I kind of want to agree, but A) this should be a lot less narrow than Victim was in its format, and 2) the general power level of Standard is currently a low lower than the Innistrad era, and is likely to remain so. I expect Plank to be played a lot in Standard.
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There's also a white dinosaur on the rare sheet named Kimalla's Sunwing. I'd speculate that Kimalla might be the white sun god if I wasn't 80% sure that Kimalla is the name of the new RW planeswalker.
Make that 100%-
Kimalla is *definitely* a RW Planeswalker.
She's on the Rare sheet-
it's just not hi-res enough to read her card text
(ditto Jace and Vraska).
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The art is definitely on point for the most part, though Walk the Plank does look a little weird enlarged. Probably not Christopher Moeller's best work.
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Merfolk - Won't see play except as a budget option
Elves - Won't see play except as a budget option - GW Elves has a vareity of different creature types as sideboard cards. GB Elves needs black for spells.
Humans - I think they want this to replace Mana Confluence, but I ma not sure they would run 4. They could cast some of their sideboard spells through mana dorks and have fetching to provide the rest. See Ally manabases as an example.
Allies - Allies could run this, but I doubt they will. They have too many requirements to get white mana for spells and sideboard cards to risk not having a white mana for that. The mana dork, Harabaz Druid, doesn't do enough to counter this need.
Slivers - Slivers SEEMS like the natural home in Modern for this, but it would have to go under a facelift and strategy overhaul to use this effectively. 1. It would need to basically replace Sedge Sliver which is one of the meat and potato and reasons to run Aggro Slivers in the first place. 2. I am guessing it would need to replace CoCo which Sedge being gone, wouldn't be as bad. 3. Since removing sedge/coco. My guess it would slim down to a bunch of 1 drops and 2 drops with a few 3 drops like blur sliver. Basically a more varied all-in list that resembles a better mana base pauper sliver style. IT would be even weaker to combo and would probably need to run Smuggler's copter to provide necessary card filtering and to help with some aggro play from your summoning sick slivers. In the Slivers thread, this form is known as fast slivers. http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/fast-sliver-3/
Other tribes - Vampires/Minotaurs/Shamans/Rats/Werewolves etc. They probably are relying a lot on colored spells as well and some of them wouldn't evne run 4 cavern of souls so they can be more reliable to cast their turn 1 discard or removal or ramp.
So are Spanish Conquistador Vampires a thing now? I keep seeing this trope.
Yeah, I think BW vampires are supposed to be like Spanish Conquistadors/Missionaries. There's some flavor text on some of them that reveals a religious element to them on Ixalan.
For the record, Christopher Moeller (who will be missed) cites MTG departing from painted work to CGI/Digital mediums as a factor in his retirement. Ironically, this is exactly what players who complain about the art quality (I'm one of them) are most critical about - WOTC really is out of touch. They're losing their best artists in favor of doing something the players hate and have complained about. I tried telling MaRo about how people prefer the likes of Quinton Hoover and Rebecca Guay, but he never responds to those Asks. But the sales speak for themselves when Rebecca Guay basics outsell every card in the Commander product despite being… BASIC LANDS. Just because they're that quality, painted, genuine art style we actually want. I love more impressionist, watercolor and different forms of art in MTG.
But WOTC just wants CGI war scenes. Last I checked this was a fantasy game called Magic. Not War: the Gathering. It may be combat oriented, but that's obvious to anyone who plays it. The art having to explicitly depict that just dumbs the game down and robs it of the what makes it unique - the fantasy.
I've been playing since 2000. I lived through Apocalypse and Lorwyn blocks pushing former monocolored tribes into new colors. I have grown to accept (and appreciate) what giving additional colors to some of my favorite tribes can do. Totally on board.
I simply can't get behind monowhite Vampires. Sorry.
Mummies were a (yes) clever solution to a problem, I guess, but this is just outright laziness.
Dear MaRo: Please stop ignoring the inconvenient elements of the color pie whenever you have a tricky problem to solve. It applies to tribes too, or ought to. Does anyone here remember that Vampires are a "characteristic" tribe? According to the man himself, it means they represent that color (ahead of other tribes) due to their basic nature/aspect. Vampires are not just black, they're really, really black. EXCEPT WHEN THEY'RE CONQUISTADORS, AMIRITE?!? There's 'bending' and 'breaking' the Color Pie, and then there's 'completely ignoring'.
"Limitations breed creativity." You tell us this all the time but then you turn around and do some lazy ***** like this because it just because it is 'elegant', MaRo shorthand for 'it was a lucky break', and helps you get another set out the door.
I know that sorcery speed makes some players ignore a card completely, but Walk the Plank is *significantly* more useful as a low-cost removal spell than other removal at the same converted mana cost. Doom Blade, everyone's go-to litmus test even though I haven't seen a single player using it in Modern, kills 78.3% of creatures in Modern...but Walk the Plank will kill 98.2% of them. Ultimate Price is actually better than Doom Blade for exactly the same cost and speed, but even it kills only 80.5% of Modern creatures. For other comparison, Lightning Bolt kills only 68.6% and Fatal Push with revolt kills 70.6%. There are still plenty of better options but the spell itself isn't that bad because it hits so many targets.
In Standard, it will definitely show up. In a black/red deck, Kari Zev's Expertise to steal Skysovereign (or whatever vehicle they are using), kill a non-merfolk creature for free, crew the ship, attack and bolt a creature, then deal 6 damage in the air--that's a pretty good turn no matter how you look at it.
Bishop of Rebirth can be a very powerful effect, especially if you enable revolt and chain it with a Renegade Rallier.
For the record, Christopher Moeller (who will be missed) cites MTG departing from painted work to CGI/Digital mediums as a factor in his retirement. Ironically, this is exactly what players who complain about the art quality (I'm one of them) are most critical about - WOTC really is out of touch. They're losing their best artists in favor of doing something the players hate and have complained about. I tried telling MaRo about how people prefer the likes of Quinton Hoover and Rebecca Guay, but he never responds to those Asks. But the sales speak for themselves when Rebecca Guay basics outsell every card in the Commander product despite being… BASIC LANDS. Just because they're that quality, painted, genuine art style we actually want. I love more impressionist, watercolor and different forms of art in MTG.
Looking at the art for Walk the Plank again, which is refreshingly beautiful by the way, it feels like a self portrait, which makes the whole thing, artwork and artist situation, even more saddening.
Interesting. If Dominaria has Slivers in that set, then the standard-ish deck I'm going to build with them will have Unclaimed Territory as four of an auto-include right off the bat.
Why they couldn't have put this in C17 astounds me.
TBH, I would bet that C17 was the inspiration for this card.
They probably wanted to use Cavern but couldn't since it was so valuable,
so they asked someone to make this card,
both to help future Commander releases,
as well as giving people who bought C17 a reason to buy some Ixalan.
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Interesting. If Dominaria has Slivers in that set, then the standard-ish deck I'm going to build with them will have Unclaimed Territory as four of an auto-include right off the bat.
They are really pushing tribal in Ixalan, it seems, so if Slivers are in Dominaria, then it'll definitely be a deck in Standard (and who knows? Maybe there'll be some good enough cards to push the deck to new competitive heights in Modern?).
Walk the Plank feels like it is trying for flavor/gameplay convergence, then just totally fails as it kills sphinxes, dragons, krakens, probably pterodacy type dinosaurs, even airships should they happen to be crewed on your turn. I really hope to someday see a consulate dreadnought walk the plank.
I'm not against it, as these kinds of situations are funny, but the exception here doesn't come close to making sense.
Walk the Plank feels like it is trying for flavor/gameplay convergence, then just totally fails as it kills sphinxes, dragons, krakens, probably pterodacy type dinosaurs, even airships should they happen to be crewed on your turn. I really hope to someday see a consulate dreadnought walk the plank.
I'm not against it, as these kinds of situations are funny, but the exception here doesn't come close to making sense.
If you remove their indestructibility like with Bonds of Mortality, you can make the Amonkhet and Theros gods walk the plank.
No wonder this set is going to look amazing. Cynthia Shepherd is the art director. Go figure. Her work is remarkable. She's painted some of my favorite pieces.
Looking it up Jeremy Jarvis was promoted to "Principal Designer of Worlds & IP" in 2015 (and now is Franchise Creative Director as of March 2017) with Dawn Murin, Mark Winters, Cynthia Sheppard and later Kieran Yanner taking over his old role. Looks like Ixalan will be the first set we see this effect. Be interesting to see how the art direction will change over all with it this shift.
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Stay reasonable, be mindful of your expectations and don't feed the trolls.
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Make that 100%-
Kimalla is *definitely* a RW Planeswalker.
She's on the Rare sheet-
it's just not hi-res enough to read her card text
(ditto Jace and Vraska).
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Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
It would be the small blue monkey-ish humanoid holding a spear in Walk the Plank.
It's two mana though.
It'll see play I bet.
Merfolk - Won't see play except as a budget option
Elves - Won't see play except as a budget option - GW Elves has a vareity of different creature types as sideboard cards. GB Elves needs black for spells.
Humans - I think they want this to replace Mana Confluence, but I ma not sure they would run 4. They could cast some of their sideboard spells through mana dorks and have fetching to provide the rest. See Ally manabases as an example.
Allies - Allies could run this, but I doubt they will. They have too many requirements to get white mana for spells and sideboard cards to risk not having a white mana for that. The mana dork, Harabaz Druid, doesn't do enough to counter this need.
Slivers - Slivers SEEMS like the natural home in Modern for this, but it would have to go under a facelift and strategy overhaul to use this effectively. 1. It would need to basically replace Sedge Sliver which is one of the meat and potato and reasons to run Aggro Slivers in the first place. 2. I am guessing it would need to replace CoCo which Sedge being gone, wouldn't be as bad. 3. Since removing sedge/coco. My guess it would slim down to a bunch of 1 drops and 2 drops with a few 3 drops like blur sliver. Basically a more varied all-in list that resembles a better mana base pauper sliver style. IT would be even weaker to combo and would probably need to run Smuggler's copter to provide necessary card filtering and to help with some aggro play from your summoning sick slivers. In the Slivers thread, this form is known as fast slivers. http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/fast-sliver-3/
Other tribes - Vampires/Minotaurs/Shamans/Rats/Werewolves etc. They probably are relying a lot on colored spells as well and some of them wouldn't evne run 4 cavern of souls so they can be more reliable to cast their turn 1 discard or removal or ramp.
Don't get used to it; Christopher Moeller announced he was retiring from Magic back in April.
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Yeah, I think BW vampires are supposed to be like Spanish Conquistadors/Missionaries. There's some flavor text on some of them that reveals a religious element to them on Ixalan.
EDIT:
Saw this on the page:
That's a little...pedantic, Wizards.
For the record, Christopher Moeller (who will be missed) cites MTG departing from painted work to CGI/Digital mediums as a factor in his retirement. Ironically, this is exactly what players who complain about the art quality (I'm one of them) are most critical about - WOTC really is out of touch. They're losing their best artists in favor of doing something the players hate and have complained about. I tried telling MaRo about how people prefer the likes of Quinton Hoover and Rebecca Guay, but he never responds to those Asks. But the sales speak for themselves when Rebecca Guay basics outsell every card in the Commander product despite being… BASIC LANDS. Just because they're that quality, painted, genuine art style we actually want. I love more impressionist, watercolor and different forms of art in MTG.
But WOTC just wants CGI war scenes. Last I checked this was a fantasy game called Magic. Not War: the Gathering. It may be combat oriented, but that's obvious to anyone who plays it. The art having to explicitly depict that just dumbs the game down and robs it of the what makes it unique - the fantasy.
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Why they couldn't have put this in C17 astounds me.
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I simply can't get behind monowhite Vampires. Sorry.
Mummies were a (yes) clever solution to a problem, I guess, but this is just outright laziness.
Dear MaRo: Please stop ignoring the inconvenient elements of the color pie whenever you have a tricky problem to solve. It applies to tribes too, or ought to. Does anyone here remember that Vampires are a "characteristic" tribe? According to the man himself, it means they represent that color (ahead of other tribes) due to their basic nature/aspect. Vampires are not just black, they're really, really black. EXCEPT WHEN THEY'RE CONQUISTADORS, AMIRITE?!? There's 'bending' and 'breaking' the Color Pie, and then there's 'completely ignoring'.
"Limitations breed creativity." You tell us this all the time but then you turn around and do some lazy ***** like this because it just because it is 'elegant', MaRo shorthand for 'it was a lucky break', and helps you get another set out the door.
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In Standard, it will definitely show up. In a black/red deck, Kari Zev's Expertise to steal Skysovereign (or whatever vehicle they are using), kill a non-merfolk creature for free, crew the ship, attack and bolt a creature, then deal 6 damage in the air--that's a pretty good turn no matter how you look at it.
Bishop of Rebirth can be a very powerful effect, especially if you enable revolt and chain it with a Renegade Rallier.
TBH, I would bet that C17 was the inspiration for this card.
They probably wanted to use Cavern but couldn't since it was so valuable,
so they asked someone to make this card,
both to help future Commander releases,
as well as giving people who bought C17 a reason to buy some Ixalan.
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
They are really pushing tribal in Ixalan, it seems, so if Slivers are in Dominaria, then it'll definitely be a deck in Standard (and who knows? Maybe there'll be some good enough cards to push the deck to new competitive heights in Modern?).
Get your Metallic Mimics while they're (relatively) cheap.
Apparently? Although the hairstyle on the bishop is very east Asian. Maybe like a weird Japanese/Spanish mash-up.
I'm not against it, as these kinds of situations are funny, but the exception here doesn't come close to making sense.
Looking it up Jeremy Jarvis was promoted to "Principal Designer of Worlds & IP" in 2015 (and now is Franchise Creative Director as of March 2017) with Dawn Murin, Mark Winters, Cynthia Sheppard and later Kieran Yanner taking over his old role. Looks like Ixalan will be the first set we see this effect. Be interesting to see how the art direction will change over all with it this shift.
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