I played a guy with a pretty good u/w sphere of safety/enchantment deck yesterday, eventually won both games but good lord did it take forever. Possibly less fun to play against than Maze's End, and that's saying something.
They need to print something along the lines of Keening Apparition, but in another color and playable. lol.
Love all the theories for BNG. I'm actually really excited to see where everything goes with Xenagos.
It's gonna make it impossible to win, which is much more frustrating.
Sphere of Safety does not in any way make it "impossible to win." It's awful against devotion decks, where they've got the mana to pay to push through one or two large creatures; it's awful against decks that can burn you out before your fort comes online (remember, Sphere costs 5 mana); it's awful against decks with enchantment hate. I guess it might be okay against mono-blue? If they don't just Cyclonic Rift you?
Literally everything in the Affinity kill cost 2 mana or less.
I hope Xenagos doesn't become black at any point. This is a real chance to show the extent of an 'evil' RG character.
What if Xanagos ins't evil? What if he is just upset about the way none of the gods favor the Satyrs? Maybe he just wants to restore balance to his world by eliminating the influence of the gods entirely.
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What if Xanagos ins't evil? What if he is just upset about the way none of the gods favor the Satyrs? Maybe he just wants to restore balance to his world by eliminating the influence of the gods entirely.
I am super excited about introducing more gods. Multicolor increase in EDH generals is always a good thing to me.
I would suspect the devotion will require a combination of both of the colors.
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Legacy enchantress would *love* enchantment lands to power up their Serra's Sanctums.
Legacy Enchantress frequently doesn't even play Serra's Sanctum, and enchantment lands do literally nothing else in the deck except make it more vulnerable to Wasteland, which is something it should be pretty evident you don't want when a lot of your fuel comes from stuff like Wild Growth.
I am super excited about introducing more gods. Multicolor increase in EDH generals is always a good thing to me.
I would suspect the devotion will require a combination of both of the colors.
Hopefully they will be a lot more creative than Devotion X, Devotion Y. Maybe one will count the number of cards in your hand, or another will count graveyards.
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Just an idea on the enchantment lands question: if they made them quite powerful, maybe that could balance for them being easily destroyed (high risk, high reward). So if they wanted to favor a sort of "dont play too many of them" mindset (Bane of progress being quite efficient already as a damper) while maintaining an enchantment-like functionnality, they could print something like:
Nyx-fixer, legendary land enchantment (R)
~ Enters the battlefield tapped.
Lands you control have:"Tap: add one mana of any color to your mana pool."
What if Xanagos ins't evil? What if he is just upset about the way none of the gods favor the Satyrs? Maybe he just wants to restore balance to his world by eliminating the influence of the gods entirely.
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It's gonna make it impossible to win, which is much more frustrating.
They need to print something along the lines of Keening Apparition, but in another color and playable. lol.
Love all the theories for BNG. I'm actually really excited to see where everything goes with Xenagos.
Sphere of Safety does not in any way make it "impossible to win." It's awful against devotion decks, where they've got the mana to pay to push through one or two large creatures; it's awful against decks that can burn you out before your fort comes online (remember, Sphere costs 5 mana); it's awful against decks with enchantment hate. I guess it might be okay against mono-blue? If they don't just Cyclonic Rift you?
Literally everything in the Affinity kill cost 2 mana or less.
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Given the previous storylines, we'll get close to a climax...then never hear the resolution.
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I believe this is done to make it easier to return to the plane in a later set.
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What if Xanagos ins't evil? What if he is just upset about the way none of the gods favor the Satyrs? Maybe he just wants to restore balance to his world by eliminating the influence of the gods entirely.
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You got it backwards; the satyrs don't favor the Gods.
And Xenagos is most definitely a villain.
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Most likely, since the U/ Scryland is in BNG and that has to do heavily with Meletis, which is next to the sea.
I would suspect the devotion will require a combination of both of the colors.
Uhhhh what?
Legacy enchantress would *love* enchantment lands to power up their Serra's Sanctums.
Legacy Enchantress frequently doesn't even play Serra's Sanctum, and enchantment lands do literally nothing else in the deck except make it more vulnerable to Wasteland, which is something it should be pretty evident you don't want when a lot of your fuel comes from stuff like Wild Growth.
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UR Melek, Izzet ParagonUR, B Shirei, Shizo's CaretakerB, R Jaya Ballard, Task MageR,RW Tajic, Blade of the LegionRW, UB Lazav, Dimir MastermindUB, UB Circu, Dimir LobotomistUB, RWU Zedruu the GreatheartedRWU, GUBThe MimeoplasmGUB, UGExperiment Kraj UG, WDarien, King of KjeldorW, BMarrow-GnawerB, WBGKarador, Ghost ChieftainWBG, UTeferi, Temporal ArchmageU, GWUDerevi, Empyrial TacticianGWU, RDaretti, Scrap SavantR, UTalrand, Sky SummonerU, GEzuri, Renegade LeaderG, WUBRGReaper KingWUBRG, RGXenagos, God of RevelsRG, CKozilek, Butcher of TruthC, WUBRGGeneral TazriWUBRG, GTitania, Protector of ArgothG
Hopefully they will be a lot more creative than Devotion X, Devotion Y. Maybe one will count the number of cards in your hand, or another will count graveyards.
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StaffI'll forever be upset they didn't use two-faced card tech to have him go from Walker -> God.
Well you will be upset then, coz Double-Faced gimmicks (as MaRo calls it) wouldn't be returning anytime soon...
It's a fine idea btw.
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I agree with ^, that's not going to happen. IF they go for the transformation thing (don't see why they would), they'll use Monstrous.
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Nyx-fixer, legendary land enchantment (R)
~ Enters the battlefield tapped.
Lands you control have:"Tap: add one mana of any color to your mana pool."
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... without costing >6 CMC, rendering them unplayable in competitive constructed, of course. I agree.
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Looks like the reference is lost on everybody else. But I get it!