Grillo_Parlante
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You have to keep in mind that staggershock was designed for a format running guys like this at common and uncommon:
Sets [DTK] Dragons of Tarkir Spoilers Thread
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You have to keep in mind that staggershock was designed for a format running guys like this at common and uncommon:
Pyrotechnics is a pretty decent sign that staggershock won't be back at common.
One of my favorite arts in the game, though. (click)
One of my favorite arts in the game, though. (click)
Feels like cheating to use modes that are either color instead of very distinctly one or the other, like Ojutai's.
I also want to believe they will avoid modes that are on charms, but some of them are so generic that seems unlikely.
I also want to believe they will avoid modes that are on charms, but some of them are so generic that seems unlikely.
Dom Harvey
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Onderzeeboot
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Oh hey, a woman showing her tits and ass at the same time! Nice one Swanland!
Man, having a GW Dragon feels weird. On the plus side, building a dragon cube is easier than ever.
Onderzeeboot
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Holy crap this is awesome!
No
in my cube though
6 starting loyalty for 4 mana? Jeez...
Onderzeeboot
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Look forward to a year of Narset into End Hostilities with rebound
Narset feels like she should have an impact on constructed for sure.
FlowerSunRain
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I can't say I dislike Narset. The loyalty does seem a little on the high side, though, doesn't it? That's a pretty big fog.
FlowerSunRain
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Rebounding stupid things like Repulse is going to feel like a kick in the nuts.
Trying to rebound shivan meteor for the stuffy doll kill will probably cause me 0-3 a few upcoming drafts. . .
Trying to rebound shivan meteor for the stuffy doll kill will probably cause me 0-3 a few upcoming drafts. . .
Dom Harvey
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rebound Living Death
I'm not really impressed with Narset. As someone who cubed chandra, the firebrand as a build-around with a high power ceiling, people just didn't like their planeswalkers to require other cards to function, and I don't think they're wrong. Fluffing the starting loyalty as a way to power up a walker that doesn't actually do anything is super bland.
Uncommon megamorph cycle:
Good lord the ambushers' ability. "Super boring durdly big guy" got shifted to red, I see.
"Can I reveal hornet queen for scaleguard sentinels? No? ok..."
Uncommon megamorph cycle:
Good lord the ambushers' ability. "Super boring durdly big guy" got shifted to red, I see.
"Can I reveal hornet queen for scaleguard sentinels? No? ok..."
FlowerSunRain
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Scaleguard makes Kalonian Tusker look stupid with a bigger body AND +1/+1 synergy, but I don't think there are dragons enough to make it work.
I'm pretty excited about DTK so far! This is my first preview season where I am thinking about cards in terms of their application to non-WotC limited environments, and even the crappers are standouts! "Dies to bolt? Maybe this cube is more of a shock cube..." Seriously, though, all of these additional utility morphs and +1/+1 counters have head spinning. Forget planeswalkers!
FlowerSunRain
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Gudul Lurker seems playable in my environment, but then again my bar for blue one drops is stupidly low.
Why is no one talking about my main girl, Kolaghan? A 6/5 for 6 WITH flying and haste, and your team gets haste...
....and the last ability is almost irrelevant in cube if not completely irrelevant in most cubes, period.
Okay, so new Kolaghan is more a standard card than a cube card, and old Kolaghan is probably better for cube. But DAYUM, SON! That art is sooo much better!
....and the last ability is almost irrelevant in cube if not completely irrelevant in most cubes, period.
Okay, so new Kolaghan is more a standard card than a cube card, and old Kolaghan is probably better for cube. But DAYUM, SON! That art is sooo much better!
Grillo_Parlante
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I'm not really impressed with Narset. As someone who cubed chandra, the firebrand as a build-around with a high power ceiling, people just didn't like their planeswalkers to require other cards to function, and I don't think they're wrong. Fluffing the starting loyalty as a way to power up a walker that doesn't actually do anything is super bland.
Uncommon megamorph cycle:
I just want to be the first one to say it:
"Mighty Mega Morphing Rangers"
Whew...I feel oddly better.
Also, I have some slight flavor issues with MEGAMORPH, the ability (I will never be able to say that normally in draft). Dosen't it make more sense flavorfully to have the megamorph morphs be 3/3s? You know...like is a morph...but its mega?
I mean, we're in the future now right, I assume? Everything is bigger and better: the new m-m-m-MEGAMORPHS are improved versions of the old
Ninja Fixed
Onderzeeboot
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Hey! Volvo's are nice, reliable cars! Don't you badmouth them with your mmmmmmMEGAMORPH nonsense!
I believe megamorph had a couple iterations, one of which was a 3/3 for 4 instead of a 2/2 for 3, but they decided it was better to keep the "what could it be??" aspect of morph (for constructed purposes, since KTK won't be limited with dragons) and that was that.
I'm pretty sure marang river skeleton has been dead a while...
I'm pretty sure marang river skeleton has been dead a while...
I think I'm with you on this, as far as Narset's applications in cube go. She seems at her best in sixty-card decks, where you can have the hit rate on her +1 ability approach 50%, but the same ability seems a little more dicey in forty-card decks. Chandra, the Firebrand is a good comparison, and no one was excited by her, despite being easy to cast and Fork generally being more powerful than rebound.
I tend to be fairly optimistic for new spoiled planeswalkers in general, but even though her card concept is really sweet, I'm not sure that Narset hits the mark for cube, as she takes more building around than is normally possible in draft.