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    Quote Originally Posted by Spaceboytg View Post
    I haven't played pretty much in the last year but hearing that shocks are going to be in Guilds of Ravnica kinda has me interested to start playing again. Plus, Ravnica.
    With the shocks being reprinted I think they'll all go down to the $5-$10 range, which would be great for everyone playing.

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    Something about this card makes me think it's gonna be super OP and banned quickly. A two-mana, one-color sorcery to destroy any creature. Sure, you have to sacrifice one too, but you get a benefit out of that part too.

    I do NOT understand why they still print garbage like this. This is a mediocre, balanced card at two mana, three mana cheaper than this, and it's still not a great card at that cost.

    Convoke is back and it's once again garbage. most of the cards are terribly overpriced, forcing you to convoke.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pendulous View Post
    Something about this card makes me think it's gonna be super OP and banned quickly. A two-mana, one-color sorcery to destroy any creature. Sure, you have to sacrifice one too, but you get a benefit out of that part too.

    I do NOT understand why they still print garbage like this. This is a mediocre, balanced card at two mana, three mana cheaper than this, and it's still not a great card at that cost.

    Convoke is back and it's once again garbage. most of the cards are terribly overpriced, forcing you to convoke.
    Yeah this second return to Ravnica isn't looking all that great. It's kind of meh. When I have trouble finding 10 cards that are interesting to me that never bodes well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pendulous View Post
    Something about this card makes me think it's gonna be super OP and banned quickly. A two-mana, one-color sorcery to destroy any creature. Sure, you have to sacrifice one too, but you get a benefit out of that part too.

    I do NOT understand why they still print garbage like this. This is a mediocre, balanced card at two mana, three mana cheaper than this, and it's still not a great card at that cost.

    Convoke is back and it's once again garbage. most of the cards are terribly overpriced, forcing you to convoke.
    Strands has two things going against it: It's a sorcery and you have to sac one of your guys. You have to 2 for 1 yourself on your own turn to remove an opponents creature. It's pretty bad.

    This set is turning out to be a massive turd. You'd think they would have learned from Zendikar not to fuck up a fan favorite set.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pendulous View Post
    Something about this card makes me think it's gonna be super OP and banned quickly. A two-mana, one-color sorcery to destroy any creature. Sure, you have to sacrifice one too, but you get a benefit out of that part too.

    I do NOT understand why they still print garbage like this. This is a mediocre, balanced card at two mana, three mana cheaper than this, and it's still not a great card at that cost.

    Convoke is back and it's once again garbage. most of the cards are terribly overpriced, forcing you to convoke.
    Severed strands is not really good. The sorcery type, and sacrificing a creature makes it situational as well. It's not bad, but I doubt it'll see much play. The life gain is not important at all. Could become better when we get Orzhov, which will surely have some cards that want you to sacrifice creatures. It's playable in draft, but I wouldn't pick up more than 1, maybe 2.

    Command the storm is a bit high on its mana cost, but 5 damage at instant speed is a great effect in limited. It's not a card printed for constructed, though, and will see no play in 60 card formats.

    Overall, the set doesn't really interest m eall that much except for a few cards (shocks and some dimir cards) bug I play edh exclusively so that's usually all I get from a set.
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    Quote Originally Posted by downnola View Post
    Strands has two things going against it: It's a sorcery and you have to sac one of your guys. You have to 2 for 1 yourself on your own turn to remove an opponents creature. It's pretty bad.

    This set is turning out to be a massive turd. You'd think they would have learned from Zendikar not to fuck up a fan favorite set.
    I wouldn't say it fucks up as much as Battle for Zendikar did, nowhere close, but this set is definitely disappointing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spaceboytg View Post
    Thinking of giving MTG Arena a go, maybe try playing for free and seeing how badly I get stomped I want to play Magic very much but just don't have the time or money for the paper game any longer. I'm just leery of sinking money into another digital card game like I did with Hearthstone, which I just ended up hating passionately.
    It's not too hard to play for free. You get up to 3 challenges, 1 a day for 500 to 750 coins. You also get coins and cards for daily wins and can get up to 3 packs for 15 weekly wins.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spaceboytg View Post
    Thinking of giving MTG Arena a go, maybe try playing for free and seeing how badly I get stomped I want to play Magic very much but just don't have the time or money for the paper game any longer. I'm just leery of sinking money into another digital card game like I did with Hearthstone, which I just ended up hating passionately.
    It's not that bad as you are usually paired with other newbie decks that you are given. The game gives you a plethora of coins, enough to buy about pack a day, and as you open packs you get "wildcards" which can be used to buy a card specifically. It ends up being pretty fair and keeps you playing while you feel like you are advancing with your collection. Of course it is a slow process at first and you do need to play enough to keep up, but it does feel a lot better than Hearthstone where you would only be abl eto get a pack once a week at best.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Karrotlord View Post
    It's not too hard to play for free. You get up to 3 challenges, 1 a day for 500 to 750 coins. You also get coins and cards for daily wins and can get up to 3 packs for 15 weekly wins.
    Plus if he enjoys playing draft (HS arena equiv), you actually get to keep the cards you pick, win or lose, and as you win, get more prizes. Compared to HS, where you get jack shit.
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    Anyone watching the stream?

    I missed a couple spoilers, but the trailer is pretty good.
    People crying in the audience is cringy as fuck though.

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    Excited about the new set. For the story, really want to see Bolas lose finally (not necessarily die, but I want him to get his ass kicked)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shaderas View Post
    Excited about the new set. For the story, really want to see Bolas lose finally (not necessarily die, but I want him to get his ass kicked)
    IMO they need to blast his ass into space for good. We've been on the Bolas circlejerk since Shards of Alara. Wizards is approaching GW levels of plot stalling, the story needs to move on.

    I vote we return to the old style of hopping from plane to plane without a big overarching story.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spaceboytg View Post
    It's exciting me as well, it's a good time to be coming back to the game

    I agree that Bolas needs to be defeated and the story to move on past him, but there needs to be loss along the way. Even though it may suck to lose a 'walker you like, it makes the stakes real.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Spaceboytg View Post
    I'm actually a little more sad at the potential loss of Dack I was never much of a Liliana fan. If Gideon dies, however, I'll be distraught. I love the Greek flavor of Theros and he was also the first planeswalker I ever pulled from a pack (from Gatecrash).
    Yeah it looks like Dack is going to die (although maybe they'll pull something, because that trailer makes it too obvious)...

    I think Liliana will live.. I think there is some speculation the Raven Man may save her... I think Gideon will live too (I hope so, I think he needs to try and save Elspeth from the Underworld on Theros), but I think Ajani has a high chance of dying... it feels like his storyline has been moving more and more to a "heroic death" type of scenario. Not so sure about other planeswalkers
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shaderas View Post
    Yeah it looks like Dack is going to die (although maybe they'll pull something, because that trailer makes it too obvious)...

    I think Liliana will live.. I think there is some speculation the Raven Man may save her... I think Gideon will live too (I hope so, I think he needs to try and save Elspeth from the Underworld on Theros), but I think Ajani has a high chance of dying... it feels like his storyline has been moving more and more to a "heroic death" type of scenario. Not so sure about other planeswalkers
    Ajani has a 0% chance of dying, he's in the comic that takes place after WAR.

    Same with Chandra, and I think Tibalt. Of all people uh... devil-people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Belize View Post
    Ajani has a 0% chance of dying, he's in the comic that takes place after WAR.

    Same with Chandra, and I think Tibalt. Of all people uh... devil-people.
    I heard a similar thing for Liliana slated to be in a book after this... maybe Gideon will die? Idk, if none of the good guys end up dying, then I'll feel a little weird about it, but I guess I'll have to wait to see how the story unfolds.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Shaderas View Post
    I heard a similar thing for Liliana slated to be in a book after this... maybe Gideon will die? Idk, if none of the good guys end up dying, then I'll feel a little weird about it, but I guess I'll have to wait to see how the story unfolds.
    I'm thinking Jace bites the dust IMO. Alongside a dozen minor uncommon tier PWs.

    Gideon has the Blackblade storyline going for him (it'd be cool to see him become a white/black PW), Lillie has the Chain Veil.

    Maybe like Nissa and Ugin also get mopped up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spaceboytg View Post
    I've never liked Nissa so fine with me

    btw, I'm enjoying Arena very well so far but was wondering something: If you have 4 of a card and open a pack with that card again what happens?
    Rares and mythics give you gems while commons/uncommons go into the vault. Too bad you can't see vault progress but it's so slow does it really matter? lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Belize View Post
    I'm thinking Jace bites the dust IMO. Alongside a dozen minor uncommon tier PWs.

    Gideon has the Blackblade storyline going for him (it'd be cool to see him become a white/black PW), Lillie has the Chain Veil.

    Maybe like Nissa and Ugin also get mopped up.
    I'm hoping that Ugin doesn't die, they just brought him back in Fate Reforged! Plus if Nicol Bolas survives, I think it's good to keep him alive to kind of act as a foil (no pun intended) for the Grixis Elder Dragon's schemes

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    Quote Originally Posted by Karrotlord View Post
    Rares and mythics give you gems while commons/uncommons go into the vault. Too bad you can't see vault progress but it's so slow does it really matter? lol
    Can't wait til the new set... been saving up gold for it. I think I have about 36k gold saved up (so about a box worth of packs)... by the time the set comes out I think I'll have close to 72k gold
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