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.
"Phoenix with set mechanic" is getting somewhat tiresome, but I guess rising with the dawn is pretty cool flavor. Rising at nightfall as a beacon of light against the coming night works too.
Card seems pretty good too. For a deck that can operate at instant speed, taking your turn off to have it turn from day to night to get back the phoenix (untapped!) at the beginning of their turn seems nice.
Will this replace phoenix of ashes in red aggro? seems strong when facing control drew a land, whatever pass and return phoenix then try to hoard burn spell for the next time it gets killed.
It seems like the only downside to this will be getting the day/night cycle started. You don't actually want to cast this to be the start of the mechanic - you want to rummage it away and get it back on the cheap. Most of the day/night enablers are 3 cc or more and that doesn't bode well for the mechanic to be hugely relevant even in standard.
Seams throughout Magic design history, the phoenix has varied as what kind of bird it is. This one's a crane. But if the bird's on fire and can be "reborn" then it is a phoenix.
I keep wondering if the cards would all have been over-powered if they simply set to "day" (or "night") instead of this wordy conditional version?
Yes, it would have made switching easier, but IMO that's a plus because all these cards depending on day or night switching a really weak if you can't make the switch often enough to be worth it.
I keep wondering if the cards would all have been over-powered if they simply set to "day" (or "night") instead of this wordy conditional version?
Yes, it would have made switching easier, but IMO that's a plus because all these cards depending on day or night switching a really weak if you can't make the switch often enough to be worth it.
It's likely less about power level of these cards, and more about ensuring they don't screw werewolves over by making the switch back to day too trivial.
The sun rises, the sun sets. The phoenix with set mechanic always comes back.
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Card seems pretty good too. For a deck that can operate at instant speed, taking your turn off to have it turn from day to night to get back the phoenix (untapped!) at the beginning of their turn seems nice.
Yes, it would have made switching easier, but IMO that's a plus because all these cards depending on day or night switching a really weak if you can't make the switch often enough to be worth it.
Personally I like the owl phoenix from Ixalan, but heron phoenixe are a close second favorite for art.
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Any time they change up the kind of bird the phoenix is I enjoy. Usually all a phoenix is is "bird" and nothing more.
Return to amonkhet would be the most logical place for that - the myth originated in egypt and was later retold in greek/latin/persian mythologies.
Or Strixhaven, cause you know... Harry Potter...
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Um....Harry Potter has near zero to do with phoenixes nor are they really all that important to that story or Strixhaven.