The Angel is great for adding to the Heavenly Inferno pre-built - bring it out as your first free critter with Kaalia of the Vast and it'll keep her alive so she can send out more fatties.
Phantasmal Image is a 2 cost untargeted general assassin in EDH. Clone already saw play in this role, and Phantasmal Image achieves the same thing at half the price.
Wow, I'm surprised they actually printed this. A good white enchantment that completely neuters R and B decks and demands every other deck run enchantment removal and/or bounce? Awesome. A 4-of in every white deck as long as it's legal. Of course, it does point to Wizards pushing mill as as an alternate win-con during INN. Why else print a card the so obviously hoses all decks that depend on damage, including infect?
That illusion is so freaking good for Grand Architect decks. It is the two drop that was needed to really fill those decks out. Illusion Clone + Grand Achitect + Phyrexian Metamorph should equal victory pretty much 100% of the time.
GA has been my pet deck for a good long while now, so I'm definitely stoked to see it get some much-needed support.
Aegis Angel has fantastic flavour but as a 6cc creature it needs to compete with the Titans/Wurmcoil/Consecrated Sphinx and it just doesn't. It also doesn't compete with Baneslayer Angel or Admonition Angel while they remain in standard and even Deathless Angel and Sunblast Angel seem like better options. EDH angel deck applications only unfortunately.
Phantasmal Image on the other hand has a lot of potential almost everything that will be cast to kill it in constructed would have killed a Clone anyway and at 2cc they'll usually have cost the same or more to kill it. The one thing that will probably keep this from seeing play is the existence of Phyrexian Metamorph, when we have a Clone/Sculpting Steel which can be cast for 3 and 2 life in any colour, I can't see anyone playing Phantasmal Image over it and I find it doubtful that you'd want more than 4 clone effects.
Pedobear Aggro looks even better! It's got 3 early drops, being a 2/2 on turn one, a clone on turn 2, and a lord on turn 2. It's also got a badass 5/5 finisher at 4. I like it. Just include enough counterspells to stop them from removing your lord, and you should be fine.
Aegis Angel...another stupid .25 cent EDH rare that will ruin limited games.
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I really like the Clone! Half price, but a small drawback is a small price to pay for potentially a nice reward, like another Titan! Or Wurmcoil, BSA, among others!
You could almost make a deck full of Clone cards right now lol =P
Sadly, Deathless Angel almost straight-up outclasses Aegis Angel for Kaalia. Still, it might be worth testing as a decent backup.
I actually prefer Aegis Angel to Deathless in a Kaalia EDH deck since Aegis guarantees Kaalia or anything else you need will be protected regardless of how much mana you have. In a multiplayer game, I like my protection to be continuous rather than having to consistantly renew it at a really steep mana cost for a three color deck.
A few people have mentioned it already, but the illusion Clone works wonders with Sun Titan. The potential to be able to get up to 5 6/6s for 4WW is just frightening.
The Angel is great for adding to the Heavenly Inferno pre-built - bring it out as your first free critter with Kaalia of the Vast and it'll keep her alive so she can send out more fatties.
Phantasmal Image is a 2 cost untargeted general assassin in EDH. Clone already saw play in this role, and Phantasmal Image achieves the same thing at half the price.
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Wow, sun titan getting back image, copying suntitan, getting back another image, repeat.
that is incredibly cool and could go places
I think you misread this card...
Not to mention that even if it is fragile, it'll usually still take a card to deal with it, so the body is definitely still quite impressive.
Phastasmal Image is one of those rare cards that mixes incredible flavor with awesome power. It makes me feel like a kid just discovering Magic again.
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I agree, that is just absurd!!!!!!!!!!!!
GA has been my pet deck for a good long while now, so I'm definitely stoked to see it get some much-needed support.
Phantasmal Image on the other hand has a lot of potential almost everything that will be cast to kill it in constructed would have killed a Clone anyway and at 2cc they'll usually have cost the same or more to kill it. The one thing that will probably keep this from seeing play is the existence of Phyrexian Metamorph, when we have a Clone/Sculpting Steel which can be cast for 3 and 2 life in any colour, I can't see anyone playing Phantasmal Image over it and I find it doubtful that you'd want more than 4 clone effects.
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You're right, I did. Re-reading, it's just an eot burn hoser. Stupid and useless.
Pedobear Aggro looks even better! It's got 3 early drops, being a 2/2 on turn one, a clone on turn 2, and a lord on turn 2. It's also got a badass 5/5 finisher at 4. I like it. Just include enough counterspells to stop them from removing your lord, and you should be fine.
As for the angel? Not a fan.
Love the angel though. Precon foil, so it'll be easy to get, and decent enough to try in Kaalia :D.
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You could almost make a deck full of Clone cards right now lol =P
Nice find... that is quite a good use for it... becomes a 2 drop 4/4 hexproof. Its like crystalline sliver all over again.
An aggro blue is really feasible right now... counterspells to stop mass removal and some bounce for tempo and this might go well.
Outside the tribal this has applications as well of course. 2 mana for a clone is a good bargain even with the drawback.
I actually prefer Aegis Angel to Deathless in a Kaalia EDH deck since Aegis guarantees Kaalia or anything else you need will be protected regardless of how much mana you have. In a multiplayer game, I like my protection to be continuous rather than having to consistantly renew it at a really steep mana cost for a three color deck.
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