Re: LOTR Tales from Middle Earth: Our Burden To Bear Is a Purple Gandalf the Gray
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Barook
Based af, I've always felt like Remand would have made more sense in White
Granted it probably won't actually do anything, but like... hooray it exists
Re: LOTR Tales from Middle Earth: Our Burden To Bear Is a Purple Gandalf the Gray
I'm going to stick it on an Isochron Scepter, not even Abrupt Decay can stop me now!
Re: LOTR Tales from Middle Earth: Our Burden To Bear Is a Purple Gandalf the Gray
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PirateKing
I'm going to stick it on an Isochron Scepter, not even Abrupt Decay can stop me now!
Curses! The dreaded second decay that was actually the first decay
Re: LOTR Tales from Middle Earth: Our Burden To Bear Is a Purple Gandalf the Gray
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Originally Posted by
FourDogsinaHorseSuit
Wait for more spoilers
Invisible, like not being able to be Damaged, Enchanted, Blocked, or Targeted by anything when you put it on?
For one turn?
Re: LOTR Tales from Middle Earth: Our Burden To Bear Is a Purple Gandalf the Gray
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Barook
This does make me happy
Re: LOTR Tales from Middle Earth: Our Burden To Bear Is a Purple Gandalf the Gray
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Originally Posted by
Lava Snacks
More human nations are allied with Sauron than oppose him. Largely because Gondor was an oppressive imperialistic power before their decline, as evidenced by helping the Rohirrim commit genocide on the Dunlendings and Druedain and steal their land.
Re: LOTR Tales from Middle Earth: Our Burden To Bear Is a Purple Gandalf the Gray
Would Reprieve be worth it in a storm deck to recast the Grapeshot or something? Or is it generally just easier to build storm count instead of working in the extra mana?
Re: LOTR Tales from Middle Earth: Our Burden To Bear Is a Purple Gandalf the Gray
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Originally Posted by
Whoshim
Would
Reprieve be worth it in a storm deck to recast the
Grapeshot or something? Or is it generally just easier to build storm count instead of working in the extra mana?
When was the last time you have seen Remand in storm?
Re: LOTR Tales from Middle Earth: Our Burden To Bear Is a Purple Gandalf the Gray
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TheInfamousBearAssassin
For one turn?
Correct, you shouldn't wear it for very long.
WOTC nanny state protects planeswalkers.
Re: LOTR Tales from Middle Earth: Our Burden To Bear Is a Purple Gandalf the Gray
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Originally Posted by
Zoid
When was the last time you have seen
Remand in storm?
In modern? The answer is the last time I saw storm, a handful of months before MH2
In Legacy? I don't think ever.
Re: LOTR Tales from Middle Earth: Our Burden To Bear Is a Purple Gandalf the Gray
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Originally Posted by
PirateKing
Well yeah, Mordor isn't an evil place, Sauron and Morgoth before him just had... a different point of view, is all.
The whole thing just gets blown out of proportion really
Indeed, as this book correctly advocates, the all orcs and Sauron thing are fantasy written by the victors to demonize their opponents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Ringbearer
Re: LOTR Tales from Middle Earth: Our Burden To Bear Is a Purple Gandalf the Gray
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FourDogsinaHorseSuit
In modern? The answer is the last time I saw storm, a handful of months before MH2
In Legacy? I don't think ever.
IIRC Remand was very occasionally played in High Tide decks back in the stone age.
I do think that one of the issues with color balance is that blue has way too much control over the stack relative to the other colors, and that I like seeing stuff like reprieve that pushes against that.
Re: LOTR Tales from Middle Earth: Our Burden To Bear Is a Purple Gandalf the Gray
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rufus
IIRC Remand was very occasionally played in High Tide decks back in the stone age.
I do think that one of the issues with color balance is that blue has way too much control over the stack relative to the other colors, and that I like seeing stuff like reprieve that pushes against that.
But isn't this going to be essentially used in blue based decks?
Re: LOTR Tales from Middle Earth: Our Burden To Bear Is a Purple Gandalf the Gray
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jmlima
That's the one I was talking about!
Re: LOTR Tales from Middle Earth: Our Burden To Bear Is a Purple Gandalf the Gray
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Originally Posted by
rufus
IIRC Remand was very occasionally played in High Tide decks back in the stone age.
I do think that one of the issues with color balance is that blue has way too much control over the stack relative to the other colors, and that I like seeing stuff like reprieve that pushes against that.
I used to play it in Spring Tide lmao, it felt good at the time. Sometimes it was a counter, sometimes it let you go Brain Freeze into Remand into Brain Freeze if you wanted to go off with a lower Storm count... I played around Gaea's Blessing with it once, I felt pretty okay about that
Re: LOTR Tales from Middle Earth: Our Burden To Bear Is a Purple Gandalf the Gray
I think the goal is that, say, black/white decks could have stack interaction that feels black/white, just like blue and green get creature removal like Prey Upon and Unsummon.
Re: LOTR Tales from Middle Earth: Our Burden To Bear Is a Purple Gandalf the Gray
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Originally Posted by
Zoid
When was the last time you have seen
Remand in storm?
2008 roughly
So like, fair enough
Re: LOTR Tales from Middle Earth: Our Burden To Bear Is a Purple Gandalf the Gray
It has always been very dumb that only one color can meaningfully interact with the stack so the more they change that the better
Re: LOTR Tales from Middle Earth: Our Burden To Bear Is a Purple Gandalf the Gray
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jmlima
But isn't this going to be essentially used in blue based decks?
No, you do have the exact same card in blue (better for manabase and FoW), which so little play.
It could offer some nonU decks stack interactions. The trouble is to have a non U deck that do not want to tap out on its turn. That would require more/better instant that bring threats. Even a card like collected company (if it were better) is counterproductive, as it pushes you to want creatures in your deck (tap out during your turn).
The closest I could think of strategy wise would the old astral drift, which definitely does not want this kind of card.
Re: LOTR Tales from Middle Earth: Our Burden To Bear Is a Purple Gandalf the Gray
The issue is you want redundancy with counters, all the more so with a short term counter, so the card by itself won't likely see much Legacy play, but if it signals a widening of counterspells into white then it could have significant impact combined with other cards. Maybe.
It could also end up being a meta answer to a card like Supreme Verdict or something, I suppose.