Comments on: Won’t Get Fooled Again https://www.quietspeculation.com/2014/11/wont-get-fooled-again/ Play More, Win More, Pay Less Fri, 07 Nov 2014 00:43:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: theuseless https://www.quietspeculation.com/2014/11/wont-get-fooled-again/#comment-252379 Fri, 07 Nov 2014 00:43:03 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=53392#comment-252379 I play all my permanents upside down to indicate summoning sickness. All permanents have it, only creatures are affected by it. It can help to identify new abilities, modifiers and to simply tell if your creature is sick or not.

Thanks for spreading the good word.

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By: Michael Demko https://www.quietspeculation.com/2014/11/wont-get-fooled-again/#comment-252110 Thu, 06 Nov 2014 21:42:51 +0000 http://www.quietspeculation.com/?p=53392#comment-252110 Love the article! I’ve been doing the ‘die on the library’ trick for awhile now, since I play Oloro in EDH. The first several games I played, I missed out on SOOO much life, so I knew I had to do something about it.

I *love* the idea of playing the lands upside-down, because at the end of the turn, you can do a quick check, so if you happen to have a land in hand, and no upside-down land in play, you don’t miss a drop. I actually think this should be suggested as an actual rules change.

I also believe that ‘summoning sickness’ tokens need to be created, in order to place them on creatures coming into play. I’ve had mid-game slowdowns/discussions that have resulted in a very common question: “Did he come into play this turn or last turn?” This is especially rampant in longer-turn EDH games.

And ‘token stations’ should be just as readily available as ‘land stations’ at most LGS’s, for drafting and regular tournament purposes. I understand that creature tokens have become practically as collectible as the cards themselves, but since these tokens make the game so much clearer and easy to understand, I think that the tokens should be made more readily available. I’m hoping that the “token packs” being shipped with C14 are the start of a new trend, where token packs are made available to anyone who purchases sealed boxes of product, containing a healthy amount of tokens potentially created by cards in the set.

I’d never thought of using a die to count triggers, but this leads me to a question… what if there are different TYPES of triggers? Does the player use multiple dice to count the different trigger types? Doesn’t that get just as confusing as remembering the triggers in the first place?

Thanks for bringing this info to our attention. It’s particularly timely for me, as I’m about to participate in my first EVER Standard tournament tonight. I know I’m gonna get slaughtered, since I’m working with a sub-par budget Abzan lifegain deck, but I’m hoping to get into the swing of things.

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