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

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Elspeth coming back from the dead just to get compleated would be the saddest story ever.

I could see some of the "bad planeswalkers" like Tibalt and Tezzeret compleated though.

there are lots of walkers Id happily sacrifice to the phyrexians

tamiyo was not one of them

UltimaterializerX posted...

Why save her? She is now perfect.

This.

The Phyrexians are great. A major character becoming one is an improvement.

Seems more likely they make Elspeth the defacto hero of this Phyrexian arc than have her compleated.

Compleat Jace you cowards

I do appreciate that Tamiyo and Tibalt both got prominent story roles recently. Always liked both of them.

now time to bring Angrath back for a starring role (that hopefully doesnt result in something bad happening to him)

There are some really good looking cards for mono white agro in NEO so far, so I have a feeling it's going to be around for awhile. There's still plenty of time to see how things shake out, but it seems like WotC now wants little white men to fill the spot that little red men did for so many years going back.

http://www.mythicspoiler.com/neo/cards/mechtitancore.html

Megazord, nice.

Man I just read the story

Poor Tamiyo, I am depressed now. How many times does bad stuff have to happen before they just wisen up and kill tezzerret? They had him at their mercy multiple times and now this happens

https://magic.wizards.com/en/story

https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/comments/shnq75/neo_you_are_already_dead/

NANI?!

This set is crazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNQs_Bef_V8

It's a line from a famous anime that got turned into a meme.

omae wa mou shindeiru

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/2/4/9/AAGQPmAAC4Yx.jpg

I might just have to go and be the most annoying person on draft night now. Oh, the Fist of the North Star references I can make.

Bump.

Prerelease coming up this weekend.

Ordered a box for the first time sine strixhaven.

Pretty excited for this one!

Yeah, I think this set is going to actually get me to log into Arena for the first time since the summer.

I wonder how many people play the game but don't read the story and see tamiyo and are like WHAT!

Probably a decent amount, a lot of people don't even know where the stories are.

Granted those people probably have less attachment to characters as well.

Ah yeah, crushing people in the new draft set in ....bronze 4 because I haven't played in months

Early draft returns from MTGA:
fake 7-2 (7th win was a disconnect) with this GB deck:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/5/2/AAVrqJAAC6iU.jpg

Also had a draft with p1p1 Wandering Emperor, p2p1 Kaito, p3p1 Tezzeret, and a couple other drafts with the bad drafting/piloting combo.

having a great time here on the internet

feels like theres a lot of fun little synergy

really love the black aura thats just a complicated way to cast murder. Theres a bunch of ways to reuse it.

Went to my local store today to pick up my prerelease kit and apparently they just restarted in-store events. Argh, if I knew ahead of time I would've played. Nothing super fancy in my kit but I feel like my commons and uncommons would've made a decent ninja deck.

Beat 3 dragons in round 2 of my prerelease

Bounce is good

Sky Turtle is savage

Ive got a deck right now with the one black reanimation spell + the sky turtle and a couple of the counter crabs

channeling a counter spell then reanimating a giant crab feels pretty dang good

hit back to back 7-win drafts today, this time with BW and BU, apparently I need to draft black this set to win big.

https://i.imgur.com/yLpkTpU.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/FIEfM29.jpg

Also Virus Beetle + any ninja is crushing.

Went 7-1 with a white/red samurai deck today. I wasn't super sure about the synergy going into it but it's pretty sweet once you get a couple samurai on the board.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdXwsqmVoUI

Hmm.

I am really enjoying this draft format. It may actually be the best one that's ever been on Arena. I always feel like there are plenty of payables and even without big splashy bombs you can do quite well.

1st draft: WUB crap (2-3) - I just couldn't get it the first time. I just great black cards for picks 1-4 so I assumed it was fairly open, then it dried up. I went with white as a second color and that soon dried up too, so I tried to dive in to blue to salvage what I had and, well, no luck.

2nd Draft: WB "balance" (6-3) - Started the draft thinking "oh god, try for anything but B/W because that didn't work last time" It sure worked this time. I actually got passed 4 of the BW uncommons but, because they're legendary, I only ended up taking two. No one had a problem giving me the goods this time and I ran with it.

3rd Draft: UR trash (3-?) - This was the free "phantom" draft against the bots. The bots do not take or give signals and the pile I ended up with was mediocre. I got a few losses before I strung together 3 wins and quit.

4th Draft: GW enchantments (7-1) - This time I was finally feeling my groove, I guess. I actually thought I had a pretty sub-standard pile but it was not. My only loss came against another GW deck and we literally got to the point where he drew his last card and won. His deck was actually a lot better than mine, I think, but I'm 90% sure I could have decked him if not for one very significant misplay.

5th Draft: UW artifacts (5-3) - So this wasn't a vehicles deck, I actually only picked up one vehicle though I'd have licked more. No, my p1p1 was Tezzeret, and I was more busy picking up some stuff with good synergy there. It's awesome that you can take your smaller artifact creatures like say Acquisition Octopus and make them 4/4. I also had double Replication Specialist, which did mad amounts of work. The only thing I question was my p2p2 - I took Hoverbike over mechtitan thinking I'd never really be able to pull it off. I was wrong on that, but the hoverbike flashing in and tapping oppo creatures figured in so often that maybe I made the right choice? No way to know for sure now.

ChichiriMuyo posted...

The only thing I question was my p2p2 - I took Hoverbike over mechtitan thinking I'd never really be able to pull it off. I was wrong on that, but the hoverbike flashing in and tapping oppo creatures figured in so often that maybe I made the right choice? No way to know for sure now.

I went 4-3 in sealed with mechitan. I figured, if you pull mechitan in sealed and you dont build your deck around it, what are you even doing with your life?

Well, this was draft. I'd be interested in taking it p1p1 and building around it there for sure.

Turn 1 1/1 flier,
turn 2 +2/+0 artifact that gives your equipped creatures the abilities of creatures that died + equip

might be the most busted first two turns I have ever had in limited. That equipment was absurdly good

yeah its fucked up to see a strictly better Bonesplitter

good ass card

MoogleKupo141 posted...

yeah its fucked up to see a strictly better Bonesplitter

good ass card

It's not strictly better given how good some of the graveyard recursion is in this set. The green regrowth of an enchantment and a creature is nuts. Same with the golgori eternal witness

But I would say if your deck has a decent key word density it's way better yeah

UltimaterializerX posted...

Keywords barely matter. Its a 1 mana equipment with a 1 mana equip cost giving +2.

Right, which is a blonesplitter. But it exiles on death