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5 months ago ::
Jan 10, 2013 - 2:24PM
#11
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Date Joined:
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Alas, no - my two favourite are   and  . Thus, with Simic and Gruul I'm very at home in Gatecrash. I loved the and cards in the Lorwyn blocks, so much so in fact I'm looking forwards to a Selkie crocodile frog fusion beatdown, and let's not get started on what Runes of the Deus  will do on the new aggro cards!
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5 months ago ::
Jan 10, 2013 - 2:24PM
#12
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Date Joined:
Sep 26, 2011
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I'm excited for Gatecrash. I wish Simic had been pushed a little more as a standard viable archetype. (But RnD has never had any love for GU so whatever). Enjoying the look of limited however. Looks better than RtR but I may be bias since RtR had neither my nor my friends favorite guilds.
what were those 2 guilds
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5 months ago ::
Jan 10, 2013 - 2:30PM
#13
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Date Joined:
Oct 31, 2010
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I'm excited for Gatecrash. I wish Simic had been pushed a little more as a standard viable archetype. (But RnD has never had any love for GU so whatever). Enjoying the look of limited however. Looks better than RtR but I may be bias since RtR had neither my nor my friends favorite guilds.
what were those 2 guilds
I am Simic, my bestie is Orzhov
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5 months ago ::
Jan 10, 2013 - 2:33PM
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Date Joined:
Nov 18, 2012
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5 months ago ::
Jan 10, 2013 - 8:30PM
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It looks pretty unplayable so far.
I'm with you.
Limited looks fun, but outside of that and Obzedat, shock lands, High priest of penance, and clan defiance or whatever that gruul x spell is, it's looking kind of bad for constructed. Auriella and Lazav look great for EDH. Most of the mythics though feel like Lux Cannon  . They're just not that exciting.
I do think a big problem I'm not seeing yet is there is little to no removal spoiled. There's surely to be a sweeper. We haven't had anything like Dreadbore  , Detention Sphere  , or Abrupt Decay  spoiled yet, so I have some hope that they're going to bring in better cards towards the end of the set reveal. We have Dimir Charm and that sorcery uncommon deal damage equal to your lands you control card really as the only removal.
The planeswalkers stink. You've got Domri, who's not bad if you are going to play 35 creatures. Then, he just seems kinda bad. Then there's Gideon "I'm not nearly as good as Jura."
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5 months ago ::
Jan 10, 2013 - 8:35PM
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Date Joined:
Apr 26, 2006
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It looks pretty unplayable so far.
+1 This set is worse than RtR by a significant margin I'm not looking forward to it at all.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 10, 2013 - 9:05PM
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- Unconventional Mafia Pro
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Date Joined:
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Thinking of what guild I want to be at the prerelease Boros: The answer if you want to win and don't care about style. Boros are the dumbest thing ever, but also the most basic and effective strategy: throw aggressive creatures into the red zone until you win Simic: The answer for winning with style. Evolve is very strong, especially when you curve into some guildless or borrowed gruul green fatties at the end. Grull: If you like your pool being a coinflip, you like gruul. Sometimes they'll get some awesome cards and be on par with boros, the rest of the time they'll get stuck with the dregs of their guild and end up on the Dimir's level. The same could be true of any pool, but the gruul seem the most likely to be swingy Orzhov: If you like losing in style, Orzhov seems like the way to go. Not that they can't win: they'll probably outperform gruul on average, but Extort is a trap that it will be far too easy to fall into. Dimir: If you like losing big, go dimir. Everything about them is terrible. Cipher is TERRIBLE (paying more for marginal spells to get a dubious and stupidly fragile long-term 'advantage'), the cipher spells are TERRIBLE, their charm is... well, it's not strictly terrible but it's not great either: you'll always use the middle option and that's strictly worse than terminate  . Their guildmage fails so hard compared to the others terrible would be a compliment. Their keyrune is pretty spiffy, but then you get around to their prerelease card, and it's by FAR the worst of the lot. This makes me sad, because flavor-wise they're my favorite guild of all
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5 months ago ::
Jan 10, 2013 - 9:36PM
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Date Joined:
Feb 14, 2011
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Thinking of what guild I want to be at the prerelease
Dimir: If you like losing big, go dimir. Everything about them is terrible. Cipher is TERRIBLE (paying more for marginal spells to get a dubious and stupidly fragile long-term 'advantage'), the cipher spells are TERRIBLE, their charm is... well, it's not strictly terrible but it's not great either: you'll always use the middle option and that's strictly worse than terminate . Their guildmage fails so hard compared to the others terrible would be a compliment. Their keyrune is pretty spiffy, but then you get around to their prerelease card, and it's by FAR the worst of the lot. This makes me sad, because flavor-wise they're my favorite guild of all
Considering that Dimir has both a heavy mill subtheme and the msot evasive creatures in the set (according to MaRo) I'd say it's a little too early to call it the worst guild in limited. Also removal that can respond to sorceries tends to be rare in limited, so I'd say Cipher has a lot of potential there as well. In fact, I have no idea what you're basing any of your claims on at all. A lot of the set has yet to be revealed.
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5 months ago ::
Jan 10, 2013 - 9:40PM
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Date Joined:
Jun 23, 2012
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Thinking of what guild I want to be at the prerelease
Dimir: If you like losing big, go dimir. Everything about them is terrible. Cipher is TERRIBLE (paying more for marginal spells to get a dubious and stupidly fragile long-term 'advantage'), the cipher spells are TERRIBLE, their charm is... well, it's not strictly terrible but it's not great either: you'll always use the middle option and that's strictly worse than terminate . Their guildmage fails so hard compared to the others terrible would be a compliment. Their keyrune is pretty spiffy, but then you get around to their prerelease card, and it's by FAR the worst of the lot. This makes me sad, because flavor-wise they're my favorite guild of all
Considering that Dimir has both a heavy mill subtheme and the msot evasive creatures in the set (according to MaRo) I'd say it's a little too early to call it the worst guild in limited.
from whats been released it is easily the worst guild, followed by   lets hope that changes before it is released on the 26th
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5 months ago ::
Jan 10, 2013 - 9:43PM
#20
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Date Joined:
Feb 25, 2010
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Overall I think the mechanics are more clunky that RTR and it looks like Cipher was too powerful to stick on anything costed decently (so far). I am also less excited about the rares and mythics in this set. There are a couple mythics that I like, but generally the rares are lame.
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