Thread 96841696

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>Previously
>>96833192

>TQ
How much would someone have to pay you to play Standard?

>TQ

Depends, how much does a good standard deck cost? The format is definitely not healthy enough to warrant the high investment

>Fall of Thran in sideboard
Against what decks?

ECOSYSTEM CHECK!

>>96841729
I would assume it's to fight lotus field and the scapeshift deck but that's already a pretty unorthodox list to begin with

Magic has never done better

so ojutai wasnt lying when he said people could reincarnate as dragons?

>The Great Wheel. Clan members believe that souls are reincarnated in a cycle known as the Great Wheel. Ojutai teaches that the least among dragons is wiser and more powerful than the greatest of humans, just as the least among humanoids is wiser and more powerful than the greatest of mice. Thus, the goal of each soul on the Great Wheel is to attain the highest possible form of existence by being reborn as a dragon.

>This belief suggests that the souls of dragons were once the souls of humanoids, but former lives in general—and those of dragons in particular—aren't considered a topic for polite conversation. It's borderline blasphemous to speculate that a particular dragon might be the reincarnation of a particular humanoid. Nonetheless, after the death of a widely respected monk, many Ojutai followers quietly look for signs of his or her reincarnation in subsequent draconic storms.

>The dragonlord Ojutai is considered to exist outside the Great Wheel. Dogma states that the dragonlord was born in the first storm, already perfect and eternal, ready to impart his wisdom to lesser beings.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200831011139/https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/uncharted-realms/planeswalkers-guide-dragons-tarkir-part-1-2015-03-11


Or is this a case of design teams not communicating

>>96841767
They just think it's reincarnation, it could be something else. They'd have to actually die first, for starters.

>>96841767
nah, I think he was lying and the card is just a representation of that idea rather than a confirmation

>>96841696 (OP)
>tq
as good as I'd get anywhere, so at least $25/hr plus expenses

>>96841767
>dies
>reincarnate as a dumb crab

>>96841914
why the fuck wasn't mkm on Capenna yes I'm mad

>>96841767
damn they used to write some cool fucking lore for this game man

>>96841788
Would you want to talk about your past life if you became a dragon?

Is it a contradiction if I think Marvel superhero characters are extremely juvenile, but I am totally okay with Pokemon?

>>96841696 (OP)
I've worked on this cube for quite a while now, and I want to know what y'all think. I also have a few cards on the maybeboard I am thinking about. Also, what is your P1P1? Mine is path to exile.

https://cubecobra.com/cube/overview/f07924e8-225d-4cb6-ab41-e37059d96785

>>96842037
Depends on which Pokemon era and which capeshit you're talking about. Modern Pokemon has been sloppafied to the point where Game Freak is getting spooked by asset flip indie games. If it didn't have its own established TCG in the west it'd be as easy a candidate for UB as Ninja Turtles.

>>96842037
No, you're right

>>96841696 (OP)
>How much would someone have to pay you to play Standard?
$500 per diem plus a scaling fee for organized play events
>$15 Regular REL
>$150 Comp REL
>$1500 Pro REL

>>96841696 (OP)
>Post-Spiderman spotlight series
>The only Spiderman cards leading decks are Doc Ock pretending to be Spiderman and Jackal
>The only EOE cards seeing major play are Frenzied Baloth, Ouroboroid and Cosmogrand (also the planets if you count that)
Wow, standard sure looks... fixed.
>TQ
Just give me fun cards that are actually fun to play, please. I was hoping the Eumidians would allow for a cool insect deck to develop, but standard still isn't for anything outside aggro and 3-4 mana bombs that run away with the game.

>>96842173
WotC (and to another extent, Hasbro) and Nintendo left each other on some very bad blood over how the Pokemon TCG was handled by WotC.

>>96841917
>dies
>reincarnate as a smart crab

RELEASE MY WIFE

>>96842263
>>The only EOE cards seeing major play are Frenzied Baloth, Ouroboroid and Cosmogrand (also the planets if you count that)
Riddler, Star Chart, Nova Hellkite. but it's not a ton. fun fact, Rizzler was briefly the second most expensive card on modo after Black Lotus (don't think that's primarily because of its Standard playability though)

just how many cards can you expect to make it through when Standard has over 3,400 legal cards? over 1202 rares and mythics?

>>96842404
Be patient, my little porkchop.

Purist lost

{2/M}{M} feels like some unexplored design space