wereotter said: Angrath is gonna be nice. Hopefully they can give him generic enough abilities to make him a regularly usable black/red planeswalker. I like Sarkhan well enough since he's the only one who can do those colors, it it would be great to have another option.
wereotter said: No. But I meant a just black/red.Bolas is alright, but I wouldn’t use him if I was trying to do a mechanic contained just in those two colors.
FindingHeart8 said: wereotter said: No. But I meant a just black/red.Bolas is alright, but I wouldn’t use him if I was trying to do a mechanic contained just in those two colors. hmmmm, interesting response. So here's my question to you then, what benefit do you see in using just 2 colors instead of 3? I'm a fan of Sarkhan, his mana bonuses were generous back in the day, he was the only black/red at the time, he works well with dragons, and I've LOVED his artwork ever since the original mtg card was released. Since december though (in my opinion at least) he's been completely outclassed by Bolas, so I'd be interested in what value you still find in him, aside from a black/red backup to the almighty dragon?
wereotter said: FindingHeart8 said: wereotter said: No. But I meant a just black/red.Bolas is alright, but I wouldn’t use him if I was trying to do a mechanic contained just in those two colors. hmmmm, interesting response. So here's my question to you then, what benefit do you see in using just 2 colors instead of 3? I'm a fan of Sarkhan, his mana bonuses were generous back in the day, he was the only black/red at the time, he works well with dragons, and I've LOVED his artwork ever since the original mtg card was released. Since december though (in my opinion at least) he's been completely outclassed by Bolas, so I'd be interested in what value you still find in him, aside from a black/red backup to the almighty dragon? I don't like wasted potential. If I'm not going to use blue cards while playing Bolas, I'm not going to use him to build the deck. Otherwise your argument could just as easily be applied to "why use Koth when Bolas exists? Why you Tezzeret when you could just use Bolas?"Also it depends a little bit on the mechanic I'm using. I still have a madness deck in my deck slot for Sarkhan, which works since his first ability lets me draw extra cards, makes it so I don't have to include card draw spells to keep him going.
Bil said: I just hope they will select the black/green vraska and not the black one from ixalan.I d like the idea of another 3 colored but I'm not sure tamiyos powers would really fit well in mtgpq as she's a drawer and there already are lots of card to draw fast around here ( while it's way harder to draw in the paper version). Besides, his third ability should result in an omniscience-like support and I really think a single omniscience card already does enough damage to the meta.
Sirchombli said: So you want green blue vomit loops with a nyx back? Seems masochistic, but I'm down. I like tamiyo and bant is my favorite color combo
Kinesia said: Sirchombli said: So you want green blue vomit loops with a nyx back? Seems masochistic, but I'm down. I like tamiyo and bant is my favorite color combo I've had the guilds stuck in my head so long I'd forgotten those colour combinations and names... White Blue Black for me, which was that again?And I originally loved the Blue Black guild, but then the Gorgon's won me over...
wereotter said: Angrath is gonna be nice. Hopefully they can give him generic enough abilities to make him a regularly usable black/red planeswalker. I like Sarkhan well enough since he's the only one who can do those colors, it it would be great to have another option.Though it will be too hard to figure out Angrath's third ability as-printed since we never have any idea how many cards are in graveyards. Even now.... with as many cards exist that care about cards both in your graveyard and your opponent's graveyard...
ElfNeedsFood said: wereotter said: Angrath is gonna be nice. Hopefully they can give him generic enough abilities to make him a regularly usable black/red planeswalker. I like Sarkhan well enough since he's the only one who can do those colors, it it would be great to have another option.Though it will be too hard to figure out Angrath's third ability as-printed since we never have any idea how many cards are in graveyards. Even now.... with as many cards exist that care about cards both in your graveyard and your opponent's graveyard... Then there's that Bolas guy that can do these colors plus blue and has very nice generic any-deck abilities...
Kinesia said: I agree with wereotter, if we're going to move mainly to Bolas then why not just use 1 5 colour planeswalker for everything? It's silly.Options are good. Different abiilities are good. It's a _challenge_ to work out how to build good decks with some people and that's cool,like using weird and unloved cards...The only changes I want, are Arlinn to include wolves, _something_ for Energy Chandra and Green Ajani to get +1 for another colour or something, his mana is a huge huge problem, I've tried everyone now and his mana annoys me the most of _anyone_.
wereotter said: WG Ajani, I would argue, was done right as far as mana goes. He has green, but his green gains are so low compared to his white gains that you can’t abuse him. I kind of hope they do more of this in the future.