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quekmeister:
Well they added the fairies and the planeswalkers (and quite a few other creature types, tbqh) and a whole bunch of spells with silly conditions. Odyssey was good, if only for the reason that the artwork for that set was great, and some fun flavour text too.
Borror0:
Yes, but it was far more complex than Mirrodin.
Here is a typical Odyssey conversation:
Player A: How many cards do you have in your graveyard?
Player B: Four.
Player A: How many cards in your hand?
Player B: Two.
Player A: Your Crashing Centaur is how big?
Player B: 3/4.
Player A: At threshold?
Player B: 5/6 and can't be targeted. Perhaps one day they'll make a name for that ability.
Player A: And you can discard cards to give it trample?
Player B: Yes.
Player A: What does it cost to activate?
Player B: One green mana.
Player A: And how much green mana do you have available?
Player B: Two.
Player A: And the squirrel's a 1/1.
Player B: Yes.
Player A: And it turns into an 8/8?
Player B: Yes.
Player A: Do you have any creatures that you can sacrifice?
Player B: I have a Druid Lyrist.
Player A: It costs one green to activate?
Player B: Yes.
Player A: Do you have an enchantment in play?
Player B: No, but you do. Come on, do you want to attack?
Player A: I don't know yet.
I loved that set (but it drove most people insane).
shabutie:
--- Quote from: Borror0 on October 14, 2009, 05:55:09 PM ---Yes, but it was far more complex than Mirrodin.
Here is a typical Odyssey conversation:
Player A: How many cards do you have in your graveyard?
Player B: Four.
Player A: How many cards in your hand?
Player B: Two.
Player A: Your Crashing Centaur is how big?
Player B: 3/4.
Player A: At threshold?
Player B: 5/6 and can't be targeted. Perhaps one day they'll make a name for that ability.
Player A: And you can discard cards to give it trample?
Player B: Yes.
Player A: What does it cost to activate?
Player B: One green mana.
Player A: And how much green mana do you have available?
Player B: Two.
Player A: And the squirrel's a 1/1.
Player B: Yes.
Player A: And it turns into an 8/8?
Player B: Yes.
Player A: Do you have any creatures that you can sacrifice?
Player B: I have a Druid Lyrist.
Player A: It costs one green to activate?
Player B: Yes.
Player A: Do you have an enchantment in play?
Player B: No, but you do. Come on, do you want to attack?
Player A: I don't know yet.
I loved that set (but it drove most people insane).
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I guess you didn't play against "Ravager Affinity" in the Mirrodin block... Only deck in Type 2 to actually have cards banned / restricted for a very very long time (since Ursa's block I believe)
Borror0:
I played one and against one. It was grossly overpowered (/hug Skullclamp) but it was not complex.
It made you feel dirty each time you played it though.
quekmeister:
Perhaps complex isn't really the word for Mirrodin... More like overly embellished? With the altered layout etc. etc. I just didn't take to it.
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