Anyone game to buy him and find out? lol
Kinda tempted to anyway, because it looks kinda fun and I really want the other two cards he comes with...
Tilwin90 said: No what we are wondering is whether the drain effect occurs even if szadek does not deal damage to the planeswalker. But that doesn't make sense since it would mean the effect is bound to another trigger. The ability can't just happen out of nowhere, it needs a source trigger.So I guess the question is if the trigger for the drain effect is also damage to opposing walker or something else...
IM_CARLOS said: Btw. None exclusive of ravnica see a lot of playtime yet. No one is a center card of a 'winning deck' yet. Other cards set see way more matches. And I think not only necaus of rarity.
Tourmaline said: I see a comment above about this card being craftable eventually. I was under the impression that exclusives are not craftable.
Tilwin90 said: IM_CARLOS said: Btw. None exclusive of ravnica see a lot of playtime yet. No one is a center card of a 'winning deck' yet. Other cards set see way more matches. And I think not only necaus of rarity. That's because ravnica exclusives are not combo pieces. However, I just faced a Razia/Lyra deck and I have to say I feel lucky to have played teferi and get to trigger his ultimate or else I would have been toast. I stand corrected that sisters are a great card but my original statement about Razia remains: it's powerful. Not a true combo card on its own, but still very potent in combination with lyra.As for the triggers in paper magic there is also the distinction between damaging creatures and damaging players, between combat and non combat damage. And all these make sense in MTGPQ too. Wording is just as verbous too every now and then when dealing with complex cards Now regarding szadek, the then here is important to emphasise that the second effect occurs only AFTER he gets pumped and not at the same time. This is again relevant in paper magic, if say the drain were replaced with mill. First you put a +1/+1 counter on the creature THEN the opponent Mills X, where X is the creature's power (or toughness, or power plus toughness)How can szadek be triggered to deal non combat damage? Use rabid bite and other fight cards or gravitic punch. Unless these cards are bugged and don't actually cause the creature to deal the damage but the spells themselves do, it should work!
Tilwin90 said: Tourmaline said: I see a comment above about this card being craftable eventually. I was under the impression that exclusives are not craftable. All exclusives are eventually craft able. The most recent example are the four M19 dragons (vaevictis, arcades, chromium and palladia) that were exclusives until ravnica got released or became craft able (I don't remember 100%)The reason people might buy the exclusives anyway is first to get access to them earlier and secondly to avoid having to dig for them (sometimes crafting gets expensive when you want to get a very specific mythic and don't care about the other remaining ones)But the moments they are no longer exclusives you can craft them or loot them in regular packs.
Tourmaline said: You cant craft any of the holiday exclusives for instance last i knew which is what made me ask
Froggy said: I’ve been following this post and couldn’t take it any longer.And so I tested it.His effects do not trigger at all if you don’t deal damage to the PW. Not the +1/+1 and not the mana drain.There! Settled!