlord of Ashmouth
4 x Mortis Dogs
4 x Falkenrath Aristocrat


Non-Creatures
2 x Go for the Throat
4 x Fling
3 x Artillerize
3 x Demonic Rising


Lands
4 x Blackcleave Cliffs
4 x Dragonskull Summit
4 x Mountain
12 x Swamp



Let me know what you think.  (of course I should probably be posting this over in 'casual decks', but whatevs).
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From Mark Rosewater's Tumblr:

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?

I believe I’m able to play my creature and you have to deal with it is much more interactive than you counter my creature.
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1 year ago  ::  Apr 17, 2012 - 11:01AM #12
Dragon_Bloodthirsty
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Date Joined: Apr 9, 2003
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When you have removal that has restrictions, it can be a sneaky benefit to have a variety of it.  Removal is much harder to dodge when you aren't sure which removal to dodge.  Do you dodge the Tragic Slip by not playing an extra creature, or the Geth's Verdict by doing so?  You also have the hidden benefit that many people assume you're playing 4-ofs and will walk into your removal in games 1 and 2.
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1 year ago  ::  Apr 17, 2012 - 1:29PM #13
kristijanH
Date Joined: Dec 25, 2009
Posts: 1,110
Did I read it wrong or did the author state that tomorrow all the cards will be spoiled? I would expect them to be spoiled next week.
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1 year ago  ::  Apr 17, 2012 - 1:31PM #14
Katastrophe
Date Joined: Nov 29, 2007
Posts: 330

Apr 17, 2012 -- 1:04AM, chronego wrote:

The creature made by Demonic Rising is more resilient than Phyrexian Obliterator . If it dies, you just wait for another turn during which you have only one other creature, and the demon is back. An opponent has to kill both the creature and the enchantment to keep the demon dead. And it is usually easier to kill a creature than an enchantment, so Grave Titan is similarly easier to deal with than Demonic Rising.

Also, Demonic Rising could, conceivably, put ten points of power on the board, if the other creature you control dies while you keep the token.

I still would rather have Grave Titan , or Bloodgift Demon , or any number of other black fatties, than this enchantment, but it does have its perks.



I see this:

Teenage Minimum-Wage Demon
3BB
Legendary Creature - Djinn
Flying
~ randomly doesn't show up for work when scheduled. ~ may also call out sick at the last minute. (For example, removal in response to the trigger.)
~ may show up on random turns for the rest of the game.
5/5

And it's just worse than Sengir Vampire . I gave my example card the Legendary supertype because this card is dumb in multiples. And by dumb, I mean dumb.

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1 year ago  ::  Apr 17, 2012 - 8:07PM #15
Mouthsmasher
Date Joined: Sep 27, 2009
Posts: 137
Bleh, am I the only one here who doesn't like the art?! The concept is great, but wasn't done very tastefully from a very good angle. It took me a good 30 seconds of looking over the image to get what was in the picture.


   
   
   

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1 year ago  ::  Apr 17, 2012 - 11:54PM #16
TheMOTI
Date Joined: May 17, 2011
Posts: 650

Apr 17, 2012 -- 8:07PM, Mouthsmasher wrote:

Bleh, am I the only one here who doesn't like the art?! The concept is great, but wasn't done very tastefully from a very good angle. It took me a good 30 seconds of looking over the image to get what was in the picture.


.... what's going on in the picture?

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