Check out this awesome stuff red can do!
Wow, stuff other colors are as good at, stuff other colors are better at, and stuff red almost never gets good cards for!
So who is right in this scenario:
I cast Fortune's Favor. My opponent puts 2 cards in one face-up pile and 2 card in another face up pile. I ask my opponent if they are done with their choices and say yes. I pick up all the cards.
So who is right in this scenario:
I cast Fortune's Favor. My opponent puts 2 cards in one face-up pile and 2 card in another face up pile. I ask my opponent if they are done with their choices and say yes. I pick up all the cards.
Call a judge. At Professional REL, you are probably getting all 4 cards, at Competitive or lower, your opponent is going to get a chance to do the piles again
It's not actually improper though, because it's legal to have a pile with 0 cards in it.At a tournament, if you pick up both piles (and they were clearly two piles) you could get got for cheating since you're purposefully allowing the opponent to improperly resolve the card to gain an advantage.
It's not actually improper though, because it's legal to have a pile with 0 cards in it.
That said, the correct answer is to always call a judge as soon as you notice something wrong. I think, in this case, I'd be likely to rule that you get all four cards, though I could see the argument that allowing the opponent to re-make the piles is a potential fix (even though I disagree). In any case, at Comp REL or higher, the opponent would get a GRV warning.
I just never works for me the way it does to draft a million Eyes in the Sky.
Cards like Druid Deliverance actually over performed for me. T2 Call of the Conclave, and then having Deliverance up as an instant populate the next turn is a pretty nice combat trick.
You're right on the first point and I agree completely. I thought had typed up a paragraph about possible fixes other than allowing for taking all for cards, but I didn't. A side affect of internetting before eating breakfast. In the cases of allowing the opponent to remake the piles (which I disagree with, but not strongly) or re-randomizing the deck and backing up to a point where the opponent looks at the top four cards and makes the piles (which I strongly disagree with), there would be a GRV warning. In the case where the player takes all four face up cards, there's no warning.If 4 faceup cards, in two different piles, is an acceptable resolution of the card, why are they getting a GRV for presenting that? I think the possible rulings here are: "that is one faceup pile of cards, everything resolved okay, you pick one pile to put in your hand, no penalties" or "that is two face up piles, which isn't what the card says to do, so GRV, and potentially rewind".
And if that's a situation where you'd give a GRV, and the player casting Fortune's Favor picked up all four cards without calling a judge, they obviously knew that the opponent wasn't resolving the card properly, allowed it to happen and in a manner that benefited them.
If fast mana production is not usable by design anymore, red should get a form of ramp alternative to green, maybe one shot ramp, but not tied to lands for sure.
Like:
Infect is Dead right now though. Like, I haven't seen anyone playing it because Push+Probe banning kicked the deck right in the nuts.Affinity or Infect. Personally merfolk.
It's not a powerhouse anymore but against an unprepared field or a bunch of tron, the not brown kind, it should be able to do quite well.Infect is Dead right now though. Like, I haven't seen anyone playing it because Push+Probe banning kicked the deck right in the nuts.
Affinity also dies hard to DSJ if they don't get the god-tier hands, so.. yeah, I'd go with Merfolk. It has a positive Burn Matchup, doesn't auto-fold to Blood Moon, doesn't hurt as bad vs DS, etc.
I mean, of those Decks, Merfolk is the only one that's top 8'd a GP, so.It's not a powerhouse anymore but against an unprepared field or a bunch of tron, the not brown kind, it should be able to do quite well.
Merfolk has a good matchup against the deck with like 1/3 removal spells? DafuqInfect is Dead right now though. Like, I haven't seen anyone playing it because Push+Probe banning kicked the deck right in the nuts.
Affinity also dies hard to DSJ if they don't get the god-tier hands, so.. yeah, I'd go with Merfolk. It has a positive Burn Matchup, doesn't auto-fold to Blood Moon, doesn't hurt as bad vs DS, etc.
Boxes are down to $200 shipped on eBay and WotC just gave stores the option to refill up to 20 boxes.Hmm, MM17 sealed for $50 tonight, but I hate sealed and it's standard payout. Then again it's $10 below MSRP. But then again it's $50. What to do.
Kira Great Glass Spinner+ Sideboard cards like Unified Will= One hell of a fightMerfolk has a good matchup against the deck with like 1/3 removal spells? Dafuq
Boxes are down to $200 shipped on eBay and WotC just gave stores the option to refill up to 20 boxes.
Not having to allocate all the product to the GPs (which means you have to overestimate massively in case of giant turnout) was huge.
Boxes are down to $200 shipped on eBay and WotC just gave stores the option to refill up to 20 boxes.
Not having to allocate all the product to the GPs (which means you have to overestimate massively in case of giant turnout) was huge.
90% there. There remains the issue of a few certain cards that they haven't reprinted in any meaningful way that need one good MM3 size reprint to get knocked down to reasonable. I'm not talking staples of the color(Liliana, Goyf, Snapcaster, Bolt, Path, etc) but the fringe cards that are used in 1-4 decks that are stupid high because of low printings.So like with the volume of product available for this set and the card selection that went into it, do we feel like WotC has finally hit the point of seriously addressing Modern accessibility?
As many of you may know, we had planned to hold our next Announcement Daywhere we announce upcoming productson March 31. However, we will be moving that date back until June.
Why the wait? Well, as we began working on the announcement, we started wanting to do more and more. Magics 25th Anniversary and Magic Onlines 15th Anniversary are coming up, and we have a number of awesome products and events associated with the momentous year.
So we started packing more into the announcement. Well, if were going to announce that we have to announce this too! Theyre so cool! We started working on themes, we found a fantastic store to live stream from (Meeples Games in Seattle, WA), and we started to gather all of the things we wanted to say and show off.
However, Magic works on a pretty long timeline. We know what were doing for our 25th Anniversary (and Magic Onlines 15th), and we know its going to be awesomebut much of it is still in development. We wanted to highlight a years worth of celebration and fun new products, but the larger the announcement got, the further out we wanted to announce things, and the further out products were, the less we had to show.
After much discussion and looking at our calendars, we opted to do one large, 25th Anniversary Announcement in June rather than one now and one then. While we dont like shifting the date on you, we do know that shifting the date will provide a much bigger, better experience for everyone.
I dont have an exact date for you yet because were still finalizing some of those cool things we plan to show you, but were aiming for June. To give you an idea, the Summer announcement will feature announcements on the fall block, digital products, Organized Play programs, and wild ancillary releases, many of which stretch into 2018. Were not going to waste a single day celebrating our 25 years, so well be giving you a long vision of the future.
So watch DailyMTG, Facebook, and Twitter for further details on our upcoming 25th Anniversary Announcement Day. Its going to be a big one.
90% there. There remains the issue of a few certain cards that they haven't reprinted in any meaningful way that need one good MM3 size reprint to get knocked down to reasonable.
lol WotC PR still trying to dance around the shitshow standard is. This is gonna be BFZ all over again.
The question was about things other than haste and direct damage.He didn't even put Haste on that list lolololol
The question was about things other than haste and direct damage.
Latest Developments - An Update on Standard - This really gives the impression that they don't know what to do about Standard. He says that core sets helped them get cards that help and hose archetypes without having to stick to a theme, and the hard mechanical themes of recent blocks make this hard now. It seems like with four blocks in Standard, they may not make each block so different anymore. He concedes they should at least have had Naturalize. Though it's understandable, his statement that it would be pointless to share FFL decks from Amonkhet block really shines a light on how untested the upcoming Standard will be.
I think the solution they'll go for is to have two blocks in a row have similar themes. For example, we could have had Shadows over Innistrad then Amonkhet. This simulates the three-set block model while still creating change. If they start themes with the spring block, then that would allow there to still be variety in Standard.They should go back to the pre-M10 Core Set model, where a Core set of only reprints is printed every other year, and is legal until the next set comes out. Go back to 3 expansions a year, and have both a Consipiracy and a Masters set in the years that have no core set.
It's boring, but would probably lead to Standard being better
They should go back to the pre-M10 Core Set model, where a Core set of only reprints is printed every other year, and is legal until the next set comes out. Go back to 3 expansions a year, and have both a Consipiracy and a Masters set in the years that have no core set.
It's boring, but would probably lead to Standard being better
At $200? Don't blame her.My wife ordered another box of mm3. Jesus lol
5 to 7 seas is usually enough and you might want some tec edges too. There's still contention between Kira and Clique going on and the latest top 8 player had an unusual sideboard.I mean, of those Decks, Merfolk is the only one that's top 8'd a GP, so.
Also, I'd figure 8 Seas Merfolk beats Eldrazi Tron, but I haven't seen the Matchup myself.
I mean, isn't the obvious choice meta wise Kira in the main/Clique in the board? I know Tec Edge is great though against Eldrazi Tron, but I didn't think of how good it is.5 to 7 seas is usually enough and you might want some tec edges too. There's still contention between Kira and Clique going on and the latest top 8 player had an unusual sideboard.
Issue with 8 seas is the missing lands to side out aether vials.
Temp mana is done through creatures head days. See burning treeThe 2 best ones (Land Destruction/Rituals) are the 2 that they have decided to never even make *interesting* again because they don't want to risk them actually being good :/
I mean, isn't the obvious choice meta wise Kira in the main/Clique in the board? I know Tec Edge is great though against Eldrazi Tron, but I didn't think of how good it is.
The latest top8 player is one of the bigger Merfolk guys though, what was so unusual about his Sideboard? I'm actually tempted to try and buy/trade into Merfolk because of the reprints recently.
Temp mana is done through creatures head days. See burning tree
Uhhhh. Great revel, vexing devil and sulfuric vortex are good cards and they are punisher cards....The most "iconic" first strike card is Thalia all the way.
Red just gets shit all the way in terms of recent cards. Like, I really want to kick whoever at Wizards thinks Punisher Mechanics are a good idea. They never are good and the one time they actually made it a mechanic it was a shitshow