MTG Salvation

Gets excited it’s a legendary simic serpent


Narrow kicker focus


This whole set feels like dashed hopes for me honestly

There's still more support in Gruul than in Simic for Kicker, but w/e.

Don't understand why they have to make it have a counters interaction - it's so arbitrary since all you'll be doing is taking them off the thing. That's kinda what this is like - it's a snake planeswalker, that's what it is.

I do love that the Magosi was waterfall is depicted here in the art though

WOOT the second permanent copying spell. I am very happy they are finally mining this space. Also awesome use of the commander mana scaling effect on a standard card.

Is this and the previous card enough kicker support for a deck or does it need ramp/mana reduction?

The disappointment is real.

Kicker is just so narrow even still. It also shouldve been 3 colors to gain more traction.

The counters part does indeed feel tacted on but lolhydra i guess.

Man something with art this good deserved to be a better design


theme of this set as a whole tbh

So is this just X = the amount of mana you spent or X = the amount of mana from different colors you spent? If it's the former I like it - a lower-powered, but OK legend. If it's the latter though, ugh…

No flying or trample makes me miss our jellyfish hydra overlord but, copying spells is good,I think.

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So is this just X = the amount of mana you spent or X = the amount of mana from different colors you spent? If it's the former I like it - a lower-powered, but OK legend. If it's the latter though, ugh…

Indeed the former. You can cast it for BG with X=0 and it will be a 2/2. Also, as stated above, paying Commander Tax also means it gets +2/+2 for each time.

Wow, this is a huge kicker payoff! I wasn't necessarily expecting it, but them giving us a "kicker matters" legend makes sense. Definitely could be a fund build-around.

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Wow, this is a huge kicker payoff! I wasn't necessarily expecting it, but them giving us a "kicker matters" legend makes sense. Definitely could be a fund build-around.

I do like it and kicker is requested but bad news R missing

Hallar, the Firefletcher is why

But here's the great news about this legend it is great in the command zone

It has the same wording as Prossh, Skyraider of Kher
”amount of mana spent to cast it”

So it will get counters from command tax too

It's an interesting build-around-me Commander, but really should have been URG. A bit of counter manipulation can easily make this a repeatable source of kicked spell doubling, and GU certainly has counter manipulation to spare. An Inexorable Tide functionally halves the counter cost, Deepglow Skate does its thing, Primal Vigor will also double the copied permanents, your options are fairly wide. It's a fun card, though I don't think the juice is worth the squeeze competitively outside of maybe Commander.

Nice design and kinda of powerfull. I was kinda of expecting a X in the text, can't lie

Also this is one the first time (in the top of my head) that they allowed to copy a creature spell lol

So there's not a warrior centric bi-color legend eh?

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Quote from soramaro »

So is this just X = the amount of mana you spent or X = the amount of mana from different colors you spent? If it's the former I like it - a lower-powered, but OK legend. If it's the latter though, ugh…

Indeed the former. You can cast it for BG with X=0 and it will be a 2/2. Also, as stated above, paying Commander Tax also means it gets +2/+2 for each time.

In this case I really like it as a commander for groups with lower power levels. Getting two kicked Mold Shamblers, Thieving Skydivers or Rite of Replication for the price of ine is very nice, and between the multitude of counter and token support cards, you should be able to build decent synergies.

Hello there, Rite of Replication tribal lord!

Not gonna lie, after the long string of broken simic cards, kinda happy to see a bad card for this color pairing.

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This and Hallar, the Firefletcher being mutually exclusive makes me go "whuuu?".

More options for your kicker decks. Unless they go five-color there is really nothing stopping them to challenge you a bit.

Honestly I like this because its not ANOTHER super busted Simic commander. Makes it easier to make a simic deck that isnt just going to steam roll my more casual EDH friends.

I mean the card is super powerful if you actually play some spells that have a reasonable kicker to copy.

Problem is, most of the kicker cards (even the old ones, like all of them) are just not good and kicker is usually just not worth the mana or cost.


If this could copy any spell, well that would be hilariously OP.

Some cards I think you'll be happy to play and kick in a Verazol deck:

• Blink of an Eye
  
• Citanul Woodreaders
  
• Everflowing Chalice
  
• Grow from the Ashes
  
• Into the Roil
  
• Mold Shambler
  
• Rite of Replication
  
• Sphinx of Lost Truths
  
• Strength of the Tajuru
  
• Thicket Elemental
  
• Untamed Kavu
  
• Vines of Vastwood
  
• Wild Onslaught

plus from this set, the blue and green inscriptions, field research, roost of drakes, thieving skydiver, cragplate baloth, murasa sproutling, vastwood surge, skyclave relic, and myriad construct. Add in the typical green ramp (maybe more than usual), some card draw and interaction, and a few more cards that care about or add +1/+1 counters, and you've got yourself a nice little simic kicker deck.