I pray that Parallel Lives does not mean we won't ever see doubling season again. I traded mine for some dollar card long ago and now i cry inside every time i see an EDH deck.
Sadly, Doubling Season probably won't be coming back because its other effect makes a lot of Planeswalkers just plain broken.
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The card nearly every spoiled Magic player dreams of:
Jace's Trolling ---
Instant
Split Second
Exile target spell, then return Jace's Trolling to its owner's hand.
"Yeah, sure... when pigs fly."
-Mark Rosewater about printing this card
And so Doubling Season returns to Standard once again! Because... well... sometimes thirteen 2/2 zombie tokens just aren't enough. You really need twenty six of them to get the job done right
Omg that's nice. BG Combo and if we did get DoJ'ed then we can just use Fresh Meat since we have green splash
Orb is an excellent card for mono-brown staxx based decks. It's a leyline of sanctity that you don't have to hope to draw it in your opening hand.
Huge improvement over Ivory mask anyway. The big difference is that this is non-white, although the downside is that you have to actually cast it. But hey, mono-green can use this too! The worst color vs combo.
witchbane orb, if this comes out versus burn decks, game over. if you aren't dead already.
If all these spoils are from the same source, why not just release them all at once. This doesn't mean I don't love the person for doing it. Awesome to have more than 3-6 spoils in a day. Plus, a number of them excite me and aren't rares.
Parallel Lives will probably move around a lot, but I'm still unsure about how good it'll be in standard. Definitely good to pick it up for EDH, though. I'll take it, but I still hesitate to call this (Standard) game-changing. Guess we'll just have to wait and see. But I do like Witchbane Orb. Better than Ivory Mask and playable in all colors. Standard-usable (outside sideboard)? Probably not hugely, but it's still nice.
Wit's End is the PERFECT answer to your opponent's Monomania however.
Just hold on to your Wit's End when they Monomania, so you can Wit's End them on your next turn!!!
I think this is fairly reminiscent of the "Jace Battles" we have seen in past standards.. My guess is we will soon witness the great Monomania-Wit's End battles.
"Wall of Roots trades with Doran. Doran doesn't like Wall of Roots. You would think he might, as they are both trees. But Doran is a sociopathic tree. He and other trees don't get along – hell, he doesn't even get along with himself. Have you seen what happens when you cast two Dorans? Let me tell you, it isn't pretty." -Uri Peleg
I can't wait for them to print the other half of doubling season. I care about counters, not tokens. Although, that may make proliferate absolutely insane.
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Hoping for a cure, or at least an outbreak.
by 'you have hexproof' does it mean the player can't be targeted at all? So, no lightning bolt, no geth's verdict etc or am i reading this wrong?
Correct. Anything that says 'target player' or 'target opponent.' Much like the white Leyline.
Since this is comparable to the white leyline in terms of effect, and easier to cast in terms of colored mana cost, I would expect this to show up in the sideboard when the meta includes Pyromancer, RDW and Mill.
It is slightly more vulnerable in the current standard, but easier to include. We'll see it around, occasionally.
Parallel Lives Just seems fun, and possibly more than just a 'win more' card. Lets take a look at:
Good/possible constructed uses:
Precursor Golem = 15 Power of Golems for 5 mana. Curves nicely. Sac the Precursor Golem to Pod or what have you and you are left with 12 power of Golems without a drawback.
just got really effecient...
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I loled so hard with this one... For tokens deck only though, doesn´t seem too good outside a token deck.
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I'm still holding out for a From the Vault: Tokens reprint, but yeah, that's probably the only place it'll be seen again.
Sadly, Doubling Season probably won't be coming back because its other effect makes a lot of Planeswalkers just plain broken.
Jace's Trolling ---
Instant
Split Second
Exile target spell, then return Jace's Trolling to its owner's hand.
"Yeah, sure... when pigs fly."
-Mark Rosewater about printing this card
Omg that's nice. BG Combo and if we did get DoJ'ed then we can just use Fresh Meat since we have green splash
Standard
UR Control
Modern
Merfolk
Burn
Avacyn did nothing wrong!
Purify Innistrad!
#Purge
Which is 80% of the reason DS is such a "great" card. I'm happy with this one, though. It's so much less busted.
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Huge improvement over Ivory mask anyway. The big difference is that this is non-white, although the downside is that you have to actually cast it. But hey, mono-green can use this too! The worst color vs combo.
Beast Within my own perm for 2 3/3 beasts seems good.
If I attack with Hero of Bladehold, I assume all 4 tokens are tapped and attacking?
Modern:
Affinity
EDH:
Rhys (Tokens)
Karrthus (Dragons)
Bruna (Auras OP)
Maul Splicer? Suddenly aggressively costed.
Vital Splicer? Abusable.
Precursor Golem? More like Precursor to Gangrape.
But yeah, GW Gollums will probably make for a pretty fun deck come October.
If all these spoils are from the same source, why not just release them all at once. This doesn't mean I don't love the person for doing it. Awesome to have more than 3-6 spoils in a day. Plus, a number of them excite me and aren't rares.
Love the flavor on the Scarecrow...Scarecrows are supposed to repel birds so it fits nicely.
Witchbane Orb may take the place of Leyline of Sanctity as a sideboard card for people that want that effect.
You can't count to 109?
I kill you with
it.
Thank you for printing an Ivory Mask that every deck can use.
Sincerly,
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My DCI ELO Ratings - May they rest in peace :'(
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Hoping for a cure, or at least an outbreak.
Level 1 Judge (yay)
Can't wait to see the art on Scarecrow.
Correct. Anything that says 'target player' or 'target opponent.' Much like the white Leyline.
Since this is comparable to the white leyline in terms of effect, and easier to cast in terms of colored mana cost, I would expect this to show up in the sideboard when the meta includes Pyromancer, RDW and Mill.
It is slightly more vulnerable in the current standard, but easier to include. We'll see it around, occasionally.
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Good/possible constructed uses:
Precursor Golem = 15 Power of Golems for 5 mana. Curves nicely. Sac the Precursor Golem to Pod or what have you and you are left with 12 power of Golems without a drawback.
Grave Titan= 4x 2/2's a turn.
Hero of Bladehold= 4x 2/1's tapped and attacking
Elspeth Tirel= 6x 1/1's every other turn.
Myr Battlesphere= 8x 1/1's
Timely Reinforcements= 6x 1/1 soldiers.
White Sun Zenith= Double your pleasure of 2/2 Cats.
Blade Splicer= 2x 3/3 First strike Golems for 3 mana.
Garruk, Primal Hunter= 2x 3/3 Beasts each turn.
Jade Mage= 3 mana for 2x 1/1s, repeat as desired.
Cackling Counterpart= Now you have 3x of your best critter.
Bloodline Keeper= More 2/2 Flying Vamps are always fun. Every turn.
Fun/Casual Uses:
Wurmcoil Engine= Kill it. Please.
Zombie Infestation= Discard 2 cards, get 2 zombies.
Throne of Empires= 2x 1/1's for 1 (not bad), or 10x 1/1's for 1.
Phyrexian Rebirth= 2x Big Horrors are better than 1 on an empty field!
Prototype Portal= Lots o Artifacts.
Mimic Vat= 2x Tokens for 3 mana.
Fresh Meat= Double your Army.
Mirrorworks= Abuse blink effects and get allot of... whatever.
Kemba, Kha Regent= More Cats. More Cats.
Chancellor of the Forge= Lots of 1/1 Hasty Goblins
Master's Call= 4x 1/1's at instant speed
Thopter Assembly= 10x 1/1 flying thopters
Stitcher's Apprentice= Cheap Blue Token generator
Army of the Damned= Because Overkill is fun.
Endless Ranks of the Dead= Double your army, every turn.
Garruk Relentless/Garruk, the Veil-Cursed= Not as good as 3/3s from his M12 twin, 2x wolves still aint' bad.
Mayor of Avabruck/Howlpack Alpha= 2x 2/2 Wolves for 2 mana isn't bad, even if he's turned off often.
Kessig Cagebreakers= Lots of Wolves. Many, Many wolves. Curves nicely.
I look forward to playing around with this nonsense!