General [WAR] War of the Spark
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Yeah, the arcanist is fucking sweet! There's so much play to it with every color.
This is such a potential thread in the coming weeks.. "UG TOL Fblthp deck"
I'm all in on assembling questionable, low value plays that make me feel smart.
This is such a potential thread in the coming weeks.. "UG TOL Fblthp deck"
Onderzeeboot
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Actually, when you "flashback" Burst Lightning with this, you can pay for the kicker cost! I agree this card looks sweet, but I have absolutely no idea what red two drop I'ld want to cut for this! Like, almost every card in that slot is a cog in some archetype, and I don't know that I really want to go down to one Young Pyromancer? That card is so fun to build around! I mean, I can't even find space for Dire Fleet Daredevil, and that's a card I'ld really like to play!
Unless Pyromancer is an integral piece of the archetype that requires it to function, I can see giving Dreadhorde Arcanist a try in the place of one at least temporarily.
Chris Taylor
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I just wanna giant growth it and flashback fact or fiction
No! Become immense, flashback cruel Ultimatum!
No! Become immense, flashback cruel Ultimatum!
I'm going to Totally Lose my mind if Fblthp isn't on the art of more cards. It would be kind of funny if he was hidden in the art of multiple cards in this set.
Chris Taylor
Contributor
I didn't notice she doesn't have a planeswalker type
Onderzeeboot
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When Krenko attacks, put a +1/+1 counter on it, then create a number of 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens equal to its power.
Wow, that gets out of hand fast. And that's not counting Bonesplitters and other stuff! o_O
Dom Harvey
Contributor
It's cute that Legion Warboss gets to Mentor onto the Mob Boss and make his mob even bigger
That's kinda gross....two bodies on the first attack is the floor? Far outside of consideration for my cube.
However, super funny with:
wow... compare Krenko to Hanweir Garrison, for instance. The goblin tokens don't even come in attacking like on the Garrison, where they might be insta-blocked to death :eek:
I'm going to Totally Lose my mind if Fblthp isn't on the art of more cards. It would be kind of funny if he was hidden in the art of multiple cards in this set.
He is here!
I don't know what some of you people have been on about I think this great is frickin' great.
Onderzeeboot
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Remember Whip of Erebos? Teamwide lifelink is a nightmare in limited...
Might as well have called this "Nahiri, fucking pissed". Quite like the support for a WR equipment theme!
I didn't notice she doesn't have a planeswalker type
That was literally the first thing I saw
How about just "Rampire Nighthawk?"
Also, this set feels very much like a "play 3 or more colors" set. Just saying.
I'm curious about this card:
The 6 mana cost tells you you're stalling. But don't get it wrong, this feels like a tempo curve-topper. I think you stall until you get this card, and then stall till you win. I've seen two similar implementations before. One was the Defender deck in my own cube, which played them to slow your opponents until you beat them. Not by inevitability though, they'd win the game if it went on for X more turns, you just raced them and won by turn 12 before they got to their turn 16. Another example was a Mesmeric Orb based "control deck" that played bounce or cheap removal (possibly temporary) to make your opponent spend more mana than you and mill out.
I feel this is this again. Getting to 6 might be hard, but this seems like a slow format to me. And once you do, your opponents are a bit stuck. The drain hints you towards the direction you should go in, and that direction is letting them bleed out. Speed it up with whatever cards you want, just make sure you don't die. Sure they might overwhelm them with all their cards that can actually kill you, but your stall/tempo plays (Teyo, the Shieldmage?), make sure the game last just long enough.
The 6 mana cost tells you you're stalling. But don't get it wrong, this feels like a tempo curve-topper. I think you stall until you get this card, and then stall till you win. I've seen two similar implementations before. One was the Defender deck in my own cube, which played them to slow your opponents until you beat them. Not by inevitability though, they'd win the game if it went on for X more turns, you just raced them and won by turn 12 before they got to their turn 16. Another example was a Mesmeric Orb based "control deck" that played bounce or cheap removal (possibly temporary) to make your opponent spend more mana than you and mill out.
I feel this is this again. Getting to 6 might be hard, but this seems like a slow format to me. And once you do, your opponents are a bit stuck. The drain hints you towards the direction you should go in, and that direction is letting them bleed out. Speed it up with whatever cards you want, just make sure you don't die. Sure they might overwhelm them with all their cards that can actually kill you, but your stall/tempo plays (Teyo, the Shieldmage?), make sure the game last just long enough.