Take your monoblack deck, then set aside 14 swamps. Add 4 Creeping Tar Pits, 4 Darkslick Shores, 4 Drowned Catacombs, and 2 Jwar isle Refuge and add 4 Jace, the Mindsculptors. Your monoblack deck is instantly better. Better yet, drop those refuges, throw in some islands and some mana leaks, and lo and behold, you're now playing a real deck. Congratulations. Welcome to the world of competitive M:TG.
Oooooooh draw 3 at instant speed for 5 is actually pretty good. I like it. The common...eh. Its bad.
What??? The common is great with Howling Mine (i know its only going to be in standard with this for like 3 months but thats still some time and maybe Howling Mine will be in SoM).
Great for Milling.
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Am I seeing the image right that Jace's Erasure is #50 and Jace's Ingenuity is #66? If so, that's a pretty obvious flaw here.
I think it is 59 and 60....
Nonetheless, interesting cards. Diminsh looks like a Snakeform effect, very nice for blue to have Limited-wise. The enchantment is interesting too....hmmmm.....ideas are starting to form.
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"I don't know why people say a double-edged sword is bad. It's a sword. With two edges." - Kamahl, Pit Fighter
It's understandable blue control players would be shocked and in denial at the notion of this card, since their decks have been dominating multiple formats for an eternity yet they've curiously never once had to deal with any counter-hosers that weren't ineffectual, narrow CRAP.
I like Jace's Ingenuity Can you please post pictures of the rest of the new cards?
Alright, because you asked so nicely. =D
That's everything new and blue I haven't seen spoiled yet. I have stuff like augury owl and azure drake, but you know the stats already, gonna go try and find a garruk's companion. brb
Jace's Erasure has a wow-factor of 10/10 for me. I'm thinking of a Pauper mill deck I need to make with this enchantment. Maybe a Peasant deck instead, so I can include Brain Freeze. Add in Brainstorm, Frantic Search, Breakthrough and let the good times roll. I REALLY like this card.
Preordain is also very awesome. I guess they weren't screwing around when Wizards said they would raise blue's power level.
I'm excited for M11.
Diminish seems more interesting than the other two. I speculate the following
Diminish
U OR 1U
Target creature becomes 0/1 until end of turn.
Why the low cost? Humble costs 2, but it causes a creature to lose all abilities. Snakeform costs 3, but it causes a creature to lose all abilities AND it cantrips. Diminish neither cantrips nor causes the target to lose abilities. This makes it a 1 CMC, or perhaps 2 CMC if they feel 1 is too powerful, card.
Jace's Ingenuity3UU
Instant (Uncommon)
Draw three cards. Brute force can sometimes kick down a [locked] door, but knowledge is a skeleton [key]. Artist: Igor Kieryluk
Jace's Erasure1U
Enchantment (Common)
Whenever you draw a card, you may have target player put the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard. "You should try to clear your mind of idle thoughts. And if you can't, I will." Artist: Jason Chan
DiminishU
Instant (Common)
Target creature becomes a 1/1 until end of turn. "'That was a narrow escape!' said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence."
--Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Artist: Eric Deschamps
PreordainU
Sorcery (Common)
Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.) Artist: Svetlin Velinov
Harbor Serpent4UU
Creature - Serpent (Common)
Islandwalk (This creature is unblockable as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Harbor Serpent can't attack unless there are five or more Islands on the battlefield.
5/5 Like most giant monsters villagers worship as gods, it proves a fickle master. Artist: Daarken
Is Draw/Go back? Who knows. Now we need a decent counterspell other than Deprive.
Diminish is pretty nice. Though, without a cantrip, it's not as good as Snakeform. As for the scry card... I'm not sure if it's better than Ponder, but I guess this card will be replacing Ponder.
That's everything new and blue I haven't seen spoiled yet. I have stuff like augury owl and azure drake, but you know the stats already, gonna go try and find a garruk's companion. brb
Thanks, and wow Diminish is looking nice in limited and even constructed.
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Okay guys, found the mother lode, turns out that there are two flavors of each 30 card sample deck in each color. together they make a common and uncommon 60 card deck, it seems.
Well, I have one each of the blue out and have looked at them, just now to green. I have physical copies of the new green stuff, and it's gonna blow your mind.
Hey, kpdaly16, can you unlock the garruk's companion thread so I can put the pics of it there?
What??? The common is great with Howling Mine (i know its only going to be in standard with this for like 3 months but thats still some time and maybe Howling Mine will be in SoM).
Great for Milling.
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I think it is 59 and 60....
Nonetheless, interesting cards. Diminsh looks like a Snakeform effect, very nice for blue to have Limited-wise. The enchantment is interesting too....hmmmm.....ideas are starting to form.
They could just as easily be 59 and 60. I'm not yet convinced either way.
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Target creature become 0/1?? If thats for U or 1U its gg.
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UWBG Gifts in Modern
UWBG Control in Standard
UBG Control in Legacy
T2: Jace's Erasure
T3: Howling Mine
T4: Font of Mythos
that is until rotation
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Alright, because you asked so nicely. =D
That's everything new and blue I haven't seen spoiled yet. I have stuff like augury owl and azure drake, but you know the stats already, gonna go try and find a garruk's companion. brb
Preordain is also very awesome. I guess they weren't screwing around when Wizards said they would raise blue's power level.
I'm excited for M11.
Diminish
U OR 1U
Target creature becomes 0/1 until end of turn.
Why the low cost? Humble costs 2, but it causes a creature to lose all abilities. Snakeform costs 3, but it causes a creature to lose all abilities AND it cantrips. Diminish neither cantrips nor causes the target to lose abilities. This makes it a 1 CMC, or perhaps 2 CMC if they feel 1 is too powerful, card.
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Instant (Uncommon)
Draw three cards.
Brute force can sometimes kick down a [locked] door, but knowledge is a skeleton [key].
Artist: Igor Kieryluk
Jace's Erasure 1U
Enchantment (Common)
Whenever you draw a card, you may have target player put the top card of his or her library into his or her graveyard.
"You should try to clear your mind of idle thoughts. And if you can't, I will."
Artist: Jason Chan
Diminish U
Instant (Common)
Target creature becomes a 1/1 until end of turn.
"'That was a narrow escape!' said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence."
--Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Artist: Eric Deschamps
Preordain U
Sorcery (Common)
Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom of your library and the rest on top in any order.)
Artist: Svetlin Velinov
Harbor Serpent 4UU
Creature - Serpent (Common)
Islandwalk (This creature is unblockable as long as defending player controls an Island.)
Harbor Serpent can't attack unless there are five or more Islands on the battlefield.
5/5
Like most giant monsters villagers worship as gods, it proves a fickle master.
Artist: Daarken
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Diminish is pretty nice. Though, without a cantrip, it's not as good as Snakeform. As for the scry card... I'm not sure if it's better than Ponder, but I guess this card will be replacing Ponder.
I love the art on Diminish btw. Kitty-cat!
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Thanks, and wow Diminish is looking nice in limited and even constructed.
Well, I have one each of the blue out and have looked at them, just now to green. I have physical copies of the new green stuff, and it's gonna blow your mind.
Hey, kpdaly16, can you unlock the garruk's companion thread so I can put the pics of it there?
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