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4 months ago ::
Jan 22, 2013 - 3:45PM
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Date Joined:
Jan 22, 2013
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After reviewing the card image gallery, I am speculating that gruul will be very underpowered. After looking through all the cards, i saw that the simic is taking up a lot of space in the mono green cards even when they dont have the guild symbol, telling me that the simic may be easily overpowered. My biggest worry is that those "simic" guildless cards are taking away from the gruul who seem to me to be an afterthought. the gruul seem to be reliant on a lot of mana and there is only 2 green or red cards that can help that. As a gruul fan, i am very worried that the prerelease is going to be a bust for them. please share any other percieved imbalances in the new set.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 22, 2013 - 3:50PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 31, 2011
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It was a bust for Izzet  I'm sure WotC does their best to distribute useful cards between all the colors and guilds (cough cough)
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4 months ago ::
Jan 22, 2013 - 4:12PM
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Dec 14, 2012
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I play for fun
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4 months ago ::
Jan 22, 2013 - 4:20PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 16, 2007
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Miming Slime is better is Gruul. Bloodrush a guy then play it in second main... Ceratok is not bad for Gruul either, the natural trample makes it a good bloodrush target. Mono green in general is strong. It's got a lot of ways to outrace decks like Burst of Strength, Hindervines (as long as you're not against Simic) and even Verdant Haven. And there's no rule saying that Gruul decks can't use Crocanura  to watch the skies, they shouldn't have any trouble evolving it. And you have some mono green cards that are clearly intended for Gruul like Spire Tracer  and Wildwood Rebirth  .
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4 months ago ::
Jan 22, 2013 - 5:11PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 19, 2001
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After reviewing the card image gallery, I am speculating that gruul will be very underpowered. After looking through all the cards, i saw that the simic is taking up a lot of space in the mono green cards even when they dont have the guild symbol, telling me that the simic may be easily overpowered. My biggest worry is that those "simic" guildless cards are taking away from the gruul who seem to me to be an afterthought. the gruul seem to be reliant on a lot of mana and there is only 2 green or red cards that can help that. As a gruul fan, i am very worried that the prerelease is going to be a bust for them. please share any other percieved imbalances in the new set.
How are they simic cards if they don't have the guild symbol?
Btw, gruul, has a much easier time evolving creatures than simic does.
And it's just you, Gruul is fine.
Justification here:
community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...
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4 months ago ::
Jan 22, 2013 - 5:27PM
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Jun 10, 2009
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Simic plays creatures that become bigger over time. Gruul starts a bit slower, but then starts dropping fatty after fatty, so they are pretty even.
Many of the monogreen cards work in both archetypes, though, which makes green very strong in general.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 22, 2013 - 5:35PM
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Date Joined:
Jan 22, 2013
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thanks for the feedback and opinions guys. you have made me realize a few oversights i made. what about other guilds like dimir or boros? too much milling and aggro?
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4 months ago ::
Jan 22, 2013 - 5:40PM
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Date Joined:
Nov 15, 2012
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not enough twidling
I'm a little satuated at the moment I'll get green done tonight
TLDR
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4 months ago ::
Jan 22, 2013 - 5:48PM
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thanks for the feedback and opinions guys. you have made me realize a few oversights i made. what about other guilds like dimir or boros? too much milling and aggro?
I think the devs might have been a little scared of cipher. I think a lot of the cipher effects are such that for limited a CMC of N is too good but a CMC of N+1 is not good and devs
decided err on the underpowerd side. I dont have any experience on running mill decsk so I cant judge that but it does seem to have been pushed for this set.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 22, 2013 - 7:14PM
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Date Joined:
Jul 19, 2001
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thanks for the feedback and opinions guys. you have made me realize a few oversights i made. what about other guilds like dimir or boros? too much milling and aggro?
I think the devs might have been a little scared of cipher. I think a lot of the cipher effects are such that for limited a CMC of N is too good but a CMC of N+1 is not good and devs
decided err on the underpowerd side. I dont have any experience on running mill decsk so I cant judge that but it does seem to have been pushed for this set.
Free mechanics cause problems.
They didn't take chances, and I'm glad they learned from their mistakes.
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