MTG Salvation

Some of these are already known, but for completeness's sake, here we are!

Reserved.

Also Reserved for promo pictures

Descend Upon the Sinful is great. A nice answer to Ulamog and World Breaker.

The transformed side of Persistent Nightmare is creepy as hell.

Also, the activated ability of Sinister Concoction looks really weird to me with "Pay", "Put", "Sacrifice" and "Discard" all capitalized.

I wonder how viable Startled Awake makes a mill strategy. Also, hurray for Descend upon the Sinful! Commander needed another Final Judgment.

I want the art from that promo Angel of Deliverance on a playmat, stat.

Anguished Unmaking is awesome.

Descend upon the sinful is a flavor HOMERUN

Is a 6 mana exile wrath more useful than having 5 mana wraths?

Will a mill deck be viable? 13 cards milled for 4 mana does seem like a decent rate.

I'm having a hard time seeing these mythics as powerful players in a new standard format myself.

Cool cards though, dripping with flavor.

That alternate full art Anguished Unmaking gives me chills.

That sorcery/creature transform card makes my head dizzy...

Sinister Concoction: ... the only thing missing is something like on Knight of the Hokey Pokey.

Finally, return of Vindicate.

Startled Awake is a fun mill wincon.

Who is gonna jump through all of those hoops for Sunister Concoction?!

ahhhh why isn't Startled Awake 3 mana :/. Would love it for my Tiny Leaders

Quote from Aether7 »

I'm having a hard time seeing these mythics as powerful players in a new standard format myself.

Cool cards though, dripping with flavor.

This is exactly the kind of thing I want to see from Mythics. I'm tired of tournament Mythics, keep that stuff at Rare IMO.

I rarely say this, but I need foils of all of these. The artwork is amazing; especially that alternate Anguished Unmaking.

Lazav is absolutely in love with Startled Awake. I need a foil like..NOW. Repeatable mill for a decent cost to card ratio that provides a small, evasive body (a bit of a theme in my deck). Yeah, I dig it.

None of the other spoilers do much for me. Most of them are cards we've already seen (I prefer the normal art for the mist, even if I like the vampire side more on the promo), and of the ones that are new the only one I think is really notable is not-Vindicate.

Sinister concoction is a single card Delirium enabler tacked onto cheap removal. It is a solid limited card.

I really like that you can achieve delirium off of a single use of Sinister Concoction, if you get lucky with your mill or discard. My only question is: do you have to pick the card you're going to discard before you get a chance to see what you milled?

Also, while it's a bit too expensive (I wish that Startled Awake's activation was a bit less!), the fact that they made a sorcery/creature flip card is really REALLY cool. This is the kind of expansion on existing mechanics that I hope/expect to see when they come back, not half-assed attempts like the pitiful returning mechanic that was rebound in Dragons...

I can't see Startled Awake being a major player in Standard for two reasons:

First, there are two counterspells with the exile clause floating around (in fact, with all of the graveyard matters stuff in SOI, Void Shatter will probably be the 3 mana counterspell of choice in Standard).
Second, you may inadvertently activate your opponent's Delirium triggers.

Also, if some kind of self-mill strategy becomes a thing, expect to see Inverter of Truth in mainboards.

I would not be excited to open any of these rares/mythics outside of the bw removal.

Quote from AnImAr_ »

Who is gonna jump through all of those hoops for Sunister Concoction?!

The only hoop is discarding a card really, in which this card is Murder that enables Madness.

After BFZ I thought WOTC had lost their touch. This set is looking amazing though. So many cool cards and interactions.