I like how Universal Solvent is an Improvise mana-rock early, and a, well, universal removal spell (which also triggers Revolt) late. Nice design, really cool name.
Oh, you made everything with hexproof or indestructible cry.
Seriously, though, it's also cute because of its interactions. (Rings of Brighthearth, Sun Titan, Salvaging Station...) Of those, Salvaging Station is arguably the most interesting, since if I target a creature, this also untaps the Station (and it untaps Summoning Station regardless) Its biggest problem is, you're talking about EDH-type mana, and in EDH, it has competition from several other colorless Vindicates.
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
I wonder if there is a way to use Efficient Construction along with Paradoxical Outcome to create a janky mono U standard deck. We got 3 0-cmc artifacts we can repeatedly cast for it to create an army of thopters. It can be an alt wincon alongside Aetherflux Reservoir. I'm liking this!
The solvent only "destroys", hence the container just needs to be indestructible. Darksteel or some such would do just fine.
It could be like 5-minute epoxy where you have 2 compounds that when mixed together are a super adhesive but separate relatively inert. Only a solvent instead of an adhesive in this case. You could carry that in a mundane double syringe.
The solvent is NOT the liquid it is the bottle. If you bash something with the bottle long and hard enough it will break and after the deed is done you need to refurbish with all the glue that spills from the broken bottle.
I don't think it makes all that much sense that Universal Solvent can get rid of enchantments.
What part of "Universal" you didn't understand? =P
What's funny about this card is that it's a common, sure, it's quite slow so drafting a lot of them doesn't sound too smart, but with it being a common you can be sure that a really high percentage of prerelease decks are going to pack a Vindicateeffect, I guess they must be sure the format won't favor stalling until you can start killing things with this card, which can get pretty obscene with things that allow you to create token copies or something.
Since this was spoiled in the Magic Duels reddit, it's sure to appear in the game, just when you thought that the top ranks were full of control decks, now comes a slow but splashable kill spell that hits everything, this will see play in U/C decks in Magic Duels, and I wouldn't be surprised to see one or two copies popping out in control decks. I'll test it myself in a U/C control build.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "universal solvent" just a fancy name for water? I guess everything in Kaladesh isn't waterproof.
Correct (see above). I think there's a little joke there but it would work better if the card were blue. An absolute universal solvent is merely theoretical, perhaps that is what they are getting at. Water is magic, without it's unique properties life on this planet couldn't have developed in the way it did.
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It can dissolve anything, even abstract concepts.
Oh, you made everything with hexproof or indestructible cry.
Seriously, though, it's also cute because of its interactions. (Rings of Brighthearth, Sun Titan, Salvaging Station...) Of those, Salvaging Station is arguably the most interesting, since if I target a creature, this also untaps the Station (and it untaps Summoning Station regardless) Its biggest problem is, you're talking about EDH-type mana, and in EDH, it has competition from several other colorless Vindicates.
On phasing:
The card is nice, but I'd rather just play Unstable Obelisk, sure it costs 3, but it has a use outside of just blowing something up.
RBW Mardu Reveler
Commander:
UW Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper - One-Punch Griffin || UR Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain - Historic Tribal Superfriends
GR Omnath, Locus of Rage - Turbo Lands Spellslinger || WURBG Scion of the Ur-Dragon - Living Death Reanimator
BGonti, Lord of Luxury - Gonti's Midnight Party
Under Construction:
WGU Rubinia Soulsinger - Enchantress || RBGU Yidris, Maelstrom Wielder - Cascading Artifacts
RU Jhoira of the Ghitu - Dragonstorm Eldrazi || RU Mizzix of the Izmagnus - Spellslinger
WURBG The Ur-Dragon - Cloning for the Win || WGU Roon of the Hidden Realm - Creature Toolbox
RBGU Vial Smasher the Fierce Kydele, Chosen of Kruphix - Lots'a Combos || BW Ayli, Eternal Pilgrim - Reanimator Combo
WBGU Atraxa, Praetors' Voice - Modified Precon
BUR Nekusar, the Mindrazer || U Arcanis the Omnipotent - Artifact "Storm"
It could be like 5-minute epoxy where you have 2 compounds that when mixed together are a super adhesive but separate relatively inert. Only a solvent instead of an adhesive in this case. You could carry that in a mundane double syringe.
It should be a blue card since water is generally referred to as a/the universal solvent. Kind of funny that mere water can destroy target permanent.
The solvent is NOT the liquid it is the bottle. If you bash something with the bottle long and hard enough it will break and after the deed is done you need to refurbish with all the glue that spills from the broken bottle.
Cheesh guys, I thought this was obvious.
You must have missed the precedent set by Hot Soup. ; )
What part of "Universal" you didn't understand? =P
What's funny about this card is that it's a common, sure, it's quite slow so drafting a lot of them doesn't sound too smart, but with it being a common you can be sure that a really high percentage of prerelease decks are going to pack a Vindicateeffect, I guess they must be sure the format won't favor stalling until you can start killing things with this card, which can get pretty obscene with things that allow you to create token copies or something.
Since this was spoiled in the Magic Duels reddit, it's sure to appear in the game, just when you thought that the top ranks were full of control decks, now comes a slow but splashable kill spell that hits everything, this will see play in U/C decks in Magic Duels, and I wouldn't be surprised to see one or two copies popping out in control decks. I'll test it myself in a U/C control build.
Considering it costs 7 mana just to open the damn thing, I'd say the container is pretty strong.
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worldplane! What aworldplane!I guess you could take this further: Maybe they don't even have much water on Kaladesh!
Correct (see above). I think there's a little joke there but it would work better if the card were blue. An absolute universal solvent is merely theoretical, perhaps that is what they are getting at. Water is magic, without it's unique properties life on this planet couldn't have developed in the way it did.