Magic The Gathering

[PonderosaPete]

Spoiler

-Ancestral Recall

-Black Lotus

-Balance

-Channel

-Chaos Orb

-Chrome Mox

-Counterbalance

-Court of Cunning

-Deflecting Swat

-Demonic Tutor

-Earthcraft

-Edric, Spymaster of Trest

-Falling Star

-Fastbond

-Fierce Guardianship

- Forth Eorlingas!

-Gaea’s Cradle

-Grindstone

-Hermit Druid

-High Tide

-Imperial Seal

-Jeweled Lotus

-Karakas

-Library of Alexandria

-Lion’s Eye Diamond

-Maddening Hex

-Mana Crypt

-Mana Vault

-Metalworker

-Mind Twist

-Mishra’s Workshop

-Mox Amber

-Mox Diamond

-Mox Emerald

-Mox Jet

-Mox Opal

-Mox Pearl

-Mox Ruby

-Mox Sapphire

-Mystical Tutor

-Necropotence

-Oko, Thief of Crowns

-Price of Progress

-Shahrazad

-Skullclamp

-Sol Ring

-Strip Mine

-Survival of the Fittest

-Tasha’s Hideous Laughter

-Teferi, Time Raveler

-Thassa’s Oracle

-The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale

-Time Vault

-Time Walk

-Timetwister

-Tolarian Academy

-True-Name Nemesis

-Umezawa’s Jitte

-Vampiric Tutor

-Wheel of Fortune

-White Plume Adventurer

-Yawgmoth’s Will

I played Tiny Leaders when it first got big maybe...eight years ago? That sounds about right. I found the format to be shallow and easily solved if you were trying to play it at all seriously, but maybe the expansion of the card pool since then has improved things.

What's their current banned list? Is Lurrus allowed as a companion?

The ban list we use is from something called Tiny leaders Reborn. It's slightly different from the original, but is functional enough. So far I'm having trouble against elves and the Loot(RUG). The elves deck is, well, elves, and really aggressive with Tyvar.

The Loot deck had 15 bounce/fight spells and mogged my Feather decks, but with that much control, I'd have been disappointed otherwise. Merfolk faired better, but I did get mana flooded two games in a row, and just accepted the irony of the situation.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Is there any kind of explanation given for the wedge dragons now?

The Legendary Spirit Dragons? Those were summoned by a Ritual that Narset found to help fight the Dragonlords and..."SOMEHOW" bonded to the 5 Khans and gained some of their power.

story about... what, exactly

Thus far "The Ritual Narset used to Summon the spirit dragons they used to overthrow the Dragonlords made the Dragonstorms Worse and more powerful and they are "SOMEHOW" causing Dragonstorms in other Planes.

By the way no mention of Jace and Vraska and Loot yet because the long term plot gets one chapter a Set..cause that is how you fucking build a plot.

 

[Krokodil Overdose]

The Legendary Spirit Dragons? Those were summoned by a Ritual that Narset found to help fight the Dragonlords and..."SOMEHOW" bonded to the 5 Khans and gained some of their power.


Thus far "The Ritual Narset used to Summon the spirit dragons they used to overthrow the Dragonlords made the Dragonstorms Worse and more powerful and they are "SOMEHOW" causing Dragonstorms in other Planes.

Nice job breaking it, hero.

God this would be so easy to write. Phyrexians kill the dragonlords, and the influence of extraplanar forces via the Omenpaths is agitating the dragonstorms (causing them to spit out wedge dragons) as well as causing them to bleed through to other planes. Now the power vacuum is being filled by emerging human(oid) leaders and things are on the brink of all-out war.

 

[Flexo]

Nice job breaking it, hero.

God this would be so easy to write. Phyrexians kill the dragonlords, and the influence of extraplanar forces via the Omenpaths is agitating the dragonstorms (causing them to spit out wedge dragons) as well as causing them to bleed through to other planes. Now the power vacuum is being filled by emerging human(oid) leaders and things are on the brink of all-out war.

Yeah I... really wonder who at that company has any sense of writing or plotting.

Like you said, the dragonlords die because of Phyrexia, so the Khans step up to fill the power vacuum and yada yada - the dragonstorms are doing something different now after all that so we can have our cake and eat it.

But you know, all THAT should be THE ACTUAL STORY. Like the struggle of the Khans to bring some order to the world after the wreckage or something. Maybe the story looks at how when fighting compleated dragons, the tribes learn a trick to kill dragons and that's what allows the clans to get a leg up on their former masters and institute a new status quo. Just.... SOMETHING.

 

[Maratus volans]

Magic's story is being written by the same breed of hacks that brought us Rings of Power and The Acolyte: women and low-T men who cut their teeth in creative writing making fanfiction on early Tumblr. They were educated in a school system that emphasized skills-based learning, so their engagement with good literature was limited mostly to filtering selected passages through whatever lenses their teachers told them to use as an exercise in 'critical thinking'. When they went to college and took creative writing classes, they were told to 'write what they know,' and when they took their other classes they were drowned in social justice drivel. This has resulted in authors who think in terms of vignettes and have an overbearing obsession with representation and authenticity but who have no ability to string a functional plot together, much less write an interesting or engaging story.

Why did the dragons die off screen? Because we had to get from Point A (Dragons of Tarkir) to Point B (Somehow, Khans returned) somehow, and the dragonlords were an impediment to that. Why not kill them in the invasion? Because then you miss an opportunity for a Woman of Color to be a bad bitch girlboss and solve a problem that no one else could. If this ritual existed in writing somewhere on the plane for so long, why didn't the original khans use it to stop the dragons from destroying their clans? Shhh, stop thinking about it, the authors didn't and you shouldn't either.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Yeah I... really wonder who at that company has any sense of writing or plotting.

Like you said, the dragonlords die because of Phyrexia, so the Khans step up to fill the power vacuum and yada yada - the dragonstorms are doing something different now after all that so we can have our cake and eat it.

But you know, all THAT should be THE ACTUAL STORY. Like the struggle of the Khans to bring some order to the world after the wreckage or something. Maybe the story looks at how when fighting compleated dragons, the tribes learn a trick to kill dragons and that's what allows the clans to get a leg up on their former masters and institute a new status quo. Just.... SOMETHING.

Or what if because Jace wants to rewrite the multiverse...and as one of the TWO PEOPLE in the Multiverse that should know that Tarkir is not in It's natural state (IIRC he knows that Ugin was afraid of Bolas finding out he is alive) he wants to use Tarkir's special status as a place where time was changed without affecting anything, He helps Narset find the super secret to alter things in the Crucible of the Spirit Dragon and then Him, Narset and Vraska convince the Khans to rebel, and in the end you have a Tarkir where both the Dragons and the Clans exist and are still at war...you leave Tarkir on a Cliffhanger where Jace learns that fucking with the fabric of the Multiverse DOESN'T ALWAYS GO WELL.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

https://collider.com/spongebob-magic-the-gathering-special-secret-lair-images/

I don't know if I should be mad or relieved that these are all card styles and past expiration date meme references.

I don't care. This card is fucking funny and I'm putting it in every deck I can.

 

[Professor V]

Yeah I... really wonder who at that company has any sense of writing or plotting.

How much longer do we have to wait until they do a "THEY FLY NOW? YEP THEY FLY NOW!" in a magic story chapter and them expecting us to take it 100% seriously. I take my mtg lore like my monster hunter story, if it's good it's great that it's in there, but I just wanna hunt the monsters / play with the cards, I don't care *WHY* I'm supposed to be doing it.

I don't care. This card is fucking funny and I'm putting it in every deck I can.

Based mtg enjoyer, I'm still not buying any of this shit but I'm definitely going to laugh if someone hits me with the counterspell, genuinely funny.

 

[DootSkeleton]

I don't care. This card is fucking funny and I'm putting it in every deck I can.

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I'm more okay with these compared to other UB stuff since they're just reskins like the Godzilla cards.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

I'm more okay with these compared to other UB stuff since they're just reskins like the Godzilla cards.

If they had kept Universes Beyond to Godzilla everyone would have won.

But WOTC is retarded so.

 

[Logistical Nightmare]

Somehow, Nicol Bolas returned.

I’m shocked, SHOCKED I SAY. I’m also shocked to learn that water is wet and the sky is blue.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Somehow, Nicol Bolas returned

I mean he never left. He was being babysat by Ugin. It's not surprising that as soon as Ugin got distracted Bolas would slip into an Omenpath.

Everyone Thank Elesh Norn for her retarded omenpath plan that was Doomed because Ugin and Bolas alone can fuck the entirety of new phyrexia

 

[Endless Torment]

Phyrexians were a million times cooler than Bolas and the continuous Bolas wanking is also making me hate Bolas.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Phyrexians were a million times cooler than Bolas and the continuous Bolas wanking is also making me hate Bolas.

They were....but then Scars of Mirrodin Block happened.

 

[00R-Gundam]

I wish we could get a set themed around Sera(when she was alive) and her plane and angels.

 

[Endless Torment]

I wish we could get a set themed around Sera(when she was alive) and her plane and angels.

Were there any actual threats in her plane before Phyrexia invaded?

A new Time Spiral like set would be fun, but that requires WOTC caring about their own franchise and also not fucking things up.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Were there any actual threats in her plane before Phyrexia invaded?

Nope, cause Serras Realm was an Artificial Plane that she created.

 

[00R-Gundam]

Nope, cause Serras Realm was an Artificial Plane that she created.

Correct me here but wasnt her realm sealed in a powerstone?

 

[DootSkeleton]

Correct me here but wasnt her realm sealed in a powerstone?

I think so. If I'm remembering my old Magic lore correctly, it was collapsed into one so it could be used to power the Legacy Weapon

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

Correct me here but wasnt her realm sealed in a powerstone?

Yes, because the Phyrexians invaded after Urza Randomly Planeswalked from Phyrexia to Serra's Realm.

Urza built a Giant Dragon Construct and attacked Phyrexia..it went badly.