DirkGently wrote: ↑

5 months ago

Just for the spirit of Christmas harmony, post whatever opinion you like and I'll agree with it. One day only!

Color Identify rules should let you run hybrid cards like they can be used in other formats :D

Do we know when the next story will come out? Chapters 2-10 will be released over January 8–18 It seems weird to me that they released a story on December 5th and haven't released one since then. Usually don't they do a new story every week? They are trying something new and released the first chap...

The current guild leaders and who might be in the set; Azorius- Lavinia is the current acting guildmaster and is at the gala Dimir- Lazav is thought dead but not confirmed. Etrata is in the set and might have taken over but uncertain Rakdos- Rakdos and we seen he gets a card and a guild leader frame...

I had no idea there was a story already. It seems weird that there's no mention of Niv-Mizzet, the living guildpact. Niv will be in the set, they said there would be 6 guild leaders and niv and they will be getting guild leader frames. The entire story, if I'm not mistaken, takes place within the c...

Sounds like a win-win for the Golgari. The Golgari are basically non-existent atm, Vraska purposely compleated most of the guild by having Realmbreaker open up in the Undercity as the first strike of the Ravnican Invasion. But couldn't they have grown zombies from everyone who died during the invas...

Happy Hannukah!

Looking at the flavor text for Demand Answers , I think the attempt on Aurelia's life was a false flag* operation conducted by the Boros Legion so they can justify moving against the Rakdos Cult. *I know this terminology is a dog whistle of sorts, and wasn't my intention. Sounds like a win-win for ...

Pretty hyped, I wanted a WUG clue commander deck and that will be one of the pre-cons.

Yea thats what I thought.

3drinks wrote: ↑

6 months ago

But can we go back to Magic IP, and how we're gonna help The Good Admiral take back the city and rebuild her fleet now?

Do you mean the good governor or have you not read the new ixalan stories?

Collector boosters are Magic's most successful scam. People pay a massively inflated fee to receive a bunch of pre-curled cards, most of which are draft chaff. I guess they had to so something to make Ravnica Remastered more attractive. I mean, how many cards that aren't shock lands have any demand...

Gonna wait until after this upcoming Ravnica set but i like The Third Doctor with Romana II and/or Sarah Jane Smith for a clue deck.

So I watched Doctor Sleep and The Descent recently (continuing the random horror movie discussion). Doctor Sleep was pretty decent and a great homage to The Shining itself. I liked that the protagonists were smart and the antagonists were shown to be fallible. Cool concept and the horror served as ...

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/announcements/card-updates-coming-with-khans-of-tarkir-on-mtg-arena BIG W FOR SNAKES!!! The Rakshasa thing is cool if they make them more mythologically accurate, wonder what the art and flavor reboot will look like. Naga going snake is interesting, I prefer naga a...

Dunadain wrote: ↑

7 months ago

Why do a number of cards in this set, when referencing themselves, put their name in quotation marks? Is this a new thing? It would make sense if this is the new standard going forwards, but plenty of cards also don't do it in the set.

Are you looking at scryfall translations?

I have some thoughts on the "will UB replace UW" but I'm getting ready for work and it might be worth making its own thread. TLDR; I don't think UB are sustainable as a resource to fully replace UW and far as I'm aware no UB has so far outsold UW sets by significant margins.

Alright, time to finally reveal my perfect argument to make Dirk agree with m- Look, a distraction! Cascaaaaade, my favorite mechanic, is returning in Caverns of Ixalan? :o The mustache hides nothing, "discover" - I know who you really are! (more thoughts to follow) Def looking forward to...

-shrug- idk. I read the Ixalan stories on Friday, enjoyed them. I like the soft reboot of some the flavor stuff, Huatli and Saheeli are a cute couple, Kellan and Amelia are best boy and best girl and made me think on how the wider nerd genre spaces handles Latine and Hispanic representation. I have ...

I just hope it's a one-and-done thing. How many cringey fandoms are there in the world that we'll have to wade through? Define cringey cuz some of the magic fandom..... I was gonna say, in terms of cringey magic likely drags things it crossovers into being cringer then the other way around. Only th...

-All three of Jordan Peele movies are great, my favorite is Us but I know people liked Get Out and Nope better. -Babadook is my favorite trauma/depression is the monster all along -The Scream series is classic though I would say you don't need to see 3 and I haven't seen 5cream or Scream 6 yet (on t...

I watched when Matt Smith was the Dr and I enjoyed it but I was never deep into, particularly cause the fandom was something during that time (Superwholock was in full swing). I'd say I have postive feelings over all about Dr Who but I won't say its a favorite of mine or something I'd go out of my w...

I really like Doctor's companion as a partner variation. It has more variety than "Partner with" but more narrow then partner can be and limits the commanders to being three colors or less (with the doctors being two colors and the companions being mono-colored), so imo its a really intere...

Serenade wrote: ↑

8 months ago

Do we know which other elder dinos survived the invasion? I'm assuming Etali is donezo.

When last saw them the remaining the five elder dinos where themselves and where a factor in Ixalan being able to hold off the phyrexians.

The multiple cards for the same characters came from play testers being disappointed that in the lord of the rings draft /sealed you rarely if ever see any of the iconic characters. So they decided to make multiple version at different rarities to help make sure a Frodo or a Sam ect card would show ...

I just finished "Song of Achilles" by Madeline Miller and my heart </3 Very beautiful and well written.