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 Post subject: City of Legend
PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 5:01 am 
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razorborne has just posted the article "City of Legend" in NGA Constructed Daily Card.

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 Post subject: Re: City of Legend
PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:30 am 
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nga sucks

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 Post subject: Re: City of Legend
PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 10:33 am 
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also why is this article not about ngac or the card

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 Post subject: Re: City of Legend
PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 11:20 am 
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I wrote the description. Bite me.

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 Post subject: Re: City of Legend
PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 11:24 am 
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*bites ear*

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 Post subject: Re: City of Legend
PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 12:09 pm 
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City of Legend is one of my favorite cards in NGAC.

It has a reasonable power level, encourages deckbuilding that's normally the opposite of what you should do, and is still somehow competitive enough for me to play it as a 4 of in some lists.

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 Post subject: Re: City of Legend
PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 12:26 pm 
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Ragnarokio wrote:
also why is this article not about ngac or the card

because I want to get a mix of NGAC applications, flavor stuff, and other tidbits. it'd be boring if every one was just "hey play this card" when there's so much more going on.

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 Post subject: Re: City of Legend
PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 12:33 pm 
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yeah but most of it was about other parts of the forum and not about ngac at all

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 Post subject: Re: City of Legend
PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 12:39 pm 
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Not many cards have history in the format, and most are basically "reasons to play this card".

Something like entomb is definitely going to have a mechanical focus, so it's reasonable to have a card that doesn't.

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 Post subject: Re: City of Legend
PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 12:41 pm 
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Ragnarokio wrote:
yeah but most of it was about other parts of the forum and not about ngac at all

right.

it was about NGA.

it's our birthday.

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 Post subject: Re: City of Legend
PostPosted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 8:43 pm 
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While I agree that it is nice to have some variety and that this occasion is an excellent one to address the history of the forum in general, I wish the post was just talking about how awesome the card is. You know, because it is so great and not for any other reason.

I guess I should give my take on the card: It is awesome. I made this when I was playing around with a set aimed at Timmy. It was battle cruiser magic with a cmc matters theme and this card was a great way to encourage playing fatties. It was chosen by the people to be my invitational card because it is awesome and I like it and I knew it would be useful in a lot of decks.

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 Post subject: Re: City of Legend
PostPosted: Wed Sep 23, 2015 1:15 am 
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Lands make for awesome invitational cards. This one is no exception. It reminds me of Temple of the False God; I'm not even sure which is better, but they're both good at providing a mana boost to a very specific sort of deck. Not broken and simply wonderful.

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