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Thought Collapse
Instant
Counter target spell. Its controller mills three cards. (They put the top three cards of their library into their graveyard.)
TheoryCrafter on Should WotC be More Proactive …
6 days ago
I would love to see a 100% reprint set, but only for all the cards affected by oracle changes. If, in the unlikelihood that were to ever happen, it's probably decades down the road due to potential balance issues. Even then it won't likely cover them all.
There are times I think WOTC could reprint cards instead of making non-colorshifted functional reprints. I get it, it's not always possible due to flavor (like Didn't Say Please for Eldraine and Thought Collapse for Ravnica), though sometimes different art and/or flavor text could make it work. However, functional reprints do have the added benefit of getting around the one of rule in singleton formats.
I'm surprised Foundations has received no mention here. Practically half the set was reprints. I was able to build a Control/Stompy deck around Consuming Aberration without having to spend a penny because of it. Don't know if it can compete with the meta, but I like to think I have enough tools to at least give them a challenge. Whether I can or not, I have a Standard deck that can get me through at least to 2029.
Foundations is the one that released a reprint of Doubling Season. Based on what I've observed, it hasn't made much, if any, of a dent in the price.
The way I see it WOTC is addressing affordability concerns, just not in the way players would prefer it.
I think the problem is players get so caught up in powerful cards and asking what they can do with it, they forget to ask themselves what they can use to minimize their effectiveness if they come across it. If you're spending so much on the name of achieving victory, then what's it gonna take to not care about winning as much and just build a competent deck to just have fun?
Thank you for reading me out. May you draw well!
Tyven on
Terisian Mindbreaker Combo
5 months ago
Thank you for your thoughtful suggestions TheoryCrafter. I'll keep Mystic Sanctuary in mind. Didn't Say Please and Thought Collapse are useful counterspells, but I think I keep Mystical Dispute in my sideboard for now, because it can be really good against counterspell heavy decks. Also when it comes to 3 mana counterspells, I thought about adding Sinister Sabotage to my sideboard, because it helps me to dig, and possibly move Terisian Mindbreaker in to the graveyard.
TheoryCrafter on
Terisian Mindbreaker Combo
5 months ago
Have you considered Mystic Sanctuary? This will allow you to reuse the many Instants and Sorceries you have. Also, there are cards named Didn't Say Please and Thought Collapse that may be of more help than Mystical Dispute at the same mana value. I hope this helps.
Happy Hunting!
Sliverguy420 on How Can Mono-Colored Cards be …
6 months ago
plakjekaas "That's the topic of discussion yes, that's exactly the question that was asked in the original post, with given examples where exactly that is the case, and if there were any rule behind it. It was not magwaaf who said that, it was DemonDragonJ."
i never implied magwaaf said that, and what you quoted just now was entirely different.
i literally did not "deny the entire premise of the post". certainly not to "spite" anyone. i actually AGREED with the post by saying that multicolored cards are in fact usually stronger than monocolored counterparts.
the one derailing and not contributing is in fact you. saying that "af is stronger than rt because of power creep" does not answer why Thought Collapse is stronger than Psychic Strike you derailed, not me. you got off topic, not me.
Shock and Lightning Bolt do not have the same effect. the effects are not equal. i know what an effect is. been playing this game over 20 years, most of those years competitively. 2 is not the same as 3. you are factually, mathematically, and provably wrong. it is not the same effect no matter how you spin it.
you don't even know the definition of ad hominem. i've never once attacked any person here. i've argued against your logic. that is, by definition, not ad hominem.
this whole post is a trivial nitpick anyway because at the end of the day it doesn't matter if sometimes a monocolored card is stronger than a multicolored card with a SIMILAR effect. OP is constantly making these posts every time some minor thing doesn't go his way in this game.
plakjekaas on How Can Mono-Colored Cards be …
6 months ago
I'll admit I misinterpreted the first mention of Aurelia's Fury. However, Sliverguy420 you have just been correcting and fighting people in this thread. You called me out on my mistake, now let me return the favor:
"i never said magwaaf said anything."
"magwaaf wrong about what exactly? are you saying wotc deliberately did the opposite here, and that monocolored cards are more often stronger than their multicolored counterparts?"
Yes, you "technically" didn't say he said it, but you were asking. I answered you. Then:
"Thought Collapse and Psychic Strike do NOT in fact have the same effect. thats the "whole effing point". one mills 2, the other mills 3. not the same effect."
While the actual question was:
"What does everyone else say, about this? Why are some mono-colored cards more powerful than are multi-colored cards that are very similar?"
You suddenly denied the entire premise of the post just to spite me. That's not contributing, that's derailing. My argument about Aurelia's Fury was that they're not very similar. You start arguing that "very similar" is not exactly the same. That's not gathering or sharing any insight in the discussion at hand. You lose yourself in semantics to feel better about yourself correcting someone online on the Internet. And you dig your heels in the sand when someone else calls you out on it. I thought about making the point of your posts not contributing to the original question in my previous post, but someone beat me to it.
The exact same card with a different name you tried to pass on as the only true meaning of same, which only works for cards, not effects, has its own name. A functional reprint. That's the term to use when discussing cards that are the same, except for the name. They have no place in a discussion about similar cards with different measurements of power, because by definition they're the same in every way, and there is no difference in power.
Effects in Magic are things that happen as the result of a spell or ability. Countering a spell is an effect. Making a player mill cards is an effect. Dealing damage is an effect. Shock and Lightning Bolt both have the same effect, where one of the cards is more powerful than the other. Because they're both monocolored, I've not used the example in this topic. They make my powercreep argument a bit weaker as well. But the thing is: when somebody would claim they're the same card, they would obviously be wrong. But stating: these are not the same card, 2 damage is not 3 damage, you can't compare them, while no lies in the words, is also obviously wrong. Lightning Bolt is said to be "strictly better" than Shock. The same mana cost, card types, same effect, but one with higher numbers.
If Psychic Strike would also cost , we could just say Thought Collapse is strictly better. The discussion would end there, comparison easily handled. Because the mana cost is actually different, you could question if the mana cost causes the difference. That's what OP did, thinking that was the only difference between the cards. Limited environments, rarity and powercreep are all contributing to how strong a card could be, and could explain the mentioned deviation from the expected trend.
Saying similar cards are not exactly the same, does not explain anything about that. Asking if fellow forum user is saying [topic of discussion] is actually the case, does not explain. Denying to derail the discussion after not trying to contribute to the topic and being called out on it, does not help OP's insight to the case. Deflecting that the one you're fighting about it is now also derailing the topic, does not help.
That's what I think it's wrong about your presence in this topic, the ad hominem nature of every post you make, and whenever you're pointed to that, trying to cover it up with more of the same, unwilling to change your own perspective, but expecting us all to join yours. Seems I'm not the only one.
Sliverguy420 on How Can Mono-Colored Cards be …
6 months ago
plakjekaas, yes, there are monocolored counterparts. i never said magwaaf said anything. Thought Collapse and Psychic Strike do NOT in fact have the same effect. thats the "whole effing point". one mills 2, the other mills 3. not the same effect.
plakjekaas on How Can Mono-Colored Cards be …
6 months ago
It's the color that enables the type of effect, it's time of printing, rarity and amount of pips that could account for a scaling in power of specified effect. A more restrictive mana cost, making the spell harder to cast, allows for more powerful effects.
Colors have overlap in their effects, that's why mono- and multicolored cards can look similar.
But multicolor cards are usually a combination of effects from the different colors, that combination making the card usually more powerful in a vacuum. The card, not the effect. And when that's the case, there is no monocolored counterpart. Therefor there is no comparison.
"that monocolored cards are more often stronger than their multicolored counterparts?" - Sliverguy420
That's the topic of discussion yes, that's exactly the question that was asked in the original post, with given examples where exactly that is the case, and if there were any rule behind it. It was not magwaaf who said that, it was DemonDragonJ.
"you can't have a card that's weaker or stronger if the effects are the same."
Yes you can. Thought Collapse and Psychic Strike have the same effect, one is stronger. That's the whole effing point of discussion.