God Pharoah’s Gift with the shortcut will definitely be playable alongside cards like Cathartic Reunion and likely cycle creatures. It will be a slower, Standard version of Living End essentially.
Looking carefully at whats revealed so far in Hour of Devastation, the strongest color seems to be Green followed by Black.
Look like I will be playing Golgari in Drafts
I am officially putting Commander 1vs1 as my 2nd all-time favorite format. Been a week and only been playing that. So much fun and you guys should go on MTGO and give it a shot.
Was thinking about going to a pre-release tomorrow but IDK.
I’d kind of like it but they’d have to handle instants right and I’m not sure how that would be done, especially taking things like connection losses and lag into account as well as with not wanting an annoying pop-up “Do you want to respond to this” on every single move the opponent does.
Quick question about Magic as a newbie. Say I have a total of 5 Lands out. And I summon a monster that has 2 mana cost. That means I only have 3 mana to use from that point on for my turn, correct? Then when my turn ends, all the mana reverts back to unused?
(Did Hour of Devastation on MTGO release in the middle of the week or something? Weird. Also, I really don’t know what it is with some of you and quoting entire posts when you don’t need to do so.)
@FatalSeabass - Your lands stay tapped until your next untap step, which in most circumstances means through your opponent’s next turn. So in the situation that you detail, you would have 3 mana unused that you could use through the end of your turn and, if you have Instants or monsters with Flash or abilities that can be activated instantly that need costs, 3 mana that you could use throughout your opponent’s turns as well. Only at the beginning of your next turn do you get 5 mana back since all of your tapped lands untapped. For the record, your mana isn’t actually “unused” since you don’t have mana until you tap lands (or activate an ability or play a spell that explictly generates mana).
Related to that, keep in mind that any mana you do generate fades away between every step. Only in that instance is it actually unused. At least you don’t have to worry about mana burn anymore (even if that both somewhat screw over and slightly broke a few older cards).
WotC is supposedly considering making an MMORPG akin to Neverwinter Nights or something. Or so I heard at least. I didn’t bother looking into it since it didn’t interest me at all.
@The Damned: Perfect explanation. So my lands remain tapped through my opponent’s phase. And I need to get that explanation in my head. My mana doesn’t get used until I actually tap it.
(You have to put quotes around people with spaces or punctuation in their names to devil-summon them.)
@FatalSeabass - Yes, basically that’s the gist of it. I suppose I should slightly amend something I said in that you can play any card, mostly permanents, that have Flash during your opponent’s turn as well given there are Enchantments with Flash as well, like the recent and more-than-decent Cast Out, and a few non-creature Artifacts. It’s just that the majority of the permanents with Flash do happen to be creatures. Still, to be completely accurate given things like Leyline of Anticipation and Quicken exist and apply to even Sorceries (and Planeswalkers), I should at least acknowledge that.
Also, it will take a while to remember everything. Hell, I forget about the Upkeep step about half of the time, though it’s not like I ever really get to play. Still, the Untap step is always the first thing done every turn and thus relatively easy to remember.
Sweet my skillz paid off. I knew little about Standard but Earthshaker felt SOOOO good and the thing that could make sligh red viable so when I got 1 foil on mtgo for my commander deck (all foil) I got a few extra because they were so cheap. Lets see them spike higher than 4$.
the Magic card series really is overwhelming, but its nice it has a fanbase and promotes more indepth thinking in some ways that others can improve upon
I just realized something, and I could be wrong, but is there no Magic card that outright destroys your enemy’s lands? I see a lot of cards that destroy all your monsters but not lands.
