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Seems most of the reprinted cards for the sample decks are the same. Of course, a couple of them aren't (Prized Unicorn and Fiery Hellhound), but there's still that feelings of evergreen cards.
As for the Dragon....hmm. I'm not quite sure I like it, especially not for a Mythic Rare.
Also, there are a lot more cards spoiled that the dragon.
I really like that they are moving to push dragons more into the 4 mana range. The 4/4 for 2RR is a good design area to push for dragons to be playable.
As for this one, I could see it being playable as a top curve. The biggest issue I see currently is that its a bad synergy with dash. It means you will need to curve your creatures in and be more vulnerable to sweepers to play this guy. In general that means that he will be very bad vs control strategies who might just kill him immediately after you discard your hand.
I think this dragon is very interesting but I dont get the sense that he is playable mainboard because it feels like perhaps he comes in vs specific matchups potentially. As another side point, he could be used in a burn tactic deck that just drops its fuel on its opponents face and then drops this guy in. Interesting I guess is where I stand on him. Time will tell if he gets a home.
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I really like that they are moving to push dragons more into the 4 mana range. The 4/4 for 2RR is a good design area to push for dragons to be playable.
As for this one, I could see it being playable as a top curve. The biggest issue I see currently is that its a bad synergy with dash. It means you will need to curve your creatures in and be more vulnerable to sweepers to play this guy. In general that means that he will be very bad vs control strategies who might just kill him immediately after you discard your hand.
I think this dragon is very interesting but I dont get the sense that he is playable mainboard because it feels like perhaps he comes in vs specific matchups potentially. As another side point, he could be used in a burn tactic deck that just drops its fuel on its opponents face and then drops this guy in. Interesting I guess is where I stand on him. Time will tell if he gets a home.
It's not exactly that bad synergy with dash...
you control both triggers, just stack them so you discard your hand before returning dashers.
still, he could very well be a curve topper in a Rx aggro deck.
he'll be an important threat and also help you recover your gas at end game.
Don't play it on a midrange deck and you should be fine.
it's a nice card for fast aggro/burn decks for sure.
could be useful in lists that can use the graveyard somehow and it's awesome in multiples.
It's not exactly that bad synergy with dash...
you control both triggers, just stack them so you discard your hand before returning dashers.
still, he could very well be a curve topper in a Rx aggro deck.
he'll be an important threat and also help you recover your gas at end game.
Don't play it on a midrange deck and you should be fine.
it's a nice card for fast aggro/burn decks for sure.
could be useful in lists that can use the graveyard somehow and it's awesome in multiples.
There is still a problem that you have to cast this guy and dash those guys in that turn to keep them both. A fast red deck usually doesn't want to go above and beyond 4 mana so its still a problem if you had been dashing creatures.
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It's not exactly that bad synergy with dash...
you control both triggers, just stack them so you discard your hand before returning dashers.
still, he could very well be a curve topper in a Rx aggro deck.
he'll be an important threat and also help you recover your gas at end game.
Don't play it on a midrange deck and you should be fine.
it's a nice card for fast aggro/burn decks for sure.
could be useful in lists that can use the graveyard somehow and it's awesome in multiples.
There is still a problem that you have to cast this guy and dash those guys in that turn to keep them both. A fast red deck usually doesn't want to go above and beyond 4 mana so its still a problem if you had been dashing creatures.
yeah, that much is true....
well, maybe the house for this card isn't one heavy on dashers.
still, a flying 4/4 for 4 is already nice...
one that draws extra cards is even nicer.
if you can put him in a deck that can play around that drawback, he'll be awesome.
if your deck can't do that, just use Thunderbreak Regent instead
Slightly weaker version of Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker's emblem, on a stick. Fun. Except for the anti-synergy with Dash, it does seem like a nice curve-topper for the hyper-aggressive Red decks: avoid running out of gas in the late game, at the expense of not being able to interact on your opponent's turn. Very...well, Red.
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This card punishes the caster so badly... I do not think it's a good card at all. Maybe I'll attempt one copy, but that's really it.
You don't play this in a deck where it punishes you, you play it as a curve-topper in a deck that usually empties its hand before casting its 4-drop. Whether or not such a deck will exist is another question, but this card certainly doesn't punish the caster in the right deck.
Hmm, a Hellbent enabler. You can have fun with this. A 4/4 w/ flying for 4 is good enough on its own...but worth a mythic rarity? Debatable.
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Well its repeatable card draw if it sticks, and if you discard "any" cards with it you probably use it wrong.
In burn you play this as a top end and just keep drawing more cards. If they can kill it right away, you obvisiously get no advantage, so this card lacks the "oompf" to make it a constructed star. But its overall a solid card, fair body and potentially extra cards for red decks.
Works particularly well with multiples and other red "draw" cards to keep the flow going. Reds repeatable card draw is still a "rare" thing outside of the one-shot looter abilities.
That this is "mythic" probably means they know it will be at least a relevant card for standard at some point or another (red burn can probably use this, with the other dragons around aswell).
I could see this being used in a red aggro, burn or most importantly, Modern Burn.
Reasoning on Modern Burn? Top end, can drop earlier than t4 with Simian Spirit Guides and if you don't get rid of it, your face will be lit up in the turn or two after. Period.
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That looks like a great sideboard card for burn or "all-in" decks... or any deck that can dump its hand by turn four or so. I'm not sure how that card fits into the current standard with options like Outpost Siege already, but I love the balls-to-the-wall burn/aggro feel to this card.
Ok, question regarding the numbering of the sample cards. Does this suddenly make those cards valuable? As the only way to complete a set of Origins is to get all of the sample decks?
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Sample deck cards:
http://magic.wizards.com/articles/archive/arcana/magic-origins-sample-decks-2015-06-08
As for the Dragon....hmm. I'm not quite sure I like it, especially not for a Mythic Rare.
Also, there are a lot more cards spoiled that the dragon.
As for this one, I could see it being playable as a top curve. The biggest issue I see currently is that its a bad synergy with dash. It means you will need to curve your creatures in and be more vulnerable to sweepers to play this guy. In general that means that he will be very bad vs control strategies who might just kill him immediately after you discard your hand.
I think this dragon is very interesting but I dont get the sense that he is playable mainboard because it feels like perhaps he comes in vs specific matchups potentially. As another side point, he could be used in a burn tactic deck that just drops its fuel on its opponents face and then drops this guy in. Interesting I guess is where I stand on him. Time will tell if he gets a home.
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For 1 a turn, you get to keep your hand, since the dragon only triggers on your end step.
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It's not exactly that bad synergy with dash...
you control both triggers, just stack them so you discard your hand before returning dashers.
still, he could very well be a curve topper in a Rx aggro deck.
he'll be an important threat and also help you recover your gas at end game.
Don't play it on a midrange deck and you should be fine.
it's a nice card for fast aggro/burn decks for sure.
could be useful in lists that can use the graveyard somehow and it's awesome in multiples.
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There is still a problem that you have to cast this guy and dash those guys in that turn to keep them both. A fast red deck usually doesn't want to go above and beyond 4 mana so its still a problem if you had been dashing creatures.
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yeah, that much is true....
well, maybe the house for this card isn't one heavy on dashers.
still, a flying 4/4 for 4 is already nice...
one that draws extra cards is even nicer.
if you can put him in a deck that can play around that drawback, he'll be awesome.
if your deck can't do that, just use Thunderbreak Regent instead
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You don't play this in a deck where it punishes you, you play it as a curve-topper in a deck that usually empties its hand before casting its 4-drop. Whether or not such a deck will exist is another question, but this card certainly doesn't punish the caster in the right deck.
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Edit: Or any deck where it's definitely the last card in your hand. That's pretty red. This card will be good in standard burn/aggro
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Well its repeatable card draw if it sticks, and if you discard "any" cards with it you probably use it wrong.
In burn you play this as a top end and just keep drawing more cards. If they can kill it right away, you obvisiously get no advantage, so this card lacks the "oompf" to make it a constructed star. But its overall a solid card, fair body and potentially extra cards for red decks.
Works particularly well with multiples and other red "draw" cards to keep the flow going. Reds repeatable card draw is still a "rare" thing outside of the one-shot looter abilities.
That this is "mythic" probably means they know it will be at least a relevant card for standard at some point or another (red burn can probably use this, with the other dragons around aswell).
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Reasoning on Modern Burn? Top end, can drop earlier than t4 with Simian Spirit Guides and if you don't get rid of it, your face will be lit up in the turn or two after. Period.
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