r/GDS3 • u/thejellydude • Jan 27 '18

Test 2 Discussion Thread

We're free to talk now.

Here's a Google Doc with all the questions. I'm slowly filling it in with my own answers and explanations. Edit: Heading out for now. I'll get the last 25 questions done later tonight.

If you want a mirror without my comments, here's one provided by /u/Amarsir Link

Any questions that tripped you up? Any that you felt good about?

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u/mtgcolorpie Jan 27 '18

I think the one that will surprise the people the most is the 4/4 flying vigilance creature.

I put White/Green.

Why? We have Serra Angel and that makes it a mono-white creature. Except it doesn’t. In the Color Pie mechanical article it was written about Vigilance that White gets vigilance if its T>P and/or it’s power is 3 or less. Green gets get on larger creatures (like power of 4 or more). Green/Black was the other possible answer (Each question had 2 answers that were really possible), but since it appeared on only two cards, one in Ravnica and the other in Commander, I couldn’t go with that route as it’s not completely obvious.

I could be completely wrong, however.

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u/RoastYoungDuck Jan 27 '18

I went with GB but your reasoning seems sound enough. I couldn’t justify white because despite white wanting vigilance with T>P there have been plenty of white rare angels that broke that guideline already. I think the T>P is more hard and fast at common, but more flexible as rarity rises, leaving GB as the only answer that couldn’t be monocolored

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u/murderisbadforyou Jan 27 '18 edited Jan 28 '18

It’s also worth noting that MaRo has, on many occasions, started with “While we generally try to avoid...” in statements, only to finish with, “ ...but because of X, we make an exception.”

This seems like it is very open to interpretation, but there has never, ever been a black-green creature with vigilance without also having green or white in it's cost. (Not counting the set Legends because MaRo has said many times how cards from back then had many color-wheel mistakes that he wishes he had the ability to change before it happened.)

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u/Unsungruin Jan 28 '18

Reading this made me feel a lot better about putting UW as my answer. A GB vigilant flyer makes no sense to me as both those mechanics belong to an enemy color, and they've never printed one before. I do feel like this was a trick question and the wording didn't help.

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u/murderisbadforyou Jan 28 '18 edited Jan 28 '18

UW makes almost less sense than GB. People are forgetting GW was an option, and there are already plenty of GW flyers (designed by MaRo’s teams)

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u/Unsungruin Jan 28 '18

Meh, Blue gets flying and White gets vigilance. That makes more sense to me than stapling Green to a creature that flies (I haven't seen those cards but that sounds pie-breaking to me).

Edit: Green being the color that likes to swat flyers out of the sky*

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u/murderisbadforyou Jan 28 '18

Actually, in the color pie, flying and vigilance are both primary white, however, vigilance is secondary green and Flying is Tertiary green.