They have decided to put “Masterpieces” in each set. Reprints of expensive cards (not standard legal) in foil and with its own frame. In Return to Zendikar (one of the worst blocks in a long time) they made a Masterpiece cycle of lands (called Expeditions), in Kaladesh artifacts (Inventions), and the frame was not bad.
And now the theme is “Invocations” which is not only vague but also has that ugly frame. Two things that show how awful it is.
It is really hard to know at a glance if a card is or is not a creature because the stats are barely visible. And for multicolor cards there is no clue that tells you what colors they are because the symbols have no color themselves.
But hey, new bolas next set. And I really like this card.
I really missed “Final Fortune” effects.
EDIT: It still hurts me that they nailed a frame design in Planar Chaos and decided not to use it.
Cannot quote this hard enough. Planar Chaos was the point my interest in Magic reached its peak, with a gradual climb to reach that point and a gradual tapering afterward.
Given the name and the claws, you’d think that whatever it did to you would be pretty violent. But if it dies, its victim returns good as new. What actually happened in the interim, and is the target truly the same as before?
Yeah, all of netrunner’s full bleed cards are pretty nice. They’ve started putting out championship decks from its worlds competitions that have full bleed art and they make the standard cards feel so dull. I’m hoping that a company like fantasy flight isn’t so precious about its style book that they wouldn’t consider a blanket redesign.
always.
But in this case. They are both to the level you can play either card on a turn. But one is better in every aspect with no weaknesses. Yu gi oh has a mile of trash cards.
In Theros they made all the things related to gods enchantment. So you had enchantment creatures and enchantment artifact.
Enchantment creatures is something that Maro says he wish it would have existed since the beginning, so you can use it for things like spirits or so. The same way that instead of instant the game from the beginning had sorceries with Flash instead.
Hmmhmm HAHAHAHAHAHA! Did you say “No weaknesses”? Godamn_Milkman, it seems like you haven’t really studied this game at all! Now I will show you what a true master of the cards can do!
YOU’VE SET OFF MY TRAP CARD!! GRAVITY BIND!!
That’s right! Gravity Bind stops all monsters of level 4 and above from attacking! What’s more, it stays on the field until destroyed!! With none of your monsters able to attack, it seems like this duel might be over before it’s even started!!
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(ok you are totally right there are loads of useless cards, but also there are quite a few cards which make useless cards good again. gravity bind was a very common card when i started playing. also don’t play yu-gi-oh with anyone who picks a better card over making a card they like viable via a combo of 3 other cards, it’ll be boring)
I was originally really lucky to fall in with a group of nice Netrunner people back home when I started playing. If you’re looking for people to play with in real life it might be worth seeking out the “Netrunner Dorks” facebook group, which might put you in touch with some nearby players (and is generally a nice group populated with kind people who love the game).
It’s actually a pretty decent time to be returning to the game. The card pool is definitely too big right now, but they’re going to be cycling out 240 cards (the first two data cycles) pretty soon, and there are also some fun limited-card pool formats at the moment that people are really into. Onesies is the unofficial one, and FFG just announced an official version of it called Cache Refresh.
But yeah, you could get up to date by buying one or two of the deluxe expansions and a couple of the card packs from the last Data Cycle (which was power creep as hell but also fun?) I’m also down to play on Jinteki any time if you want to try out some recent decks and see how they feel! (athough Jinteki seems to be down at the time of me posting this).
