Mummy Paramount1W Creature - Zombie (Common)
Whenever another Zombie enters
the battlefield under your control,
Mummy Paramount gets +1/+1 until
end of turn.
2/2
Wretched Camel1B Creature - Zombie Camel (Common)
When Wretched Camel dies, if you
eat a Dessert or there is a Dessert
in your stomach, target player
discards a card.
2/1
edit: Only 1 uncommon, sorry! Mods, thread title, please?
Nice to see a straightforward explanation for why there are non-humanoid Eternals. And I love the small bit of humor in the mummies' obliviousness to the crumbling of society around them. The Paramount definitely intrigues me as to what the future of a return to Amonkhet may hold... could the mummies end up rebuilding Naktamun, continuing to go through the motions of their pre-programmed duties, or starting to deviate and developing a society all their own?
Interesting to see a card with practically the same art as a card from the previous setThose Who Serve. A little stronger, but still not strong enough to survive the Hour of Devastation
Manticore Eternal is comparable to a Juggernaut but it also has Afflict 3 and one more toughness. Wretched Camel is alright. Might be some incentive for some zombie decks to run a couple deserts in their deck.
It lays the foundation of an interesting Return to Amonkhet: The former mindless servants have a few leaders who become undying god-kings in their own right - probably founding a white-black civilization among the ruins while the living have to make their own luck in the wastes. More likely to reject the hierarchy after what they have experienced? Imagine the white-black mummies enslaving the survivors of Naktamun so the undead can kick back while the living build monuments for them.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
I hate Dutiful Servants so much it's not even funny. You know Wizards did this on purpose. And poorly designed zombie camel aside, this may be the insult that breaks my back. It's a poorly designed vanilla, with art and flavor purposely designed to trick you to confuse it for another card in the same block. This is the sort of thing that leads to entirely preventable gameplay mistakes in limited. And somehow MaRo said "Print it."
Well, I'm sorry MaRo, but peddle your joke cards elsewhere. And I'm sorry piss-poor designers, but PAY ATTENTION to what you do.
It lays the foundation of an interesting Return to Amonkhet: The former mindless servants have a few leaders who become undying god-kings in their own right - probably founding a white-black civilization among the ruins while the living have to make their own luck in the wastes. More likely to reject the hierarchy after what they have experienced? Imagine the white-black mummies enslaving the survivors of Naktamun so the undead can kick back while the living build monuments for them.
Oh so much this. Maybe we will even get a legendary anointed on our Return to Amonkhet.
I hate Dutiful Servants so much it's not even funny. You know Wizards did this on purpose. And poorly designed zombie camel aside, this may be the insult that breaks my back. It's a poorly designed vanilla, with art and flavor purposely designed to trick you to confuse it for another card in the same block. This is the sort of thing that leads to entirely preventable gameplay mistakes in limited. And somehow MaRo said "Print it."
Well, I'm sorry MaRo, but peddle your joke cards elsewhere. And I'm sorry piss-poor designers, but PAY ATTENTION to what you do.
Of course they did it on purpose, the flavor is the point. The Annointed mummies seen in Those Who Serveare completely hardwired to serve their duties, even when the world is literally falling to pieces around them. So yes, even as the river turns to blood and the sky is full of plagues and the pyramids are falling down, the mummies just continue to do what they were programmed to do, in this case carrying parcels around. In fact, the most recent story made a point of talking about mummies who had were tasked to cook meals, automatically preparing so much food that it was piling up around them as they blindly did their jobs ad infintum. They show that by having the art in the new card mimic the old. It's not a joke card, it's actually flavorful.
So what if it's a vanilla? It's a white common vanilla creature, we get at least one in just about every set. We'll get another one in Ixalan, i'd put money on it. Finally, is this REALLY going to cause gameplay mistakes? Different name, different p/t, different card, it's not esepcially difficult to get confused. Furthermore, how often are vanilla commons like this actually drafted, much less see play? I think you're overreacting here.
Just add Phyrexian Altar. (Not that there aren't a zillion other things you can also do with Gravecrawler and Altar; but this is one of a shortlist that in one card both reaps the benefit and provides the required precondition).
I hate Dutiful Servants so much it's not even funny. You know Wizards did this on purpose. And poorly designed zombie camel aside, this may be the insult that breaks my back. It's a poorly designed vanilla, with art and flavor purposely designed to trick you to confuse it for another card in the same block. This is the sort of thing that leads to entirely preventable gameplay mistakes in limited. And somehow MaRo said "Print it."
Well, I'm sorry MaRo, but peddle your joke cards elsewhere. And I'm sorry piss-poor designers, but PAY ATTENTION to what you do.
Pretty sure MaRo isn't lord over what does, and does not, get printed.
Yes, this might be a little confusing in limited scenarios, but it's just 1 toughness.
I hate Dutiful Servants so much it's not even funny. You know Wizards did this on purpose. And poorly designed zombie camel aside, this may be the insult that breaks my back. It's a poorly designed vanilla, with art and flavor purposely designed to trick you to confuse it for another card in the same block. This is the sort of thing that leads to entirely preventable gameplay mistakes in limited. And somehow MaRo said "Print it."
Well, I'm sorry MaRo, but peddle your joke cards elsewhere. And I'm sorry piss-poor designers, but PAY ATTENTION to what you do.
I think you mean Jeremy Jarvis. Last I checked MaRo wasn't an art director.
I hate Dutiful Servants so much it's not even funny. You know Wizards did this on purpose. And poorly designed zombie camel aside, this may be the insult that breaks my back. It's a poorly designed vanilla, with art and flavor purposely designed to trick you to confuse it for another card in the same block. This is the sort of thing that leads to entirely preventable gameplay mistakes in limited. And somehow MaRo said "Print it."
Well, I'm sorry MaRo, but peddle your joke cards elsewhere. And I'm sorry piss-poor designers, but PAY ATTENTION to what you do.
I hate Dutiful Servants so much it's not even funny. You know Wizards did this on purpose. And poorly designed zombie camel aside, this may be the insult that breaks my back. It's a poorly designed vanilla, with art and flavor purposely designed to trick you to confuse it for another card in the same block. This is the sort of thing that leads to entirely preventable gameplay mistakes in limited. And somehow MaRo said "Print it."
Well, I'm sorry MaRo, but peddle your joke cards elsewhere. And I'm sorry piss-poor designers, but PAY ATTENTION to what you do.
Of course they did it on purpose, the flavor is the point. The Annointed mummies seen in Those Who Serveare completely hardwired to serve their duties, even when the world is literally falling to pieces around them. So yes, even as the river turns to blood and the sky is full of plagues and the pyramids are falling down, the mummies just continue to do what they were programmed to do, in this case carrying parcels around. In fact, the most recent story made a point of talking about mummies who had were tasked to cook meals, automatically preparing so much food that it was piling up around them as they blindly did their jobs ad infintum. They show that by having the art in the new card mimic the old. It's not a joke card, it's actually flavorful.
So what if it's a vanilla? It's a white common vanilla creature, we get at least one in just about every set. We'll get another one in Ixalan, i'd put money on it. Finally, is this REALLY going to cause gameplay mistakes? Different name, different p/t, different card, it's not esepcially difficult to get confused. Furthermore, how often are vanilla commons like this actually drafted, much less see play? I think you're overreacting here.
I'm not particularly mad, but why not just reprint the same card with different art?
I hate Dutiful Servants so much it's not even funny. You know Wizards did this on purpose. And poorly designed zombie camel aside, this may be the insult that breaks my back. It's a poorly designed vanilla, with art and flavor purposely designed to trick you to confuse it for another card in the same block. This is the sort of thing that leads to entirely preventable gameplay mistakes in limited. And somehow MaRo said "Print it."
Well, I'm sorry MaRo, but peddle your joke cards elsewhere. And I'm sorry piss-poor designers, but PAY ATTENTION to what you do.
Fun fact - design doesn't come up with the card names (at least not finalized versions) and they most certainly don't pick the art. Blaming Mark Rosewater for this is silly, it's Development you have an issue with (and the art director).
As ridiculous as most of the things you complain about are (like suggesting WotC should have made Rhonas' Last Stand go from questionable to straight out garbage by costing it at 3 CMC, presumably because it offended your sense of symmetry by costing less than the other 2 cards in the cycle that were spoiled at the time), almost NONE of those things are indicative of bad design. In point of fact, almost all of the complaints everyone makes about cards on this forum can be blamed on Development. Why does this card cost so much, it would be so much better if it didn't have this clause, etc etc... odds are the version Design handed off did cost less, and didn't have those riders that render it basically unplayable. It may also have been horrendously broken and cause no end of complaint for entirely different reasons if Development passed it through unchanged, no way to know for sure unless they release an M-Files article on it.
MaRo is responsible for a lot of stuff, but gets blamed for even more.
I hate Dutiful Servants so much it's not even funny. You know Wizards did this on purpose. And poorly designed zombie camel aside, this may be the insult that breaks my back. It's a poorly designed vanilla, with art and flavor purposely designed to trick you to confuse it for another card in the same block. This is the sort of thing that leads to entirely preventable gameplay mistakes in limited. And somehow MaRo said "Print it."
Well, I'm sorry MaRo, but peddle your joke cards elsewhere. And I'm sorry piss-poor designers, but PAY ATTENTION to what you do.
Fun fact - design doesn't come up with the card names (at least not finalized versions) and they most certainly don't pick the art. Blaming Mark Rosewater for this is silly, it's Development you have an issue with (and the art director).
As ridiculous as most of the things you complain about are (like suggesting WotC should have made Rhonas' Last Stand go from questionable to straight out garbage by costing it at 3 CMC, presumably because it offended your sense of symmetry by costing less than the other 2 cards in the cycle that were spoiled at the time), almost NONE of those things are indicative of bad design. In point of fact, almost all of the complaints everyone makes about cards on this forum can be blamed on Development. Why does this card cost so much, it would be so much better if it didn't have this clause, etc etc... odds are the version Design handed off did cost less, and didn't have those riders that render it basically unplayable. It may also have been horrendously broken and cause no end of complaint for entirely different reasons if Development passed it through unchanged, no way to know for sure unless they release an M-Files article on it.
MaRo is responsible for a lot of stuff, but gets blamed for even more.
I'm using MaRo as a stand-in for the kind of guy who advocates (!) printing bad cards. But you're right; this is the kind of combination of art fudge + design fail + "Who cares? It's a common, it's okay that it's garbage" that you'd think MaRo would have caught. Now I don't know what MaRo would have done if he hadn't been asleep at the wheel (perhaps he'd have picked a different piece of art from the reject pile and made it some generic white beast. But that doesn't change the fact it's 1 more for +0/+1 within the same block. It's insulting. And I think MaRo might just be the kind of guy who's okay with that, given his articles.
It lays the foundation of an interesting Return to Amonkhet: The former mindless servants have a few leaders who become undying god-kings in their own right - probably founding a white-black civilization among the ruins while the living have to make their own luck in the wastes. More likely to reject the hierarchy after what they have experienced? Imagine the white-black mummies enslaving the survivors of Naktamun so the undead can kick back while the living build monuments for them.
Oh so much this. Maybe we will even get a legendary anointed on our Return to Amonkhet.
Temmet the Anointed?
So, when we return to Amonkhet, will we see a 2/6 vanilla Zombie for 4W? Or will they be 3/5?
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MTGS Wikia Article about "New World Order"
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
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Manticore Eternal 3RR
Creature - Zombie Manticore (Uncommon)
Afflict 3
Manticore Eternal attacks each combat
if able.
5/4
Dutiful Servants? 3W
Creature - Zombie (Common)
2/5
Mummy Paramount 1W
Creature - Zombie (Common)
Whenever another Zombie enters
the battlefield under your control,
Mummy Paramount gets +1/+1 until
end of turn.
2/2
Wretched Camel 1B
Creature - Zombie Camel (Common)
When Wretched Camel dies, if you
eat a Dessert or there is a Dessert
in your stomach, target player
discards a card.
2/1
edit: Only 1 uncommon, sorry! Mods, thread title, please?
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Wretched Camel is alright. Might be some incentive for some zombie decks to run a couple deserts in their deck.
Mummy Paramount and Dutiful Servants. Am I the only getting a bit of a silly vibe out of these two?
Dooms-DAAAAY, YEAH!!!
I couldn't help myself, sorry.
That manticore seams like an absolute beating in limited, though.
It lays the foundation of an interesting Return to Amonkhet: The former mindless servants have a few leaders who become undying god-kings in their own right - probably founding a white-black civilization among the ruins while the living have to make their own luck in the wastes. More likely to reject the hierarchy after what they have experienced? Imagine the white-black mummies enslaving the survivors of Naktamun so the undead can kick back while the living build monuments for them.
Finally a good white villain quote: "So, do I ever re-evaluate my life choices? Never, because I know what I'm doing is a righteous cause."
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Hah! I was just about to comment on that myself.
Adorned Pouncer: Giant cheezburger? You haz my interest.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
Well, I'm sorry MaRo, but peddle your joke cards elsewhere. And I'm sorry piss-poor designers, but PAY ATTENTION to what you do.
Of course they did it on purpose, the flavor is the point. The Annointed mummies seen in Those Who Serveare completely hardwired to serve their duties, even when the world is literally falling to pieces around them. So yes, even as the river turns to blood and the sky is full of plagues and the pyramids are falling down, the mummies just continue to do what they were programmed to do, in this case carrying parcels around. In fact, the most recent story made a point of talking about mummies who had were tasked to cook meals, automatically preparing so much food that it was piling up around them as they blindly did their jobs ad infintum. They show that by having the art in the new card mimic the old. It's not a joke card, it's actually flavorful.
So what if it's a vanilla? It's a white common vanilla creature, we get at least one in just about every set. We'll get another one in Ixalan, i'd put money on it. Finally, is this REALLY going to cause gameplay mistakes? Different name, different p/t, different card, it's not esepcially difficult to get confused. Furthermore, how often are vanilla commons like this actually drafted, much less see play? I think you're overreacting here.
Just add Phyrexian Altar. (Not that there aren't a zillion other things you can also do with Gravecrawler and Altar; but this is one of a shortlist that in one card both reaps the benefit and provides the required precondition).
Pretty sure MaRo isn't lord over what does, and does not, get printed.
Yes, this might be a little confusing in limited scenarios, but it's just 1 toughness.
I think you mean Jeremy Jarvis. Last I checked MaRo wasn't an art director.
Not everything is Maro's fault.
I'm not particularly mad, but why not just reprint the same card with different art?
As ridiculous as most of the things you complain about are (like suggesting WotC should have made Rhonas' Last Stand go from questionable to straight out garbage by costing it at 3 CMC, presumably because it offended your sense of symmetry by costing less than the other 2 cards in the cycle that were spoiled at the time), almost NONE of those things are indicative of bad design. In point of fact, almost all of the complaints everyone makes about cards on this forum can be blamed on Development. Why does this card cost so much, it would be so much better if it didn't have this clause, etc etc... odds are the version Design handed off did cost less, and didn't have those riders that render it basically unplayable. It may also have been horrendously broken and cause no end of complaint for entirely different reasons if Development passed it through unchanged, no way to know for sure unless they release an M-Files article on it.
MaRo is responsible for a lot of stuff, but gets blamed for even more.
Because then you couldn't live the dream: Uncage the Menagerie into both Those Who Serve AND Dutiful Servants!
No, wait, you can't do that anyway (they'd need to be different names at the same cost). Drat!
I'm using MaRo as a stand-in for the kind of guy who advocates (!) printing bad cards. But you're right; this is the kind of combination of art fudge + design fail + "Who cares? It's a common, it's okay that it's garbage" that you'd think MaRo would have caught. Now I don't know what MaRo would have done if he hadn't been asleep at the wheel (perhaps he'd have picked a different piece of art from the reject pile and made it some generic white beast. But that doesn't change the fact it's 1 more for +0/+1 within the same block. It's insulting. And I think MaRo might just be the kind of guy who's okay with that, given his articles.
Temmet the Anointed?
So, when we return to Amonkhet, will we see a 2/6 vanilla Zombie for 4W? Or will they be 3/5?
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.