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Cryptolith Rites is definitely a card that is either busted or pure garbage, and it currently leans on the side of busted. What horrors will abound once Languish rotates, if we don't get a replacement 4 mana "conditional" wrath. And yeah, the B/G deck isn't the best competitive choice. I...

Be a bit hesitant on buying into the decks using Dragons of Tarkir/Magic Origins power-mythics, the expensive ones (except Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, Collected Company, and Kolaghan's Command) are pretty much useless in Modern, so they're going to crater a bit post-rotation (Which is in ~4.5months)...

Bunch of announcements today: Fall set is on Kaladesh, Chandra's home plane; artifact themed. Planechase anthology in November. Commander 2016 introduces four color legends in November. New intro pack product features standard legal cards exclusive to the intro pack, including 2 new...

The original EDH banlist is mostly just "Cards Sheldon Doesn't Like" which is defined as "Combo Cards that aren't green, and expensive cards Sheldon's playgroup doesn't have enough copies of for all their decks," and "Cards Sheldon lost to too many times." Which was fine, because in the...

EDH is great with a consistent group of like-minded players. Much like any casual-play format. The problem is finding that group for you.

The Shock lands are also only 1x-2x ofs in decks (with a few exceptions, hi scapeshift!), thanks to the Fetches, which lowers their price threshold.

Also, something you'll learn as you play more, 2 life is worth less than the tempo-hit of a land coming into play tapped much of the time (but not all of the time). Most uncommon lands are worse than the Shockland rare cycle because the "important" turns in the formats where the Shocklands are...

Having fun leveling one right now. Can run away from any fight you can't win

Not a huge fan of Civ5's city states. Makes the game feel much easier. I'd be more of a fan if they did the crazy shit they rarely do (go on a conquest path) more frequently. As they normally are, they're just loot pinatas where you can brute force whatever resource you're missing using gold.

Why are those 30 story tall samurai about to attack Stormwind?

Brave Archer+Arcane Shot is some amusing cancer. Innervate+Yog is hilarious. Turn 2 Yog is 100% fair, because it has like a 50% chance to kill itself.

Not much wrong after Gods, and nothing wrong after Brave New World. Base Civ 5 was... a game.

Can't wait. Mostly can't wait until it gets an Expansion that turns it into a great game a year or two from now, since that appears to be the status quo for the product line.

Beta invites have started flagging accounts today. My first Recruit a Friend Account, from back when they started the program, that was only subbed for 2 months, got in over my actual accounts. So I assume it's completely random.

I moved to a high pop server after my old backwater-server guild crapped out this expansion. Farming random stuff/questing on the new 4 tradeskill alts I have to level, the high pop is annoying, but for everything else it's been pretty great. I imagine it will be a fucking nightmare at...

A ton of the casual players in my guild were balls deep on Transmog collecting. Different strokes for different folks. I personally preferred the way it was pre-x-mog. Putting up with some fuckin derpy looking sets was worth it for having gear be an actually recognizeable measure of...

I doubt we'll see general gold costs increase, since that only hurts new/returning players. Much more likely to see the sinks on superfluous/vanity/convenience items.

Your graves will permanently take up 6x3x6 dirt space!

High pass was so fucked, beset by gnolls, orcs, goblins, and random adventurers camping their guards.

It'll be interesting to see how.much the next convenience gold sink item (think mammoth, yak) will cost. They need to bleed some gold out of the hyperinflated economy or anyone starting or returning after treasure missions are removed will be right fucked.

Would be amusing if they lost the 1.12 Vanilla code, but still had the beta code. "WE'RE GOING EVEN MORE OLDSCHOOL THAN THOSE VANILLA NOOBS."

This is why I always play new classes the Expansion they're released. They always feel fantastic (and are often overpowered, but that's not really related to how smooth their gameplay flows), because the devs haven't had time to second-guess themselves and dick the whole thing over too hard...

Blizzard devs executing the Nost team via Guillotine at noon tomorrow, streamed live on twitch.

TACTICAL RETREAT!

No official word. Prepatch is generally 1-2 months before the actual launch, so probably some time in June, following the Movie.

I've been experimenting with running 4-5 c'thun "buffers" in evolve shaman just to get twin emps for the amusing "turn 8 double 8drop.". Being able to evolve the 2/3, 2/1, or 4/2 (4/2 being cut most of the time, too many good 4cost shaman duders) into something more impactful after you get the...

After a 9 month wait, Set 4 is finally out. The Empower Mechanic is pretty nice, reminds me of rocking the Kavu Titans back in the day. Infinitrix might finally challenge Vampire King's "4-drop finisher" slot dominance, but unlikely. Glad to see B/G get a big focus on the graveyard, thought...

I loved the class quests that were long but rewarded imba as fuck items for their level. Warrior had the Rage Chest, Paladin's god damn hammer, if I remember right there was a Druid hat that reduced shapeshifting costs (and got removed from the game or nerfed some time during TBC because it was...

Decided to get back into this game since GVG is rotating out. Sold a playset of Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, and turned it into 300 Amazon Coins. Already opened: 80 Packs of Classic 40 Packs of TGT 50 Packs of WotoG 2 Adventures $55 in Amazon coins left. The question is: GVG 40 pack before...

Blizzard's next IP is a Dating Sim.

Big shakeup announcements at the Pro Tour: -No More Modern Pro Tour Opinion: Good, can we get a side of Twin and Pod unban to go with that now that you don't need the format to be "interesting"? -Platinum Pro and Hall of Fame Appearance Fee cut from $3000 to $250, because "$3k wasn't enough...

At least they were nice enough to guarantee everyone a copy of Cthun.

The folks at Bethesda/Direwolf Digital finally started spilling the beans on their Digital Card Game offering, Elder Scrolls: Legends. The Elder Scrolls Legends Being designed by a couple Magic the Gathering pros, so should be interesting to see how it works out. Doesn't look particularly...

The Great Liberal Conspiracy arrayed against Curt-In-Particular continues to seek his destruction!

Seal of Blood FTW.

I'm looking forward to the Ret Paladin rage when they're forced to use their Greater DPS Blessing on another class in raid, instead of themselves. When Unholy's Frenzy ability was best cast on Rogues and Warriors the DK community took an absolute shit on itself.

They stopped giving judges Promos as "payment" in order to avoid this. Which in turn lead to the spike in Grand Prix Entry Costs, since the judges' actual employers, the TOs, had to offer more compensation to make up for the now lost judge promos (they still technically exist, but the Exemplar...

On large servers that'll prolly just translate to *every* zone getting fucked out the gates, with no ability to "outlevel" the fuckery.

It could be a dungeon of old-god worshipping trolls.

No wonder they shut down Nost, we've got another 4-5 months of waiting for Legion, and people may have looked for something wow-related to do.