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2012-04-10, 11:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Magic: The Gathering XIII: What A Horrible Night To Have An Enchantment- Curse
SpoilerStall with whatever, give them tokens with stuff like Hunted creatures and Forbidden Orchard, then Donate/Bazaar Trader a Tajuru Preserver or Host of Herons.
Then you fire off a semi-big Killing Wave and they splode. Not practical, but funny. If only because Tajuru Preserver acts as a sort of kill card, which was presumably not the intent.
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2012-04-10, 12:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Magic: The Gathering XIII: What A Horrible Night To Have An Enchantment- Curse
SpoilerThey can just decline to pay and they won't have to sacrifice anything because of the Preserver. It doesn't force them to pay the life.
The combo with the Angel doesn't work either since they aren't paying the life to cast a spell or activate an ability, so it won't stop them from paying.
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2012-04-10, 12:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-10, 01:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Magic: The Gathering XIII: What A Horrible Night To Have An Enchantment- Curse
Spoiler"As a spell or ability an opponent controls resolves, if it would force you to sacrifice a permanent (as the annihilator ability does), you just don't. That part of the effect does nothing. If that spell or ability gives you the option to sacrifice a permanent (as Prowling Pangolin's ability does), you can't take that option."
Yep, that works.
"Players can’t pay life or sacrifice creatures to cast spells or activate abilities."
That doesn't work. You're not activating an ability or casting a spell, you're choosing between options. There's no interaction here.5e Homebrew: Death Knight (Class), Kensai (Monk Subclass)Excellent avatar by Elder Tsofu.
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2012-04-10, 02:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Magic: The Gathering XIII: What A Horrible Night To Have An Enchantment- Curse
Thank you for your help, but I don't understand some of your suggestions.
I can see taking Phantasmal bears out, but how does not having a lot of chroma make Sanity Grinding a good thing? It's still probably several cards...
And the Whirlpool stuff seems good, just cycling a bunch of stuff through my hand. Especially with your suggestion of Evacuation.
Unrelated, why is so much conversation in this thread in spoilers?
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2012-04-10, 02:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Magic: The Gathering XIII: What A Horrible Night To Have An Enchantment- Curse
I think I have a new favourite kill spell.
Using Invigorate in my False Cure deck, so the opponent's creature is big enough to kill him through lifelink as a result of False Cure.
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2012-04-10, 02:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Magic: The Gathering XIII: What A Horrible Night To Have An Enchantment- Curse
On average (assuming you only have sanity grinding in hand and the other 59 cards in your deck) you'll hit around 6-7 chroma on a cast of sanity grinding with that deck. You have quite a bit of variance, however, from 0 to 13.
Or, to put it another way, you could play 2 sanity grinding's and get around 6 for 3 if you're lucky, or you could play curse of the bloody tome for 3 and get 2 per turn until removed (likely a min of 2, as it's unlikely they'll have enchantment kill open pre-upkeep) or dream twist for 1 with a flashback of 2 (net 3 cost, net mill 6 cards, but far more flexible in dividing up the mana than sanity grinding). Sanity grinding does have a higher instantaneous effect than most 3 cost mill cards but instantly milling 7 isn't going to end the game, repeated milling effects (like archivist and crab) are far better because they allow you to keep pressure up even if you don't draw mill cards.
Everything's in spoilers because its discussing the preview cards for the next set. Out of respect for those who want to avoid spoilers everything about unreleased sets is kept in spoiler tags.
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2012-04-10, 02:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Magic: The Gathering XIII: What A Horrible Night To Have An Enchantment- Curse
SpoilerProwling Pangolin works differently than Killing Wave. For Pangolin the default action is to do nothing. You have to opt-in to saccing permanents, which Preserver wouldn't let you do. For Wave the default action is to sacrifice permanents and you opt-in to paying life. So you can always choose not to pay, then Preserver will stop you from saccing. Here's the relevant rules clarification:
If a spell or ability an opponent controls instructs you to perform an action unless you sacrifice a permanent (as Ogre Marauder does), you can't choose to sacrifice a permanent. You must perform the action. On the other hand, if a spell or ability an opponent controls instructs you to sacrifice a permanent unless you perform an action (as Rishadan Brigand does), you can choose whether or not to perform the action. If you don't perform the action, nothing happens, since you can't sacrifice any permanents.
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2012-04-10, 03:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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SpoilerDruid's Repository is the real deal. This card actually makes 8-drops not completely unplayable. Storage cards are basically awesome, and the Repository can be a massive accelerant (amusingly not thought to be a word by Firefox). Definitely an exciting card, and I think the one that most excites me so far.
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2012-04-10, 03:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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SpoilerI've been hearing something about Horrorcane on twitter (presumably a new card, possibly a hoax?) but haven't been able to find anything about it. Does anyone know what's going on?
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2012-04-10, 04:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-10, 04:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Magic: The Gathering XIII: What A Horrible Night To Have An Enchantment- Curse
Last edited by Divayth Fyr; 2012-04-10 at 04:09 PM.
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2012-04-10, 04:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ah, I figured there was a reason that LSV was tweeting about it so much.
SpoilerYeah, definitely fake. Way out of the color pie for Black, and the gonzo horror name would have fit better in NPH than in Innistrad block. It actually would have been pretty sweet if they had named Corrosive Gale Horrorcane instead.Last edited by Suedars; 2012-04-10 at 04:36 PM.
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2012-04-10, 09:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Magic: The Gathering XIII: What A Horrible Night To Have An Enchantment- Curse
It's another fake spoiler, but I found this so hilarious I had to post it:
Would actually work as a good Unglued/Unhinged card, though...SpoilerLast edited by Lord Seth; 2012-04-10 at 09:47 PM.
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2012-04-10, 09:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-10, 10:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Reminds me of the amusing name of Yawgmoth's Agenda if you translate it to Japanese and then back to English. Yawgmoth's Day Planner. Heh heh. I did actually design that card, it was hilarious to me.
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2012-04-10, 10:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-10, 10:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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5e Homebrew: Death Knight (Class), Kensai (Monk Subclass)Excellent avatar by Elder Tsofu.
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2012-04-10, 11:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Doesn't work, Agentpaper. You can't cast Flayer of the Hatebound from your graveyard, so Yawgmoth's Birth Certificate doesn't do anything. Also, even if you could, Flayer would still enter the battlefield from the stack, not your graveyard.
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2012-04-11, 12:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Ok, well then the only strategy I can think of is to use Burning Vengeance and Secrets of the Dead, along with a ton of cards that have cheap flashback costs. Play card, draw, deal damage, repeat. Basically the normal Burning Vengeance deck, except Yawgmoth's Birth Certificate lets you skip having to cast your spells normally before flashing them back for value.
5e Homebrew: Death Knight (Class), Kensai (Monk Subclass)Excellent avatar by Elder Tsofu.
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2012-04-11, 11:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Magic: The Gathering XIII: What A Horrible Night To Have An Enchantment- Curse
You're still not casting them from your graveyard though. You can play their flashback costs though.
SpoilerAlso, Meloku! Well, not really, but seriously, Icy Manipulator and Tidings in one card. I will be playing this card all the time.Thanks Uncle Festy for the wonderful Ashling Avatar
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2012-04-11, 11:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Magic: The Gathering XIII: What A Horrible Night To Have An Enchantment- Curse
I was wondering when people were going to notice what seems to be...
SpoilerA Moonfolk Planeswalker. Does this mean we'll see a return to Kamigawa sometime? Not sure how I feel about that...but on other spoilers...SO MANY ANGELS! Already have a new deck idea that'll probably cost me an arm and a leg to actually make.Warriors & Wuxia: A community world-building project focused on low-magic wuxia/kung-fu action using ToB.
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2012-04-12, 05:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-04-12, 09:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Magic: The Gathering XIII: What A Horrible Night To Have An Enchantment- Curse
So i oppened 4 boosters today, i got Geist of Saint Traft in one of them.It is awesome as he costs as much as the boosters.
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2012-04-12, 11:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Magic: The Gathering XIII: What A Horrible Night To Have An Enchantment- Curse
SpoilerMy Blue EDH Draw deck just got a new most wanted card. An emblem with no more hand size limit? Any card that hits my graveyard I can put in my hand? A fourth 'you have no hand size limit' card for a deck that regularly has 20+ cards in hand in the late game AND all the other abilities are relevant and useful? WANT.
I'll admit I wasn't too excited about this set before seeing some of these new cards. I was probably going to split a box with my friend because he's a huge fan of angels and can't afford a box on his own. Now? With flickering a core mechanic, this incredible planeswalker, and more to come? Yeah...I need to go see if my bank account can handle a box on my own
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2012-04-12, 01:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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SpoilerBy my count, unless there's a trick I don't know about, you can get four attackers unto the field by turn three. First turn Doomed/Parish, second turn Gather/2 Doomed/2 Parish. Turn three Druid Repository.
The question SHOULD be, how many can you get out by turn two? First turn Avacyn's Pilgrim/Birds, second turn Repository, third turn ???/Profit?Warriors & Wuxia: A community world-building project focused on low-magic wuxia/kung-fu action using ToB.
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2012-04-12, 01:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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so... I have to admit. The more that gets spoiled about Avycn Restored, the less and less it interests me.
Now I grant that as a whole this has been an amazing block. but something about "angels, angels everywhere" is just kinda turning me off.
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2012-04-12, 03:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Eh, I've seen much more impressive pulls. I've seen a foil Sorin at the Dark Ascension prerelease, when it was worth $100-200 a pop (and the owner didn't even use sleeves. You could feel all the onlookers wincing when it was shuffled back into the library at the end of the game.), and one ridiculous kid at a draft who opened both Sorin and a foil Snapcaster back to back.
Also, Geist is worth more that $16-20 nowadays. It's at about $25 right now. It's worth more than the boosters.
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2012-04-12, 07:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Awesome avatar by potatocubed.
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2012-04-12, 07:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Magic: The Gathering XIII: What A Horrible Night To Have An Enchantment- Curse
For me, it's been sort of the opposite of what 9mm's experiencing. I was so bored of Dark Ascension that I haven't drafted it at all, nor have I played any Standard in the past several months. But with each piece of Avacyn Restored I've seen, I feel more and more like getting back into things. I shall certainly be drafting it, at any rate.
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