Intellectual Offering 4U
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Hallowed Spiritkeeper 1WW
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When Hallowed Spiritkeeper dies, put X 1/1 white Spirit tokens with flying onto the battlefield, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard
3/2
To be fair, none of the cards that have you share an effect with an opponent of your choice are stellar. The effects are too powerful for you alone to get them for their cost, but just powerful enough that I wouldn't want to share them with an opponent either.
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I was really hoping that the blue offering was going to untap lands... I was actually fairly spot on what I thought it would do outside of it being nonlands it untapped.
The avy seems nice. It can Sun Titan back but it dodges the Reveillark test sadly.
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I have officially moved to MTGNexus. I just wanted to let people know as my response time to salvation decks being bumped is very hit or miss.
Spiritkeeper is a slam dunk cube card, and honestly not bad in edh either. A three mana dude that can possibly put ten or more power on board late game is awesome. Offering is meh as predicted.
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Both are nice cards for commander , but forget about legacy ... White guy feeds on graveyard in a formart with DRS and RIP ... But certantly is nice in Karametra and Rhys .
Blue Spell is for the Politics me like
You don't call "dying to removal" if the removal is more expensive in resources than the creature. If you have to spend BG (Abrupt Decay), or W + basic land (PtE) to remove a 1G, that is not "dying to removal". Strictly speaking Goyf dies to removal, but actually your removal is dying to Goyf.
I can already picture the game slowdowns that will happen thanks to Intellectual Offering. It's an extra multiplier on top of the normal EDH decision paralysis. Imagine the negotiations when the lead player at a table of 4 swings at two others for lethal, but someone has mana up for this spell...
Oh damn Flying Spirit tokens. Yeah stupid stuff with Sun Titan and Saffi with a sac effect. Nonland though for the offering? That sucks. I would rather use turnabout.
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To the people that say that a card needs to be a higher rarity because of Limited... I hate you guys so much. I present to you with this.
I can already picture the game slowdowns that will happen thanks to Intellectual Offering. It's an extra multiplier on top of the normal EDH decision paralysis. Imagine the negotiations when the lead player at a table of 4 swings at two others for lethal, but someone has mana up for this spell...
This seems like the easiest situation to make this decision. If someone else is the threat and swinging at two smaller people, one of which might have beneficial blocks if their things weren't tapped, I would snap this off in an instant (literally) to give them both a chance.
I love the offering cycle, this blue one might be one of my favorites, but what's going on with the white deck? Is it an equipment deck? Is it a token deck? It seems to want to be both, but right now it just looks like a mess! Although I do like the cards so far...
And blue politics card is funny not for everyone, but definitely a cool surprise effect
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The true mind can weather all the lies and illusions without being lost. The true heart can tough the poison of hatred without being harmed. Since beginning-less time, darkness thrives in the void but always yields to purifying light.
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.
This seems like the easiest situation to make this decision. If someone else is the threat and swinging at two smaller people, one of which might have beneficial blocks if their things weren't tapped, I would snap this off in an instant (literally) to give them both a chance.
Well obviously you cast it. I'm just talking about how this effect multiplies the already headache-inducing scramble of everyone flipping through their graveyards, other people's graveyards, activating tops, cracking fetchlands, considering tutor targets, and negotiating with other players for enabling their own schemes. "If you can sacrifice that, I can reanimate it, and I'll target him with the draw ETB ability so he can pull that kill spell on top of his library, which will kill that lord there which ticks the damage below lethal, so then you can ping the others, and I'll have mana up to counter that trick we know he pulled from his graveyard last turn..."
Or maybe it's just my games that end up like that.
If you can get enough mana in your rocks/dorks, plus Crystal Shard and Archaeomancer (or similar, like Vedalken Mastermind + Mnemonic Wall), you can use it to draw your deck. Add in a way to recycle your own deck (like a discard outlet + Eldrazi) and you can deck out all of your opponents too.
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Very nice i like it, very useful combat trick in a multi player game.
Now that Spirit keeper is awesome too, a 3/2 vigilance for 3 is ok, but the late game potential for an army of flying 1/1 tokens is backbreaking. Lol set it on a mimic vat loop.
Also the white deck seems to be an aggressive equipement swarm deck, so i guess half equipement and half token swarm, still good for a pre-con, but better when you focus on one strategy and fine tune it.
As for these cards, I like the blue offering a lot. I'll probably run it in Sydri or Niv-Mizzet. The white card I'm not too stoked about, but it's kinda cool. I'm sure it'll make some one happy somewhere.
Out of the blackness and stench of the engulfing swamp emerged a shimmering figure. Only the splattered armor and ichor-stained sword hinted at the unfathomable evil the knight had just laid waste.
Yes, this is really solid with Notion Thief. Nekusar probably likes it a lot too, because it untaps Temple Bell
I might stick it in Brago, which already likes having a ton of rocks out, along with things that can repeatedly bounce permanents. It could get some solid value.
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Hallowed Spiritkeeper 1WW
Creature - Avatar
Vigilance
When Hallowed Spiritkeeper dies, put X 1/1 white Spirit tokens with flying onto the battlefield, where X is the number of creature cards in your graveyard
3/2
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Nvm you changed it >.< carry on
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The avy seems nice. It can Sun Titan back but it dodges the Reveillark test sadly.
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WWWHokori Stax
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RBGShattergang(Super Villians)
RWGHazezon Flicker
UBRMarchesa Aggro
URGMaelstom Wanderer (Maelstorm)
Blue Spell is for the Politics
I'll use it in Teysa, Orzhov Scion and I'm sure Karador decks will have a blast with it.
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Also useful for those "I could stop him, but I'm tapped out" occasions.
It's the fixed Kinsbaile Borderguard with alot more upsides.
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Hey guys, the tokens...the tokens have flying...
is. the. nuts
And blue politics card is funny
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.
Well obviously you cast it. I'm just talking about how this effect multiplies the already headache-inducing scramble of everyone flipping through their graveyards, other people's graveyards, activating tops, cracking fetchlands, considering tutor targets, and negotiating with other players for enabling their own schemes. "If you can sacrifice that, I can reanimate it, and I'll target him with the draw ETB ability so he can pull that kill spell on top of his library, which will kill that lord there which ticks the damage below lethal, so then you can ping the others, and I'll have mana up to counter that trick we know he pulled from his graveyard last turn..."
Or maybe it's just my games that end up like that.
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StaffIf you can get enough mana in your rocks/dorks, plus Crystal Shard and Archaeomancer (or similar, like Vedalken Mastermind + Mnemonic Wall), you can use it to draw your deck. Add in a way to recycle your own deck (like a discard outlet + Eldrazi) and you can deck out all of your opponents too.
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Now that Spirit keeper is awesome too, a 3/2 vigilance for 3 is ok, but the late game potential for an army of flying 1/1 tokens is backbreaking. Lol set it on a mimic vat loop.
Also the white deck seems to be an aggressive equipement swarm deck, so i guess half equipement and half token swarm, still good for a pre-con, but better when you focus on one strategy and fine tune it.
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Actually, I don't know if it was today's Arcana, but i haven't seen a thread about it so I thought I'd mention it here.
Link to the article: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/arcana/wizards-best-friend-2014-10-29
As for these cards, I like the blue offering a lot. I'll probably run it in Sydri or Niv-Mizzet. The white card I'm not too stoked about, but it's kinda cool. I'm sure it'll make some one happy somewhere.
I might stick it in Brago, which already likes having a ton of rocks out, along with things that can repeatedly bounce permanents. It could get some solid value.
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StaffYes, and you can draw nine if you have a C Sphinx. Mind's Eye and Psychic Possession also can help.
I still think the most exciting of this cycle is the Black one.
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