THEMAGICkMAN said: BLUE: Blue is heavy control and draw primarily, which fits well with its paper description, but bits really really powerful right now. Blue is super strong, and no, not just because of Baral. Because of the sheer amount of absurdly powerful blue cards. Take a look: Insidious Will, Talent of the Telepath, Any of the mass bounce spells, Moon, Frog. The list goes on. Blue is arguably the strongest colour right now. It fits remarkably well into its paper stereotype, buts its way to powerful. Blue needs to be reigned in a bit, its getting ridiculous. Other than the power level, blue is in great shape! Flavour wise its perfect, it feels how blue should feel, the primary aspects are draw and control, all pretty good right now, just tone down the power.
THEMAGICkMAN said:3. Supports. Supports are by far the most important/most used card type in MtGPQ right now. They are incredibly important and a lot of supports are extremely strong. There isn't a huge problem with this as there is a decent amount of support removal in each colour that should have it (red green and white - white could use some more though) and the other colours that don't traditionally remove artifacts or enchantments for paper MtG have some, but not much. Fairly balanced, but spells and creatures could use a bit of buff in general, some new creatures in Amonkhet that have support-like abilities would go a long way towards this. The situation here isn't that bad, but it could use a bit of a rebalance and I really hope Amonkhet brings that balance.
THEMAGICkMAN said: 3. Supports. Supports are by far the most important/most used card type in MtGPQ right now. They are incredibly important and a lot of supports are extremely strong. There isn't a huge problem with this as there is a decent amount of support removal in each colour that should have it (red green and white - white could use some more though)
THEMAGICkMAN said: What does the metagame currently revolve around?
madwren said: THEMAGICkMAN said:3. Supports. Supports are by far the most important/most used card type in MtGPQ right now. They are incredibly important and a lot of supports are extremely strog. There isn't a huge problem with this as there is a decent amount of support removal in each colour that should have it (red green and white - white could use some more though) and the other colours that don't traditionally remove artifacts or enchantments for paper MtG have some, but not much. Fairly balanced, but spells and creatures could use a bit of buff in general, some new creatures in Amonkhet that have support-like abilities would go a long way towards this. The situation here isn't that bad, but it could use a bit of a rebalance and I really hope Amonkhet brings that balance. I strongly disagree with the bolded. One of the most frustrating aspects of gameplay, as it has been since inception, is the inability to target supports with support removal spells. Being able to simply flood the board with supports to counter artifact removal is somewhat ridiculous, and fabricate simply made it worse. Gotta love casting Release the Gremlins to combat a Dynavolt Tower and seeing it destroy a couple of servos and a Deadlock Trap. Now, imagine if your opponent cast Village Messenger, Ulrich, and Quilled Wolf, and you cast Scour and it randomly killed the Wolf, leaving Ulrich on the board. Then, imagine he immediately cast another Quilled Wolf, and you cast Scour again, and it did it a second time. That would be, well, ridiculous.Strong creatures demand an answer, and you can build your deck to provide one. You can put all the Smites and Slaughters or Scours or Moons you want in your decks. But Starfield? TSN? AI-controlled Hixus? FB? Waterveil? Dynavolt Tower? You're left completely at the whim of RNG, even if you pack multiple support removal spells--and unless you know your opponent's deck composition, no one is going to do that because it so greatly lowers the threat potential of your deck. Creature removal is necessarily strong to combat extremely powerful creatures. Support removal, unfortunately, has remained exceptionally weak. I think this limits design space and creates problems.
THEMAGICkMAN said:3. Supports. Supports are by far the most important/most used card type in MtGPQ right now. They are incredibly important and a lot of supports are extremely strog. There isn't a huge problem with this as there is a decent amount of support removal in each colour that should have it (red green and white - white could use some more though) and the other colours that don't traditionally remove artifacts or enchantments for paper MtG have some, but not much. Fairly balanced, but spells and creatures could use a bit of buff in general, some new creatures in Amonkhet that have support-like abilities would go a long way towards this. The situation here isn't that bad, but it could use a bit of a rebalance and I really hope Amonkhet brings that balance.
Thuran said: Good news for you, the embalm ability from Amonkhet should tone down Black's power vs creatures quite a bit, depending on how it will end up working.