#garruk vs liliana

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Skeletal Vampire

Artist: Wayne Reynolds TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[bace-jeleren]

Romance the Gathering Round 2

[dimestoretajic]

THE MAGIC PLANESWALKER ULTIMATE BRACKET!

"Okay! Let's see how much Kaito is kicking the crap out of Sarkha-... ... ... yeah, @bace-jeleren needs to talk to her followers, good lord..."

Murders. That's what this section was, gang. Every. Single. Fight. Was a landslide. The closest margin was literally 60/40! That is BRUTAL! Poor Kaito lost his match BADLY (although, seriously, Bace, that poll got the most votes of ANY poll I've created EVER, so thanks for the help!) and Wrenn got beaten TWICE in the same bracket. Brutal! Just... just brutal. o_o

... well, here's more blood, gang! Here's this week's bracket!

Ashiok, Dream Render vs. Kiora, The Crashing Wave

Teferi, Who Slows The Sunset vs. Geyadrone Dihada

Nissa, Who Shakes The World vs. Vraska the Unseen

Kiora, Behemoth Beckoner vs. Dack Fayden

Liliana, Dreadhorde General vs. Ugin, the Spirit Dragon

Teferi, Hero of Dominaria vs. Tyvar Kell

Xenagos, the Reveler vs. Garruk, Cursed Huntsman

Saheeli, Sublime Artificer vs Vivien, Monster's Advocate

Appreciate all the love, guys! Keep it coming! Spread this around and be sure to let me know if I need to tweak anything! Thanks!

And don't forget...

Next week... it's whittled down to 32!

[thecornwall]

Cornwall's Random Card of the Day #679: Overrun

Overrun is an uncommon from Tempest, seen here in its Duel Decks Anthology: Garruk vs Liliana printing.

This bad boy is quite the finisher. Fun fact: it was considered overpowered for some time in limited, but never taken out of core sets because it was believed that green needed this card to have a chance to win. Needless to day, quite the sign that green was underpowered back in the day.

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Swamp League - Garruk vs (box)

Garruk vs (box) is the Garruk half of the Garruk vs Liliana decks released in October of 2009. The deck has not been altered.

[filintimus]

Duel Decks Anthology - Part 2 - Garruk vs. Liliana

[fierceawakening]

MaRo is right about the fact that representation for actual groups of people is more important, but like ... the reason I identify strongly with nonhuman characters is because I felt very marginalized *within* my already marginalized demographic group, and even the "good" representation (which I really do appreciate) always felt like it was clearly about someone who wasn't me. And I don't even feel like I can ever articulate this, because everyone has decided it's laughable to feel this way.

I don’t think that’s laughable.

In fact, it’s why a hell of a lot of representation discourse alienates me too. Particularly about villains, about “coding,” and about “bad tropes.” I have a lot of problems with that stuff and always have. I didn’t, for example, like the decision to change that one piece of Garruk vs. Liliana art because it looked too “violent toward women” when 1) Liliana is a jerk, Garruk is not her intimate partner, and Garruk has even better reasons to hate her than most people and 2) it was one half of a diptych, the other of which showed her with the advantage over him.

So no, I don’t think you are saying or doing anything wrong, and I too want more humanoids. I just think that WotC’s decision on that creative element is coherent and defensible, even if it’s not what I’d pick.

Also, my point was that… while some representation discourse is grossly anti-creator and makes me want to bite people, I also think that people who insist on things like “all your fantasy pirates should be men or the universe will implode” should… look at things like M:tG or Mad Max or Black Panther.

None of those things have destroyed anything because there are “too many” women or POC or trans folk or whatever. Not everyone likes them, no, and no one should be pressured into pretending they like something for woke points! 

But… 

…unless I have weirder circles of friends than I think I do, most people get used to them and like them and fit them easily into their personal Geek Canon. They’re all noticeably high quality, and that’s what usually matters most to people once whatever Issue Storm blows over.

(Also: It’s entirely possible to like something and disagree with it politically. See also: me and every Ayn Rand novel.)

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Magic Prediction Time!!

So, the next 3 sets after M19 are Ravnica. We know the first two are scene-setting/Guild politics, and that Ravnica Act 3 Act 3 is also Bolas Smackdown Round 2. We also know that there are lots of planeswalkers involved.

My predictions for the planeswalkers and planeswalker decks are:

Guilds: - Jace (bc come on) - Vraska - Ral (these two are both story important, both have history with Jace, and both of their guilds are featured in the set) Planeswalker decks: Ral and Vraska. This mirrors the Izzert vs Golgari duel decks from RtR, and combines the draw of planeswalker decks with the appeal of guilds for a perfect introductory product.

Towards the start of the story, Jace will confront Ugin and let him know about the upcoming battle. Ugin will be mysterious. About 3/4 of the Guilds story will take place simultaneously with the last few chapters of Dominaria. Towards the end of the story, Gideon, Chandra, and Teferi will appear (possibly after having stopped off to check in with Nissa. Depending on whether or not Chandra has gotten in touch with her true feelings yet, Nissa may or may not come with them) and update Jace on Teferi’s oath and Liliana’s capture.

Allegiance: - Gideon (when Kaladesh/Amonkhet rotate out, there will be no Gideon cards in Standard. Gideon is an important enough character that he should be represented on the cards. He also has ties to Ravnica) - Liliana (? quite probably a new character/other agent of Bolas. If someone else takes Ral’s slot for Guilds, he’ll be here instead) - Chandra (Gideon’s here, so why not? Also, it will have been over 2 years since her last non-planeswalker card) Planeswalker decks: Jace (this set includes Azorius cards, so he’s a perfect fit), Liliana (WB. She fits the Orzhov flavour well and she has flavour with Jace. If someone else has a card in the main set, she’ll still get the Planeswalker deck)

During the Allegiances story, the guilds will split into pro-Bolas (Orzhov, Rakdos, Dimir, Golgari) and anti-Bolas (Izzet, Azorius, Selesnya, Boros, Gruul, Simic) factions. Niv-Mizzet will start out heading the anti-Bolas group along with Jace, but over the course of the story he’ll be killed and Ral will become the Izzet Guildmaster, making it a straight 50/50 split. I could also see Simic on the Bolas side - they’re making super soldiers, and anyone doing that is definitely preparing for battle and probably up to no good.

Ravnica III.3: - Bolas (it’s his set. He has to be there) - Ajani (making his appearance just in time for the fight) - Ugin (Bolas is going to lose, but the arc revolving around him can’t end without a confrontation with his old nemesis) Planeswalker decks: Ajani, Bolas (it’s another pair of characters who Have A History! And between them they make up all 5 colours)

I could see Ugin’s card slot being taken by another of Ajani’s recruited allies. Not Tamiyo; she doesn’t like fighting. Narset? Maybe Sarkhan, contacted through Narset? Or Garruk, as a completely random choice?

During Ravnica Episode IX, Teysa will overthrow the Obzedat (like the story has been telling us she’s going to do for...about 13 years at this point) and ally with the anti-Bolas faction. Ral will be defeated and routed, and Mizzix will take his place as Guildmaster. Bolas will be winning, despite Ajani’s help, but Vraska’s remembrance and Ugin’s unexpected appearance will result in his defeat. He’ll be reduced to a formless ghost, as he was before Time Spiral. Tezzeret will flee to New Phyrexia, helping to set up the next arc.

Neither Tezzeret nor Teferi will get cards. None of the Ravnica guilds care about artifacts, so Tezzeret is out of place, and he will have just had a new card in M19 anyway. Teferi has also just had a (very strong) card, so there’s no need for him to compete with all the other blue mages for another one.

...THEN the 2019 October set will be either Theros or New Phyrexia. It’s looking like New Phyrexia, with a new Karn, Koth, and Tezzeret, but personally I’m hoping for Theros first. That way, Elspeth can return from the dead just in time to play a major role in the Phyrexian storyline.

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Round of 4096 - Batch 53

You can now vote in Batch 53.

Feature cards: Plenty of awesome woman characters today - Alesha, Jaya, Sidisi, Nahiri, and Liliana are all here.

Currently open batches:

Batch 53 Batch 52 Batch 51 Batch 50 Batch 49 Batch 48 Batch 47

Batch 46 results will be up shortly.

Full list of matchups:

Chromeshell Crab vs Disciple of Deceit Alesha, Who Smiles at Death vs Ezuri, Claw of Progress Vedalken Aethermage vs Eldritch Evolution Jaya Ballard, Task Mage vs Silverglade Elemental Raving Dead vs Lich's Tomb Sidisi, Brood Tyrant vs Wrench Mind Brass Herald vs Oath of Jace Blitz Hellion vs Oblation Nahiri, the Lithomancer vs Bloodsoaked Champion Command Tower vs Essence of the Wild Shared Fate vs Garruk, Apex Predator Illusions of Grandeur vs Contraband Kingpin Collected Company vs Minister of Pain Serum Visions vs Liege of the Tangle Serra Sphinx vs Black Vise Hundred-Handed One vs Tidehollow Strix Mantis Rider vs Demon of Death's Gate Worm Harvest vs Liliana, the Last Hope Dictate of Kruphix vs Mindwrack Demon Moroii vs Divinity of Pride Ichorclaw Myr vs Goblin Glory Chaser Nomad Decoy vs Orim's Chant Fire Covenant vs Kheru Spellsnatcher False Prophet vs Blatant Thievery Heartless Summoning vs Leyline of Anticipation Arcanis the Omnipotent vs AWOL Goblin Rabblemaster vs Vesuvan Shapeshifter Dark Confidant vs Gnarlwood Dryad Martyr's Bond vs Necroplasm Pegasus Stampede vs Sire of Insanity Retract vs Cognivore Quirion Dryad vs Death Wind

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Vine Trellis

Nature twists knots stronger than any rope.

Artist: DiTerlizzi TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[bace-jeleren]

Romance the Gathering Round 1

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[thecornwall]

Cornwall’s Random Card of the Day #438: Beast Attack

Beast Attack is an uncommon from Odyssey, shown here in its Duel Decks Anthology: Garruk vs Liliana printing.

Beast Attack is a generic yet surprisingly awesome name. This card is a good example of Green being able to produce creatures via Flashback in Odyssey block. Just use tokens! I think here was when WotC was becoming more comfortable about using a bunch of tokens in a set. The {G}{G}{G} cost was representative of it being a pretty primo card at the time, and they wanted to encourage players to actually be playing Green to get it, not just splash Green.

[alurenrecycle]

Dominaria Cup: Vryn Region

Round 1:

1. Simic +1/+1 vs 16. Liliana vs (box). The preconstructed deck from the Liliana vs Garruk set was no match for the growing army of Simic creatures. Simic takes the match.

8. Grixis Flayer vs 9. Crypt of Agadeem. Which graveyard based deck will come out on top. Flayer uses Flayer of the Hatebound to dome opponents while protecting its lifetotal. Crypt uses a ton of edict effects and cycling to make a full graveyard for the namesake card to make lots of mana. Flayer doesn’t care about edict effects and punches through Crypt’s mana.

Round 2:

Simic runs fast through the match, but can’t hold up against Flayer’s endless blockers. The Flayers come into play and take out Simic’s tiny creatures.

Grixis Flayer moves on to the Sweet 16.

[vorthosjay]

What are all the Planeswalkers that have a personal beef with each gatewatch member? (For example, Jace vs vraska and Liliana vs garruk)

I would check out this thread and infographic for that kind of info: http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/magic-fundamentals/magic-storyline/756165-a-planeswalker-infographic

[mtg-realm]

Magic: the Gathering - The Collection

With today's face card previews of Duel Decks: Mind vs. Might, we should have a look at this glorious collection of essentially ALL the Duel Decks printed to date.  Incredible image collection posted by Anthony Bavan (online as alpha_yankee_bravo), showing his collection of all 38 Duel Decks with the first four checked off with the Anthology edition.

• Elves vs. Goblins (2007) • Jace vs. Chandra (2008) • Divine vs. Demonic (2009) • Garruk vs. Liliana (2009) • Phyrexia vs. The Coalition (2010) • Elspeth vs. Tezzeret (2010) • Knights vs. Dragons (2011) • Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas (2011) • Venser vs. Koth (2012) • Izzet vs. Golgari (2012) • Sorin vs. Tibalt (2013) • Heroes vs. Monsters (2013) • Jace vs. Vraska (2014) • Speed vs. Cunning (2014) • Duel Decks Anthology (2014)* • Elspeth vs. Kiora (2015) • Zendikar vs. Eldrazi (2015) • Blessed vs. Cursed (2016) • Nissa vs. Ob Nixilis (2016)

* Duel Decks Anthology (2014) had the following reprints Elves vs. Goblins, Jace vs. Chandra, Divine vs. Demonic, and Garruk vs. Liliana.