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Because M15 spoilers.


The comeback of Convoke makes Theros' Inspired mechanic a lot better. Or rather turns it from something unreliable into something much more reliable, especially now that convoke will be appearing in all colours.

Preeminent Captain, Raise The Alarm and Obelisk Of Urd combined with the ton of good white creatures that are soldiers already (Brimaz and such) Soldier tribal might be a thing, especially with heroic, launch the fleet and the new Ajani. Maybe White with a splash of blue for countermagic and things like Military Intelligence, Ordeal Of Thassa and the new white 2 drop 2/1 that gets +1/+1 if you control an island and has 3U: tap target creature.

The souls are pretty interesting as well, Soul of New Phyrexia giving any deck a possible 6/6 trampler with upsides for 6 and the Soul Of Theros can completely take over a game in no time if you have a couple of creatures.

The New Nissa and Garruk are pretty sweet as well, Nissa's +1 almost makes her cast only 1 mana and the new Garruk could be worthwhile in a green devotion/ramp deck that can afford to pay 7 mana easily and early.

Gonna make an all-wall deck based around Wall of Mulch

Or, you know, I was making a casual joke

It's a good control card for BUG lists though.

But how will you know what list to buy when people haven't figured out what the top deck is going to be?




And someone has already figured out a way to get infinite turns with The Chain Veil by combining it with Battlefield Thaumaturge and Ajani, Mentor Of Heroes. Ajani puts 3 counters on the mage, Veil lets him do so a second time and you get a free turn by removing 6 counters, rinse and repeat.

That's why there's spoilers ahead of the official switch, duh.

I saw Magic 2015 was up for pre order on Steam...

I think I have 2012 or 2013 from a previous sale. Never played them. I played a... Duel of the Plainswalkers I think, and it wasn't really that good. Not sure if the yearly MTG games are any good.

Oh... I haven't followed the Magic games on the PC. I just remember seeing a Demo pop up on Xbox Live when I first got my 360 called something like "Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Plainswalkers" and thinking it was kind of "meh".

So I don't know what year model it was.

I don't think you and I agree on what a "cheap" deck is...
as an aside the Magic ipad game really helped me learn how to play the game somewhat sort of competently

Edited, Jul 3rd 2014 12:39pm by Olorinus

I can imagine it. That's really the only scenario it'd ever play out, and involves selling marriage to a devil with very luxuriant sideburns.

Spending a lesser stupid amount of money relative to a greater stupid amount of money isn't actually a "bargain"

If I ever have a burning desire to play that combo, I'll do it with a Sharpie and a stack of Plains and save myself two or three grand. Return on investment and all that.

Full M15 spoiler released: WotC to shoot Theros block in the balls with the next core set, reprints Back To Nature Spoiler1G, Instant: Destroy all enchantments

Really lame to print that right after a full enchantment focused block especially since there's no dominant enchantment decks anyway, this just shuts down any opportunity for Mono black aggro, Naya Hexproof or G/B or Junk Constellation to become a tier one deck.

Also, the new Raise The Alarm art is pretty awesome.

Edited, Jul 4th 2014 11:34am by Aethien