Magic: The Gathering (Spoiler-free)

From what i've been able to learn, it continues triggering until the game state changes resulting in a mandatory draw. Since its a trigger it can be responded to and it will stop triggering if you can get below seven thrulls, but otherwise game is a draw.

Well that's a stupid way to end a game.

Well, can't beats can, so if a card says you're not allowed to do what another card it telling you to do, I think the first card wins.

It's like if you've got a fully charged Darksteel Reactor and an Abyssal Persecutor on the field.

edited 16th Nov '14 10:58:05 AM by Elfive

Y'know, now that we're into Khans of Tarkir, I had to stop and take a moment to reflect on Theros as a setting. Most of its cards might not have been all that great, but it looked and felt awesome. Wizards certainly knows how to do a Greek inspired world.

Yeah I love Theros, really glad I got in with that block. And as a noob I had no idea that it was underpowered so it didn't bother me.

Ok, I just came up with something:

You need a board full of expendables, a Butcher of Malakir, a Grave Pact/Dictate of Erebos/both, an Assault Suit and some means of killing something.

Then you Equip the Assault suit on the Butcher, donate him to an opponent with a lot of creatures (but ideally fewer than you) for the turn, then kill either one of their creature or one of your own.

Intended result: Board-wiping chain reaction, leaving just the Butcher standing.

Thoughts?

EDIT: Actually I just realised that if you add in an Overseer of the Damned as well you potentially get an endless supply of fodder for your side of the meat grinder.

edited 17th Nov '14 4:42:37 AM by Elfive

Last week I did some intermission pages for my webcomic, both of which are MTG themed.

One you might recognize since I basically pulled the script from one of my posts in the make your own card thread.

The other involves Garruk.

Ha, those are good, Jawa! Your Gideon looks an uncanny lot like Gears of War's Marcus, btw.

Purely coincidental. I was mostly just shooting for simplistic, chibi-ish designs that would be relatively easy to recognize for people who know the characters. Though admittedly I went lazier on the Sorin design and settled mostly on 'vampire' for him.

edited 17th Nov '14 3:42:04 PM by TheSpaceJawa

Sorin leans more to the "fabulous" side of vampires than the traditional side. I suggest giving him more sparkles.

At the game shop tonight, I had an opponent manage to get Ajani, Mentor of Heroes' ultimate off. And I still managed to get him down to about 60 life from 108 with my new Temur monsters deck before he found a way to finish me off (Which was a Siege Rhino).

I also played a guy with a Legacy Goblins deck. My Ooze deck did very well against it, especially considering my deck is just one card away from being Modern. The Goblins were more evenly matched against my Ninja deck, but the guy had to leave before we could play the third game of that match.

My "legacy" decks (That are only a few cards off from being Modern) have been doing surprisingly well of late. Last week the ninja deck beat a Sneak and Show. The first game ended with me being attacked with Emrakul and promptly winning due the Annihilator sacrifices triggering Vela the Night-Clad and making him lose enough life to kill him. Second game, I managed to snatch a discarded Griselbrand out of his graveyard with Ink-Eyes. He fell soon after. For a while I'd been afraid to play them against more serious Legacy decks for fear of being steamrolled, but I'm having more confidence in them now.

Delver would eat you alive.

Then again, Delver eats everything alive. I hate playing against it so much. Nobody has fun.

Edit: Except Dredge, hilariously enough. It's amusing watching Delver sitting with pyroblast/force of will in their hand while their opponent is having a grand old time playing a game only loosely connected to Magic.

edited 20th Nov '14 11:04:29 PM by Funden

Is dredge one of the most OP deck builds or is it just my imagination?

It's not really. It's good against Delver, which makes it good in the current Legacy meta (GPNJ had a ton of UR Delver). Rest in Peace, Tormod's Crypt and Grafidgger's Cage are all extremely good against it, which stops it from being amazing like it was around 3 years ago.

It's a good deck (and I'm thinking of building it one day), but it's not near as bad as Delver or other combo decks like Sneak and Show.

I now have a fervent desire to write a Magic/MLP crossover featuring a member of one of the Ravnica guilds.

How bad of an idea is this?

It's not so bad that it hasn't already been done.

There's very few MLP crossovers that haven't been attempted though.

I put in ten unicorn student supporting characters that follow the guilds' scheme in my as of yet unfinished story. Dunno if that counts.

I think it would be funny if a future set just had a planeswalker that was a sapient unicorn. Like, with no explanation whatsoever.

edited 21st Nov '14 3:07:50 PM by Elfive

Roluore Bellowtooth, Phelddagrif Planeswalker

I do wonder how The Conversion Bureau would turn out if some random human got caught by the wall and became a Planeswalker instead of dying.

Cool.

Which guild should it be?

My heart says Boros but I don't know if that'd work out.

edited 21st Nov '14 7:21:37 PM by Rosvo1

It depends on what you're shooting for with your fic, I think.

I think I'll go for an action-adventure feel.

My current options are Boros, Gruul, Simic and Izzet.

Hey, can anyone think of any Black or colourless cards that force an opponent to search their deck?

Only I have an Ob Nixilis Unshackled EDH deck that I think is missing a trick.

edited 22nd Nov '14 4:02:46 AM by Elfive