She seems pretty good. Not an auto-include in WR decks, but if at the very worst she's exiling a decent slew of permanents, she'll se some degree of play in Standard IMO.
Her +2 is alright-ish, and to me it seems like it was something else in development that kinda broke something out and they decided to swap it for something "safer". Its playability will rely on Madness, but honestly I'm not too hot about it. Looting effects, however, are the perfect complement to Nahiri's main use: pressure. The real gem here is that the ability is a +2, and that's awesome.
Her -2 is pretty good. "But it only exiles tapped creatures!", you might say, and yeah, that's kind of a bummer. But she's still the 4-mana Planeswalker that answers the most permanents. Her minus effect is like half of Karn Liberated's effect, with the drawbacks being not hitting lands, untapped creatures and Planeswalkers, but that's still pretty good, because Karn is pretty good! But her minus ability is awesome by the sheer pressure it puts into your opponent. Think about it for a sec: Once you drop her, she's a 6 loyalty Planeswalker threatening into a 8 mana Ultimate next turn that will kill anything that swings at her and doesn't drops her at below 1 Loyalty. Once she hits the table, she'll pressure your opponent into action, and then she will punish him for it. That's why I think Nahiri is pretty good. She's a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" kind of girl.
Her -8 is a massive threat. Honestly, one of the most threatening Ultimates I've ever seen. Not because it's extremely powerful - it's actually pretty tame as far as Ultimates goes, but as mentioned before because she is both very fast to get into Ultimate range and punishes your opponent when he tries to retaliate. Shame it's kind of a massive nonbo with her +2 ability. Would love to see her fetch from Grave as well. Now that would make her a powerhouse.
Doubt she'll make a splash in Modern or, heck, maybe she ends up without a deck and fails even in Standard. But I personally think she's great, and if we ever get a Madness or Delirium deck that has some massive beefy creature/artifact finisher for her Ultimate I'm confident she'll see play.
The biggest problem I think she will have is that she will have trouble protecting herself. More often than not the only way she can target and remove a creature is after the thing has gotten to take a swing at her and if they manage to damage her badly she won't have the counters left to get rid of them. Remember you just spent your 4 drop slot on bringing her to the field so your opponent is more likely than not going to have a pretty serious creature advantage over you at this point. You are quite likely going to be forced into blocking unfavorably for at least one round to keep her healthy.
I think the best play with her will be waiting to play her until you see a tapped creature you want to kill and then using her removal ability immediately. The problem with this is it leaves her with just 2 counters which puts her into shock range or just within the killing range of even a small unblocked creature. It also means you have will likely have to play her reactively rather than proactively a lot of the time. I think she is a neat planeswalker, but I do so see some potential issues with playing her in more aggressive builds. I think she belongs in a more defensive deck that utilizes a lot of tapping lock down.
It's the same idea behind lili though, she hits the board and almost immediately goes to 1 loyalty (they key difference is she does it a turn ealier) but she's still amazingly playable
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I'm a bit late to the party but I'll weigh in. I generally don't jump on planeswalker band wagons but I really think this one is powerful. The -2 is very very good. While some decks won't care about it too much exiling is a very important key word not only because of the last set but the new set also has ways to interact with the graveyard. Even if it is played as spot removal it can exile a card and eat an attack. It should always at least be a 1 for 1 or better. The +2 is also very good. While discard then draw is not as good as looting it is still fine for card selection. I suspect it will prove very powerful with madness as well though I would action that it needs to be seen as card selection first and a madness enabler second. The best part of the ability is that it is a +2 marking her much more resilient and reaching her ultimate quickly. My biggest complaint is her ultimate. You really have to build around it to keep it from being underwhelming. With some creatures/artifacts it wins on the spot but with others it is worse than the -2. Putting a deck building constraint on the player is generally a bad thing. I do however really like the idea of grabbing revlark since you can fill up the yard with the plus and then get the revlark trigger without killing it. It is certainly modern playable but as previously suggested it may not be a standard powerhouse. It will see play but because the ultimate isn't that treating and because another hero's downfall effect is being printed I'm don't think it's jace levels of good.
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Calling it now, she's directing enough power to give to ..... Nicol Bolas whose residing on THE MOON. The more power she gives to him the more "madness" envelopes Innistrad. The 2nd set will be Lilliana awakening his conscience with some sort of evil plot.... KILLING JACE!!
Can anyone explain why this card implies "no Jace"? I feel like I'm missing something.
Operating under the '5 Planeswalkers per block' standard, we'll have Nahiri, Sorin, and Arlin in SoI and two in EM.
Thanks.
Are people just assuming that Sorin is in Shadows Over Innistrad? Did I miss an official confirmation somewhere?
Because if not, then this implies "No Sorin," not "No Jace." They're both on card art, but Jace is on all the promotional materials, i.e., we know both characters are in the story but only the latter is definitely getting a card.
Can anyone explain why this card implies "no Jace"? I feel like I'm missing something.
Operating under the '5 Planeswalkers per block' standard, we'll have Nahiri, Sorin, and Arlin in SoI and two in EM.
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Are people just assuming that Sorin is in Shadows Over Innistrad? Did I miss an official confirmation somewhere?
Because if not, then this implies "No Sorin," not "No Jace." They're both on card art, but Jace is on all the promotional materials, i.e., we know both characters are in the story but only the latter is definitely getting a card.
They've told us when they're spoiling Sorin (the 17th), so he's definitely in the set.
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Can anyone explain why this card implies "no Jace"? I feel like I'm missing something.
Operating under the '5 Planeswalkers per block' standard, we'll have Nahiri, Sorin, and Arlin in SoI and two in EM.
Thanks.
Are people just assuming that Sorin is in Shadows Over Innistrad? Did I miss an official confirmation somewhere?
Because if not, then this implies "No Sorin," not "No Jace." They're both on card art, but Jace is on all the promotional materials, i.e., we know both characters are in the story but only the latter is definitely getting a card.
Sorin got his image in booster packs implying that he will be in this set and theres news that he will get revealed sometime this week
Are people just assuming that Sorin is in Shadows Over Innistrad? Did I miss an official confirmation somewhere?
Because if not, then this implies "No Sorin," not "No Jace." They're both on card art, but Jace is on all the promotional materials, i.e., we know both characters are in the story but only the latter is definitely getting a card.
LSV confirmed he will preview Arlinn and Sorin this week. My theory (and of others here) is that Arlinn is a legendary creature that flips into a walker (that way we get both a new planeswalker to innistrad and the legendary werewolf they didn't give us last they had the chance). If that is true, Jace can still show up.
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Are people just assuming that Sorin is in Shadows Over Innistrad? Did I miss an official confirmation somewhere?
Because if not, then this implies "No Sorin," not "No Jace." They're both on card art, but Jace is on all the promotional materials, i.e., we know both characters are in the story but only the latter is definitely getting a card.
LSV confirmed he will preview Arlinn and Sorin this week. My theory (and of others here) is that Arlinn is a legendary creature that flips into a walker (that way we get both a new planeswalker to innistrad and the legendary werewolf they didn't give us last they had the chance). If that is true, Jace can still show up.
That sounds plenty official, thank you.
I can buy the "Arlinn is a Legendary Creature in her human form and a planeswalker in her wolf form" theory. When they previewed her bio, it specified that she had to return to Innistrad to transform back into a human, which fits with that idea and would allow WotC to print her in sets that don't have DFCs if she proves popular.
The -2 is very very good. While some decks won't care about it too much exiling is a very important key word not only because of the last set but the new set also has ways to interact with the graveyard. Even if it is played as spot removal it can exile a card and eat an attack. It should always at least be a 1 for 1 or better.
The tapped targeting clause on her second ability is a very serious draw back. It means in order to guarantee a 1 for 1 or better as creature or artifact removal you have to wait for your opponent to already tap and use these things against you before you cast her. That is a massive drawback compared to a card like Ob Nixillis Reignited where the moment he comes down he can destroy any normally target-able creature. You don't have to wait for your opponent to beat your face in with that dragon before you are able kill it with him. You can play Ob Nixillis proactively rather than reactively. You really want to be able to kill a creature right off the bat when Nahiri drops since she is taking the place of your big bad 4 drop critter. Your opponent will very likely have a serious creature advantage the turn after you cast her unless she takes out his biggest creature that same round she lands. Her tapped targeting clause will often make this impossible.
I've been out of Standard for a while, so here's my take on Nahiri from the Modern point-of-view.
1. You've tapped out on turn 4 to cast her. You either loot or nuke a creature, no ifs ands or buts about it.
2. Your opponent untaps and kills you if they're playing any of the following decks, just to name a few: Ad Nauseam, Infect, Burn, Affinity, or the many flavors of Eldrazi. Considering how the metagame looks right now, it's safe to say this will happen very often.
I'm excited about how they incorporated flavor into the card, but now how they incorporated the power. She drops too late, doesn't do much when she hits, and I'd rather be playing practically any other card, particularly if I'm ready to put the game away. Planeswalkers that aren't geared towards the power of cards like Liliana of the Veil or Karn Liberated simply can't compete. I don't think she'll make any movement through Modern, at least for as long as Eldrazi is king.
I think the best part of this walker is her flavor as it appears to almost have the storyline (or speculated storyline) built in. I do wish she did more with equipment/artifacts, but aside from that, her flavor is strong IMHO:
+2) Nahiri starts going out of her mind with madness (largely due to anger at Sorin?, discard with synergy for madness fits this well)
-2) Nahiri starts exiling things out of anger/vengeance
-8) As a final step in her desire for vengeance she summons __________ (Emrakul, Marit Lage, your favorite choice of monster) to attack Innistrad
I've been out of Standard for a while, so here's my take on Nahiri from the Modern point-of-view.
1. You've tapped out on turn 4 to cast her. You either loot or nuke a creature, no ifs ands or buts about it.
2. Your opponent untaps and kills you if they're playing any of the following decks, just to name a few: Ad Nauseam, Infect, Burn, Affinity, or the many flavors of Eldrazi. Considering how the metagame looks right now, it's safe to say this will happen very often.
I'm excited about how they incorporated flavor into the card, but now how they incorporated the power. She drops too late, doesn't do much when she hits, and I'd rather be playing practically any other card, particularly if I'm ready to put the game away. Planeswalkers that aren't geared towards the power of cards like Liliana of the Veil or Karn Liberated simply can't compete. I don't think she'll make any movement through Modern, at least for as long as Eldrazi is king.
She could see play in a Big Red style of deck.
You have about a 2% chance to turn 1 her. Not that unrealistic to beable to turn 3 her.
First off the ability is not bad looting, it is Rummaging.
Secondly rummaging is worse than looting, as surprisingly red's filters should be worse than blue's.
Thirdly, I am sorta glad that they are not creating game ending walker ultimates anymore, but considering that the best standard creatures
to cheat into play do their effects on cast instead of ETB, Shadows will have to show something very powerful cost efficient to make me want to even bother ulting...(and yes I know, walkers should not be evaluated by this metric, Nahiri just feels more flavor text-y than usual).
As for Nahiri, I honestly do not know what to think. So I will break her down by format.
Limited.
She is a walker, she filters to find your more powerful cards, enables madness, she has a good starting loyalty and at worse she is a conditional exile effect for creatures and artifacts, as well as some passive enchantment hate. Seems good and no limited deck that can support her will ever cut her.
Standard.
This is where things get dicey.
+ 4 loyalty for 4 CMC.
+ Filters you into better cards and enable madness.
+ +2 loyalty on the up is pretty cool
+ Conditional exile for creatures and artifacts, plus unconditional exiles for enchantments.
- She will be sharing a bed with mini Jace for the next year, which is probably a better enabler for Madness and a scarier walker on the flip.
- The quality of the madness deck is still an unknown factor.
- She is conditional removal, which means her ability to defend herself is in question.
- Minor point, her ult probably will not win a game on its own currently, so will probably never get used. It also hurts that the creature does not get to stick around.
For the older formats, she is probably too underpowered to see play.
I know that I have repeated myself a few times, but that is more to do with the fact that what is playable in one format, might now be so in another.
She seems pretty strong in atandard. Loot effect isn't great, but because it's a +2 she is quite difficult to kill, and any attack that doesn't take her out allows her to retaliate. Her ultimate isn't amazing (in current standard) compared to many other ultimates, but the fact that it is pretty quick to reach means that an opponent can't ignore her. An opponent has to at least damage her in the first two turns she is out to avoid the ult, and if they do that by attacking, it enables her -2. Her -2 ability is also helpful in that it gives you a maindeck answer to enchantments (there aren't any relevant artifact targets right now, but that could change). She fits best in a midrange deck, where she is excellent against other midrange, a relevant threat and card advantage against control, and not terrible against aggro (4 mana removal is weak, but can hit twice or gain some life).
It does require a RW midrange deck to exist, which isn't unlikely, but isn't a guarantee. It also needs that deck to be willing to play at least one copy of a 6-7 cmc creature (which would most likely compete with Chandra for a slot).
In Modern, the ultimate wins the game (if you are willing to add an Emrakul to your deck), but the +2 ability is terrible for a modern 4-drop. The -2 is MUCH worse than Ajani's against aggro, and can't target
Her -8 ability makes me wonder if the artifact clause is in there for flavor or if we'll be seeing another artifact themed block soon* since there really isn't an artifact in standard right now that I'd search for over a creature.
Woow here is another great Planeswalker. not just good. Great.
i hear People complainin about how weak her +2 is & only good with Madness. This is ability is always good. What other 4 mana Planeswalker adds 2 loyality & draws a Card ? 5 Mana Planeswalkers do that actualy. Be grateful for this exception. Discarding is only a lil Price to me. i either discard my Madness-stuff, something i dont need, or a land later. in Exchange i get 2 more loyality & a Card-draw.
-2 is very versatile, conditional Removal. Gideon Jura costs 5 & does that, but worse. you can already have unconditional Enchantment-removal in your main-board. Or conditional Artifact & creature removal to protect her, that is also easy to repeat due to a high starting loyality & +2 ability. it just hits 3 Card types & then theyre gone for good in Exile.
-8 im not a Fan of it personally d:/ its powerful, but i dont wanna main Deck a huge uncastable Card. Though im Content with 5 - 7 Mana Bomb, that you can cast after the attack & hope it doesnt eat Removal ^^
She reminds me of ob nixilis, reignited a bit. controllish & similiar abilities. but for 1 less mana.
Awesome Card & great way to start big Spoilers. i will test her in Modern. She seems to put Ajani to Shame. but that Card was never that good to me anyway.
Woow here is another great Planeswalker. not just good. Great.
i hear People complainin about how weak her +2 is & only good with Madness. This is ability is always good. What other 4 mana Planeswalker adds 2 loyality & draws a Card ? 5 Mana Planeswalkers do that actualy. Be grateful for this exception. Discarding is only a lil Price to me. i either discard my Madness-stuff, something i dont need, or a land later. in Exchange i get 2 more loyality & a Card-draw.
-2 is very versatile, conditional Removal. Gideon Jura costs 5 & does that, only worse. you can already have unconditional Enchantment-removal in your main-board. Or conditional Artifact & creature removal to protect her, that is also easy to repeat due to a high starting loyality & +2 ability. it just hits 3 Card types & then theyre gone for good.
-8 im not a Fan of it personally d:/ its powerful, but i dont wanna main Deck a huge uncastable Card. Though im Content with 5 - 7 Mana Bomb, that you can cast after the attack & hope it doesnt eat Removal ^^
Awesome Card & great way to start big Spoilers. i will test her in Modern. She seems to put Ajani to Shame. but that Card isnt great anyway.
I don't think you can say it is a +2 that draws a card. It is a +2 that situationally draws a card at the cost of a discarded card. First, you need a card in hand to draw the card. Secondly, you need to be willing to discard that card. Yes, a madness deck may make this more advantageous, but now you are looking at a card that requires to built around in order to be good. Additionally, a lot of discard/madness decks tend to burn through their cards faster, so it's more likely they may not have that card to discard. This also makes it a bad top deck in late game. It's not bad, but it's definitely not the same thing as card draw.
No ist obviously not a Card draw without cost. We agree. But this cost can be mitigated easily. Like i said, just discard what you dont Need (& this is generally good without Building a Deck around), or a madness-card, if you Play such a Deck. Also note: you MAY discard, to draw. If you decide to not discard, you still get 2 loyality. So you can Keep your Cards & 2 more loyality. Lategame you can still activate -2, or just Keep a useless card in Hand just for the case.
Nahiri is fine. She's a role-player, but she's fine. If you have control, you play her and rummage for two turns before winning off of a Blightsteel / Emrakul. If you don't have control, she helps establish that by nuking whatever was bothering you (as long as it wasn't a hatebear that didn't have to attack you to make you miserable). She's good if you're ahead or behind. She protects herself by nuking attacking dorks. She's good.
Who, exactly, is she a harbinger for? Well, I don't think it's a mistake in the slightest that her ultimate can fetch up Eldrazi. Nor is it a mistake that she didn't show up to help Ugin or Sorin. Or that Emrakul had already been freed from Zendikar. She's working for Emrakul, now, in some king of perverse symbiotic relationship, and Emmy is gonna be making himself known in Eldritch Moon. At that point, she'll be dumping a neutered version of Emrakul onto the battlefield in standard.
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It's the same idea behind lili though, she hits the board and almost immediately goes to 1 loyalty (they key difference is she does it a turn ealier) but she's still amazingly playable
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Operating under the '5 Planeswalkers per block' standard, we'll have Nahiri, Sorin, and Arlin in SoI and two in EM.
Are people just assuming that Sorin is in Shadows Over Innistrad? Did I miss an official confirmation somewhere?
Because if not, then this implies "No Sorin," not "No Jace." They're both on card art, but Jace is on all the promotional materials, i.e., we know both characters are in the story but only the latter is definitely getting a card.
They've told us when they're spoiling Sorin (the 17th), so he's definitely in the set.
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I can buy the "Arlinn is a Legendary Creature in her human form and a planeswalker in her wolf form" theory. When they previewed her bio, it specified that she had to return to Innistrad to transform back into a human, which fits with that idea and would allow WotC to print her in sets that don't have DFCs if she proves popular.
The tapped targeting clause on her second ability is a very serious draw back. It means in order to guarantee a 1 for 1 or better as creature or artifact removal you have to wait for your opponent to already tap and use these things against you before you cast her. That is a massive drawback compared to a card like Ob Nixillis Reignited where the moment he comes down he can destroy any normally target-able creature. You don't have to wait for your opponent to beat your face in with that dragon before you are able kill it with him. You can play Ob Nixillis proactively rather than reactively. You really want to be able to kill a creature right off the bat when Nahiri drops since she is taking the place of your big bad 4 drop critter. Your opponent will very likely have a serious creature advantage the turn after you cast her unless she takes out his biggest creature that same round she lands. Her tapped targeting clause will often make this impossible.
1. You've tapped out on turn 4 to cast her. You either loot or nuke a creature, no ifs ands or buts about it.
2. Your opponent untaps and kills you if they're playing any of the following decks, just to name a few: Ad Nauseam, Infect, Burn, Affinity, or the many flavors of Eldrazi. Considering how the metagame looks right now, it's safe to say this will happen very often.
I'm excited about how they incorporated flavor into the card, but now how they incorporated the power. She drops too late, doesn't do much when she hits, and I'd rather be playing practically any other card, particularly if I'm ready to put the game away. Planeswalkers that aren't geared towards the power of cards like Liliana of the Veil or Karn Liberated simply can't compete. I don't think she'll make any movement through Modern, at least for as long as Eldrazi is king.
+2) Nahiri starts going out of her mind with madness (largely due to anger at Sorin?, discard with synergy for madness fits this well)
-2) Nahiri starts exiling things out of anger/vengeance
-8) As a final step in her desire for vengeance she summons __________ (Emrakul, Marit Lage, your favorite choice of monster) to attack Innistrad
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She could see play in a Big Red style of deck.
You have about a 2% chance to turn 1 her. Not that unrealistic to beable to turn 3 her.
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Secondly rummaging is worse than looting, as surprisingly red's filters should be worse than blue's.
Thirdly, I am sorta glad that they are not creating game ending walker ultimates anymore, but considering that the best standard creatures
to cheat into play do their effects on cast instead of ETB, Shadows will have to show something very powerful cost efficient to make me want to even bother ulting...(and yes I know, walkers should not be evaluated by this metric, Nahiri just feels more flavor text-y than usual).
As for Nahiri, I honestly do not know what to think. So I will break her down by format.
Limited.
She is a walker, she filters to find your more powerful cards, enables madness, she has a good starting loyalty and at worse she is a conditional exile effect for creatures and artifacts, as well as some passive enchantment hate. Seems good and no limited deck that can support her will ever cut her.
Standard.
This is where things get dicey.
+ 4 loyalty for 4 CMC.
+ Filters you into better cards and enable madness.
+ +2 loyalty on the up is pretty cool
+ Conditional exile for creatures and artifacts, plus unconditional exiles for enchantments.
- She will be sharing a bed with mini Jace for the next year, which is probably a better enabler for Madness and a scarier walker on the flip.
- The quality of the madness deck is still an unknown factor.
- She is conditional removal, which means her ability to defend herself is in question.
- Minor point, her ult probably will not win a game on its own currently, so will probably never get used. It also hurts that the creature does not get to stick around.
For the older formats, she is probably too underpowered to see play.
I know that I have repeated myself a few times, but that is more to do with the fact that what is playable in one format, might now be so in another.
It does require a RW midrange deck to exist, which isn't unlikely, but isn't a guarantee. It also needs that deck to be willing to play at least one copy of a 6-7 cmc creature (which would most likely compete with Chandra for a slot).
In Modern, the ultimate wins the game (if you are willing to add an Emrakul to your deck), but the +2 ability is terrible for a modern 4-drop. The -2 is MUCH worse than Ajani's against aggro, and can't target
*(New Phyrexia? Kaladesh?)
That last ability is a nod to Stoneforge Mystic, the card her original design was based on.
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i hear People complainin about how weak her +2 is & only good with Madness. This is ability is always good. What other 4 mana Planeswalker adds 2 loyality & draws a Card ? 5 Mana Planeswalkers do that actualy. Be grateful for this exception. Discarding is only a lil Price to me. i either discard my Madness-stuff, something i dont need, or a land later. in Exchange i get 2 more loyality & a Card-draw.
-2 is very versatile, conditional Removal. Gideon Jura costs 5 & does that, but worse. you can already have unconditional Enchantment-removal in your main-board. Or conditional Artifact & creature removal to protect her, that is also easy to repeat due to a high starting loyality & +2 ability. it just hits 3 Card types & then theyre gone for good in Exile.
-8 im not a Fan of it personally d:/ its powerful, but i dont wanna main Deck a huge uncastable Card. Though im Content with 5 - 7 Mana Bomb, that you can cast after the attack & hope it doesnt eat Removal ^^
She reminds me of ob nixilis, reignited a bit. controllish & similiar abilities. but for 1 less mana.
Awesome Card & great way to start big Spoilers. i will test her in Modern. She seems to put Ajani to Shame. but that Card was never that good to me anyway.
I don't think you can say it is a +2 that draws a card. It is a +2 that situationally draws a card at the cost of a discarded card. First, you need a card in hand to draw the card. Secondly, you need to be willing to discard that card. Yes, a madness deck may make this more advantageous, but now you are looking at a card that requires to built around in order to be good. Additionally, a lot of discard/madness decks tend to burn through their cards faster, so it's more likely they may not have that card to discard. This also makes it a bad top deck in late game. It's not bad, but it's definitely not the same thing as card draw.
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Speaking of Emrakul...
Harbinger: "a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald."
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/harbinger?s=t
Who, exactly, is she a harbinger for? Well, I don't think it's a mistake in the slightest that her ultimate can fetch up Eldrazi. Nor is it a mistake that she didn't show up to help Ugin or Sorin. Or that Emrakul had already been freed from Zendikar. She's working for Emrakul, now, in some king of perverse symbiotic relationship, and Emmy is gonna be making himself known in Eldritch Moon. At that point, she'll be dumping a neutered version of Emrakul onto the battlefield in standard.