Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
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I'm guessing the type line couldn't handle something that long.
Sen Triplets shows that they are willing to shrink the type line if necessary. But it doesn't make much sense for the Manticore to be legendary, really. It would just be cool for EDH players. Although I suppose you could argue that that is sense enough.
I dislike alphabet soup keyword ability cards like the manticore from a design perspective. When you think about what it does, its highly redundant. It has two forms of evasion in flying and trample, and then first strike is a combat math ability anyway- granted it at least matters when blocking with vigilance. But pretty commonly two of those keywords aren't going to make any difference. As far as the sum of its abilities goes, its pretty akin to baneslayer angel. And don't say worse- BSA was in a far higher powered meta. With all that power shrivel, you never know. The second life of bestow seems like it would actually be particularly relevant here in the difficult of assembling WUBRG on 5 alone, so its not too hard to hit 6 or 7 before you've got it. Granted Chromatic Lantern exists and would be seen next to this card
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
Spirit of the Labyrinth is a pretty cool hate bear. I'm really interested to see how its used in Standard!
Chromanticore has an awesome name and naturally I wish it were legendary. *sigh* He can join the Nephilim is the "shoulda been a Commander" club.
Glimpse the Sun God...makes me miss Sunblast Angel a little. Looks like a Limited all star for sure but I can see this being played in constructed. Yes, I would like to tap your Boros Reckoner and shiny new legendary cat guy.
Spirit of the Labyrinth is very solid, much better than the black one. It works well with Ephara, not exactly a combo, but you can make sure you're the only one drawing extra cards. Will definitely try that out.
I thought Glimpse of the Sun God wasn't that amazing, a slightly better Gridlock, but it's actually a crazy good and flexible heroic enabler!
I'm guessing legendary wouldn't fit on Chromanticore's typeline.
Either that or WotC didn't want it showing up as an EDH commander for some reason. Spirit of the Labyrinth is the gem here, though. I think it might become more widespread than people might think.
Nice hatebear there! I imagine it'll be too easy to deal with for Esper (D-Sphere/Verdict comes earlier than Revelations, anyway), but it still presents a must-remove 3/1 for them. Also, Aether Vial shenanigans with this in older formats could be pretty funny.
Glimpse the Sun God gives you another way to alpha strike. Wait, no, this also triggers Heroic AND Inspiration! This is a very, very, VERY versatile card that you can use in a variety of Limited builds... not to mention that it's splashable.
You know after a weekend I'd really hope we'd get more cards
I'll say this about Glimpse it can be nasty in a heroic deck as well at the end of his turn tap your guys to pump them all up. Also useful for inspired if you don't want to or can't attack
That being said Gridlock never saw any play with Heroic, but the scry makes it more useful
I'm calling it right now- worst rare in the set. Even good limited players will find better bombs at common and uncommon no sweat. Worst. Episode. Ever.
I really do predict this to be our worst rare in set award winner. I'd be happier opening a jar of eyeballs, so I think anything worse is highly unlikely. This card wont just have zero constructed potential, but not be significantly better than a mass of ghouls in a draft.
I actually think I may like Glimpse of the Sun God for my Maze's End Turbo Fog deck. I was considering Gridlock a while back as a psudo-fog, but this does what I needed that for, plus Scry1 to help me avoid drawing more lands when I already have a Maze's End out.
I believe I speak for Izzet mages and card draw fanatics everywhere when I say that anyone that plays Spirit of the Labyrinth deserves a flaming bag of poo on their door step.
Also, agree with everyone that the Chromanticore should have been legendary. I really think the only reason it wasn't is because "Legendary" and "Manticore" could not fit on the same type-line with "Enchantment Creature -" (Referencing the gods), so they just picked one.
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Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
Surrak Presents: Snow-where to Run (A Temur Production)
Zurgo - Mardu Warrior Tribal
Gisa and Geralf
Jhoira's Artifacts
I'm GLAD Chromanticore isn't a legendary, it's just dumb design, slap 5 abilities on a creature, and call it a day. Meh. Push that crap to the bargain bin and let's move on to something cooler.
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Spirit is the best Legacy card we've seen yet in BNG. It's also the only Legacy card we've seen yet in BNG.
I do have to ask myself how many D&T players need another answer to Griselbrand, D&T already takes a dump on that deck.
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If only it had Haste. Then it would be appealing to me, and would not stick in the craw so badly. I agree with most here; should have been legendary. Missed opportunity.
I was hoping that we'd have the second coming of legends with new legendary creatures. Seems like I was probably a little too greedy with the notion.
this manticore is cool and all. My timmy inside me is happy. But it looks like a tremendous amount of work for not enough power.
If it gave you doublestrike instead of first, then i could be more easily convinced intrying it out.
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Very likely, still makes me sad though.
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They were probably trying to avoid rules confusion for two bestowed CMs,
(or one Bestowed and one not)
but still.
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
Oh my god Spirit of the Labyrinth is so sick. Highly aggressive but locks down card draw? Splashable? This thing gets an A+ from me.
Chromanticore is awesome. I wish his bestow didn't cost 7 mana, but the whole build-your-own-Akroma aspect is intriguing.
Sen Triplets shows that they are willing to shrink the type line if necessary. But it doesn't make much sense for the Manticore to be legendary, really. It would just be cool for EDH players. Although I suppose you could argue that that is sense enough.
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
Chromanticore has an awesome name and naturally I wish it were legendary. *sigh* He can join the Nephilim is the "shoulda been a Commander" club.
Glimpse the Sun God...makes me miss Sunblast Angel a little. Looks like a Limited all star for sure but I can see this being played in constructed. Yes, I would like to tap your Boros Reckoner and shiny new legendary cat guy.
Spirit of the Labyrinth is very solid, much better than the black one. It works well with Ephara, not exactly a combo, but you can make sure you're the only one drawing extra cards. Will definitely try that out.
I thought Glimpse of the Sun God wasn't that amazing, a slightly better Gridlock, but it's actually a crazy good and flexible heroic enabler!
Either that or WotC didn't want it showing up as an EDH commander for some reason. Spirit of the Labyrinth is the gem here, though. I think it might become more widespread than people might think.
Considering that Uncharted Realms has been doing a story related to Ashiok and Phenax, I bet we'll see Phenax with the next Uncharted Realms.
Choose one of these judge of creation:
Make Strionic Resonator shine!
You can not grasp the true form of Ashiok's attack!
Legacy playable. Maybe staple.
Love it. Love it. Love.
Glimpse the Sun God gives you another way to alpha strike. Wait, no, this also triggers Heroic AND Inspiration! This is a very, very, VERY versatile card that you can use in a variety of Limited builds... not to mention that it's splashable.
I'll say this about Glimpse it can be nasty in a heroic deck as well at the end of his turn tap your guys to pump them all up. Also useful for inspired if you don't want to or can't attack
That being said Gridlock never saw any play with Heroic, but the scry makes it more useful
:symu::symw:Grixis Control w/ Nicol Bolas:symu::symw:
Also, agree with everyone that the Chromanticore should have been legendary. I really think the only reason it wasn't is because "Legendary" and "Manticore" could not fit on the same type-line with "Enchantment Creature -" (Referencing the gods), so they just picked one.
COMMANDER DECKS
Gishath, Sun's Avatar
Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
Surrak Presents: Snow-where to Run (A Temur Production)
Zurgo - Mardu Warrior Tribal
Gisa and Geralf
Jhoira's Artifacts
"I've always been a fan of reality by popular vote" - Stephen Colbert (in response to Don McLeroy)
GPolukranos, Kill ALL the Things!G
I do have to ask myself how many D&T players need another answer to Griselbrand, D&T already takes a dump on that deck.
MTG finance guy- follow me on Twitter@RichArschmann or RichardArschmann on Reddit
If only it had Haste. Then it would be appealing to me, and would not stick in the craw so badly. I agree with most here; should have been legendary. Missed opportunity.
I was hoping that we'd have the second coming of legends with new legendary creatures. Seems like I was probably a little too greedy with the notion.
If it gave you doublestrike instead of first, then i could be more easily convinced intrying it out.