Of course we're getting more enchantment support. We're not even a third into the set. Revelry and Polis Crusher being spoiled is more a case of them being in a phase of featuring the monsters of the set first.
I have no doubt we will see enchantment support, but when you built yourself an enchantment deck hoping to get great support with the upcoming enchantment set but don't get anything after 75 cards, it's a bit annoying. There are still many cards I'll be happy to put in my deck, Heliod is particularly insane there, but I could really use more cards that encourage playing enchantments instead of just being enchantment themselves.
But it's not just about me being selfish, I really think they should start showing more enchantment support so that people stop thinking the enchantment type is a drawback. This way, when they spoil a new enchantment creature, there will be less "it's just a creature that dies to Naturalize" and more "it's a creature that draws you a card with the new enchantress."
Yeah, weak batch of preview cards IMO. Also, the forced flavor on hundred handed one kinda makes me laugh in a "trying too hard" sorta way.
I agree with this. If Heliod is the greatest of the gods in stature, I wish he had a stronger design to follow suit.
And I am one for top-down design and flavorful cards, but you're right. Hundred-Handed One is trying to hard. I should think it's cool and fresh enough to play, but I just don't.
So, why is everyone hating on Heliod? Lets see what he does, for FOUR mana. Gives your stuff vigi. Check. Can be a 5/6. Check. Mana dump. Check. Hard to kill. Check. Seems good. Also, sooo good in enchantment decks? How many people play stuff like Ethereal Armor and Sphere of Safety? The former a lot, the latter not so much. But those are just the standard stuff I know. Anything that says, "number of enchantments you control" benefits IMMENSELY from this card. Wanna know why? He produces enchantments. Read the card. "Produce a 2/1 White Cleric enchantment creature token. (Yup, they're enchantments too) I love this card. Probably my favorite of the the ones said so far. I wanna see his weapon.
I need a foil asap for my enchantment edh. Instant speed blockers that draw me cards and can feed smokestax? OH, and it has to be exiled? Sounds awesome.
I agree with this. If Heliod is the greatest of the gods in stature, I wish he had a stronger design to follow suit.
And I am one for top-down design and flavorful cards, but you're right. Hundred-Handed One is trying to hard. I should think it's cool and fresh enough to play, but I just don't.
its just a flavorful version of "can block any number of creatures". Every once in a golden blue moon shiny will the difference ever arise
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I get to watch worlds develop around me.
I get to watch great leaders, terrible oppressors, and trend setters rise and fall.
Limited, Standard, Modern, everything is a different playing field I feel I can observe, but will not actually touch.
I look forward to the stories I will hear.
And more so to the ones I will watch unfold first hand.
Isn't the unknown exciting?
Thassa's Emissary is the first Bestow card to really excite me (from a gameplay standpoint, they all excite me in terms of flavor and general innovation). Both "modes" seem reasonably costed in their own right, and the flexibility to choose between them is just icing on the cake. It's rare that you can't get some kind of value out of this crab. This looks to me like a marquee card for Bestow in limited play.
Omenspeaker is very far behind Augur - it doesn't net you a card, end of. I love me a good Augur, and I doubt I'll ever play an Omenspeaker in Constructed.
To be honest, I doubt I'll play many of the cards we've seen so far. Timmy-types will be licking their lips, but the previews have really disappointed me so far. I know there's loads more to see so I'm not giving up yet, but Thoughtseize is the only rare we've seen yet (OK, Chained to the Rocks to a degree) that really excites me. There's so much expensive, unplayable dross so far. I'm trying not to becomes one of these incessant moaners (I'm normally on the "Magic is awesome" side of the fence), but Theros needs to up its game as far as I'm concerned. Flavour's pretty awesome mind.
Omenspeaker is fine. She doesn't draw you a card, but she sets up your next draws.
Sphinx rev is also possibly (?) one of the best control spells ever too.
Lets not forget that people dismissed that too at the beginning.
People should be more open minded and not dismiss cards after the first look. Context is everything.
It seems unnecessary to me. Elemental or spirit would have worked just fine. Also dryads are a kind of nymph. Are they gonna be dryad nymphs now? It just doesn't work for me. Gods are even worse. Volrath can now make gods in his laboratory for Yawgmoth's sake. Also imagecrafters can turn people in gods, but not walls! Being a wall is a lot harder than being a god..
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“I once had an entire race killed just to listen to the rattling of their dried bones as I waded through them.” —Volrath
It seems unnecessary to me. Elemental or spirit would have worked just fine. Also dryads are a kind of nymph. Are they gonna be dryad nymphs now? It just doesn't work for me. Gods are even worse. Volrath can now make gods in his laboratory for Yawgmoth's sake. Also imagecrafters can turn people in gods, but not walls! Being a wall is a lot harder than being a god..
The wall restriction was because all walls couldn't attack, and would have made Imagecrafter incredible.
With that new land and Karametra's Acolyte...
I can't help but feel that Polukranos's ability was very well-costed.
In the beginning, I can completely agree with the complaints.
However, this seems like it can still easily get out of hand.
It seems unnecessary to me. Elemental or spirit would have worked just fine. Also dryads are a kind of nymph. Are they gonna be dryad nymphs now? It just doesn't work for me. Gods are even worse. Volrath can now make gods in his laboratory for Yawgmoth's sake. Also imagecrafters can turn people in gods, but not walls! Being a wall is a lot harder than being a god..
He can synthesize a god, recreate its essence. The result is a weak 2/2 god with no divine powers or skills, destructible and not bound to Nyx (non-enchantment) just make a copy of his corporeal facet.
Someone asked why so many people are hating on Heliod. I am hating on him because they changed an "s" to a "d". Also, I liked it more when the joke was in the flavortext of a card, not in its rules @ one hundred arms thingy.
Omenspeaker is very far behind Augur - it doesn't net you a card, end of. I love me a good Augur, and I doubt I'll ever play an Omenspeaker in Constructed.
To be honest, I doubt I'll play many of the cards we've seen so far. Timmy-types will be licking their lips, but the previews have really disappointed me so far. I know there's loads more to see so I'm not giving up yet, but Thoughtseize is the only rare we've seen yet (OK, Chained to the Rocks to a degree) that really excites me. There's so much expensive, unplayable dross so far. I'm trying not to becomes one of these incessant moaners (I'm normally on the "Magic is awesome" side of the fence), but Theros needs to up its game as far as I'm concerned. Flavour's pretty awesome mind.
So what blue creatures do you intend to play below 6 cmc?
I hear so many people saying "well it dies to this, doesn't die to this" but people are forgetting the most important test of all that was used a LOT until it rotated out of standard and to which this card failed in spades. The Gutshot test people. So many people used to say "Dies to gutshot so must be horrible".
Heliod is going into my cube, it adds to the W/G tokens strategy as another sacred mesa. Also it can't be taken out by acidic slime. Also it's 5/6 sometimes.
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I have no doubt we will see enchantment support, but when you built yourself an enchantment deck hoping to get great support with the upcoming enchantment set but don't get anything after 75 cards, it's a bit annoying. There are still many cards I'll be happy to put in my deck, Heliod is particularly insane there, but I could really use more cards that encourage playing enchantments instead of just being enchantment themselves.
But it's not just about me being selfish, I really think they should start showing more enchantment support so that people stop thinking the enchantment type is a drawback. This way, when they spoil a new enchantment creature, there will be less "it's just a creature that dies to Naturalize" and more "it's a creature that draws you a card with the new enchantress."
I agree with this. If Heliod is the greatest of the gods in stature, I wish he had a stronger design to follow suit.
And I am one for top-down design and flavorful cards, but you're right. Hundred-Handed One is trying to hard. I should think it's cool and fresh enough to play, but I just don't.
Wasnt it actually said that Heliod is just arrogant and thinks that he is the most important and powerful god?
I need a foil asap for my enchantment edh. Instant speed blockers that draw me cards and can feed smokestax? OH, and it has to be exiled? Sounds awesome.
its just a flavorful version of "can block any number of creatures". Every once in a golden blue moon shiny will the difference ever arise
I get to watch great leaders, terrible oppressors, and trend setters rise and fall.
Limited, Standard, Modern, everything is a different playing field I feel I can observe, but will not actually touch.
I look forward to the stories I will hear.
And more so to the ones I will watch unfold first hand.
Isn't the unknown exciting?
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Omenspeaker is fine. She doesn't draw you a card, but she sets up your next draws.
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Lets not forget that people dismissed that too at the beginning.
People should be more open minded and not dismiss cards after the first look. Context is everything.
Yes , and Karador, Ghost Chieftain is too...
What's wrong with the Nymph creature type?
Yep, http://www.wizards.com/magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/stf/148 identifies Karador, Ghost Chieftain as a "high warchief of the Nessian centaurs."
It seems unnecessary to me. Elemental or spirit would have worked just fine. Also dryads are a kind of nymph. Are they gonna be dryad nymphs now? It just doesn't work for me. Gods are even worse. Volrath can now make gods in his laboratory for Yawgmoth's sake. Also imagecrafters can turn people in gods, but not walls! Being a wall is a lot harder than being a god..
“I once had an entire race killed just to listen to the rattling of their dried bones as I waded through them.”
—Volrath
The wall restriction was because all walls couldn't attack, and would have made Imagecrafter incredible.
I know that. It just sounds very dumb now that The restriction is gone.
“I once had an entire race killed just to listen to the rattling of their dried bones as I waded through them.”
—Volrath
I can't help but feel that Polukranos's ability was very well-costed.
In the beginning, I can completely agree with the complaints.
However, this seems like it can still easily get out of hand.
He can synthesize a god, recreate its essence. The result is a weak 2/2 god with no divine powers or skills, destructible and not bound to Nyx (non-enchantment) just make a copy of his corporeal facet.
So what blue creatures do you intend to play below 6 cmc?
UW Control (:symu: :symw:)
If you've got 2 hands, you can block..... only 1 creature? Woops.
But 3/5 vig for 2WW is pretty tasty. White doesn't get midrange fat so efficient often.
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