These lands are great. Better than most of the rares in the set LOL.
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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
Blighted Cycle looking good so far, a draw 2 and a sac effect. Both cost 4 more than they would as spells, but being able to keep spell density up while increasing land count is awesome.
You don't call "dying to removal" if the removal is more expensive in resources than the creature. If you have to spend BG (Abrupt Decay), or W + basic land (PtE) to remove a 1G, that is not "dying to removal". Strictly speaking Goyf dies to removal, but actually your removal is dying to Goyf.
Yikes. I know "lands matter" is the name of the game for Zendikar, but Crucible in a Standard of fetchlands, spell-lands, and manlands is a scary proposition to me.
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Yikes. I know "lands matter" is the name of the game for Zendikar, but Crucible in a Standard of fetchlands, spell-lands, and manlands is a scary proposition to me.
Ohh not in this standard that would be nuts but the card really needs one even if in commander products or MM
Gotta love uncommons in this set.
almost all really good cards are below rare
weird set is weird.
we may be looking at the set with the highest average power level (very playable commons and uncommons) and the lowest ceiling power level (really bad rares) from the recent years
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
This looks very good with Life from the Loam. It can take out stuff that the Punishing Fire engine is far too inefficient for and is entirely uncounterable (barring Stifle, but RUG Delver is at a disadvantage versus Loam decks anyway). This is in my top 10 cards in the set.
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These days, some wizards are finding they have a little too much deck left at the end of their $$$.
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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
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UR Blue-Red Control
Modern:
UBR Grixis Control
UWR Jeskai Control
This confirms that they don't all cost 5C to activate.
At the same time, it means that you can hit things that you can't otherwise target. Edicts have their time and place.
Currently Playing:
Legacy: Something U/W Controlish
EDH Cube
Hypercube! A New EDH Deck Every Week(ish)!
"OH GOD MY BRAIN IS EXPLOADING AT HOW BAD THE ART IS ON MY OWN CARD"
-A friend's first impression of Ancestral Recall
10/10, I tapped.
none
Modern
UBG B/U/G control
BBB MBC
WUR Control
WWW Prison
RRR Goblins
Legacy
BBB Pox
UBG B/U/G Control
UWU StoneBlade
UW Miracle Control
UGUPrime Speaker Seamonster RampUGU
WUGDerevi Does NothingWUG
RRRFeldon's Lovely LadiesRRR
Yikes. I know "lands matter" is the name of the game for Zendikar, but Crucible in a Standard of fetchlands, spell-lands, and manlands is a scary proposition to me.
Ohh not in this standard that would be nuts but the card really needs one even if in commander products or MM
almost all really good cards are below rare
weird set is weird.
we may be looking at the set with the highest average power level (very playable commons and uncommons) and the lowest ceiling power level (really bad rares) from the recent years
I think limited will be awesome
Blighted Steppe
T: 1 colourless
3W,T: Sac gain 2 life for each creature you control.
Blighted Gorge
T: 1 Colourless
4R,T: sac Deals 2 damage to target creature or player. (This one Sucks)
Blighted Woodland
T: 1 Colourless
3G,T: Sac Search library for up to two basics and put them into play tapped.
All but the red one are pretty good. Red seems to be missing a lot in this set.
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
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Actually I'm only excited to get my hands on the lands from this set... At least there's a good amount of them..?
edit: Thanks, Locke! You're right that the red one is highly disappointing!