General [TLA/TLE] [UB] Avatar: The Last Airbender
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I honestly hope never? I stopped watching before the end of the first season and from what I've heard about the other three seasons (from a friend whose opinions on media I trust) that was a good decision.
Hm, I haven't watched Korra yet, tbh, but I like the idea of getting another set with firebending, earthbending and especially airbending.
Speaking of which.
Could this card be better than one would think? It is not exactly white Repulse but kinda close to it in low curving environments. Hitting artifact/enchantments/planeswalkers is nice. White is better suited for tempo spells like this anyway. And the cheap replay cost makes it easy to use for blink stuff too.
In a cube where Repulse is good, could this be at least as good too?
Speaking of which.
Could this card be better than one would think? It is not exactly white Repulse but kinda close to it in low curving environments. Hitting artifact/enchantments/planeswalkers is nice. White is better suited for tempo spells like this anyway. And the cheap replay cost makes it easy to use for blink stuff too.
In a cube where Repulse is good, could this be at least as good too?
I enjoyed Legend of Korra quite a lot. It's undeniably a bit of a different vibe to The Last Airbender, but I don't think necessarily in a bad way. It's more rooted in real-world issues and interpersonal relationships than TLA, for better and for worse. It's not perfect by any means; in particular it fell into the trap of ramping up the stakes massively in season two then having to backpedal in season three because there's nowhere else to go. But if you enjoyed TLA I think Korra is absolutely worth your time.
I reckon it'll happen, assuming TLA does well. There's certainly enough source material. How about a pro bending team mechanic like Party where you get an earthbender, firebender and waterbender together?!
I don't see why not. Even in formats with higher MV threats, it can be a tempo play early on, a way to reuse your own ETBs, and a way to push through damage in the lategame. It's flexible, hitting anything and particularly screwing over anything with an
in its cost. Being a Lesson is also solid upside if you have a decent density of Learn cards. It's not quite cantripping Swords to Plowshares but it's not a million miles away.50/50 on this one. On one hand, WOTC is already in bed with Nickelodeon with ATLA / TMNT as products. I don't think TLA will put up LTR / FIN numbers, but I can see it being successful to the point where they'd be talking about a follow up with Legend of Korra.
This is one of the reasons why I'd hesitate with a Korra set is because they'd be locked into repeating all the bending mechanics and maybe even allies, making LoK like +80% similar to TLA from a mechanical perspective. Korra is also nowhere near as popular / beloved as TLA. My theory with FIN / Avatar is that they'll probably at least have future commander decks / secret lairs. I think it's very likely they'll do additional FIN commander decks, some sort of combination of 4 / 8 / 9 / 12 / 13 / 15.
I enjoyed Korra, but definitely had its ups and downs and nowhere near as consistent and well written as Airbender. A good chunk of the negative parts of Korra had to do with it constantly being in production hell. TLA had the benefit of having world / story fleshed out way in advance. Nickelodeon didn't have a lot of confidence in Korra so they only ordered 1 season to start, ordered season 2 a little after season 1 launched, and then ordered seasons 3 and 4 after season 2. Seasons 1 and 2 were written as completely silo'd storylines, not to mention the seasons were roughly half as long as TLA seasons. Seasons 3 and 4 being ordered at once gave them more room to play with a longer storyline.
Korra's big weakness compared to TLA was its cast. Can't blame production hell on how badly they wrote half the characters.
The thing is that I felt like Korra handled both of those poorly - the character work didn't do enough for me to make the interpersonal relationships worth caring about, and the way the writers handled the Equalists left a bad taste in my mouth (for reasons that I don't particularly want to get into).
I agree that Korra's worth looking at if you liked TLA - different people look for different things in the media they consume, after all!
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If you're not running stuff that cares about the card being a Lesson, I feel like you're going to have to massage your white section a bit to make it feel good. Like, I have the gut feeling that White Repulse would feel mediocre in a cube where normal Repulse is good just because of how the color pie shakes out.
You keep on going. It never ends with you guys.
No I have not watched that show.
I am not the villain. I am the one standing up for justice and working against the corporate regime that I first hand know how works and you guys for some reason blindly accept.
Mechanic reuse does happen with plane revisits in general, though admittedly maybe not as high as 80%. I could see amass (Humans) being used in a Korra set, or the Party variant I mentioned before.
Yeah for sure, there were whole episodes I would've skipped in retrospect. In the end it was a show aimed at early-to-mid teens and featured the corresponding amount of teen angst and simplistic romance subplots, which probably would've resonated with me more if I wasn't in my thirties :') but I did enjoy the overarching themes that the show tackled, and ultimately it scratched that itch for more Avatar universe content.
Yeah, this thread overall is a good demonstration of that!
As in, it's not as good as the "normal" white removal suite of Path, Swords and O-Ring that people are used to seeing? Honestly we got spoiled by those, a lot of white removal these days looks like Elspeth's Smite or the fixed O-Ring. I could definitely see an environment where both Repulse and Airbending Lesson are good picks.
Interesting. It's not like I put a ton of thought into this, but my instinct was, that a straight up colorshifted Repulse in white would be better than the blue original.
The main reason I am not cubing Repulse is that I view it more as a tempo card and not really as much as a control tool. That assumption already could be off, of course. But white is a much more aggressive color (in my cube and most), it has the most efficient cheap threats and is probably the best color to pair with blue for a traditional tempo play style.