I just have them turned off in Scryfall settings altogether so they didn't even turn up for me when I searched lol"game : paper" is a good way to exclude Alchemy cards from your search results(remove the spaces)
General Alchemy
- Thread starter Velrun
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New suite of alchemy cards dropped.
Spellbooks are too annoying for me to even consider but I am sad that they wasted excellent art of beloved characters on Alchemy-only cards. Wish we got them in the commander decks instead or something.
Very very close to just printing this one out. I'm pretty sure every playgroup has at least 3 people who would be obsessed with this card, and it's easy enough to do in paper (and a good excuse to get a bunch of unique printings for Ornithopter into your token box).
Pretty easy to play with in paper, makes for some very silly games. Can't say I hate the baseline 3-mv 4/4 that gives gold cards ward either.
A million things to like about this card and can definitely be played in paper, but I'd consider it too fiddly if it were a "real" Magic card in all likeliness. I love a good 1/3 for 2 with Extort. I love a reanimator-alike kind of thing that leans much more into the "value-reanimator" but still won't mind too much if your Atraxa is a 1/1 for 1. Super sweet design, I hate Alchemy so much.
Spellbooks are too annoying for me to even consider but I am sad that they wasted excellent art of beloved characters on Alchemy-only cards. Wish we got them in the commander decks instead or something.
Very very close to just printing this one out. I'm pretty sure every playgroup has at least 3 people who would be obsessed with this card, and it's easy enough to do in paper (and a good excuse to get a bunch of unique printings for Ornithopter into your token box).
Pretty easy to play with in paper, makes for some very silly games. Can't say I hate the baseline 3-mv 4/4 that gives gold cards ward either.
A million things to like about this card and can definitely be played in paper, but I'd consider it too fiddly if it were a "real" Magic card in all likeliness. I love a good 1/3 for 2 with Extort. I love a reanimator-alike kind of thing that leans much more into the "value-reanimator" but still won't mind too much if your Atraxa is a 1/1 for 1. Super sweet design, I hate Alchemy so much.
Spotlight Falcon seems like a pretty powerful white top end. The fact that it feeds itself is kind of disgusting.
Ominous Lockbox looks like a kind of fun minigame.
Ominous Lockbox looks like a kind of fun minigame.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
I believe I have four Antiquities Ornithopters in my collection... hmm...
Spicey!
So many different cool art!
Antiquities
Mirrodin
M10
Kaladesh Masterpiece Inventions
Aether Revolt
Secret Lair Blueprint
The Brothers’ Retro Artifacts
https://scryfall.com/search?as=grid&order=released&q=!"Ornithopter"+include:extras&unique=prints
So many different cool art!
Antiquities
Mirrodin
M10
Kaladesh Masterpiece Inventions
Aether Revolt
Secret Lair Blueprint
The Brothers’ Retro Artifacts
https://scryfall.com/search?as=grid&order=released&q=!"Ornithopter"+include:extras&unique=prints
I'm also happy just running these tokens to put in your hand:
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Fine on turn 3, but will you remember on turn 10 is the idea.Honestly, you could put Shove Aside in paper Magic:
I know the WotC policy is that "remembering who played first is online-only" but I do like smoothing out the on-the-play advantage.
Healing Peeling
Sorcery
If you aren't the starting Player, you may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.
Choose one —
• Prevent the next 3 damage that would be dealt to any target.
Incredible
Oh and
If these were printed in paper, I think many of them would make their ways into our Cubes, memory issues or not.
How can you not?
Not specifically asking you.
But how can you forget who won last game or who won the dice roll?
Hmm, good question. Could happen when one's game is interrupted by (small) life?
True
For me it’s just difficult to imagine. It’s much easier to forget your rebound spell in exile during the upkeep or if a land has been played in a turn that has lasted ten minutes than it is to forget who started the game. Maybe it’s just my brain that is wired weird.
Chris Taylor
Contributor
I forget if I've played a land yet, I forget which game of the match this is, I sure as hell forget who went first
Magic is complicated, and there's a lot to keep track of.
I don't think this kind of card is unusable, but it's adding another thing to keep track of for not a lot of gain imo
Magic is complicated, and there's a lot to keep track of.
I don't think this kind of card is unusable, but it's adding another thing to keep track of for not a lot of gain imo
okay yes, who went first can be forgotten but… we could just write it down at the beginning of the match (?) like, i don’t know if any of you ever played without any way of keeping track of life total, that is a BIG mess but is still doable. with a piece of paper we can just write down the life total and not worry about it. the same could be done for who went first, it’s not a big deal imho
I mean, I will absolutely forget. but then I'll ask my opponent, and if we both forget we either count the cards (difficult) or shrug and say "yeah it was probably you/probably not you"
(also it's only hard to remember game one as long as everyone chooses to play, which does help the memory issue a lot)
(clearly we just need multiple copies of Power Play in the cube)
(if multiple players has a copy of Power Play you decide between them at random, this is the actual ruling and I am not making it up)
Speaking of, a very fun card that's always in and out of my cube:
The memory issue is easily solved; many board games use a first player marker. If I ran enough of these I think it would be worthwhile.
One of these stands out to me as totally fine to run as-is.
A) when are you picking that third option?
B) if I had forgotten who was the starting player I would be totally fine with my opponent playing a non-cantripping Revitalize, lmao. Like, sure, buddy. Whatever you want.
A) when are you picking that third option?
B) if I had forgotten who was the starting player I would be totally fine with my opponent playing a non-cantripping Revitalize, lmao. Like, sure, buddy. Whatever you want.