Resplendent Angel reprint or bust!

NZB2323 wrote: ↑

1 year ago

I know they're not from the same plane, but I would have loved to see Thalia, Guardian of Thraben combined with Ruric Thar, the Unbowed.

Oh man, that's evil. I love it! We can dream.

Very cool to see the brewing with this! As a huge fan of Thalia, I'm pretty excited given that her prior cards aren't super compelling as a commander. If it's a question of mana sinks, what about Luminarch Ascension ? Thalia/Gitrog being a first strike deathtouch might make it significantly easier t...

To your last point, if you printed "Worse Aura Blast - 1RR - Instant: Destroy target enchantment", that would be absolutely unplayably bad by W standards and you would never see it in any WR deck, but mono-R decks would consider running it, because mono-R is really really really bad at de...

First, my point is that I don't think Sanctuary Warden is exciting because I want more than a two-turn Divination before we're leveraging 6-mana spells. I'm not saying that a card with 6 mana value has to be backbreaking, but it can't be "draw 2, but slowly". I'm not even saying "you...

Sanctuary Warden in particular is a pretty nice draw source in that it natively has "draw 2" stapled to it without requiring you to jump through really any hoops at all. If W keeps getting more cards like that, the color will be in good shape. Sanctuary Warden is 6 mana, mate. I would lik...

Welp, that's it for me. White is truly never going to catch up. "We don't want to take away space from other colours", ok, so, why is blue allowed to get Ravenform and Hullbreacher , Simic got Oversimplify , black got Opposition Agent (take that, Aven Mindcensor), and green got basically ...

I would disagree with this, personally. I don't think G having Craterhoof or U having Expropriate and Cyclonic Rift has made their average game worse. This isn't about giving W an edge over the other colors with some tool they don't have, just about giving W a couple more more high-value "clos...

Lol those are so insanely broken. 6 mana destroy all enemy lands as an instant? You think 9 mana destroy all enemy permanents is LESS reliable than expropriate? I mean I hate expropriate too but it's not THAT stupid. Y'all in here trying to make white the "kill on sight" color lmao. Those...

Feels like the last area remaining to address is the need for powerful game-closing high-CMC effects. If you're speaking about wincons in general, white has quite a number of them available, from Approach of the Second Sun to Faithbound Judge to Halo Fountain and more. Admittedly, each tends to nee...

As Josh Lee Kwai observed a while back on Twitter during the conversation around I think Opposition Agent, W doesn't just need to get really good cards, it needs to get them at a higher rate than the other colors, in order to close the gap. I've been dubious about WotC's efforts to fix W for a while...

do we know what planeswalkers or plane it will be on? I imagine the core Gatewatch are all a safe lock, as they've been prominent in MtG marketing materials for years. Teferi seems like a good choice as well, as he can play more of a mentor role. Plane-wise, probably MtG planes that are both unique...

I normally agree with what Maro says, but I think he's way off base on hybrid mana in Commander. A card like Divinity of Pride is very clearly both a white and a black card based off the literal color of the cardboard itself, so why should I be able to play it in my mono-White deck that's not allowe...

Short of going full konami (and you never go full konami...) this wont help. It wont help until r/mtgfinance stops playing magical stocks. People speculating on Magic rubs me the wrong way as well, but I very much doubt that they're primarily responsible for the massive spikes behind cards like Exp...

I do agree that tutors feel quite problematic in that they promote extremely repetitive play, which cuts against the core of a 100-card singleton format: high variance. The presence versus absence of tutors in any given deck contributes heavily to power imbalances, as well. If I have 2-5 ways to tut...

The simple fact is that Wizards is not reprinting Commander-focused cards enough to keep up with the insane increase in the format's popularity over the last few years. The prices for Cyclonic Rift, Teferi's Protection, and Expropriate alone, all played only in Commander, speak volumes on this subje...

I really would like to see another range of partner commanders but they need to tweak the rule a bit. Maybe errata partner to say: Partner (You can have two commanders if both have partner and both have the same expansion symbol) Or something to that effect, I'm not a game designer! For my money, &...

If you really want to hose people who rely on casting stuff for free or off stuff like Mana Crypt early game, there's always Lavinia, Azorius Renegade . I've been meaning to build her as a "degeneracy police" (without any lockouts) myself. She doesn't do much against Titania, though. She's...

Fundamentally, what makes for a bad game of EDH is feeling like I didn't get to play a game of Magic with my deck. This feeling can be attributed to a few main causes: Decks/players winning way too quickly: When I sit down for a game of Commander, I (and, I suspect, probably the majority of the play...

One can also favor card draw over tutoring to increase variance, and/or make sure loops require a minimum number of cards to assemble. Absolutely this. The power gap between a deck running a tutor suite and a deck with no tutors at all is typically quite vast, so if your playgroup doesn't like tuto...

I'm hoping the morph deck is Sultai, then my Storrev deck has a reasonable chance of picking up some new toys. Won't lie, I'm a bit bamboozled as to how you base a deck around flashback. Dragonlover Madness seems even trickier than Flashback. Madness feels like it has very few existing cards which ...

Posting news to /r/EDH is a fine idea, but beyond that, I doubt if there's much to be gained by directly engaging the community there. Even by Reddit (and, what's more, by MtG Reddit) standards it's thoroughly toxic and very, very Spikey. Casual players' voices get drowned out very consistently on t...

I expect to pick up the full set this year as well. Might even get two, one to crack for parts and the other one to keep playable as-is. Precon-level Commander has made for some of my favorite and most memorable games. I hope the recent comments by WotC about the reprint value being such crap last y...

looks like there is a leak of the themes here from a European distributor: https://www.blackfire.eu/product.php?id=33368 Themes on keywords: populate, morph, flashback and madness. Huh, not sure if I buy it, but that's interesting. Populate is probably the most personally interesting for me. Not su...

Suncleanser from Core Set 2019 is actually a pretty brutal hoser for any experience counter general. I certainly wouldn't be opposed to more, though.