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What stood out to me about the DFC lands is that they're good but they're not splashy, you ideally want to hit them T1, so you have to extract them from a sleeve or mark them every time. That made sense when turning a card over was supposed to seem exciting. Land tokens would have seemed less faffy. Is there some token or somehitng that makes this easier to track without unsleeving and resleeving cards?
Also, I wasted a lot of time saying that "better than a basic land but without a land type didn't count as 'not better than a basic land'", can I get that back? :)
Eh, not really. I've liked the "wizarding school" setting since long before Harry Potter (there were a number of great fantasy books with that setting), I liked Harry Potter, and I like "wizarding school" settings that have come after Harry Potter. I'm sure I'll enjoy Strixhaven quite a lot.
Definitely. Hearthstone just released their wizard school expansion last month, Scholomance Academy. But you know what movie was hot two years ago? Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 🙃
Kaldheim and Forgotten Realms are cool though
Did anyone else roll their eyes a bit at Strixhaven?
Oh man that would be hilariously incorrect!
Also, I missed announcement day, but these new sets sound AWESOME! I'M SUPER EXCITED :)))
Yeah, what surprised me about these DFCs is that they don't have any reminder text on either side indicating "You can choose which side of these to play". I'm particularly worried about someone who learns DFCs with Zendikar Rising then discovering some older card like, say, Search for Azcanta and thinking they'll just play Azcanta, the Sunken Ruin directly.
> "Yeah; I think this is a strong indication that they're making "You can use this as a (different) land in a pinch" evergreen."
DFCs evergreen? I don't see it.
More modal DFCs, sure. But only if the set already cares about DFCs. And ZNR has very much a reason to care about a mechanic that can add to your lands by putting spells in the deck.
Yeah; I think this is a strong indication that they're making "You can use this as a (different) land in a pinch" evergreen.
Party is not really batching, is it. That's like saying devotion is batching. It's a concept to define a numerical value. Not every rules term has to be batching, and MaRo can fight me on this one. : )
But ignoring that party is fine. The low upper bound is a feature. It allows for aggressive costing, which in turn makes much more acceptable power level for cards not played with a full party.
The interesting thing about modal DFCs is that they are accomplished without any card text or reminder text.
Favorite thing to come out of this is not even a new mechanic, but the continued use of set mechanics on planeswalkers. And both kicker and landfall turned into an interesting card.
Party seems to be just a "Build this one specific deck" mess, to me.
The lands are so very shiny - no need to ever use a basic land ever again. Except then there's a functional reprint of stripmine they can use against you :)
Compare Party to other threshold-like and/or scaling mechanics, like delirium, domain, devotion, etc.
Problem with Party are:
You shouldn't compare party to historic, since they fill different roles. You should compare it to the original Allies and cohort, since that's what it's supposed to be. And this is way better than cohort
I hope the duals will turn out to be good budget lands for commander, but I sense that they might see a good bit of play. They are almost strictly better basics.
Those other flip cards that are spell/lands worry me. I think they are playing with fire but if the front faces of the cards are weak enough it might be fine.
Party is a rather boring mechanic to me, but they can't all be winners. I liked historic better as a batching thing.
Seems underpowered to have to choose one color for rest of the game. Maybe if they came out ten years ago, more hyped when DFC first came out. But now there are so many better options.
I don't have a strong opinionn about the untapped duals, although I think they will be useful.
I hate that there are three ally and three enemy so much. Otherwise I think the design it neat
I have to be honest, I am so excited to see the Forgotten Realms set. I'm really hoping for some of the characters/legends that I know from FR, but I think the fact that there's finally a crossover is really cool.
Party is weird to me. I think it's neat in concept but it's just so darn specific. It's also awkward to me because, on cards without reminder text, I feel like it's a very easy thing for players to forget.
How do y'all feel about the untapped "dual" lands?
The plane the D&D set takes place on, the Forgotten Realms, is the most LotR, traditional fantasy world in the current roster. Ton of classic characters and settings there
My guess is that Adventures in the Forgotten Realms (not to be confused with Forgotten Realms Adventures, the 1990 source book for AD&D) is taking a Magic Origins-style approach, since it's replacing the core set for the year. Could easily reprint the party mechanic. They needed something new for Allies here anyway, since cohort sucked
I don't knoow much about the canon-worlds of Dungeons & Dragons, but seeing party appear and that announcement threw me off. Why waste the party concept now, in the discount Dungeosns & Dragons (I will never cease talking smack about Zendikar as a flavor concept) with one of the major inspirations coming within a year?
"How do we fit 6 dual lands in a set? By not completing the cycle, of course!"
Party is cool, and sets up the Forgotten Realms set next summer
Do you have a copy of the questions of the survey (from comment 107160)? I cannot read it because it is closed, but I am interested to know what the questions are (and can try to answer it if I know the answer of these questions, too).
Also (I don't know where else to write), I would like to see if someone is interested in my "Ziveruskex and Strixan" set (mirrored as cardset 3249 here), and/or in Magic: the Puzzling, to join my NNTP to discuss these things.
Ugh. Now I just want to go to your parents house for dinner. ;)
When you're a little Irish, you're Irish. So even though the family is mostly French, most of my Mom's cooking leans towards Irish cooking. But boiled dinners and soda bread aren't particularly tasty. Just... don't tell any Irish I said that.
(I love French Pea Soup, it tastes amazing.)
I've got unorthodox ancestry, my mom's side of the family is French-Canadian, while my dad's is Moroccan. That means I win the genetic lottery, because I have access to authentic recipes for:
I'll still spend the rest of my life eating TV Dinners and tapwater, though... damn finances.
Yeah, alternate opinion says it might be German, closer to Alsace. It's mostly just a really old French name that is clearly not French in origin, and people like to argue about it.
The Gariepy line in our family can trace back to the 1600s in Newfoundland, well before the British drove them out in the expulsion of the Acadians. Most Gariepys ended up inland in Quebec. Some, instead, went further south into Brit territory and ended up in Massachusetts. Couldn't take the sea out of those folks. Some signs in New Hampshire are still written in both English and French.
Whenever my parents went to Canada, they used to take pictures of the phone books, back when phone books was a thing. Pages and pages of Gariepys. If I meet a Gariepy around here, however, I just presume they're related twice or thrice removed.
Parents still make split pea soup. And I went to a French Catholic school with old-school French nuns and learned rudimentary French. But that's about all the French there is left in this family; WWI did a number on Franco-American nationalism. We still have a Lafayette Square in our city with a big statue, but it's no longer the French cultural center of town it once was 100 years ago.
As I said, it's ultimately a Basque name as evovled through French.
I wouldn't have guessed that to be a name with a French origin. The phonemes don't look quite right.
@jmgariepy What always struck me about your username is how it is so markedly French-Canadian. At least if you're familiar with French Canadian family names, as there are plenty of far more marked names out there XD (my own included).
I mean, technically it's Basque (Garibay) by way of France, but nowadays "Gariépy" is far more common in North America than in Europe.
The one downside to this nickname is that when I was pretty involved with playing Ingress, I'd often to go irl meet-ups. Trying to get a specific person's attention by just calling out "Dude!" was quite difficult XD
I agree this thread is awesome :) (is a series of card comments a thread?)
@Circeus: I can definitely relate. I swap interests almost as often as I swap clothes (hyperbole). I've had many collections of weird toys/things from when I was little, that I ended up agreeing on selling, since I'd lost interest. My mom's wallet eternally cries.
@dude1818 That's an awesome nickname :) Lucky numbers can be great, too!
@jmgariepy I do remember your name from somewhere... I think it's how you introduced yourself on the first (or one of the first) NTCs... I didn't know you were a writer! Prepare to be Google'd!
Also, agree. That sounds like a trip (maybe even one and a half).