I wish Flame Blitz was legal in Pioneer. Love me a 1 cmc enchantment Walker hate card. Print this into Pioneer somehow.
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Damn, is this more versatile and more Snapcaster Mage-friendly, though.
Now when will they give us a 4-mana board wipe that I can play with Jegantha, the Wellspring as my Companion....
Cards that care about specific values or use your cards against you do not factor into "strictly better," or else there would be no strictly better cards. There is always a reason, albeit often a contrived one, to use the strictly worse card given the right situation. Damn is strictly better Wrath of God.
Inquisition of Kozilek is pretty common in Modern right now, and Spell Snare is having a resurgence in Modern U/X Control. Unless you're flipping your board wipe to Bob, Damn is not strictly better than Wrath of God in the current Modern meta, and I advise that you stick to Wrath of God unless you can actually cast Damn or you need the black card density.
Sorry, I play Modern and sadly not EDH, so Sublime Exhalation is illegal in any Modern deck I want Jegantha as a Companion in. (The one EDH game I did get to play was fun, though...)
Inquisition of Kozilek is pretty common in Modern right now, and Spell Snare is having a resurgence in Modern U/X Control. Unless you're flipping your board wipe to Bob, Damn is not strictly better than Wrath of God in the current Modern meta, and I advise that you stick to Wrath of God unless you can actually cast Damn or you need the black card density.
Sorry, I play Modern and sadly not EDH, so Sublime Exhalation is illegal in any Modern deck I want Jegantha as a Companion in. (The one EDH game I did get to play was fun, though...)
Strictly better doesn't care about metas. Ancestral Recall is strictly better than Jace's Ingenuity, and this remains true even if every deck is running Mental Misstep. The question is whether it's better in a vacuum. I can find a situation where every strictly better card is worse, that's why we use a vacuum, so that there can be strictly better cards at all.
Please, mill me. Mill my important cards. Mill my lands. Mill it all. Because I will still deal 20 damage before you can mill 45 cards most every time.
Flame Blitz is crazy undercosted! If it were a single R for a one-time deal 5 to each planeswalker, it would be good. If it were a single R to each turn deal 5 to one planeswalker it would be good. But just one R to basically kill every planeswalker every turn, with cycling thrown in to boot, is crazy good. And it's an uncommon, too.
The "strictly better" definition is overall just worthless wombo jambo.
People are well aware that given specific circumstances a worse card can perform better, its just how magic works, and these little "circumstances" can be highly relevant in a meta of decks.
For design the term "strictly better" has a specific meaning, but the overall player doesnt care for these meanings, they just see a card thats flat out better in any reasonable deck and thats all that matters.
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Damn is pushed to a degree that it basically guarantees to see play and be a very real card for probably ever in the format.
If you play both colors its flat out flexible and powerful.
If your opponents pack all the specific hate cards against it, even just by accident (as they play them anyway), its to become a meme how a "strictly better" card is actually worse in the given format.
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What i really dont like is how they use Overload here.
Everyone that knows Overload will read the card wrong (at least at first) , might even play it wrong.
This is by design and super annoying.
They could have used a different mechanic that doesnt have that issue, even if this would be a Split-card.
But the entire set is re-using mechanics in quirky ways (its just like Time Spiral in that regards).
What i really dont like is how they use Overload here.
Everyone that knows Overload will read the card wrong (at least at first) , might even play it wrong.
This is by design and super annoying.
What do you mean? This card works precisely like every single other overload card.
Overload here is exactly as it is everywhere else, but the base effect doesn't only affect a creature you don't control, like, say, Cyclonic Rift does.
It will probably cause a little confusion with those who just assume its like rift and don't bother reading the card before casting it, but... RTFC guys.
What i really dont like is how they use Overload here.
Everyone that knows Overload will read the card wrong (at least at first) , might even play it wrong.
This is by design and super annoying.
What do you mean? This card works precisely like every single other overload card.
Modern Horizons 1 already started the parade of Overload cards whose Overloaded versions aren't necessarily better with Mind Rake, an Overload card that normally makes target player discard. In fact, Mind Rake's Overloaded version is cheaper but otherwise worse. And it's a common.
STOP using "dude/bro" as a pejorative or insult. Grow up.
Margaret Thatcher: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Martin Luther King Jr.: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
Inquisition of Kozilek is pretty common in Modern right now, and Spell Snare is having a resurgence in Modern U/X Control. Unless you're flipping your board wipe to Bob, Damn is not strictly better than Wrath of God in the current Modern meta, and I advise that you stick to Wrath of God unless you can actually cast Damn or you need the black card density.
Sorry, I play Modern and sadly not EDH, so Sublime Exhalation is illegal in any Modern deck I want Jegantha as a Companion in. (The one EDH game I did get to play was fun, though...)
Overload specifically circumvents this, by changing the text of the card. Its overload mode is literally Wrath/Damnation, which aren't targeted.
I also note you can't run Damn in monowhite or monoblack Commander.
Also, Flame Blitz, holy s***, that is some crazy Superfriends hate. It even burns up Chandra and Jaya!
Strictly better doesn't care about metas. Ancestral Recall is strictly better than Jace's Ingenuity, and this remains true even if every deck is running Mental Misstep. The question is whether it's better in a vacuum. I can find a situation where every strictly better card is worse, that's why we use a vacuum, so that there can be strictly better cards at all.
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People are well aware that given specific circumstances a worse card can perform better, its just how magic works, and these little "circumstances" can be highly relevant in a meta of decks.
For design the term "strictly better" has a specific meaning, but the overall player doesnt care for these meanings, they just see a card thats flat out better in any reasonable deck and thats all that matters.
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Damn is pushed to a degree that it basically guarantees to see play and be a very real card for probably ever in the format.
If you play both colors its flat out flexible and powerful.
If your opponents pack all the specific hate cards against it, even just by accident (as they play them anyway), its to become a meme how a "strictly better" card is actually worse in the given format.
----
What i really dont like is how they use Overload here.
Everyone that knows Overload will read the card wrong (at least at first) , might even play it wrong.
This is by design and super annoying.
They could have used a different mechanic that doesnt have that issue, even if this would be a Split-card.
But the entire set is re-using mechanics in quirky ways (its just like Time Spiral in that regards).
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What do you mean? This card works precisely like every single other overload card.
Overload here is exactly as it is everywhere else, but the base effect doesn't only affect a creature you don't control, like, say, Cyclonic Rift does.
It will probably cause a little confusion with those who just assume its like rift and don't bother reading the card before casting it, but... RTFC guys.
Modern Horizons 1 already started the parade of Overload cards whose Overloaded versions aren't necessarily better with Mind Rake, an Overload card that normally makes target player discard. In fact, Mind Rake's Overloaded version is cheaper but otherwise worse. And it's a common.