HOLY CRAP! The Manifest ability is epic! I love how delve and prowess are back. They are good mechanics. Is this everything!?!?!? I haven't got my fix yet...
Ethereal Ambush is a common. Can't wait to see a mythic Manifest if they have one!! (other than the one we got already, lol)
Use cards like Equilibrium and Cloudstone Curio to return non-creatures that were manifested back to your hand for more use! Cloudstone Curio works with the other creature you manifest!
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Soul flayed is SICK!!! Outpost siege is pretty cool, I like how you can choose between Khans or Dragons. Dash is pretty good, I like that it returns it to your hand and does not send it to your graveyard.
Probably the best set I have seen in a long time. I love the making a choice abilities. Seems to give far more use to otherwise useless commons. That dragon is amazing too. I'm going to need to collect that cycle.
Soulflayer in particular is setting off alarm bells as something that could be horribly broken in the correct shell. If you are reliably casting something with evasion and protection that can end the game in a few swings -- that's worth noticing. Flying, Hexproof, and Double Strike accomplish this incredibly well. In digging around for cards that pitch themselves for Soulflayer, it looks like Flying is pretty easy to get. Circling Vultures, Faerie Macabre, Cloud of Faeries, Keeneye Avien, and Deepcavern Imp all help out there for cheap. Double Strike is possible, too, coming from Wrecking Ogre. The other abilities are hard to get on a card that can pitch itself. Hexproof, thankfully, nowhere appears on a card that pitches itself. So it looks like we don't have an easy way to combo with it. Yet.
Whisperwood Elemental seems like a judge's worst nightmare. Keep track of those morphs, boys, and be awfully careful to keep track of which morphs came from the hand versus the top of the deck! We're in rules lawyer city now!
As a card, it seems good. It is a 4/4 that spawns 2/2s each turn, which is fine on its own. Add to that the fact that you're essentially drawing cards if the 2/2s happen to be creature cards, and it's very solid. I suspect it will be a limited bomb and standard player. Might be slightly too slow for Modern, almost certainly for Legacy.
Dash seems like a fine mechanic, and probably signals we will get some new toys for Burn to play with. Burn loves hasty dudes.
The first mode on Outpost Seige is kind of cool, I've always liked Chandra's 0 ability. This could be a decent sb option for red decks that need to keep up on CA
I love Rageform's art. The assassin is good in limited. Outpost Siege's first option is great. If only Kolagharn could go into my Commander deck, but I guess I can't have everything in there.
Whisperwood Elemental seems like a judge's worst nightmare. Keep track of those morphs, boys, and be awfully careful to keep track of which morphs came from the hand versus the top of the deck! We're in rules lawyer city now!
This is immediately what I thought. Someone's going to hit a creature without morph, after playing some creatures with morph and someone is going to get confused and call the judge and the judge is going to shrug because he didn't see how things went down. And at the end of the day, someone is going to be upset. Either they are going to feel cheated or they could potentially get the boot for "cheating".
Just saw the last spoiler: more modular cards. If this set has modular as a mechanic -- and it looks like we're at least getting a rare cycle of them -- that augurs very well for its eternal play-ability. Cards that can fill multiple roles are very serious contenders for decks that are tight on space. The modes of that Black Wrath of God clone are really indistinguishable, but the modes on this new Red enchantment are very good. It's either a combo piece or a draw engine to find your other combo piece. Very interesting. Let's hope we see this mechanic on cheaper cards at lower rarities.
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Ethereal Ambush is a common. Can't wait to see a mythic Manifest if they have one!! (other than the one we got already, lol)
Use cards like Equilibrium and Cloudstone Curio to return non-creatures that were manifested back to your hand for more use! Cloudstone Curio works with the other creature you manifest!
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You're going to have to watch people like a hawk.
Yep. All they did was keyword Viashino Sandscout et al. And manifest is to morph what vanishing is to fading essentially.
Interesting concepts. Dash made fun Johnny cards like Cathars' Crusade all more fun.
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Soulflayer in particular is setting off alarm bells as something that could be horribly broken in the correct shell. If you are reliably casting something with evasion and protection that can end the game in a few swings -- that's worth noticing. Flying, Hexproof, and Double Strike accomplish this incredibly well. In digging around for cards that pitch themselves for Soulflayer, it looks like Flying is pretty easy to get. Circling Vultures, Faerie Macabre, Cloud of Faeries, Keeneye Avien, and Deepcavern Imp all help out there for cheap. Double Strike is possible, too, coming from Wrecking Ogre. The other abilities are hard to get on a card that can pitch itself. Hexproof, thankfully, nowhere appears on a card that pitches itself. So it looks like we don't have an easy way to combo with it. Yet.
Whisperwood Elemental seems like a judge's worst nightmare. Keep track of those morphs, boys, and be awfully careful to keep track of which morphs came from the hand versus the top of the deck! We're in rules lawyer city now!
As a card, it seems good. It is a 4/4 that spawns 2/2s each turn, which is fine on its own. Add to that the fact that you're essentially drawing cards if the 2/2s happen to be creature cards, and it's very solid. I suspect it will be a limited bomb and standard player. Might be slightly too slow for Modern, almost certainly for Legacy.
Dash seems like a fine mechanic, and probably signals we will get some new toys for Burn to play with. Burn loves hasty dudes.
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Yeah, Kolaghan has a Mardu watermark with claws on it.
Dash seems good with other permanents' ETB triggers. I'm looking at you, Warstorm Surge.
This is immediately what I thought. Someone's going to hit a creature without morph, after playing some creatures with morph and someone is going to get confused and call the judge and the judge is going to shrug because he didn't see how things went down. And at the end of the day, someone is going to be upset. Either they are going to feel cheated or they could potentially get the boot for "cheating".
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