MTG Salvation

Saw this on Team Mint's website, don't know if it's been posted here yet.



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Creature - Elemental

"When Frost Walker becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

Creepy art.

According to what I could gleam out of Google Translate it's "Whenever this becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it."

It can't be good, it dies to, wait for it, everything.

Still, 4/1 for 2 mana in limited... you better have a two-drop.

Creature type appears to be Elemental.

So:

Frost Walker 1U
Creature -- Elemental (U)
When Frost Walker becomes the target of a spell or ability, sacrifice it.
4/1

Ok thanks I edited the translation in. So it looks like each clan will be getting at least one enemy color card at uncommon.

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Anyone got a type for this thing?

Added it already, it's an Elemental.

Edit: To be clear, I determined it was an Elemental by comparing against the Japanese type line of existing Elementals.

At first I thought cool a decent bolster target but after reading his ability it's not oh well limited card for sure and a decent late pick in draft I guess. The fact that it's an uncommon taking up a slot makes me sad though.

OH, LOOK! A NEW WALKER!

...Wait a minute....

This seems pretty bad, except maybe against pure control decks (out of the sideboard). In Limited I feel like this thing is going to be stone-walled by infinite 2/2s.

We now have our 2-mana Ferocious enabler for Frontier Mastodon to curve into. Seems really good, since anything that can target it would probably end up killing it anyway. Gives Temur aggro a boost, swings past Caryatids and trades with Coursers. I'm not personally a fan of aggro archetypes, but I do like the possibilities it opens up. Also, being an elemental for synergy with Master of Waves seems lulzy.

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At first I thought cool a decent bolster target but after reading his ability it's not oh well limited card for sure and a decent late pick in draft I guess. The fact that it's an uncommon taking up a slot makes me sad though.

Just pretend this is one of the extra uncommons.

2-mana Ferocious enabler. Not really much of a tempo loss even if it gets removed, since it costs so little to play, and if by some miracle your opponent doesn't have a turn 1 or 2 creature when you're on the play, it can get in a nice bit of damage. At worst, it's chumping a morph or taking a removal spell that could have been saved for one of tour bigger beaters (which you have, because this is very much a Temur card).

This is awesomely aggressive

Oh my....

Aggression in blue always has the potential to be very powerful, and I could see this card being both Standard and Modern playable. This might just be the missing piece for that mono-blue aggressive deck Travis Woo was playing in Modern for a while (plus, costing 2 is a benefit where Disrupting Shoal is concerned).

Cheaply enables Ferocious in Standard (though sadly does not play well with Stubborn Denial).

Ah yes, the phantasmal clause.

Phantasmal Bear
Phantasmal Image
Phantasmal Abomination
Phantasmal Dragon

Gets pumped to a 5/2 with Master of Waves.

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At first I thought cool a decent bolster target but after reading his ability it's not oh well limited card for sure and a decent late pick in draft I guess. The fact that it's an uncommon taking up a slot makes me sad though.

Just pretend this is one of the extra uncommons.

What are you people talking about? Last I checked, Bolster didn't target.

This thing looks like an Eldrazi with hands.

Well we finally got our 2 mana ferocious enabler. I was wondering how they'd go about it. This feels like the best way to do it.

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2-mana Ferocious enabler. Not really much of a tempo loss even if it gets removed, since it costs so little to play, and if by some miracle your opponent doesn't have a turn 1 or 2 creature when you're on the play, it can get in a nice bit of damage. At worst, it's chumping a morph or taking a removal spell that could have been saved for one of tour bigger beaters (which you have, because this is very much a Temur card).

Have you played KTK sealed? People don't have a 1 or 2 drop all the time. Plus if you have a bit of removal you can get in a lot of damage before they stabilize. Overall I think this is a very strong limited card. There's only a handful of cards that get a free kill on him.

Seems quite powerful to me, unless token decks become dominating. This is a two mana threat that needs an answer.

Seems quite powerful to me, unless token decks become dominating. This is a two mana threat that must be answered, or it will kill you quickly.

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At first I thought cool a decent bolster target but after reading his ability it's not oh well limited card for sure and a decent late pick in draft I guess. The fact that it's an uncommon taking up a slot makes me sad though.

Just pretend this is one of the extra uncommons.

What are you people talking about? Last I checked, Bolster didn't target.

I was commenting on the waste of an uncommon slot part. This set has 20 extra uncommons.

Fun little rule for you:

If the creature being removed costs less than the removal, your creature is not dying to removal, the removal is dying to the creature.

If your opponent wants to Lightning Strike or Anger of the Gods or Bile Blight him away, cool. Your deck has limited removal, and the resources required for this card are so little that you gain advantage by making them waste removal on a cheap creature.

1 and 2 mana creatures with high power and little downside see play. His downside isn't really a downside; as someone said anything that would target him would kill him anyway.