Not necessarily, If you have a cost reducer, then it's super cheap, even if you don't, one rite of flame with none in the graveyard is a mana neutral start, 1RR for Bonus round and R for Rite, which gives you RRRR, then just start going off, that's not that big of an ask.Originally Posted by Brael
Quadruple Ponder gogogo?
Quad manamorphose sounds like Christmas
Getting 2 is powerful enough to warrant inclusion of Bonus Round in Ruby Storm.
No, 6 mana is the easy part. Getting the right mix without blue filtering is the hard part. What Bonus Round does is raise the raw number of engine cards so it's easier to naturally draw one.
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I'm not really digging the art and the vibe of this set. Maybe it's stuff like Pir and Toothy and Fan Favorite that's throwing me off, but this all has a very Yu-Gi-Oh/Pokemon Stadium sorta feel to it that I was hoping Magic could stay above. I guess I should've known better when Gavin said this set was going to be an ode to e-sports. However, I acknowledge that crusty older players like myself probably aren't the target audience of this set, and there's enough negativity in the world overall, so I'll just leave my complaint at that.
Having said that, as a shaved ape hopelessly devoted to Griselbrand, I'm very excited to test Arcane Artisan in the sideboard of Sneak and Show. I've had a good deal of success recently siding in Grim Lavamancer because everyone always boards out their removal, and I think this will end up playing the same way, at least at first when no one has any idea what this card is. 2U is right in the sweet spot of realistic casting costs, it gets around hate cards like Containment Priest, it'll be good in the mirror and against stompy decks with Ensnaring Bridge, and even if you don't have a creature, it still just loots and that has a lot of value in a combo deck. Cool card.
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That's because it's complete garbage, obviously. I feel it looks a tad like Fortnite: The Gathering.
All the art for the main creatures do look ripped from some low budget MOBA character select screen. Oh well.
I think the set flavor/art is pretty cool. I wouldn't want every set to be like this obviously, but as a 1 off I like it.
Agreed. the flavor is Stylish fights in an arena. Characters have to be flashy. They need to have Purple hair and make-up.
Perhaps the art of some of them are really crappy like Pir, but most of it is on point :)
I keep seeing the art for Fan Favorite as the "face" of Battlebond and it's just so... pedestrian? I don't know. Crop the card and it's a mobile game that has commercials on TV.
That's probably because one of the basic land artists came out and said that he was inspired by Pokemon stadium and Super Smash on the land art
One thing that bothers me is that they could have used real magic players faces at least to represent the participants in some case and add to the flavor. That would have been nice :)
Huh, no shit? I hadn't read that but I guess if that was their art vision, then they succeeded...
If they wanted to do a sort of magical fights as sport, I would've preferred it be in a more ancient Rome kinda way. They could use whatever Italian themed plane that Conspiracy is set on as the setting and that would give it a more modern feel without getting into the weird futuristic thing they have going on now.
From nothing came teeth.
Return to Onslaught? Grand Coliseum, Jareth, Leonine Titan
Wow. Wizards prints more bogus trash, throws in a couple chase cards and some of the WORST art of any tcg. I'm at a loss for words, this game is done. This game is a shadow of what it once was.
On the flip side, I really like what I have seen. I am going to play this set I think.
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Fuck. Which one of my quotes do I drop for this?
Anyone notice the cleaned up word templating? Is this new or am I just catching on slow?
They just say “copy” a spell instead of “put a copy on the stack”. And in our discussion of some technical stuff where that is important we all seem to get it.
Also, the shitty pronoun “their” is used instead of “his or her”. This is a big deal to a company. I am on the editing staff for marketing in my company. I can tell you that we go to great lengths to avoid sentences that use either “his or her” or “their” if at all possible. English does not have a proper solution to this issue at the moment. In a generation, I suspect the meaning of “their” will be accepted entirely in this way, but I can see Wizards has grown tired of waiting.
Bravo on both counts.
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What even is the draft format for 2HG? All I've ever done is sealed. Or is sealed all there is?
That's been there for a while. Twincast has a template like that.
Agree, this set is like fantasy land for Nic Fit, something like 8 playables. Ruby Storm gets something to become a better deck, some good reprints. And, it just looks fun. I don't know if I'll play it much, because our local community isn't really into this type of Magic, but I'll do it once for sure, and I'll be buying plenty of singles.
Also, partner with seems to be a very interesting mechanic in 2hg, note that it can fetch your partners card from their deck too so partner doesn't lock you into specific colors.
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