This can be good in context. In limited there are a lot of cards that target specific colors, mono colors and multi colored. So a colorless creature actually has a nice amount of survivability from removal just being what it is.
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Would a 5 cast 3/3 been out of the question? really anything but a 6 drop. I understand they like to gives things identities but I'm starting to doubt that we will get the cariety of cast costs that would have made dragons interesting. I am still hoping for a red 3 drop dragon.
THIS is our colorless card of the set? They couldn't even of given it something like, "Reduce Ugin, Planeswalker casting cost by 1"? Just so that it wasn't so damn vanilla?
I remember Gold-Forged Sentinel being good in limited, so I'm guessing this will be too. Potent evasive beater that can be cast regardless of your colors is useful.
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Would a 5 cast 3/3 been out of the question? really anything but a 6 drop. I understand they like to gives things identities but I'm starting to doubt that we will get the cariety of cast costs that would have made dragons interesting. I am still hoping for a red 3 drop dragon.
Sorry to ruin your expectations, hopes, and dreams. This was the last dragon card to get spoiled outside of the monocolored megamorph cycle and we already know how bad those are.
Would a 5 cast 3/3 been out of the question? really anything but a 6 drop. I understand they like to gives things identities but I'm starting to doubt that we will get the cariety of cast costs that would have made dragons interesting. I am still hoping for a red 3 drop dragon.
You should DEFINITELY stop hoping for a 3-drop dragon. In any color. If every dragon hasn't been spoiled already, we're very close, and we know the monocolor uncommons are going to be 6 mana. And a 3-mana dragon isn't in dragon flavor at all unless it comes with some massive other costs.
I get that they didn't want dragons to be too small or too inexpensive, but there are already so many 4/4 dragons for 6 in this set. This is just... ugh. Cool art and creature types though.
I remember Gold-Forged Sentinel being good in limited, so I'm guessing this will be too. Potent evasive beater that can be cast regardless of your colors is useful.
Wasn't he decent because that set didn't have a lot of flyers(or at least big P/T flyers)? There are so many fat dragons in this set at the same cost, that I really don't think this is going to see much play.
I remember Gold-Forged Sentinel being good in limited, so I'm guessing this will be too. Potent evasive beater that can be cast regardless of your colors is useful.
I'd generally agree with you, but I think there are a couple of problems:
1. This is a morph block with a ton of mana sinks. The high CMC creatures are much less playable when they don't have morph attached.
2. This is a dragon set where flying looks like it'll be much less effective than usual.
It's still not as bad as it's being made out to be. It dodges Reach of Shadows.
Aren't we still waiting on the blue Regent? I don't think that's been spoiled yet.
Other than that, however, you are most certainly correct. I'm really quite underwhelmed by a lot of the dragon cards. Several of the multicolor uncommons are pretty interesting, a couple of the Regents are fun/good, and I guess that the dragon lords are exciting enough... But besides that, they're pretty forgettable for the most part. Which is too bad
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"The set releases for fall 2015 (Blood, Sweat and Tears) and fall 2016 (Lock, Stock and Barrel). One or both of those 2 blocks (I'm betting) are going to contain either Fetch reprints or (more likely) Filter reprints. Filter lands still need a reprint. They are getting pretty high up there and it's been longer than ZEN so it makes a little more sense that Filter lands would see print earlier that fetches." - posted 03/22/2014 proved incorrect about filters coming earlier than fetches, still pending on filters in Origins block.
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You should DEFINITELY stop hoping for a 3-drop dragon. In any color. If every dragon hasn't been spoiled already, we're very close, and we know the monocolor uncommons are going to be 6 mana. And a 3-mana dragon isn't in dragon flavor at all unless it comes with some massive other costs.
I get that they didn't want dragons to be too small or too inexpensive, but there are already so many 4/4 dragons for 6 in this set. This is just... ugh. Cool art and creature types though.
Wasn't he decent because that set didn't have a lot of flyers(or at least big P/T flyers)? There are so many fat dragons in this set at the same cost, that I really don't think this is going to see much play.
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I'd generally agree with you, but I think there are a couple of problems:
1. This is a morph block with a ton of mana sinks. The high CMC creatures are much less playable when they don't have morph attached.
2. This is a dragon set where flying looks like it'll be much less effective than usual.
It's still not as bad as it's being made out to be. It dodges Reach of Shadows.
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Other than that, however, you are most certainly correct. I'm really quite underwhelmed by a lot of the dragon cards. Several of the multicolor uncommons are pretty interesting, a couple of the Regents are fun/good, and I guess that the dragon lords are exciting enough... But besides that, they're pretty forgettable for the most part. Which is too bad