MTG Salvation

Quote from leslak »

I hope we get Feather as a Boros legendary creature and The Parhelion II as a legendary white vehicle.

Since we are getting a colored artifact cycle with Bolas' Citadel, Vivien's Arkbow and Mizzium Tank, the Parhelion seems likely to me.

It's fine for limited but not a bomb. 3 toughness means it dies to any old bolt type removal. The stats are just too low for six mana to get me really excited. You can usually only fit a couple 6 drops in your deck, so the bar is pretty high.

Quote from Impossible »

I think you're vastly underestimating how powerful the keyword soup is. The combination of Flying, Vigilance and Lifelink makes her nearly unstoppable in most reasonable situations. Like, imagine the kind of board presence you need to be profitably attacking into one of these. Like, multiple 4/4s? Anything with 3 toughness or less is not only a blank but actively bad to attack with because she can gain life on both offense and defense. And God forbid you manage to put a counter on her and start proliferating. Courage in Crisis just makes her a better Lyra Dawnbringer.

Well, except for the part where you spent 9 mana and 2 cards.

Vigilance is great on creatures that are hard to kill, because even if they have a trick they're probably 2-for-1ing at best. For a 3/3 you'd better have a counter-trick in hand, or blocking with this is going to be risky as hell. Not to mention how strong removal looks in this set. I'd consider the vigilance pretty minor on a card with such weak stats and such high cost. Getting involved in combat is almost always going to be a last resort unless you've got a trick in hand. And investing additional resources to pump this up, with how good the removal in the set is, also seems very risky to me. Not to mention it's all very slow. For 6 mana I want a more immediate impact, usually.

Will this sometimes run away with the game? Sure, it does have a fairly high ceiling, but its floor is very low. I don't like that much variance in my 6-drops. The eternal skylord is much more my cup of tea - less vulnerable to removal, costs less, more stats, potential immediate impact...all around much more reliable.

One mana too much, but... FEATHER!

Little sidenote: If we ever get a Feather card, I hope we will get her with a 4-wing art. She is supposed to be the last boros angel alive made in the image of Razia.

Quote from DirkGently »

The eternal skylord is much more my cup of tea - less vulnerable to removal, costs less, more stats, potential immediate impact...all around much more reliable.

Eternal Skylord is a good card, but it also matches up really badly against Sunblade Angel. Just sayin'.

I guess we'll find out who was right in a few weeks.

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Quote from DirkGently »

The eternal skylord is much more my cup of tea - less vulnerable to removal, costs less, more stats, potential immediate impact...all around much more reliable.

Eternal Skylord is a good card, but it also matches up really badly against Sunblade Angel. Just sayin'.

I guess we'll find out who was right in a few weeks.

How so? It only matches up badly if you have no removal, no combat tricks, no proliferate, no existing army, and the angel comes out at the same time despite costing more.

How has no one mentioned how BA molten dawn sounds? Freaking amazing flavor text. Ya ya, Feather, whatever.

Molten dawn...

I can't wait to cast Giant Growth against this.

Quote from mapccu »

How has no one mentioned how BA molten dawn sounds? Freaking amazing flavor text. Ya ya, Feather, whatever.

Molten dawn...

Not really. Just sounds edgy for the sake of being edgy... But why use a sword if it is not edgy?

Quote from mapccu »

How has no one mentioned how BA molten dawn sounds? Freaking amazing flavor text. Ya ya, Feather, whatever.

Molten dawn...

Idk, sounds like silly nonsense to me. Dawn is more of a concept than a physical thing, how exactly are you supposed to melt it down?

"He had armor of burnished tenacity and a whip woven from predatory interest rates"

Wait, what exactly?

I agree with what has been previously said, this is just a good limited card. The 6 cmc removes it from bomb class card. The difference between 4 and 5 cmc is big and 5 to 6 even moreso. Not big enough to be a control finisher without help. With help it's really good, but that's so dependent I'd almost say its Magical Christmas Land.

uncommon version of Baneslayer (the protections make it mythic as well as being 1 cheaper). Still an interesting card.

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Quote from mapccu »

How has no one mentioned how BA molten dawn sounds? Freaking amazing flavor text. Ya ya, Feather, whatever.

Molten dawn...

Idk, sounds like silly nonsense to me. Dawn is more of a concept than a physical thing, how exactly are you supposed to melt it down?

"He had armor of burnished tenacity and a whip woven from predatory interest rates"

Wait, what exactly?

I was thinking they needed to let the writer go. Molton dawn... really?

Is it still Ant Tessitore or is it that what's-her-name no one seems to like?

Quote from Rosy Dumplings »

Wait, does that flavor text mean we're getting Feather?!?

Wait a minute... Feather, Fblthp, Massacre Girl... There aren't any highly requested legends from Ravnica left after this set. We... we might not be coming back to Ravnica in the foreseeable future...

It’d be a good thing. You can only reuse a plane that many times within years before it gets boring.

Except Dominaria, because Dominaria.

Quote from Rosy Dumplings »

Wait, does that flavor text mean we're getting Feather?!?

Wait a minute... Feather, Fblthp, Massacre Girl... There aren't any highly requested legends from Ravnica left after this set. We... we might not be coming back to Ravnica in the foreseeable future...

Considering that each time they come back to Ravnica under this new set structure they need to dedicate two sets to it so they can fit all the guilds in, I'd imagine we won't. Unless they do something like an Agyrem-based set. That'd be something.

Quote from Caranthir »

Hopefully this means we are indeed getting Feather as legend.

Parhelion II as (legendary) vehicle would be nice as well.

Hopefully legendary artifact creature! We’re already getting one legend for each color and each pair AND a 5-c, night as well have a colorless legend too.

Quote from desruprot »

uncommon version of Baneslayer (the protections make it mythic as well as being 1 cheaper). Still an interesting card.

Don't forget Vigilance. As a keyword it is generally overlooked, but baneslayer would kill to have it.

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Quote from Rosy Dumplings »

Wait, does that flavor text mean we're getting Feather?!?

Wait a minute... Feather, Fblthp, Massacre Girl... There aren't any highly requested legends from Ravnica left after this set. We... we might not be coming back to Ravnica in the foreseeable future...

It’d be a good thing. You can only reuse a plane that many times within years before it gets boring.

Except Dominaria, because Dominaria.

We will 100% be coming back to Ravnica. It is one of, if not THE, most popular plane in the game. But we will not be headed back here anytime soon. 6+ years at least.

Quote from Rosy Dumplings »

Wait, does that flavor text mean we're getting Feather?!?

Wait a minute... Feather, Fblthp, Massacre Girl... There aren't any highly requested legends from Ravnica left after this set. We... we might not be coming back to Ravnica in the foreseeable future...

It's ok, they've given us at least one new one to request in the form of Mileva. She is a complete and utter badass.

As for the angel above, I had to read its text trice. Holy frigg! I am going to make space in some of my white commander decks for that one. Sure it is only a 3/3, but it is a very powerful 3/3.

That is a lot of things for an uncommon. If I get a couple of these in my sealed pool for prerelease I will be happy

Nice an upgraded more tribal supported Kjeldoran Gargoyle.

Quote from Rosy Dumplings »

Wait a minute... Feather, Fblthp, Massacre Girl... There aren't any highly requested legends from Ravnica left after this set.

Uhm... Myczil Savod Zunich please?

Between the common 3 damage removal, and the uncommon 3 damage removal, both at 2 mana, I'm wondering if this will even be playable in the mainboard tbh. The quality of removal in this set might force out high-cmc, low-toughness creatures that don't have an immediate impact.