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wew lad dijo:
8 mana to not do anything immediately without other crap on the table, e.g. Ugin Eye of the Storms. I guess an upside is that animating it with Karn makes me an 8/8 for a blocker in a pinch.
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What do you mean "immediately"?

If you play it on a turn when your hand is empty, you'll draw 10 cards at the end step. Is that not immediate enough? Is it "on cast" or "on enter" or nothing now? (Back in my day "do something right away" at least meant same turn.)

Make it your last action of main phase 2 and they only get one interaction window before you draw, But that's true of any artifact even with ETB effects.
 
Flexo dijo:
What do you mean "immediately"?

If you play it on a turn when your hand is empty, you'll draw 10 cards at the end step. Is that not immediate enough? Is it "on cast" or "on enter" or nothing now? (Back in my day "do something right away" at least meant same turn.)

Make it your last action of main phase 2 and they only get one interaction window before you draw, But that's true of any artifact even with ETB effects.
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Modern has gotten powercrept enough that if Tron isn't doing things on cast or presenting a difficult to remove threat with 7-8 mana spells it loses on tempo, and it still can because this thing exists which lets a well-timed Ulamog the Ceaseless Hunger or Emrakul the Promised End get completely nullified for only 2 mana.

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Instant speed artifact hate also would mean spending 8 mana on nothing in the end, but Tron has shifted so hard into Eldrazi that artifact hate isn't what you sideboard in against Tron unless you're trying to combat specific hate pieces that turn off a deck's ability to function (Torpor Orb, Vexing Bauble, static graveyard hate like Grafdigger's Cage, etc.).
 
anti SJW dijo:
I've been thinking, there is one MTG set Hasbro/ WOTC could put out that everyone will want and bring loads of new players.

Universes Beyond: The Trump administration​

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I wonder how many people will actually use and play the cards just to have Trump and the like get killed and destroyed, compared to the number of people that will buy the product and then literally destroy the cards to try to spite Trump.
 
Thiletonomics dijo:
I wonder how many people will actually use and play the cards just to have Trump and the like get killed and destroyed, compared to the number of people that will buy the product and then literally destroy the cards to try to spite Trump.
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They'd also have to worry about getting cancelled because some would take that as support for Trump.

It would have to be something like South Park's Trump.
 
Thiletonomics dijo:
I wonder how many people will actually use and play the cards just to have Trump and the like get killed and destroyed, compared to the number of people that will buy the product and then literally destroy the cards to try to spite Trump.
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The serialized card would be "Trumps small pp"
 
Lancers dijo:
Is anyone going to the pre-release? There's plenty of open spots at the 2 LGS near me. The price isn't even jacked up like they do for the other slop sets but no one's biting.
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Half-debating it exactly because the price hasn't bolted, and the limited doesn't seem as bad as I originally expected. Still seems a bit rough, though: blue having a mythic common (6/5 hexproof + bounce-2) is gonna skew things. I'd try out a draft on MTGA but it's too early for that.
 
Gave it a try, opened a laughably stupid pile of bombs, won the event. The set feels like a downgrade from Avatar: lots of ridiculous, must-answer bombs but several of the mechanics just don't seem to work. Still, WAY above spider-shit or turtles. Like let's look at the UW archetype: teamwork. Teamwork is a strong effect, but you can't really... build around it. One form of payoff works: Captain America, who happens to just be an efficient creature that gives your team pseudo-vigilance. Then there's Maria, who is... most of the time, just a Savannah Lions. As it almost-always is, UW is in reality a tempo flyers deck, where your best cards are gonna be Falcon, Justice, and blue's 2/2 flyer workhorse of the set. I expect to see the 'teamwork matters' cards actually pay off maybe twice in this entire runtime.

RG is supposed to care about Power-Up, but don't be fooled: it's just RG stompy, again, as it has been in every single 10-archetype set of the last forever (though don't sleep on Shang-Chi: this card is fucking sweet and is in part why I even opted to go to a prerelease. Pulling him felt great). UG is supposed to be +1/+1 counters, but it's really just a ramp deck that's gonna splash into a third color - because my god is the fixing ridiculous in this set. I could have easily played 5c sealed without any issues. WB is supposed to be pseudo-exalted with an equipment-lite theme, but in reality it's actually just dogshit and you're splashing for The Kingpin, Cloak and Dagger, or Black Widow.

Everything that is not Grixis is just playing generic goodstuff, probably with a splash of 2 whole colors for individual bombs. Grixis, by contrast, is all about synergy: UR, UB, and RB all actually work with their themes and have the support necessary to pull off. The net result is that if you get the nuts, Grixis decks are gonna be unstoppable... but they suffer a lot more from someone drafting in your colors than do the other colors.

Also, Squirrel Girl is a stupid card and the GGG costs are misleading. You'll have plenty of treasures - this is one of the best rares in the set and might just be the best. Some mythics may beat it.
 
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Went to a big store for prerelease. 120 total people, price was equal to Strixhaven. Lots of people new to magic, tons of marvel fans - both the movies and the comics themselves. Crowd was mostly normal too. Didn't see any of the cards prior to the event so everything was new.

Took me way longer to build than normal. Lots of effects and shit to read.

Went 3/0 with a Jund deck. Pulled Doom Reigns Supreme - almost always felt good to play early but could see it being a dead card if you are behind, and The Coming of Galactus - fired once but game was basically over by then, removal and 4 damages was ok for prerelease. Didn't run into as much enchantment hate as I expected, I don't think there's actually that much in the set. Removal also felt lacking, but it might have just been my run. Rest of the deck was mostly villain/robot synergy with a few cheap heroes that had good effects (Hellcat and K'un-Lun Warrior) thrown in. Also had both Hawkeyes but they never bothered to show up outside of 1 game. The MVP of my deck was probably Killmonger, almost always a 5/4 or would be after trashing a cheap creature for the removal ability.

Overall, I enjoyed the night. Archetypes felt present but not too limiting. Not too sure of how draft is going to look. Lots of generally good creatures with hybrid mana costs that are very easy to slot into a deck. Power up had potential but I never really saw it used all that effectively. Rarely used on the turn a creature entered because it would be too early in the game and never really felt that great to activate later unless you had nothing else in hand.
 
Flexo dijo:
Just do a whole presidents set.
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I would prefer that for Yugioh, just so you can have all the founding fathers, then use George Washington as a Tuner Monster and go full 5Ds ending and Synchro Summon "Uncle Sam" with all the founding fathers as summoning Material.
 
Trump would probably have some sort of effect where. Similar to Tales of the Peak.
Obama's definitely destroyed target white or green creature.

Teddy Roosevelt would definitely be like a very high cost. Green creature would trample. That also gives all other creatures trample. An unblockable.

What's the Magic the Gathering really needs to make a great reset on all the fucking ridiculous cards they. Released. It is not fun for either player when. One guy can just sit there and summon 20 creatures. I've done that and been on the receiving end of it. Just makes the game boring as shit.
Also, people who play mill decks and Kalam spells are still gay.
Also, I do like the perpetual spell idea. But most of them are overpowered as shit. And then some of them just plainly suck. And being prepared creatures are pretty cool.
I've been playing Magic for about. 23 years and the game has just gone stupid with the combos that are just way too easy to pull off and have literally no setup. At least with the Priestess of Tiana 20 damage firewall, you actually had to somewhat set that up.
 
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