Board 8 > Magic the Gathering: Crimson Vow of the Neon Dynasty

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Wow those are some sweet basics.

The full art lands look fantastic but I do kinda wish we got one cycle that reflected the cyberpunk aesthetic of Neon Dynasty. I guess that'll be on the normal lands but I wanted to see it in full art.

If you have to mull to 5 or 4 in 9 straight games, your deck is bad.

So a week into Alchemy and I'm shocked at the number of people playing mono white. The deck isn't nearly as good as it is in standard, even with the new Alchemy cards that fit in it, and if you really don't have the resources to invest in a new deck why not use your existing deck where it's actually top tier?

Very few people play Izzet turns in the format, though it's hella funny when you can tell your opponent is trying to figure out why they didn't get the birds or why they don't have enough mana to cast a foretold Epiphany.

Clerics, Werewolves, and Dragons are all good, a real plus for anyone who is a fan of those tribes. Dragons is stupidly expensive, though, and very draw dependent. As someone who wanted to see Party be a thing it's sadly not, even less so than standard. For those who wanted Venture to be a thing... sorry, Venture will probably never be a thing.

Of course it's probably going to see another shakeup in a week, so we'll see how things turn out.

Satoru turning everything into ninjas is interesting.

All existing MTGO accounts get a free vintage cube draft

I kinda wish I still knew how to log into my MTGO account.

Satoru turning everything into ninjas has the potential to break Modern. Thankfully it's not a cheap ability.

I have successfully remembered my account password of all 3 of my MTGO accounts that I made for free player drafts a decade ago.

Hooray

Edit:

I have also P1P1'd sneak attack 3 drafts in a row now. Weird

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/8/7/AANz_VAACv7L.jpg

This deck was sweet. Needed a golos

Woo, just went 7-2 in a draft on Arena with a green/white humans deck. Been a while since I hit 7 wins.

i see champions of kamigawa card skins on arena today

how do you get the actual cards?

banananor posted...

i see champions of kamigawa card skins on arena today

how do you get the actual cards?

The hondens are in Historic Anthology 3 - it looks like the bundle is out of the store so you would need to craft them with wildcards.

UltimaterializerX posted...

So what's good to draft in Ikoria? My store is drafting it on Friday.

R/W Cycling is far and away the best thing to draft, especially if you snag a Zenith Flare or Flourishing Fox early. Sadly most people know this, so if you're playing with a pretty knowledgeable group you may find yourself fighting for scraps very early. B/W humans and U/G mutate are also pretty decent, though nothing compared to getting cycling uncontested.

It's also possible to go G/B reanimator, U/R spells matter or one of the five keyword tribals - vigilance, menace, flying, flash, trample. I've gone 7-X with both vigilance and trample tribal, so if your opponents are fighting each other over the cycling and mutate cards these are also possibilities if you're seeing the good rares/uncommons for them. Unlike the above three, there's no gain in forcing any of these. Only go for them if the cards are coming to you.

Oh, and most of the companions are still obscenely powerful even with the tax or even if you have to run them main deck. I once had someone pass me Obosh and unless he got a Zenith Flare I can't believe he made the right choice.

16 lands is too many in that deck. I would have gone 15 or 14 if you really had 5 non cycling cards

UltimaterializerX posted...

For you this is a good idea. If I had tried that I would have seen zero lands every game. You know this.

What a dumb statement. If this is true you need to just buy a mechanical auto shuffler and use it every game

Then just quit man, because you are never going to be good or enjoy magic if you think the universe is out to get you. Magic isn't the game for you

I wouldn't have run 16 lands in cycling either. With so many cards that cycle for one you should never have land problems. I don't know how to help you with your land problems other than to tell you to rethink them entirely. Everyone gets hit with flood/screw, you're not special in that. Either you need to learn how to build better, mulligan better, or just stop doing whatever screwed up "shuffle" you're doing... This shit hits everybody, but I've never experienced anyone who legitimately gets screwed/flooded every game.

Bump.

I think Neon Dynasty spoilers start soon?

Ulti claiming the card game is the problem and not him? Where have I heard that before?

Bump again.

While they are unconfirmed, I find it odd that the Dragon Spirits don't all follow the pattern. Why doesn't the white one have a death trigger the red and black ones (and the originals).

Possibly a story thing like with Hazoret

Bans incoming Tuesday. I wonder what could go???

Scurry Oak in Historic could go. It's not overpowered really, but a 3 card infinite combo is annoying AF.

Epiphany, divide, and haven banned in standard.

Is there much of a reason for any deck to be running snow other than the red shock, green fight, or black wipe any more? I feel like haven was the main thing i saw in snow decks

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/january-25-2022-banned-and-restricted-announcement

Also changes to alchemy
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/alchemy-rebalancing-january-27-2022

Teferi, Time Raveler has been rebalanced and unbanned.

Argh Alchemy.

Ragavan being banned in Legacy is interesting though, wonder how that will affect the price.

Does anyone actually believe that banning haven is going to be enough to keep mono G/mono W in check?

Alchemy is a digital only format though, do people actually try to play it in real life? Sounds messy.

Hoping Ragavan gets banned in Modern soon too so I can afford to put it in my dumb pirate tribal commander deck

Nevermind, misread your original post.

I agree with you.

The stories for Kamigawa are all out. Wow, that ending was not what I expected.

I think official spoilers start shortly too.

Im so angry about the end of that story

As someone who only kind of follows mtg lore these days some one give me a quick summary?

Just read the epilogue.

Or look at this card.

https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/se3spg/neo_tamiyo_compleated_sage/

Well then

Since she's my favorite walker I'm even more glad I don't play any longer.

Although the fact that the keyworded that makes me think a lot of known walkers are going to be completed and there will be a way to reverse them in the story later?

I kinda hope they don't reverse it, the Magic lore doesn't really have enough stakes at it is.

The keyword could be for other planeswalkers but maybe it could apply to creatures as well. A downside for paying life for Phyrexian mana.

Theres a ton of Planeswalkers at this point, they can afford to lose a few more.

although I do kind of hope they figure out a way to just save her

like theres at least four monowhite Planeswalkers running around (elspeth, wanderer, teyo, basri). May as well just compleat Teyo. Maybe Daretti too. Kaya if they want to go big.