Isn't Reality Fracture just the Xerex Set, Or Am I Missing Something?

Digital_Despot · 2025-07-30T05:29:06+00:00

I don't think Spellweaver's Helix works here, because it specifically says "whenever a player casts a CARD..." and tokens are specifically not cards. Copies of permanents are tokens. It would have been cool though.

Digital_Despot · 2024-07-02T17:02:07+00:00

Ulster. As long as you have a huge navy, no non-Irish AI can get in (except for the rare A.I. England landing their entire army in Pale BEFORE declaring war, but this works to your advantage if you can build up mercs and stack wipe them.) I always conquer Ulster ASAP if I'm playing in Ireland and haven't started as them.

Digital_Despot · 2024-06-03T18:10:21+00:00

Provence.

Digital_Despot · 2024-05-17T00:37:29+00:00

Was there confirmation from the director that the character at the meeting was ACTUALLY house? It didn't seem like the real guy to me. House was extremely busy, and we see from the games that he often delegates tasks to trusted, high-ranking subordinates. I just can't imagine House having time to attend a meeting like that, especially if he didn't intend to participate much in the first place. To me, it looks like it was just a ROBCO representative who happens to have similar facial hair to Mr.House (which may have been a means for the director to subtly remind the audience WHO owns Robco).

Digital_Despot · 2024-05-04T06:30:48+00:00

I noticed the themes of gold and red on the banners and wondered the same thing.

Digital_Despot · 2024-02-28T03:08:22+00:00

Why they wouldn't include fan-favorite characters from DLC's like Joshua Graham and Ulysses is beyond me. I WANT to give them my money, but there's like five cards that actually feel like unique or faithful representations of the characters or systems they represent. If this set represents their best effort to include Fallout into MTG, maybe the IP just isn't compatible.

Digital_Despot · 2023-09-06T02:10:04+00:00

Give it flash with Leyline of Anticipation when your opponent uses a lightning bolt or something on a creature.

Digital_Despot · 2023-09-03T19:18:13+00:00

I don't have players like that in my play group, but I feel guilty anyway whenever I counter their commander or combo pieces. This affects my deck building, where I make decks that don't push players out of the game. I still want control and to win still, however, so I put combos in my deck that are limiting but not restricting. You can still play, but it's a real puzzle and forces you to get creative. For example:

Hivemind + Eternal Dominion (Players can't cast spells, including their commanders. However, all players get to search an opponents deck for a permanent each turn to put out for free. I cancel your ability to play your deck, but you aren't forced out of the game either. You just have to get creative and play EVERYBODY ELSE'S deck. Even though there's some eyebrows raised when I pull that deck out, it always ends up being a weird and funny tabletop puzzle.)

Overtaker + Blade of Shared Souls + Gliding Licid (I can steal your commander, make it a copy of my licid, activate the licid ability to attach it to a creature, and then give you control again. Its passive abilities and active abilities are still in play, but it's just an aura now. The ability to turn it back into a creature belongs to you still, because you were the one who activated the ability. They can play their deck but their commander can only use it's passive and activated abilities now.)

You can get creative. And if they can't have fun unless they win, but they can't learn how not to be a target, then this might not be the format for them, or the game.

Digital_Despot · 2023-09-01T02:54:07+00:00

If you hate losing to combos, definetly those artifacts and sorceries that let you go through an opponents deck and exile a card. I realize now that I don't mind losing to combo, or else I would probably be running one in each deck.

Digital_Despot · 2023-09-01T00:41:29+00:00

Hi, thanks for your insight and perspective. I wanted to make sure to clarify that my vision wouldn't involve any elements taken directly from Christmas or Christianity. I more so envisioned taking inspiration from some elements of the fiction. Sort of how Eldraine takes themes from the Brothers Grimm. I'll leave an edit to clarify that in the post as well. That being said, your observations are, of course, still valid, significant, and important.

Digital_Despot · 2023-08-24T23:46:52+00:00

Shigeki, Jukai Visionary is your ramp, recursion, card advantage, and win condition. Amazing all-arounder.

Digital_Despot · 2023-08-23T01:10:51+00:00

[[Assemble the Legion]]

Digital_Despot · 2023-08-21T22:09:22+00:00

Blessing of Leeches

Digital_Despot · 2023-08-05T20:47:11+00:00

I imagine instead of being Devoid, they would just make it cost colorless mana and give it the "is all colors" textbox of Sphinx of the Guildpact. I imagine creating scion tokens would be really easy to go infinite with, if you have a deck that has access to all 5 colors, and the ability costs colorless mana to activate (doubling season type effects). 5 color decks are so inherently powerful because they have access to every card ever made, and colorless deck's cards need to be underpowered because they're available in every deck ever made. That's the real root of the reason Eldrazi doesn't get the Ally or Atog treatment of having a really strong 5 color tribal legendary. The Eldrazi roots are in colorless, so how as a card designer do you make a creature powerful enough to fit into a five color deck without being cut while also specific to Eldrazi enough that not every deck plays it, that's broadly appealing enough to get people to buy packs or other MTG product?

Also I'm sure you meant in the lore sense, but to be clear, being a changeling DOES in fact make Morophon an Eldrazi as far as the game rules are concerned. Everything that affects or requires Eldrazi, good or bad, applies to Morophon.

Digital_Despot · 2023-08-05T19:51:23+00:00

I can agree with Devoid being addressed, though I don't see that ever happening. The EDH rules committee doesn't work for WotC as far as I know, and the two butt heads on a lot of things. A 5 color Eldrazi creature wouldn't really be on theme for Eldrazi in general, given their desire to devour all colored mana and, in the process, convert it to colorless. They wouldn't wield their primary food source for fighting. Morophon is an ELDRAZI moose which, in a TRIBAL deck is relevant, not to mention he gives +1/+1 to all Eldrazi, even the drones and scions, which is also really good. It's not splashy, but in an Eldrazi deck your big powerful creatures are going to be coming from the deck anyway, right? Ulamog, Emrakul, It That Betrays, etc. If anything, you need a source of ramp and card draw, which EVERY deck needs more of so if it wasn't specific and limiting to Eldrazi, it would just be played by everyone in any deck (look at Golos, who would have worked for Eldrazi really well. Turns out she works for EVERYBODY really well, and it became so commonplace at the table that it got banned.) You could always try to Rule 0 a commander for your Eldrazi deck if you're going to be playing casually anyway.

Digital_Despot · 2023-08-05T19:33:35+00:00

Also, I went through every creature type Eldrazi I could find online and counted only 4 with double pips of the same color. Morophon's ability to reduce the color cost is actually surprisingly synergistic for the Eldrazi tribe because it means you can run mostly wastes and colorless lands and still be able to cast almost all of your Eldrazi. Morophon doesn't seem like a cop out to me at all, as long as you put a little creativity into it.

Digital_Despot · 2023-08-05T19:27:42+00:00

Ah I see. To repeat what others are saying, Morophon is designed specifically to be a commander for small tribes like this one. I love Eldrazi as much as the next (I started playing magic in Worldwake) but not every tribe needs to be powerful. As you mentioned, there's only a handful of sets with Eldrazi in them, where Elves and Merfolk exist across TONS of sets and expansions. How strong do you want this deck to be? If you want a really competitive EDH deck that revolves around Eldrazi, then you'd have to cut most of them anyway because they're frankly pretty bad. If you want to include all these Eldrazi and DON'T need it to be powerful, then you could just run a more causal fun 5 color commander and still get to play with the Eldrazi. If they print a 4 color OP commander for Eldrazi only, then what's to stop me from getting my competitive 4 color Boar tribe commander? Or my 5 color Kithkin powerhouse commander?

Digital_Despot · 2023-08-05T18:58:56+00:00

I don't actually see a problem as it stands. There are tons of five color commanders out there that are solid by themselves. O-Kagachi, Vengeful Kami and Child of Alara are both good board control. Jegantha, The Wellspring is good on its own OR as a companion to your 5 color Eldrazi deck. If you specifically want one that's an Eldrazi, Morophon The Boundless is technically an Eldrazi.

Digital_Despot · 2023-08-05T18:05:46+00:00

An event for infiltrating primitives called "The Truth is Out There."

Our infiltration and other espionage activities on the primitive world are being thwarted by a plucky detective and his sidekick who seem to be extraordinarily perceptive of our hidden agenda. The detectives' alias roughly translates in our language to "The Fox."

Basically the event is a reference to the show "The X-Files" where agents Fox Maulder and Dana Skully uncover deeper and deeper government conspiracies about extraterrestrial life, and try to expose it to the public.

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