MTG Salvation

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So cranial extraction minus arcane? I guess that's cool, but feels like it's gonna be more popular in the older formats more than type 2.

seams legit. looks like the past cards that have been emailed to dealers to describe the promo.

Horray! More Arcane spells non-Arcane!

So much for my Relentless Rats deck. Still am glad to see this coming back.

While my thoughts a first were that it was a fake, I looked into the source and it seems legit. Although the symbol looks funky. My guess is there might be more reprints of arcane spells to come in the future minus the arcane, since we did have a Desperate Ritual and Kodama's Reach reprints with Pyretic Ritual and Cultivate respectively. I am looking forward to seeing what other arcane spells they rehash.

This won't be a $20 card like last time, will it?

Definitely has it's uses in standard a sideboard card for sure but it is always a good option to get rid of whatever problematic card your opponent might be running

@gix It definitely will not be a $20 card because of the effect mythics have on rares

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While my thoughts a first were that it was a fake, I looked into the source and it seems legit. Although the symbol looks funky. My guess is there might be more reprints of arcane spells to come in the future minus the arcane, since we did have a Desperate Ritual and Kodama's Reach reprints with Pyretic Ritual and Cultivate respectively. I am looking forward to seeing what other arcane spells they rehash.

Happens a lot actually.
Wizards sends cards out as PDFs and some people have trouble making them look pretty in a post.
Happened to us once as well!

Hm, the picture is lacking a watermark; this is disappointing. Of course, since it's a promo, it could actually *be* lacking a watermark - previous Buy-a-Box promos had a watermark consisting of the 5 mana symbols, after all, so in actuality it might have that in place of its actual watermark in the set...

I'm happy that I don't have to give up playing with Thought Hemorrhage against Vengevine post-rotation.

Has it been filtered through photoshop or did they actually bump the contrast up on the card template that much? The black card border looks mostly grey.

New humanoid looking creature. Black without being nim or dross. Very different style than past Mirrodin humans. Perhaps a new mirrodin tribe?

Well, I will say running 4x of these alongside 4x Cranial Extraction could be all kinds of meanness at the Casual tables. Hoo BOY.

Dig the art..nauseating color palette is nauseating. Nice. (reminds me of that)

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Has it been filtered through photoshop or did they actually bump the contrast up on the card template that much? The black card border looks mostly grey.

New humanoid looking creature. Black without being nim or dross. Very different style than past Mirrodin humans. Perhaps a new mirrodin tribe?

A new take on the Mirrodin vampires, perhaps?

Aww, I was expecting this to cost something like 1BB when you rip off the Arcane tag of Cranial Extraction.

I still like this though. At least I won't have to completely commit to black to play Sadistic Sacrament or play B/R for Thought Hemorrhage.

This will still be a valuable card I think I doubt it will reach the play level of Cranial Extraction but I expect it be worth a lot more then 3 bucks.

When it is likely to be one of the better cards from the set. Losing arcane is not a huge nerf people I mean come on....

Big old Meh from me. It certianly isn't thought hemorrhage and that didnt see to much play, despite how DEVASTATING it was to some decks.

If it is real I imagine a lot of standard constructed games going like this:

Turn 1 Swamp, beater
Turn 2 Swamp, Everflowing Chalice
Turn 3 Swamp, Memoricide. Got a mana leak? No, ok Jace, The Mind Sculptor

It does look legit, although I couldnt help but notice that the font is really weird on this card... It just doesnt feel all that real to me, even though the source seems to be

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It does look legit, although I couldnt help but notice that the font is really weird on this card... It just doesnt feel all that real to me, even though the source seems to be

We have to go through this every single time eh?

A lot of the previews early on look like this they use crappy mockups of the card.

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We have to go through this every single time eh?

A lot of the previews early on look like this they use crappy mockups of the card.

hmm... never noticed that, well sorry then =P didnt know

This is a lame BaB promo unfortunately. It's not going to be a 4-of not even in SBs, so it will be a really cheap card that most won't care too much about.

Another strong tool for black to use. Sadly, until they reprint Mutilate or something close, MBC lacks the backbone of a sweeper card to get it off the ground.

Thought Hemorrhage and Haunting Echoes aren't exactly money right now.
Why wasn't this in M11? Oh well, it will be used.

Much credit to Bankai for calling this one. Impressed!

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Thought Hemorrhage and Haunting Echoes aren't exactly money right now.
Why wasn't this in M11? Oh well, it will be used.

Squadron Hawk core set happiness?

Let the Scars of Mirrodin rumor season officially begin!!!

As for the card, a lot of UW Control decks only run one threat to win the game. Expect to see singletons from here on out.