Out of all the new things the only one(s) that stick out to me are Meteor Golem, because having another piece of removal in Daretti is great, and Aegis of the Heavens, because I love that art and I bet it will look sweet in foil.
What's the most resilient parasite? An idea.
A single idea from the human mind can build cities.
An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules...
Salvager of Secrets is a big deal for Brawl and Commander as some redundancy with Archaeomancer, access to the effect in standard for Naban, Dean of Iteration, and a more relevant merfolk-typing for all merfolk decks that want access to this effect.
I'm starting to feel like they need to limit the possible pool of prerelease promos. I cannot fathom the disappointment of getting Pelakka Wurm or some of these other trash rares as the promo.
Angel of the Dawn, heh, I’d like to see an artist with enough guts to do a male version using that posture. Why artists like to draw their women in more twisted posture than men is beyond me.
I am starting to think Arcades will be standard constructed deck viable. Just looking over the cards in standard currently, I think it could work or i want it to work...
I didn't see a thread about it, but I wanted to just say how lame rarity upgrades are, especially stuff like Pelakka Wurm. Boo to them. Boo, I say!
Pelakka Wurm tends to warp limited, so rare is fine in that regard. However, personnaly, i would put ot in a commander product and use it's m19 slot for something else.
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Flash is now a black keyword, not blue or green... very interesting.
It's still blue and green, it's just secondary in black. They're trying the shift to enable them to have a blue/black overlap keyword, as that's been something they've been looking for for a long time.
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It's still blue and green, it's just secondary in black. They're trying the shift to enable them to have a blue/black overlap keyword, as that's been something they've been looking for for a long time.
What happened to Skulk? thought it was the right direction for UB
It turned out to be a lot harder to design than they wanted for an evergreen keyword. It's basically useless/feels wrong past a certain power (even 3 power skulk creatures were pushing it), discourages pumping, and generally didn't play as well with other mechanics as they would have liked. If it had been super popular, they might have been able to shoehorn it in anyways, but it wasn't. It mostly got an "eh, okay" reaction, which is not where they want keywords to be.
I didn't see a thread about it, but I wanted to just say how lame rarity upgrades are, especially stuff like Pelakka Wurm. Boo to them. Boo, I say!
Pelakka Wurm tends to warp limited, so rare is fine in that regard. However, personnaly, i would put ot in a commander product and use it's m19 slot for something else.
I'm gonna have to politely disagree with you there. It's been in three limited formats, two of which (Rise of the Eldrazi, Conspiracy) were decidedly atypical. I also played a decent amount of Modern Masters 2015, and did not find it to be format-warping.
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An idea.
A single idea from the human mind can build cities.
An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules...
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Duress will remain legal post-rotation.
Salvager of Secrets is a big deal for Brawl and Commander as some redundancy with Archaeomancer, access to the effect in standard for Naban, Dean of Iteration, and a more relevant merfolk-typing for all merfolk decks that want access to this effect.
Make a Stand has some Brawl relevance as well, especially once Heroic Intervention rotates.
Aegis of the Heavens is going to see play in Brawl alongside Arcades the Strategist although I don't necessarily think it'll be GOOD there.
Millstone is back in standard to support Fraying Sanity and give the Tier 3 mill deck one last hurrah.
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Pelakka Wurm tends to warp limited, so rare is fine in that regard. However, personnaly, i would put ot in a commander product and use it's m19 slot for something else.
“I once had an entire race killed just to listen to the rattling of their dried bones as I waded through them.”
—Volrath
Well, it was printed in Ixalan, too, so unless they change the rotation schedule again, it wasn't going anywhere come October.
Along with Psychic Corrosion, there may be a semi-competitive mill deck until rotation, especially with so mana fogs in Standard now.
Of course, without an answer for it, the deck just loses to Gaea's Blessing...
Yeah, the absence of Deathtouch makes that feel like a slight bleed to me.
The other guy that pings anything for one also feels wrong to me.
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Control needs more love.
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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
I'm gonna have to politely disagree with you there. It's been in three limited formats, two of which (Rise of the Eldrazi, Conspiracy) were decidedly atypical. I also played a decent amount of Modern Masters 2015, and did not find it to be format-warping.
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