Does Wizards Purposely Add Infinite Combos?
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Posted on Feb. 18, 2014, 10:19 a.m. by squadcarxmar
I know that it is extremely hard to think of every card printed when you create new cards but sometimes I feel as if cards were printed for infinite combos. I first thought this when I saw the Innistrad block.
Rooftop Storm
+ Gravecrawler
+ Grimgrin, Corpse-Born
+ Diregraf Captain
were all printed in that block. That seems a bit too convenient.
What do you think?
I find that usually its an accident, but occasionally they release cards, like Greatsword mentioned, that are obviously meant to be broken. Like Kiora's Follower most recently. Just screams infinite combo...can you saw Illusionist's Bracers ??? I guess it is probably almost 50-50 in terms of cards they intend to make an infinite combo and ones that they miss and accidentally make into one. Many of the accidents hit the ban list if its that egregious of a mistake.
February 18, 2014 10:37 a.m.
Rooftop Storm was always way to clunky and hard to cast when it was standard. And Wizard new that. So modern just got a really cool combo to cater the the zombie nerds, but in a format that can combat that combo.
February 18, 2014 10:38 a.m.
Four cards, at 1, 3, 5 and 6 cmc that all have to be around at once? That's barely a combo infinite though it is, especially when you consider all the two-card infinite combos.
February 18, 2014 11:46 a.m.
Well it is still a combo, by definition. Just a bad one!
February 18, 2014 11:47 a.m.
infinitemana says... #9
The biggest example I can think of is Deceiver Exarch and Splinter Twin . They were both in standard at the same time, and it was a tier one deck then and continues to be a tier one deck now in modern. I'm not sure if wotc did this intentionally, but Splinter Twin seems like a very easily abusable card.
February 18, 2014 12:13 p.m.
NobodyPicksBulbasaur says... #10
There are some things that I'm sure Wizards didn't see coming, like perhaps the interaction between Helm of Obedience and Rest in Peace .
That being said, they don't shy away from creating infinite combos. New ones show up all the time, but only some of them are even borderline playable. The ones that hit the mainstream, like Splinter Twin , are things that Wizards definitely saw coming. They test out new sets years in advance to make sure nothing is OP as hell.
Except Jace, the Mind Sculptor . They totally let the one straight through anyways.
GreatSword says... #2
Yes they do. They make cards like Rooftop Storm specifically because they know it will appeal to certain players. Those players will be excited by it and try to make a deck to use it. It doesn't affect Standard because it's too clunky. But they know that the player using Rooftop Storm doesn't really care about tournament play; he just wants to get his combo off at FNM or the kitchen table once or twice.
February 18, 2014 10:28 a.m.