"""Balanced""" Desert edition

Zombie Tribal?

It's also uncommon which likely means it's intended to be a staple for RB Hellbent in draft.

Yeah, something tells me WotC wants Zombie Tribal to be a thing

They don't want Desert in Standard because it easily creates board stalls, screws with combat math, and discourages you from being aggressive. Especially in multiples.

I wish it was common so much user.

>screws with combat math
>casuals can't handle 1 extra damage

>discourages aggro
Oh noooo. That suuucks

I'd say "Good, Kiora was terrible" but Nissa is somehow worse.

God, to think I once thought playing the most hipster two color combo would protect me from this nuwalker nonsense.

I am literally disgusted by this card.

And that's how we arrived at Creatures: The Tappening.
Any sort of interaction with your opponent's creatures is badwrongfun.

If people can't play around fucking Desert then I honestly don't know what to say, that's fucking toddler tier.

I guess I can fuck around with recurring it 40 times in a turn to kill someone in EDH but that's fucking durdle tier, was Desert really so fucking overpowered that they had to release this bland piece of bread in card form?

So "fuck Standard" is what I'm hearing?

Gurmag Angler is just not doing it for you, Pauperfag?

Can't play grumag in mono U
Cloud did nothing wrong, should have banned delver of "1 mana 3/2 is fine lmao"

I didn't know wizards were still capable of making good flavor texts.

There are a few return land to hand effects in blue that could make it playable in UG maybe? Blue cartouche also aids synergy into a beater deck

>Desert was overpowered so we had to make a version of it that's total fucking trash

Every god damn thing about this expansion looks like ass except the full art lands, and even those are only in 25% of packs.

Is it just me, or do most of the """"""rares"""""" in this set look like trash draft fodder? How is this set supposed to compete in the same standard environment as kaladesh? It's really disappointing, because I was hoping amonkhet would save standard, but it looks like we will be getting at least another 4 months of vehicles vs saheeli

B A N H A M M E R
Also, they've stated more than once that, since Vehicles were a new subtype, they weren't sure how good they'd actually be - especially since they changed in the middle of Kaladesh development from 'this many bodies' to 'this much power'
They wanted to make sure people would play them. They got their wish, a bit too much.
And, of course, somehow didn't see the interaction between Saheeli and Feldari Guardian whatsoever.

>Also, they've stated more than once that, since Vehicles were a new subtype, they weren't sure how good they'd actually be - especially since they changed in the middle of Kaladesh development from 'this many bodies' to 'this much power'
That explains the totally pointless Servo subtheme.

Yep. Personally, just play casual with friends.

They also thought Servos were going to be a deck in and of themselves.
It wasn't a pointless subtheme. They seriously thought it was going to be a major deck.
Development has no idea what it's doing.

Given the existence of cards that care about Deserts as a subtype, I suspect there will be other deserts at uncommon and rare.

should have cost BB

Why don't they just embargo pro players to test shit for them if they are so awful at it. Like beta testers for sets or something.

I'm asking a probably stupid question, but here I go anyway.
A friend of mine opened a booster with a card that had 'S' rarity, what's that?
Sorry for being a complete noob, but I thought rarity stuff would be clear nowadays, but people online talk about c, u, r and m, no mention of 's'.
It's foiled and it's legendary, pics of the same card online has an m though. He's not trying to sell it or whatever he didn't know what it meant and I don't know either.
He and I would like to know out of curiosity.

get used to this card, you'll be seeing it a lot.

>Why don't they just embargo pro players to test shit for them
wat?

What's the card name?

Aggro decks are important user

Development actually IS made of former pro players.
Keyword: former.
From years ago at this point.
And they've ended up with some weird ideas about How Shit Works since they're just working with themselves all the time instead of with others at all.
Various pro players have said that if they test too much within their own groups, they'll start valuing some cards too highly. Development does that too, but with Development they'll do that still even after they themselves nerf the card into oblivion. See First Response, which once cost much less and was running rampant in their leagues, which they were STILL playing and designing cards around - like Siege Rhino - despite it being a shitty underwhelming enchantment in the real world.
I'm assuming he meant 'you aren't allowed to play in formats with these cards and can't talk about them, in exchange for helping us playtest with them and getting paid for it'

Is it a kaladesh invention or something? They're orange.

Oops, forgot pic

Every 1 in 108 booster packs in Kaladesh block contain an Invention card. They're valuable promos. This is one of them.

See that's what confused us it was in an aether revolt booster, thanks for the info

Wow, it's like Gravecrawler but shit.

They're in every standard legal set from Kaladesh on. The frame (And name of the type of card) is shared between the two sets in each block (IE, Expeditions for BFZ, Inventions for KLD, Objectively shit for AMK)

Yeah but that art and flavor though.
>it'a a phantom like horror
>it gets stronger when you have less reason

My bad, sorry for the misunderstanding on my part.

>it actually is bigger than any of the gods if you're hellbent

lel

Why didn't they add a Mummy creature type? I really wanted to make a Mummy tribal deck.

They're Cretins

Because then they don't benefit from zombie tribal cards!
Please ignore the nagas and jackals in the room.

But outside of some new set SCGs and the like, we haven't had aggro in standard for a while. It's all mid-range shit that looks like aggro.

Hilariously Prowling Serpopard is a 4/3 and does activate the god.

Why are naga even a thing on Amonkhet?

Reptile people are a thing in egyptian mythology, and what other creature type could you possibly give to reptile people?

Snake. Lizard. Lamia (kek).

Viashino
Snake
Lizard
Cat

Creature - Jew

It would even be fitting for an egypt plane.

Then they'd have to errata Maro

>Sniveling jew

Wouldn't be the first time.
>Summon Nature Spirit

The origins walkers would likely need to face errata too...

Just saw this guy on the MTGGoldfish twitch stream.

Maybe worth it in Modern burn against certain decks?

>Not Planeswalker

Cat combo still reigns supreme

The ONE KIND OF CARD that Red can do SOME sort of enchantment hate, and they pussy out.
Why is it not just 'permanent'?
Also, who wants to bet this is their attempt at trying to design the 'broken red two drop' people keep asking for?

That's pretty solid. Burning-Tree Shaman has a new best friend.

>Why is it not just 'permanent'?

because they didn't want to print a hatebear that read 'lol planeswalkers'

This is pretty hilarious in a fetch-land format.

>Interacting with Lands
WORTHLESS

Give me an interesting Simic Walker not something that just grinds out value

This is going into all my red EDH decks. Try and go infinite now mother fucker.

well that's going in everything

>5 life for fetch/shock
Just burn me up senpai

'scool, I'm running Death's Shadow

Seems like a pain in the ass for DS if they don't Tarfire it before taking too much.

>EDH
>complaining about durdle tier
pick one, filthy casual.

>Development has no idea what it's doing.
God if that isn't the truest thing I've heard all year. How do you not look at a set full of token makers with butts bigger than fists and not realize "hey zen/inn standard is gonna be boring as shit tokens slamming into more boring fucking tokens until someone drops their overpowered angel"?

This is the same company that thinks "redhead who likes fire" and "awkward dork" are complex characters, and that "girl goes from innocent healer to slutty necromancer" is character development.

Fuck you, WotC. Fire MaRo and hire someone under 45 & pay them a competitive salary. Then maybe you won't be such a greasy dumpster fire.

This is insane. I don't normally hype shit up, but are you guys seeing this?

Or do you guys not play Legacy or Modern? Or Vehicles? Or anything.

RDW is gonna be so live

>a 5/6 flyer with affinity for artifacts
>bad

Definitely just gave red a .very. authoritative 2 drop that can jam fetchlands and certain combos. Buying 3 playsets.

One-Off creature types are cancerous and parasitic. Be glad that mummies are zombies, because that way they'll get support and mummy-like stuff might see prints in other sets. Good fucking luck though if you want to play shit like Samurai, Minotaurs, Viashino or Cephalids.

I just pulled The Original Tarmogoyf from Future Sight booster pack: youtu.be/LctEhdASHk4

I have a solution!

So this works how I think right? I can put three -1/-1 counters on a Scarab and get 3 scarabs?

Here's a question: how come tron doesn't side in 4 deserts in modern? It was a timeshifted card in time spiral so it's legal in the format.

Yes.

Too much combo in the format, I guess.

what enchantments in any format get repeatedly activated?

unless English isn't your first or second language how could you possibly think it would do anything else?

Everybody knows desert can only be activated at the end of combat step right?
You guys all know it doesn't do fucking shit right? In what format is poking 1/1s to death AFTER they swung and hit you overpowered?

He might be thinking that the scarab token would die as a state based effect once one -1/-1 token touches it, and if the tokens get applied consecutively, not simultaneously, he'd only get a single scarab out of it.
Which is not the case, but might very well be.

You put one counter on a Scarab, it dies, the rest fizzle.
Which I figure in this fuck Standard something that stupid would happen.
Now if you'll excuse me I've got to go play Golgari Scarabs

People are probably misremembering the text, because "Deal 1 Damage to an attacking creature at the end of combat" is really fucking weak and there'd be no reason then for Wizards not to reprint it then.

opposition
aggravated assault
glare of subdual
repercussion
yawgmoth's bargain
necropotence
the theros gods
attrition
goblin bombardment
survival of the fittest
food chain (I don't think it's a mana ability but I could be wrong)
Splinter Twin
greater good

Death's shadow really doesn't want to get mana-jammed bc a fetch is going to push them over the edge, I think this card is going to see some heavy rotation

>Remember when Nissa was Gb?
>You're a fucking nazi if you do, Nissa was never a nazi

Twin gives the creature the ability