Mirrodin Beseiged

I didn't really like 'living weapon' as a concept. It was good to a point - I suppose - where you got a little germ and therefore an equipment was 'a creature' for the purposes of casting the one card in your hand... if you were in a pinch or on turn 1 it could be useful I suppose.

...but you almost never left it on said germ - about the only useful thing you could do with it was sac it to something before moving the equipment onto what you'd intended it for originally.

Infect - NO IT ****** DOESN'T. 

I could write you a short essay on infect and - being honest - I have played infect decks and won with them (I've also had a hilarious match with mono-green infect mirror match...) and I still don't like it as a deck archtype in modern.

I understand that within the limited environment and the standard at the time it was flavorful and it worked and that's cool. But now it's been unleashed on the MTG modern card pool and is the most annoying thing in the world when someone brings an infect deck to a modern FNM.

It's the MTG equivalent or Eric Cartman saying "Screw you guys, I'm going home". There is, in my own experience anyway, very little fun to be had from a modern deck that really can kill you on turn 2 or 3 - that's what we have legacy for...

On the other hand there is immense fun to be had from playing against someone who has decided to use Skythix the Blight Dragon in Commander when you have control magic in your hand and end up poisoning them with their own general... that's amusing.

I wish it had been 15 and not 10.

To address more of your comment - yes, I agree. Variety is always a good thing and it is good that R&D don't get complacent and do keep developing mechanics that work within a set and are 'on flavor' for each new set.

I suppose an infect deck is a good way of keeping everyone in a playgroup or local store 'honest' - if someone builds a truly 'unfair' deck and plays it EVERY week for a month or more then perhaps the infect deck can come out and make the point before both decks get put away until the next person makes a stupidly powerful deck (and goes on to abuse it every week - that is the key thing.. it's ok to be powerful occasionally - we all like to win - it's just grinding it in every week that's prohibited)

15 v's 10? Number of poison counters until you lose. I wish they had chosen to make it 15 - which is lower than 20 but still close enough that the aggro decks could race with it - rather than 10, which was such a massive advantage. Although I think the actual poison mechanic was established years earlier - so they could have separated it by calling them 'infection' or 'contagion' counters instead of 'poison' but they didn't.

Yeah, I agree. Mechanics like Bestow - which I really like - and Heroic, which I think is a good idea as well as the Battalion, scavenge and extort mechanics from RtR which were just SO on flavor.

I don't mind Battalion, I really like Bestow, and I love Extort, point of interest...

And in this set, we saw the return of this guy...

Interesting how he has black, as if corrupted by servitude to Nicol Bolas...

What the heck is a Sydri deck?

I take it that both Tezzeret and Karn are the artifact Planeswalkers... as in they make heavy use of them...

Tezzeret - both versions - make me feel like they would work really well in Affinity decks. Like that was what they were largely built for. So, it makes sense that Tezzeret would be in this story block, with all the artifacts present...

Thanks for explaining Sydri...

I'm going to hive off these threads, because I want to talk about Sydri for TL, and Tezzeret needs more detail. So, using my mighty God Powers, ( )

Sydri is being talked about more here: angelcove.boards.net/thread/13/tiny-leader?page=3#scrollTo=1112

Tezzeret is being talked about more here: angelcove.boards.net/thread/59/planeswalker-thread?page=1#scrollTo=1114

Oh...



She was in this set, wasn't she? More that that, deeply important to the entire plot...

Do we need to really go into her, or should I just do quotes of what we said on other threads, and then call the job done?

For the thread...









Does all this apply to Modern, though?

How can we use her in Modern?

Clearly artifacts...

And she would be a nightmare for token decks... board wipe all the tokens, and then you have a scary amount of artifacts back on the battlefield...

You could always use her Courier on the opponent...

Blood Moon?