oo neat!

Updated to reflect new ideas.

Hmm. I'd forgotten about the zombie. maybe BB so it's not splashable?

1BB for a 2/2 that potences for 1 when it CIP and leaves play?

[necropotato]

At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card and lose one life.
1/1



Current Wording:

[unnamed]
4B
Whenever <this> comes into play, or is put into a graveyard from play, draw a card and lose one life.
3/1


what do you think, too strong, too weak? perhaps double black limiting it's splashability? anyone have an idea for a name? I'm no good with names.

then it would just be a little jellyfish.

I got a set of foil ones. They made the foiling work so that the "light source" on the art got less ink over the foiling making them "brighter". For instance, the shiniest part on the swamp is the moon in the background, and the shiniest part of the mountain is coming from just above the mountains as though the sun was lying below the horizon.

also inspect your foil unhinged cards for more neat foiling tricks -- like gleemax has text & Richard Garfield PHd has his signature foiled in it.


this auction has an image of RG phd foiled.

can you ask a judge to cut for your opponent? I sometimes refuse to shake my opponent's hand after a match because I fear they are covered in germs.

This deck makes me wish Polymorph was better. I agree -- white would be an excellent addition.

Wasn't this card suggested by a guy at the wizards invitational thing?

Mind's Desire. I love playing say, meandeath & goldfishing out 400 point tendrilses.

the marker thing should work, not like you can damage it too much more.

I used to have a library of alexandria that had a "crease" like someone had slid their rolly chair over it while it was on carpet. the card had been face up at the time and the crease used to wear lines into my sleeves, making the sleeves useless to stop it from being a marked card.

no dammit, when chaos orb is in play you can't move cards. (standard rule in 5color) when you control magic someone else's creature, are you allowed to move it to your side of the table?

Nah, they actually do the whole flipping thing. They have in place a "tack" rule, however. all cards for the purpose of tapping have a "tack" in them when chaos orb is on the stack as a spell, in play and when it's effects are resolving. This means that the spot of the middle of the card (about 1/4th of an inch above the middle color border into the art of a standard beta dark ritual) and it may only rotate around this tack for tapping.



Also, what happens with you control magic something? does it have to stay on their side of the table?

stuff that doesn't run trinisphere. but I guess it could be tuned against those. also nullrod is a big problem.

wouldn't you like to know....

I've seen two judges both level 3+ give separate different rulings. I would think you can, but I can't see a place where you would want to. even if you discard both to put 'em back into play, the probability that you'll draw another thirst is pretty great.

it does say "you may".


I like it, it's real good for us mental magic kids.


I would like to also mention this is the first time a card has been released that's name is an anagram of an earlier card. (Richard Garfield does not exist in real life. He is a made-up spectre)

I have this beta rulebook I keep around. lemme find it. Oh, man... remember when you could float mana through your combat? Crazy times.

pyre zombie. I used to use that card in a deck, but I can't rememeber which now, exactly. After the Invasion block was where I stopped making my own decks, because in invasion, you just picked your favorite 2-4 colors and put the good rares in. Seriously, my BUG deck was like:

4x Undermine
3x Counterspell
3x Mystic Snake
4x Spiritmonger
4x Pernicious Deed
4x Shadowmage Infiltrator
4x Birds of Paradise
3x Fact or Fiction
3x Kavu Titan (??)
(other nonsense.)


then oddyssey onward I just netdecked.

the blue one just keeps getting better, depending on how many instants are in a certain player's library.
Honestly, how many sorceries are in the graveyard in MP? I do not see a problem with either of these cards, except that they'd be awfully difficult to use.

A friend of mine taught me and my brother how to play. My brother and I, in turn, taught our mother how to play, because she's that kind of lady -- liked computer games, crossword puzzles and d&d. For years my mother was one of the best players in our area, and after half a year to a year after first learning (antiquities) my mother opened up a card & gaming store which I now help run. If it hadn't been for my mother, I probably wouldn't still play this game. Older cards are nothing new to me, and I still get a kick out of newer kids going "oh my god he's playing with the power 9 omg"


Edit: My favorite deck was an ancient black discard deck with 4 Mind Twists and other awful heresies against the standards of magic.

Survival + Graverobber makes me want to touch myself in ways that the catholic church would frown upon.

Orrery, most definitely.

dunno, works for me, still. maybe Mike Long has it out for you.


edit: I guess mike long has the idea that T1 decks are "throw moxes in anything and it'll be good."

Fuck that.

I hate Mike Long. I wonder, am I spiteful enough to give him negative feedback for trying to pawn off this shit on us?


edit: of course I am. The question is am I willing to risk reciprocation?

You could have gone the distance, but it looks like you metagamed improperly.

How much business was Gorilla Shaman? Only deck I saw that it could have been really good vs. was monoblue.

2 Decree of Justice? That seems a bit high even for a metagame that's at least 1/3 control.

Mind Twist easily could have been SB. Try upping the angel count. I've been wanting to up mine to 3/1/morphling.

How's fact or fiction side been treating you? I've always put it MD and kept a scrying side.

The only way I'd play it is if I were upping the crucible count MD. otherwise, it's just non-synergistic.

in my testing, I've decided to dump the transformational dragon sideboard, and in it's place are several cards fit to my "meta". REB, for instance is so good vs. mono blue with animate dead. if you can resolve one or two of those on Opies, the game is basically over.

I can't remember what the deck i collected in shandalar contained exactly, but it started

4 mox ruby
3 mox sapphire
3 timetwister
4 time walk
3 black lotus

I went with Consumptive Goo because he's a machine gun that gets huge, and because I designed a similar card in the middle of Apocalypse, and I never have been able to play with this card. He doesn't really have a way to protect himself, though.



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