Is anyone able to make out the promo cards. I can confirm that they are not the holiday preview cards, as they are ALL creatures.
I would hope that these promos are a little bit more powerful than what was spoiled last week. I was diappointed by RTR's promos. I want GTC to totally blow RTR out of the water in the promo department.
Definitely going Simic... look at the artwork on that Experiment One! And that flyer could be a beater.
The flyer could be quite strong. It has potential. Simic has potential. So does Boros and Gruul. I don't know which I want to draft more! Which means that I am quite excited for this spoiler season, more so than previous ones.
I am jst going to state right now how BUSTED Cipher is. Do any of you remember Urza's or Alliances standard? If so you probably have nightmares about free spells to this day. I am really scared of how nuts this Cipher thing is.
I can easily see myself making a boros weenie deck. There are already a good amount of one- and two- drops in color, and we've only seen two actual boros cards thus far:
Am I correct in thinking the Illusionist's bracers will not copy triggered abilities like extort, the cipher damage trigger, battalion, etc?
I see people mentioning its worth in EDH with generals like Riku and Zhur, but the bracers do nothing for them, right? It only copies abilities that are activated.
Do those Bracers work with abilities such as geists? and cipher?
what is the "geists" effect? and cipher doesn't give them the cipher cards text, if you attack with a creature with cipher and the bracers you get two chance to play the cipher card if you deal damage.
Am I correct in thinking the Illusionist's bracers will not copy triggered abilities like extort, the cipher damage trigger, battalion, etc?
I see people mentioning its worth in EDH with generals like Riku and Zhur, but the bracers do nothing for them, right? It only copies abilities that are activated.
Yep. You are correct.
If there ain't a colon in the ability, it's not an activated ability.
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It's going to be such a nightmare trying to block Gruul creatures in limited.
Which makes me a happy camper. I will draft gruul as much as possible. Will it be the best deck, do not know, but man I like making my opponent really question wanting to block.
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Am I correct in thinking the Illusionist's bracers will not copy triggered abilities like extort, the cipher damage trigger, battalion, etc?
I see people mentioning its worth in EDH with generals like Riku and Zhur, but the bracers do nothing for them, right? It only copies abilities that are activated.
I believe so, by the way it's worded.
I can hardly wait to get a copy of that card for my Kiki-Jiki to play with.
I am jst going to state right now how BUSTED Cipher is. Do any of you remember Urza's or Alliances standard? If so you probably have nightmares about free spells to this day. I am really scared of how nuts this Cipher thing is.
Cipher isn't free, though. You have to pay mana or connect with a creature to cast it.
I dont care if im going to be scolded, but imo, Burning-Tree Emisary is borderline broken. Seriously so. You can see it as a free 2/2, i see it as a rite that gives you a 2/2...
Deathpact Angel is yet another beautiful card. And very playable in EDH.
Illusionist's bracers MUST be banned in Commander. At least i would.
I dont care if im going to be scolded, but imo, Burning-Tree Emisary is borderline broken. Seriously so. You can see it as a free 2/2, i see it as a rite that gives you a 2/2...
Deathpact Angel is yet another beautiful card. And very playable in EDH.
Illusionist's bracers MUST be banned in Commander. At least i would.
The Emissary definitely can be degenerate with the right shell. Storm decks everywhere are already taking a long, hard look at him, I can assure you.
I hope everyone rushes to grab the Simic and Gruul stuff. I hope everyone turns a blind eye while I grab all the extort cards.
There is buried treasure everywhere...in a graveyard.
I would hope that these promos are a little bit more powerful than what was spoiled last week. I was diappointed by RTR's promos. I want GTC to totally blow RTR out of the water in the promo department.
yup yup. orzhov seems to be moving in the right direction to be very good.
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The flyer could be quite strong. It has potential. Simic has potential. So does Boros and Gruul. I don't know which I want to draft more! Which means that I am quite excited for this spoiler season, more so than previous ones.
someone has probably beat me to the punch, but all five prerelease promos have Power/Toughness boxes, which means we haven't seen the dimir one yet
good luck reaching late game when you're facing down Gruul. you can't make full use of the lifegain early game when it maters vs aggro.
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I see people mentioning its worth in EDH with generals like Riku and Zhur, but the bracers do nothing for them, right? It only copies abilities that are activated.
boros is lining up to be the worse of the two aggro guilds i think.
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what is the "geists" effect? and cipher doesn't give them the cipher cards text, if you attack with a creature with cipher and the bracers you get two chance to play the cipher card if you deal damage.
Yep. You are correct.
If there ain't a colon in the ability, it's not an activated ability.
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Which makes me a happy camper. I will draft gruul as much as possible. Will it be the best deck, do not know, but man I like making my opponent really question wanting to block.
Tried to pull away, but now I'm Back At it
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I believe so, by the way it's worded.
I can hardly wait to get a copy of that card for my Kiki-Jiki to play with.
Cipher isn't free, though. You have to pay mana or connect with a creature to cast it.
Deathpact Angel is yet another beautiful card. And very playable in EDH.
Illusionist's bracers MUST be banned in Commander. At least i would.
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Oh boy, the amount of people that will be playing this wrong at the pre-release events... Good thing it is rare.
EDIT: Well, you can't forget that planeswalkers abilities are activated, even though there is no colon : )
You say that untill we discover they pacifism and wipes.
There is buried treasure everywhere...in a graveyard.
The Emissary definitely can be degenerate with the right shell. Storm decks everywhere are already taking a long, hard look at him, I can assure you.
Board wipes in Orzhov will be especially sweet if/when we start seeing noncreature permanents with Extort.
A Pacifism with Extort would also be very agreeable.
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