Yeah, there are without a doubt some cards that are usually a faux pas to use in casual play. Not that there's usually ever complete agreement on what they are.
My money's on spirits for being the scariest. The others are corporeal and easier to understand. Granted, I'd give myself better odds of surviving a night with a ghost than with any of the other monsters, but if the ghost really had it in for me, I don't know how I could possibly stop it.
Innistrad spirits don't seem as threatening as any of the other creatures. Part of that might be mechanical, but in most of their cards they just seem to be hanging around places instead of really doing anything. Drogskol Reaver is an exception, though.
I had a nightmare once that I think resembles the art on Planar Cleansing. It might not look that scary to you guys, and it's not like looking at it gives me PTSD flashbacks or some shit, but the experience- imaginary or not- of being swept helplessly into a vortex along with everyone around you as your environment floods and crumbles is intense. Of course, I'd prefer that experience to what's happening to the guy in Sudden Death.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Friday informs me I've been asked what decks I have.
I have a Vampire deck (Vampires have been my creature of choice for YEARS, even before it was really a winnable deck type), Ninja/Faerie deck, Goblin deck, White Solider deck, Infinite Life Cleric combo deck, and a Dark Depths/stiflenaught deck.
I also have an Vampire EDH deck with Garza as my general.
As someone who spends quite a bit on Magic cards, I love that cards I buy for my decks don't become useless when the sets rotate as in other formats. (That's why I considered removing Survival of the Fittest dickesh, that was $100+ down the drain!).
It's so nice that as new sets come out I just get to improve upon my already existing decks rather than start anew.
To actually play, its so great to have access to so many great cards, hell, just being able to use the original dual lands makes it worth it.
I would say that It That Betrays is one of the scariest, as not much is scarier than an Eldritch Abomination mind controlling all your friends to attack you. It's why the Reapers from Mass Effect make such effective villains.
Alternatively, Claustrophobia from Innistrad. The art is just...chilling.
I should be doing something constructive, but instead I'm making a Mikaeus the Unhallowed EDH deck.
Similarly, in lieu of sleep, I've been tinkering with my Vish Kal EDH deck. It turns out in combination with Mikaeus the Unhallowed, you can kill everything, all the time, whenever you want.
Yeah. Thinking about it, that was probably the best way to really drive the situation home. Loyal Cathar is a close second, but taking someone we got to know a little and turning him into a monster...just think, that's what's happening to everyone on Innistrad.
Tangentially related, but I like this comment on Woodland Sleuth:
Apparently you can tell a corpse is fresh in Innistrad, based on the fact it's still dead...
Similarly, in lieu of sleep, I've been tinkering with my Vish Kal EDH deck. It turns out in combination with Mikaeus the Unhallowed, you can kill everything, all the time, whenever you want.
I find it amusing that my Teysa deck can easily work with both Mikaeus. Basically, use Conspiracy to make everyone human and put a counter on them, then Contagion Engine to proliferate the counters and then Allay Conspiracy and bring Zombie Mikaeus.
Contrived enough to not work but to not hinder me if I don't pull the whole thing off.
So I ended up googling Cascade decks just in case I wanted to make something I could play to the tune of Cascade, and I ended up reading a play-by-play for the mirror match of "Cascade Swans". Tourney decks are so interesting when they're not Caw-Blade.
I really like this play:
Primal Command came down, targeting Treetop Village, and to allow Joel to search. PV was ready for this though. He activated his Treetop Village to make the spell have no valid targets. Countered on resolution, Joel was rocked.
I think it's still waiting to crystallize after the bans of Wild Nacatl and Punishing Fire and the upcoming release of DKA. There's not quite enough data for anyone to be sure what to play, and I think it's a good time for rogue decks. People are optimistic about Delver tempo, but they aren't sure what the right build is. Zoo is looking less popular right now, but it's still a deck. Splinter Twin and UR Storm are looking fine. Affinity is thought to be pretty strong, as it's been around and being strong since the beginning, and hasn't had anything removed by the bans that have come after the format's creation. Control in general isn't finding much space for itself, as Teachings has underperformed, but it's combining well with combo and aggro shells like the UR combo and the Delver decks I mentioned. These are of course all just impressions I got from reading the MTGS forum, so take it with a grain of salt.
I'm amused by the fact that everyone seems to have a different view on whom Thraben Doomsayer looks like. Someone said Liam Neeson, someone else said Sean Bean, someone said "the Dude abides" which I assume means they think he resembles Jeff Bridges, and I think he looks like Harrison Ford.
I wonder if Hamlet Captain is supposed to count as part of that cycle, or if it was just a coincidence. If so, maybe we'll get a Human Captain in avacynRestored.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't supposed to; humans were deliberately omitted from the Captain cycle and the Mythic cycle (Aristocrat, Lich etc.) because they're losing.
So I just noticed someone say something about a creature card that I thought was pretty clever. It's a 1 CMC creature that has the potential to become really big for free.
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i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Innistrad spirits don't seem as threatening as any of the other creatures. Part of that might be mechanical, but in most of their cards they just seem to be hanging around places instead of really doing anything. Drogskol Reaver is an exception, though.
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i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
I should be doing something constructive, but instead I'm making a Mikaeus the Unhallowed EDH deck.
Village Cannibals is another of the top creepy cards.
I liked his character; what became of him in DKA is genuinely quite sad.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
I just hope Thalia makes it through the block without having anything horrible happen to her.