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7 months ago ::
Nov 09, 2012 - 1:48AM
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- UnCon Prizewinner 2008
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These sure are some blue commons. Spoiler:
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Stillwind Pirate
 
Creature – Merfolk Pirate
2/2
Raid a land (This creature can attack an opponent’s land as though it were a player. If this would deal combat damage to it while unblocked, instead the raid is successful.)
Whenever Stillwind Pirate successfully raids a land, it doesn’t untap during its controller’s next untap step.
Barzol's Courier
Creature – Fish
1/2
 : Target Pirate creature you control gets +1/+1 and gains islandwalk until end of turn.
Peek
Instant
Look at target player’s hand.
Draw a card.
Sleeping Jailer
Creature – Human Soldier
1/1
When Sleeping Jailer dies, return it to the battlefield transformed.
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Tracking the Escapee
Enchantment – Mystery
U, Sacrifice Tracking the Escapee: Return target creature to its owner’s hand. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
Inexplicable Abduction
Tribal Instant – Rogue
Prowl (You may cast this for its prowl cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with a Rogue.)
Return up to two target creatures to their owners’s hands.
Intrepid Reporter
Creature – Human Citizen
1/3
When Intrepid Reporter dies, return it to the battlefield transformed.
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Case of the Disappeared Journalist
Enchantment – Mystery
, Sacrifice Case of the Disappeared Journalist: Look at the top four cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Scam Artistry
Instant
Switch the power and toughness of each of up to two target creatures.
Draw a card.
Adept of Disguise
Creature – Human Rogue
2/2
Intimidate (This creature can’t be blocked except by artifact creatures and/or creatures that share a color with it.)
: Adept of Disguise becomes the color of your choice until end of turn.
Sewer Lookout
Creature – Salamander Rogue
3/5
Interrogation Session
Enchantment – Aura
Enchant creature
At the beginning of enchanted creature’s controller’s upkeep, name a card. Enchanted creature’s controller reveals his or her hand. If the named card is revealed this way, tap enchanted creature.
Detective Work
Instant
Name a card. Target spell’s controller reveals his or her hand. If the named card is revealed this way, counter that spell. Otherwise, draw a card.
Tavern Tales
Tribal Sorcery – Rogue
Prowl (You may cast this for its prowl cost if you dealt combat damage to a player this turn with a Rogue.)
Draw a card for each creature that attacked this turn.
Fraudulent Apothecary
Creature – Salamander Rogue
1/4
, : Target player puts the top two cards of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
Book Pillager
Creature – Merfolk Pirate
2/1
Raid a creature (This creature can attack an opponent’s creature as though it were a player. If this would deal combat damage to it while unblocked, instead the raid is successful.)
Whenever Book Pillager successfully raids a creature, that creature’s controller discards a card.
Merfolk Looter
Creature – Merfolk Rogue
1/1
: Draw a card, then discard a card.
Sewer Serpent
Creature – Serpent
6/6
Raid a land (This creature can attack an opponent’s land as though it were a player. If this would deal combat damage to it while unblocked, instead the raid is successful.)
Sewer Serpent can’t attack an opponent unless it successfully raided a land that opponent controls during your last turn.
Expose
Instant
Counter target spell. Each opponent reveals his or her hand.
Preeminent Politician
Creature – Human Advisor
1/2
When Preeminent Politician dies, return it to the battlefield transformed.
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Case of the Drowned Candidate
Enchantment – Mystery
, Sacrifice Case of the Drowned Candidate: Draw two cards. Activate this ability only any time you could cast a sorcery.
Private Eye
Creature – Human Detective
2/4
When Private Eye enters the battlefield, name a card. Target opponent reveals his or her hand. If the named card is revealed this way, return target creature that player controls to its owner’s hand.
Spiked Drink
Instant
Target creature gets -3/-0 until end of turn and doesn’t untap during its controller’s next untap step. And more mythics! In fact, why not some legends right now? Spoiler:
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Captain Barzol
Legendary Creature – Merfolk Pirate
3/4
Haste
Raid a permanent (This creature can attack an opponent’s permanent as though it were a player. If this would deal combat damage to it while unblocked, instead the raid is successful.)
Whenever Captain Barzol successfully raids a permanent, draw cards equal to that permanent’s converted mana cost.
Go on. Pass a turn without blockers against someone who runs GU. I dare you.
Morlogar Vesuvi
 
Legendary Creature – Dragon
5/5
Flying
Whenever Morlogar Vesuvi becomes revealed from your hand, you may pay . If you do, destroy target creature.
Whenever Morlogar Vesuvi attacks, you may pay . If you do, destroy target creature.
The boss of the Vesuvi crime family. So those "reveal a Dragon" costs might turn out not to be costs at all. And poor Detectives who investigate a hand with Morlogar in it.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 09, 2012 - 2:30AM
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More familiar cards that you already posted in previous threads.. Although I like raiding things, I explained in one of the threads why this mechanic doesn't really make sense on "Sewer Serpent".. You have probably read my post later on but didn't want to bump older threads..
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7 months ago ::
Nov 09, 2012 - 2:34AM
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More familiar cards that you already posted in previous threads.. Although I like raiding things, I explained in one of the threads why this mechanic doesn't really make sense on "Sewer Serpent".. You have probably read my post later on but didn't want to bump older threads..
I prefer to imagine Sewer Serpent's raid represents it bursting through the sewers to attack your opponent. I mean, it definitely plays different from other raid creatures, but I still believe raid makes mechanical sense here.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 09, 2012 - 2:35AM
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Date Joined:
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I don't think that, but maybe you have cards that care about raids?
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7 months ago ::
Nov 09, 2012 - 2:38AM
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I don't think that, but maybe you have cards that care about raids?
Set 2 has this:
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Enchantment
Whenever a creature you control successfully raids, you may draw a card.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 09, 2012 - 3:26AM
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For being the pirate tribe colour, there seem to be a lot more blue rogues than pirates at common.
Couldn't Morglogar's abilities be conglomerated? "Whenever ~ attacks or becomes revealed from your hand..."
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7 months ago ::
Nov 09, 2012 - 3:30AM
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- UnCon Prizewinner 2008
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For being the pirate tribe colour, there seem to be a lot more blue rogues than pirates at common.
The Couriers aren't exactly for a tribal theme, they are just intended to showcase the criminal classes of the plane. The only major tribal theme are Rogues, with a minor Dragon in the form of "reveal a Dragon from hand" cards.
That said, the Pirate one is definitely the weakest in terms of creatures it can pump. There are more Pirates in higher rarities (and black has some Pirates too), but not nearly in the same numbers of Soldiers, Minions, Rogues or Warriors.
Couldn't Morglogar's abilities be conglomerated? "Whenever ~ attacks or becomes revealed from your hand..."
Well, I suppose they could, in the line of ARB's sojourners  , but I wanted to keep them separate to draw attention to the reveal from hand ability.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 09, 2012 - 3:43AM
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Date Joined:
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Stillwind Pirate seems very underwhelming. A gray ogre is nothing special, and I got to make sure he attacks unblocked just to keep a land tapped? And not even get any damage through?
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7 months ago ::
Nov 09, 2012 - 8:00AM
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Date Joined:
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Blue looks really bad in this set. The lack of evasion, removal, anti-intimidate or aggressive creatures really hurts it all around. Morlogar Vesuvi looks really cool though.
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Each of its nine tails is imbued with supernatural power, and it can live for a thousand years.
My Standard deck: Setting SunThink of how Neo couldn't beat the robots, but they kept him around anyways to defeat Agent Smith. Sure, the robots might not like having a Neo running rampant because instead of playing their favorite 4 drop fatty robot, they have to play a bunch of one mana Matrixs to contain him, but at least Neo keeps Agent Smith from reanimating an Iona on turn two.
Are you saying I'm trying to blame my loss on something? I don't care that I lost, I care that he's a sore loser, and a cheater, and a liar.
CKY, are you bad at anything?
I really enjoy imagining this from Kevin's perspective. Because in Kevin's world, Rosewater actually reads everything he types. Mark is sitting there right now, reading this, and thinking "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled. . ." Or some such. He chuckles low, then clicks on "The Best Of KEVINSET" and says "Yes, this'll do just fine. A busty lady with banding who deals direct damage to Zones!? Why this will be the star of my next set, and no one will ever believe you Kevin." Then he closes his Macbook, so his servant may move it out of the way, while another servant puts a Fetal Richard Garfield Clone lathered in Steak Sauce in front of him. Then Mark Feasts.
I mean, In KevinWorld, Mark is reading the very words I'm typing as well. Heck, in KevinWorld maybe I am Mark.
I'm beginning to think CKY may be anime in real life...
Don't go anywhere CKY, I need to crash dramatically through your window and propose marriage and I don't want you throwing off my paradrop.
[In response to a thread about how hard grading is]
Upon reading this, I've found myself completely unable to operate in the world. I tried to decide what to eat for breakfast, and pondered the vast consequences of my choice. How do I balance my dietary needs against my desire to eat good-tasting food? Should I factor in how long it takes to prepare? Cereal is ready in moments, but bacon takes longer to cook.
Then there is the impact on other industries. Do people in the cereal industry deserve to be employed more than people in the bacon industry? Which industry should I support? I don't even have the data regarding HOW MUCH the cereal industry benefits from me eating a bowl of cereal, or how much the bacon industry benefits from me eating a side of bacon. How can I compare two qualities I can't even quantify?
And let's not forget the milk on the cereal. In addition to determining whether or not milk is healthy for me, how much that benefits the milk industry, and how much the people in the milk industry deserve my support, we have to factor in the fact that cows are put under brutal conditions in order to collect thier milk. Of course, the same goes for the pigs, and then they get killed. Of course, I really like bacon. So I need to come up with a scale that compares the value of cow happiness to pig happiness to my happiness. What trade-offs am I willing to make here? Does the fact that the pig gets put out of its misery count as a plus or a minus? Isn't bacon bad for me anyway?
Deciding what to eat for breakfast (or any meal) is impossible. Help me!
I must admit chinkeeyong, you have the most interesting character ideas; and you play them well.
Anyway, you'd be surprised about Time Stop. When I first saw that card as a relatively new player I didn't see its full potential until I read the reminder text. Is it that unintuitive, though? Mine I mean. What is possibility? Is it possible for me to type these words with my tusks? No, because I don't have tusks. Although I am now tempted to go buy some - obviously not from poachers or whatever - and use them as typing apparatus. I could be the best secretary ever. "What's your words per minute sir?" "Well, only six, but I use these tusks to type them." "You're hired!" That was the interview. And is anyone else disappointed that "apparati" is not the plural form of apparatus? I just could strangle a dictionary, because "apparatuses" is a real word. I guess it sounds pretty cool. I'll call them my Apparatusks.
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7 months ago ::
Nov 09, 2012 - 10:53AM
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Blue looks really bad in this set. The lack of evasion, removal, anti-intimidate or aggressive creatures really hurts it all around. Morlogar Vesuvi looks really cool though.
This. I feel that blue is your most poorly designed colour (wrt commons, anyway). There aren't mana reliable flying beaters (which blue almost always has), and all the good "stock" blue effects (Draw, bounce, counter, etc) seem to be tied up in trying to use the set's mechanics (like Mysteries) in as "tricky" a way as possible.
Contrary to the others, I really like Sewer Serpent. Raid is starting to grow on me.
I like both your mythics a lot. They feel like really fantastic mythic design.
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