Annul seems incredibly strong in limited in this set. Like disturbingly so. Your gods mean nothing to me! I am blue, the mastery of heresy!
Blue, the best color, sir!
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When will BUG or UWR be the top best decks? It's always jund/naya vs esper!
EDIT: I forgot infect made BUG awesome, but what about UWR? How many UWR creatures are out there?
Have you been paying attention to Standard over the past year?
I am loving an annul reprint. I think any blue deck i run will want this in the side. I think it might be bumped up in rarity to uncommon status to make limited more managable?
When will BUG or UWR be the top best decks? It's always jund/naya vs esper!
EDIT: I forgot infect made BUG awesome, but what about UWR? How many UWR creatures are out there?
Are you serious? Did you miss the UWR flash decks in Standard and Modern, or the UWR Miracles decks in Standard and Legacy, or any number of Geist decks in those colors?
I hope B has a 2 mana -4/-4 functional reprint or a 2/3 mana hard edict. Otherwise UW, as usual, will be the *******s who can do everything and not even care what the oponent plays because "lol, top removal" while those savage jund mongrels try to keep up
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I hope B has a 2 mana -4/-4 functional reprint or a 2/3 mana hard edict. Otherwise UW, as usual, will be the *******s who can do everything and not even care what the oponent plays because "lol, top removal" while those savage jund mongrels try to keep up
Actually I think UW is weaker in the removal department than UB is right now, by a considerable margin (granted, their wrath SV is better than our's...that puny -1/-1 in M14 so far). Between Doom Blade, Ultimate Price, Far//Away, Warped Physique, and pseudo removals in Lifebane Zombie and Thoughtseize, it gives us better value imho (we can keep Omenspeak alive for prolonged blocking for instance). There's also Shadowborn Demon which can nuke a dude and stay around for a bit acting as a fog for a turn or possibly more if you have an Omenspeaker or Zombie out (sided in).
Meanwhile, white has SV, D.Sphere (very vulnerable in the upcoming standard), temporary answer in Azorius Charm, 6CMC Planar Cleansing, Celestial Flare, and if they run red Chained to the Rocks (same problem as D.sphere). That's considerably worse than B.
Besides that, I'd love to get a -4/-4 for 1B, or functional Innocent Blood reprint. I'm not expecting Damnation, but some sort of decent B wrath wouldn't be a sad sight either.
I'm curious as to what you would rather have them do? There needs to be something that can get rid of, or stop them in block. Letting the gods be difficult to remove in any color wouldn't be fun for a mono-theme. Not having these things would make them put the resources into Huey or M15 when RTR cycles out.
Dude they're going to be hard enough to keep out because of their devotion requirement alone. It just feels like a flavor fail: "I counter your god with my one blue mana spell."
Actually UWR has been all but hated out by Burning Earth. It went from roughly 10-12% of the metagame to 2.30% (as of this morning). UW is the new blue based control king, at a cool 11.50%. You just can't risk getting an auto-loss to a 4 mana enchantment!
I'm curious as to what you would rather have them do? There needs to be something that can get rid of, or stop them in block. Letting the gods be difficult to remove in any color wouldn't be fun for a mono-theme. Not having these things would make them put the resources into Huey or M15 when RTR cycles out.
Dude they're going to be hard enough to keep out because of their devotion requirement alone. It just feels like a flavor fail: "I counter your god with my one blue mana spell."
Besides that, I'd love to get a -4/-4 for 1B, or functional Innocent Blood reprint. I'm not expecting Damnation, but some sort of decent B wrath wouldn't be a sad sight either.
With the fat butt on Erebos, I wouldn't be surprised to see a card that reads, "Creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is your devotion to black.
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Actually UWR has been all but hated out by Burning Earth. It went from roughly 10-12% of the metagame to 2.30% (as of this morning). UW is the new blue based control king, at a cool 11.50%. You just can't risk getting an auto-loss to a 4 mana enchantment!
I play URW and I'm not scared of burning earth at all tbh. I have counter spells and I have o-ring and detention sphere. I've yet to lose to burning earth.
I'm really stoked for Annul to be coming back as a very versatile answer to all sorts of things this block will be shelling out.
Last breath could be playable if Voice of Resurgence decks get too frisky. Off the top of my head in those kinds of decks it gets VoS, Elvish Mystic (if they even play it), sometimes Scavenging Ooze, Mutavault (again, not sure if they would even play this), etc. It's also insanely good against quick RDW decks. This is a card I don't really want to play, but I'm glad it's there as an option.
Divine Verdict is whatever. Limited-playable, but not really any other application.
I play URW and I'm not scared of burning earth at all tbh. I have counter spells and I have o-ring and detention sphere. I've yet to lose to burning earth.
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Why is everyone discussing these spoilers like they are confirmed? I don't understand why this hasn't been moved to speculation or added to the spoiler yet. Until a mod confirms it this isn't really anything else.
Why is everyone discussing these spoilers like they are confirmed? I don't understand why this hasn't been moved to speculation or added to the spoiler yet. Until a mod confirms it this isn't really anything else.
It's hard to say what to do with it. The picture itself doesn't contain enough information to consider it a confirmation (just what is this taken from? It appears to be a magazine, but, well, what magazine?). None of the cards have been confirmed by other sources, either public ones or the mods' private ones. There's no new art shown. And the poster has no history of providing reliable information. On the other hand, it *does* look like it's taken from a real magazine -- presumably one that hasn't hit the shelves yet -- so there's a good chance it's real (magazines get access to the godbook). And the crunch doesn't rule it out. But it's not a solid case.
Unless we get independent confirmation, what would be helpful right now would be for someone to say "based on the layout and graphic design and such, this looks like it was taken from ______". And also it might be helpful to point out just where in the text it confirms these cards since we seem to have a lack of people who can read Japanese among the Rumor Mill mods and spoiler editors...
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Blue, the best color, sir!
Standard: XDon't play.X
Legacy: BUReanimatorUB
Vintage: URBWGDBRU
Not really unless you are talking Limited, and even so doesn't change that much
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Are you serious? Did you miss the UWR flash decks in Standard and Modern, or the UWR Miracles decks in Standard and Legacy, or any number of Geist decks in those colors?
Standard: W/R Aggro
It isn't. It's Omenspeaker.
UW Control (:symu: :symw:)
Actually I think UW is weaker in the removal department than UB is right now, by a considerable margin (granted, their wrath SV is better than our's...that puny -1/-1 in M14 so far). Between Doom Blade, Ultimate Price, Far//Away, Warped Physique, and pseudo removals in Lifebane Zombie and Thoughtseize, it gives us better value imho (we can keep Omenspeak alive for prolonged blocking for instance). There's also Shadowborn Demon which can nuke a dude and stay around for a bit acting as a fog for a turn or possibly more if you have an Omenspeaker or Zombie out (sided in).
Meanwhile, white has SV, D.Sphere (very vulnerable in the upcoming standard), temporary answer in Azorius Charm, 6CMC Planar Cleansing, Celestial Flare, and if they run red Chained to the Rocks (same problem as D.sphere). That's considerably worse than B.
Besides that, I'd love to get a -4/-4 for 1B, or functional Innocent Blood reprint. I'm not expecting Damnation, but some sort of decent B wrath wouldn't be a sad sight either.
Dude they're going to be hard enough to keep out because of their devotion requirement alone. It just feels like a flavor fail: "I counter your god with my one blue mana spell."
Actually UWR has been all but hated out by Burning Earth. It went from roughly 10-12% of the metagame to 2.30% (as of this morning). UW is the new blue based control king, at a cool 11.50%. You just can't risk getting an auto-loss to a 4 mana enchantment!
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It seems like, when designing a top-down set, they should want to keep flavor in mind...
With the fat butt on Erebos, I wouldn't be surprised to see a card that reads, "Creatures get -X/-X until end of turn, where X is your devotion to black.
Yep. But still, flavor is secondary to gameplay.
I play URW and I'm not scared of burning earth at all tbh. I have counter spells and I have o-ring and detention sphere. I've yet to lose to burning earth.
Last breath could be playable if Voice of Resurgence decks get too frisky. Off the top of my head in those kinds of decks it gets VoS, Elvish Mystic (if they even play it), sometimes Scavenging Ooze, Mutavault (again, not sure if they would even play this), etc. It's also insanely good against quick RDW decks. This is a card I don't really want to play, but I'm glad it's there as an option.
Divine Verdict is whatever. Limited-playable, but not really any other application.
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Yeah, but again, they're going to be hard enough to maintain simply because of the devotion requirement. An annul reprint would be ridiculous.
The newly spoiled Swan Song however, is a little better. I doubt they would print both, so I'm questioning the validity of this "spoiler."
It's hard to say what to do with it. The picture itself doesn't contain enough information to consider it a confirmation (just what is this taken from? It appears to be a magazine, but, well, what magazine?). None of the cards have been confirmed by other sources, either public ones or the mods' private ones. There's no new art shown. And the poster has no history of providing reliable information. On the other hand, it *does* look like it's taken from a real magazine -- presumably one that hasn't hit the shelves yet -- so there's a good chance it's real (magazines get access to the godbook). And the crunch doesn't rule it out. But it's not a solid case.
Unless we get independent confirmation, what would be helpful right now would be for someone to say "based on the layout and graphic design and such, this looks like it was taken from ______". And also it might be helpful to point out just where in the text it confirms these cards since we seem to have a lack of people who can read Japanese among the Rumor Mill mods and spoiler editors...