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New Hour of Devastation spoiler thread: Red cucked again edition

Also here's the stupid fucking wurm people were bitching for.
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>>54071804
>cucked
you have to be at least 16 to post here.
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>>54072049
T. Mad Red Mage
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>>54071804
>Not a sandwurm
>just Rhonas's pet wurm
WHERE IS THE SANDWURM
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>>54072049
Red mages, when will they learn?
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>>54071804
If only they would print good ramp again

t. salty green mage
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>>54072201
>Set has no mythics left
>Set has no rares left either
You aren't getting it. Deal with this. It's pretty good for what it is.
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>>54072869
>Sorcery

So close yet still so far
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>>54071804
>WHERE CAN WE SEEK REFUGE
there... arnun
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>>54072869
It's shit. At least Blasphemous Act was amazing for EDH, why is Red so bad?
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>>54072704
It's obviously on the surprise bonus sheet, like Time Spiral! Which is nothing but sandwurms! Yeah, that's it!
I should stop joking around about such things, I only go with the most ridiculous bullshit but people take it seriously. Then again, considering the other shit that gets said around here, I can't blame them
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>>54073007
Eh, im pretty sure that card is at least edh playable. For 1 more mana than a wrath you also kill planeswalkers and say fuck you to indestructible. Thats fair.
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>>54072929
How often are wraths instant speed? I can't think of any instant wraths off the top of my head but I might be retarded.
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>>54072869

Maybe playable in some sort of R/X control. The fact theres something hitting walkers is nice.
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>>54073282
There are some but they are typically not. The more powerful ones are not
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>>54073282
I remember Quicken + Supreme Verdict
those were the days
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>>54073282
Almost never. Even the damage-dealing ones are almost always sorcery speed, with the instant-speed ones being stuck at 2 damage or less.
I'm counting four exceptions so far - Inferno, first printed in The Dark and last printed in 8th Edition (7 mana, does 6 damage), Starstorm from Onslaught and commander (XRR, won't hit walkers), overloaded Street Spasm from RtR (XXRR haha fuck that) and Fault Line from Urza's Saga (XRR)
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Here it comes lads, another batch of good cyclers!
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>>54073501
Post them or shut up
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>>54072777
>"We gotta be careful bruh"
>still get absolutely blown the fuck out
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>>54072777
This cards is absolut flavour fail in this set
>>54072849
Awesome art wish they used it for some good red rare
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>>54072777
>that flavortext
Almost as bad as the new Lili demon's.
>that art
LET'S GET STARTED
FIGHT!
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>>54073954
That artwork and flavor text is extremely unsettling.
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>>54073570

To be fair, it's a little late NOW to try and come up with a plan for fighting Bolas. As Ajani pointed out, that should probably have been step 2, after step 1 was "avoid fighting Bolas until you have as many planeswalkers as possible backing you up because that dragon will fuck shit up."
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>>54073980
>step 1 was "avoid fighting Bolas until you have as many planeswalkers as possible backing you up because that dragon will fuck shit up."
Step 1 SHOULD have been "someone go get fucking Umezawa" as he was the only one to ever fuck up Bolas in a fair fight.
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>>54074008
How did he even do it? Anything special?
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>>54074023

Used some sorta trickery to get Bolas to leave his physical body and go into his Meditation Realm, blew his physical body up with a very powerful spell, entered and fought what was left of him in the Meditation Realm, iirc.
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>>54073974
Tragic Lift?
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>>54074023

Blew up Bolas's physical body and this shrine that Bolas was using as a mana locus to maintain his power in Dominaria along with it.

With the shrine gone Bolas couldn't remain in Dominaria so he ran away
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>>54074008
>Ajani: We need to go find Umezawa. He knows how to fight Bolas
>Chandra: Who the fuck is Umezawa?
>Gideon: Does he enjoy FAIR and HONORABLE combat? Hahaha!
>Jace: He's obviously a very powerful mage. I deduced this, because Blue.

Yeah, this would go over so very well.
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>>54073980
>sometime in 2018 there's going to be a story feature card where Ajani just says "What did I tell you?"
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>>54074023
See
>>54074070
>>54074097
He fucked up Bolas so hard he never went back to Dominaria out of fear of the guy. That's probably what this army is for. And it's fucking hilarious because Umezawa wasn't even a planeswalker or even a mage, he's a fucking archer.

>>54074107
I fucking hate the Jacetice League.
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this set fucking sucks

ixalan was spoiled on purpose because this set is awful and they were worried people would completely lose interest
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>>54074023
>>54074070
>>54074097
One important thing to note is that Umezawa kicked Bolas' ass Pre-Mending. The guy's a stone cold badass.
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>>54074139
To be fair, he is the great-great-great grandson of Toshiro Umezawa, so he's not totally ordinary.
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>>54074139

>Umezawa wasn't even a planeswalker or even a mage, he's a fucking archer

Are you entirely sure about that?
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>>54074139
>He fucked up Bolas so hard he never went back to Dominaria out of fear of the guy.
>>54074155
>Umezawa kicked Bolas' ass Pre-Mending.
Dude fuck the Gatewatch, I want to see Umezawa go on an ass kicking adventure across the multiverse.
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>>54074195
He's also been dead for a long time.

But you can always check out the Legends set!
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>>54074175
Just because they taught him how to use one spell doesn't make him a mage, he's still primarily an archer. If I show you how to shoot a gun, does that make you a marksman?
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>>54074195
Unfortunately he's kinda stranded on Dominaria seeing as he isnt a Planeswalker. Also he's probably either dead or dying of old age at this point.
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>>54074175
It's like you've never played Might & Magic.
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>>54074217

>If I show you how to shoot a gun, does that make you a marksman?

I mean, yeah, basically.

And it's also not the only spell he ever used.

If someone can summon a fucking meteor shower to defeat a small army I really don't get how you can argue that he's "Just an archer"
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>>54074222

I know some Dominarian humans live a long time, but Tetsuo thew down with Bolas like five hundred years ago at this point. He might have a descendant somewhere but I'd imagine he's super-dead.
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>>54074222
Also remember kids, the last time Bolas did anything pre-mending was him going around during Time Spiral and killing EVERY SINGLE Umezawa he could find, and also bitch-slapping the Myojin of Night's Reach.
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>>54074205
>>54074222
>>54074296
>Bolas returns to Dominaria ages later
>He has an army of stone zombies in tow
>"I'M BACK YOU SAD SACKS OF SHIT, BRING ME UMEZAWA!"
>A little girl steps forth
>"Who the FUCK are you?"
>"YOUR PROM DATE YOU UGLY SACK OF SH--I mean uh Umezawa's Granddaughter"
>"Well where the fuck is he?"
>"Nigga he dead."
>"FUCK."
>Bolas forgot normal humans age
>He went through all this trouble for fucking nothing
Please let this happen.
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>>54074153
I was looking over the cards and they all seem to be catered toward casuals. Even the cards that seem to have potential are much too slow

Let's see tomorrow if they release another uncommon that will break standard on accident, that's the last hope of this set making any impact anywhere
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>>54072777
>let's go into bolas's plane without any plan and try to fuck up something 10 times as powerful as all of us combined
>"strategic planning"

flavor fail.
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>>54074316
>that's the last hope of this set making any impact anywhere
This set is great for EDH though.
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>>54074309
And then he retires to his cake and reads books forever The End. Bolas going out as a shaggy-dog story would just be the best.
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>>54072849
That's a pretty shitty common. I thought they spoiled those last.
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>>54074347
Did you mean to type cake?
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>>54074347
>>54074496
Summon Cake card when?
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>>54074496
It's a doggy dog world man.
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>>54074548
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>>54073954
Ironically helps Kefnet (creature) hit his able to attack threshold.
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>>54072849
>Manticore Eternal
>Doesn't have eternalize
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>>54074342
Name one recent set that hasn't been good for EDH.
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>>54074592
Such is life for magic's story-related cards.

>I cast both Akromas and Karona
And so forth
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>>54074597
Eternals have afflict you thick fuck
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>>54074597
>Creature - Zombie Manticore
It's called an eternal because it's already eternalized. Hence why it's blue abadee abadye

There's a bunch of creatures like that, they've got afflict.
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>>54072777
>be vewy vewy quiet
>we'we hunting eldew dwagons
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>>54072849
"Also, the pets of the gods are automatically Worthy, send them on over too."
The player's guide DID say the viziers were autoworthy, after all.
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>>54074749
>not having your pets in the cool afterlife you're gunning for
Bolas knows what's up.
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>>54074600
Khans was fucking trash.
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>>54074826
Khans had the khans bruv, and in fact I think all of them were good in commander
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>>54074296
Bolas' first action after reviving was to ensure he wiped out every living descendant of the Umezawa bloodline (and to kill the Myojin of Night's Reach while he was at it, because she's the reason the Umezawas were even on Dominaria).
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>>54074309
>All these convoluted plans have all been for the sole purpose of helping Bolas get revenge on Umezawa
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>>54072777
Shouldn't this have been in the last set? Or hell, even the Kaladesh block. Maybe it's a flavor win, deciding to make a plan after blindly walking into enemy territory and making a giant show of it.

Also the art is laughably bad. Nothing says "planning ahead" like two guys standing akwardly on a rooftop.
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>>54074296

More like 5 millennia. Portal is BEFORE urza's birth
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Horse Token
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>new wurm
>not a sandwurm
>not even legendary and 20/20
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I assume Bolas can change size otherwise this picture is way off
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>>54075210
The Bolas ears, kek. Stupid fucking block.
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Eternal Tokens are the coolest tokens
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>>54075253
SHRINKY DINK
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>>54075231
Soon, my brother

>>54075253
It's almost as though Wizards was really bad about continuity, especially the details
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Chocolate Angel of Desolation
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>>54074195
He's dead and I think bolas went back to Dominaria during the mending to wipe out his bloodline.
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I think it's cool that this picture is first person
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>>54075391
Yoooooooo. Eternalize for 4? Fuck yeah.
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>>54075374
So I'd never noticed it before, but prior to this plane, there had only been one male angel in all of MTG canon (Malach of the Dawn). Why does Amonkhet have male angels when no other plane has them? All of the angels there are fairly conspicuously male, so it should could be reasoned that they're all that way. Did Bolas make them?
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>>54072794
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>>54075449
Also gotta pitch a card but yeah. You could do that blue buried alive dude to him and you can kinda mitigate the pitch in an embalm/eternalize deck while also making raw ca
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>>54075253
>what is perspective
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>>54072869
>make a card named after the set
>ITS SHIT
gg boys this set is garbage.
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>>54075458
Bolas is gayer than the babadook
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>>54075458
Might be exlained in the art book but havent seen it yet. One of their goals was to make the plane feel weird so weird angels probably contributes to that
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>>54075430
>>54073954
>>54073976
That's honestly more terrifying than anything from new Innistrad block
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>>54075458
>Did Bolas make them?
signs are pointing to that, yeah
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>>54075458
Angels are manifestation of white mana.

Mana goes through leylines.

Bolas fucked up the leylines to make them more like him, so probably a side effect of that.
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>>54072794
>The plane you're on is an endless desert with one habitable area in a magic bubble
>you feel the need to breed camels to cross the desert even though there's nothing to go to
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>>54075515
>5 mana wipe in red that deals 5 damage and says fuck indestructible
>bad
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Sooo are all gods confirmed dead?
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>>54075618
Dont forget it kills planeswalkers, including plussed gideon
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>>54075627
The Pervert is still kicking
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>>54075627
Hazoret is alive and leading the remaining living initiates across the desert
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>>54075627
Hazoret the Pervert is now Hazoret, Undying Furry.
She lives.
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>>54075601
Anon, there wasnt always just the one city. There was stuff before Bolas
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>>54075601
It wasn't always like that, and wonder horse implies there is life beyond the broken lands.
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>>54075649
HAZORET IS MOSES
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>>54075665
No actually iirc even before bolas, most of Amonkhet was wasteland. We dont know what the ruins are out in the desert yet. But it is implied theres still some oasis out there.
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>>54075682
Probably what they are trying to evoke, yep
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Samut looks cooler in this pic than she does anywhere else. I wish she was cool rather than lame as fuck.
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>bolaski came and reorganize Amonkhet
>gatewatch came and instill we wuz kangz mentality to the inhabitants
>bolas goes rrrrreeeeeeeeee
>somehow bolas is the bad one
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>>54075693
They said there was some kind of disaster that wiped other cities iirc, i think they mention it in Hours part 1.
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>>54074139
>wasnt a planeswalker or a mage
he was a powerful grixis mage and a shogun. The spell he killed bolas with was called the fucking meteor hammer.
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>>54075719
Bit disrespectful yo
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>>54075719
she looks like a femboi there which is an improvement
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>>54072794
This is... good.
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>>54075274
That horse's head is an upside-down chicken holy shit.
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If I can find this in a higher resolution I would get this as a mat.
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>>54075787
speaking of mats, any idea if i could get Old Damnation art mat?
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>>54073933
Why couldn't it just be "Cards with cycling in your graveyard have flashback. The flashback cost is equal to the card's mana cost."
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>>54075810
Because of creatures doesn't have flashback
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>>54075810
A) because they dont use mechanics outside of blocks featuring them and B) this isnt flashback, it works with creatures
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>>54075826
Ah crap. Could this card be worded so it doesn't give unlimited recursion but you can also keep populating your graveyard?
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>>54075458
Bolas rewrote the plane in his image, appearently that included angels. Bolas is pretty immune to novelty so im sure he doesnt care what angels look like as long as they are stronger than 3/3s.
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>>54073933
why aren't more people talking about this card? This thing seems nuts, especially with the demon.
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Pour one out for my nigga Rhonas
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>>54075867
Was wondering the same. Its almost yawg win if you build a cycler deck, and we got some good cyclers this block. Dunno man.
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>>54075458
MaRo said it was to contribute to the player's sense of "something's not quite right"

Also a chance to push their inexplicable new diversity quotas
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Meow
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>>54075923
more shirtless, sexy dudes the better
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>>54075719
Looks like a man.
Maybe she should have been a man all along.
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>>54075940
:^)
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>>54075719
why you gotta disrespect rhonas mang...
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>>54075882
this art isn't bad per-se, but it's definitely a step down in quality. It looks like the "sketches" that the artists make for approval before they commit to a design/scene. I wonder if it was a rush job.
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>>54075976

God Legends was such a great set. The art and the flavor text her her are fantastic
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>>54076006
It looks like the throng is shouting at her to get the fuck off rhonas body.
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>>54075804
google...
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>>54075940
We can get female demons, they're just not allowed to be sexualized at all. Like, no sexual characteristics at all. It would just be a male demon with a "she" pronoun.
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>>54076061
you mean xhe
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True horror lies in Amonkhet
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>>54076070
bitches can't stop themselves from getting shanked
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What the fuck is this even?
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>>54076113
That's a big wurm.
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>>54076135
4u
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>>54076113
>steve argyle
A bit more spikes steve. A bit more and you can start drawing monsters for duel masters.
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>>54076111
shived is the correct term
you shiv with a shank
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>>54076311
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shiv
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shank
They're complete synonyms. Don't try so hard to play smart on the Internet.
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>>54075253
The way they drew Gideons posture here looks really awkward. He looks like a poorply posed flash puppet.
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>>54076113
looks like a rejected Kaladesh masterpiece
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>>54076311
not even that guy
verb
1 strike (the ball) with the heel of the club.
2 slash or stab (someone), especially with a makeshift knife.
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>>54075976
Certainly sounds like something that would happen in a dnd campaign.
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I'm at a loss. I can't figure out how to brew this. I thought about cycling, making it UB with archfiend, horror, and the cycler that can stifle. I also thought about reanimator with Nahiri and refurbish, using combustible and cataclysmic or running mardu for noxious. Nothing quite seems to work. How would you do it?
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Part 1 of 2
The talisman is unfinished...
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>>54076544
Play 1 of with gate to the afterlife and hella cycling. Maybe throw a horror of the broken lands in there or archfiend, sarcophagus and hollow one maybe?
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>>54076654
A humbled hydra?
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>>54074826
>Khans was fucking trash for EDH
>Khans was great for every other format

Really fires up those neurons dontchaknow
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>>54076654
Part 2 of 2
...and when connected it summons a Hydra?

What are the implications of this Amonkhet magic?
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>>54076654
>>54076678
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>>54076689
Perhaps.. things can be summoned from Glyphs? Like a strange card game meta
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>>54076654
>>54076689
>>54076713

Some hieroglyphic shit gonna summon progenitus as a walker to bop bolas in his own damn living room
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>>54076734
YUGIOHHHHHHHH
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>>54076713
Fucking Amonkhet is more interesting now its almost over, god damnit.
I want to see more of whats out there
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>>54076654
>>54076689
Alright, here's my dumb idea.

The curse of wandering is a natural phenomenon of Amonkhet. The plane goes through cycles of desertification and revivification, ala the Evolving Wilds art, and some previous cycles of the plane have figured out how to use Iazotep's naturally magic/blind eternities/whatever-resistant properties and magical prowess to seal themselves away beneath the sands.

Part of the reason that pre-Bolas Amonkhet and even current Amonkhet is as turbofucked as it is is because the Gods and the Hekma have been inhibiting the process and like underbrush in a forest, are just making the eventual fire more disastrous. This is why in HOU we get deserts coming alive to eat people and shit. The plane is actively trying to wipe out everything to it can regrow, and Bolas machinations with the Hekma have fucked it's whole cycle up.
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>>54076689
those heads on the left
>would you fuck me? I'd fuck me
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>>54074175

My favorite part about this is still the fact that Bolas was so powerful premending that he couldn't just show up places due to have PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWER. He needed anchors and leylines or it just didn't work.
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This is one of my favorite artworks of the set, I don't know why.
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Coming soon to a HOU near you!

Probably a halvsies card. Named "Opposition". Any 3 word phrase bisected with "to" that uses the word "opposition"?
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>>54076689
Why isn't this a card?
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>>54077026
Opposition to Authority?
Alliance to Opposition?
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>>54077026
Opposition is an existing card, its a masterpiece
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>>54075719
>Looks like an ugly asshole yelling violently at you in her original card
>Looks just as ugly and wastes a PW spot with the worst RG walker to date and thrid worst walker in general after Sarkhan the Mad and Tibalt.
>Stands on people's corpses to WE WUZ
And they still wonder why nobody likes this fucking character. If anyone desserves being called a nigger in the history of /tg/ IPs it's her.
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>>54073954
I know jack shit about Amonkhet and this card still has so much impact goddamn.
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>>54073954
poor birb
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>>54075492
not nearly the magical word that can make any size discrepancies go away
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>>54077078
Oh ew. I completely missed that.
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>>54073954
>chirp chirp
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>>54077067
It is. It's called "Reason // Fight"
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>>54075458
because the new creative leads had the burning need to feel special

Also, making angels no longer female is the natural step if your plan is to make angels no longer sexy and no longer beautiful.
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>>54077113
I find it funny most people hate samut cus she is ugly in her 2 cards... but is a fairly decent character with a desire for dat djeru meat.
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>>54073954
They introduced a bunch of interesting gods and promptly slaughtered all but one. For what purpose?
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>>54077316
>Make a bad ass mysterious hydra
>It isn't a creature
Classic
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>>54072223
Why learn when you can kill by turn 3?
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>>54077343
People should be more pissed off that Djeru's card sucks. The guy is supposed to be the absolute pinnacle of human combat perfection (without any magical or supernatural abilities) and his card tutors for a Planeswalker. Yawn.
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>>54077374
>kill by turn 3
Have fun trying with a 3 mana bolt.
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>>54072777
>"Gideon smash?"
>"No Gideon no smash."
>"GIDEON SMASH!"
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>>54075719
Just look at all those (lighter-skinned) males finally recognizing that a proud black strong masculine woman taking her rightful place as the leader is the right side of history. It finally IS her turn!
the guy who kneels is the only real ally, everyone else needs 2 weeks of sensitivity training to be cleansed of the toxic masculinity
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>>54074294
Miculek is a marksman. Being a marksman takes skill, shooting a gun once does not make you a marksman.
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>>54077345
to make a statement... wizards isn't afraid to donkey punch a plane/gay-twatch. While also making a plane that is more likable due to how everything goes to shit so hard that you feel genuine sorrow for the inhabitants...
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>>54076687
Khans was amazing for EDH.
In 1v1
>Anafenza, Narset, Ded Sidisi, Zurgo and Tasigur are all competitive, Tasigur even got banned.
>Treasure Cruise and Dig Through Time got banned
>Kholagan's Command, Dromoka's Command, Siege Rhino, Clever Impersonator and Murderous Cut get shoved into every deck that can play them.
In multiplayer
>the Dragonlords, the Charms, the Sieges, the Wedgelands, Monastery Mentor, End Hostilities, Grim Haruspex, Crux of Fate, Utter End, Murderous Cut, Rally the Ancestors, Shamanic Revelation, Sorin, Ugin, Merciless Executioner, Temporal Trespass, Hardened Scales, Impact Tremors all see a shit ton of play.
>Sidisi, Alesha, Yasova and Shu Yun are popular commanders.
>Everyone got fetchlands which made noob brews actually work for once.

Khans block was wonderful for every format.
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>>54075882
it was an inside job anon
scorpion venom cannot melt snek beams
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>>54077343
She's a patriot who really wants to fuck her childhood boyfriend Djeru. There's not much else to her.
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>>54077419
They already did that by fucking Mirroden over so hard the plane had to be abandoned. AND for claiming "players can make a difference, tournament results will determine who wins" while giving the Phyrexia side much better mechanics on its cards.
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>>54077343
She's got the worst qualities of a Mary Sue and an Anti Sue at the same time.
>>54077386
That's part of why people hate Samut, Djeru the best fighter ever is meant to go crying for his girlfriend because she's got magic plot powers.
Fuck that shit.
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>>54077486
Djeru is a huge missed opportunity to become a compelling "bad guy" who works for Bolas. I really can't believe all of that buildup was for nothing.

Wizards actually
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>>54077386
>(without any magical or supernatural abilities)
He's hopped up on cartouches. Finishing the first trial seems easy as fuck (for trained warriors, not me) and once you pass that you get that sweet cartouche that boosts your strength. The trials don't really get difficult until Rhonas but by that time you have 3 cartouches.

The real bulshit is that Djeru doesn't interact with auras. There needed to be some 1/1 schmuck who becomes a beast with cartouches.
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>>54077561
>Djeru, the Eternal
I think it's stupid that Eternals lose their memories. It makes any drama with he zombies one-sided.
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>>54073933
Is this a real card?
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>>54077593
They'd pretty much have to be all Legendary otherwise.
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>>54077403
>playing worse format
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>>54076113
>when you accidentally put rocket fuel in your wurmcoil engine
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>>54077374
that's in the past anon
life goes on
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>>54077788
isn't this just a regular Hellion?
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>>54077486
>She's got the worst qualities of a Mary Sue
nobody liked her and everyone wanted her dead for dissent...
is not beautiful
hazoret despises her and sentences her to death after speaking out...
What kind of definition of mary sue are you reading?
>mary sue:
>perfect at everything
>everyone loves her
>beautiful and can have whatever and whomever she wants...
is my understanding
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>>54077853
That's the old mary sue anon.
Modern mary sue is a gurl who is all sassy and not afraid to fight the authority and speaks her mind out. Bonus points if she's black.
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>>54077853
"She's exceptionally talented in an implausibly wide variety of areas, and may possess skills that are rare or nonexistent in the canon setting. She also lacks any realistic, or at least story-relevant, character flaws — either that or her "flaws" are obviously meant to be endearing."
That's a good snippet of what makes a Mary Sue.
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>>54077902
>Bonus points if she's black.
At this point she probably needs a new name because dat gurl aint has no need for a cracka name like Mary.
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>>54077958
LaTasha Sue
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>>54077853
>Mary Sue qualities
Stupid good at many skills for no apparent reason
Has skills that nobody else in the setting has
Gets god-granted power boost
Has no relevant flaws
Gets the spotlight even when the story is supposedly not about her
Everyone who disagrees with her is wrong
In the end her dissenters bow down to her
>Anti Sue qualities
Is not beautiful, in fact is horrid
Is alwas angry and antagonistic
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>>54077907
>She's exceptionally talented in an implausibly wide variety of areas,
she can kill things, like every initiate... and is seen in the lore as a 1/1 with djeru.
>may possess skills that are rare or nonexistent in the canon setting.
what are these skills? because the most she has is knowledge that OTHERS SAW but didn't believe, and there are more dissenters than her, so she isn't that special.
>She also lacks any realistic, or at least story-relevant, character flaws
She ran through the streets screaming heresy
>stupididty
tried to talk a god out of doing what they were brainwashed to do
>stupid and almost cost her life
walks with djeru for his sacrifice and tricks him
> asshole and risks life
She is a hot headed and rash, driven by HER emotions, and although right, isn't the only person to believe the trials are a lie.
Please verify your points with evidence please
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>>54078150
>what are these skills? because the most she has is knowledge that OTHERS SAW but didn't believe, and there are more dissenters than her, so she isn't that special.

She is a bloody planeswalker.
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>>54078044
now the question is, does having an anti sue quality make the assumption of them as a mary sue void because ALL the checks are needed, not most?
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>>54078185
Not really. Those two are not anti sue quality.
Being ugly is in check with what sjw wants
Angry and antagonistic but in the end she was proven right even though she have no idea what the fuck she hates, she just hates.
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>>54078179
so, the gatewatch are walkers, bolas is, it is special but she isn't the ONLY one to have this, and you can't use that as an argument in a plane where the average lifespan is 17 and if there was planeswalker material, they were offed by hazoret and floated down the river...
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>>54078240
Being a walker automatically puts her above 99.99% of Amonkhet inhabitants.
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>>54078260
I would throw viziers up there with walkers in amonkhet only... as walkers are good, but viziers live long.
>She (Hapatra) had lived for thirty-four years—two lifetimes' worth of experience.
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>>54078260
seeing as she is being pinned as a useless walker... is that have the same merit?
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>>54077450
>patriot
>literal terrorist
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>>54078240
A lot of the contention for her sueness comes from her "speedster" powerset. Who else on Amonkhet has similar magic? Is there any reason why she does it in particular? Why does her walker ability summon other planeswalkers, if not for a "hero of the story summoning reinforcements" kind of idea, which is pretty damn sue-ish when she's not the hero of the fucking story?

Honestly she just feels kind of flat. She doesn't really have a lot of depth to her character beyond just "rebel leader who leads the people" and "she's a speedster". Hell, at least Arlinn had a kind of interesting backstory with the whole Goldnight Archmage thing.
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>>54075719
GET OFF SNAKE DAD YOU WHORE
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>>54078260
Not to mention that her first act as a walker is to accidentally stumble on a way to kill a god and save a god at the same time.
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>>54078434
now this I can agree with (same anon), however we don't know of any others with this powerset because of how the trials works, but djeru, although doesn't spark himself, when they fought the initiates, they were seen as
>She would protect him. They would fight together.
assuming we throw in the cards djeru eyes open and samut PW, you could say they complement one another and protect one another, and highly assume they will be a big thing come the lore end, hell the whole reason she wanted djeru spared aside from her emotions, was because djeru would be the ONLY person that could sway a god in her eyes, something she knew she couldn't and physically couldn't do.
The fact she became a leader when the shit hit the fan and the gods were dropping like the hekma barrier, eh... hapatra did simular things in the lore but to lesser effects.
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>>54075693
>>54075728
And yet the ruins of the other cities have the bolas symbol marked TRESPASSER
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>>54078150
Mary sues can have character flaws and often do - it's just they're typically not treated as flaws by the writer and the rest of the narrative bends around them anyway. Many Mary Sues are boring and/or are actually terrible people if you think about it (typically unintentionally as the result of bad writing or self-insertion), but the rest of the characters and setting will ignore this and treat them as great and special for no good reason anyway.

I don't read "Magic story" so I personally can't judge if she's a Mary Sue. What I do know is that she's an uninteresting character filling a generic placeholder role in the story with an incredibly uninspiring design. And the design is probably the fault of some "representation of women" shit where she has to be "realistic" (meaning ugly and manlike) instead of beautiful/cool looking. She's a fantasy character drawn to look like someone that wouldn't look out-of-place on a modern-day sidewalk, without a meaningful visual theme. It's the same reason "tumblr redesigns" are typically horrible, weird ideological mandates are really good at destroying anything cool.

I mean, someone like Chandra is a terrible one-note character too, but she's a thousand times better design than this. She's a sexy impulsive redhead whose hair turns into fucking fire. That's 100% just copy-pasted stereotypes and it's still way cooler than Samut.
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>>54072869
STOP FUCKING HOSING INDESTRUCTIBLE
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I really wish planeswalkers weren't just arbitrarily more powerful at everything. If they all have to be powerful mages, fine, but giving all of them some random talent besides planeswalking and also making nobody on the planet capable of competing with them is boring. The story would be so much better if the planeswalkers acted as advisors to the central characters of the story instead of treating everyone else
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>>54078747
>have random talent
they dont. that's the point of nuwalkers
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>>54077386
Samut was his physical superior, as shown to us by their fight where she completely oustrips him.
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>>54078150
Samut is no 1/1
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Is Bolas doesn't kill one of the Gatewatch I will be severely disappointed. Hopefully Gideon.
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>>54078837
>kill
Mtg story is like WWE. Lots of brawl, sometimes there's blood but no one gets hurt/killed.
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>>54078789
not exactly true, Walkers do have a bit of power over non Walkers, and this is further agumented by the fact Walkers can make mana bonds with many planes and those bonds presist no matter where they go.

also some have powers that have nothing to do with thier planeswalker spark to set them apart.

the most notable is Elspeth who's mysterious PHyrexian-themed childhood could explain why she's physically a Uber-Mench capable of channeling more white mana than a God and capable of killing world eating Hydra's and Phyrexian Obliterators single handily.
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>>54078837
None of them are dying, just getting fucked up and scattered.
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>>54078857
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>>54078865
Also, they're super wizards.(usually)
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>>54078865
>the most notable is Elspeth who's mysterious PHyrexian-themed childhood could explain why she's physically a Uber-Mench capable of channeling more white mana than a God and capable of killing world eating Hydra's and Phyrexian Obliterators single handily
Pretty sure her power stems from her bottomless pit of PURE FURY. Speaking of which, she needs to make a comeback. She could probably hand the Gatewatch their collective asses if she put her mind to it.
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>>54078898
that doesn't explain anything, "willing" into existence isn't how it works on such a huge level.

not to mention she isn't a particularly angry or rage pron character, and her powers are far, far above even magically enhanced shit in the story.
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>>54077568
>MegaHeroic
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>>54078857
Elspeth and Vesner would like a word with you.
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>>54075719
The best thing about this is how the skin tone of her head doesn't match the tone of her legs, it's not even close. Looks fucking shopped.
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>>54078949
not to mention that simply isn't the female form, muscles or not, that was a male that was turned into Samut last minute.
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>>54078925
As far as I remember, Elspeth's major thing was that if she saw something Phyrexian she went into murder machine mode and made hills of corpses out of them.
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>>54078887
>>54078943
That's pre gatewatch man. They failed their audition into gatewatch idol members.
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>>54078887
such a cool badass character died so that idiot Karn could come back and immediately fucks off.

Karn, the golem who has lead to the deaths of more innocents than almost anyone ever, and the most innocents at the fault of someone still alive.

Bolas has killed less people, through plots or otherwise.

let that really sink in.
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>>54076070
Damn, right in the ovary.

>>54076111
I've looked at this card a hundred times and only just noticed her hand is below where the wound is.

>>54076113
Bolas' Boner
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>>54076311
>>54076416
>>54076397
>>54076111
>>54076070
Why do they keep tezzereting innocent women?
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>>54078980
The entire point of Karn is that he is a tragic character.
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>>54078966
sure, thats true, but she also is capable fo feats far beyond what even magical humans are capable of, as noted by all the characters who have seen her fight.

she operates under Bam Bam physics, essentially, and can channel more WHite mana than any other being we've ever seen (outside of old walkers) gods included.

as in, she can channel more mana than beings that are literally made out of mana and are conduits of the planes mana.
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>>54079016
"tragic" is not the same as "utter complete fuckup"

Karn is a fuckup, period, he was Fuckup as a pacifist, then he gave that up and became a fuckup as a OId walker, then repeatedly fucked up being that, then eventually had to get a Spark Repalcement so he can go be a fuck up somewhere else.
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>>54074826
>>54074858
and some random nice stuff like Dig Through Time and Duneblast. Hardly "fucking trash" in the Homelands sense
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>>54079010
for their humorous facial expressions
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>>54078980
>Karn makes the Mirari
>Karn makes Memnarch
>Karn makes New Phyrexia

Worst pacifist ever.
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>>54073007
You forget that EDH has a much wider range of cards that it has to make shit work. Red is in UR which easily can reduce the cost of instant/sorceries or just throw them out for free. Combo that with a Blasphemous act or throw in black/white for a boardwipe that destroys everything and you just took out even the indestructible stuff. It's janky but it works.
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>>54078980

Bolas literally genocided the entire plane of Amonkhet except for all of the babies in Naktamun. He's also the one who engineered the release of the Eldrazi, which nearly wiped out Zendikar and Innistrad.

I mean, Karn's a fuckup, but Bolas is still worse.
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>>54079066
its funny, from Apocalypse's ending, till Kamigawa, we deal with 9 entire sets that are the fault of Karn, almost completely.

and then we come back to New Phyexia for another 3.

not to mention almost Half of the weatherlights troubles were because he was, at the time, a pacifist, so another 4 sets or so.
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>>54078898
No, keep that Mary Sue cunt dead. By and far the worst character. Was so bad that she had an entire block devoted to how great she was.
Nissa needs to die next.
>MUH LANDS REEEEEEE
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>>54079081
that's still less people than Karn has killed, not even a joke, and it isn't even "close".
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>>54079120
Elspeth is the most complex character in modern magic.

she's the least Mary Sue of them all, despite being incredibly strong, she's an emotional cripple and has tremendous PTSD and multitude of other issues.
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>>54075492
even taking into account perspective, the distance between them seems really fucking small, so either the artist did a really bad job, or this was intentional
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>>54079120
I don't know if she's a mary sue. Theros wasn't even about how great she was. The whole of Theros was actually a Greek tragedy, With Elspeth being the tragic hero. How did you miss that?
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>>54079137
She's a special snowflake who gets triggered whenever something happens to her.
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>>54079178
I was too distracted with how bad the entire block was.
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>>54079124

Bolas is 25 thousand years old. I'd still wager Bolas has killed a magnitude of people.
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>>54078747
>nobody on the planet capable of competing with them
Like half the supporting cast in BFZ were smarter than Jace and/or better leaders than Gideon.

Jace fell victim to the plane-wide Insanity in SOI just like almost everyone else.

The person who made the macguffin in Kaladesh was a normie. Even Tezzeret, whose specialty is artifice, couldn't reproduce it himself and had to hired/enslave the normie to make it.

Baral outsmarted and trapped two members of the gatewatch with minimal effort.

Djeru beat the shit out of Gideon
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>>54079193
I mean mechanically, it was pretty sub par. But the story was actually really good.
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>>54079137
I pray to god she stays dead then
Killing her whilst she was still good is a mercy at this poing
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>>54079229
It's pretty sad that almost every good character has either been shat on or has died.
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>>54079216
why? because he's evil? Bolas doesn't kill for fun or sport, he does absolutely everything with purpose.

didn't even kill Tezz and Jace the 2 times they fucked with him.

I highly doubt he's caused more deaths than Karn, because Karn has caused, even on accident, massive tragedies with no fucking goal or point, just complete and utter fucking havoc.

Bolas wouldn't do that, he's surgical by comparison.
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>>54072777
Oh Jace. NOW you start saying that.
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>>54072869
>can't be regenerated
>can't be indestructible

Are we REALLY doing this again?
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>>54079304
He gave jace a brain anuerysm
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>>54079318
They dropped regeneration for activated indestructability. If this had been made a few years ago it would be hosing regeneration.
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>>54075210
man, this card will be neigh unstoppable
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>>54079332
and he could have just popped his head like a fucking cork right then and there.
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>>54079342
The point of indestructibility is that it does things. Having half of every red card hose it (JUST LIKE REGENERATION) removes the point.

God damn they don't learn anything.
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>>54079364
Why settle for Red damage based removal when you can just exile in Black/White/Blue?
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>>54076111
>hfw i put it in her pooper
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>>54079364
The point of dropping regeneration for indestructibility is that the former has a lot more steps to it than the latter that people don't always remember to do correctly (removing from combat and tapping, and that's not including people who think you use regen after it dies)
They don't hose indestructibility THAT often, but they need to do it to some degree if it's being used in replacement. It's not like it's at 'every killspell hoses it' levels like earlier magic or anything.
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>>54079402
The point of red is that its removal is limited (and quite frankly shit if we're going by current R&D) because it can deal damage straight to the face.

You're not supposed to be playing red as your removal color; you're playing red only or red to help your aggressive deck (generally).
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>>54075867
>>54075895
Agreed, this card is going to get busted wide open
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>>54079304
Technically one of the times, there were wards in place to protect Tezzeret. No wards to protect Jace but. And Bolas didn't kill Jace then because he needed him, he was working the long game with Liliana, as the start and end of the novel made clear.
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>>54078980
I understand where you're coming from but if the New Phyrexians had gotten to corrupt Karn and truly make him the new Father of Machines which they were literally about to if Venser didn't show up I guarantee that he'd be nigh unstoppable and kill multitudes of planes
Saving him at the cost of your life, to save countless numbers, as the smartest thing you could do
>>54079081
You are foolish if you think that Nicol has a higher kill count than Karn
Karn, indirectly, has killed A LOT of people
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>>54079010
>innocent
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>>54079451
Hey, technically, Bolas brought Tezzeret back to life once, by fixing his brain after Jace fried it.
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>>54079420
We've already gotten one "loses indestructible" card per block for a couple blocks so far. This isn't something we needed in the first place as evidenced by the fact that "it's a creature that has indestructible" has never been something that made a card tournament-worthy, even in the current age of creature-based magic.

With the increase in exile cards, plus the fact that this set has a -1/-1 counter theme, Indestructible is already weak as shit.
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>>54079490
Well, yeah, because he could use him.
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>>54078185
No, both Mary Sue and Anti Sue are bad characters and this is not a mathematical problem. If a good character is a glass of water, dirt is Mary Sue qualities and sand is Anti Sue qualities, adding sand to a glass of water that's contaminated with dirt does nothing but contaminate it further.
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>>54079451
I have no idea how you beat this fucking dragon with just using Walkers.

maybe if Elspeth ascends to Angel-Walker status she could tussle with him long enough for other walkers to fight him or some such shit, but honestly, he's so far beyond the "good guy cast" its insane.

his one potential threat is Nahiri, another old walker capable of crazy feats, and she'd lose, but at least she'd do something.
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>>54079364
Gee, it's almost as if red has fucking nothing and needs all the help that it can get
Every other color has way around industructible besides Red
Fuck off and let it have SOMETHING
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>>54079600
>green
>removal
>beats indestructible

What are you smoking, anon?
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>>54079563
I think the one who's done best against Bolas is Tezerret, in Test of Metal.

...If that's still canon. I think it might have been retconed out of continuity?
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>>54079616
Green is pretty terrible actually and I take it back
Green can at least trample over it
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>>54079629
Didn't ajani 100% repel him?
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>>54079661
>can trample over
Now THIS is green thinking; good job, anon.
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>>54079663
I don't even know. I've read the Alara novel like three times and I can't make heads or tails of what actually happens in the climax.
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>>54079629
It's no longer canon. Not that it matters, because Tezzeret realised at the very end that Bolas had outplayed him, and the whole time in that novel at best he'd merely been fighting a cheap-ass copy of the real Bolas. Don't know how you could have missed that if you read it.

>>54079663
Yes, he used the dregs left behind after the conflux absorption (which went off pretty much without a hitch) to conjure up an illusion sort of thing of Bolas' polar opposite, which fought him and they both left Alara. Obviously, of course, it didn't last, since Bolas appears fine afterwards.
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>>54079663
no, Ajani used the Conflux energies to make a shadow clone of Bolas (AJani's special power is bringing out the "best" in people)

this clone clashed with bolas and caused everything to go tits up.
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>>54078887
Venser is the cool older kid who showed you that you can do more with your strategy than turning dudes sideways
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>>54079181
>She was a special snowflake
Not really, as far as Planeswalkers go. Much less so than the Gatewatch.
>Gets triggered whenever something happens to her
If you lived your childhood as the literal plaything of nightmarish insane evil creatures, escaped by forcing yourself through the Blind Eternities to the point of near death, were followed by the aforementioned nightmarish evil creatures for years, had most every friend and home you've known taken from you, and when you finally find a nice plane to settle down in you get slapped in the face and LITERALLY backstabbed, I'd bet you'd get 'triggered' at some things too.
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>>54079685
As far as I can tell, Ajani taps the mana bonds of the conflux to do his "bring out the best in people" life aura on Bolas, making an Avatar of Bolas who, much like his original self, can't stand the thought of someone else being on his level. So ghostbolas fights regular bolas, and regular bolas BTFO's because he's literally in a mirror match.

It's also possibly implied he's stacking Soul's Might, Soul's Grace, Soul's Fire, and Soul's Majesty on top of the avatar, since that's kind of Ajani's thing.
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>>54079616
:^)
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>>54079695
>bringing out the best in people
>tfw for just a few short minutes the Multiverse had possibly the greatest force for good it might ever know
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>>54079679
I can feel the leylines
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>>54079600
People thinking every color should have answers to everything are why they stopped printing good removal.
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>>54079755
Ajani, the best support.

Ever.
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>>54079740
>much like his original self, can't stand the thought of someone else being on his level
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>>54079755
>the second greatest force for good it might ever know
ftfy
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>>54078789
>Ajani
Can summon a person's maximum potential
>Jace
Mind mage extraordinaire
>Liliana
Inherently better than anyone else at necromancy
>Chandra
Pyromancy powers superior than the norm
>Garruk
Inherent rapport with animals, can "mark" beasts and control them thereafter
>Elspeth
Can summon unbelievable ammounts of white mana and fight armies by herself
>Tezzeret
Inherently capable of locating magical minerals and understanding artifact magic
>Sarkhan
Can turn into a dragon long after walkers stopped being able to metamorph
>Bolas
Is a plot device
>Sorin
Vampire and the only known Blood Mage
>Nissa
Is a retard, also LEYLINES
>Gideon
Can become indestructible
>Koth
He actually doesn't have any superpowers no other vulshok or planeswalker has
>Venser
Teleporter
>Karn
Can travel through time without being affected by the alternations in reality
>Tamiyo
Has mystical scrolls of reality-altering power and an inherent understanding of moon-related magic.
>Tibalt
Is half devil
>Domri
Inherent rapport with animals
>Ral
No superpowers
>Vraska
Is a gorgon and can mask her existance
>Dack
Thief extraordinaire, able to absorb spells with his hand/gauntlet
>Ashiok
Is a living nightmare
>Xenagos
Became a God
>Kiora
Inherent control over leviathans
>Ugin
Inherent control over colorless magic
>Narset
No superpowers other than autism
>Ob
Is a demon
>Arlin
Werewolf
>Nahiri
Literally 1337 h4x0r with stones
>Saheli
No superpowers
>Dovin
No superpowers
>Samut
Superspeed
>Kaya
Can become a ghost
>Daretti
No superpowers

Most planeswalkers have special talents that are abnormal even among walkers, they don't get compared to superheroes so often just because.
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>>54079816
You're forgetting like half the magic each of them actually has. Not only that, but a lot of them have magic that's shown that other people on their plane have, they're just really damn good at it.
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>>54079740
But he didn't actually foil Bolas's plan, because Bolas had already absorbed the energy of the conflux by that point? And Ajani thinks he's failed, and that Bolas is going to return to destroy Alara? But Bolas never does? If he ever even planned to to begin with?
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>>54079786
Jeska's story is confusing and convoluted but god it's amazing
I love that whole era
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>>54079816
>>Sarkhan
>Can turn into a dragon long after walkers stopped being able to metamorph
You mean "ruins everything".
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>>54079816
Didn't Koth have the power to purify Phyrexian-contaminated metal?
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>>54079816
>>54079868
>not animorph
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>>54079849
In order: nope, yep, yep, nope, probably didn't give a fuck about it any more at that point.
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>>54079816
>>Xenagos
>Became a God
You're underselling it
He was bored so he "manually" ignited his spark
He was bored with planeswalking so he became a God on his home plane
So badass
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>>54075210

So Bolas being a God fucked a Horse to make Dragon-Horses?
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>>54079849
Yeah, Ajani basically managed to get a last ditch kick in, but recognizes that he didn't really stop anything.

I'm not sure if Bolas managed to absorb the WHOLE conflux though, which might have been what Ajani ended up accomplishing. Now we just have regular superpowered deathgod Bolas, as opposed to "an entire plane's worth of raw mana and power" Bolas.

A lot of that story was Ajani being very confused.
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>>54079816
Saheeli actually has powers similar to Tezz, she can mold metal and artifice.
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>>54079600
If we're talking about an indestructible blocker - Red can steal it temporarily, make it not be able to block, attack with a Menace creature, and occasionally Trample through it.

If we're talking about an indestructible attacker, Red should deal with it the same way it deals with any other attacker. Chump it or DGAF because Red can hit back harder.
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>>54079835
except elspeth, the strange mutant with zero explanation on how or why she's so strong.
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>>54079895
If you wouldn't fuck a horse, then you're not a MAN
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>>54079929
>red can hit back harder
Yeah, about that...
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>>54077788
Gave me a giggle
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>>54079563
Nahiri will be retconned into stupid tier now that she doesn't need to mop the floor from Kessig to Nephalia with Sorin's face.
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>>54079874
Pretty sure its Melira that can actually heal phyresis
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>>54079952
>red loses if they let their opponent get to 8 mana
Well yeah.
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>>54079998
hence red not existing as a force whatsoever in standard for almost a 2 years.
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>>54079988
http://magic.wizards.com/en/story/planeswalkers/koth-hammer
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Anyone have a single webpage with all of the spoiled set?
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>>54073282
Kozilek's Return for a mini wrath now and a medium wrath later.
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>>54080014
What does that have to do with the "loses indestructible" thing? Red sucks because "mindless agression and shortsightedness" in a strategy game is fucking dumb, unless you print broken-powerful cards
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>>54079892
Get rekt.
>>54079940
She gets really fucking angry, but the anger doesn't dictate what she does, and she's only angry at evil and injustice, therefore she has White mana instead of Red.
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>>54080096
not the guy you are talking about.

Red is just a bad color in magic, and it always has been, its only good when its broken and has access to broken cards.
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>>54079906
He absorbed functionally all of it, Ajani got a tiny bit of what was left.
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>>54073282
Fated Retribution.

But I think that's the only one. I mean, things like Nevinyrral's Disk or Magus of the Disk can be activated at instant speed, but they have to be on the field already.
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>>54080099
>has to have the strongest human planeswalker kill him with a weapon designed to kill Gods and with multiple Gods conspiring against him
Yeah you go girl. Real impressive
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>>54080136
Rout
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>>54080143
>Look at me I'm a super cool bad ass god
>OH NO I'M DEAD AFTER NOT EVEN A WEEK BECAUSE A MORTAL STABBED ME
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>>54080143
Godsend is not a special anything, it was forged by Purphuros, but its just a sword, it has no magic in it.

all the power Godsend has, comes directly from Elspeth, she channels her immense white mana into it.
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>>54080271
>big white mana

*lenny faec*
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>>54080271
I wish they had done something like Devoid with Godsend. It's a damn shame that you can't use it effectively with the other Swords.
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>>54080099
>tfw Elspeth and Xenagos awkwardly meet each other in the underworld of Theros
>reluctant team up to get out and get some revenge on Heliod
>Elspeth and Xenagos's Bogus Journey
ends with Xenagos trying to get godhood back but Elspeth takes over as the new Sun God and slaps his shit down
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>>54079940

>Medically experimented on by defective Phyrexians on a daily basis

Pretty sure that's it right there. The crazy phyrexians Elspeth's people were used as toys for weren't infecting people, that's what the sane ones were doing, but presumably the defective ones still aimed to perfect their test subjects.

Even though this killed nearly all of them it's possible some experiments that actually WORKED were done on Elspeth.
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>>54080406
this is the most interesting explanation for Elspeth's inhuman powers.

for people who didn't follow her stories,she is far, far stronger than anyone on the gatewatch (sans lili using the veil, and even still) to the point she's practically the only walker besides bolas who could slap sorin's shit in a straight duel.
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>>54080431
How would Sorin vs Obby play out?
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>>54080450
Sorin would win hands down
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>>54080450

I think that Sorin's got the edge there. Sangromancy is, from what I recall, utterly fucking broken as a dueling magic, to the point Nahiri even in the depths of insanity refused to face Sorin head-on instead of letting him come to a place she could stop him from casting any spells at all.

And Sorin STILL nearly killed her because his physical skills are that insane.

Ob is probably on par with Sorin physically but I believe he is still flesh and blood, if tainted to the point he's no longer really human. But I think Sorin would be able to do horrible things to him with Sangromancy while I don't know how much Ob's magic works on vampires.
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>>54080431
And possibly Ugin. Ugin is one of the stronger ones. Not Bolas strong, as evidenced by his death at the hands of Bolas in a straight fight, but he's up there.
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>>54080496

Ugin vs Bolas is interesting.

Bolas did ambush Ugin, but typically that is how Bolas rolls; he can win in a fair fight in most fights but the element of surprise is almost always his because of his planning. He did ambush Ugin on his home plane, which means either he felt he could take Ugin on his own turf or he had no choice BUT to ambush him there.

But Bolas did not initiate combat with Ugin until he had agents on-site to intervene in his favor if the tide started to turn against him.

I think Bolas wasn't sure he COULD fight Ugin one on one, or at least there was enough of a risk to his life going toe-to-toe with him that he elected not to do so until he could ambush Ugin with agents on site to eliminate all risk, however big or small that was, that Ugin could beat him. I don't think he's planned that much in any other one-on-one duel with a fellow planeswalker.
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>>54080496
> in a straight fight
more like using a third party to turn Ugin's Dragons against him to gain the upper hand
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>>54080535
Why have a close battle when you can have an easy battle? Bolas is the perfect villain.
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>>54080450
sorin slaps Ob's shit.

Elspeth Slaps Sorin's Shit.

Bolas Slaps Elspeths shit, though it might be a real fight compared to everyone else he's fought, if she can just get her stranglin hands on him.
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>>54080535
He hasn't needed to plan that much with anyone so there's no real point
His schemes scan generations but he's smart enough to just do shit on the fly
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>>54080559

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I just think it is interesting that Ugin vs Bolas appeared to be a close battle whereas Bolas vs five other planeswalkers at once is a complete curb-stomp for Bolas. Ugin's in a pretty high weight class as planeswalkers go.
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>>54080580
And Garruk murders them all
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>>54080582
*span generations
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>>54080540
To be fair, Bolas seemed to have the upper hand until Ugin called the dragons first to try and regain his foothold, at which point he had his agent turn the dragons to his own ends.

Evidently Bolas felt he could beat Ugin 1v1, but Ugin+dragons was enough of a risk that he had a contingency in place for it.

Of course, he may well have had other contingencies that he never needed to employ.
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>>54072813
>first read that as 'paramour'
>worry
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>>54080588
Garruk is nothing, he lost to Lili with and without the veil.

he's a man with an axe who likes beasts, and now he's a "Dark Man" with an axe who likes beasts.

he's as low threat as it gets, he's just multiverse Jason Vorehee's now, sure that's scary to us, but that's nothing in the long wrong.

Elspeth and Sorin would easily slap his shit, even Gidoen.
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>>54080600

>I can win, but I swear to GOD if this fucker is playing his storm deck again I'm going to have one of my groupies punch him while he's trying to go off.
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>>54080496
I recall reading that it on and bolas fought pretty evenly until bolas pulled his chessmaster shit and activated a trap made of magical symbols that mindcontrolled all the dragons in the area and made them attack ugin

Ugin is probably pretty fucking strong, he just doesn't boast about it
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>>54080610
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>>54080645

I mean, he and Bolas considered each other rivals and Ugin was ALIVE for a fairly long time before they had it out on Tarkir so that alone indicates he's one tough motherfucker. Then you count in that he's apparently ascended beyond color, figured out how to trap the Eldrazi Titans (this is particularly impressive if you take into account that the Mending might have nerfed the Eldrazi as much as it nerfed planeswalkers...) and if I remember correctly Ugin's primary but by no means only trick is he can CONVERT MATTER INTO ENERGY, which seems rather powerful compared to "pyromancy" or "telepathy."

All that and he's a fucking dragon, much like Bolas.
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>>54080653
Vraska's card can kill planeswalkers too. Doesn't mean it applies in-story.
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>>54079816
...
you're forgetting that dovin can "see the flaws in things" at a glance, like a savant with x-ray vision. It's vague enough to work on basically everything, too.
>>
Why did we get a mono legend for everything except green?
>>
>>54080935
That might be standard for his vulcan brain, but he does also predict exactly when the machine or creature will break down, to exact numbers. It's pretty uncanny.
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>>54080937
Why do you care? There are already a bajillion good mono green commanders or commanders that are green and other colors.
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>>54080937
RGB still have 1 more rare each I think
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>>54080996
What the fuck. Why do you care about any cards then? There's already like 15,000 why do you care about 150 more in Hours?

I definitely care, and also Magic never leaves a cycle hanging by one, they tug their dicks to cycles every set
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>>54080996
Because patterns.
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>>54081024
I want unique, interesting cards not some more generic bullshit.
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>>54080653
>destroy target noncreature permenant
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>>54080700
Ugin vs bolas fight was just bolas wrapping up the elder dragon war, which he won. Ugin aint shit.
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>>54081140
Nicol Bolas easily defeated the entire Gatewatch; but man, if only they'd thought to bring Garruk or Vraska with them, it would have been over in one round.
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>>54081032
You are literally a crazy man, whatever. Point is, I don't think I have ever seen them do 4 colors and leave one out. But beings as its been so long since the mono ones, it's suspicious.
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>>54081171
Do you believe Clarion Ultimatum should exist just because "muh cycles?"
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>>54081161
No, he would have just cast nissas/lilianas defeat on them after they showed up to fight him
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>>54081214
Then obviously they needed Domri Rade to give Gideon hexproof so he couldn't be targeted.
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>>54081171
Do you remember the tower cycle from mirrodin?
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>>54081344
Huh that's concerning
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>>54081344
According to Mark Rosewater, that wasn't intended to be a cycle. You can read his explanation here: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/thats-going-leave-scars-part-3-2011-01-03
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>>54081443
>print 4 identical artifacts with a large effect of a certain color and make sure that color is represented in the artwork
>IT TOTALLY WASN'T A THYCLE YOU GUYTHS MAJOR COINTHIDENTH I THWEAR LOL
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>>54081525
>>54081443
>>54081433
They did sort of complete it in Scars.
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>>54075253
>Im a bolas suck my diiick
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>>54075253
He's an elder dragon. Aren't they supposed to be immense compared to humans?
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>>54081616
He can easily hold Chandra in his hand; he's massive.
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>>54081556
Flavor text even references that they forgot to make it.
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>>54081616
He is in most art featuring him. This one is just really weird.
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>>54075719
I bet that used to be Djeru.
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>>54076006

I can't believe I actually read the story of Rhonas dying. She defeats the Scorpion King, and then turns her back on it to show the crowd she's won. Then it just gets up and shoves its stinger into her skull.

That was one of the most ridiculous deaths imaginable. She fights something stronger than anything she's ever fought before and upon managing to subdue it, turns her back on it.

Didn't help that the whole thing read like bad fan-fiction. Is all Magic lore these days so poorly written?
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>>54081743
Snek is a he.

They're opposites of their colors' genders from Theros.


If that holds true, then Scorpion,
Locust, and Scarab are all female, despite what the biceps say.
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>>54081743
Scorp god killed them with counters, the reanimatiom thing is part of the card.
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>>54081525
So where's the black one, and why are there two blue ones?
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>>54081743
having murdered something and (presumably) passed your trial, would you not let your people bask in the glory of your divine victory? rhonas had no reason to think the scorpion god was still alive.
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>>54081743
I saw Hour of Glory (the card) before the story article, and I saw that shit coming from a mile away. It was so stupid to turn around especially when the enemy had proven itself to be very formidable.
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>>54081743
>women
that's how they are
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>>54081743
It's part of scorpy's card.

>>54082378
Rhonas is male, anon. Other anon fucked up by not reading the card or story.
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>>54081778
>>54082404
>b-but itsa part of his c-card!
just because a card was made to fit a shitty story, the story does not become better.
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>>54082682
Shitty story was made to fit the card, tard.
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>>54079600
Burnf From Within, also temp steal into a sac effect.
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