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Title: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: PX on June 01, 2018, 10:25:10 AM
Use this thread to discuss card games of any kind!
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on June 01, 2018, 02:59:15 PM
personally I would have went with "CCG/TCG Thread Second Edition" but that's what I get for procrastinating on making the thread

so MTG Arena is apparently updated or going to be updated soon to include everything currently in Standard and add improved draft events with a best-of-three format so I think it's going to be out of beta by fall. I wasn't originally sold on it when I started but they've definitely managed to make improvements, although I think I prefer paper for the social experience and would rather stick with something like Eternal as far as digital card games go
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on June 01, 2018, 03:32:54 PM
Ew, Kaladesh in Arena? Well, if it follows Standard rotation then at least it won't be in for long.

I've been putting off getting a beta account because I figured it would be silly with collections reseting, but if we're looking at third quarter or later for the full release I guess it might not hurt to start sooner.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: PX on June 02, 2018, 04:04:19 AM
Arena has sorely needed full Standard to fix this meta, It's been quite disgusting
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on June 02, 2018, 03:13:27 PM
Whoever thought making Soul-Scar Mage a 1/2 with Prowess and "all non-combat damage sources have either" a 1 CMC SPELL was a complete moron.

Can't wait for rotation.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on June 02, 2018, 04:33:04 PM
Soul-Scar Mage is very powerful (especially with fucking Chainwhirler) but at least without Bomat Courier in the format it's sort of possible to profitably interact with. I think Bomat Courier is the card that pushes the red deck over the edge because it means the deck doesn't ever have to one-for-one. It can trade two burns spells for one creature, recklessly swing into Settle The Wreckage, and completely dodge Fungal Infection blowouts that should be great against it just because Courier gives it such crazy card advantage.

Is Soul-Scar Mage good in other decks? I guess UR Wizards is probably a thing in Arena, huh? I know I've seen it played occasionally on streams but I never really got an impression of whether it was good or not.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Mеа on June 04, 2018, 02:50:53 AM
Sole yugi-representer here representing.
So a card that's been in my possession for about a year, Trickstar Reincarnation, just shot up from around 20$ to nearly 60$. I was planning on holding onto it since I like trading more than just getting money, but a friend talked me into selling it and buying a box of Dark Saviors. Which sounded like more fun so I decided to go put it up for sale along with another card (Linkuriboh for ~30$, though I don't know about this one selling since I think a common(?) reprint was just announced. But hey, it's shiny).
Dark Saviors is kinda ridiculous right now for containing Mobile - Engage!, currently at a little over a hundred $s. Which isn't my goal, since you should never buy a box aiming to make money off of a single (or even break even). But it does contain the Sky Strikers, probably the most waifu cards we've gotten in recent memory, which I'm excited to open up a box for. May post results later.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on June 09, 2018, 02:21:38 AM
Got my first event with Modern WB Tokens in and it went great. I went 3-1. Lost to Bogles in the last round and it went to game three, my opponent was at one life at the end, and I flooded out like absolutely crazy with 5 spells to 8 lands. So... pretty good. Would WB Tokens again.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Mеа on June 12, 2018, 12:32:01 AM
So, reporting back on about that box I said I ordered. I mentioned there was a money card, a lottery card in that set that's going for around  $100. Well yeah, I did it, I fuckin' did it, I pulled Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage!
Just made my money back. Pretty good way to cap off my day gotta say.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: hyorinryu on June 14, 2018, 01:18:43 AM
So, reporting back on about that box I said I ordered. I mentioned there was a money card, a lottery card in that set that's going for around  $100. Well yeah, I did it, I fuckin' did it, I pulled Sky Striker Mobilize - Engage!
Just made my money back. Pretty good way to cap off my day gotta say.

Nice. I only got Beat and Widow Anchor.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on June 18, 2018, 03:13:42 PM
So who's looking at those Core 2019 previews?

those are some spicy reprints, I say
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on June 18, 2018, 05:51:13 PM
Yeah, looks pretty neat. There are a handful of incredible Pauper cards in there. Skyscanner is going to be a total menace.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on July 03, 2018, 04:00:05 AM
Gitaxian Probe and Deathrite Shaman banned in Legacy as of July 6.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on July 08, 2018, 02:09:36 AM
Did an M19 prerelease earlier. Opened an Ajani and some other mid-to-low-value stuff, went 2-1. Basically broke even. Had that thing where I only drew Ajani a single time out of eight games and drew two-to-one land to spells in three of them, but that's just prereleases I guess...

I can't decide where I like doing prereleases locally. Every store either has events that are way too big (60 people at one last night) or way too small (the one I went to today had 10) or have a good number of people but pay out way less than normal.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on July 08, 2018, 10:39:54 PM
went to two prereleases this weekend, went 2-2 at both of them. Got a Resplendent Angel and an Arcades, nothing absolutely mindblowing in the rares/promos department this time around
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 12, 2018, 03:31:05 AM
Went to the final Dominaria draft before the switch into M19. Pulled a Karn as my pack 1 pick 1. I could have gone home happy right there.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on July 13, 2018, 04:31:16 PM
So apparently we got confirmations for the 2018 Commander decks. Sounds like four decks again. Izzet artifacts, Bant enchantress, Jund lands, and Esper miracles I think? Pretty weird/interesting spread if that's the case.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on July 13, 2018, 05:03:53 PM
Not particularly any weirder than the spread we got for last year's set. Definitely interested in that lands deck if it being Jund means it's going to do what I hope it does
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on July 13, 2018, 05:38:58 PM
I've seen people assume that "lands" means that it'll be like the Legacy deck, but I wonder if it might not be more of a landfall sort of thing. Still might be neat. And if it is 80 lands and 20 spells then that shouldn be very interesting.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 16, 2018, 03:25:53 PM
The Esper one isn't necessarily Miracles. They stated specifically on the stream it's just "top of the deck matters".

Either way I already preordered the whole set almost a month ago.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on July 16, 2018, 07:37:08 PM
meanwhile, from two prereleases, multiple drafts, and exchanging my store credit for a bundle I already have a full set of Dismissive Pyromancer and suddenly I have an urge to build mono-red in Standard (after rotation, mind you, since I am not shelling out for Hazoret and Glorybringer when they're three months from leaving)
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on July 27, 2018, 04:17:25 PM
Full lists for the Commander 2018 decks are out. (https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/commander-2018-edition-decklists-and-tokens-2018-07-27)

They're not... bad, but they're not as exciting as the previous year's sets. These feel more like toolkits for building future decks more than fully realized decks on their own, honestly. Still want to get that Windgrace deck regardless
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on July 28, 2018, 01:43:50 AM
I'll definitely be buying the Esper one, that ninja commander seems super cool. There are a lot of singles I'll probably be picking up overall. I'm not sure if Geode Golem is good but I definitely want to try it.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 28, 2018, 12:48:42 PM
Full lists for the Commander 2018 decks are out. (https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/commander-2018-edition-decklists-and-tokens-2018-07-27)

They're not... bad, but they're not as exciting as the previous year's sets. These feel more like toolkits for building future decks more than fully realized decks on their own, honestly. Still want to get that Windgrace deck regardless

They're bad when you consider they raised the price and lowered the quality of reprints pretty substantially. That, and they all feel overall like collections of cheap bulk with low synergy. These decks used to be playable right out of the box and now it's just a weird jumbled mess.


That said I pre-ordered the whole set a long time ago and while I like the Esper and Bant decks enough too keep them (the commander ideas are great and I like the new cards in them), I have zero interest in the other two beyond one card from each of them (Tawnos in the Izzet deck and Xantcha in the Jund one).

I'm probably going to sell them and cut my losses.

Aminatou is probably the one I'm most excited for due to being able to maintain Stasis indefinitely and combos with a lot of different cards, especially Felidar Guardian and Altar of the Brood.

Yennett is also very exciting as a Zur alternative. Fun combo: Isochron Scepter + Mystical Tutor to set up the top card to Nexus of Fate. Attack with Yennett, it casts for free and gets shuffled into your deck. Infinite turns with a bulky flier with vigilance and menace. She's really cool.

Varina will be a great zombie tribal commander and she covers the 3 main colors of zombies for the first time and synergizes really well with them. I like.

Yuriko seems pretty cool if not only because she bypasses commander tax.

Estrid seems really interesting as a potential but less efficient alternative to blue Teferi. She has some pretty cool synergies with Chain Veil.

Kestia feels kind of like Tymna but with a bit more protection if you bestow her. Also just play Enchanted Evening and draw all the cards. A little disappointed she's not a God with indestructible though. I think bestow bypasses commander tax too though, so that's pretty neat.

Tuvasa is an enchantress commander for an enchantress deck. Not the most exciting design but still cool that that option exists.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on July 28, 2018, 02:09:15 PM
Thinking about it a bit more, and wondering if I should use the money I'd spend on the C18 deck to try and buy one of the other C17 decks or try and track down one of the C13 decks that are still in circulation (I've been meaning to try and do something with Nekusar for a while)
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 28, 2018, 03:16:13 PM
Thinking about it a bit more, and wondering if I should use the money I'd spend on the C18 deck to try and buy one of the other C17 decks or try and track down one of the C13 decks that are still in circulation (I've been meaning to try and do something with Nekusar for a while)

Make sure you check the value of what's in those decks since you'll likely be spending over MSRP on those. C17 wasn't as bad as this year on value, but the cat and wizard decks were are pretty rough when it comes to getting value out of them. As for the Nekusar deck, it's pretty expensive if all you really want from it is Nekusar. It's fine if you want to buy them to have them, but if you're trying to build a more focused deck you're better off getting singles.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on August 08, 2018, 11:20:31 PM
I keep trying to put lists for Yuriko Commander together and I'm finding it surprisingly tough. She clearly wants comes-into-play creatures to bounce, preferably with evasion, and then sacrifice outlets to get her back in the command zone, but none of the ratios I've come up with feel great on paper. I guess it's just one of those weird decks where I'm going to need to have her in-hand to playtest lists and the deck is probably going to be pretty bad for a while.

Some kind of scry theme with cards with high natural CMCs (Curtain's Call is the main one that comes to mind) seems like it's worth fitting in too in order to burn people out with her ninja tribal ability. Although outside of a few of the weaker ninjas it seems like there probably isn't much she wants to run that isn't common in Commander already so hopefully I won't need to buy much new stuff to make her work.

Edit: Maybe some of the better Delve cards would be good for her CMC-based burn ability, but UB decks tend to want to recycle most of the things in their graveyards so Delve is a little painful and I don't think I'll have the real-estate to go full-on graveyard stocking. Same with Affinity, I guess I could lean toward an artifact-based mana base to fuel big Affinity spells but that might be stretching the themes a little thin and artifact mana bases are always a little on the vulnerable side. Hmm...
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on September 01, 2018, 01:20:42 AM
I just put together five-color Zuberas for Pauper and did a few dry runs with it, and it's the weirdest deck I've ever played. Five-color mana in Pauper is very difficult to plan out and it has so much redundancy in sacrifice outlets, Zuberas, and Unearth effects that there's no room for any utility that doesn't come from the Zuberas themselves. I have no idea if that makes for a playable deck, but it can theoretically do strong things. This is probably never going to be a "real" deck, but I'd like to get it to the point that I can actually bring it to events without going 0-5. We'll see if that's possible I guess.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on September 02, 2018, 03:15:57 AM
well they came straight out of the gate and revealed we're getting shockland reprints for Guilds

Narcomoeba reprint I did not expect, however
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on September 02, 2018, 04:07:44 AM
New art for shocks! Always always happy for shockland reprints. They're cheap enough that I don't feel bad about picking them up for Modern right now but nowhere near cheap enough for me to want to put them in all of my Commander decks, so reprints should keep them from going up in price for another few years at worst and will hopefully drop their prices overall once they rotate out of Standard. Plus, great new art!

Narcomeba reprint at rare even. Huh. It wasn't especially expensive, but it's cute with Surveil so I guess it's interesting for Standard maybe.

Mentor looks very powerful on paper. I'm curious to see how it plays in practice.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on September 26, 2018, 04:04:30 AM
so who's ready for Guilds prerelease

the LGS I play at has been doing drafts of RTR block leading up to this. Gatecrash was... an experience.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on September 26, 2018, 04:14:41 AM
I'm looking forward to it. I'll be curious to see how the guilds hold up, Dimir looks way better than the others on paper but I think it's also easiest to evaluate. The others might be sneakily better than I think they are. I'll definitely be playing Golgari.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on September 28, 2018, 04:00:54 AM
Magic Arena open beta started today. Is anyone playing? I created my account today and therefore missed out on a bunch of free mythics, but oh well.

There's a free singleton league available during launch week that's nuts. It gives a guaranteed rare if you do well enough (I've seen four opened so far and three of them were mythics) and it's pretty easy to game the system and just craft one-ofs instead of playsets with your starter crafting materials to get way higher deck quality than most people are working with.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: PX on September 28, 2018, 08:22:51 PM
Magic Arena open beta started today. Is anyone playing? I created my account today and therefore missed out on a bunch of free mythics, but oh well.

There's a free singleton league available during launch week that's nuts. It gives a guaranteed rare if you do well enough (I've seen four opened so far and three of them were mythics) and it's pretty easy to game the system and just craft one-ofs instead of playsets with your starter crafting materials to get way higher deck quality than most people are working with.

Rat Colony. Anyways I've been doing pretty okay with my Junk Knight deck, It's been doing well although can't do well against big threats
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on September 28, 2018, 09:35:04 PM
I've played against Rat Colony a few times in singleton and I thought it sucked. I definitely have a good matchup against it with my Golgari deck and all of my small value creatures bouncing around that makes it unprofitable for them to swing, but they're also just really soft to disruption with only one copy of Conqueror's Banner. Would not play, happy to play against.

Edit: I still don't really know how to evaluate Undergrowth overall, but it's interesting in formats with little or no good graveyard removal like Arena Singleton. It's slow and awkward so you don't want too much of it, but just one or two Undergrowth cards can end the game immediately if the game goes long. Makes Golgari scary for control to play against since they can never let their guard down and the threats are recyclable. If you have white and you're playing singleton consider packing Remorseful Cleric...
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on September 29, 2018, 03:46:03 PM
Magic Arena open beta started today. Is anyone playing? I created my account today and therefore missed out on a bunch of free mythics, but oh well.

There's a free singleton league available during launch week that's nuts. It gives a guaranteed rare if you do well enough (I've seen four opened so far and three of them were mythics) and it's pretty easy to game the system and just craft one-ofs instead of playsets with your starter crafting materials to get way higher deck quality than most people are working with.
I had an account since closed beta, I'm trying to farm up enough coins from dailies to draft again since the reset
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on September 29, 2018, 10:14:32 PM
Ugh, prerelease went terribly. Played Golgari, went against four Boros decks in a row. Golgari seems... okay. But it's definitely pretty midrangey and doesn't like tons of early pressure. The payoffs aren't that exciting and there's not enough recycling to go hardcore grindy. I opened a Ral which was decent but definitely couldn't go in my deck and isn't worth enough to recoup my entry fee. Oh well, playing another one for free on Arena with the code card will be fun.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on September 30, 2018, 01:36:26 AM
Yeah, my Golgari deck had a similar experience. I feel like you really want to fill out your early curve with stuff like Portcullis Vine, Pilfering Imp, and Burglar Rat, which can act as roadblocks against aggro and help fill your graveyard for later stuff.

Wound up going 1-3, my main cards worth anything are Mausoleum Secrets (1 regular, 1 promo) and a Chromatic Lantern. Might try again tomorrow with the Selesnya or Dimir pack, depending on how I feel
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on September 30, 2018, 05:03:07 PM
My paper Golgari prerelease went badly (2-2 and pulled a mid-value mythic) but it was solid gold next to my online Boros one (0-3, only the trashiest trash rares, never attacked once in three games). But I pulled a mythic wild card from my pity packs so oooooh weeeeell.

Edit: Wow, I've run into a couple of salty Rat Colony players in singleton league now who insta-scoop the second they see a repeatable removal effect. Free wins for me I guess...
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on October 18, 2018, 03:40:41 AM
I've been slowly refining a Golgari deck built around Izoni on Arena and it's getting pretty savage. It's very Explore-heavy to smooth out my mana and make sure I hit at least decent Undergrowth numbers. Journey of Discovery is secretly incredible, I've gain 30+ life off of Wildgrowth Walker+Journey of Discovery+Izoni surprisingly many times. The real glue that holds the deck together is Find//Finality though, Find is a fantastic card that I would absolutely play even without Finality, and an added board wipe is just extra.

Building Golgari is crazy right now, there are so many playables that you can build three solid decks with almost no overlapping cards. It makes cutting stuff challenging, but it means there's tons of room for experimentation which is super fun. Unfortunately means I've been neglecting completing my mana base to try weird new strategies though, so I'm definitely losing games to all of my crappy budget lands occasionally.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Mеа on November 18, 2018, 08:28:11 PM
For people that used to play yugioh or want to make fun of how stupidly complicated it is, I'm translating a series of comics on ruling complexity you can read over on reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/yugioh/comments/9s5yek/dark_magician_girl_struggles_with_yugioh_ch_0/). Currently there are 7 chapters, you can find the link to the next chapter in my comment in the post, and I'm updating biweekly. It's pretty dumb, you should check it out.

If you're having trouble understanding, the comments can help. Or I guess you can ask me here.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on November 18, 2018, 09:19:33 PM
The main thing I know about Yu Gi Oh rulings is that people say things "miss timing" all the time. What is "missing timing"?
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Mеа on November 18, 2018, 10:47:20 PM
So there are effects that trigger and activate based on certain circumstances. There are two types, "if" and "when". Using destruction as an example: "If this card is destroyed: do ..." and "When this card is destroyed: do ..."

"When" effects can only be activated immediately after they get triggered. If something else happens afterwards before it can activate, then it can't activate. For example, suppose a card that says something like "Destroy 1 card, then draw a card" destroys the above "when this card is destroyed: do ..." card. Since drawing a card happens after the destroying, "when" effects will "miss timing". "If" effects don't have this issue, if the trigger meets its condition at anytime prior, then it can activate.

For the most part.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on November 18, 2018, 11:18:18 PM
Wait, what? So if you have a bunch of cards that say "When this card is destroyed do X" and your opponent plays something that says "Destroy all cards" then you would get to do X, but if the effect they use says "Destroy all cards and gain 1 life point" then it also secretly negates all of your death triggers? Is that right?
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Mеа on November 18, 2018, 11:57:42 PM
"Destroy all cards and gain 1 life point" then it also secretly negates all of your death triggers? Is that right?
Hahahahahaha.
Actually, no in that case, because the conjunction "and" means that the destroying and gaining life points happen simultaneously, so you could activate a "when" effect because both are the last event to happen.

If you said "Destroy all cards, then gain 1 life point", then yes, "when" effects cannot be activated, because the last thing to happen was gaining a life point.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on November 19, 2018, 01:02:56 AM
Huh... I'm going to assume the implementation is less heinous than the description. What's the point of doing it that way, design-wise? On paper is sounds like a shitty trap, but I'm assuming there's some kind of reason for it.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Mеа on November 19, 2018, 01:22:59 AM
Just because, I guess? Most "when" effects are old but since they're still printing a few new "when" effects, I suppose it's not something they're planning on completely phasing out over time.
They mostly seem to be used to balance cards so that the conditions to use them are a little more restrictive, but it does seem more beginner unfriendly than anything else. Most of the time, it only makes those "when" cards unnecessarily crap.

(And there's the additional caveat that only the optional "when" effects miss timing, eg: "When this card is destroyed: you can ... ". Mandatory "when" effects don't.)
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on November 19, 2018, 02:07:02 AM
Ha ha what. That's just flip-flopping on the part of people making the rulings at that point. Or a deliberate new player trap, but I don't know why anyone would do that on purpose.

I've seen this kind of convoluted rules mess from games with very small rules committees before. If you have a few people with the power to clarify rulings and they don't necessarily agree or communicate with each other you get stuff like this where someone offhandedly makes a ruling and it creates a huge mess that everyone has to deal with forever, or until another person with the power to do so rules the other way. I'm not saying that's definitely what happened here, but I have seen that happen elsewhere (cough cough Heroclix).
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: hyorinryu on November 26, 2018, 06:16:39 AM
Wait, that sounds a little different from what I remember if it's what I'm thinking about. From what I recall, "missing the timing" would refer to effects that offer you the choice to activate an effect only do so when the activation requirements is the last thing to happen when the chain resolves. For example take "Dupe Frog (http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dupe_Frog)." It's text states that "When this card is sent from the field to the Graveyard: You can add 1 "Frog" monster from your Deck or Graveyard to your hand, except "Dupe Frog"." If it's on the field and your opponent activates dark hole, you get his effect because Dupe Frog dying was the last thing that happened(Dark hole resolves -> Dupe dies.) However, if you were offer him as a tribute to summon something like say a Monarch. You would not get dupe's effect because the monarch getting summoned is the last thing that happens when things resolve and not dupe dying(sac Dupe-> Monarch appears).  Dupe not getting the effect is what I've seen being referred to "missing the timing." However, other cards, like Sangan (http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Sangan), the retrival effect is mandatory. This means you can do all sorts of plays that involve sacrificing him and as long as he hits the graveyard, you will still get his effect.

I've never heard of any issues involving the "if" and "when" stuff. Is this new? The main stuff I'd hear about would be "Priority", and "Missing the timing." It's possible we're talking about the same thing, but I've never heard of any cards that would force your opponents cards to miss the timing. Usually "missing the timing" stuff occurs because the trigger happens in order to pay a cost. I've never heard of a card that makes cards miss the timing when the effects are what's causing stuff to trigger. 

Ha ha what. That's just flip-flopping on the part of people making the rulings at that point. Or a deliberate new player trap, but I don't know why anyone would do that on purpose.

I've seen this kind of convoluted rules mess from games with very small rules committees before. If you have a few people with the power to clarify rulings and they don't necessarily agree or communicate with each other you get stuff like this where someone offhandedly makes a ruling and it creates a huge mess that everyone has to deal with forever, or until another person with the power to do so rules the other way. I'm not saying that's definitely what happened here, but I have seen that happen elsewhere (cough cough Heroclix).

If I had to guess, it would probably have something to do with our Yugioh being a translation of Japanese Yugioh, and having to be consistent with standards set when Yugioh was extremely liberal with their translations.

Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Mеа on November 26, 2018, 09:56:17 AM
There not being a whole lot of mandatory "when" effects is probably why "if" vs "when" is brought up a lot. But yes, optional "when" effects are the only triggers that miss timing. Mandatory "when" effects and any "if" effects don't miss timing.

So suppose the following face-up monsters on the field are tributed as material for a Tribute summon. Since the event progression goes 1) monster on the field is tributed and leaves the field -> 2) Tribute monster is Tribute Summoned, we get:
Mandatory "ifs" and mandatory "whens" are functionally identical. Neither optional "if" effects, mandatory "if" effects, nor mandatory "when" effects miss timing but the latter 2 are not optional. And only optional "when" effects miss timing. There's another word that sometimes shows up, "each time" effects, but these don't miss timing either, like "if" effects.

The effects that don't miss timing don't have to have their triggering conditions meet as the last thing to happen when the chain resolves, they can meet their conditions higher in the chain. Example:
Player 1 controls a Lord Gaia the Fierce Knight (https://ms.yugipedia.com//2/27/LordGaiatheFierceKnight-MVP1-EN-GUR-1E.png) and Player 2 has a set Call of the Haunted (https://ms.yugipedia.com//4/41/CalloftheHaunted-SDPL-EN-C-1E.png).
CL1: Player 1 activates Mystical Space Typhoon (https://ms.yugipedia.com//a/a0/MysticalSpaceTyphoon-LEHD-EN-C-1E.png), targetting Player 2's set Call of the Haunted.
CL2: Player 2 chains Call of the Haunted, targeting a Blue-Eyes White Dragon (https://ms.yugipedia.com//b/b4/BlueEyesWhiteDragon-MVP1-EN-GUR-1E.png) in the Graveyard.
CL2: Call of the Haunted resolves, Special Summoning Blue-Eyes White Dragon from the Graveyard.
CL1: Mystical Space Typhoon resolves, destroying Call of the Haunted. Since Call of the Haunted was destroyed, Blue-Eyes White Dragon is also destroyed by its effect.
Chain finishes resolving. Now, Special Summoning the Blue-Eyes was definitely not the last thing to happen, but Lord Gaia the Fierce Knight can still activate its trigger effect here because its "if" condition has been met and "if" effects don't miss timing. Basically, this page (https://yugipedia.com/wiki/If..._You_Can_VS_When..._You_Can).

An example of an effect (rather than a cost) causing stuff to miss timing is Goblindbergh (https://ms.yugipedia.com//a/a7/Goblindbergh-SDPL-EN-C-1E.png)'s effect: "When this card is Normal Summoned: You can Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower monster from your hand, also, after that, change this card to Defense Position."
When you summon a monster with 1500 or more ATK with this effect, the opponent cannot activate Bottomless Trap Hole (https://ms.yugipedia.com//6/61/BottomlessTrapHole-YS18-EN-C-1E.png) since it reads: "When your opponent Summons a monster(s) with 1500 or more ATK: Destroy that monster(s) with 1500 or more ATK, and if you do, banish it."
Since the last event to happen was not a monster being summoned but rather Goblindbergh changing to Defense position, Bottomless Traphole misses timing.

"Priority" is another of those old mechanics that don't exist anymore but the word still exists to describe something else entirely, so it can get misused by people.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on January 27, 2019, 10:18:39 PM
I ended up doing a bunch of Ravnica Allegiance drafts this weekend even though I don't usually draft since I had some free ones banked from the rewards program of my favorite store. Ended up snagging three free shocklands, and I placed first at our Sunday draft with a Simic deck and a lot of luck. I still don't love Simic for sealed but man, Sharktocrab can lay on a crazy amount of pressure. especially when you ramp into it. Still haven't managed to snag a Hydroid Krasis though, I'd love to have one of those at some point but they're pretty expensive right now.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on January 28, 2019, 05:44:56 AM
I think Hydroid Krasis is the most expensive card in the set right now and frankly I can see why. Got two Godless Shrines so far from my prereleases and associated prizing and got a copy of Vannifar from the bundle I bought for the basics

With a lot of the uncommons in this set I feel really inclined to try building some sort of UG counters deck (with Ezuri) or BW aristocrats deck (probably with Ayli) for commander since I feel like I need to branch out

I also want to try and make mill work in Standard because they're just giving us an entire toolbox for it.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Third Eye Lem on February 22, 2019, 02:10:32 AM
Anyone here interested in the new Pokemon TCG expansion? I saw the "gimmick" for it (Tag Team cards) and they look really cute. I think Eevee + Snorlax and Gengar + Mimikyu are my favorites so far.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on February 22, 2019, 06:02:52 PM
Yeah totally. I've been playing the Pokemon TCG quite a bit online lately and I think the metagame is in a great place right now. The Tag GXs are interesting and fun, and I've definitely picked up a few of them IRL just to look at.

Some of the upcoming ones are super silly with how over the top their effects are. There's a Muk & Alolan Muk Tag GX that can do 150 poison damage a turn under optimal conditions.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Jq1790 on April 05, 2019, 03:39:03 AM
So!  I did not expect to be making a post here, but life has strange turns sometimes I guess.  My supervisor at work came across a bunch of Magic cards, and knowing my interests include games and such, she gave them to me.

Problem is, I haven't actually...PLAYED Magic, or TCGs in general for a long time now.

This is where you all possibly come in.  The cards are all commons but do any of you want them?  I figure someone(s) here might be able to give some of em a good home.

Green:
1x Llanowar Envoy
3x Saproling Migration
1x Gaea's Protector
1x Baloth Gorger
1x Broken Bond
1x Ancient Animus
2x Gift of Growth
1x Llanowar Scout
2x Adventurous Impulse
1x Arbor Armament

Black:
3x Windgrace Acolyte
2x Cabal Evangel
2x Caligo Skin-Witch
1x Deathbloom Thallid
1x Vicious Offering
1x Cabal Paladin
1x Soul Salvage
1x Eviscerate

Red:
2x Fervent Strike
2x Run Amok
2x Fiery Intervention
2x Ghitu Chronicler
1x Frenzied Rage
1x Rampaging Cyclops
1x Keldon Warcaller
1x Keldon Overseer

Blue:
1x Befuddle
2x Homarid Explorer
2c Cloudreader Sphinx
1x Deep Freeze
1x Rescue
1x Cold-Water Snapper
2x Artificer's Assistant
1x Arcane Flight
1x Vodalian Arcanist
1x Academy Journeymage

White
1x Blessed Light
1x Sergeant-at-Arms
2x Serra Disciple
2x Aven Sentry
1x Healing Grace
1x Adamant Will
1x D'Avenant Trapper
1x Tragic Poet
2x Benalish Honor Guard
1x Mesa Unicorn

Colorless
3x Jousting Lance
2x Pardic Wanderer
2x Navigator's Compass
1x Guardian of Koilos
1x Skittering Surveyor
1x Aesthir Glider
1x Voltaic Servant

I'm not asking for money for these, so if anyone wants some free Magic just let me know!  Only thing I'll need if you do is an address, obviously.

(*offer limited to contiguous 48 US states due to shipping costs to other regions, sorry!)
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: hyorinryu on April 08, 2019, 04:22:32 AM
Yeah totally. I've been playing the Pokemon TCG quite a bit online lately and I think the metagame is in a great place right now. The Tag GXs are interesting and fun, and I've definitely picked up a few of them IRL just to look at.

Some of the upcoming ones are super silly with how over the top their effects are. There's a Muk & Alolan Muk Tag GX that can do 150 poison damage a turn under optimal conditions.

I didn't realize you played it online. I've put in the codes, but didn't really play with anyone. Maybe I'll try. My biggest problem with pokemon is that the Energy mechanic seems too snowbally. It feels really difficult to recover from losing a pokemon with 2 or more energy on it from what little I've done, especially when people have a pokemon with 3 or more energy on it.


Also thoughts on war of the spark? I'm interested. I'd glad to see Sorin's back. I thought they killed him off. I wonder if Nahiri will be back too. I know Ugin is.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on April 08, 2019, 04:48:27 AM
I didn't realize you played it online. I've put in the codes, but didn't really play with anyone. Maybe I'll try. My biggest problem with pokemon is that the Energy mechanic seems too snowbally. It feels really difficult to recover from losing a pokemon with 2 or more energy on it from what little I've done, especially when people have a pokemon with 3 or more energy on it.

Energy is a balancing mechanism, so it can be snowbally if you put yourself in a situation where you're losing a ton of resources to a KO, but if you're doing that then you're presumably getting a benefit that's worth the risk. There are a ton of ways to set up energy so that it rarely takes 3-4 turns to get anything set up, and many/most meta cards have reasonably efficient attacks. I think energy has become a fairly elegant system. It's not perfect, but it's not a huge problem.

I think the Pokemon TCG has been really good lately. It went through a few rough patches fairly recently with some very generic and powerful draw engines that centralized the metagame, but in the last year or so all of those cards have rotated out and have been replaced with much more situational and higher skill cards if they've been replaced at all. Tons of stuff feels decently viable right now and that's always nice to see.

Also thoughts on war of the spark? I'm interested. I'd glad to see Sorin's back. I thought they killed him off. I wonder if Nahiri will be back too. I know Ugin is.

I don't care for planeswalkers as a general rule, I think they receive too much of the story's focus at the expense of more interesting characters and their cards can do bad things to gameplay. War of the Spark correctly reinvented planeswalkers to make them fill roles other than "constantly generates value and must be answered or you win". They may be mostly just weird enchantments now, but that's much better and more interesting than almost all of them being nearly the same card. I have some balance concerns about some of the stuff in the set (Proliferate really worries me in this Standard) but I'm glad to see Amonkhet stuff back and the set is shaping up to look much more varied and interesting than I was worried it was going to. Plus, Fblthp!

I'm glad to see Sorin back too, I've been playing WB Tokens in Modern and it might as well be a Sorin deck. He's the reason Tokens is good as far as I'm concerned. His new card doesn't really fit in the deck, but it's neat.

Nahiri is in the set, her card has already been revealed. She's... weird. I find her very hard to evaluate. Which is usually a good sign, it means she's interesting. Repeatable damage to creatures seems good, but this might be too situational to be of much use. I guess we'll find out. Too much there's not much relevant equipment in Standard.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: hyorinryu on April 09, 2019, 05:35:12 AM
Energy is a balancing mechanism, so it can be snowbally if you put yourself in a situation where you're losing a ton of resources to a KO, but if you're doing that then you're presumably getting a benefit that's worth the risk. There are a ton of ways to set up energy so that it rarely takes 3-4 turns to get anything set up, and many/most meta cards have reasonably efficient attacks. I think energy has become a fairly elegant system. It's not perfect, but it's not a huge problem.

I think the Pokemon TCG has been really good lately. It went through a few rough patches fairly recently with some very generic and powerful draw engines that centralized the metagame, but in the last year or so all of those cards have rotated out and have been replaced with much more situational and higher skill cards if they've been replaced at all. Tons of stuff feels decently viable right now and that's always nice to see.

I don't care for planeswalkers as a general rule, I think they receive too much of the story's focus at the expense of more interesting characters and their cards can do bad things to gameplay. War of the Spark correctly reinvented planeswalkers to make them fill roles other than "constantly generates value and must be answered or you win". They may be mostly just weird enchantments now, but that's much better and more interesting than almost all of them being nearly the same card. I have some balance concerns about some of the stuff in the set (Proliferate really worries me in this Standard) but I'm glad to see Amonkhet stuff back and the set is shaping up to look much more varied and interesting than I was worried it was going to. Plus, Fblthp!

I'm glad to see Sorin back too, I've been playing WB Tokens in Modern and it might as well be a Sorin deck. He's the reason Tokens is good as far as I'm concerned. His new card doesn't really fit in the deck, but it's neat.

Nahiri is in the set, her card has already been revealed. She's... weird. I find her very hard to evaluate. Which is usually a good sign, it means she's interesting. Repeatable damage to creatures seems good, but this might be too situational to be of much use. I guess we'll find out. Too much there's not much relevant equipment in Standard.

I'll have to try it out. I don't have a ton of people to play with, mainly just starter decks.

As for the mtg stuff. I can get where you're coming from about the planeswalker stuff, the sets seem like solid settings for pretty good selfcontained stories without planeswalkers. They seem to like pushing the gatewatch group, but I like the planeswalkers we don't see as often. Well, if you don't like planeswalkers, it sounds like they're going to kill alot of them off. I wonder when we'll go back to the Mirroden or some other plane to deal with the Phyrexians.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on April 09, 2019, 06:05:15 AM
I'll have to try it out. I don't have a ton of people to play with, mainly just starter decks.

Pokemon TCG Online has special leagues for starter decks only and you can use the code cards found in the packaging to unlock the decks you own physically online. I'm not a huge fan of that game mode, but I know a lot of people are and it's a semi-reliable way to get prizes in-game since it's a very level playing field. Just be aware that the starter decks aren't really representative of how a normal deck is built, but they're a good way to learn.

As for the mtg stuff. I can get where you're coming from about the planeswalker stuff, the sets seem like solid settings for pretty good selfcontained stories without planeswalkers. They seem to like pushing the gatewatch group, but I like the planeswalkers we don't see as often. Well, if you don't like planeswalkers, it sounds like they're going to kill alot of them off.

It's not that I hate all planeswalkers, it's just that I'm tired of snide Jace quotes in flavor text, I'm tired of the story centralizing around them, and I'm tired of Teferi warping the metagame. I really like a few of them, Kaya and Vraska are great, but overall I could do with a whole lot less of them. If War of the Spark could thin out the herd and maybe get us to a point where we're getting one every few sets rather than a bunch every set like Wizards told us was the plan when they came out then that would be nice I think.

I wonder when we'll go back to the Mirroden or some other plane to deal with the Phyrexians.

If I had to guess then I would guess very soon. Next year maybe? Even this year wouldn't shock me. I'm honestly kind of surprised no Phyrexians or Eldrazi surfaced in this set. Given that they're both part of Bolas' plan somehow I was expecting to see a half-Eternalized half-Phyrexianized Emrakul as his ultimate weapon or something silly like that.  :D
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on April 20, 2019, 02:15:38 AM
Kaya, Orzhov Usurper is climbing the ranks toward being my favorite card. I thought she looked neat when she was spoiled and had a long conversation with a buddy where we guessed that her best use was as a one-of in any Modern deck that she can be cast in, and I feel like that's proving to be true.

She always does something fun and weird whenever she shows up, and she's just a blast to play for some reason. She's relevant against almost every deck in the format but rarely for the same reason twice. I regret not going with my gut instinct and picking up a prerelease foil of her back when she was cheap.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: hyorinryu on April 20, 2019, 04:35:20 AM
I randomly opened one of her in a box.

Also, I tried to play a pokemon game, and unfortunately, once my friend got a stage two on the field, I just couldn't recover.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on April 23, 2019, 12:23:40 AM
https://www.mtggoldfish.com/articles/war-of-the-spark-spoilers-april-22-2019-japanese-alternate-art-planeswalkers

Well that's pretty wild! I wonder if these will be available in English. They're super cool (mostly, except for the kinda weird Bolas art) but I don't usually like playing with foreign cards, especially with this much text.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on April 23, 2019, 04:29:39 AM
Doesn't sound like they'll be available in English, but will at least be available for purchase in EN-speaking regions

I can't really complain about the Bolas art too much since I looked up the artists and the one who did his alternate art is pretty prominent, having worked on a lot of kaiju and mecha stuff since the 80's. The alternate Yanggu is by an artist who did a lot of FE stuff, mostly between 6-10. The majority of the artists are people who do art for JP card games, especially Duel Masters
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on April 28, 2019, 02:27:29 AM
My first prerelease wasn't great, I opened a Gideon but got smashed first round by an opponent who went turn 5 Bontu-> turn 6 foil Liliana both games. Then I played against an eight-year-old second round who never cast a spell and lost the match in five minutes, then I somehow got a bye despite having a win so I may as well not have played and just sat there for almost all of the three-hour event.

A buddy and I decided to buy boxes and mine was looking pretty grim, with my only three mythics up to that point being the three bad finales, but then I had a pack with Bolas and a foil Niv which turned things right around. Going to another prerelease tomorrow, we'll see how everything shakes out I guess.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on April 28, 2019, 02:53:33 AM
I have not had a chance to do a physical prerelease yet. The one I tried to go to today was fully booked so the best I could do was pre-register for tomorrow,

I did have a chance to use a bunch of my stockpiled gems and try sealed on Arena twice. Dreadhorde Invasion is incredibly potent, especially if you get any of the lords that give your tokens evasion or a lot of other Amass/Proliferate effects to get to critical mass faster
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on April 28, 2019, 03:00:12 AM
I have a really hard time evaluating Dreadhorde Invasion. I play a lot of Bitterblossom in Modern so it's easy to compare the two, but I still don't really know what to think. I mean, Dreadhorde is obviously worse, just not sure how much worse. I got one in my pool and splashed for it, but of my four shitty games the only one I got to cast it in was one where I got completely flattened by Liliana so I didn't get to see much of it.

Good luck at your first paper prerelease. If you've already played sealed online then I'm sure you know what to do. Prerelease promos are fun, they're my preferred version of a card if I can get them, so hopefully you get good ones.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: hyorinryu on May 10, 2019, 02:05:40 AM
I decided to get a box for the heck of it. I'm surprised at who's in what rarity. I didn't expect the demon guy at uncommon, or Kiora. I guess when you have all these walkers, there are only so many mythic/rare slots.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on May 10, 2019, 02:43:05 AM
Yeah, and most of the rare and mythic slots are earmarked for Gatewatch characters and Ravnica characters. Everyone else kind of gets pushed aside, but not necessarily in power level. Many of the uncommons are very solid cards that I like a lot.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on May 10, 2019, 02:47:52 PM
Honestly I feel like a lot of the uncommon planeswalkers (Tibalt and Wanderer in particular) have good homes in sideboard matchups for competitive decks, but what I'm really impressed by is the fact that some of the regular rare planeswalkers like Narset and Karn are having a massive impact in older formats in Vintage right now.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on May 10, 2019, 03:02:44 PM
Meanwhile I don't anticipate the mythic ones being too too impactful outside Standard. Liliana seems great in Commander, Bolas might be good when his static ability matters, and some Death And Taxes list somewhere might test Gideon, but I don't expect any of them to see anywhere near as much play as Saheeli or Ashiok.

Meanwhile meanwhile, I don't know how to evaluate Tezzeret and he kind of scares me. His combo in Standard is gross and I feel like he's going to break something at some point and risk being the new Nexus of Fate. His design isn't necessarily pushed, but I feel like it's not conservative enough for a buy-a-box
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: hyorinryu on May 12, 2019, 01:38:39 AM
Meanwhile I don't anticipate the mythic ones being too too impactful outside Standard. Liliana seems great in Commander, Bolas might be good when his static ability matters, and some Death And Taxes list somewhere might test Gideon, but I don't expect any of them to see anywhere near as much play as Saheeli or Ashiok.

Meanwhile meanwhile, I don't know how to evaluate Tezzeret and he kind of scares me. His combo in Standard is gross and I feel like he's going to break something at some point and risk being the new Nexus of Fate. His design isn't necessarily pushed, but I feel like it's not conservative enough for a buy-a-box

I ended up getting 3 mythics and no planeswalkers among said mythics. Just two Zombie gods and an "Apex Hybrid", whatever that is. At least the last guy is shiny. I have a bunch of planeswalkers to play with though. That's nice.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on May 12, 2019, 02:55:54 AM
A three-mythic box is too bad, but a foil mythic is nice. Did you get the box promo? And which God Eternals did you get? Kefnet and Oketra are the expensive ones right now.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on May 20, 2019, 12:36:28 AM
(https://media-dominaria.cursecdn.com/avatars/273/553/636939015787573225.png)

We got our fixed Force of Will in Modern Horizons! This whole time I've been trying to figure out how you make a fixed Force that can be used to disrupt degenerate combos but can't be used to protect them. Making it only usable on the opponent's turn is an obvious and reasonable answer. I think this is a great design. The Negate element is a little harder to evaluate, but it probably means that Force of Negation doesn't want to be in main decks, which is probably a good thing. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure this card is very good and I'm pretty sure it's pretty balanced.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: PX on May 20, 2019, 03:46:59 AM
Literally what Modern needed right now
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on May 20, 2019, 03:55:30 AM
Almost bummed it can't get creatures since ideally what you want to counter against Storm is one of their creatures, but they'll always just topdeck a second one immediately anyway. Maybe that's a trap and hitting Gifts or Past in Flames is better, and I'm assuming Past in Flames is the reason this exiles.
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: Tamer Anode/Cathode on May 21, 2019, 01:19:12 AM
somebody try and convince me that Wing Shards does not exist solely to brick the Arclight Phoenix deck
Title: Re: Cardboard Intervention: TCG/CCG Thread Redux 2
Post by: commandercool on May 21, 2019, 01:45:29 AM
Wing Shards is an old card that predates that deck, game set match.  :D

I think the main argument against it for Phoenix is honestly just that it doesn't dumpster them hard enough. It's probably not maindeck playable, which means that if you're putting it in your sideboard you could be running something that prevents them from getting off the ground in the first place. Although the biggest upside is that it's not easy for them to disrupt. They can't practically counter it and they can't bounce or destroy it like they can with a lot of other hate options. So maybe that'll end up being good enough.