Comments on: Episode 249 – Return of the Ravnica or The Guildpact Strikes Back

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:26:20 +0000

Epic Experiment doesn’t make the spells resolve immediately, it just has you cast them. You make all the choices, pay all the costs (getting a free pass on the mana costs), and put them onto the stack. Your opponent has a chance to respond after Epic Experiment resolves and all the spells are still waiting on the stack.

By: Myke Okuhara

Myke Okuhara — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 07:31:53 +0000

Quick rules question on this, actually. When will an opponent get a chance to respond to the spells cast by Epic Experiment (if at all)? Would any response have to be to the casting of Epic Experiment itself, before they even know what spells are coming?

By: Jars Cristobal

Jars Cristobal — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:15:52 +0000

Hey, that looks familiar..

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:23:38 +0000

And now I finally know what deck to build with my set of Channels.

By: Myke Okuhara

Myke Okuhara — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 03:57:32 +0000

I think I’ve just had the best bad idea for an great awful deck that will win lose me a lot of games: Epic Experiment and Channel. Turn 4, pay 19 life, see what the hell happens. It seems like a very Izzet way to play.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 21:34:07 +0000

“Is AEther Adept too good?” -Chewie

I for one would not like to see my opponent bounce my newly scavenged beater or, even worse, my populatable token, for three mana and get a guy. Heck, Mist Raven was nuts in AVR limited without being a flying Nekrataal.

By: Timswar

Timswar — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:00:55 +0000

Golgari Charm reminds me of Spike from Gremlins. Gremlins 3: Gremlins Take Detroit.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 22:45:53 +0000

I don’t know if this is a joke, but I’ll respond as if it weren’t. If you look at the numbers, you’ll see they wrap sequentially around the die, rather than being scattered and opposed in a way that gives a roughly equal numerical weight for any two arbitrarily chosen hemispheres. This arrangement is what makes it a spin-down instead of a standard d20.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:54:00 +0000

The spin-down life counter was a lie. You/we just got a 20-sided die. I believe those are completely different things.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 15:26:04 +0000

Yeah, that’s right except for the Golgari thing. If I remember correctly the necromancer Svogthir was the original Parun, but at the time of Ravnica: City of Guilds the guild leadership was caught in a power struggle between Savra and the Sisters of Stone Death (with Savra having the upper hand and the most influence).