Does a piece of paper with a drawing of a horned, winged creature count as a toy?
It's a great improvement over Infect, imo. Are there perhaps some cards you feel are too pushed?
I just got into Pauper and it's hella cool! Can't wait to organise Pauper events in my area (little to no sanctioned events)
Sultai Emissary and [[Bayou Groff]] have really good synergy. The Groff is a great manifest target and it can sac the emissary if you play it normally, but I don't quite see how I can make this work as a deck. It seems most people tend to want to abuse manifest by manifesting something huge and flickering it, but I feel that that line of play is a little bit too convoluted to be worth it, although it is nice that [[Soul Summons]] and [[Ephemerate]] are both white.
I think the trick to playing the Emissary is to have a decent volume of OK manifest targets in the deck, some sac value stuff and not overthinking it too much beyond that.
[[Scythe Tiger]] and [[Rogue Elephant]] are also good value manifest target, but their ETB effects are not so nice if you have them in hand. Perhaps in a sacrifice oriented deck they could be worthwhile if you just sac them as they ETB to trigger something like [[Mortician Beetle]]? Flipping a manifested Tiger in response to a removal spell is quite sexy, though.
Meh, dies to shatter
True, commander is very popular for a reason. It does most of the cool and fun things in magic and can be played on a budget. I think Commander will become our main format and I'll provide loaner decks so that people don't feel pressured to buy one outright.
Well, then.. I guess I got pranked when I found that comment by searching for [!chat@beehaw.org](/c/chat@beehaw.org)
Ah, gotcha. I probably didn't pay attention to the timer and it was just continously ticking.
I only recently got kinda back into magic after a few years off (I played some Arena, though), and I haven't really looked at spoilers for this set. I am considering going to a prerelease, but I'm not a huge fan of bringing in other universes into magic, so it's not really my first choice for acquiring new cards. I suppose it also goes against my tentative interest in leaving Modern as a competetive format and trying out Pioneer. We'll see.
Right now I'm thinking more of casual stuff like EDH and Wizard's Tower that I can play with my girlfriend and other people who have a more casual appreciation for the game or who don't have their own decks. I guess I could do a LOTR Wizard's Tower, now that I think of it. Is it a good set for that?
It could be nice to have an easier way to enter game wins and ties with the mouse. I appreciate that it's quick to do with the keyboard using the tab key, but there's a lot of clicking around when you want to do it with the mouse, and the "tickers" that let you add or subtract 1 are quite small (I know it's the default browser look, but maybe some custom styling is warranted here).
The official Wizards app they use at LGS' has buttons you can click to enter results like 2-1 and 2-0, I think, which could be nice if they look nice and feel intuitive.
Nice! Got a GitHub repo?
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