It is hard to identify colors based solely on the names. Looking st last years precons, Merciless Rage sounds easily like it could have been mono red. Primal Genesis could easily have been mono green plus any other colors. Mystic intellect could have easily been mono blue...
My point is there is a lot of wiggle room in a name. I think most of us can identify a few of the colors, but I wouldn't think too hard because chances are WotC will slip a color in to fill a gap as long as it plays in line with the strategy and theme of the deck.
I do think that because it is 5 decks this time around, they will be doing an even distribution of colors and likely a wedge situation or possibly 4 colors. It seems like a good chance to go back to an even cycle, especially because we have two more commander decks coming out with Zendikar that will likely be unbalanced as far as colors go.
especially because we have two more commander decks coming out with Zendikar that will likely be unbalanced as far as colors go.
There are also 2 more coming with commander legends, so the cycle get even more complicated
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How i feel about competitive players and casual players in EDH: The competitive are german tourists, the casual are italian tourists, both in a italian beach. The italians asking themselves "why are the germans here?" make a legitimate question, the answer is because the beach is beautiful, no matter the country you came from. The italians wanting to ban the germans are dumb, because if the germans pay for their stay and follow the rules like everyone else, they have the right to be in the beach. Hovewer, if the germans started to ask themselves "why are the italians here?"... they would be dumb as hell.
There’s a supposed spoiler from one of the decks on MTG Spoiler FB, WBG aura deck.
Merge mechanic: The creature you control becomes an aura and grants abilities. Like Bestow, but from battlefield instead of hand, and if the enchanted creature dies you lose the “aura” as well, so not as good as bestow on that regard.
There’s a supposed spoiler from one of the decks on MTG Spoiler FB, WBG aura deck.
Merge mechanic: The creature you control becomes an aura and grants abilities. Like Bestow, but from battlefield instead of hand, and if the enchanted creature dies you lose the “aura” as well, so not as good as bestow on that regard.
It’s basically the inverse of Bestow,
which was an aura that became a creature.
There’s a supposed spoiler from one of the decks on MTG Spoiler FB, WBG aura deck.
Merge mechanic: The creature you control becomes an aura and grants abilities. Like Bestow, but from battlefield instead of hand, and if the enchanted creature dies you lose the “aura” as well, so not as good as bestow on that regard.
Yep just saw that might be the symbolic swarm deck since it has a insect as a legend
Also there’s a “ultimatinum” in abzan in that so if real that cycle will be complete and is probably infact a wedge plane just like tarkir
I heard someone saying on reddit that the ultimatum matches an mtgsalvation post circa 2012... but that person didn't exactly leave any links. I don't suppose anyone verify that at this time?
I'm not sure whether I believe in Merge as a legitimate mechanic. While it's fine in a vacuum, we've already heard that we are getting a mutate mechanic in this set... and we've gotten hints that we are getting double-sided keyword counters. This ability doesn't require counters any more than other auras or bestow creatures did and I'd be a little bit surprised if this set included two abilities with similar names ("Merge" and "Mutate") and similar goals (building up your behemoths)... and that utilizes a heavy enchantment theme right after Theros in a way that triggers neither constellation nor "heroic".
There's also the fact that Nikau is listed as mythic (in spite of past secondary commanders like Varchild always being lists at rare), that we are getting one of our commanders as a reprint (Anafenza), which hasn’t been done in a while, and that some cards look a bit off like Ogru Centipede not looking white and Drakitaur Warlord looking overpowered as written... at least by casual standards (It basically gives all of your creatures an unblockable second attack against all attacked opponents that heals you... at uncommon?). The whiptongue frog thing and the random triumph of the hordes with no other infect also looks a bit odd. Oh, and the land uses the old “add C to your mana pool” templating” (not “Add C”). Oh, and there are two different versions of the merge templating (Loris mentions becoming a creature again when unattached but mantis lacks this text).
Add all of that to a total lack of pictures and... yeah, call me skeptical.
My point is there is a lot of wiggle room in a name. I think most of us can identify a few of the colors, but I wouldn't think too hard because chances are WotC will slip a color in to fill a gap as long as it plays in line with the strategy and theme of the deck.
I do think that because it is 5 decks this time around, they will be doing an even distribution of colors and likely a wedge situation or possibly 4 colors. It seems like a good chance to go back to an even cycle, especially because we have two more commander decks coming out with Zendikar that will likely be unbalanced as far as colors go.
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There are also 2 more coming with commander legends, so the cycle get even more complicated
Merge mechanic: The creature you control becomes an aura and grants abilities. Like Bestow, but from battlefield instead of hand, and if the enchanted creature dies you lose the “aura” as well, so not as good as bestow on that regard.
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It’s basically the inverse of Bestow,
which was an aura that became a creature.
Yep just saw that might be the symbolic swarm deck since it has a insect as a legend
Also there’s a “ultimatinum” in abzan in that so if real that cycle will be complete and is probably infact a wedge plane just like tarkir
Edit: found it!
Look here
yeah, that would be one hell of a coincidence.
I'm not sure whether I believe in Merge as a legitimate mechanic. While it's fine in a vacuum, we've already heard that we are getting a mutate mechanic in this set... and we've gotten hints that we are getting double-sided keyword counters. This ability doesn't require counters any more than other auras or bestow creatures did and I'd be a little bit surprised if this set included two abilities with similar names ("Merge" and "Mutate") and similar goals (building up your behemoths)... and that utilizes a heavy enchantment theme right after Theros in a way that triggers neither constellation nor "heroic".
There's also the fact that Nikau is listed as mythic (in spite of past secondary commanders like Varchild always being lists at rare), that we are getting one of our commanders as a reprint (Anafenza), which hasn’t been done in a while, and that some cards look a bit off like Ogru Centipede not looking white and Drakitaur Warlord looking overpowered as written... at least by casual standards (It basically gives all of your creatures an unblockable second attack against all attacked opponents that heals you... at uncommon?). The whiptongue frog thing and the random triumph of the hordes with no other infect also looks a bit odd. Oh, and the land uses the old “add C to your mana pool” templating” (not “Add C”). Oh, and there are two different versions of the merge templating (Loris mentions becoming a creature again when unattached but mantis lacks this text).
Add all of that to a total lack of pictures and... yeah, call me skeptical.