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Are we talking about a Russian version of Ben Carson here?

This is why you, Mister Cavern, need to tell the players what you want the campaign to be about in advance, so that they can generate characters that will fit into what you want to have happen.

Having looked at the actual cards that sacrifice lands... it actually doesn't seem as powerful as I thought.

The card it works best with is probably smokestack:



EDIT: Or maybe some kind of mill deck that uses it "fairly" to hit land drops.

A land you could (re-)play from the graveyard would completely change the balance of the cost "Sacrifice a Land:". I suppose if it had a death-trigger that exiled it, that might make it work.

The problem with Trump is that there's not that much time left for him to implode (with the holiday interruption to campaigns) before the actual primaries start. And if he's still hanging on but not winning in February, the man is egotistical enough to run third party. That would be wonderful to se...

1) Famines and plagues cut the population way the fuck down. Because fields do not produce twice as many crops when you throw twice as many people at them, everyone dying actually makes it easier for Europe to feed itself. I was doing research the other day and saw mention that wages increased rema...

I do not believe no one will play the card. In fact, the card was designed to please a certain segment of the Magic community. I dub this style of player the uber-Johnny. Maro always wants to go back to his fucking psychographic, but I've read the same intention represented in a far less patronizin...

Nah, there are decks based on Balance and Barren Glory that turn disadvantages like that into value, and others like Hermit Druid that play out of the graveyard and desire ways to get rid of a hand. Plus whole set-focused mechanics like Madness that actively participate in the discard mechanic. The...

One with Nothing wasn't intended to be "good in the right deck", it was intended to be just plain bad.

Demonic Consultation is an instant instead of a sorcery, and costs only {B} instead of {1}{B}.

Vampiric Tutor doesn't put the card into your hand, and wasn't out yet anyway.

Seismic Assault seems to be preferred over Stormbind now, presumably because it doesn't cost mana to activate.

You also have more control over your discard, so you can have other spells around and just recur Life from the Loam for quick wins.

Ravengm wrote:The biggest problem that you run into with lands that have basic minor effects is board complexity.

Then make them "virtual-basic" with ETB triggers or something.

name_here wrote:Ravnica did something special; each guild had a land that tapped for one mana of both guild colors simultaneously. The price was that it came into play tapped and you had to return a land to your hand when you played it.

They are called Karoo lands, because Karoo did it first.

There was a time when playing a deck that aimed to get an 8 mana creature into play was a novelty that turned heads on the tournament scene, purely because everyone knew big creatures were bad. WotC made attempts to reverse that trend until the printing of the Titans in M12 showed that you could ma...

http://i.imgur.com/SJsXgZf.jpg http://i.imgur.com/4ggiH7a.jpg All of the following can go in the same deck: http://i.imgur.com/BI63stx.jpg http://i.imgur.com/fpPyrKJ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/Vy628Pf.jpg http://i.imgur.com/m0yQIbL.jpg http://i.imgur.com/lUj0ny7.jpg http://i.imgur.com/I5NdolE.jpg http:...

Terra Nova is a Vintage deck that runs a whole bunch of lands that do things: 8x man-lands: Mishra's Factory and Mutavault 5x Land-D lands: Wasteland and Strip Mine 4x anti-creature lands in the sideboard: Karakas and Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale Sometimes it also runs Blinkmoth Nexus and Ghost Quart...

Amusingly, if you could somehow give your opponent control of your cumulative upkeep triggers, there are cards that could protect the cumulative upkeep cards.

erik wrote:Only thing worse than a tiny vampire cabal or lone frankenstein creation would be an army of them created by a powerful government.

More terrifying than these? http://i.tcgplayer.com/47550.jpg https://www.abugames.com/images/products/zendikarfoil/BalothWoodcrasher.jpg http://www.abugames.com/images/products/magic2012m12foil/GraveTitan.jpg There have been some scary 6-mana creatures printed over the years, what do you think make...

Reminder: general elections are generally on the first Tuesday in November.

My ballot had 14 candidates running for 12 offices under about 7 parties. And one yes/no referendum.

Such choice!

Everything I'd want out of a "normal" adventure, but with different art and names.

Kaelik wrote:What K said. The MM is the most important book in D&D, and I don't care about literally any other part of your game if you don't have one.

Would you say that a sensible release order is MM -> PHB -> DMG ?

I never understood True Ancestors as vampires, but rather fey type thingy that could create vampires. In Nasu, "vampire" is basically defined as "anything that drinks human blood". They totally count. Also, they created the "standard" vampires by drinking their blood, ...

So finish up After Sundown, get some artists and marketing, and make a splash.

Shadowrun has the Ordo Maximus. They tempered with the normal Vampyr Strain and made Vampires compatible with cyberware, unaffacted by sunlight, able to digest normal food and drink without actually needing the blood anymore . . While still keeping the regeneration, the longevity, the immunity to a...