Rekindling old themes - MTGCombos.com

I know that there are plenty of themes people would like to see come back.
For me:
Dwarfs of Sarpadia and Orcs (Orcs with great power to be fought by the Dwarfs)

Homarids (It's about time mer's ol' enemy came back)

Thrulls (with sacrifice abilities God dammit)(Say another mage figures out the creation process)

Spikes (c'mon, this is easy)

The en-kors (just make sure they all have redirection)

Kobolds (this is totally the way wizards should go)

Druids (they still need things)

mercanaries (you gave the rebels a boost, now help their oppisite)

Vangaurd (fuck this plane thing, I want vangaurds)

Minotaurs (please?)

Birds (just a few)

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Date Posted: Tue Jun/01/10 at 8:29pm

I want artifacts to have brown backrounds again. I want djinns and effrets to get some decent cards, besides djinn illuminatis and djinn of wishes old school stuff like juzam djinn. A return to a real world feel of cards like arabian nights or three kingdoms.

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Date Posted: Tue Jun/01/10 at 8:33pm

Two cards effect those two types, both of which are cripplers, so they def. need to bring them back.

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Date Posted: Tue Jun/01/10 at 8:38pm

Wolfclan14

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Brown Artifact Background Cards would be nice again.

Date Posted: Tue Jun/01/10 at 8:40pm

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Old School Zombie...

Date Posted: Tue Jun/01/10 at 8:44pm

Yeah, I don't like the yellow for multi-colored or the gray for artifact.

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Date Posted: Tue Jun/01/10 at 8:45pm

like zombie master old or onsluaght old. and is one of the cards you mean suliman's legacy?

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Date Posted: Tue Jun/01/10 at 8:45pm

What exactly were the old-school zombies.

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Date Posted: Tue Jun/01/10 at 8:47pm

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Zombie Master-old...

Date Posted: Thu Jun/03/10 at 8:27pm

And what was the theme there?

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Date Posted: Thu Jun/17/10 at 9:36am

phasing its a handy tool against eldrazi and eldrazi players, because they have no idea what is going on. And I have actually used banding against deathtouch creatures. Like my friends fumiko lowblood no-dachi gorgon flail nemisis mask

[Edited by Twogunkid on 17/Jun/10 at 9:38AM]

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Date Posted: Thu Jun/17/10 at 10:44am

It's hard to keep track of phasing.

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Date Posted: Thu Jun/17/10 at 3:25pm

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Not really

Date Posted: Thu Jun/17/10 at 4:31pm

Phasing is a terrible ability. If it actually triggered ETB or LTB effects it would be decent, but it doesn't so it's not.

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Date Posted: Thu Jun/17/10 at 4:48pm

The Dwarfs of Sarpadia and Orcs were terrible creatures. They would never be used as there are simply better creature types in red. Dwarves were printed heavily in Odyssey, and made an effort to come back in Eventide. No one cares if orcs ever get reprinted except you.

Homarids, same thing. (there was a homarid printed in Time Spiral)

All of the original thrulls have been replaced by better cards, and they did bring them back in the Guildpact block.

Spikes have been obsoleted by modular creatures.

The en-kors were overpowered, although I wouldn't be surprised to see them come back. (again, one in Time Spiral)

Kobolds... do we really need free creatures? (timeshifted, never reprinted)

Druids are all over the place. There's been druids in probably every set.

Mercenaries will most likely make a comback, although I hope they're a little more enticing to play than they were originally.

"Vangaurd (fuck this plane thing, I want vangaurds)" ... I agree with you 10,000%

"Minotaurs (please?)" ... They get printed every so often, although it would be nice to see a heavy emphasis on developing them as a theme. Bigger than goblins, smaller than giants.

I think I would like to see a crow, raven etc. bird theme in black. White and blue have enough.

Know what I would like to see comeback? Every card ever printed, in a black border with black writing.

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Date Posted: Thu Jun/17/10 at 7:20pm

That is not true.. I want at least 1 orc to be reprinted... And that orc is...

ORCHISH LUMBERJACK

For spikes vs Modular creatures, I still like Spikes because it has many attached abilities other than the transfer the +1/+1 counter thing...

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Date Posted: Thu Jun/17/10 at 8:00pm

To

ParadoxRemix
A lot of your comments were on how the creatures sucked, which is why I want them "rekindled" so they can hold up against other types. Another thing is you were saying how they added a few cards here and there. By themes, I meant cards that make them into a legitimate deck type, also cards that would associate themselves with the deck type, though maybe not only for the deck (an old example of this would be goblin war drums, although not specific to goblins it works very well in a goblin deck)

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Date Posted: Thu Jun/17/10 at 9:06pm

Homarids are horrible!

[Edited by Turbine on 17/Jun/10 at 9:07PM]

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Date Posted: Thu Jun/17/10 at 9:33pm

not as good as cephalids Viscirid deepwalker blue firebreathing

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Date Posted: Fri Jun/18/10 at 3:59pm

Most of those creature types don't deserve to be rekindled.

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Date Posted: Fri Jun/18/10 at 6:48pm

...
vanguards? explain, is this something alot older...?
ive only really been playing for a couple months...
so being a relatively new player, i dont know much old stuff...
my brother gave me alot of old cards, but other than that i dont know bout many of the older cards...

and i have seen alot of the older zombies, they are much better...
out of the old cards ive seen, i liked alot of the blue older cards...
especially the enchantments, stuff like; puppet master, aether storm, power leak, soul barrier, etc...
and there were a buncha really cool demons too...

and beebles, they should bring back beebles, as wierd as they are :P ...

and i liked the old stuff with "banding", its a pretty cool effect, i never knew what it was for the longest time...

[Edited by morbidanimosity on 18/Jun/10 at 10:03PM]

[Edited by morbidanimosity on 18/Jun/10 at 10:09PM]

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RETURN TO THE DARK!

Date Posted: Fri Jun/18/10 at 10:01pm

MorbidAnimosity

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Date Posted: Fri Jun/18/10 at 11:31pm

Homarids were indeed horrible. They could use a reboot.

More Minotaurs would be awesome.

A reboot of Thrulls would be awesome as well. In my opinion, they should be able to easily rival Elves. Especially in terms of generating ridiculous amount of tokens.

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Date Posted: Sat Jun/19/10 at 4:55am

Thrulls were meant to be the bottom of the food chain. They should not be able to rival elves. Black has vampires for this, and good zsombie decks can easily rival elves. Around the time Strength of Night and Quagmire Druid came out is when I beleive zombies were at their peak.

Glad to see there's at least 3 of us who agree on minotaurs.

@ Morbid: Vanguard was a different way to play magic. Pre-game, you chose a vanguard card to represent you. Vanguard cards modified your starting and maximum cards in hand, life total, and granted you abilities/drawbacks according to which one you chose. I don't remember when it started, but I beleive the first characters available to choose from were The Weatherlight crew. I don't play it, but I think MTGO still has this variety available.

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Date Posted: Sat Jun/19/10 at 9:41am

Thrulls weren't anything. They were just add ons to random black decks.

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Date Posted: Sat Jun/19/10 at 12:34pm

the thrulls of sarpadia revolted and conquered it. Untill saporlings and thallids killed them all! 10 seconds on salvation wiki goes a long way

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Date Posted: Sat Jun/19/10 at 6:34pm

Just because Thrulls are "the bottom of the food chain" doesn't mean they can't be rekindled to kick some serious booty.

And Goblins are the bottom of the food chain, sir.

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Date Posted: Sat Jun/19/10 at 8:09pm

I can't see this guy being bottom of the food chain...

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Date Posted: Sat Jun/19/10 at 10:54pm

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he's a mutant

Date Posted: Sun Jun/20/10 at 12:54am

I can. That thing has too many restrictions.

Thrull Champion... now there's a guy that's not at the bottom of the food chain.

And Twogun, you're mom's a mutant. Sorry... I had to. :p

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Date Posted: Sun Jun/20/10 at 5:02am

Meh. I consider being a 5 cost 3/3 with essentially no ability a restriction.

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Date Posted: Sun Jun/20/10 at 9:31am

Scotty: I think less of you now.

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Date Posted: Sun Jun/20/10 at 6:31pm

Turbine: I really don't care.

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Date Posted: Sun Jun/20/10 at 10:57pm

Phyto

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I would like to see more spirits I loved how all of them worked so well together.

It seemed like no matter what spirit card you played another spirit card will benefit from it.

Date Posted: Mon Jun/21/10 at 1:52am