UUU Merfolk UUU "Above the waves you may be mighty indeed, but down here you belong to me."
-Empress Galina
UBR Cruel Control UBR "The essence of every world, every spell, and every thought is power. Nothing else matters, because nothing else exists."
-Nicol Bolas
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
The black-and-white inner border is really hard to pick out from the new Devoid border... at least with Hallowed Fountain the blue border jumped out. Even though this post was titled "Godless Shrine", I thought I was looking at some new colorless land.
The typeline at the bottom drives me more crazy every time I see it, too.
I really wish the art wasn't Zendikar specific, either. I don't like random hedrons in all my lands.
I really do not understand why people dislike the hedron-rune borders, I think they look very ancient and mysterious. Plus they will look fantastic in foil.
I'm glad they went with an eldrazi temple. That's such a perfect fit. Makes me feel a bit better about Hallowed Fountain not being a... well, fountain... and not looking particularly hallowed.
They look great and different but they most certainly don't look like full-art or even in the ballpark of textless promos which is slightly disappointing.
It's an instant speed 5/5 trampler for 4. Wtf do you people want seriously? It has applications in populate/ above the curve beats decks, or in Bant control/ flash. I seriously think anyone mad at this card for any reason other than losing an attacker to instant speed wurm, should go home and make their own awesome card game and leave the rest of us alone.
the borders look cool, haters gonna hate. they remind me of recrystallized bismuth, and should look more like it in foil. if you don't think bismuth is awesome and would look great as a magic card border, i have nothing more to discuss with you.
The grey art is not appealing for me and the rest of the frame is bland. Maybe it looks better IRL with the foil treatment. I'll be happily trading it away. No appeal, money, it's all upside.
PS: I don't like the Nah Bradley art for the full-art basic, either. He seems to really like fuzzy light. It's like he's passing a blur filter on his final art.
PPS: Phresh's color adjustment looks much better, IMO.
Couldn't have chosen a better subject than an Eldrazi temple for Godless Shrine. Great art for a card that I'll unfortunately never use.
EDIT: My question now is whether Breeding Pool is going to be a bunch of Eldrazi processors underwater making scions, or if it's going to be with regular ol' Zendikari sea monsters.
I'm having a hard time dealing with these, they just don't look like what they should. I guess the names are so intrinsically linked with the Ravnica settings for me. They also all look colourless, it will be hard to tell what kind of coloured mana your opponent has available with these tbh.
I think in this particular instance, it's the black/white border that's making it harder to distinguish. The steam vents shown earlier definitely has the red and blue pop out at you, and can't be mistaken for producing any other type of mana.
MaRo recently said that spoiler season doesn't start for another week and a half. but earlier he said that they start on the week of September 7, so I think he may have been confused because prelease weekend is September 26-27, and all of the spoilers are generally known the week beforehand. With two weeks of spoilers, they should start on September 7 (this Monday). Just a little longer to wait!
I'm having a hard time dealing with these, they just don't look like what they should. I guess the names are so intrinsically linked with the Ravnica settings for me. They also all look colourless, it will be hard to tell what kind of coloured mana your opponent has available with these tbh.
Absolutely. I thought as much when I saw Steam Vents and Arid Mesa. It's even worse because the text background isn't double colored like usual.
*groan*
Comments like this are the reason these cards have that ugly and unnecessary text box in the first place.
Anyone worthy of owning one of these should know exactly what they do without any cues beyond the name-
if they can print cards like Ponder or Nameless Inversion with no text,
they could (and should) have done that here, too.
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
Bad art is bad. It's nowhere near as good as the gatecrash version. I don't wanted to get started on the frame either, which makes it either look mono black, or like an artifact. You can barely tell that the left side is slightly lighter than the right, to indicate the colors. And it's still not really full-art.
Anyone worthy of owning one of these should know exactly what they do without any cues beyond the name-
I'm talking from the perspective of being the opponent, seeing such a card on the other side of the table and far enough - and upside down from my point of view - that the name isn't easily readable.
But *groan* if you must.
Maybe the other poster tried to imply that people with those lands have no friends and need to play goldfish?
Level 2 in progress...
UUU Merfolk UUU
"Above the waves you may be mighty indeed, but down here you belong to me."
-Empress Galina
UBR Cruel Control UBR
"The essence of every world, every spell, and every thought is power. Nothing else matters, because nothing else exists."
-Nicol Bolas
Currently Playing:
Legacy: Something U/W Controlish
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Considering the the horns look like Kozilek's Lineage and they're mainly all underground now...
It looks vaguely like a dead Ashaya.
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
The typeline at the bottom drives me more crazy every time I see it, too.
I really wish the art wasn't Zendikar specific, either. I don't like random hedrons in all my lands.
UTeferi, Temporal ArchmageU's prison: blue is the new orange is the new black.
Mizzix Of The Izmagnus : wheels on fire... rolling down the road...
BSidisi, Undead VizierB: Bis zum Erbrechen
GTitiania, Protector Of ArgothG: Protecting Argoth, by blowing it up!
GYisan, The Wanderer BardG: Gradus Ad Elfball.
Duel EDH: Yisan & Titania.
In Progress: Grand Arbiter Augustin IV duel; Grenzo, Dungeon Warden Doomsday.
Alters
MuzzioU XenagosGR NahiriW GitrogGB MarathGRW MarchesaUBR JenaraGUW KarlovBW TazriWUBRG
Retired: RakdosBR
I like this and agree with your take.
PS: I don't like the Nah Bradley art for the full-art basic, either. He seems to really like fuzzy light. It's like he's passing a blur filter on his final art.
PPS: Phresh's color adjustment looks much better, IMO.
UR Blue-Red Control
Modern:
UBR Grixis Control
UWR Jeskai Control
EDIT: My question now is whether Breeding Pool is going to be a bunch of Eldrazi processors underwater making scions, or if it's going to be with regular ol' Zendikari sea monsters.
I think in this particular instance, it's the black/white border that's making it harder to distinguish. The steam vents shown earlier definitely has the red and blue pop out at you, and can't be mistaken for producing any other type of mana.
Personally, I love these Eldrazi borders. And it really looks like a hand on the left!
Before the glory of Yawgmoth, yes, even this makes sense.
*groan*
Comments like this are the reason these cards have that ugly and unnecessary text box in the first place.
Anyone worthy of owning one of these should know exactly what they do without any cues beyond the name-
if they can print cards like Ponder or Nameless Inversion with no text,
they could (and should) have done that here, too.
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
Maybe the other poster tried to imply that people with those lands have no friends and need to play goldfish?