alexgndl

Behold, blessed perfection

EDIT: No but seriously I fucking love this card.  Menace and Deathtouch together are just mean, the other ability is awesome, 4/4 is fantastic stats, and it's a goddamn Orc Pirate Wizard.  Home goddamn run, I'm running this bastard in every black deck I can.

Dinosaurs are like...the most pushed tribe I've ever seen. And I fucking love it.

Gaea's Cradle is now in standard.  What a time to be alive.

Lightning Strike, Opt, Spell Pierce...goddamn, Wizards is going ham with the reprints.  What's next, Doom Blade? God I hope so.

For a second I read the system as Fatal and was just absolutely horrified.

On 8/10/2017 at 2:24 AM, A 1970 Corvette said:

What's the spiciest target for this, I wonder? This is probably my favourite card spoiled so far; It's got flavour, ability is powerful and can lead to some wacky plays.

 

Krenko.  Absolutely, without a doubt, Krenko.  Just...Krenko.

I'm definitely going to try to get the vampires deck, yeah.  I say try, because apparently Teferi's Protection is gonna be in that deck, and it's looking like it's gonna be another True-Name Nemesis.  So that's gonna suck.

They did it.  They finally made a way for someone to win by letting their opponent take infinite extra turns.

Raz, you've been talking about that Legacy deck for as long as I can remember. I think it's about damn time you finished it.

Yeah, I kinda figured it'd be that.  Kinda dumb that you can't have an army of familiars, but I can see why they'd limit you to one intelligent animal at a time.

And hit me up when War for the Crown comes out, I'm an Adventure Path subscriber and I get those PDFs for free.  Same thing with Starfinder, although you might need to pirate the core rulebook-I got the fancy collector's edition and for some reason they're not giving out the PDF with it, which is dumb.

Rynjin, quick rules question-if I have a familiar from being a wizard/magus/whatever, and then I take the alchemist tumor familiar discovery, what happens? Do I get two familiars, or does my existing one turn into a tumor?

Hightower has a few very open areas where you can surprise people with a guillotine throw.  And even though it's a custom map, Highertower is VERY good for the cleaver.  If someone's on the cart, you can just throw the guillotine from 5 levels up, freefall after it, then meatshot pretty much simultaneously with the cleaver impact.  It's all but guaranteed to be an instakill.

1 minute ago, Razputin said:

Aha you see I said reloading because I thought that if I said shooting you'd say "but maybe you have to reload" so I thoroughly memed myself there didn't I

 

But as with every single Scout secondary or melee that is based on combat the problem is always that you are just better off shooting your scattergun. If you're close enough that you can actually aim the guillotine (instead of vaguely guessing where your target is going) the scattergun will already outdps it

I'm gonna disagree with you there, Raz.  I've been playing a LOT with the guillotine lately, and I've concluded that the hitbox for it is roughly the same as the Huntsman's.  So basically as long as you chuck it in roughly the same direction as the enemy, you'll hit something.  It's fantastic for when you're closing the gap.

I actually like it as a kind of control mechanism.  People in general don't like damage over time-bleed or afterburn. You set yourself up by a health kit, nail someone with the Guillotine, and chances are they'll try and grab the health kit to stop the bleed.  What a lot of people don't realize is that 1 shot from the guillotine + a meatshot (or two glancing shots) from a scattergun will leave most classes (all of the 125 HP, sometimes medics if you're lucky) to bleed out about a second after you land the shot.  Basically, if you get good at landing your cleaver shots, generally you'll be able to predict where they go afterwards and be able to get the kill fairly easily.

Also, if you're able to use it twice in a fight, you're doing something wrong.  A one-on-one engagement shouldn't last 6 whole seconds.

Hour of Devastation gods are officially best gods.

1 hour ago, Razputin said:

I'm mostly interested to see what they will do with the rest of the "final God act" cycle. The mechanic has a ton of potential

 

inb4 blue gets mill

It's probably gonna be an extra turn effect, kind of like Savor the Moment.

The tokens have haste.

WHY DO THE TOKENS HAVE HASTE?!

No but seriously, this is a fantastic card.  I'm loving this and the Scorpion God, and I cannot wait to see the third.  These guys are what the Amonkhet gods should've been all along.  

Funny you should mention Aku...

I do love me some sassy Bolas...

44 minutes ago, A 1970 Corvette said:

WHAT PART OF THIS IS MYTHIC REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

It's very reminiscent of Gaea's Revenge, which used to be a mythic. Granted, it was rare in Origins so I have no idea where I'm actually going with this, sooooo...

So uhh...someone just leaked the entire Ixalan rare sheet.

Yes, that is a legendary Naya dinosaur.

Holy shit.

Next set is pirates vs dinosaurs

New un-set 

Set after Ixalan is return to Dominaria and Richard Garfield is leading the design team for the first time since OG Innistrad

Wizards just take all my money

Aetherworks Marvel banned in Standard.  And nobody was surprised at all that Wizards fucked another one up.  And speaking of...

Why yes, that is Crucible of Worlds on a stick.  Because why the fuck not at this point?

38 minutes ago, Rynjin said:

In case anyone is wondering, I haven't updated Carrion Crown in a bit because the website keeps shitting out every time I try to make a post.

 

Knowing Paizo, they decided to do this big website overhaul and only hired one guy with less than a year's experience in the business because he worked cheap, so this may continue for a while.

My guess is they're finally getting around to updating the Starfinder page to enable subscriptions, and since the website is made of literal duct tape, tears and prayers, they broke everything.

Started playing in a Strange Aeons campaign, and the party I'm in is the most weirdly thematic party for this campaign.

-Bloodrager (Aberrant Bloodline)

-Swashbuckler (Inspired Blade, going to Empiricist Investigator at level 2 for the rest of the campaign.  This is me.)

-Occultist

-Mesmerist (Eyebiter)

-Spiritualist (Fractured Mind)

So we have 3 CHA-based classes (and me, because Empiricist is basically "Somehow the guy who dumped CHA can be the party face: the class), 2 Knowledge/skill monkeys, and only 1 full BAB'er.  This is going to be glorious.  Also possibly a TPK.