Since you're still wandering around this article 7 years later, and I've just re-read it, it might comfort you to know we now indeed have a great many Camels in the game. Well, we have 7. The original one is still not online, though.
Also, the Devils are now 20.
Also, Desert decks are now a real thing! O tempora o mores!
I thought about leaving the fast looters in, but they mostly help storm strategies, and those should also be kept away from Pure. The ones left aren't as good and as tribal-irrelevant (Chart a Course requires a creature, for instance).
Can Wizards make a rule where like, you can play with the FtV Arbor, but only if you put a big ol' post-it-note inside the sleeve with it to clearly set it apart? Or is that getting a little ridiculous.
Personally, I would ban the cheap reanimation spells (Reanimate, Exhume and Dance of the Dead) and not the looting effects, as they could be played in other decks as well and there are many more (Chart a Course, Tormenting Voice...). But I'm good either way!
To make the subformat feel different from regular events, i would go after two card hard lock combos as well.
Hey man, the PD site has a lot of tools you should be using to ensure your deck is legal, the site itself has a built in deck check system so you can just paste in your deck and it will tell you what's currently not legal :)You can check out Shane's article about it here: http://puremtgo.com/articles/penny-dreadful-best-format-you-are-not-playing and it even talks about using scryfall for the format as well.
WotC was really founded by NSA and Secret Service as a way of keeping nerds busy playing games, so that the nerds wouldn’t uncover that the moon landing was a hoax to cover up the lone gunman theory which was also a hoax to draw attention away from the fact that the FBI is responsible for keeping the metric system out of the US.
Or in other words do you have a source for your accusations? Or are they just crazy conspiracy theories as usual when you make a claim? Maybe you can be lead designer on the next Conspiracy expansion, Conspiracy II: The Hearts Edition.
When the Jaces have ended up in the right hands after being banned for a long time they unban it so they can be sold for a lot more than they were bought for (bought cheap because of being banned). Then, some time later, 5 months ?, they will simply ban it again and write something like; "we were simply wrong...".
Big vendor shops (also on internet) are affiliates of wotc and get the information a long time in advance about what to buy because it will be unbanned at some point.
I want to put on the record my gratitude to Carl, to STsung, to Josh and especially to Paul for covering the previous two weeks due to my being rendered incapable of speech. Making sure the Podcast goes out each week is very important to me, and each of you has done sterling work in that regard. Thank you.
JtMS does not need to warp the format, of even dominate blue decks, to make Modern less-fun. There are still a lot of bad feelings going around about that planeswalker (I guess ruining the Standard of the time conjugated to being an annoying posterboy with a bad haircut is a lethal combo), and I know I would not just dislike losing against a Modern Jace deck, I would probably dislike simply playing against one. I understand a Modern Jace deck will not be Cawblade, and yes, I’ll probably be doing some unfair things as well. But really, one is not supposed to be able to do all that for just 4 mana, and I would not particularly want to deal with it on a regular basis.
I’m sure Wizards know what they’re doing here power-wise. Fun-wise, not so much.
Concerning the data-sharing: the “every deck that’s 20 cards different” part is a bit confusing, it makes me want to ask what the refence deck or starting point is. Maybe this is because I can’t see the original announcement (WotC website hasn’t been working for me for a while), but otherwise, that leaves ample scope to maximize and/or minimize the number of decks made public. And anyway, it still skews everything.
Welcome indeed! :D This is quite the reversal. Usually my followers/followed on twitter are people I know from Pure and other places, not the other way around. :D
Since Leviathan retired we haven't had a consistent commander writer on pure (we had Adam Clayton for a bit but then he retired as well.) I look forward to seeing your column grow.
Since you're still wandering around this article 7 years later, and I've just re-read it, it might comfort you to know we now indeed have a great many Camels in the game. Well, we have 7. The original one is still not online, though.
Also, the Devils are now 20.
Also, Desert decks are now a real thing! O tempora o mores!
Greetings from Paris! Sadly I will be absent this week and next week. Have fun, everyone.
The flavor text! He used to be a holy man.
Well I guess he could have turned into a wolf after he stopped being a holy man. I guess we'll never know.
I thought about leaving the fast looters in, but they mostly help storm strategies, and those should also be kept away from Pure. The ones left aren't as good and as tribal-irrelevant (Chart a Course requires a creature, for instance).
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Can Wizards make a rule where like, you can play with the FtV Arbor, but only if you put a big ol' post-it-note inside the sleeve with it to clearly set it apart? Or is that getting a little ridiculous.
Personally, I would ban the cheap reanimation spells (Reanimate, Exhume and Dance of the Dead) and not the looting effects, as they could be played in other decks as well and there are many more (Chart a Course, Tormenting Voice...). But I'm good either way!
To make the subformat feel different from regular events, i would go after two card hard lock combos as well.
Thanks for the compliment. Unfortunately I didn't make it to the Top 8, though that just means I have more stuff I can write about.
It was a nice ending.
Welcome back! Great ending.
You forgot Hornet Nest. Those Hornet tokens warrant more attention than Saprolings, Squirrels, or land-based Insects.
Thank you AJ. Glad I could help.
Hey man, the PD site has a lot of tools you should be using to ensure your deck is legal, the site itself has a built in deck check system so you can just paste in your deck and it will tell you what's currently not legal :)You can check out Shane's article about it here: http://puremtgo.com/articles/penny-dreadful-best-format-you-are-not-playing and it even talks about using scryfall for the format as well.
Yeah I am glad you didn't bail too :D
I almost bailed right before me and Paul started to record. I had fun and am glad that I did not
Agree, "Papercuts" was an excellent read. Thanks for sharing it.
WotC was really founded by NSA and Secret Service as a way of keeping nerds busy playing games, so that the nerds wouldn’t uncover that the moon landing was a hoax to cover up the lone gunman theory which was also a hoax to draw attention away from the fact that the FBI is responsible for keeping the metric system out of the US.
Or in other words do you have a source for your accusations? Or are they just crazy conspiracy theories as usual when you make a claim? Maybe you can be lead designer on the next Conspiracy expansion, Conspiracy II: The Hearts Edition.
When the Jaces have ended up in the right hands after being banned for a long time they unban it so they can be sold for a lot more than they were bought for (bought cheap because of being banned). Then, some time later, 5 months ?, they will simply ban it again and write something like; "we were simply wrong...".
Big vendor shops (also on internet) are affiliates of wotc and get the information a long time in advance about what to buy because it will be unbanned at some point.
Very happy to be involved in this. :) I am also grateful to Carl, STsung and Josh. :D
I want to put on the record my gratitude to Carl, to STsung, to Josh and especially to Paul for covering the previous two weeks due to my being rendered incapable of speech. Making sure the Podcast goes out each week is very important to me, and each of you has done sterling work in that regard. Thank you.
JtMS does not need to warp the format, of even dominate blue decks, to make Modern less-fun. There are still a lot of bad feelings going around about that planeswalker (I guess ruining the Standard of the time conjugated to being an annoying posterboy with a bad haircut is a lethal combo), and I know I would not just dislike losing against a Modern Jace deck, I would probably dislike simply playing against one. I understand a Modern Jace deck will not be Cawblade, and yes, I’ll probably be doing some unfair things as well. But really, one is not supposed to be able to do all that for just 4 mana, and I would not particularly want to deal with it on a regular basis.
I’m sure Wizards know what they’re doing here power-wise. Fun-wise, not so much.
Concerning the data-sharing: the “every deck that’s 20 cards different” part is a bit confusing, it makes me want to ask what the refence deck or starting point is. Maybe this is because I can’t see the original announcement (WotC website hasn’t been working for me for a while), but otherwise, that leaves ample scope to maximize and/or minimize the number of decks made public. And anyway, it still skews everything.
I like blue... when paired with red. In all other instances, blue can get stuffed.
Izzet bad to ask you why there's no Blue in the pic? :D
Hahaha well my friend, I shall not disappoint!
Welcome indeed! :D This is quite the reversal. Usually my followers/followed on twitter are people I know from Pure and other places, not the other way around. :D
Since Leviathan retired we haven't had a consistent commander writer on pure (we had Adam Clayton for a bit but then he retired as well.) I look forward to seeing your column grow.
I'm a proud red mage