I don't like the fact the soul is taking the shape of Elesh Norn. It's looking like a pirated good. Porcelain-horror-esqe inspired cards need not have similar platings on the head like Igor's drawing.
A little unoriginal to me. Could be the artist or direction's fault. But still.
It looks like Elesh Norn had a baby with an Alien xenomorph, and the result is beautiful
EDIT: Dredge may find a home for this card. Even if the deck can't directly reanimate it, it still has that second ability that provides protection for all of your permanents for one turn at Instant speed. This is definitely a card to watch.
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I went to an art school where I learned about character drawing. One thing I learned about bad guys is that they need to have sharp edges, to show that they are sly, maniacal, devious, crass, etc... When there are too many sharp edges, it no longer adds to the bad guy, but takes away from them. For example, the bad guys in any of the Transformer movies... too many sharp edges, hard to distinguish parts of the body.
So this is my beef w/ the art: too many sharp edges; just takes away from the darkness that is the New Phyrexians.
It also depends on the artistic style and tradition as well, that's more of an American Comic Book style you're describing. And frankly, not everything needs to "look evil" to be evil.
The look of Evil is not just looking the part, it's a tradition that goes beyond American art. English artists, Manga/Anime, German artists, French artists, etc... all know that bad guys have sharp qualities & 1 side w/ some jagged features, while the other side (of the characters body) is usually pretty straight.
& did you forget to notice this is an American Made game, w/ American artists? So the concept of character creation firmly planted in the minds of the artists. Do you visit the forums these artists post in? Have you been to the schools where they are formally trained? I doubt you do. I went to such a school and have not only been trained how to use silhouettes during the design stage to block out a scene, but how to digitally use proper technique for blending and shading. My friends are the artists who not only create art for card games, but art for video games, comics, and other fantasy games.
It looks like Elesh Norn had a baby with an Alien xenomorph, and the result is beautiful
EDIT: Dredge may find a home for this card. Even if the deck can't directly reanimate it, it still has that second ability that provides protection for all of your permanents for one turn at Instant speed. This is definitely a card to watch.
Hoping that Wizards is saving the best in this cycle for last, and that Soul of Innistrad and Soul of Theros are both really good. Probably not, though.
What Dredge deck is planning to have five open mana?
It looks like Elesh Norn had a baby with an Alien xenomorph, and the result is beautiful
EDIT: Dredge may find a home for this card. Even if the deck can't directly reanimate it, it still has that second ability that provides protection for all of your permanents for one turn at Instant speed. This is definitely a card to watch.
Hoping that Wizards is saving the best in this cycle for last, and that Soul of Innistrad and Soul of Theros are both really good. Probably not, though.
What Dredge deck is planning to have five open mana?
One in Standard. I probably should have clarified that. Of course, with a lot of the good graveyard cards rotating out, I don't know how playable this would be in a Standard Dredge deck post-rotation.
I really like this Soul. Any color can use it, it's got a decent body, and a pretty relevant ability. I hope the price is not ridiculous because I'd like to pick a few of these up. I think it'll go great in a ramp deck with Prophet of Kruphix.
Animar is hungry... free huge guy, counters board wipes, fun with Prophet of Kruphix... this is awesome... soooooooo much better than the other souls thus far.
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I honestly find this to be the worst of all the four avatars spoiled so far. The reason is simple: it does not generate advantage. Blue draws, Green makes tokens, Red removes creatures and causes damage... this one does nothing of that. It isn't hard to kill with a removal in the turn that goes down and in the off-chance that the controller gets to untap we have revoke existence in the format to get rid of it forever.
This is just a bad card for constructed formats. And I wouldn't use it in edh either, since we have much better options in duplicant, steel hellkite and other haymakers in the format. The red one is the best one for me so far, followed closely by the green one.
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Neat card.can't help but notice alack of flavor text. And no phyrexian watermark obviously, but bummer. Sure it does stuff in the yard, but does that count as reliably resiliant? To me, no it doesn't. Cool card, but comparisons to titans and wurmcoil engine are a little too superficial, these souls will play alot differently imo
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Anyone else getting the feeling that each individual "Soul of ..." was designed by a different person.
Blue: Frankly horrible.
Green: Fairly decent compared to blue.
Red: Very good for what it does, tad bit expensive, but five mana to deal 3 to the dome and to a critter, topped off with First Strike as its keyword.
Colorless: So far the best one.
There are a huge number of potential applications for this. Ramp can run it as a pseudo-midrange creature that can fire off an awesome ability while on the battlefield for a while, and when it dies it still saves one of the huge beasts later. Any sort of deck that uses pitching can run it for options: either you hold what'll be a solid-if-not-tops creature or its mana cost or you pitch it and get to "flashback" it later for a good effect. And reanimator can definitely find uses for this; it can either be brought back or left to protect.
Ah! i knew they were going to make also the artefact one!
looks pretty sweet, might run a couple in my modern elves deck those guys don't have any problem in finding the mana needed for his activation and they would certainly benefit from having a protection from boardwipes
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This does not go in EveryEDH deck, it might make it into an artifact based deck or Kruphix, but there are still better choices.
There are very few better choices for a great number of decks in edh anything mono green should run this the only thing close to this is cauldron of souls which is only good with something to take away the persist. It's also good in every red deck or any deck that plays things and doesn't have access to counterspells.
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This was exactly my thought as well! I thought it was clever to make it a mix of all of the Praetors.
As far as the card goes, my Muzzio deck could always use more indestructibility.
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EDIT: Dredge may find a home for this card. Even if the deck can't directly reanimate it, it still has that second ability that provides protection for all of your permanents for one turn at Instant speed. This is definitely a card to watch.
Hoping that Wizards is saving the best in this cycle for last, and that Soul of Innistrad and Soul of Theros are both really good. Probably not, though.
The look of Evil is not just looking the part, it's a tradition that goes beyond American art. English artists, Manga/Anime, German artists, French artists, etc... all know that bad guys have sharp qualities & 1 side w/ some jagged features, while the other side (of the characters body) is usually pretty straight.
& did you forget to notice this is an American Made game, w/ American artists? So the concept of character creation firmly planted in the minds of the artists. Do you visit the forums these artists post in? Have you been to the schools where they are formally trained? I doubt you do. I went to such a school and have not only been trained how to use silhouettes during the design stage to block out a scene, but how to digitally use proper technique for blending and shading. My friends are the artists who not only create art for card games, but art for video games, comics, and other fantasy games.
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What Dredge deck is planning to have five open mana?
One in Standard. I probably should have clarified that. Of course, with a lot of the good graveyard cards rotating out, I don't know how playable this would be in a Standard Dredge deck post-rotation.
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This is just a bad card for constructed formats. And I wouldn't use it in edh either, since we have much better options in duplicant, steel hellkite and other haymakers in the format. The red one is the best one for me so far, followed closely by the green one.
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It generates advantage if you block or an opponent blocks or an opponent wants to kill something you control.
It's not unconditional advantage but repeatably giving everything you have indestructible is nothing to be sneezed at in EDH or a slow Standard.
Ah, makes sense.
I invision a future where one is not mighty when he can silence a crowd with brutality,
but when he leaves them speechless with wisdom.
Blue: Frankly horrible.
Green: Fairly decent compared to blue.
Red: Very good for what it does, tad bit expensive, but five mana to deal 3 to the dome and to a critter, topped off with First Strike as its keyword.
Colorless: So far the best one.
looks pretty sweet, might run a couple in my modern elves deck those guys don't have any problem in finding the mana needed for his activation and they would certainly benefit from having a protection from boardwipes
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There are very few better choices for a great number of decks in edh anything mono green should run this the only thing close to this is cauldron of souls which is only good with something to take away the persist. It's also good in every red deck or any deck that plays things and doesn't have access to counterspells.