Yes, but Volo into Owlbear will effectively end the game.
Just because he might be ((FUN)) doesn't mean he was designed for that format, especially given that the most ((FUN)) cards in the format are things specifically not designed for it.
Lhurgoyf tribal was not on my bingo card for MH3, and I can’t believe they decided 4/5 tribal was acceptable for a commander deck. Funniest shit I’ve seen in ages.
Yeah, if you hit every land draw and your opponent has terrible luck and can't deal with you taking turn 4 off to play a 3/2 do nothing. Volo is so objectively terrible on the vanilla test that I can't believe he was designed for limited. I can see a durdley commander in a color pair known for durdling but I can't see a 3/2 build around creature for 4 mana at rare, especially one that needs to be defensively stated because he has to make it to turn 5 to do anything. A few sets later 3/2 with upside was 2 mana at rare/uncommon and would play well offensively early and the rares would recur themselves and draw you an obscene amount of cards in grindy games.
Nnnnahhh, vanillas and french vanillas don't cut it anymore, especially when they're gold. On 17lands, Eriette has a 51.6% Games Played winrate, which is abysmal and a D- level card. 17lands players tend to be above the curve, so their breakpoint is around 53-4% - that is a C-level card, with 50% being an F.
Is there such a thing as an inverse prince format in limited? Where nearly every rare except for one or two chase cards are garbage for draft, but the commons define the format with uncommons just acting as support.
I can see him as a alt commander rather than House.
Did the troon make the smell of that table better or worse?
My concept would be it should be a flip card Joshua Graham, Malpais Legate // Joshua Graham, the Burned Man, mardu colors. Front side is offensively stated with lower toughness and trample you do not want it to hit your face for reasons (let's say if it hits your face you get damage * 1/1 soldiers or something) and if it dies from damage dealt by a source you don't control or from an effect you don't control you exile him instead and flip him to a defensively stated creature with deathtouch that can sacrifice creatures for him to deal damage to a target creature, if a creature dies from non combat damage he deals you draw a card or impulse draw it or something. I think that carries a lot of the flavor but also lends itself to making a bunch of shitty redirect damage cards into a deck which is the sort of thing commander players crave.
They've really given up on ever having their own IP be relevant.
I find Tardku hilarious.
Is it just me or is Miku doing crossovers like crazy right now? Kinda weird having her come to MTG but of all the UB stuff it's definitely not the worst. Though anime-based, she's the mascot for creative software so at least it's not completely mindless.
If anything I’m more surprised we didn’t get this back during neon dynasty. I’m pretty sure that there was a vocaloid mtg song for the set, so a sEcReT lAiR would have been perfect
Neon dynasty is still my favorite draft format, and I was around for Khans. I never had a bad draft with it even the ones I lost at.
It definitely was a solid format. Both NEO and All will be One were neck and neck for me, but I did force U/B proliferate and drafted a nasty G/B removal deck that looped 2-drops with tyvar. Saccing a prism to a one mana kill spell? Delightful.
Pauper sets are ones in which the majority of games are won by synergy among the commons and uncommons. DMU was a good example of this, because it had so many duds like Astor. More importantly, there were fantastic removal options at common for most colors, and arguably the strongest draft archetype - defenders - didn't give a shit about the rare slot at all, having its busted payoff at uncommon and a tutor for said payoff at common. There's certainly still bombs in these sets - like Archangel of Wrath or Serra Paragon - but they aren't quite as obscene as in Prince sets.
That guy... literally just needed his last 2 lines.
That's definitely the most grating thing when listening to MaRo's podcast is he just freely drops "typal" into his discussions and it's like "that's not a word."
So no joke, if you enjoy autism you owe it to yourself to give a listen to this DTW episode.