#Cloudblazer

[themissinglynx]

Oho, but you see, expanding the borders further outward would mean they'd have to get a new map to illustrate the larger territories.

And maybe that Thunderclan would become the new Windclan and everyone would be stomping all over their borders to get to the Moonpool.

There's so much tension in Squirrelflight's Hope that's kind of interesting to read, but I'm constantly distracted from the narrative by just.... Why...? Why don't the Clans just expand their borders a little further from the lake? Every time a POV character goes outside their territory it's noted that there's tons of space that way. It's such an easy solution????

[markrosewater]

Hey Mark! I have 45 minutes left to ask for birthday trivia about one of my favourite cards, Cloudblazer. :D Otherwise i would like to know, how often you think about the Roman Empire, and if you think a set inspired by it sooner rather than later is likely? Thanks for all you‘re doing! :)

Lining up numbers on cards makes it feel more aesthetic, even if the two things are very unequal (two cards are worth a lot more than 2 life).

Happy Birthday!

[mtg-polls-cube]

[bonefall]

Unpopular opinion but I absolutely love Onestar. Like, he’s such a goddamn slightly insecure coward and it’s so fucking interesting. A leader who refuses help out of pride and accidentally orchestrates his own downfall. Earlier I saw a post made by someone (I forgot their user) that said Onestar’s motivation to help the clans and reveal the truth about Darktail should of been portrayed as more of a cowardly last attempt move AND I AGREE.

Following this statement above, do you have any plans for changing Onestar? Like the post I mentioned earlier I think has an absolutely amazing idea. Like changing his motivations for Darktail in the Bonefall Rewrite does fit the theme a lot better than “sudden change of heart”

Uhhh more like "CORRECT" opinion?

I think the post you're thinking of is this one by @cloudblaze who has a very big brain and I respect immensely

Onestar's AMAZING! Absolutely one of my favorite antagonists in the series. I love characters who are wrong in interesting ways and aren't always 'villainous.' I love characters who are the root of their own problems, whose archenemy is themselves.

I want him and Firestar to have a pointless battle-to-the-death pissing contest that Onestar demands, and he loses one of his 9 lives for no good reason. The Erins don't play around with the 9 lives nearly enough! Give me more blustering, useless displays of machismo! I am smashing two littlest petshop figures together.

So, I don't plan to 'change' him very much. Just make some stuff more consistent.

And he also gets featured much more in AVoS because of the POV change.

Bonefall AVoS

Breezepelt is a new major POV of AVoS. This is a WindClan and ShadowClan-centric arc. No shade to Twigbranch and Alderheart, but AVoS was NOT their story to tell.

It's an arc about mistakes, making up for them, and the concept of redemption.

It's also one of the hardest arcs I have to rewrite and I'm trying to thread a needle about The Kin, because I feel that as they were in-canon, they tell a pro-xenophobic story. It's very, very important to me that I fix that, while still allowing The Kin to be a malicious group. Read about it over here and I also tag it with #Bonefall AVoS if you'd like to see the ideas actively developing over conversations

So... anyway, that big bullet aside,

Onestar and Breezepelt are very important characters. There is a parallel between Onestar and Darktail, and Crowfeather and Breezepelt. By the end of this arc, Onestar comes to have a REAL reckoning with how he has a LOT of blame for this situation, Breezepelt feels like he's in such a deep pit of sin he'll never crawl out, and the younger generation is still paying for the mistakes of their forebears.

Drowning Darktail in the lake was originally Breezepelt's idea. I have some notes for the scene here, and I'm quite proud of the idea honestly, but CW for suicidal intent. It's the turning point where Onestar decides he can't let someone else pay for what he's done.

[simicmimic]

Todays Arena card style sales

Solar Blaze

Creeping Trailblazer

Cloudblazer

Embereth Skyblazer

Oread of Mountain’s Blaze

Light ‘Em Up

Urabrask’s Anointer

Sunstreak Phoenix

Ox of Agonas

[thecornwall]

Cornwall’s Random Card of the Day #428: Cloudblazer

Man, sounds like a red card name, right?

Cloudblazer is an uncommon from Kaladesh, seen here in some commander thing. This is a Mulldrifter, alright. I mean, it can’t do the Evoke thing that Mully did so well, but a creature which gives okay stats and draws you two cards just for playing it will never truly be “bad” unless its cost is over 6. Was this before, or just the start of WotC putting signpost dual-colour uncommons in sets? If this was intended as a signpost, then the strategy here just seems to be “draw cards and play fliers”, which, admittedly, w/u usually does in limited, to pretty decent success.

[dalishious]

cloudblazer replied to your post “Falsities About Vivienne”

Im sorry but you're 100 percent wrong... I like her as an interesting person but she is quite literally by definition the epitome of how people with privilege behave. Where was her "concern for life" when the seekers and templars massacred the mages in Rivain.

So like, did you actually read the post or? Because if you did I think you must have skipped the “Vivienne hates her fellow mages” and “Vivienne had everything handed to her” sections.

[dailymtgflavortext]

All the aether charts in the world can't compete with the trained eye of a talented scout. 

-Cloudblazer

[sashadreadful-moving]

look at it. look at my perfect fucking curve. all i was missing was Cloudblazer 3

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

MTG Creature Stats

I bought two full decks, 120 cards, and they came with a free mini deck of 39 cards, so 159 total.  Excluding lands, instants, sorceries, enchantments, artifacts, and planeswalkers, here are all the creatures so we can compare their stats (ignoring keywords and effects,just the base stats)

Shore Keeper: cost 1, power 0, toughness 3

Shore Keeper: cost 1, power 0, toughness 3 

Shore Keeper: cost 1, power 0, toughness 3

Shore Keeper: cost 1, power 0, toughness 3

Burrenton Forge-Tender: cost 1, power 1, toughness 1

Benevolent Bodyguard: cost 1, power 1, toughness 1

Benevolent Bodyguard: cost 1, power 1, toughness 1

Gideon’s Lawkeeper: cost 1, power 1, toughness 1

Gideon’s Lawkeeper: cost 1, power 1, toughness 1 

Gideon’s Lawkeeper: cost 1, power 1, toughness 1

Gideon’s Lawkeeper: cost 1, power 1, toughness 1

-

Murmuring Phantasm: cost 2, power 0, toughness 5

Murmuring Phantasm: cost 2, power 0, toughness 5 

Murmuring Phantasm: cost 2, power 0, toughness 5

Murmuring Phantasm: cost 2, power 0, toughness 5

Blinding Mage: cost 2, power 1, toughness 2

Blinding Mage: cost 2, power 1, toughness 2 

Blinding Mage: cost 2, power 1, toughness 2

Blinding Mage: cost 2, power 1, toughness 2

New Prahv Guildmage: cost 2, power 2, toughness 2

-

Prodigal Sorcerer: cost 3, power 1, toughness 1

Serendib Sorcerer: cost 3, power 1, toughness 1

Court Hussar: cost 3, power 1, toughness 3

Court Hussar: cost 3, power 1, toughness 3 

Court Hussar: cost 3, power 1, toughness 3

Court Hussar: cost 3, power 1, toughness 3

-

Junktroller: cost 4, power 0, toughness 6

Spire Patrol: cost 4, power 3, toughness 2

Sphinx of New Prahv: cost 4, power 4, toughness 3

Sphinx of New Prahv: cost 4, power 4, toughness 3

Kytheon’s Irregulars: cost 4, power 4, toughness 3

Kytheon’s Irregulars: cost 4, power 4, toughness 3

-

Cloudblazer: cost 5, power 2, toughness 2

Willbreaker: cost 5, power 2, toughness 3

Willbreaker: cost 5, power 2, toughness 3 

Willbreaker: cost 5, power 2, toughness 3

Willbreaker: cost 5, power 2, toughness 3

Dragonlord Ojutai: cost 5, power 5, toughness 4

Angel of Grace: cost 5, power 5, toughness 4

-

Azorius Skyguard: cost 6, power 3, toughness 3

Arcanis the Omnipotent: cost 6, power 3, toughness 4

Jareth, Leonine Titan: cost 6,power 4, toughness 7

Azor, the Lawbringer: cost 6, power 6, toughness 6

-

Archon of the Triumvirate: cost 7, power 4, toughness 5

Ojutai, Soul of Winter: cost 7, power 5, toughness 6

-

Zetalpa, Primal Dawn: cost 8, power 4, toughness 8

Eldrazi Devastator: cost 8, power 8, toughness 9

47 creatures; 26 is you exclude repeats

Those 26 cards mapped out look like this

Every stat is positively correlated, with very similar slopes (between 0.7 and 0.8).

What’s interesting is that I assumed the power curve would be directly on the slope-1 diagonal, when it’s actually slightly below.  Hell, the cost/attack stat has it as an upper bound; no card is more powerful than it is expensive, something I’ll have to take note of in my game.

Cost/defense trends identically to cost/attack, but with more variance on the case-to-case basis; everything averages out to the same trend line, but can be much higher or much lower than the curve.

For attack/defense, the stats lie above the curve for lower values, and below the curve for higher values.  When defense is high, attack is low; when defense is low, attack is high.  They’re inversely proportional, while trending upwards all the while.  There were several creatures with 0 power just meant to be tanks, absorbing damage without dishing any out,

These cards all came from much older sets then what’s currently available, ranging as far back as 2013 and only as recent as 2018; it’s interesting to see that despite the age difference, they still work well together to form a cohesive trend line instead of getting more complex as time goes on.  It just goes to show that Magic is a very balanced game with a lot of thought put into its development.

Wizards of the Coast is a major corporate entity with decades of experience, employing countless designers and playtesters to ensure that everything functions together so that both new and experienced players can benefit from every piece of content.  My game will be slapdash, held together with duct tape and prayer, almost certainly full of game breaking exploits I hadn’t even considered.

This is gonna be fun!

Part of me wants to make it simpler, but most of me wants to go big or go home.  Make it complex, give it lots of room to bug out, lots of avenues for rules lawyering.  I want my players to be able to say “well, technically,” and pull off amazing but unintended feats.

My game is based on the 50 United States, and nothing is more American than winning on a technicality.  This is an instance of art imitating life.

[pigeonclaw]

cloudblaze → pigeonclaw

[owlmagicz]

Rules: We’re snooping on your playlist. Put your entire music library on shuffle and list the first 10 songs then choose 10 people.

Tagged by @digital-magus

I think Spotify got it pretty spot on in 2017. Enjoy some good tunes :).

@cytharatunes @shawschenk @tradeinlunacy @treypug @cloudblazer @theonenamedperry @matt-in-the-multiverse @g-a-y-b-a-c-o-n @dxstorms @kurecc .

[nehebthewordy]

EDH Budget Picks: Aminatou, the Fateshifter

After nearly two years of fun with Vona, Butcher of Magan, I’ve decided to switch her with a different general. Only question is which one? It didn’t actually occur to me to add in blue until playing with this little lady’s precon for a bit and realizing that I love how she runs.  For clarification, budget in this case will mean no cards above $5 and no more than three above $2. I also won’t include any particularly obvious cards like Panharmonicon and your main combo piece, Felidar Guardian.

As I suggested at the end of the last paragraph, this is a combo deck, so you are going to want to pick up your key pieces as well as looking at this list. In addition to what you see here, though, you can get effective value out of any card with an enter-the-battlefield or leave-the-battlefield effect. While playing the deck, once you get your combo going you can flicker your enter-untapped lands for infinite mana and your enter-draw cards to dig for your win condition.

#1: Cloudblazer  This is one of my favorite cards from Kaladesh and until now I haven’t had a deck to run it in, but Cloudblazer is an outright bomb in Aminatou. Gaining two life and drawing two cards nearly every turn really sets you up for your long game.

#2: Oath of Teferi You were probably going to include this anyway, but Oath can replace Panharmonicon as a core combo piece, adding additional utility to an already strong card.

#3: Vela, the Night-Clad While an already strong card, if Vela sees Felidar leaving play each time, she’s a potential win condition, and since she causes life loss it dodges damage prevention.

#4: Ravenous Chupacabra Removal stapled onto a creature is a solid play in almost any deck, but with Aminatou it becomes repeatable, even at times turning into a one-sided board wipe.

#5: Forbidding Spirit Ghostly Prison on a stick is already strong, but the ability to stack Forbidding Spirit’s effect through flickering turns this into total immunity from nearly any attack.

#6: Debt to the Deathless With unlimited mana through your combo you get endless Debt to the Deathless. Really, and X-drop spell can be added for powerful results.

#7: Restoration Gearsmith Repeatable recursion for both artifacts and creatures. Very simple and very effective.

#8: Agent of Erebos Exile a graveyard every turn. You’ll be the bane of Muldrotha.

#9: Retreat to Coralhelm/Hagra Flicker your lands and scry to the cards in your deck that matter, or flicker them to drain your opponents to death.

#10: Grim Guardian Similar to Vela, flicker it to drain your opponents’ life away. If you have Agent of Erebos in play as well, you can bog your opponents at the same time.

That’s all I’ve got! Some of these are very similar, but they all work toward the same goal. If you don’t have all the cards on this list, just about anything will do. If you want to hear budget picks for a different deck, be sure to send in a request. Until next week, see you on the battlefield.

[elisawinther]

Cloudblazer MtG Art by Dan Scott

[mtgcolorpie]

War of the Spark is an interesting set. But did you know that there are connections to other sets and Planes within this pile of cards? Here’s a non-complete look at the references to other Planes and sets of Magic found within War of the Spark.

Karn, the Great Creator – Dominaria (Weatherlight)

While the first static ability mimics the ability almost completely (except for the one-sidedness), Null Rod is part of the Legacy Collection, and so is Karn. What other parts of the Legacy Collection will we see next? I can’t wait for Juju Bubble to be on the next Karn card.

Ugin, the Ineffable – Zendikar (Worldwake) and Tarkir (Fate Reforged)

While the colorless spells don’t have to be Eldrazi with the new Ugin, it is close enough to the Worldwake card especially since it’s his eye. But his +1 ability is pretty much Manifest, but you still get the card if it creature dies. Makes sense since Ugin first had his card in Fate Reforged.

Grateful Apparition – Mirrodin (Scars of Mirrodin)

While I’m not going to touch on each Proliferate card since they’re using the mechanic in the set, but this is just a straight color shifted Thrummingbird with the Planeswalker damage rider as well.

Makeshift Battalion – Ravnica (Gatecrash)

And this is where the first of the named mechanics are part of a card name. Since mechanics like Battalion are ability words, they don’t have any extra rules text attached to the word. So things like this can happen even though they aren’t “true” Battalion cards (but they are).

Narset’s Reversal – Ravnica (Ravnica: Guilds of Ravnica)

A Fork effect is common enough that it’s not really a reference, but it’s the returning to the hand that’s a clear reference to the first time we visited Ravnica. You get a copy of the spell instead of drawing a card, which is pretty okay trade-off.

Teferi’s Time Twist – Kamigawa (Betrayers of Kamigawa)

Another almost straight reprint. Here’s your link to Kamigawa here for those that want a return to that plane.

Bolas’s Citadel – Dominaria (Onslaught)/ and Ravnica (Ravnica: City of Guilds)

Bolas is from(?) Dominaria so of course he would use the amazing enchantment that’s also a set name. He also believes in Greatness at any cost, so really this should read Bob’s Citadel.

Davriel, Rogue Shadowmage – Ravnica (Guilds of Ravnica)

I don’t know where Davriel is from but this enchantment is much closer to the Planeswalker’s static ability than The Rack, so it gets the nod here.

Deliver Unto Evil – Kamigawa (Champions of Kamigawa)

Two references to Kamigawa in one set? How the God-Pharaoh looks down upon you and smiles. Doubt he’ll make that same mistake again.

Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted – Dominaria (Legends)

I don’t know if there’s any relation of Ob Nixilis to Dominaria. But I do know there was some outcry from the players when Underworld was reprinted in 8th Edition saying it was “Too good”. It was also the set that Serra Angel was a Rare, so that that as you will.

Bolt Bend – Tarkir (Khans of Tarkir)

The first of several that are “Ferocious” cards in this set. Ironically, there was no Blue “Ferocious” card even though this was the Temur mechanic.

Triumph cycle – Amonkhet (Hour of Devastation)

The Triumph Cycle and the Finale cycle will fit here (Chandra’s was the one alphabetically first). Both of the cycles obviously reference the cycles in Hour of Devastation with the Gatewatch’s previous fight with Bolas.

Devouring Hellion – Jund (Shards of Alara)

Devouring comes from Devour, the Jund mechanic from Alara. Bonus: Ajani is from Naya but visited Jund when he first Planeswalked. Neat!

Spellgorger Weird – Tarkir (Khans of Tarkir)

While not really Prowess, it’s a modified one as Prowess most likely won’t be coming back. Plus, it’s a weird card.

Turret Ogre – Tarkir (Khans of Tarkir)

Fun fact: Red now has six cards with Reach, the first two in Planar Chaos. Neat!

Arlinn, Voice of the Pack – Innistrad (Innistrad)

I mean, this one was kind of a given, right?

Awakening of Vitu-Ghazi – Zendikar (Battle for Zendikar)

Awakening is the connection here. It’s very flavorful and makes sense here. I wish Awaken was an okay mechanic and it got more love.

Evolution Sage – Zendikar (Zendikar)

Everyone says this is Landfall – Proliferate. And they’re right.

Finale of Devastation – Mirrodin (Mirrodin Besieged))

The only Finale that’s really almost a direct reference to another card in a high profile cycle. You can search your library or graveyard for any color with an additional mana, but you lose the ability to shuffle it in. You decide if it’s worth it.

Kronch Wrangler – Tarkir (Khans of Tarkir)

Could this mechanic find a way into more sets? Sure, but I would like to open it up beyond 4 power, but it seems like a good, known value.

Elite Guardmage – Kaladesh (Kaladesh)

Gain a life, lose a card draw, but lose a mana and gain a toughness. Was Cloudblazer too good? Clearly the most broken card in its set.

Huatli’s Raptor – Ixalan (Ixalan)

When I was little there was a VHS tape I would watch over and over called DinoRiders. It was the pilot episode and I’ve only seen that one, but I watched it like a 100 times. If you know where I can find the other episodes, wait a minute they’re on YouTube. I know what I’m doing tonight.

Living Twister – Rath (Exodus) and Ravnica (Guildpact)

I mean, clearly the returning to land ability references the lands from the original Ravnica block and not the Moonfolk from Kamigawa since they were all Blue and the fact that I’ve written Kamigawa more in this piece that actual articles in the last year means something’s wrong.

Solar Blaze – Mercadia (Mercadian Masques)

It’s it cute how wording changes in 20 years. Yes, Mercadian Masques is 20 years old. Pro Tip: If you’re going to make a card multi-colored, you can drop a mana in its cost (most of the time).

Teferi, Time Raveler – Dominaria (Time Spiral)

Tenth District Legionnaire – Theros (Theros)

If you change the color you can add a new ability, such as haste. Surprised that Hero wasn’t referenced anywhere on here. Complete fail of a set.

Ashiok, Dream Render – Ravnica (Ravnica: City of Guilds)

Is Ashiok a shadow? I would like to think so, but if I’m in a court of law, I’m not as sure as a

Huatli, the Sun’s Heart – Lorwyn (Lorwyn)

Sure, I could’ve chosen Assault Formation, but Lorywn was part of the most complicated limited format ever. And for that, I have to give it up to the OG Tree.

Guild Globe – Ravnica (Ravnica: City of Guilds)

That’s right Karn, harder to break than a snow globe. Those are impenetrable. (Ha, not Citizen Kane!)

Emergence Zone – Dominaria (Weatherlight)

There might be some talk of Alchemist’s Refuge here, but I decided to do with the OC Flash Land, since it clearly makes sense that Winding Canyons would allow creatures to be cast as an Instant.

I’m sure this isn’t the complete list, but it does give you a nice place to start. This is one of the few times outside of a Core Set that there has been this many references to older cards and places since Time Spiral block.

Until next time, which hopefully will be much sooner than before.

New MTGColorPie Post: War of the Spark's "Hey, Remember That?" I take a look at cards in #MTGWAR that have connections to other planes. Don't know if anyone has done this before, but here you go. War of the Spark is an interesting set. But did you know that there are connections to other sets and Planes within this pile of cards?

[canon-notcanon-warriorcats]

I need help with a Warriors name! I have a flame-point cat, and I don't know what to call them. So you have any advice?

man i can barely name my own ocslet’s see, whiteflame, whiteblaze, blazeberry, ivoryflame, antear, sleekflame, mapletail, maplepelt, creampelt, emberpelt, emberears, meltpelt, cloudflame, cloudblaze, burnpelt, burncloud, burnears, burntail, flameface, burnface, emberface, alderface, aldertail, mapletail, orangepelt, orangeface, orangeheart, orangetail, copperface, coppertail, blueblaze, creamblaze, bluefire,