@Cheza: all the hate towards your comment made me very curious what it was you said to *** everyone off so much lulz.
And after reading it (twice because you're grammar is...ummm...it wasn't totally clear what you were saying at first, but I got it in the end I think), I realized EXACTLY what you were thinking, and actually agree with you. Well partially. Maybe only technically. Let me explain.
What Cheza did here was apply purely Vorthos-thinking to the color pie. He said Double strike is only White because First strike is already White, and that seems to me obviously true. He raises reasons why he thinks First strike even could be -Just- Red, which don't all make sense to me because White is 'military' more than 'defensive', and militaries can attack OR defend, but I'll give him that it would be interesting to see a world where Double Strike is not White because it DOES seem a little too Aggressive.
He's using Time Spiral-Block Logic here, talking about the Crust of the Flavor Pi... (see all)
Posted By:
DarthParallax
(11/13/2012 12:11:51 AM)
love it. My friend got one and then I got one in a pack and then everyone in our playgroup decided to get one. Sadness.
Posted By:
TheSwarm
(11/14/2010 6:21:48 AM)
Ageless Entity
Posted By:
adrian.malacoda
(1/25/2012 7:43:20 PM)
good addition to a black/white lifelink deck
Posted By:
rayferd
(1/18/2011 11:33:17 PM)
Good, but boring.
Posted By:
Discoduck
(9/27/2010 5:52:46 PM)
When making cards like this, they should make a cycle, this seems unfair to the other colours.
Posted By:
Sironos
(10/1/2010 1:17:31 PM)
Pretty awesome for formats which allow for larger manapools. Oddly enough it's the same mana cost as Jareth, Leonine Titan
Posted By:
Wynzerman
(12/1/2010 4:53:12 AM)
LMAO!!!!
This just a red version of.... oh wait.
:P *splat*
Posted By:
SorianSadaskan
(9/28/2010 6:13:30 AM)
wrong color
QUOTE:
@Cheza: Right color. Double Strike is the epitome of Red or White goodness; expect either to have it.
It should have been red (maybe green), hence the lifelink. Double Strike is forced to be white, since white has first strike... so it would be just another step. In respect of flavour, it isn't white at all, (First Strike too). If you are well-protected and well-prepared, you don't have to strike first.
That's the reason, why I would swap colors of Nissa's Chosen and Longbow Archer, making green and black the secondary/tertiary color choices of First Strike instead.
The same is true for lifelink. It's a power-oriented, combat-restrictive ability and this is contrary to anything white stands for. In my opinion, this ability should be red, green and black (primary to tertiary). It supports the red "attack centric" flavor, since the life gained makes any counterattack negligible. It also supports the red flavou... (see all)
Posted By:
Cheza
(6/2/2011 2:11:57 AM)