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This game has gone amazing since this latest set! Some of the combos are massive. Most games I play have HUGE wins for them or me. This new set is much stronger than it was.
It's a pretty nice set with some very good commons and uncommons. Not just the Sagas, but also Sarulf's Packmate, Masked Vandal, Stalwart Valkyrie, Ravenform, Ox and Vega, among others.

A lot of the bomb rares and mythics are too slow for eternal formats. The one bomb that's surprised me is The World Tree. Bursting to 8 mana is not hard at all, and it works great with Golos.

The Snow payoffs are good but requires playing with the much weaker Snow land base.

Foretell hasn't come together as a cohesive deck concept yet.
 
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i didnt check/notice before. Viking mastery gives 4x specific rare for each color. There is quite an incentive to wait with packs opening longer than before. Last such reward is lvl 65/80 though...
 

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i didnt check/notice before. Viking mastery gives 4x specific rare for each color. There is quite an incentive to wait with packs opening longer than before. Last such reward is lvl 65/80 though...
Is that the Mastery Orbs? It's only cosmetics.
 

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I'm playing 3 decks that are pretty fun, but I need more wildcards. My main one is good but boring, I wanna play with green some more but I miss at least 8 of the key green cards. That fuccccking Scute creature is just too op to not have.
 
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i didnt check/notice before. Viking mastery gives 4x specific rare for each color. There is quite an incentive to wait with packs opening longer than before. Last such reward is lvl 65/80 though...
I already went through this a page or two back you... You... Double duck! Those are all standard-legal "Special" cards. Similar to the brawl deck cards for Eldraine or planeswalker deck walkers before that. So you're fine to play limited and crack packs willy nilly because the cards on the mastery pass tree don't come from regular boosters.
 

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When I first saw this I thought this card was really good, but nothing that can beat Eldraine

Then I realize this card is questing beast 2.0, where the other half of the card let the card basically become a Nissa in terms of mana cost and give him an huge amount of value when it etb. Despite having no etb effect on the card itself
 

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I had to do this against Sparky because anyone else would quit, but notice all the the duplicated planeswalker ulties on the left, and the size of the Dream Trawlers :smug:

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It hit for about 1000, mostly because of the soldier tokens.
 

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Damn, how did you manage to get that many Planewalker ultimates off!!?!

I usually get to two ultimates and the game is over.

Lithoform Engine?
 

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Yeah I got the chance to do it against my opponent and he quit before I could see, so I went against Sparky to see. I got 6 of them rolling :D That Litho is fun.
 

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When I first saw this I thought this card was really good, but nothing that can beat Eldraine

Then I realize this card is questing beast 2.0, where the other half of the card let the card basically become a Nissa in terms of mana cost and give him an huge amount of value when it etb. Despite having no etb effect on the card itself
in izzet shell its quite insane as if you are able to attack, it will give you mana to protect it with counterspell
 

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When I first saw this I thought this card was really good, but nothing that can beat Eldraine

Then I realize this card is questing beast 2.0, where the other half of the card let the card basically become a Nissa in terms of mana cost and give him an huge amount of value when it etb. Despite having no etb effect on the card itself

The card is amazing for red ramp, especially in my mono red brawl decks, like Purphoros and Magda.

I you could also just pile the cheap buffs on them because every time a spell is cast on them, they produce treasure. Can you imagine this card as a Legendary Commander.
 

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When I first saw this I thought this card was really good, but nothing that can beat Eldraine

Then I realize this card is questing beast 2.0, where the other half of the card let the card basically become a Nissa in terms of mana cost and give him an huge amount of value when it etb. Despite having no etb effect on the card itself
It's actually Captain Lannery that flies for 2 more mana.
It's way overrated because there's no good removal in Standard right now.
 

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The card is amazing for red ramp, especially in my mono red brawl decks, like Purphoros and Magda.

I you could also just pile the cheap buffs on them because every time a spell is cast on them, they produce treasure. Can you imagine this card as a Legendary Commander.

Yea I didn't think of using it as a voltron target, it is also great card in commander it seems

Might pick it up on paper before it gets too expensive
 

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Uro banned in Historic
Craft time?

In OTHER NEWS, I've learned that Admiral Brass can steal enchantments. Pirates continue to ass kick

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I stole Kroxa with his own Claim the Firstborn

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Uro banned in Historic
Intredasting. Already fully dipped on Uro due to making a playset when he was being busted in standard, but glad he'll stop stinking up historic. Tempted to make a set of Tibalt's Trickery before B&R just in case they slap that down for being a pain in the ass. Not sure what else (If anything) they'd ban in terms of MTGA.
 

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i wonder if we will get enough time to pull tibalt trickeries in quickdraft for those sweet wc
 

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That trickery card is interesting. I played against it 3 times, first time he countered his own spell and played a huge creature on turn 2. I was fucked. Second time he used it on me and I played a huge creature of my own, he quit. Third time he used it on himself and some tiny creature popped out. He quit then too.

I think it could be a strong deck though. Red polymorph.
 

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I got to Diamond pretty fast but now I am getting owned a lot. That trickery card is retarded... I had another two games against it, first time he got 0 cards and quit, turn 2. Second game he got 2 massive game ending creatures and a PW, all out on turn 2. So retarded. May as well just a card "flip a coin, heads wins the game".

I got owned by Vorinclex though too, I tried to Elspeth him but it breaks Sagas -.- Hard game!
 
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