Magic: the Gathering - T: Add Three Mana Of Any One Colour To Your Mana Pool

[Seika]

TROLLED BY WOTC.

[mAc Chaos]

TROLLED BY WOTC.

An evergreen statement.

[Seika]

I like this one, though. Holding something back from spoiler season was a good prank that they somehow pulled off properly, it's cool that even some of the limited chaff they put in to try to make this a draftable format was still properly Un-set in some aspect, and they put a thumb in the eye of people who were complaining about that.

[aldeayeah]

Lo, new semi-official D&D content! This time it's an adventure.

http://www.dmsguild.com/product/2286...-variants=true

Coolest thing: official-ish stat blocks for Velociraptor, Deinonychus, Chupacabras and Frilled Deathspitter (<- totally the Dilophosaurus from Jurassic Park)

[aldeayeah]

Fast sketch of a Modern brew to iterate on:

GRIXIS THING

Creatures (12)

4 Thing in the Ice 1U
4 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy 1U
4 Snapcaster Mage 1U

Instants (20)

4 Lightning Bolt R
4 Fatal Push B
4 Opt U
2 Terminate BR
2 Kolaghan's Command 1BR
4 Cryptic Command 1UUU

Sorceries (8)

4 Thoughtseize B
2 Claim // Fame B // 1R
2 Dreadbore BR

Lands (20)

2 Creeping Tar Pit
4 Scalding Tarn
4 Polluted Delta
2 Bloodstained Mire
2 Steam Vents
2 Watery Grave
2 Island
1 Swamp
1 Mountain

Maybeboard

Abrade
Collective Brutality
Logic Knot
Rise // Fall
Faithless Looting
Chart a Course
Search for Azcanta
More cantrips

* * *

This was originally an attempt to make a more controlling Grixis Death's Shadow build, except at some point Death's Shadow itself got axed.

[aldeayeah]

I'm at a point in which either I sink a ton of money into paper Legacy, or sell out of the format.

The six RL cards I have (4x Mox Diamond, 2x Transmute Artifact) were like $200 when I bought them less than two years ago. They are $750 now.

I think I'm going to sell out of and get the (few) Modern staples I'm missing. I mean, Tarmos are cheaper than ever...

[Lycodrake]

So one final Duel Deck before they transition to Challenger Decks, which sounds like Event decks revamped.

[Seika]

Huh, some old silver-border errata for 2017.

Ladies Knight: Women's clothing is designed to be worn exclusively by women -> You can define women's clothing as you see fit. Be reasonable.
Sex Appeal: If there are more players in the room of the opposite sex -> If there are more people in the room of a different gender than you are as you cast this spell

[aldeayeah]

What if your gender changes between casting and resolution? Isn't the condition checked again?

(This is a serious question in Munchkin+Unset Constructed.)

[Seika]

The as you cast clause should fix it for the entire duration of the casting and resolution, like it does for that cycle of Lorwyn spells that count your number of a land type.

(Ooh, nearly, Seika. They're Shadowmoor. And, of the cycle, it's literally only Jaws of Stone that does that because you have to declare targets and changing the damage mid-spell messes with that. But pretty close).

Anyway, the Gatherer rulings specifically say that Jaws is locked even if anything changes thereafter, so I assume the same applies here. Also, wow, those were such great spells. Armored Ascension and Corrupt and Jaws of Stone were massive Limited beatings in that environment, and Howl of the Night Pack has fuelled many a very silly casual ramp deck with Boundless Realms.

[aldeayeah]

Whoa, Jeskai Control mirror in the finals of the SGC Open. This format never fails to surprise.

[aldeayeah]

https://magic.wizards.com/en/article...lan-2018-01-09

Includes an appendix on the colors with the following color-alignment key:

White: Good (any) or Lawful (any)
Blue: Neutral (any)
Black: Evil (any)
Red: Chaotic (any)
Green: Neutral (any)

[Seika]

Yeah. Barring maybe Black being locked as Evil, despite Magic's usual protestations on that front, I thought those were reasonably fair. But the two-colour combos started getting pretty debatable.

[aldeayeah]

Aye, I rolled my eyes at RW being LG.

So Vraska is still love, which means she will be getting a mindwipe soon (on the flip side, she has access to a wealth of enchantment removal, being green and all.)

[Seika]

It's kinda odd because RW being LG is quite a restricted interpretation of that pair that seems mainly to be based on the Boros Guild (the wonderful bit of flavour that is the Vengeance Statute aside). On the other hand, BG being NE isn't very Golgari at all, since they've been all the way up and down the Good-Evil spectrum over the course of Ravnica flavour.

[Seika]

Jace habitually using illusions to make himself look buff is good.

[aldeayeah]

Jace's guild friendship/romance/bromance list:

Azorius
Dimir
Rakdos
Gruul
Selesnya
Orzhov
Izzet
Golgari
Boros
Simic

Four down, six to go. Watch out Teysa.

[Seika]

Depends on if Gids counts as Boros.

[aldeayeah]

Renounce the Guilds happened before G met Jace so imma say no. He's more of an occasional independent contractor.

[aldeayeah]

Crashed in the prerelease 0-2 orz

BW fliers+removal+lifelink+black elder dino looked good on paper, but got crushed by RG twice