Magic: The Gathering (Spoiler-free)

Alright, thanks. I'm basically deciding whether to keep the pack instinct creature that's free if discarded from your hand.

@Idler, last page: Just so long as she keeps away from Agatha Christie novels.

Now looking through Erik's card of the day where Erik Lauer does the same thing as Aaron Forsythe, because I can't sleep. Again, it's pretty interesting and one of the rejected pitches for what became Sangromancer inspired one of my latest posts in the custom card thread.

@Idler: Xira Arien is a eumidian. She was in the same books as Kei, too, though I don't remember them being related or anything.

edited 23rd Jul '12 8:42:16 AM by Nyktos

Huh. I bashed "Xira" into Gatherer and nothing came up.

Anyone up for a scrap?

edited 23rd Jul '12 12:45:26 PM by CountDorku

This explains so many things.

edited 23rd Jul '12 1:22:46 PM by Lovecrafter

Sure!

Room's up.

And red, if Steam Vents is anything to go by.

So, Muraganaya Petzooglyphs turns out to be an actually pretty okay-ish deck, as long as you include a little bit of ramp and Colorpie-Rape.

Fun combo time: Herald of War + Juniper Order Ranger. This way Herald enters with 1 counter worth of "discount for all your other spells" already present.

Would it be bad form to leave this here?

You know, over on r/Magic TCG some guy suggested that even banning Islands wouldn't stop Blue from being an asshole. Ignoring all the stupid in that sentence, that got me thinking—what would a hypothetical format where the five basics are banned look like?

I'm thinking Red's anti-nonbasics would make it a hell of a lot more powerful myself.

Like, nothing but duals and non-land generators?

I think it would definitely be much more interesting. Sure, it has weird impact on subsets of cards and on colours (red nonbasic hate becomes stronger, green basic search becomes useless, black has to find some other way of caring about being selfish beyond mana costs), but games would be quite different (and slower).

More multicolored decks, I guess. The game might be a bit slower because of the number of nonbasics that have an "enters the battlefield tapped" clause. Most green ramp specifies basic land, so green would have to use more mana producing creatures.

Is there a hypothetical block to go with this hypothetical format?

This format should be a thing.

Agreed. Anyone up to make a few decks for it and fight it out?

Okay, that made me crack up.

It's pretty much true though. I went and checked, and six decks out of the top 8 in the most recent Legacy GP had four or fewer basics.

Even Modern is pretty close to that tbh.

Any of you people up for some EDH?

THE CHOSEN JUAN RETURNS.

I'd be up.

come on come on more people

i returned for your motherfucking sins surely you can play a game with me

Hey, mate! Good to see you back, albeit under a different name.

Sadly, I don't have time to EDH right now. Got 115 newspapers left on my delivery run. [A year and a half at TAFE, two years at university, a UAI in the nineties, and the only job I can get is newspaper delivery. Fuck the economy.]