What the fuck

Were 11 raid bosses this busted?

FB_IMG

KW_HHN

8 mana to die to swords to plowshares

it would have been better if it just had "whoever is responsible for putting this in the graveyard loses"

If Absolute Virtue would die or be exiled, instead restart the game.

This card doesn't even do anything that other cards haven't done before

Isn't this kinda garbage since it has no protections outside of the counter thing? Or does protection from opponents extend to your board to?

Isn't this kinda garbage since it has no protections outside of the counter thing? Or does protection from opponents extend to your board to?

yes but since when has that mattered?

No one has ever beaten him legit

Nope no one legit killed AV before the 75 cap raise. Just out leveled the content.

before the 75 cap raise

Now that's not at all what I said.

Protection from player actually means protection from that player, all their spells, all their abilities, all their permanents and everything

Huh.

It's still just a Chromium, the Mutable though. Where it's just a curve-top wincon for a control shell.

No it isn't. AV has no protections for itself. It protects YOU. You can't be fireballed, attacking you is a mostly-useless gesture (still gets attack triggers), you can't be thoughtseized or anything, but Virtue can still be doom bladed.

What will his card be like?

you get to draw equip cards from your deck and attach them to him for free

It looks like this.

Okay, now show me the Pandemonium Warden cadd that summons his whole gay army and makes the opponent go to the hospital after trying to beat you for 18 hours.

very simple card

very simple effects

people will still misread it for years to come and freak out about how broken it is

I hate card game players so fucking much

jej

YOU

(i made this same mistake when first reading it)

To be fair, an 8 mana bomb in UW control deck is probably only coming out if you have sufficient board state already and the counterspells to back him up
Tapping out to drop him seems really dumb.

yoink

pokemon tcg > mtg

he's a bomb against red deck wins who will at that point be unlikely to triple bolt him or w/e.

I'd gladly tap out on turn 6 to 8 (if its a bant deck with ramp) and just see if they can burn him out.

if I untap, i win the game if he's on the board, if they kill him they are -3 cards likely.

any other color can just one shot him with some card or other, so you could never just tap out against black or white.

equipment themed creatures always suck in standard, even when there's good equipment.

its just.. how it always is, sadly.

Seeing Teferi here makes me nostalgic.

dude grew up and became one of the most important people to ever live and was just some prankster in his little wizard school fucking with Barrin, what.. well over 600 years ago?

Or path.
Or the other million removal spells.

this has never been a compelling arguement.

sure it doesn't have an ETB, but this is a sideboard card for control decks, you aren't running it out into removal anyways.

This reads like a yugioh card

well, you have to have it nigga, and I have to NOT have counter magic to stop you.

do you know how many control standard decks I've run, and how many times its reliant on some big retarded creature to finish off the game once I bleed you of resources, and all this talk of "dies to removal" means fuck all when your in topdeck mode and I've got a full grip and 16 life.

top deck it or die, and even if you do, I've drawn another.

are you a fucking slope headed nigger? it does not, it literally just filters the top of your deck for an equipment, and equpis it to him.

its not Chains of Mephistopheles or w/e.

hashoton could cast this at insta speed if you already have him out and a discard engine, otherwise it seems kinda meh. cool effect tho

Look at top six.
Slap any equipment you see down.
Pick one to staple to Gilgafresh.
Not complicated.

The creature is not immune to anything. You are. Monsters your opponents control cant damage you and spells cant damage you. You cant be enchanted and current enchantments are dispelled.

FF as a standard set is not going to survive the current izzet prowess/RDW meta we've got going, but just don't worry about it. The game is a lot more fun without the metagame.

What, I haven't played MTG in forever but im pretty sure that protection covers it your only option is board wipes or forced sacrifice.

is this a cactuar thing again where retards see an obvious timmy card and think it's a spike card
I hate that this is the most interesting mtg set since bloomburrow, I hate UB so much and what the fortnite-ification of the game has done to magic. no I don't care about dragonstorm and I'm not gonna pretend like it's good just because it's one of the very, very few in-universe sets that isn't a theme park in the last three years

but just don't worry about the decks you're going to be playing against

depends on how much cute lifegain stapled to lands and good cards they are slapping in this one.

cactuar

spike card

guffaw

It doesn't protect itself, just you the player. So as an example they can't cast a 1 damage on you but can for anything on your field still.

the FF set is a fine set, Square enix seems to be holding a gun to WoTC's head to not fuck with their property, so its better than most crossover events.

You can talk to the human being on the other side of the table you know.

What kind of FNM do you go to where you can just ask your opponent to not play the deck they signed up with?

did you see how many people freaked out because it had a silly big number when it was first revealed? it's like they had no concept that an 8 mana creature needs to be more than a (conditional) beatstick

o/

Useless
Come up with custom cards when you've played at least a year of MTG, embaressing read.
Useless.
We dont know will it be good yet.
There seems to be so many clunky mechanics like transform, meld and creature sagas + equipment sub theme.. This will be a clusterfuck i think.

The casual kind that doesn't involve "signing up".

enters...

LOL

blocks your path

spike

needle

Reminder that Arena won't have the Spiderman set.
The retards at WotC forgot to negociat the rights for digital cards, and since Marvel already has Mavel Rivals, they didn't want any confusion.
So the whole Spiderman set will be REDRAWN and RENAMED in Arena, with the EXACT SAME TEXT.
We are reaching levels of incompetency that shouldn't be feasible and yet.

its fine, its a big fun celebration of FF and keeps true to certain tropes, such as the villains transforming but not transforming back, certain characters being able to turn into Summons (which lets them turn back) and all the other fun little inclusions into gameplay from the franchise.

Final Fantasy is a much better "kept" property than MTG, ironically, sure its had some real fucking stinkers, but the company hasn't completely mutated it, and are fully capable of delivering a "FF" feeling product.. when they feel like it.

Mavel Rivals

you mean Marvel Snap

In the current standard environment, this card is ass. If red gets some nerfs it might be a 1-2x in control sideboards.

universes within but only because we're too retarded to even do universes beyond properly

grim

i know nobody gives a shit about the story, but why the fuck is Elspeth on Tarkir?

the saga creatures are genuinely some of the most interesting card design I've seen from magic in years
better than shit like those locked rooms from duskmourn if nothing else
I also liked the pawprint thing from bloomburrow but they really should have used a more evergreen theming for it

controlniggers like to pretend they have a handsize of 30 and their deck is 50 counters and 10 lands. controlniggers are deluded

Not really, its pretty clear what it does, and doesnt have stupid bullshit like having a difference between once per turn.

powercreeps you and is still legal in Standard after two whole years for some godforsaken reason

So the whole Spiderman set will be REDRAWN and RENAMED in Arena, with the EXACT SAME TEXT.

New to Universe Within treatment?

Tracking the source of the dragonstorms fucking up other planes.

Even with that it's still just 8/8 flying beatstick.

they do tho, thats why every single match with a counter spell fag last 5000 years since they don't have any creatures and waste all their interaction on fucking with one opponent especifically

jesus christ that's lazy

An 8/8 flying beatstick that may as well read "your opponents talk about the weather".
Yes of course a board exile will still get rid of it, but that's true of literally everything except Norin the Wary and Squee the Immortal. Somehow, cards still get played.

still legal in Standard after two whole years for some godforsaken reason

It's rotating out of standard this year. Probably with the launch of EoE.

I'm aware. I'm still allowed to be mad about it and Sheoldred.

What equipment do I want to buy before it skyrockets in price??

8 mana

lmao red already won 5 turns ago

5000 years

unless they pull out 30 health on turn 2 they're gonna get pegged by a chandradrone

Yeah, see, this UB is probably the only one i don't dislike because it feels well made, unlike the AssCreed one that was dropped unceremoniously and can't even be drafted, or the Fallout and Dr Who ones that might as well never been released, or the blacked LoTR.
Meanwhile, i don't give a shit about the Spider-Man or Avatar upcoming ones, and in fact hate them because they pushed Lorwyn to 2026.

And really looking forward to Edge of Eternities.

I forgot that

sheoldred is still standard legal

sheoldred went from one of the strongest cards in the format to a 1x in Bx midrange decks, if that

you don't pay 8 mana you goofball

The swords of this and that

It could be decent if the meta was much much slower. You will dead long before you get that off. Even if you could get it out really early a simple 8/8 beatstick is not enough to win the game. Most decks will just ignore it and kill you faster that your 8/8 kills them.

and in fact hate them because they pushed Lorwyn to 2026.

I'm glad lorwyn got pushed back because I never want to see it. I don't trust nu-wotc with a return to lorwyn. they're going to ruin it and I'd rather they put it off as long as possible

It effectively casts Fog on all your opponents turns, except opponent can't burn you either
Funnily enough it seems only good against aggro, but idk when you'd get to cast an 8-drop against aggro. Maybe it's usable as a sideboard against monored in reanimator

four mana

still too zetta slow

UW Control is not going to be splashing black for reanimate spells and clunky GY setup.

How can they ruin a plane full of kithkins? Draw them in an even more fucked up aspect ratio?

I guess all those Abuelo's Awakening into Omniscience decks are just my hallucinations.

You don't attack creatures in MTG, you attack players and players choose to block with creatures or not. "It doesn't protect itself" is a nothing sentence, you (normally) can't attack it, it doesn't have to protect itself.

Your opponents can't attack you when you have Absolute Virtue in play

sorry chud you wanted to play a card what if I had (any of these other cards I definitely didn't waste earlier in the game) hah so much for your gameplan huh?

why yes I do not have any winning boardstate because my deck is only removal and counters

Zombify

Doesn't add zombie type to the returned creature

Couldn't I use something like pic rel to kill it?
Since it targets a creature not the player

Yes, this is why people are calling the extreme reaction to it silly.

People will be doing whatever they want, man.

Reread your quoted post and then read your post again

It doesn't protect itself at all, unless there's a spell that says "destroy all creatures controlled by target player" etc

you can use any targeted removal to kill it

i'm not too proud to admit that as much as I shit on UBslop and the kind of people that basedpoint about any random secret lair, I'd probably spend good money on a set of TWEWY cards.

You're right my bad
Good players are not going to be splashing black for reanimate spells and clunky GY setup in UW Control.
Thanks for helping me fix that

Yep, now go back to Anon Babble to whine about RDW you mindbroken slut.

Holy shit are you still mad that people are evaluating cards through the lens of at bare minimum an FNM locals and not the kitchen table?

Even non-targeted removals will work as long as they don't target the player who has the Virtue.

Abuelo's is about to rotate, and the Omniscience combo could only barely compete with Domain or aggro in BO3 before Cori-Steel, now it's not even close.

Are Eldrazi decks still a thing? I remember their land destruction/creature was really strong some years ago

yes, any removal spell at all will work unless it reads "target player sacrifices a creature."

eldrazi got some insanely pushed cards in MH3 and became the #1 deck in multiple formats

It's basically your textbook Timmy card. Cool and powerful effect, but in practice it's not that good.

Are you retarded
Hes talking about protection

mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Protection

Yes. Go do that in Anon Babble.

attack

I didn't even mention attacking. There is much more to the game than

play creatures

turn a creature sideways to attack with it

Based then, Eldrazi is way more of a final boss deck than some gimpy demon or something

because squeenix kept patching every way to kill him, even the kraken clubs which wasn't an actual exploit. Also his mechanics require bullshit that's never communicated in any way like fast killing ads from a different boss and using different spells based on what day of the week it was

Anon Babble: Fuck I hate casuals, they're ruining gaming!

also Anon Babble:

Casual is the only way to play a card game.

This doesn't look impressive at all, no matter how i look at it.

omni win on the spot in turn 4, this card doesnt. Why Anon Babble sucks so hard in magic

Here is a the 3 rules for a creature card to be good

Does it have haste? Does it generate value when you cast or ETB? Does it combo to win? If it is a no to all of this, it is a useless creature.

The fact that stealing things is blue remains the best example of how retarded the color wheel is

How was the radiation mechanic? I like the flavor and concept of it.

If it really wanted to be faithful, it should just not be able to die (or removed from the game) the same way twice if you brought it back onto the board. I don't know if that's a keyword or not.

send it to the graveyard via spell

send it to exile via spell

deplete its health via spell, deplete its health via combat (these two could be combined or separate, really)

I'm sure there are more, but that's just off the top of my head. Just have the deck be built around bringing this fucker out of the graveyard and a Pull From Eternity for the inevitable Exile and eventually he couldn't be stopped. You get to patch out every attempt to kill him in real time.

You really don't need to go that far.

reading the card explains the card

MTG is littered with control endgame curve toppers, most of them have never been used.

Dude it's sphinx's revalation on a creature, think of how many cards and lifegain you'll get!

Ravenous chupacabra? What's that? Anyways I'll have a grip full of counterspells anyways there's no way this card can be bad!

Anon, read the first line in OP's card

I guarantee you I'm having more fun playing my goofy ass Angel Tribal than you have had playing Magic in years.

Wrong pic lmao

I somehow forgot that, I'm retarded, and here I was laughing at people thinking it had protection...

game ending control payoff creatures are kino
I loved this nigger back during WAR standard

he sideboards

Best of Ones or GTFO.

T****l

we don't use that word here, chud

Do you ever find the time to have fun in between all this bullshit minmaxing?

fallout

street fighter

final fantasy 11

The fuck happened to Magic? I thought it was all about their universe and Ursa and Ice Ages and shit.

minmaxing is fun

The IP is being whored out by hasbro because it needs to support the entire company by itself

flame star

They did, there was one kill on Midgardsormr that did not use the glitched wall method.

It is, but Fortnitefication is the fate of every franchise. It's free money

Oh I see

Well I look forward to the Monopoly Man and GI Joe expansions then

persistent protection

The colors that usually target players are Blue, Red and Black.
What do these have in common, anon?

the IP went to shit like ten years ago when they started aping marvelshit, Hasbro has just been selling literal fortnite skin sets to keep the game alive since

HOWEVER

Winning and playing optimally is fun.

So you have 10+ mana, or one of the three "free" counterspells in your magical Christmas land? How is that more realistic than one of your three assumed opponents having ANY interaction? EDH faggots have such a warped view of the game its fucking unreal.

Whoops, I hit delete mistakenly.

What the fuck lmao

Zidane is just a fucking Ragavan reskin

I mean, I guess, but that still feels lame

(YOU) have protection from each of (YOU)r opponents

(the) Absolute (state of) Virtue does NOT gain protection. Only (YOU) do.

That's not the Zidane card for the main set. It's a reprint from the separate "Through the ages" sheet.

Kuja is a wizard tribal card instead of a board wipe on legs

8 mana do nothing

busted

lol

stop falling for obvious bait, OP already made this post in another thread and the OP was also in the form of another post

That's not busted. This is busted

Fallout and Dr Who ones that might as well never been released

That's great for me because I wanted to collect the cards and scalpers were asking an arm and a leg on launch, I recently bought the whole thing for $5.

Yeah well black isn't its real-life counterpart in mtg

Pretty good moves, kid. But watch this

when was the last time you played Standard, retard

What needs to happen so Standard becomes the main game mode? The only thing I'm glad about is Disney forbid WotC to add Spiderman set into Arena as they have Marvel Snap so bow WotC has to come up with a completely original Arena set using the abilities of the Spiderman set.

You already know all the unique races are going to get the modern slivers treatment. Can't have anything too alien now.

I think the flavour works for the non-trance Kuja but they just threw the half-assed trance on there rather than make it an entirely different card
Only FF7 reps get to have 4 different cards I guess

wotc has ruined standard beyond all repair, its fucking over atm

vivi is better because his ass gets fat enough to survive pretty quick.

Farewell is still stronger since it also shits on every non-planeswalker tool decks would normally use to outgrind control decks.

What needs to happen so Standard becomes the main game mode?

Nothing. People play Commander because it's a 100 card deck where they can do a billion jank variations.
60 card decks where you'll have three creatures, three spells and three artifacts, each repeated four times, and a bunch of lands, is just not appealing.

realistically theres nothing they can do to save standard anymore

they work together well and starn works well with equipment. put a basilisk collar and/or soul cleaver on him

wotc has ruined standard beyond all repair

It's a rotating format. It can be fixed in a two years period by ensuring the resulting legal sets are good.

you have protection from

Oh just you? Not your permanent? Guess I'll just use one of the billion creature removals that targets it directly then. Damn. Too bad.

I mean the trance makes him deal double damage and your spells proc them to shoot for 2 each, and this set there will be Meteor and Fire Magic ect. to cast with it.

Lets print increasingly busted prowess cards until it hits 80% playrate

Oh Mark, the games have to last past turn 3 for that to work!

two years

lol
lmao

they changed that anon, the rotation is now 5 years long lol

Nice, straight to my bria deck.

so standard is just what extended used to be when it existed?

Three to four, actually, at least starting with the upcoming rotation.

the color combination of counterspells, board protection and blinks

I mean sure you can, but the question is will it push through?

That's what happens when you spend 5 years abandoning the format and cultivate all your new players from exclusively edh.
Standard will never be "the main format" ever again. You're not going to convince the new edh players to play the format that has rotation, even if you change how rotation works. You're also never going to convince them to stop their commander nights to instead play FNM.

The only way you can bring it back is to hard revert the game back to 3 standard sets a year, only make edh precons once a year, and hard design the game to be focused on STANDARD. Bring back standard event decks and precons, and make FNM worth going to, and DON'T TURN IT INTO A FUCKING 4 TURN FORMAT. This can't happen even if Wizards wanted it to, because Hasbro needs Wizards to keep increasing their profits.

yes but now it also gets supplemental universes beyond stuff

generally you'll already be dead in the current metagame by the time you reach your curve topper "finisher"

why would they do that when EDH prints money?

just because YOU want it to be that way?

sir our players are constantly saying they're getting fatigued from all of these set releases

Fuck them, make every UB set standard legal and make it so there are 6 standard sets a year

Hasbro happened.

If line don't go up, MaRo gets shit canned.

commanderfags constantly say that they play it because its the budget jank format

commanderfags also buy fuck tons of garbage that wotc puts out

which is it commanderfags? Are you whales or are you budget players?

Doesn't bother me, the only fun version of magic is non-sweat commander because you can pick a hero dude and build your deck around it which is cool and fun

whales who want to play the jank that can't make the cut in other constructed formats

so theyre shitters?

put
her
in

Both, actually. Casuals that play with slightly altered precons, and min maxing competitive tryhards that sent death threats when Mana Crypt and Jeweled Lotus got banned

I like this guy more.

generally yes

Because they're losing space in shops since nobody is fucking playing constructed, idiot. EDH as your main format is extremely unsustainable.

No i play it because its cool and reminds me of warcraft 3

EDH has been the main format, for over 12 fucking years.

its highly sustainable.

they're making more money than ever, Q1 2025 was their best quarter ever off the back of Final Fantasy preorders alone

12 years

nah it took off back in 2019 and then exploded due to covid. Thats only 6 years

noob here does the counter stay or go away after the turn? i want this vivi card anyways

Constructed players cannot fathom a format with this amount of variance

AV was a meme boss because the intended method to beat it was literally impossible if you accounted for japanese ping.

The gimmick was popping your 2HR whenever AV used his. The problem was that the window was so tight that even japanese players living next to the servers wouldn't be able to get it
The method was figured out after square did that hint video, but it was functionally impossible to do unless you tried to predict it by having your whole alliance pop their 2HRs in advance so that you'd be covered.

These days it's killable due to ilvl + level 99 crap, but as intended it would have never worked unless the gimmick was given a much wider window.

commander has been uber popular since the moment WOTC started printing Commander products.

GEO in the wipe

I don't play your gay little card game but can you please tell your artists to do more research than none at all thanks

Counters are permanent. Temporary stuff is usually written as "Gets +1+1 until end of turn".

stays. little shit gets stronger and generates more mana the more spells you cast.

stay, and his mana just increases ever more as he gets bigger and bigger.

working tirelessly on a machine that makes fart noises

Good to see at least some people in mtg has their priorities in order.

Now entirely true. The most popular format from 2010-2016 was Standard and Modern. They fucked up by Kaladesh standard in 2016 by having consecutively busted card after busted card that pushed all the Standard players to Modern, then they fucked that up too by making Modern Horizons, so now these players said fuck it and just played EDH, and you had more and more people play EDH. You cant just have 90% of your business model catering to EDH, its unsustainable, and card design philosophy suffer for it (Nadu)

Nadu

its hilarious to me that commander players are so fucking dumb that every legend needs to be a draw engine because they cant into card advantage

I used to play professionally, let me tell you, Standard is way too hard to maintain a deck for back in the Kaladesh days, and they were bringing down the ban hammer on all sorts of shit, so build a new deck faggot, hahah!

no thanks, commander for me too, me and my friends fuck around and play commander and eat pizza or some shit, riding out to Atlanta to do a tourny and have every faggot hitting me with Emrakul on turn 3 or 4 was bullshit, and it only got worse from there.

12 years

It was only right before covid that it truly took off as the "main format"

it's extremely sustainable

Stores can't fire events because nobody is playing constructed and edh players don't like playing tournaments. Wizards scorned standard and pioneer players with 2 years of neglect and modern players by rotating their format. Modern went from 3 nights a week at my store to barely getting 1 because MH3 made all of their decks bad and they were tired of this song and dance. Standard isn't even listed at the shop anymore.

And I know this isn't an anecdote because Wizards has desperately been trying to revive standard by changing rotation rules, but it's not working because edh players are not ever going to play standard. No constructed player base means nobody is going to big events or supporting local stores. Which means your only way of keeping relevancy in the hobby space is by making big flashy crossovers for redditors to pogface at, but how many crossovers can you do before people start to lose interest entirely?

Here we go.

Why is it unsustainable? The glut of product Wizards has been pushing out has been exhausting, but that's not really a problem with rhe format.

EDH is at its core a kitchen table format that benefits from an extremely wide card pool, being a singleton format and also running the gamut from complete jankfest to ultra competitive

Nadu was a mistake, literally not playtested, but again that's a problem with wizards putting out too much shit.

I like how simple he is. I like 2cc commanders that dont immediately have you be the archenemy, he's fairly innocuous. That said it would be a bitch if he got killed as Emperor of Hell, youre going to go through the motions of flipping him again

nigger, FNM doesn't make stores shit for money, I went to one all the time and was good friends with the store owner, FNM players pay the bare fucking minimum to play.

they make money way more off draft players and people buying shit like Commander products than people doing tournies and pre-release events.

WOTC makes sure that most Magic Stores make the bare fucking minimum from being affiliated.

just put The Ozalith in the deck anon, there's even Ozalith shards that does the same shit.

nobody is going to big events or supporting local stores

That's not true. Standard events may be suffering because nobody wants to play standard. But edh players absolutely patronize stores and will come around to hang out, catch pickup games, and crack packs for the low low price of having some folding card tables and chairs set up inside your store

Yes, truly relying on whales could never go wrong.

Soon, you will be able to talk about MTG like people do with Ed Edd n Eddy online.

you can't rely on FNM players, that's an absolute fucking fact.

the most compelling argument is that nobody plays 8 mana drops to begin with

well not now, not in this hellhole of standard.

No shit, having a wide variety of formats for different types of players is the best for the long term health of the game, BUT that's not what WotC of Hasbro give a shit about. We've been in a blatant pump-and-dump spiral for the last several years now with the game being milked for as much as possible.

Pixel remaster

What to play first?

I don't know where you live where stores aren't wall-to-wall Commander nights with maybe a token Standard FNM thrown in

The only reason I even play magic is commander being fun, I played standard back in like 2012-ish for a little bit with some school friends and it fucking sucked so I quit, commander let's me actually fuck around and have a good time with my friends instead of win/lose metafaggotry

soon

you can do that now

yea well for stores FNM doesn't pull in shit, neither does any sort of standard event.

FNM and standard are basically just a waste of card stores times and things they literally have to do to be WOTC affiliates.

what if Platinum Emperion, but harder to cheat out and without a way to save you from your own spells

It depends on the store and local consumerbase, retard. Getting bodies in the store potentially buying singles, snacks, other games, etc can be more valuable than the FNM price of entry itself.

why does japan get nice stuff while we get shit?

I tap Basilisk Gate and two forests to use my Birthing pod on Tifa Lockhart, searching for Fluttershy

yawgmoth died for this

it can be, but guess what, all that's true for Commander night and commander products, they also buy food, and even more likely as Commander players treat it like a fucking mini-party

Standard players are all buying their singles from online stores, almost 100%, lol, t hey are the worst revenue source of the MTG variety.

again, why are you operating under the delusion that Commander players don't play in game stores

Well I’m gonna have to get this for Ob Nixilis.

FNM was never good and filled with disgusting sweats and tryhards, without edh the entire game would be dead

I know reading is hard for edhfags, but:

having a wide variety of formats for different types of players is the best for the long term health of the game

because WOTC loves its lefty-slop artists and promote the ones they don't ban forever for saying something they don't like on twitter or have said something that is now wrongthink after the fact.

you aren't running it out into removal

the kind of matchups where you are playing this card as control, the ones where any of the text on the card is relevant, are the ones where you are running it out in removal. Even if this trades 1-1 for a 5 mana boardwipe its trading down. This is either a toolbox piece for a deck that plans to cheat out a big creature on turn 2 with something like a W animate dead or its flat unplayable.

I like how its a scowling she-nig lol.

if stores could cut standard content, they would in a heartbeat, anon.

I know multiple store owners and they all say the same shit, Standard is a fucking waste of time, no one buys shit beyond the entry fee.

Commander players wanted nadu about as much as modern players wanted hogaak.

The only reason its good is because sweats quarantine themselves to 1v1 modes while well adjusted people with friends can play a big table of commander in peace

it's been almost 3 years since FNM died in my lgs

only shit i see is the same 6-8 tryhards playing commander on mondays

meanwhile wednesdays has 10+ players of Weiss Schwarz, fridays is now taken by 30+ yugioh players and saturdays is full with 40+ pokemon players

only shit the lgs sells is commander products and sometimes standard product ON DEMAND

I keep hearing yugioh is dying since 2018 but the only thing that "died" on the three lgs i buy stuff is MtG. Fucking return to tarkir did nothing at all and old players are only interested in commander.

I live in bumfuck nowhere so my only frame of reference is the shelves of any given walmart/target for sealed product but I always find it rather humorous that pokemon is a wasteland due to scalpers, yugioh and even the tertiary things like one piece are in pretty heavy rotation, and mtg is always like six-nine months behind due to it shelfwarming so hard

It's not enough to make everyone brown, they have to be ugly and unpleasant as well.

The truth is that sheoldred was only a strong card in a weak standard, its an objectively worse version of a 10 year old siege rhino in every conceivable way.

for over 12 fucking years

This all started to happen after covid

eh, it also protects you from thoughtsieze, brainfeeze, most edicts etc
it's still not a great card since it doesn't protect itself or effectively win the game just by casting it like the good reanimation targets or control wincons but outside a couple combos it's notably stronger than platinum emperion

this is unsightly as fuck.

The main thing I see shelfwarming is Lorcana. I know jack shit about the game though, not sure if it's people sick of Disney's bullshit, if it sucks, if people are sticking to the current big names or what.

60 card formats suck ass.
Either your autistic combo pops off in the first 2 turns or your opponent's, and you might as well just scoop if it's not yours.
Highlander variants are the only formats worth playing, since there's at least some variety each game.

Competition is a healthy part of any decent game. Not everything needs to be a zero-stakes hugbox where you get to blame everything else for your losses.

This is one of the strongest standards of all time and you still see her around.

WotC are obsessed with tacking on DEI bullshit and catering to a very small audience of leftoids instead of a big one, so many characters are made ugly on purpose its crazy

the hands are so poorly drawn, they are about twice as long as normal hands for even a dude.

its because they are leftoids, always people misunderstand this.

Leftism in its current form, requires you to constantly virtue signal, at every increasing frequency and volume.

its not a matter of want, its a matter of urgent desperate need, any faltering, any pulling back of propaganda and virtue signalling and such, is an instant sign of weakness, its chum and blood dumped directly into the shark tank.

the only path forward for survival, is to out-leftist, the other leftists, and that is how we've gotten "here".

Its not complicated, there is literally a yugioh card with a similar effect and its old as shit.

They only hire blusky approved radical lefty artists these days, quality is not the priority only their allegiance to the cause

Are you so repulsed by the idea by the idea of having to interact with more than one person at once that you can't bring yourself to learn even basics of the format?

There's this thing called cEDH right, and the "c", follow me here for a moment, stands for "competitive"

"Bringing back" standard is impossible. If they want a short-term fast-rotating style format to start existing, they need to start printing multiple sets around a common theme and grouping them into 'blocks', and then create a format called 'block constructed' that allows you to use cards from every printed set in that block, and then rotation-creep that so that consecutive blocks can be played together in a sort of multiblock constructed format. Perhaps they can call it type 2, if it contains cards from the past 2 years.

as I said, its because they have to.

such is their religion, there is no going back, and there is no mercy, and no forgiveness.

yeah but so far she's no longer a 4x in a deck but mostly 2x since there are now cards with more impact and now even fucking green has some sort of removal.
my lgs still has standard ongoing but we only have 8-10 players compared to the 40+ players we had a decade ago in fnm and gamedays/pre release. Most of them either moved on, started playing yugioh/pokemon or are now playing edh

I don’t think you’re aware of this, but with decided to focus solely on EDH once Covid hit. This creature is designed entirely around thinking everyone using it plays commander exclusively, where nobody is playing burn

so standard is just what extended used to be

no, the current standard pool contains about twice as many legal cards as the largest extended pool. If wizards follows according to plan, then standard at the point of the rotation after next rotation will contain more cards than modern did at the time modern horizons was printed, and more cards than legacy did at the time modern was created.

so you can have both in a deck?

Because they killed gideon and then realized they were out of white people.

No, they are the same card. On the bottom of the universes within card you'll notice the ID number has a "=" on it indicating that its the same as chun li

the only way I'm ever gonna make an EDH deck is if I spite-build a relentless rats deck

Liliana Vess is still white. Unfortunately she's also pretty so they have to keep her vaulted as much as they can.

MTG has just devolved into Star Trek costume planet of the week excursions and being a Funko Pop substitute

why doesn't they put the stupid underline name then? do you think timmy will know they are the same card?

I can't wait for the new nintendo crossover, but being able to generate 1-up counters to delay losing the game seems busted.

why wouldn't it die to diabolic edict?

The thing about control curve toppers is that most of the WU 8 mana cards are timmy cards that do big splashy thing, when the majority of control decks already do big splashy thing with the rest of their hand and actually just want an unblockable 5/5 that can singlehandly blank 10 removal spells. Cards like pearl lake ancient.

they desperately want to India-ize Chandra since her mom is full on Indian, but they haven't because they know she's a brand icon.

but they would.. oh they would.

Timmy isn't meant to be buying Secret Lairs. Those are special limited releases for childless homosexuals and transgenders who are in arrested development and choose to spend their income in childish purchases with inflated pricetags for perceived prestige.

you the player can't be the target of the spell. Which is how it normally gets around a creature that protects itself, it targets the player and not the creature.

I think UB is the best thing hasbro has done

Fuck Nintendo.
Genshin Impact collab fucking when?

diabolic edict targets a player and makes them sacrifice, you can't be targeted if you have protection from your opponent

It's certainly cured me of any desires to ever spend another dollar on MTG

Oh boy is this another heckin round of this high cost card is totes mcgoats busted into nobody ever actually plays it?

her mom is Indian

That sounds like a retcon and a half

Anon, this set is 100% commander bait, it isn't interesting in the slightest (so far, anyway). The decision to make UB sets Standard legal happened after FF was already designed.

Is this MTG edit or am I missing something?

Mill and late game Thoughtsize are generally niche threats.
Emperion's upsise comes from the way you build your deck (see Madcap Emperion sideboards in Modern) and not what opponents you happen to encounter

I can't read. Thought the card said it had protection from opponents.

chandra has been fully retconned about 5? times now. She no longer comes from kaladesh, for example. The only consistent element of her characterization for the past 10 years is that no matter what she might be, she absolutely isnt anything like her original depiction in Purifying Fire

Ah yes, Delver of Secrets and Deathrite Shaman are famously unplayable in any format.

this card is utter trash and the only people who think it's anything but are EDH retards who've browbeat their playgroup into never playing interaction (it's hecking toxic and MAGA chud-coded)

deathrite combos into 3 drops

MtG is getting a Final Fantasy set in June. This thread has been the mayhem ensuing as spoiler season gets underway.

She no longer comes from kaladesh, for example.

What tbe absolute fuck? There's like 3 sets focusing on that

half the set are cids

the absolute state

EDH is so fucking boring half of it is listening to some fag whine that he was killed after jerking himself off every turn about how he is gonna win in x turns.

just play eternal card game instead

campaign

PvE gauntlet mode

multiplayer casual or ranked

draft against AI or other players

monthly draft tournament

incredibly generous f2p model

pinnacle of digital-only CCGs

yeah she isnt from there anymore, shes from avishkar now. its like kaladesh except less racist to indians.

that's just the new name for Khaladesh since their "cultural advisor" was just a grifter who scammed WotC

retard, kaladesh was renamed to avishkar

kaladesh

they even retconned the name of the plane due to their own racism lmao

only black character in the entire set is barret and it's not even a card of his own

?????????????????????????????????
HELLO HASBRO ARE YOU OK????????????

I mean, they kinda did it with Gideon at some point.

I agree. WotC decided they were worth milking more than the competitive players. I wish big events could still be a thing now that I can easily afford to drop the $700-$1000 you’d need for a good time at a GP in a big city

The FF set is gonna get on Arena as well, right?

Is it gonna add all the cards or just a few?

their "cultural advisor" was just a grifter who scammed WotC

lol what

Do people still play MTG on PC? I remember their first attempt f2p attempt failed.

Gideon's just mediterranean. The arguments about whether mediterraneans, who tan very easily and often have what is described as "olive" skin, are white, can be taken to Anon Babble.

so... will they ban any Kaladesh card with the "Kaladesh" name in it?
the day genshin gets a collab on UB, that day will be the day i retire for good

They have been for years

qru?

yes

In terms of playerbase alone, MTG Arena has been rather successful. You won't get anyone saying a word in favor of it here because this is Anon Babble, but I think it's mostly functional, even if I hate standard at the moment.

The core game is inherently designed for one-on-one, and the more recent shift to pushing EDH over at the expense of everything else has led to dozens of hilariously broken card designs.

I play on timeless/historical in Arena even though it's unbalanced as fuck because I don't have to deal with FOMO standard rules bullshit.

MtG Arena is probably one of the reasons we dont have players in lgs. It's like WotC is trying to kill the ones who helped our business all these years.

No. In lore, Kaladesh has been actually renamed, not retconned out to having always been Avishkar. As the revolution overthrew the consulate, they decided "Kaladesh" was a word for their homeland that was too politically associated with the consulate, and so came up with a new name.
Like how Russia is Russia, and not the USSR.

Still plenty of players in my local stores, I mostly just play Arena so I can play without shelling out 50 bucks for a mid prebuilt deck and then fifty bucks on top of that to make it usable.

Is it real MTG? With all mechanics from TCG like improved version of MTGO but without ability to exchange cards for real one or auction?

I will be shocked if I ever see someone transform him

Did they give up on pushing the lesbian angle? They tried shipping her with Lili and Nissa a few times.

Yeah pretty much, I can't really think of a mechanic that's in retail but not in Arena.

Actually there is one thing - it doesn't have a proper Commander mode, instead it has a 'Brawl' mode that has Commander rules but it's 1v1.

no because they have digital only cards that do some outrageous shit and some cards have their effects changed (nerfed) compared to their irl counterparts

You could probably get away with it with mana geyser assuming he makes it around the table.

I wonder which of the arts for this card will be the most valuable
My guess is Yuffie

go look up all FF cards

draw draw draw draw draw draw draw

EDH was a mistake

Did they give up on pushing the lesbian angle? They tried shipping her with Lili and Nissa a few times.

Get with the times, grampa.
Chandra has another elf pussy to bang now

It's "MtG" with all the modern FPS engagement algorithms keeping everyone at the same win rate to maximize engagement/spending.

we all know DINK fags are gonna buy up Barret

but I think it's mostly functional

I played it for like two days a few months back and in that time I got a hard crash to desktop, and a window not closing for ing me to time out
It's not half as functional as Master Duel, somehow

THE GREAT CATACLYS, FAITHFULLY RECREATED!

There's like 5 cards. You are bitching at nothing.

I mean just based on its ability alone, who would ever take this over card draw

it's literally five cards if you turn him sideways

No, she's still fucking Nissa. In fact, the whole reason she participated in that race was to get the Aetherspark for her.

its not even EDH, its the arenafags coming from hearthstone whose most common complaint is "its turn 3 and i dont have 10 mana and 9 cards in hand. fix this wizards"

Not Pandemonium Warden

LOL

8 mana just to die to Wrath of God

KEK

didn't wotc put out a novel where chandra was unequivocally not smashing clams with nissa and it pissed off these guys so hard they had to immediately nuke it?

i will transform him, but only with waxing moon after giving him all creature types.

doesn't those cards come in the commander deck? how does that work

The novel was deemed noncanon for many more reasons than that, not least of which because it was fucking awful.

they had to immediately nuke it

if by 'it' you mean 'the entire concept of mtg lore' then yes, they did immediately stop publishing books and releasing lore articles in response to both the western backlash of chandra being bisexual instead of strictly lesbian and the following chinese backlash of discovering that western chandra is supposed to be a lesbian.

these full art cards are so fucking ugly

yeah, the War of Spark shit novel.
It was fucking terrible and I still remember how they fucking pushed Kaya so much she was the only one able to transport living things from other planes through the blind eternities.

8: lose self-mill

That's because they use old official key art from Square, which had no background

reprint fucking when?

is square paying you bots to shill this slop?

what the fuck is even this card, red, zell, effect does fuck all related to red or zell

Anon it's already free advertising for Square Enix. If anyone would be paying shills, it would be Hasbro.

Monks have now become associated with land drops. Don't think too hard about it.

In the Marvel™ Sentry® set
get excited!

All four precons are white, so one version in each of them.

I like the new set

ff8 cards are so bad overall, its like they got the short end of the stick

Square didn't even acknowledge last year was FF8's 20th anniversary. So i guess people at Square have a beef with it.

well, it's shit, that's a good enough reason.

Yjk

FEEL MY POWER

I can kinda understand the double strike and attack alone considering emo squall and gunblade double hit, but why the "revive"?

8 mana for a removal magnet

dogshit i'm afraid, it itself doesn't even have removal protection

im going to jam this nigga into my tergrid deck

Guess you play modern

YOU have protection, it doesn't have any type of protection

ALL OF EXISTENCE, BENT TO MY WILL

*turns table 90 degrees*

Not everything is flavor. It's a game, not an art gallery. Sephiroth is mechanically interesting and probably very playable for an MtG card, but nothing about him is Sephirothy.

using nomenclature like "raid bosses" in reference to FFXI

Philistines.

You can use anything to kill it, it has no protection and costs 8 mana, meaning your opponent will probably not respond to your removal either. It's an incredibly low tempo play and doesn't help much if you can't protect it.

mechanically interesting

blood artist with card draw

lol
lmao

Sorry modern niggers this is a edh only thread

Posts a card legal in standard and modern

kys commandernig, nobody likes you

Post YFW I thoracle your ass.

Magic turned to complete shit during KtK.

My honest reaction to that information

Cid is a single card.

Don't care, I just know it makes modern niggers seethe because it's not a one drop with protection from everything, Deathtouch and if this enters the battlefield you win the game

Blood artist with emblem and flying 5/5 body and mass sacrifice and EMBLEM ON A FUCKING CREATURE.
Also since when was Blood Artist a bad, mechanically uninteresting thing? It's much better than the "fixed" Blood Artist replacements that only trigger off dying opponent's creatures.

60 card formats are designed for one on one. EDH is designed for a free for all between four players. Format rules and legality informs a lot of what the game is "supposed" to be.

Also, cards have undergone formatting changes over the last several years that makes their designs just as effective in multi-player formats as 1v1, such as changes to edict effects which specify "each opponent".

Cards made explicitly for commander stay in commander sets and aren't standard legal. Do you see many people running sol ring in RDW?

such a perfect flavor on point effect.

youtube.com/watch?v=rQjIuUDlWfI

turn 3 mono green lethal

If you've got the right 3 cards and your enemy has no board or instant speed removal to deal with a 1/2, yeah.
Definitely gonna see some goofy fringe play, probably won't win the meta because Burst Lightning still exists.

sort of, he's a Parasite like his mom sucking up energy from the planet.

blood artist effects are boring as shit nigger, no matter how much they try to powercreep them. theres just so many at this point its boring and this is just 1 more to the pile.

Bullshit. Nothing is interesting in your world, you just want an excuse to whine. Go be a cunt on Anon Babble.

3 cards

try 2 and and a fetch land

and a fetch land

yea about those in Standard...

its not bullshit just because you dont like hearing the truth

Wait a minute this nigga's actually pretty good in edh.

and a fetch land

So in other words, Fabled Passage, the third card in question.

everything's good in EDH because you're not playing with spastics trying to win as fast as possible

I mean he is David Bowie, what do you expect.

youtube.com/watch?v=t365MuktYQs

Mother fucker costs 8 in a color pairing with low mana production and poor recursion.
If you manage to get it out on the field, you probably deserved to win. Which is sad, considering the card isn't even a guaranteed victory.

Unless you are. Which, hey, im glad the sweats who like the game that fast and nasty have options

Personally, im a high power EDH fan, tho sometimes I like precon pods and Mario party shit

Have you not heard of the 18-hour battle against Pandemonium Warden?
This.

uhh your evolving wilds bro?

yes

you should play really bad cards in your deck so that once every 20 games you high roll a potential kill

Yes, fine, Fabled Passage can be substituted with Evolving Wilds, and Adventurer's Pack can be substituted with Titanic Growth, but it's still going to be three cards in one hand to get the turn 3 20/6 trampler. And if they have a blocker up, that may not seal the game.
Tifa will definitely see play. I would put money on it. Will she dominate? We will see.

Yeah thats commander in a nutshell alright

Should've had a tap ability that taps all untapped permanents and untaps all tapped permanents.
So every card rotates 90 degrees :^)

I like escape tunnel.

Escape tunnel is pretty cool too bad about the low power requirement

The ally-color fetches just got a reprint in Tarkir, they'll be legal at the same time Tifa is

which one trigger first? the +2 or the doubling?

To be fair, it's probably great with something like Tifa where you can give it the ability before you power her up.
Of course, that also means you're going to miss your second land drop.

You control the order of triggers you control, so you can say +2/+2 goes over the doubling.

Your triggers, you choose how to stack them

ACKSHUALLY

who gives a fuck, NERD!!

bah, whatever, fag.

Did you miss

lazy

Im sure it has more to do with money and licensing than not wanting to copy and paste art they've used already

Where the fuck is Estinien

mfw when someone tries to cheat out a giant stompy like every other noob deck out there

He might not get a card. It took awhile for Estinien to become a core member of the Scions, he only "permanently" joined the crew in Endwalker. So he might be low on the XIV list.
We got this generic dragoon though.

It's only partial spoilers so far, the full spoiler will be coming in a bit.

baseline would be a single card of each party member of each game

doubt we will get anyone else from 2,3,5,8

meanwhile we have 4 clouds

I hate square and hasbro so much

Standard is the advertisement format and edh is the actual meat and bones
But with all of this power creep that format is going down the shitter as well

so you just play maze in every single deck you own?

its not terrible but you better make that token count or else you just have a very expensive to equip equipment with little utility for its cost

have to put the game on the bottom because otherwise nobody would know

the absolute state

Yeah, and FFXIV got the most cards, too. It's like WoTC wants people to buy the set or something.

>doubt we will get anyone else from 2,3,5,8

We are definitely, unquestionably getting The Onion Knight (with a The, not Luneth), the Cloud of Darkness, Exdeath, and Seifer. Very very high chance of Faris, Laguna, and Selphie, too.
Don't know if anyone from II will make it in other than Firion and the Emperor, but at the same time I can imagine a Minwu card. Put that closer to 50-50 odds.

if its a deck where my focus is not having creatures that can deal with giant stompies themselves, yes. meekstone or ensaring bridge work too in those cases.

if they cared about popularity FFX wouldn't be a commander deck

Oh it's unquestionably draft chaff, but if you play it with Firion you get bonus dudes.

Honestly great selection of cards for this set. They even put fucking Hildibrand in this shit.

Are there any FF villains that are not yet confirmed? So far we got FF1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15.
Unless Gabranth, Vayne, or any of the FF16 villains were announced and I didn't see, those seem missing.

we need more FFII cards, quick think of something

we have this generic spell we were going to put on another set, lets use that and get some meme moment to represent it

Im stupid, if its a flippable token, is that text on both sides?

Man, nobody cares about FFI or FFII. The former doesn't even have named characters. Of course they are barely getting cards.

I haven't seen any villains from III, V, XI, or XIII. (Unless we're counting Absolute Virtue as a "villain", it's just a big NM lmao) Though Cloud of Darkness and Exdeath are 100% in without any possibility of question.

Tokens can't flip. When they try to transform, nothing happens instead.

tokens can indeed transform. I know that much

What do you mean we got the real villain of XIII right here on the right.

nobody cares about FFI

I ditched 13 pretty quickly since I got party wiped because my player character got targetted so I never knew these 2 became the Big Bad

Two rules.
111.6. A token is subject to anything that affects permanents in general or that affects the token’s card type or subtype. A token isn’t a card (even if represented by a card that has a Magic back or that came from a Magic booster pack).
701.25a. Only permanents represented by double-faced cards can transform. If a spell or ability instructs a player to transform any permanent that isn't represented by a double-faced card, nothing happens.

Only double-faced cards can transform. Tokens are not cards. Tokens cannot transform.

think someone at square or hasbro fucking hate FFXII

I haven't seen any villains from III, V, XI, or XIII

Gilgamesh got a card. But yes, Exdeath is obviously getting one too.

What is this blurry ass art?

standard

tokens are a copy of a card, double sided or not. if its double sided that would obviously get copied as well

You play the fetch, order the +2/+2 to resolve first, and then with the power double still unresolved on the stack crack the fetch for a land, putting another +2/+2 and a second power double on the stack. +2/+2 resolves to make tifa a 5/6, and then the power double from the cracked fetch, and then the original double from playing the fetch for a total of 20 power.

Its a bit of a meme because no trample and dies to doomblade. you could try fling but that only solves the blockers problem.

Third rule time.
707.2. When copying an object, the copy acquires the copiable values of the original object’s characteristics and, for an object on the stack, choices made when casting or activating it (mode, targets, the value of X, whether it was kicked, how it will affect multiple targets, and so on). The copiable values are the values derived from the text printed on the object (that text being name, mana cost, color indicator, card type, subtype, supertype, rules text, power, toughness, and/or loyalty), as modified by other copy effects, by its face-down status, and by “as . . . enters” and “as . . . is turned face up” abilities that set power and toughness (and may also set additional characteristics). Other effects (including type-changing and text-changing effects), status, counters, and stickers are not copied.

"Double faced card" is not a copiable value, it's not text printed on the object.

ts a bit of a meme because no trample

Read the card

Malboro being a common is a fucking disgrace.

kek, FFXII only got 2 cards, and the other one is a fucking land

color identity isn't printed on a card either but its assumed to have it since tokens aren't considered colorless

We don't have the full set yet. Vaan is definitely going to get a card.
Dunno about Vayne. But I can certainly see Venat being an interesting colorless card, and Sky-Fortress Bahamut as some kind of big vehicle.

human rabbit

color identity isn't printed on a card

707.2a A copy acquires the color of the object it’s copying because that value is derived from its mana cost or color indicator. A copy acquires the abilities of the object it’s copying because those values are derived from its rules text. A copy doesn’t wind up with two values of each ability (that is, it doesn’t copy the object’s abilities and its rules text, then have that rules text define a new set of abilities).

It's getting a couple more cards, probably Vaan, Basch, and maybe Vayne.

Not counting Dawntrail because too recent, out of the major FFXIV villains, we're still missing Yotsuyu, King Thordann and Nidhogg.

Can I build dissidia.dek for EDHomo format and have a good time? Do the heroes have synergy?

oh its based on the indicator? if only there were other indicators on a card telling you what it is without explicitly mentioning it in the card...

X and Y

We March of The Machine now

How very glib. And do you believe in Eorzea? Eorzea's unity is forged of falsehoods. Its city-states are built on deceit. And its faith is an instrument of deception.
It is naught but a cobweb of lies. To believe in Eorzea is to believe in nothing. In Eorzea, the beast tribes often summon gods to fight in their stead--though your comrades only rarely respond in kind. Which is strange, is it not?
Are the "Twelve" otherwise engaged? I was given to understand they were your protectors. If you truly believe them your guardians, why do you not repeat the trick that served you so well at Carteneau, and call them down? They will answer--so long as you lavish them with crystals and gorge them on aether. Your gods are no different than those of the beasts--eikons every one. Accept but this, and you will see how Eorzea's faith is bleeding the land dry.
Nor is this unknown to your masters. Which prompts the question: Why do they cling to these false deities? What drives even men of learning--even the great Louisoix--to grovel at their feet? The answer? Your masters lack the strength to do otherwise! For the world of man to mean anything, man must own the world. To this end, he hath fought ever to raise himself through conflict--to grow rich through conquest. And when the dust of battle settles, is it ever the strong who dictate the fate of the weak.
Knowing this, but a single path is open to the impotent ruler--that of false worship. A path which leads to enervation and death. Only a man of power can rightly steer the course of civilization. And in this land of creeping mendacity, that one truth will prove its salvation.
Come, champion of Eorzea, face me! Your defeat shall serve as proof of my readiness to rule! It is only right that I should take your realm. For none among you has the power to stop me!

WHERE IS HE, WOTC?
WHERE IS HE?!

Kuja not having blue along with those colors seems fucked.

We can keep going in circles, but double facedness is not copiable.

Get in line.

I enjoy the joke well done.

monowhite Merciless Eviction

I never noticed how few birds there are in magic, only 5 birds and one is UN

youve yet to show me a rule that says that. just lots of rules that you're implying it from, despite none of them actually coming out and saying it.

FF2 Cid looks like an 80s gay pornstar.

Better version "one or more"

Since we're all throwing around rules without understanding them.

707.8a If an effect creates a token that is a copy of a transforming permanent or a transforming double-faced card not on the battlefield, the resulting token is a transforming token that has both a front face and a back face. The characteristics of each face are determined by the copiable values of the same face of the permanent it is a copy of, as modified by any other copy effects that apply to that permanent. If the token is a copy of a transforming permanent with its back face up, the token enters the battlefield with its back face up. This rule does not apply to tokens that are created with their own set of characteristics and enter the battlefield as a copy of a transforming permanent due to a replacement effect.

Example: Afflicted Deserter is the front face of a transforming double-faced card, and the name of its back face is Werewolf Ransacker. If an effect creates a token that is a copy of that transforming permanent, the token also has the same two faces and can transform. It enters the battlefield with the same face up as the permanent that it is a copy of.

Example: Clone is not a transforming double-faced card, so a token that is created as a copy of a Clone is not a transforming token, even if it enters the battlefield as a copy of a transforming permanent due to Clone’s replacement effect.

It's all a great headache.

they don't, they save the day by becoming Ragnarok and stopping the bad thing.

unironically it's probably traced

all of them are depicted being chill, just posing

FFIV Cid is in the middle of killing himself with a bomb and FFXII Cid is when he is going insane summoning that bigass thing with the jar and using the chaingun

Gal Ur

Damn they got fuckin orcs as artists in WoTC now? No wonder it looks so gay.

?

I don't know much about magic, but isnt a card you can have infinite and cycling kind op to trim your deck?

Cards are limited to 4 copies by name. They're all the same card with different art.

reading the card explains the card

read the fucking card

2 mana to draw 1 is pretty weak, so no

A deck can have any number of cards named Cid, Timeless Artificer

Pretty sure this means you can put as many copies as you want.

hey can you read Cid, Timeless Artificer again?

Unironically the colored cycling cost requirement is what keeps this in check (not to mention the 4 MV cost to actually play), but yes this type of thing can be a valuable way to up your consistently.

The other issue is that all formats are insanely fast now due to how pushed everything is thanks to them not understanding the damage done by having commander focused cards legal in other formats.

Not really in this case you'd just draw another Cid if you load your deck with them.

genshin collab fucking when?

Hopefully never

The other issue is that all formats are insanely fast now due to how pushed everything is thanks to them not understanding the damage done by having commander focused cards legal in other formats.

he thinks Heartfire Hero, Slickshot Show-Off, Monstrous Rage, Manifold Mouse, and Cori-Steel Cutter are "commander focused cards"

the only confusion comes from cards that transformed but weren't double sided. those still don't transform, but a double sided card will

An object (e.g. token or spell) which is created as a copy of a transforming double-faced object will now itself be double-faced and capable of transforming, copying the source object's front and back faces regardless of which one is currently visible. It also copies the source object's transform state, so the copy will come into existence with the same face visible as the source.

we will get a genshin collab and you will like it

Shivaniggers rejoice!

FF8chuds, I'm sorry for what they did to you. Why would squall care about the graveyard? Lol

I know Shiva ice it's gotta be blue but Jill would absolutely not be blue.

I mean yea. If we really got into the weeds, most FF characters would be best represented by the color red lol

Does exile and return mean she basically loops every two turns?

which mtg card has the hottest art?

Arena baby thinks that Standard is the only format affected by this and this hasn't been going on since MH1 (or even earlier with TNN in Legacy, etc)

Commander design as the "primary audience" is a death sentence for all formats. You are just seeing the most recent effects.

Yes. The main idea is that it functions not unlike how she returns back to her natural state in the game.

scryfall.com/search?as=grid&order=name&page=3&q=art:absolute-territory&unique=art

art:absolute-territory

what sorcery is this

You COULD build it. At the very very VERY least you could proxy Morophon as the Warrior of Light and run every hero card.

As for whether it'll be GOOD? Remains to be seen. There's lots of cards from this set that remain unspoiled, we'll only know if we're getting an Ezio-tier hero tribal commander out of it once the dust settles

AT field is a nip meme based on Evangelion in reference to the forcefield that protects the angels.

The joke is that the gap between high-thighs and skirts is considered holy ground so sacred that even fabric is prohibited from encroaching on it, and group of mad-lads went through and actually tagged all the art in Magic where you could see exposed thighs.

Will the cowards at WotC at least print enough variety of moogle cards so I can make a moogle tribal deck?

Nah you'll just get Stilzkin, probably Mog from 6 and maybe that fucking abomination from FXIII-2.

for me I was wishing chocobos had the "you can add as many as you want to your deck" to make a full chocobo deck

Were 11 raid bosses this busted?

There was a boss in 11 that, on first implementation, took an organized guild well over 18 hours or something to fight and they didn't even beat it.

I unironically would love mog from xiii-2 (xiii was my first game and subsequently the remaining trilogy), but they already said only mainline titles are in this set no sequel/spin offs