I think Forge Devil has potential. Efficient creature with a burn spell tacked on seems pretty good. It can't be played with no other creatures around, which makes it sketchy as a maindeck option, but could work as a sideboard card for RDW against aggro matchups.
Heavy Mattock makes me sad. Over costed by one mana both in the casting cost and in the equip ability.
I wouldn't say unplayable. Esp if you end up in a single color deck in Limited. It's a bit highly costed, but I would happily take this if it looked like I would be heavy in an aggressive color.
I think the Hood is a good SB card. If your opponent is not in your colors, then you get to cheaply make creatures unblockable. Considering how many DKA cards have "when creature does damage to an opponent" effects (slap it on that old werewolf chick!), I can see it doing a lot of good things.
I think the Hood is a good SB card. If your opponent is not in your colors, then you get to cheaply make creatures unblockable. Considering how many DKA cards have "when creature does damage to an opponent" effects (slap it on that old werewolf chick!), I can see it doing a lot of good things.
I cringed a little whenever the adjective "Old" was coupled with the noun "Chick".
On topic: I'm quite excited for tragic slip, although I doubt it will be as insane as many of us are making it out to be. In my mind it will depend on you or your opponent chump-blocking to have any real use.
The Devil looks interesting, but it really wanted to have a "may" in there.
Oh dear. Tragically, Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre has slipped. And sadly, it happened just as he/she/it was walking past the place where we were digging the grave for our Llanowar Elves (may they rest in peace).
Tragic slip is good, but not among the best removal. Its problem is that the card is at its worst when you would need it most: loosing to a big evasive beater. It may just be at it's best when you don't have it in your hand and your opp has a good evasive creature: you can counter-attack into his blocker freely because he won't block to avoid enabling the morbid side of the tragic slip you don't even hold.
WHY CAN'T SOMEONE SPOIL A DECENT 2-DROP FOR MY ZOMBIE DECK. Seriously. Walking Corpse aint cuttin it folks.
Tragic slip looks fun in a B/X aggro deck.
Heckling Fiends is one of the greatest illustrations ever. They're waving at you with severed hands. Hilarious.
Forge Devil is cool in limited to pick off little dweebs or to possibly turn morbid on by targeting itself. And yeah, I could see it being an interesting new sideboard choice.
Tragic slip will be a nice pull in limited. I love that the morbid is there too. I think that would be nifty in a nice black deck where you killed alot of things with GFT's and Doom Blades and the ilk
I do love that removal spell. I think it'll see some heavy play, esp if this Human Sacrifice theme keeps up. I can't imagine Morbid will be that hard to trigger in a deck that wants to abuse that card.
The only problem I see with this pack is that black has 2 very high picks. The Slip is a first pick, Skirsdag Flayer is very good too, the Wurm is very strong, The Skaab is playable, Gather the townsfolk would be good in a WB or GW humans, the rare is very solid too... A very strong pack with lots of possibilities.
If it's a first pack, you're likely sending the players to your left into hate drafting is the only reason I made the observation (Looking at the cards in a vacuum, of course). The pick number in each color line up pretty close to one another IMO.
However, it was just a silly observation because this is the third of three packs (I believe the drafts will be INN INN DKA).
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If it's a first pack, you're likely sending the players to your left into hate drafting is the only reason I made the observation (Looking at the cards in a vacuum, of course). The pick number in each color line up pretty close to one another IMO.
However, it was just a silly observation because this is the third of three packs (I believe the drafts will be INN INN DKA).
My bad. Yeah, I don't like this pack first. Seems like it'd rob you of picks in the second pack. Not for definite, of course. Drafts are volatile like that.
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Heavy Mattock makes me sad. Over costed by one mana both in the casting cost and in the equip ability.
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I wouldn't say unplayable. Esp if you end up in a single color deck in Limited. It's a bit highly costed, but I would happily take this if it looked like I would be heavy in an aggressive color.
I don't think so, since there was a foil.
I think the Hood is a good SB card. If your opponent is not in your colors, then you get to cheaply make creatures unblockable. Considering how many DKA cards have "when creature does damage to an opponent" effects (slap it on that old werewolf chick!), I can see it doing a lot of good things.
I cringed a little whenever the adjective "Old" was coupled with the noun "Chick".
On topic: I'm quite excited for tragic slip, although I doubt it will be as insane as many of us are making it out to be. In my mind it will depend on you or your opponent chump-blocking to have any real use.
The Devil looks interesting, but it really wanted to have a "may" in there.
The uncommons in this pack are very good for limmited.
And whats wrong with the axe, only +1/+/1 and no abilities for 5 mana, and if that creature is a human only +2/+2? Pretty weak design on that card.
The Runebinder is purty cool. I like how he doesn't merely put out zombie tokens. He makes all zombies bigger, as well.
How? There is a rare cycle of lands and this set has no basics in it.
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How unlucky.
Tragic slip looks fun in a B/X aggro deck.
Heckling Fiends is one of the greatest illustrations ever. They're waving at you with severed hands. Hilarious.
Forge Devil is cool in limited to pick off little dweebs or to possibly turn morbid on by targeting itself. And yeah, I could see it being an interesting new sideboard choice.
For whatever reason I can't get this image of BSC slipping on a banana peel out of my head.
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also just some juggalo **** but the executioners hood seriously looks like boondox
I do love that removal spell. I think it'll see some heavy play, esp if this Human Sacrifice theme keeps up. I can't imagine Morbid will be that hard to trigger in a deck that wants to abuse that card.
If it's a first pack, you're likely sending the players to your left into hate drafting is the only reason I made the observation (Looking at the cards in a vacuum, of course). The pick number in each color line up pretty close to one another IMO.
However, it was just a silly observation because this is the third of three packs (I believe the drafts will be INN INN DKA).
DKA is drafted first.
BGStandard Green AggroGB
UWRGModern Saheeli CobraGRWU
UBRGLegacy StormGRBU
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My bad. Yeah, I don't like this pack first. Seems like it'd rob you of picks in the second pack. Not for definite, of course. Drafts are volatile like that.
Why would you ever play it like that though?
At its worst, it is "r+1 life=morbid".
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