When I see Healing Salve, I'm often like "Oh girl, I wish I could turn every card into this." Thanks they removed the gain life part, otherwise this would have been broken.
It's funny how they print cards like Hour of Glory and Deicide as just-in-case things. I guess the bug gerds are much more annoying than the Amonkhet ones and this is more for them.
Speaking of which, I'm going to enjoy using this card to squish some bugs. God, I hate bugs.
a weaker and more exspensive cmc of Deicide basicly
oh that card is a story highlight by the way remember that
Uhhhhh, in what world is exile target creature weaker than exile target enchantment? lolololol.
Twice as expensive, half as useful. The former was an amazing card in it's time. This is 4 mana creature removal with marginal upside. This isn't bad, but you are discounting cost effectiveness. Deicide always gave you a mana advantage over youe opponent considering most enchantments and enchantment creatures at the time were 2cmc and above. This? All gods are 4 mana or below except the Grixis ones which means this card's optimal use 5/8 times isn't even mana optimal.
It doesn't matter what the mana cost of the God is. This spell exiles it no matter the cost and does it the same way regardless of whether the God cost 3 or 5 or 7.
"Mana optimal" isn't really a thing.
Hm, I actually likes Visage of Bolas and Nissa's Encouragement, both search for respective PW and give more mana for you to get them out. If Brembleweft Behemoth is better, I might even consider including Encouragement in a deck.
I don't care if costs four mana, I want the Visage of Bolas for the pirate EDH deck I been preparing as its basically another Obelisk of Grixis that might have a secondary purpose of fetching a planeswalker.
I don't care if costs four mana, I want the Visage of Bolas for the pirate EDH deck I been preparing as its basically another Obelisk of Grixis that might have a secondary purpose of fetching a planeswalker.
Well bolas can be put in the pirate tribal commander (from the leak) since he's grixis
Wow, ANOTHER UG Nissa deck and after only two sets no less?
I totally swear WOTC does something that makes me prefer intro packs and theme decks over planeswalker decks.
First is releasing 2 precons per set, and not 4 or 5 precons per set, thus giving less options per set. It's all good. The cover card and its character should be unique, I mean, there are tons of planeswalkers out there right? Not until they said that least one of them has to be a Gatewatch planeswalker.
Ok. It's all good. Surely they won't reuse the same color combinations for the same planeswalker right? Nope, Nissa this time is still a Green Blue deck. I will assume all Nissa decks going forward will be Green Blue.
What a joke.
With intro packs, and there being 5 per set, at least you will at most won't see a specific color combination for a few sets, whereas, because of the nature that at least one Planeswalker deck must be a Gatewatch planeswalker, and if it is true that the Planeswalker dictates the colors of the deck, then you will be seeing certain color combinations more often than others. To balance out the fact that one of the Planeswalker decks must feature a Gatewatch member, the other one must utilize the colors the Gatewatch do not use, meaning not W/G, B/G, R/W, G/U, and whatever Jace's color combination will be. Considering both Gideon and Chandra have R/W planeswalker decks, we might be seeing a R/W deck every 2 sets.
One reason why I hate the change to Planeswalker deck is that WOTC is taking away diversity. Right now, they are really taking away diversity by including less precons per set, and reusing the same Planeswalker and color combinations after only a few sets.
a weaker and more exspensive cmc of Deicide basicly
oh that card is a story highlight by the way remember that
Uhhhhh, in what world is exile target creature weaker than exile target enchantment? lolololol.
Twice as expensive, half as useful. The former was an amazing card in it's time. This is 4 mana creature removal with marginal upside. This isn't bad, but you are discounting cost effectiveness. Deicide always gave you a mana advantage over youe opponent considering most enchantments and enchantment creatures at the time were 2cmc and above. This? All gods are 4 mana or below except the Grixis ones which means this card's optimal use 5/8 times isn't even mana optimal.
It doesn't matter what the mana cost of the God is. This spell exiles it no matter the cost and does it the same way regardless of whether the God cost 3 or 5 or 7.
"Mana optimal" isn't really a thing.
If being mana optimal wasn't a thing, dispel, essence scatter and negate wouldn't be used over 3 mana generic catch all counterspells. And murder would be used over fatal push, grasp of darkness, etc. When your answers are more expensive than the threats you are answering, that's a huge problem. Being mana efficient is important for answers.
sometimes I have a really hard time figuring out Wizards thought processes. 'Glory is a rare, but fatal push is uncommon. I will be pretty upset to get this card as a rare in any sealed play; because I know the chances are slim that I will run into any player with multiple gods so this can't be for limited. And for constructed its beyond a joke. I guess though, since black already has push, they don't need efficient removal after that right? When is Wizards finally going to learn that if you print awesome creatures, like these new gods, you also need to print awesome answers, and 'glory isn't it. I know they like balance things for limited, but limited always works like this: first person to land their big bomb wins, because sorcery speed 5cmc removal isn't cutting it. Okay, lets make an instant speed 4 cmc removal at rare, so your chances are really low of getting it in limited and the bombs will reign. That's cute, but not fun, because anyone with mythics always win, and it has next to nothing to do with skill and everything to do with luck. balance removal with the threats and everyone can compete and be happy
Well to put things in perspective, in mono-black there are only 3 instant or sorcery cards that exile a creature for less than 4 mana (reliably, Nemesis Trap can situationally cost less but generally costs more and is far more limited): Ashes to Ashes, which exiles 2 creatures but they have to be non-artifacts and you take 5 damage, at sorcery for 3 CMC, Cannibalize, which requires you to target 2 creatures but they both have to be controlled by the same player and you only exile 1 of them and put counters on the other, another sorcery at 2 CMC, and the far more recently printed Complete Disregard, which is an instant for 3 CMC but only exiles creatures with power 3 or less.
This effect in black basically always costs at least 4 mana and it's usually at sorcery speed, and it's ridiculously uncommon for the color (I believe this brings us to 12 examples in total) - of the tiny subset that can target anything at instant, this is arguably the best (Silence the Believers is the same CMC but has heavier black requirements).
a weaker and more exspensive cmc of Deicide basicly
oh that card is a story highlight by the way remember that
Uhhhhh, in what world is exile target creature weaker than exile target enchantment? lolololol.
Twice as expensive, half as useful. The former was an amazing card in it's time. This is 4 mana creature removal with marginal upside. This isn't bad, but you are discounting cost effectiveness. Deicide always gave you a mana advantage over youe opponent considering most enchantments and enchantment creatures at the time were 2cmc and above. This? All gods are 4 mana or below except the Grixis ones which means this card's optimal use 5/8 times isn't even mana optimal.
It doesn't matter what the mana cost of the God is. This spell exiles it no matter the cost and does it the same way regardless of whether the God cost 3 or 5 or 7.
"Mana optimal" isn't really a thing.
If being mana optimal wasn't a thing, dispel, essence scatter and negate wouldn't be used over 3 mana generic catch all counterspells. And murder would be used over fatal push, grasp of darkness, etc. When your answers are more expensive than the threats you are answering, that's a huge problem. Being mana efficient is important for answers.
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying if you use a removal spell to get rid of something it doesn't matter what the target's mana cost is. The point is you needed to get rid of it and you did.
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What is giving you that impression?
It's a great art
But I want to see what he does
Speaking of which, I'm going to enjoy using this card to squish some bugs. God, I hate bugs.
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"Useless and everyone pretends to like her?"
It doesn't matter what the mana cost of the God is. This spell exiles it no matter the cost and does it the same way regardless of whether the God cost 3 or 5 or 7.
"Mana optimal" isn't really a thing.
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Poor Rhonas, also I had a bad feeling it was going to be like this. At least we see the art for what might be "Rhonas's Last" with the snake staff.
The Hour of Glory card is alright.
I don't care if costs four mana, I want the Visage of Bolas for the pirate EDH deck I been preparing as its basically another Obelisk of Grixis that might have a secondary purpose of fetching a planeswalker.
I can definitely see somebody altering cards to look like this.
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Well bolas can be put in the pirate tribal commander (from the leak) since he's grixis
(Also, it's kind of a shame that Hour of Glory is just instant speed Oblivion Strike. It's not that glorious.)
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I totally swear WOTC does something that makes me prefer intro packs and theme decks over planeswalker decks.
First is releasing 2 precons per set, and not 4 or 5 precons per set, thus giving less options per set. It's all good. The cover card and its character should be unique, I mean, there are tons of planeswalkers out there right? Not until they said that least one of them has to be a Gatewatch planeswalker.
Ok. It's all good. Surely they won't reuse the same color combinations for the same planeswalker right? Nope, Nissa this time is still a Green Blue deck. I will assume all Nissa decks going forward will be Green Blue.
What a joke.
With intro packs, and there being 5 per set, at least you will at most won't see a specific color combination for a few sets, whereas, because of the nature that at least one Planeswalker deck must be a Gatewatch planeswalker, and if it is true that the Planeswalker dictates the colors of the deck, then you will be seeing certain color combinations more often than others. To balance out the fact that one of the Planeswalker decks must feature a Gatewatch member, the other one must utilize the colors the Gatewatch do not use, meaning not W/G, B/G, R/W, G/U, and whatever Jace's color combination will be. Considering both Gideon and Chandra have R/W planeswalker decks, we might be seeing a R/W deck every 2 sets.
One reason why I hate the change to Planeswalker deck is that WOTC is taking away diversity. Right now, they are really taking away diversity by including less precons per set, and reusing the same Planeswalker and color combinations after only a few sets.
IndominatableDominatedIf being mana optimal wasn't a thing, dispel, essence scatter and negate wouldn't be used over 3 mana generic catch all counterspells. And murder would be used over fatal push, grasp of darkness, etc. When your answers are more expensive than the threats you are answering, that's a huge problem. Being mana efficient is important for answers.
This effect in black basically always costs at least 4 mana and it's usually at sorcery speed, and it's ridiculously uncommon for the color (I believe this brings us to 12 examples in total) - of the tiny subset that can target anything at instant, this is arguably the best (Silence the Believers is the same CMC but has heavier black requirements).
That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying if you use a removal spell to get rid of something it doesn't matter what the target's mana cost is. The point is you needed to get rid of it and you did.