Board 8 > Magic the Gathering topic: How did that purge before Prerelease

(+) Yeah! (+)

I tried Brawl a couple of days ago. It was much more fun than expected!
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I have a sub-optimal Slimefoot Brawl deck online that I play once in a while. It's fine.
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I thought they'd drag their feet on that a little longer, but it was definitely needed.
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More M19 commons.

https://imgur.com/gallery/yDLb4TC

rip Suntail Hawk
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At least that hawk had a competent artist that didnt draw it with four legs.
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Strife2 posted...

Is it wrong that I have a weird urge to yell, "THEY DON'T WANT NONE" everywhere? I feel like I've been listening to AJ's theme too much lately.

no

Teferi and Karn are seeing Modern play now; some decks are playing Teferi over JTMS. Untapping two lands is a big game in UW it turns out!
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I would have thought 5 mana would be too slow in modern.
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Its too slow to tap out for, but hes really more of a 3-drop that you need 5 mana to play. Plus, for perhaps the first time, traditional UW control is a real deck in Modern, even before Teferi got printed.
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All these UW decks finally competitive again and they all cost a million dollars to build. Annoying.
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UW decks always cost the most to build!

Except Jund I guess.
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The Sphinx's Rev decks weren't that bad when they were in standard. I thought about maybe just dropping the money on U/W control in standard online, but it's still like 300 tix for the deck, and my Dominaria drafts have not yielded any of the money cards.

Just going to have to stick to Pauper for now.
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Oooh, whats your Pauper deck?
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Izzet Delver
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i feel like magic's greatest asset- its interactivity- is also one of its most frustrating aspects when playing online

one thing hearthstone did well is its turn structure

being able to look away from the screen for 30 to 45 seconds while your opponent does their thing feels okay. at least, it's better than having to constantly pay attention during your opponent's turn- and ask permission to continue during your own
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The deck that win the Legacy GP this weekend was running two mainboard Karn.

So good luck seeing that card under $50 ever.
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bumpo
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Just found out a previous customer of mine died today. Still don't know how. We weren't "close" per se but we were pretty friendly, we even 2HG'd once.

I'm... I don't even know, man. I want to do something, but what? My first instinct is a GoFundMe or having some sort of charity tournament to raise funds for his family's funeral, but... I don't know.
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I had a Magic friend pass away a few years ago who was pretty involved in the community here. One of the local stores held a charity tournament and donated all the proceeds to the JDRF (diabetes ended up being the cause of his passing).
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https://twitter.com/trickmtg/status/996080336810356738?s=21

Announcements on Friday
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https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/great-designer-search-3-judging-design-tests-2018-05-15

When I read Alex's cards when the finalists were first revealed I was scratching my head over how he was chosen.

Reading judge's commentary on his cards I'm even MORE confused at how he made the Top 8.
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I'm pretty confused on how a lot of these people made it. Not that I didn't expect them to be critical of the designs, but a lot of them seem overly negative.
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Templating seems terrible for most of them, but some of the designs are quite innovative. I particularly like Alexs blade counter soldier dude.
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I don't think that card is very innovative. They've done plenty of one time use designs like that. It's a fine card, but not really new.
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You dont see them very often at common unless theyre stuff like charge counters that can be replenished through other means.
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There were a couple of instances of people clearly misreading the cards, which is a bit awkward. I thought that WB planeswalker who exiled cards until leaving the battlefield was rather innovative, but Ethan definitely missed the trigger when reviewing. Though, based on Garruk Relentless, I'm almost certain the template would have that ability listed first and not last.

I also thought MDT was sometimes a bit harsh on cards that were just miscosted. If the gameplay is fundamentally dangerous, I can definitely see that. But I don't think it's really that significant for a designer to push a card to 2 mana when it would be more reasonable at 3.
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Regardless, all the ones we see made it through so it's all good
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i wonder if any of the contestants will take a stab at horse tribal (lol)
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I would probably do Kavu if I was doing this.
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I probably would have done Phoenixes, or at least tried and then decided it was a bad idea and gone with Elephants or Turtles or something like that.
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Read the story article. Slimefoot is maybe the best character in Magic history.
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I think Yahenni still takes it, but Slimefoot is pretty awesome.

Karn is almost $70. JFC...
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MTGO Dominaria redemptions start soon, so that should help drive the prices down a bit. Right now, it'd cost around $125 to redeem a full set. In paper, Karn + Teferi + Lyra is already more than $125, so that won't stick.
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I didn't expect a Slimefoot story. That was pretty neat. For some reason I just assumed Slimefoot was some random creature in the woods like the Gitrog.
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The flavor text even says hes a crew member!

I think the best part about the story was how chill everyone was about there suddenly being a thallid on the ship. Oh, huh, thats neat. Whats up little guy?

Waiting for him to save the world Swuee-style!
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Ulti i would genuinely be happy if you designed your own custom set and shared it with us

or just did the challenges
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Speaking of doing the challenges, I plan to keep doing them since they're kinda fun. This one seems pretty tough. The rule that all eight cards have to mechanically care about the creature type is surprisingly hard. In modern sets with light tribal stuff, Wizards likes to use mechanical synergy rather than referencing the tribe directly, but that doesn't work here.
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Did a Lorwyn draft online today. Boy those board states sure do get complex.
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The Mana Sword posted...

Did a Yu-Gi-Oh draft online today. Boy those board states sure do get complex.

FTFY
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Hey I know you don't like Lorwyn but it's not that bad.

I've never actually drafted the set before, so it was interesting. Ended up going 2-1 with a mono-white Kithkin deck. Cloudgoat Ranger is as good as advertised.
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Oh apparently GDS3 is moving ahead already. Is it that they already ran the whole elimination part? Probably won't bother trying to play along in that case.

Today was definitely a horrible result. (Haven't actually gotten all the way through).
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I would have eliminated all of them for not picking Kavu.
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My 'pet' choice was Mutant, since there are a good number but it's never been supported before.

The Rogue's Gallery theme was marked as the best and was pretty obviously so, so no real complaints about the challenge.
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Yeah, Rogues was easily the best. The second design challenge is interesting, I might try to make a few for those.
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Made a few and then got lazy.

Lion Tamer (Common)
2W
Creature - Performer
When Lion Tamer enters the battlefield, create a 2/2 white Lion token with "This creature attacks each turn if able unless you control a creature named Lion Tamer".
1/1

Contortionist (Uncommon)
1UU
Creature - Performer
U: Contortionist gets +1/-1 until end of turn.
U: Contortionist gets -1/+1 until end of turn.
2/3

Clown Car (Rare)
4
Artifact - Vehicle
At the beginning of your upkeep, put a silly counter on Clown Car.
When Clown Car dies, create X 1/1 red Clown tokens, where X is the number of silly counters on Clown Car.
Crew 1
1/1

Knife Thrower (Rare)
3BR
Creature - Performer
Knife Thrower enters the battlefield with two knife counters.
BR, Tap, Remove a knife counter from Knife Thrower: Choose target creature an opponent controls, then flip a coin. If you win the flip, destroy that creature. If you lose the flip, Knife Thrower deals 1 damage to that creature.
2/2
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On the off chance that anybody enjoys cryptic crosswords (minus the crossword part...), here's a really cool cryptic Magic puzzle:

https://2018.galacticpuzzlehunt.com/puzzle/cryptic-command
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I'm not sure I even understand what I'm supposed to do.
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Yeah, you need to know how regular cryptic crossword clues work first for the puzzle to make any sense:
http://www.puzzazz.com/how-to/cryptic-crosswords

There's a pretty steep learning curve, but they're a lot of fun once you figure out how to do them.
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For GDS:

Insects > Rogues > Samurai >>> Imp > Oozes > Aetherborn >>> Horror > Shaman

Top 3 I would be really excited to build decks around, next 3 were okay but didnt excite me, bottom two sucked.
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