>>97855783
When you see the various avatars and shit that roam around Strixhaven and think about the concept of Lorehold, the plane actually has potential to be interesting but then you realize 90% of it is some faggoty Glee shit and only 1 guild gives a fuck about the outside world

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>>97855783
>TQ

>>97855794
it's the izzet bias in action
izzet gets everything good because fuck you

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This guy is my favorite, but he shouldve been a fucking monk.

So... Is SoS a good set?

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>TQ
The OG. The ebin

>>97855816
people floating without flying

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>>97855818
no
legacy is about to rotate (again) because of it

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>>97855818
What you think anon? You think this "Prepare" shit is something good?

>>97855838
>Reanimate Ancestral Recall
lol

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I have a hard time differentiating the colorless archaics.

>>97855854
sEvEnTh CoLoR oF mAnA cOnFiRmEd

>>97855854
>the archaics raged across the land
Also in the same set
>becky TOTALLY got snubbed at the lunch table!

>>97855854
Are all archaics identical? They all look the same to me.

>>97855872
Sounds fair. Even with great catastrophic events college is still shit.

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In universe shared roots now I get to play it in standard.

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Cool bear

>>97855847
Why would I reanimate a 5/5 to pay 1 to Ancestral Recall when I can reanimate Atraxa and just get Ancestral Recall

>>97855818
Not really, no. Just as I skipped Lorwyn, and TMNT, I'm skipping Strixhaven.

On to skipping Marvel, can't wait.

>>97855818
Yes.

kind of genuinely infuriating that mtg is on a roll of incredible out-of-the-park in-universe sets at a time when thats also interspersed with bottom of the barrel ip slop

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>>97855783
>TQ

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Winds of Abandon is funny in Japanese.

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>>97855921
>mtg is on a roll of incredible out-of-the-park in-universe sets

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Kikes of the coast don’t care anymore about color pie uniqueness
Blue literally does everything now

>>97855902
That looks lesbian.

>>97855903
I've seen cooler.

>>97855930
I don't get it

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>>97855930
Every overload card is a nightmare to translate because it's very reliant on english sentence structure. Cleave is just as bad.

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>>97855783
>TQ

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>>97855783
They just don't make 'em like that anymore.

>>97855949
blue does base power toughness fuckery all the time. this doesn't even kill at 0 so what's the problem

>>97855957
I hate to be one of those every mechanic is kicker people but cleave is actually literally just kicker.

>>97855930
Yet again another Mystical Archive where the EN art mogs the JP one. It feels like they didn't even get the same brief this time.

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>>97855936
Lorwyn Eclipsed was great, Strixhaven is looking great, Mystical Archive truly knocked it out of the park this time with how good it all looks, Edge of Eternities was genuinely a top 10 set of all time, Dragonstorm was really good too, yes. 4-set winstreak.

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>>97855783
>TQ
This whole cycle was kino but this is my favorite.

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>>97855949
>nonlethally changing creatures base power and toughness
>not blue
What?

>>97855994
Almost had me, but you went a little too over the top with this bait.

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>>97856021
>noooo! you can't like a set just because it has good flavor art and mechanics! you need to be new thing bad like me!!!!

>>97855975
Blue doesn't usually get p/t boosting effects. They often get to make things small and rarely get to set things to mid-power P/T (4/4 or 5/5) but I don't feel that Mirror Entity style p/t setting is blue. It's most similar to something like Kessig Wolf Run where you just turn a mana sink into huge damage. It should 100% have green in its cost and I think could work as either WG or UG comfortably. Mono blue is, in my opinion, a bad design.

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>>97855804
I miss Chippy so much it's fucking unreal.

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>>97855965
MY QUEEN

>>97855973
Also an excellent answer

Since my first two picks were already taken by anons of great taste I will instead nominate pic related.

>>97855994
Dragonstorm was raw ass IMO and EoE was a little too gay for me but I agree Lorwyn and Strixhaven are beating expectations handily.

>>97856048
Why are the giants mad at school children?

>>97856009
That's only 1 "mode" of that card Anon.
It's alos a Giant Growth variant if you pay enough

>>97856058
Jace told them about UB

>>97856032
mm I guess it is kinda a blue howl from beyond

>>97856048
>gonna be pricey
>money
is this all zoomers think?

>>97856086
zoomers don't have money, that's scalpers

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>>97856032
Anon, using this to make anything bigger then 4/4 is staggeringly innefficient, and Blue gets X/X power and toughness anyway.
>>97856060
Yes and Blue also gets staggeringly innefficient growth spells involving base power. They're a classic. Dreadful as the Storm, Biomass Mutation, Mercurial Transformation for one that can both shrink and grow, Octavia Living Thesis, Octopus Umbra, Serpetine Ambush, etc.

>>97856092
do scalpers use chat?

>>97856048
This card confuses me. The effect would have me believe that the archaic is gonna kill everybody but the art looks like one of those what if we all shoot our differently colored beams at the same time to finally fell the beast kind of moments.

>>97856100
it's 2026 anon, your boomer grandma is using chat

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tq

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>>97856093
There is actually a lot of these X/X blue spells.

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>>97856032
It's worse version of green's power boosting spells. Changing the base stats of creatures is bad because the power change gets worse the higher the power of the creature's original power.

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I implore you to consider Rakdos girls.

>>97856154
There's not going to be anything left of you by the time it's over

>>97856078
Golgari cat bros isn't this like fucking good?

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>>97856158
It's a known hazard.

>>97856009
This card is the best version of this effect ive seen. We need to start feeding prisoners to big cats again.

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Friendly reminder Hexhaven>Gayhaven

>>97856172
Is the cult of rakdos the reason there's no homelessness on ravnica? Do they just sacrifice every hobo to their demon lord?

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>>97856154
My wife is from Rakdos.

>>97856215
Best girl keeping rent affordable

>>97856093
>>97856109
Do you genuinely not understand how these are different?
My objection is that blue should not have combat tricks that allow you to generate power/toughness with no upper limit. Candleep Inspiration is not even fucking close to what I describe and I don't actually think Gigantoplasm should be mono-blue either but 'at least' it is restricted to the one clone so I can't swing in with three 1/1s and then pump the unblocked one to lethal.
>it's inefficient
Fuck off that doesn't matter when it comes to what a color should and shouldn't do. Black's enchantment removal is also inefficient and that's a fucking travesty as well.
>Blue gets X/X power and toughness anyway
It shouldn't and even if it did the problem is the ability to boost power/toughness as a combat trick with no upper limit.
>>97856132
Yes it is worse but it is still an offensive combat trick that serves as a mana sink. It should have green in its color identity. I'm not even super happy with the 'target creature gains base p/t 4/4 until end of turn' at instant speed but I consider that a bend rather than a break.

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More G/U elves for Lotr.

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Finally some Witherbloom spoilers.

>>97856064
>3-mana 2/1 flyer
>Etb make a nu-pest
>End of your turn reanimate with mv equal to life gain this turn
Might be okay in limited, but unless we get more pest enablers, it won't do much outside the BW bat deck.

>>97856078
>>97856169
Seems decent, similar to Broodheart Engine but you can sac creatures instead of itself and it doesn't let you surveil. Doesn't really synergize with the rest of the set though, which is odd. Most of the creatures you want to reanimate are either proxy spells via prepared or prefer you cast them by paying a bunch of colors.

>>97856207
"Homeless" people are just Golgari who ventured out of the undercity, probably to do some dumpster diving or whatever. Nobody pays them any mind.

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>>97856009
>no reading comprehension
>kike retardation
TKB, typical kike behavior

>>97856272
>didn't invite squirrels or lizards to the quest
Pretty problematic.

>>97856246
That's literally just your opinion. I showed you there is plenty of precedent everywhere for blue to get X/X toughness effects, some from over a literal decade ago.

If you're pumping a creature to lethal with blue then you're either spending a staggering amount of mana on it which makes it no different from colorless or you're spending the normal blue pump spell value (but worse). It's literally just fine.

>>97856207
There are heaves of homeless people in Ravnica. Mainly guildless people.

>>97856058
The plan of the current antagonist (probably Jace) threatens the future of Arcavios, causing the archaics, who exist in a sort of odd state of time that only works if the future is more-or-less set, because they're oracles that, upon dying, are sent back to the past to relive history, so they go berserk due to becoming paradoxes.

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There's something about black Dominarian planeswalker ladies who are hundreds of years older than me.

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Whats realistically stronger, this

OR

>>97856334
Please fucking make another Dihada card, WOTC. If you put Dihada in this set or in Reality Fracture I will literally go and buy three boxes right this fucking second.

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>>97856132
If green gets Doom Blade, but costing 3 mana would it be ok, because it's a less efficient version of the black kill spell?

>>97856342
YES
FUCK YES
man I wanted this reprinted

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>>97856354

THIS

>>97856359
If Green got 10 mana destroy target permanent, which includes creatures, I would probably not complain much, no. Which is what this is.

>>97855818
Its woman and faggot coded

>>97856334
They're your only source for safe horny and even that is suspect

>>97856354
>>97856365
Bear:
Solid rate with death touch. Spell sets up gy for practically the whole game with a very solid chance of hitting.

Witch:
Solid rate. Dtutor is strong as fuck. Seems solid for reanimation/ blink. 6 mana 5/4 with Dtutor is solid. My guess is that the reprep is flavor text.

I like the designs. I think that both are very strong. I'm not sure if id add the bear to my unpowered cube, but I'd likely replace sidisi with the vamp dt

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>>97856359
No. Blue can fuck with P/T. Typically it just shrinks, but it's not completely disallowed from growing, or flexibly changing it.

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>>97856154
You posted the wrong one, anon.
Although default Exava can absolutely still get it.

>>97856365
This fucking sucks. 4BB for Demonic Tutor? The 5/4 for 3B is actually more of a conversation starter.

>>97856359
I really wish that fight spell from a few sets ago worked as it was actually written (so it could effectively be a kill spell), but nothing interesting ever happens.

>>97856334
DOMMIMOMMYARIA PLANESWALKING HAGMAXXING

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>>97856408
Blue also gets transformation effects that can be quite decent buffs too, it's nothing new.

I'm guessing the white Emeritus has Swords to Plowshares.

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>>97856154
I consider Rowan and she's Rakdos now.

>noooo what if an 1/1 gets past my defenses and its owner spends TWENTY MANA to kill me
amazing

>>97855854
Why do we have NOT-Eldrazi now?
>>97855903
That is good. Instant speed Cheat something?
>>97856064
Wasn't one of the best cards in og Strixhaven a 3 mana blue guy who makes a bird when ETB?
>>97856207
There are slums and areas where dirty poor people live. In the novel Jace was living in one.

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>>97856469
>now
Archaics were a thing in OG Strixhaven, albeit less common. They're distinctly not Eldrazi-related, far as we can tell.

>>97856469
>Why do we have NOT-Eldrazi now?
We had them last time we were on this exact plane. Colorless creatures aren't solely Eldrazi. Anything that transcends color (be it by being extremely simplistic and basic like the original colorless lessons or advanced enough to advance beyond such things like Ugin) can be colorless.

>>97856002
wow literally copying the Harry Potter alive pictures from the first book...they are desperate!

>>97856492
That's... That's just a picture.

>>97856492
>Harry Potter invented having pictures of your parents
last time I checked Harry literally never had homesickness in his life

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>>97856408
>>97856359

this was this OG

>>97856469
>Wasn't one of the best cards in og Strixhaven a 3 mana blue guy who makes a bird when ETB?
No. You must be confusing it with another set.

>>97856502
the animated pictures you dumb ass and yeah he did hace pictures of his parents smiling at him you dumb fuck. I haven't even read a HP book in I think literally 25 years and I still remember that

>>97856515
There's literally nothing indicating that the picture is animated. It's just a picture.

>>97856515
the... the pictures of his dead parents? that didn't have him on them, because he wasn't born yet? the picture book of his dead parents with a fuckton of different pictures that in absolutely no way looks like anything in this card???

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>Better Raise the Past
Holy fucking shit, why didn't they print something like this back during Aetherdrift? This is the biggest bone they've given BW since Ketramose.

>>97856515
nigga i got animated pictures on my bedside table for $10 off amazon

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>>97856540
>Literal enemies to lovers cards

>>97856540
>4 of life/4 mana and you can literally reanimate your whole graveyard
wtf?

>>97856557
It's not 'or less'.

>>97856554
Whoever wins gets to be on top

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Oh, an actual good card.

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>>97856557
>>97856562
Still, letting you reanimate realistically either 1, 2, or 3-mana creatures and artifacts from your graveyard is insane, especially when stuff like Grim Bauble exists.

>>97856583
Oh it's very good for sure, but it's still got some stuff keeping it just being 'very good'.

>>97856554
>Gay Bolas anon set the course for all of MtG's writing

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>>97855822
>OG

Excuse me? You share a set with Hand of Justice. I'm the real OG.

I'm TIRED of Powercreep in U, R and B...

>>97856686
Well congrats anon, you got White Is Really Fucking Good, the Set

>>97856772
you don't fool anyone, kike.

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>>97855949
let me know when blue gets a card that lets you put even 1 land into play for 1 or 2 mana. and not "copy land (3u)". because they have 0 ramp other than high tide which is not real ramp but more like a ritual effect.

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>>97856686
riiiiiiiiiight. green is the most pushed and power crept color of all. pretty sure to work at GōtC you HAVE to have a majority green deck for any format

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>>97856686
Play Lorehold you piece of shit

>>97856868
Cool art. Cool flavor. Fuck commander.

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>>97856868
Close enough

>>97856933
its a great card, who said anything about commander? you dont play standard do you? because yikes that would be miserable in current times

on the other hand, commander is great in bracket 4

>>97856904
why white seems to be the gay color? specially in this set?

>>97856857
You just got Path to Exile but it hits planeswalkers don't kid yourself

>>97856997
bruh the whole set is cooked and is outright gay/trans propaganda on every single card. they're so mad still that JK Rowling is based and they're not allowed to like Harry Potter

that is until Hasbro tells them to make an HP set

>>97857031
it also ramps at one plus sacrifice because it can fire at your own stuff

>>97857036
it looks like a bunch of cool magic shit is happening and it looks like it'll play good and that's all that matters

>>97857050
it screams try hard to me, stapling on ancestral recall and channel onto otherwise really bland cards, and pushing the power creep with a double harrow. people should have fun with it I guess but it looks grim to me

>>97857099
A double harrow that's sorcery speed, and puts them in the battlefield TAPPED

>>97856408
Kikes will use any excuse to break the pie and steal effects. JOTC allowing vigilance was the first domino of this kikery.

>>97857161
Blue has literally always had base power and toughness change effects. It and green are THE colors for these. Stop lying.

>>97857142
Easily the weakest of the lot - not that any of these are particularly good but wow, that's bad.

>>97857164
No one believes your gaslighting kike lies, shekel-sucker. Blue has never had a straight up mana dump pump spell. Revisionist kikery won’t defend your lies.

>>97856686
>Powercreep in 3/5 colors
>White is one of them so it doesn't actually count
Just say you're tired of powercreep

Imagine a set with only monocolor creature cycles releasing in 2027. Imagine how bizarre that would feel.

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>>97857182
It literally did you dumb fucking nigger. Hybrid G/U even to show how it's in the space of BOTH colors. Thirteen fucking years ago

>>97857216
We need our signpost draft uncommons please understand.

>>97857231
>this design tool that improves limited is bad because...??????

>>97857142
This will slot right into my black devotion draw hate deck.

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>blue can't indefinitely increase its own power and toughness-

How to make the best draft ever:
>Common white 1-drop with vigilance that returns itself to play from GY
>Uncommon white 2 mana 7/7 with defender, hexproof, and lifelink
>Rare white 3 mana sorcery that says "Split second. Exile all permanents, graveyards, and cards in each player's hand."
>Red mythic instant that deals 40 damage to any target for 1 mana

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How to make the best draft ever: Make sure white sucks shit in it

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>>97857274
>Limited formats where green is slightly better then the other colors:

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>>97857231
They can just put the cost in the textbox.

Strixhaven is such a gay and lame plane that D&D faggots are looking at it and saying "wow I thought we had it bad."

>we could be in Bloomburrow instead of Hogwarts right now

>>97856540
>Sorin is gay now

HAHAHAHA

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>>97857344
WotC made the curious decision of making a whole big book of Strixhaven for D&D. Nobody really understands why. There are plenty of planes that players would be interested in getting a sourcebook for. Arcavios was not a popular ask by any stretch. But this exists. It's all very confusing.

>>97857391
I can actually tell what they are thinking. A lot of modern D&D players are into the whole "friends in college or a coffee shop" theme. It's a kind of person. They are into Harry Potter too. It's a whole thing-a cringe as fuck one.

This does make me think about how cool a Bloomburrow D&D book would be though

Bloomburrow is great but it will get another set the year the old one rotates out, they wouldn't have two BB sets in Standard at the same time

>>97857391
This is very relatable. I usually get a good chuckle out of my buddy lighting his hand on fire as well.

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For a second I thought we already ran out of mythics, but then I remembered only small sets have 20 mythics and this set has more cards than ECL which had 28. I guess there's still hope we get something actually interesting beyond the green lesson and the white Emeritus.

>>97856334
Wait, Liliana is from Dominaria? I thought she was Theros or something.

>>97857417
Nevermind, Scryfall was counting the convoke cycle so it was actually 23. Either way, there's still hope.

>>97857274
>having been blown out on the "blue can't pump" argument he flees to his usual "kikes hate white" persecution fantasy
lol

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mana is 1bg

>>97857442
>STILL can't address the card from over a decade ago >>97857225 that does unlimited pump but better

>>97857551
>put it into your hand
lame
>OR graveyard
oooooh

consider me interested

what’s a cool and interesting planeswalker design that isn’t grist

>>97856524
>>97856525
two complete retard trannys

the magic card has magical looking surface that looks like a hologram or otherwise implyies the image can move or has some magical quality to it you fuckin idiot(s)

yes Harry had a photo album and had pictures of his parents

the amount of cope is reaching unseen levels. you will never be a woman!

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>>97857423
I thought she was from Titty City gyatt!!

>>97857618
>everyone who has ever had any kind of photo of their parents is making a Harry Potter reference
>nevermind that absolutely nothing else about the card lines up it's gotta be that reference

>>97857618
>the magic card has magical looking surface that looks like a hologram or otherwise implyies the image can move or has some magical quality to it you fuckin idiot(s)
It looks like some kind of magic photograph, yes, but nothing implies that it moves.

The kid misses his parents because he's away from home, and he has a photo of his family to show that. That's it. That's the concept of the card. Meanwhile Harry's album literally doesn't include him, because he wasn't born. It's not an album of his family, that's the fucking point of it, it's an album of his parents living their lives with their friends. He's not homesick because his family sucks ass and he'd rather stay in Hogwarts.

>>97857625
the card homesick has some student standing next to a magical photo frame/hologram picture frame that implies it likely is a moving image (like JK Rowling first invented the idea of moving photo albums at a magic boarding school)

absolutely shit for brains (you) are. (ywnbaw)

>>97857639
>the card homesick has some student standing next to a magical photo frame/hologram picture frame that implies it likely is a moving image
No the fuck it doesn't. The pose the parents are doing is completely still. There is no movement implied. It looks like some kind of tablet with a photo in it, a magic thingamajig that works as a picture holder.

>>97857611
the other grist

>>97857646
yeah the wavy blue shit looks like a hologram like something that has moving pictures in it

>>97857551
Call still sees play as a 1 or 2 of in certain decks, this will likely be the same.

Random spoilers from Omens of Chaos. Not included for notoriety, just things that come to mind. I'm also dead tired and I'm not gonna put them in order.
>Liliana and Kasmina are desparked
>protagonist is Eula Blue, a Capennan human girl pledged to join the Brokers but wants to join Obscura
>she's allowed to attend Strixhaven on the condition that she send valuable intelligence back home
>there's also Alandra, a merfolk princess, daughter of the dragon-taming wizard king of Shandalar's oceans
>just like Eula she also transcribes Strixhaven's texts and sends them home
>there's also Kequia, granddaughter of Teferi
>she uses psychometry to keep tabs on her teachers so she can change her grades when they're not around
>there's also Jamira, a minotaur, daughter of desparked Angrath
>she hates planeswalkers and helps Kasmina traumatize her friends
>there's also Segante, a Fioran nobleman
>he doesn't copy texts, cheat, or betray his friends, but rather steals books and sends them back home
>they were all invited because Kasmina has a long list of potential planeswalkers and they were on it
>her plan is to use them as fuel to reignite her own spark because it almost worked for Bolas
>also she wants to separate the two planes that merged to form Arcavios because the fusion stifles their potential or something
>and she seems to theorize that aether is so abundant on Kaladesh/Avishkar because of the Mending somehow
>Kasmina's home plane seems to be Antausia
>Shandalar is so rich in ambient mana that Alandra struggles to acclimatize on less abundant Arcavios, the experience is like drowning and parching at the same time
>the Tolarian academies seem to have been gigarekt by Phyrexia
>Eula loses her virginity to Segante in their dorm
>Kequia and Jamira seem to hook up at the end
>Kasmina dies a Disney death getting swallowed by Strixhaven's snarl, but the characters don't know if her spark might have reignited and let her escape

>>97857783
>black character
>slacks off and uses magic to change her grades
what did wizzards of the cost mean by dis?

>>97856313
>plenty of precedent
You dumb lying nigger.
You showed exactly one example of an infinitely scalable blue effect that is also NOT a combat trick. I'm not sure what dumbfuck retard land you come from, but where I come from 'one' is not a lot.
>If you're pumping a creature to lethal with blue then...
You shouldn't be allowed to do that at all. If red had a 6R "Destroy target enchantment" I'd be bitching that it breaks the color pie as well. I don't understand how YOU don't understand that rate is not the issue it is the effect existing at all.
>>97856460
There is a significant amount of precedent for setting P/T I agree. On ocassion it gets them as combat tricks that likely make your small creature bigger as well. X spells that power up a creature however, are firmly green these days and the ones that just power up power are historically black and probably red in modern magic.
>>97856408
Auras boosting P/T is something that every color has access to and I cannot believe that you, in good faith, consider this to be equivalent to a combat trick that is also a mana sink that is also flexible P/T setting.
>>97857225
>>97857570
Yes. UG is allowed to do unlimited pump which I said in my initial post you illiterate retard. It is telling to me that your only ability to "BTFO" me involves either completely missing the point and posting shit like Majestic Metamorphosis or Candlekeep Inspiration or just straight up posting a green card.
>B-B-BUT HYBRID MEANS MONO-BLUE
In that case it also means mono green you dumb nigger. If your best way of showing me that 'blue gets this effect in pie' is to show me a monogreen card then that's not very convincing. Surely you can find me a card that is JUST mono blue that is an instant speed mana sink that turns any creature into an infinitely scaling beater since there is, and I'm quoting you here, "plenty of precedent everywhere".

Are you going to point to the alchemy card next you disingenuous faggot?

>>97857817
I'll do the work for you
https://scryfall.com/search?q=c%3AU+o%3A%22base+power+and+toughness+X%2FX%22&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name
There's every card in blue that sets base power to X/X. We can go through them one at a time:
>Better Offer
Not a real card.
>Biomass Mutation
UG card
>Candlekeep Inspiration
Not infinitely scalable
>Fluros of Myra's Marvels
Not a real card. Also not infinitely scalable.
>Gigantoplasm
Only card that comes close to fitting the criteria. Can only affect itself therefore not making it a combat trick.
>Katara
UW. This effect (or a localized one that only affects a single creature) is what I am talking about though.
>Leonardo da Vinci
Not infinitely scalable.

Please by all fucking means show me your 'plenty of precedent'.

>>97857810
It's more trivial. Everyone agrees she's the most book smart of the group. She basically turns her grades from A- to A. And it's not even to get a leg up, it's just to live up to the legacy of Teferi. Even though Teferi didn't exactly excel as an academic himself.

>booby character gets killed off screen
typical wotc

>>97857783
A LESBIAN MINOTAUR?! IN MY CARD GAME?!

>>97857840
You can't blame this one on Loot.

>>97857175
>make a 5 mana investment once
>draw 3 cards every turn for the rest of the game
how is that bad? red one is still stronger but this is definitely better than the blue one

Oh yeah not a spoiler but an amusing tidbit. Angrath is trying to resettle people whose planes were rendered uninhabitable by the Phyrexians. We're told he's heard of some place called Innistrad and he figured they might find safe haven there.

>>97857551
given zombify is the new standard for reanimation spells these days, this is quite good, you can even tutor for artifact/enchantment hate to deal with graveyard tech

>>97855836
Weird art, the awning above leads the eye to the pussy area between the legs which is aligned with the triangle of it

>>97855902
Mythical archives aren't standard legal

>>97855994
Every in universe set from outlaws to now is peak but ya'll don't want to have that conversation

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>>97857902
shared roots is a card that is standard legal right now, you can use any version of it you want, it's the same card

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>>97857902
All uncommon Mythical archives cards are standard legal.
Except for monstrous rage.

>>97857963
The Japanese art is always so much better than the westoid art it's actually depressing

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Too true

>>97857783
Wow the seven year "payoff" for Kasmina was she died in a side-story and accomplished nothing. Also, we can't have Angrath (one of the most liked "modern" walkers), get his bitchy daughter instead.

>>97857967
I prefer the left artwork. It's in full color.

>>97857817
Hybrid cards are things both colors can do. A G/U card could be both G and U and would still be in pie. That's the point of it, you dumb nigger. Blue gets base power pump. Deal with it.

>>97857817
>You shouldn't be allowed to do that at all. If red had a 6R "Destroy target enchantment" I'd be bitching that it breaks the color pie as well
There we go, Scour From Existance.

>>97857817
>blue gets to modify creature base power and toughness
>it can do this all the way up to 8/8s
>it getting X/X that you need to pay a bazillion mana for is too much
>despite all the other pumps it got already
just fuck off

>>97857974
The players might not notice, but their brains did.

>>97856574
>Not a Skeleton
F.

>>97857967
Weird to respond to an image where the gook art is infinitely worse than the White person art with a comment like that.

>>97856540
>Taking an established heteros and making them gay.
The deities beyond the 4th wall hath decreed it.

>>97856574
No haste mans any deck that doesn't already include Timeline Culler will have no use for this.

>>97858011
>Oyvey goyim, blue gets whatever I say because it was promised over 3000 years ago according to my JOTC Talmud
>Nooo, you can’t show contradicting evidence nooooooo!! Blue should have everything!! Save me Nosewater!!!!
Kill yourself you worthless lying sheeny shekel sucking shylock KIKE

>>97858062
continue sperging out all you want schizo. you're still fucking wrong.

>>97858062
>>Nooo, you can’t show contradicting evidence nooooooo!!
What whiteschizo says when he gets repeatedly shown blue pump and white decks with tournament results

>>97856562
>4 life and 1 mana to reanimate your entire graveyard.
Yeah this is going to go over well.

>>97856540
>pay 1 life
>bust in the opponent's face
what were they thinking?

>>97857974
That's funny because coming back to MtG the first thing I said was "What the fuck are all these abilities and how many cards have them?"

>>97856342
Why would the students want to learn a phyrexian spell?

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>>97858066
You don’t understand the history of the color pie at all you lying kike. Stay wrong.
>>97858072
Blue doesn’t get pump spells you lying kike. It only gets small modifiers like 4/3 or such. This is literally a zero ceiling X pump spell that should’ve been green. You fucking zoomer kikes have been so groomed by JOTC and Kikewater that you literally don’t know any better. It’s no wonder you believe their kike lies about blue vigilance and now this shit. When they eventually give blue even more pie breaks you’ll also argue they were always true and suck their circumsized micro dicks even harder.

>>97858122
It doesn't get pump spells yeah, if you ignore the 5/5 one. Or the 4/4 flying ones. Or the "creatures become X/X where X is the number of instant or sorcery cards in your grave" one (which is limitless increase btw). Or the creature that can freely change its own stats by paying X. Or the creature that can pay 4 mana to put 2 +1/+1 counters on itself indefinitely. Or the hybrid (which means it could be either color) mass pump effect.

Yeah. Totally. It's totally outside of blue's territory if you ignore all the cards it's gotten that cross over that territory for over a decade.

Anyone here interested in planar standard? I asked in the mtga thread but I figured I'd ask here as well

>>97858147
Give us some meta decks and we can talk.

>>97858147
I already play it fine in Standard so there's no reason for me to move.

>>97857391
It's kind of been forgotten now but this setting was VERY popular with DnD players when this book first came out. Seemed like 70% of the online games I saw were Strixhaven games at the time.

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>>97858134
Found one more for him to ignore and cope about.

>>97856540
I, for one, can't wait for the inevitable
>"We never tested this card in a deck full of 1cmc threats, and thought people would only use it in decks with a regular mana curve!"

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>>97856365
>This creature enters prepared.

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>>97858182
That's basically already in Standard.

>~ enters prepared.
>~ enters prepared.
>~ enters prepared.
>~ enters prepared.
Why would you design a mechanic only to negate its entire function on 80% of the fucking cards you include it on?

>>97858214
The function is to have it work with magecraft and opus, which it does.

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>planar standard
>Premodern
>Pre-Fire modern
These joke formats will be dead within a year, won't they?

>>97858228
>Planar Horizons
>Premodern Horizons
>Pre-Fire Horizons
All confirmed for 2027

>>97858224
>The function is to have it work with magecraft and opus
God I fucking hate retarded shills so fucking god damned much.
No it isn't. The function is as a boolean that allows an effect to be used, you fucking absolute dumbass shill moron idiot.

Moreover, "we want activated abilities to trigger Prowess" is A SHIT IDEA AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN SCRAPPED. Fundamentally breaking one of the core balancing levers of your game is A BAD FUCKING IDEA.

The mechanics value of Prepared is in selecting unique methods of Preparing creatures to create tactical intrigue on the battlefield. If they wanted to reprint Exhaust, they should have just fucking reprinted Exhaust for the love of fuck.

>>97857889
>given zombify is the new standard for reanimation spells these days
it was the standard in the premodern era
it then went to 5cmc in the prefire modern era
now we're back to zombify, the old becomes new again indeed

>>97858228
>These joke formats will be dead within a year, won't they?
this but edh, two more weeks!

>>97858249
Zombify is currently the strongest they're willing to go. Everything else has restrictions or cost 5 mana and has upsides.

>>97858154
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10eYFlIVV8h6BAncQJ2KMNwq_EztNDzuB/view?usp=drivesdk

Bought my first collector booster box (SOS), will I have a good chance of breaking even or better?

Can anyone explain to me what the fuck planar standard is

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>>97858365
No time, Number One you have the bridge.

>>97858365
Standard, excluding UB sets.

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>>97858249
>it was the standard in the premodern era
no that would be reanimate

>>97858360
By definition, no. Card prices adjust to meet supply and the supply is set by businesses with the ability to open far more product than you and average out the variance. The result is that you're already 50% chance to do below average, the market is rising to meet you, and even if you do spike a card liquidating it is going to be difficult.

>>97858376
Also faster rotation iirc

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>>97858375
>cowabunga Captain, beam me up

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powercrept skulduggery

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green lifegain big anthem

Back then:
>You also play Magic? Let's play a game!
>Awesome!
Now:
>You also play Magic? Let's play a game!
>I only play mid-level prefire duel commander with the old restricted list. The cheapest deck in this format is $2000. If you play any cards that I deem problematic, I will scream rape.

>>97858404
I went to a nice school, so I got to dissect a frog in class once. But I couldn't cut through the sternum so this girl grabbed the scissors from me and did it herself

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red combobait

>>97858410
This could have been prevented.
Adding UB into core formats was such a stupid idea.

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>>97858413
>Copy target spell
>This spell can't be copied

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morbid payoff even though witherbloom's thing is lifegain

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>>97858421
They don't want a new version of splinter twin where you cast dualcaster mage, copy it with Choreographed Sparks, the copied Mage ETBs and copies Sparks, and so on for infinite 2/2s on your opponent's end step.

>>97858421
That's why it's combo bait and not actually a good combo, if you had two of them they could copy each other while making infinite tokens.

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>>97858422
>Pest creature token with "Whenever this token attacks..."
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHFFUUUUUUUUUCK OFFFFFF WIZARDS THAT IS NOT WHAT A FUCKING PEST DOES STOP FUCKING BLOATING YOUR GODDAMN TOKEN POOL FOR NO FUCKING REASON

>>97858445
Sorry Goyim, you are going to have to buy more Collector Booster Boxes for more Pest Tokens that gain life whenever they attack

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>>97858422
I dont know man I think first Strixhaven made a better job at Golgari deck

>>97856554
>only card I'm interested in from the entire set is also the world's least subtle fujo-bait
WotC employees should be hunted down like dogs in Minecraft

>Go to make a Pest deck for memes in the year of our nuMagic lord, 2015
>Half the pests do one thing and half the pests do a different thing
these designers have to be fired

>>97858457
Sedgemoor was a sick card.
I'd be comfortable if power creep stopped in and around the Sedgemoor Witch territory.

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>>97858457
>Strixhaven 1 had Magecraft
>Strixhaven 2 has... "Prepared"
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>97858380

dimir reanimator was top tier in legacy

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>The main set theme of SOS is Memberberries
This shit sucks.

>>97858510
This copypasta was stale 9 years ago

>>97858228
The Humans/Phoenix-era of Modern was already lame as shit. I'd rather play 2015 Modern with Jace/Stoneforge/Bloodbraid/Pod unbanned.

PreModern
Planar Standard
PreFire Modern
Which one is the best?

Why does the art of Strixhaven look like dogshit?

>>97858529
>please play 2015 i'm afraid of fatal push

I'm going to die of laughter if the only successful set this year was Lorwyn. Fingers crossed it does happen so Hasbro starts firing people.

>>97858543
There is no fucking way Star Trek doesn't sell like a ton, anon. Trekkies are that retarded.

>>97858535
The students are mostly ugly. The school outfit designs have weak cohesion outside of color scheme. All the good art is hidden in collector boosters to steal more money from people who don't want ugly art.

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>>97858543
We are saving Magic this year, Captain.

>>97858543
avatar was already a success so you're going to have to keep living unfortunately

>>97858541
Fatal Push was a mistake, yes

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>>97858543
Captain Jean Luc Picard, best of Federation, will save your pitiful game, faggot. You better be grateful!

>>97858556
>removal was a mistake
>>97852608

>>97858556
You work for, JOTC? You sound exactly like Nosewater that's why so many formats are dominated by Red

>>97858534
>CuckCope Standard
>ProtoFIRE Modern
Premodern obv

>>97858534
only macacos play those formats.

>>97858581
Sopa de macaco, UMA DELICIA!

>>97858567
>>97858561
Fatal Push started the arms race that led to retarded shit like Ragavan, Tamiyo, and Frog.

All the formats that reject UB are for macacos.

Not a shill btw.

>>97858597
stp started the arms race since alpha dumbass

>>97858581
Macacos are more human than UBrowns

>>97858603
based macacos saving magic the gathering

>>97858597
What started the arms race that led to retarded shit like Jace/Stoneforge/Bloodbraid/Pod?

>>97858618
Lotus Cobra

>>97858618
Tarmogoyf.

>>97858608
>card that's not legal in Modern and hasn't been legal in Standard since 1999

NOOO GOYIM YOU HAVE TO PLAY THE NEWEST SET, BECAUSE THE NEWEST SET IS THE BIGGEST SELLING SET IN MTG HISTORY!!!

>>97858626
>Ragavan, Tamiyo, and Frog
>cards that are not legal in prefire

>>97858627
Why is a chinese canadian using a jewish slur

>>97858618
Island

>>97858618
Island

>>97858631
Ah yes, the Goyspeak indoctrination has taken root in this one.

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>>97858603
Why yes I only play pre-UB formats how could you tell?