MTG Salvation

Quote from bedwa_5CG

Wouldn't hit tendrils or empty the warrens as the copies are 4cc as well, BUT would stop grapeshot in it's tracks. 2 for 1 on each copy? Please and Thank you!

Possible for midrange decks vs weenie hoards, RWU control would like against burn. I could see many uses for this.

The copies aren't cast, so it doesn't hit them. It does, however, hit every ritual, ascension, and cantrip they cast on the way to a lethal Grapeshot.

Quote from bedwa_5CG

Wouldn't hit tendrils or empty the warrens as the copies are 4cc as well, BUT would stop grapeshot in it's tracks. 2 for 1 on each copy? Please and Thank you!

Possible for midrange decks vs weenie hoards, RWU control would like against burn. I could see many uses for this.

It is more about all the spells leading up to it than the storm card itself. Can't hit a storm count of 10 if you would take 20.

Why does wizards hate white weenie? I'm gonna have to run something else now.

And I just put together a new deck to...

Quote from JacketBoi

Why does wizards hate white weenie? I'm gonna have to run something else now.

And I just put together a new deck to...

Good.
May aggro decks Drown in Sorrow (insert evil laughter here)

Why does wizards hate me? Sob...

Wow, will this card be played in Standard, Modern, and Legacy? Sweet!

I really want it to be 2/1 and costs 1R instead

That is some really pretty art. Prettiest art for JOU yet.

Quote from Dao

Give it lifelink. Laugh.

Actually he's right. That could create major play with Boros Burn.
This is one of the first modern and legacy playable I've seen in spoilers.

There is many enchants that give life link, and there is an enchantment called lifelink cost 1

Red standard decks just got faster. This reminds me of old school Magic. The self burn won't be an issue at all and can't wait to run a deck with them.

Wait actually, there is a counter we are all missing.
Affinity.
Top player
All below 3cmc.
Win.

More often than not, affinity will have everything spilled out by t2 (if it goes first). This design wasn't meant to disrupt/handicap affinity. Most of us know it's meant for storm. It's just pure bonus I guess if you got lucky and they don't

Quote from hoffmkr

I've been playing R/G Monsters with Devotion.
Sounds interesting to try this as a Turn 3 play.
T2 Caryatid
T3 BTE -> EGR
T4 Activate Shrine -> stormbreath

With all the large creatures, R/G Monsters is less likely for friendly fire. RG tends to drop mana dorks on empty board before this guy.

However, what happens if you cast a XG hydra where X = 3? Does it deal damage? The same question is if a sphinx revelation is cast.

No, that would mean the CMC when you cast the spell is 3G, which is 4. Same applies to Sphinx's Revelation.

Quote from Bolas, the Mindsculptor

Waste of a rare slot. Not even sure if RDW wants this in Modern against Storm... The reason why Pillar was good was because it's an enchantment.

This is an enchantment

I see what you've done there. haha

Legacy burn would want this vs storm, though.

This is an outside perspective. So feel free to correct me. I don't play Legacy; I just wanted to share my uneducated perspective.

Isn't this better than Pyrostatic Pillar?

I think that the creature bit is what makes him better. Admittedly, it has a body and can therefore die, but it having a body means it can apply pressure and deal damage to the opponent if he does not actually deal with it - and if he does, he will probably lose a chunk of life doing it. How is that not a good thing?

For Pyrostatic Pillar is easier to play around. It doesn't attack.

I know burn strategies are not happy about generating board advantage, but I see this as more similar to Keldon Marauders than anything else.

Admittedly, the symmeticral burn makes it horrible against other aggro decks, but doesn't that simply compel you to side it out?

This losing to aggro isn't really an argument to me. For it applies pressure to so many other decks, especially in fast formats with fast draw.

Burn deals damage faster than Brainstorm. I think this may very well be very good.

Or it may crash and burn (heh burn).

That's exactly what I was thinking. In legacy, you'd side pillar vs storm, where Eidolon would be better as it would do the effect but also provide a clock, and storm doesn't really play that much removal, if any.


This also got me thinking that when cabal therapy is called, people now have to think of whether you have pillar or eidolon sided in against them, which only helps.

I think running this in a midrange monsters deck with ruric thar, the unbowed is neato

Am I the only one thinking of Æther Vial? It is not only awesome in creature based decks. You could pressure all you want with a creature based RDW (Goblin Guide, Vexing Devil, Grim Lavamancer in cmc1) and avoid all (most) damage from the Eidolon... Any Thoughts?? Is it too slow?

In my testing its at worst a two mana shock. At best it warps the game for your opponent an can deal six or more damage even without swinging. Vial makes it mean as can be.

That being said im amazed this guy is still so cheap.

Er.... What?

This guy IS ok. Not great, but serviceable. It's not gonna break the format. Has a prohibitive cost, and fundamentally a creature. I'll be unhappy if I opened him in Sealed/Draft.

This dude is highly draftable, whenever he stuck, he won the game for me in the last event I drafted in. It was sealed, and I drafted boros aggro. You'd be amazed how much damage this little dude could do.

This dude is highly draftable, whenever he stuck, he won the game for me in the last event I drafted in. It was sealed, and I drafted boros aggro. You'd be amazed how much damage this little dude could do.

This dude is highly draftable, whenever he stuck, he won the game for me in the last event I drafted in. It was sealed, and I drafted boros aggro. You'd be amazed how much damage this little dude could do.