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Transguild Courier
Shadowmoor Preview!
by Mark Rosewater
Hello and welcome to Shadowmoor preview week! As you may have seen by our teaser Shadowmoor booster, this time around we’re doing some pretty cool things with hybrid mana – pretty cool things in a pretty cool/big way. But as you will see with today’s preview card, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet!
As I’ve pointed out in my past articles, I’m all about elegance. Elegance and simplicity. Nothing sends me into a fit of small man rage harder than a card with a line of text that doesn’t need to be there. With that in mind, we have reworked an old favorite and made it much simpler with our friend hybrid mana. Take a look:
Transguild Courier! Yes, one of the best “build around me and lose” cards from Dissension is back for another go-around in Shadowmoor. Players have always found colorless mana symbols confusing, so introducing the
symbol was a no-brainer that also took away the Courier’s only line of text. Simplicity!I know the question on your mind: will the Courier’s partner in crime Might of the Nephilim be coming back? Are you an idiot?
Until the next time, may you never run out of ideas.
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-[ARENA 03]- Pipe Dream
Rules: Press start until you get into the game and try to get the best score.
Post ur shots!
This is an ADEPT arena, which means the winner gets a trophy and participants get a badge.
And remember: uses java, firefox beware!
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Uncle Mark’s Make-a-New-Format Contest and MWS Tournament [Vote]
If you have no idea what I am talking about, you can find the previous thread here.
Okay! Now we get to vote on what format YOU would like to play with. Write-in votes are accepted too.
Here’s what the formats are:
Mini Epic: (Thought up by Falsenipple) This format is: at the beginning of every player’s upkeep, a 1 mana Sorcery or Instant of their choice will be put on the stack. You pick the Sorcery/Instant before the tournament starts, and must stick with it through each round. The 1 mana I/S can be countered, however, it doesn’t count towards storm. Extended banlist.
Auction of the GG/Mythbusters: This is actually two of RHat’s great ideas rolled into one. The “Mythbusters” part of the format is that every deck in the tournament must include at least 16 Legends, and have no creatures, artifacts or enchantments without the Legendary supertype. Legacy Banlist.
The Auction of the GG side of the equasion is that selected GG forumgoers will create decklists to be put into the decklist “pool”, given the Mythbusters deck restrictions. Players in the tournament will bid in MT2 Chat on the decklists that they want from that pool. If that’s not possible, I’ll randomly number players in the tournament and let them choose the decklists they want in order.
Paint Drops: (Thought up by Palemage) Only spells with a single colored mana symbol in their mana costs are allowed. In other words, spells with a 3G casting cost can be played. Legacy banlist.
Potpourri: (Thought up by Spectre) No more than one card from any set is allowed in your deck i.e. 4 Absorb is okay, 1 Absorb/1 Undermine is not. Core sets are banned. Legacy banlist.
“Look at me, I’m the DCI”: (Thought up by theauthenticsimpsonian) Legacy banlist. Players who will be participating in the tournament send in 3 banned cards and those cards are banned from the format. If there is overlap in chosen banned cards, you won’t get your vote back.
Sorceries and Basics: (Thought up by Paz) Only sorceries and basic lands allowed. Legacy banlist.
So get out there and vote GGers! The next thread will be organizing the MWS tournament!
CHANGE: -1 Potpourri +1 Sorceries and Basics.
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Uncle Mark’s Make-a-New-Format Contest and MWS Tournament
Your Duty: Make a new format for Magic: The Gathering that can be played on MWS.
Details: Essentially, come up with an original Magic: The Gathering format and we will collect the best entries and put them to a vote. Format obviously being the restrictions on which cards can be played, with possible variations and changes to the rules of Magic: The Gathering.
The winning format will be played in a MWS tournament, the specifics of which will be determined at a later date.
Restrictions:
- Try and make the format relatively simple. Nobody wants to memorize the 50 rules that you’ve made up.
- It has to be playable on MWS. I.E. No manual dexterity cards, no multiplayer formats, no Unglued/Unhinged cards etc.
- Get it in within the next couple of weeks!
Prizes:
- Sense of superiority and entitlement.
- The incredibly coveted Alfred points.
- Pictures of Paz naked*
*May not actually be Paz.
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‘Chops: Best of Skeletor
The first thing I posted on MT was some terrible photoshop of Demon tokens. I think I just added reminder text saying it was a token or something, making fun of the WotC reminder text.
The second photoshop was the fractal split card. I don’t have the original, but I later redid it using proper frames:
It was a smash success, and probably the reason I kept posting at MT.
People also enjoyed this one while Arnold was running for Governor, and there was some scandal about him groping somebody.
Then I missed so bad with my Goblin Pussy Wagon photoshop that I didn’t even save it.
Someone responded to this with a clampclamp — an equip that equpped to equips.
So I did a summationclamp:
When Daniel Myr was doing MODO stuff, he kept giving us info and retracting it later:
This was in response to some argument where someone kept calling Goblin Sledder a Mons’ Goblin Raiders or something:
This was in a “make a card making fun of yourself” thread:
Nobody found this as funny as I did:
Random:
Making fun of card art:
Random:
I hoped people would use this to tell people to STFU on the forum, but they didn’t:
This was during 5th dawn spoilers. I guess we knew it was going to be a weird set. We did not yet know there would be a -1/-1 sunburst creature.
This was a demonstration of how I keep my life total IRL;
And this is my fav:
