[Fedoras of Salvation] - White Knights ITT

[Purp]

Oracle of the Bonessss

[Jack]

... is almost certainly bad.

[Jack]

Although my midnight card evaluations have definitely been wrong before.

[Jack]

Maybe he isn't terrible, but he'll be hard-pressed to find a home where the deck wouldn't be better without him.

[Jack]

The new tokens look pretty cool.

[Kaitscralt]

god i stayed up for this shit

[Kazekirimaru]

The new tokens look pretty cool.

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[photodyer]

Green CA...rather expensive and risky, but huge in Limited I would expect:



Regardless of card quality, I LOVE the art on both of these:





In fact, I just emailed Dan Scott to congratulate him on the Astronomer and to ask when I could get a print...it's going in the same room with Ponder and Evacuation.

[Calamity]

I dunno if oracle of bones is good but i like the card

[Kaitscralt]

tribute is so shitty

oracle is deceiving in its lameness. red has so few powerful non-creature spells right now. free mortars or lightning strike? okay.

[NerdBoyWonder]

Oracle still keeps haste with tribute being paid for and if not let's you get a free burn in. Better in burn heavy list. Walter White and Boros Burn come to mind.

[windstrider]

Blech. Those are some pretty mediocre spoilers. I kinda like the red one drop bestow guy but not all that much. Meh.

[Jack]

The new tokens look pretty cool.

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http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/A ... rcana/1413

[Jack]

The eagle looks sick. The gold is interesting.

[LP, of the Fires]

Free mortars like burning-tree didn't already do that. I get that it's a mintoar so theoretically it's a 4/2 haste for 3 in certain worlds...but that's just a minotaur skullcleaver.

[Lightning_Dolt]

This set is so bad, it makes dragons maze look acceptable.

[Kaitscralt]

This set is so bad, it makes dragons maze look acceptable.

this is true for no set

no set!

[Kaitscralt]

i forgot to mention my first tournament loves

ghost dad / hand in hand

and doran rock

[Pendulum]

ghost dad

It appears we have something in common.



Fuck.

[LP, of the Fires]

First tourney love was actually rakdos agro.

Satanic Sligh featuring Dark Confidant and Genju of the Spires.

[Kaitscralt]

ghost council with damage on the stack... lol, fair stuff

[zemanjaski]

I only started playing seriously in Zen

[Kazekirimaru]

[quote="[url=viewtopic.php?p=177470#p177470:2uxqzt5r]freedom » Wed Jan 22, 2014 12:36 am[/url:2uxqzt5r]":2uxqzt5r][quote="[url=viewtopic.php?p=177441#p177441:2uxqzt5r]Kazekirimaru » Wed Jan 22, 2014 1:17 am[/url:2uxqzt5r]":2uxqzt5r][quote="[url=viewtopic.php?p=177423#p177423:2uxqzt5r]freedom » Wed Jan 22, 2014 12:12 am[/url:2uxqzt5r]":2uxqzt5r]The new tokens look pretty cool.[/quote:2uxqzt5r]
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Those look rather nice.

The new tokens might actually be the best part of the set.

[Pyreheart Bezerra]

Gold tokens?!!? Weird.

Oracle could be a 5/3 haste for 4 or a 3/1 haste and a free spell (assuming you have a spell). creates a little subgame with the opponent.

[photodyer]

Tokens are making me wonder at what's to come...artifacts turning into colored mana?

[windstrider]

I want a red enchantment that deals damage whenever a player scrys.

[Kazekirimaru]

Do you really want to hurt me?

Do you really want to make me scry?

[photodyer]

Alex just tagged this online (FB)...I can't get to the twitter feed, but the point makes itself:

Return to Kamigawa confirmed.

[Lightning_Dolt]

Alex just tagged this online (FB)...I can't get to the twitter feed, but the point makes itself:

Return to Kamigawa confirmed.

It was a joke.

Maro said they will NOT do another kamigawa set on his podcast.

[Lightning_Dolt]

First tournament love was the original boros deck wins with jittes

[photodyer]

Thanks for the clarification, JS...it's a pain not being able to access stuff from here.

[Lightning_Dolt]

I feel you bro. I hate my work filter. It prevents me from actually doing work too.

Smart phone works for DTR, fb etc though.

[LP, of the Fires]

Finally feeling standard burnout. Mostly cause I want to play UB control, but don't feel like switching decks seeing as RW devotion is the bread earner. Guess I'll practice modern instead since there's talk of multiple people I know flying to effing Richmond for the GP.

[DarthStabber]

This batch of spoilers seems a bit nuts and bolts. Oracle seems intriguing, if not grand.

[Yarpus]

Greek mithology trope. King Midas was greedy as fuck, which is why he was cursed by gods with "everything you'll touch willl turn gold".
Yes, everything.

Most probably a creature with first strike and "when x deals combat damage to another creature, exile it and put a gold token under opponent's control".

[TBuzzsaw]

I'm still holding out on a good 1 or 2 drop red creature this set.

[zemanjaski]

We can sideline the artifact UB control for now. Just a bit too clunky against world class players (Isaac has a PT Top 8 and a GP win). After discussion, the deck is lacking early filtering to help assemble the pieces quickly enough; this is a fairly obvious oversight as previous versions of UB Control had Preordain / Spreading Seas or Ponder / Think Twice. There's no way to get that consistency early right now.

UW has Azorius Charm so I'm leaning that way right now; the deck doesn't seem to have got much from BNG (aside from an improved mana base, which is of course a big game) but I've played with it a bunch and like it.

Probably still leaning mono U at this point; though ill be doing the obligatory "brew every reasonable aggro deck I can think of" frenzy that I always enjoy.

Black aggro seems a little better than red aggro. Dos Rakis is interesting, but these aren't the days of Lavaclaw Reaches;
manlands are amazing but they're very demanding on an aggro deck's manabase.

If there's not a lot of aggro at any point in the season, black aggro with maindeck UC is a proven winner; I had huge success with that last year.

World of possibilities.

[zemanjaski]

I'm still holding out on a good 1 or 2 drop red creature this set.

Firedrinker Satyr
Foundry Street Denizen
Legion Loyalist
Rakdos Cackler

The problem isn't our 1 drops, they're amazing. The problem is mono U maindecks 16 hate cards (Frostburn Weird, Master of Waves, Nightveil Spectre, Tidebinder Mage).

That's why black aggro is interesting; you sidestep most of thise issues.

[magicdownunder]

Oracle of Bones just needed to be pushed a little more . . .

[Yarpus]

Always wondered about this - is greek mythology something taught in school in 'murica or in zem/mdu case Australia? Welp, I had to read the whole thing in Primary school.