Grusilda is going to be a popular Commander! She is a repeatable The Mimeoplasm and then some! I'm not familiar enough to know if Red is better than Green / Blue though...
Obligatory "That was the whole point." Mimeo was created as the closest approximation of a card Maro made back in Tempest block called Meld which...took two creatures and created something with their combined power, toughness, and text boxes. (And presumably mana costs.)
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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!
Are there going to be Legendary Creatures in Unstable's other factions?
Pretty sure there will be. Rosewater mentioned in his driving to work podcast that they had a variety of formats in mind as they designed Unstable, including Commander. Although, this from blogatog essentially confirms it
drummerjon131 asked: Not one, but two Unstable rackdos legends? Can we look forward to this for the other four color pairs?
"No. The legendary creatures are the leaders of each group and the League of Dastardly Doom is run by a cabal. You haven’t met them all yet."
Anyone else thinking that combine is the other named mechanic? Maro said that there were two named mechanics (not including ones that only appear on single cards, like squirrellink, just a second, storm, last strike, triple strike, etc.) and that the other one was based on link (a mechanic that involved combining two creatures together somewhat like meld that was tried for New Phyrexia and maybe other sets but not considered doable in black border). Combine fits that description. Grusilda's first ability mentioning combined creatures also implies that there will be other ways to combine creatures.
Plus Rules Lawyer actually mentions combined permanents in its flavor text. Why would they put a throwaway reference to a single other card in the set in the already lengthy reminder text of Rules Lawyer? They wouldn't, unless it was going to be something big that actually affects the rules. And Do-It-Yourself Seraph combines text boxes in a similar way to Grusilda without actually mentioning "combine". It might be something similar to all the cards in HOU that used eternalize in all but name (The Scarab God, God-Pharaoh's Gift).
Also, Maro said that both mechanics (contraptions and, presumably, combine) were spread across all five colors and all five factions, and I think combine could easily do it. The GW is based on the idea of combining creatures together, and the WU faction does something similar with artifacts. The BR faction already has combine, and it wouldn't be hard to justify it in the UB and RG factions. Combine fits all the criteria for the other mechanic. There's no way that combine isn't the second mechanic.
Plus Rules Lawyer actually mentions combined permanents in its flavor text. Why would they put a throwaway reference to a single other card in the set in the already lengthy reminder text of Rules Lawyer? They wouldn't, unless it was going to be something big that actually affects the rules.
To be fair, the more they can pad the reminder text of Rules Lawyer, the more it supports the card's joke.
Any takers on whether the single-letter card name is F? ;p Assuming it's a kill spell, you can then say in a game, 'F Mary O'Kill'. Or maybe the small guy on capital offense is named F? So two of the members of the supervillain cabal are F and Mary O'Kill?
Edit: By name and number crunch, F couldn't be monoblack. Red is still a possibility, and I believe RB is as well.
Total of 3 legendaries in Rakdos and 1 in monoblack. I hope we get 3 in each guild but somehow I doubt we will
According to blogatog:
RB will get more than the others becaise it's a cabal for supervillans and that ther'll be more than 3.
Other "factions" will get at least 1 except WU where the Legend is the computer artifact that makes everyone reveal and organise their hand.
Grand Calcutron is the leader of the Order of the Widget. The design had “this can be your commander” but we couldn’t fit it on the card.
Obligatory "That was the whole point." Mimeo was created as the closest approximation of a card Maro made back in Tempest block called Meld which...took two creatures and created something with their combined power, toughness, and text boxes. (And presumably mana costs.)
On phasing:
Pretty sure there will be. Rosewater mentioned in his driving to work podcast that they had a variety of formats in mind as they designed Unstable, including Commander. Although, this from blogatog essentially confirms it
drummerjon131 asked: Not one, but two Unstable rackdos legends? Can we look forward to this for the other four color pairs?
"No. The legendary creatures are the leaders of each group and the League of Dastardly Doom is run by a cabal. You haven’t met them all yet."
Plus Rules Lawyer actually mentions combined permanents in its flavor text. Why would they put a throwaway reference to a single other card in the set in the already lengthy reminder text of Rules Lawyer? They wouldn't, unless it was going to be something big that actually affects the rules. And Do-It-Yourself Seraph combines text boxes in a similar way to Grusilda without actually mentioning "combine". It might be something similar to all the cards in HOU that used eternalize in all but name (The Scarab God, God-Pharaoh's Gift).
Also, Maro said that both mechanics (contraptions and, presumably, combine) were spread across all five colors and all five factions, and I think combine could easily do it. The GW is based on the idea of combining creatures together, and the WU faction does something similar with artifacts. The BR faction already has combine, and it wouldn't be hard to justify it in the UB and RG factions. Combine fits all the criteria for the other mechanic. There's no way that combine isn't the second mechanic.
Edit: By name and number crunch, F couldn't be monoblack. Red is still a possibility, and I believe RB is as well.
According to blogatog:
RB will get more than the others becaise it's a cabal for supervillans and that ther'll be more than 3.
Other "factions" will get at least 1 except WU where the Legend is the computer artifact that makes everyone reveal and organise their hand.
Commander BLOG: The Crazy 99
Gonti ; Sissay
WBGGhave Sisters
BUG Sidisi, Brood Tyrant Reanimator
BBBSheoldred, Whispering One Swamps-matter ramp
Standard
UR Drake
Pauper
GW Bogle
|| UW Jace, Vyn's Prodigy UW || UG Kenessos, Priest of Thassa (feat. Arixmethes) UG ||
Cards I still want to see created:
|| Olantin, Lost City || Pavios and Thanasis || Choryu ||