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4 months ago  ::  Jan 18, 2013 - 2:26PM #1
WotC_JohnS
Date Joined: Mar 17, 2012
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This thread is for discussion of this week's "Gatecrash Prelease Primer", which goes live Monday morning on magicthegathering.com.
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4 months ago  ::  Jan 22, 2013 - 12:10AM #2
Zindaras
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Date Joined: Aug 25, 2003
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Every time I see that Fathom Mage promo card, I just have to gape at it. That is one piece of amazing art. I would always have wanted to play Simic, but that promo card guarantees it for me, even though I know I should probably pick another guild.

Dec 1, 2010 -- 10:06AM, ProphetKing wrote:

Zindaras' meta is like a fossil, ancient and its secrets yet to be uncovered. Only men of yore, long dead, knew of it.

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4 months ago  ::  Jan 22, 2013 - 12:07PM #3
Thalatta
Date Joined: Apr 16, 2011
Posts: 151
No offense but...I have a MUCH better suggestion for sorting your cards.

In Gatecrash, as in Return to Ravnica, it's unlikely that "traditional" allied color pairings will be relevant, so there's absolutely zero reason to maintain the typical color pie arrangement. In fact, due to the guilds, there is essentially a "new" color pie in each of these sets, with different allied pairings representing the guilds.

In Return to Ravnica, this was very easy: just switch the positions of red and black, so that going around clockwise, instead of W-U-B-R-G, it's W-U-R-B-G. Voila, you've got WU, UR, RB, BG, GW in a nice color wheel.

In Gatecrash, due to only two traditionally allied color pairings, it's a little trickier. There are two options:

1) Switch blue and black; switch red and green. Going around clockwise, now you have W-B-U-G-R instead, giving you Orzhov-Dimir-Simic-Gruul-Boros.

2) Drop white to the bottom, in between black and red. Now instead you have U-B-W-R-G, giving you Dimir-Orzhov-Boros-Gruul-Simic. (This is probably what I will use...as I kind of like the idea of Orzhov subverting white's ideas of order, and Boros overdoing white's ideas of justice. :P)


Pardon the horrible MSPaint drawing, but I went ahead and made a graphical representation:



Note that this leaves the center space open for cards that actually belong there, like (non-guild) artifacts and the one colorless land.
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