So what does the first three have in common they are "sorceries" so I predict the white and green will be focused on sorceries so which ones could they be or are we getting some.
So I predict we might end up with something like this
Back when Magus of the Wheel came out, they deflected questions about it being part of a cycle, then Magus of the Will came out and the year after Magus of the Mind. So, at this point it's pretty safe to say next year will have a Sorcery Magus as well.
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It'll probably be Wrath of God and a Overrun type effect.
That would be quite meh...
Mind's Desire, Yawgmoth's Will and Wheel of Fortune are so strong that they are banned in Legacy. The white and green ones won't have just some kind of normal random color pie appropriate effects. Magus of the Balance seems plausible, since Balance is also banned in Legacy. Following that logic, the green Magus would be Magus of the Channel, since Channel is - as far as I know - the only green sorcery banned in Legacy (Eureka is legal). So something like:
Magus of the Channel
Pay X life: Add X colorless mana to your mana pool.
1/1
Right that could work
But to make it less likely to get banned I would add a mana cost as well to tap and you have to sac the magus.
And if that magus was only GG it would get banned in no time so change it to something like 6GG or 8GG
Magus of the Disk should have been colorless. It's baffling that they couldn't figure that one out.
Alongside the maguses of the jar, mirror, scroll, candelabra, tabernacle, bazaar, coffers, arena, and library? Newsflash, putting the abilities of otherwise colorless permanents onto colored creatures is the entire point of those parts this cycle. You might as well complain about the latter five having mana costs while you're at it.
You can put a colorless disk variant on your "to-print" wishlist, but don't loop that into a discussion of strictly colored cards.
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And? White should not get wraths. Simple as that. God is not a white creature. God's wrath is not a white thing that white should do. It is intrinsically Black/Red. Chaotic destruction of all things. The color pie has had effects grandfathered into colors that it doesn't fit because of Alpha. GARBAGE.
On top of all that, Larry Nevin was a freakin Necromancer, Lich bad-ass. Why would some rando white aligned dudes be studying him?
If you match the color of the Magus to the effect it is most attributed to, that is fine as seen in Candelabra and Arena. But tell me exactly how Library of Alexandria is a green thing.
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While I won't deny that the concept of wrath is as much red as it is white, don't forget that white believes in righteous fury and retribution. If white's army dies, so do their enemies. Plus on a mechanical level white is the only color with the ability to destroy any permanent, even if in the case of creatures there is usually some manner of condition required. Note that white doesn't fire off wraths at the drop of a hat; wraths are generally white's last resort, only to be used when white's other methods are failing to do the job. Also worth noting is that recent white wraths have been incorporating a certain mercy element that allow you to save certain permanents.
That said, such mass creature kill is of course also in black's toolbox, since black is arguably the most pragmatic color not to mention the necromantic color. Red gets damage-dealing and artifact-destroying wraths to represent its destructive and wrathful aspects. Put simply, wraths are one of the areas where white overlaps with its enemies.
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More like Magus of the Meekstone. Which wouldn't be a terrible idea for a second artifact cycle in the future. The first cycle all adapted artifacts with tap abilities, so I suppose the second cycle would adapt artifacts with static abilities?
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Balance makes sense to me.
Eureka maybe. Definitely not Channel.
What about Genesis Wave? Tooth and Nail would be the best choice but I don't see how it would be templated.
Balance makes sense to me.
Eureka maybe. Definitely not Channel.
What about Genesis Wave? Tooth and Nail would be the best choice but I don't see how it would be templated.
All of the Magus cards so far are based on cards that came out before the 8th edition border, so those cards would definitely be a step forward, chronologically speaking. The focus on older cards makes Natural Order more likely, but if we look at newer green sorceries that have received bans (like a number of other cards that became Magi), then Glimpse of Nature is also a possibility.
Retribution of the Meek is on the Reserved List. That makes it a good candidate for Magusing much like Magus of the Wheel. But if C18 is focused on card types matter, then Magus of the Loam is definitely the way to go, as a card for the land deck.
Balance makes sense to me.
Eureka maybe. Definitely not Channel.
What about Genesis Wave? Tooth and Nail would be the best choice but I don't see how it would be templated.
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the green Magus would be Magus of the Channel, since Channel is - as far as I know - the only green sorcery banned in Legacy (Eureka is legal). So something like:
Magus of the Channel green mana green mana
tap symbol Pay X life: Add X colorless mana to your mana pool.
1/1
Channel is banned in EDH, because fast mana makes games too unbalanced. Your Magus by the way would be much, much stronger than Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary which is also banned for the same reason. The only way to make a "Magus of the Channel" not broken, unfun, unfair or format warping would be to making him cost lot of mana (at least six I would say, and with an activated cost that also cost an amount of mana), but in that case that would break the pattern of all the other commander magus which costs the same mana amount of the original spells they try to emulate and I think for WotC following this kind of pattern is something they care about.
the only green sorcery banned in Legacy (Eureka is legal).
I don't think that's actually a relevant argument since the new Commander cards are made first of all for the EDH format and just in a second step they think about the other eternal formats (other supplemental sets like Conspiracy or Planechase are just as good for WotC to make new cards competitive for any eternal format). Now the main reasons I think an Eureka effect is a perfect match for commander sets are the following:
1) Eureka, unlike Channel, cost more and got a symmetrical effect (making it much fairer than Channel). The effect is sure broken, but broken in a fun way since it gives all the players the opportunity to play all the stuff they want from hand. The effect is truly unique, social and exciting. We also know that for the EDH spirit it's perfectly fine to speed from turn 1 to 10 if all players got the same opportunity to do so (see Collective Voyage). So this kind of effect truly represent the spirit of EDH I would say.
2) Eureka and Hypergenesis are already both legal in the format (they never were banned also) meaning that a Magus with this effect wouldn't break any metagame that an Eureka alone already do (but since in the Internet nobody ever complained nor abused in games this card it clearly means is perfectly manageable for the format). Cannot say the same about Channel, since it would only works most of time as an uninteresting combo piece for an Eldrazi (with even a casting ability trigering!) or Colossus turn 3 or some sort of infinite engine that want lots of mana to work (Palinchron just to name it one). Channel really is a Yawgmoth's Bargain for mana, at the end. Also, Eureka to truly shine wants a cluncky deck that plays lot of expensive spells, making the deck itself more toward the casual than the competitiveness
3) Eureka is in the Reserved List and was printed only one time in Legend. Not only, it has even an insane price for a card that sees no competitive play in eternal formats, making this card both very rare and expensive. A Magus of the Eureka would allow to bypass the Reserved List and make this effect available to much, much, more players. I'm sure the format would benefit overall adding more interesting, interactive and powerhouse gameplays.
The Eureka effect has been blue since Urza block. Thus I find it highly unlikely that it will be a Magus of Eureka.
The Eureka effect has been blue since Urza block. Thus I find it highly unlikely that it will be a Magus of Eureka.
I beg to differ. Putting a lot of stuff to play from hand is also still a green effect. See card like Genesis Wave or Primal Surge or even Selvala's Stampede . Green is the color of growth. Flavor-wise there's nothing more than screams "growth" and "prosperity" as an effect that give life from nothing to many things, like putting permanents in play. Also, with cards like Chaos Warp or Songs of Dryad WotC show us that is more than willing to stretch and bend the color pie in eternal formats if that can help a better gameplay for EDH.
Both of those two cards are considered mistakes and where the primary reason MaRo set up the council of colors, which is why they are a very bad example to use.
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White will be Balance. i cant think of a more iconic white sorcery
I fully agree for a Magus of the Balance. That's an effect that I would really like to see legal in EDH (aside from the suspended and unplayable version of Time Spiral), i tested the original Balance within my playgroup and can be played in fair ways even if is super-undercosted for the effect. Actually, I think is worse for the game a Cataclysm than a Balance, but the former is legal.
Of all the cards banned in EDH, Balance is the one I most want to see unbanned.
It's very arguably the best tool against ramping ever printed,
and the format could really use such a card.
Hell, I would take a lands-only Balance (yes, I know about Land Equilibrium),
but Magus of the Balance would be better.
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Both of those two cards are considered mistakes and where the primary reason MaRo set up the council of colors, which is why they are a very bad example to use.
Mistakes by MaRo, but MaRo is not the entire R&D and there's many difference voices and factions inside the group. Sometimes the faction of MaRo wins, sometimes lose, because the rest of the R&D thinks tha MaRo is just plain wrong. For example, MaRo would dream to make "legendary" a marker without the limits and drawback of the nature of legendary, but he recognize that is a lost battle against the rest of the majority of the R&D. Or about the ridding of the Reserved List, where MaRo knows that he is alone in his battle and will not win it. For same reason, MaRo doesn't even have the absolute power over the color pie ortodoxhy of all Magic cards for all sets, and that's why a Chaos Warp, a Song or a Hornet Queen always happend to be now and even. If "Chaos Warp", as you say, was an error, would not be an error reprinted reprinted five times after Commander 2011 (it was reprinted again even for this Commander edition!). For sure it is an error for MaRo but not from the rest of the R&D and the development team, where MaRo got no voice.
Also you simply ignored my first part of the post where i made clear that an Eureka effect makes totally sense for green mechanically and flavorwise, which is the entire point of the thread.
MaRo is the head of Design, and the guardian of the color pie. Chaos Warp and Song of the Dryads both break the color pie by giving the colors access to something they are not supposed to do (enchantment removal in red and creature/planeswalker removal in green). We will not get more such cards.
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That Chaos Warp continues to be reprinted shows that the people in charge of the product aren't showing the color pie let alone Maro the respect they should be.
I say color pie violations should be ban-worthy on the basis that they hurt the game in the long run. Colors have to have weaknesses for the choice of color to matter. Give us a new version of Chaos Warp that doesn't undercut red's biggest weakness, the inability to destroy enchantments. Just put the permanent on the bottom of the deck and reveal until you reveal a card that shares a card type, etc. That ensures that if the target is an enchantment, the result will always be an enchantment unless the card in question is also an artifact or creature in which case red has other answers for it.
Anyway, Magus of the Balance sounds a little weird. Magus of the Meek sounds more natural.
On the crazy off chance that this cycle isn't just for Sorceries but also Instants, what about Magus of the Chant?
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That Chaos Warp continues to be reprinted shows that the people in charge of the product aren't showing the color pie let alone Maro the respect they should be.
I say color pie violations should be ban-worthy on the basis that they hurt the game in the long run. Colors have to have weaknesses for the choice of color to matter. Give us a new version of Chaos Warp that doesn't undercut red's biggest weakness, the inability to destroy enchantments. Just put the permanent on the bottom of the deck and reveal until you reveal a card that shares a card type, etc. That ensures that if the target is an enchantment, the result will always be an enchantment unless the card in question is also an artifact or creature in which case red has other answers for it.
Anyway, Magus of the Balance sounds a little weird. Magus of the Meek sounds more natural.
On the crazy off chance that this cycle isn't just for Sorceries but also Instants, what about Magus of the Chant?
Reprinting a break in an auxiliary product is Ok, it's making new ones that is frowned upon, and why the council was made in the first place. To prevent further Chaos Warps from seeing the light of day.
I'd actually like a Magus of the Herd, bonus points if it has flying and is an Aven.
Other possibilities for the Sorcery for a white Magus: Wave of Reckoning would be flavorful. Replenish would be on point as well.
As for green, I keep thinking Saproling Symbiosis, literally doubling the number of creatures you control seems very, very green. But I still want to see a Magus of Crush of Wurms, mostly because sacrificing a creature to create three 6/6 creatures makes me giggle. (I have not at all flinged a Worldspine Wurm at my opponent in commander... twice... in the same game. )
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magus of the will / Yawgmoth's will
magus of the wheel / wheel of fortune
There's actually a secret on the magus cycle 5 they are cycles each one has ben focused on a card type
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Artifact
Magus of the disk / Nevinyrral's Disk
magus of the jar / memory jar
magus of the mirror / mirror universe
magus of the scroll / cursed scroll
Magus of the Candelabra / Candelabra of Tawnos
Enchantment
Magus of the moat / Moat
magus of the future / future sight
magus of the abyss / the abyss
magus of the moon / blood moon
magus of the vineyard / Eladamri's Vineyard
Lands
magus of the tabernacle / The tabernacle at pendrell vale
magus of the bazaar / bazaar of baghdad
magus of the coffers / cabal coffers
magus of the arena / arena
magus of the library / Library of Alexandria
So what does the first three have in common they are "sorceries" so I predict the white and green will be focused on sorceries so which ones could they be or are we getting some.
So I predict we might end up with something like this
"Magus of the scales" to present for balance
And the best I can think of green is "magus of the Order" for natural order
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
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Right that could work
But to make it less likely to get banned I would add a mana cost as well to tap and you have to sac the magus.
And if that magus was only GG it would get banned in no time so change it to something like 6GG or 8GG
Alongside the maguses of the jar, mirror, scroll, candelabra, tabernacle, bazaar, coffers, arena, and library? Newsflash, putting the abilities of otherwise colorless permanents onto colored creatures is the entire point of those parts this cycle. You might as well complain about the latter five having mana costs while you're at it.
You can put a colorless disk variant on your "to-print" wishlist, but don't loop that into a discussion of strictly colored cards.
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Though I'm not sure if it's old enough, how about Magus of the Loam?
For white, Magus of the Meek.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
On top of all that, Larry Nevin was a freakin Necromancer, Lich bad-ass. Why would some rando white aligned dudes be studying him?
If you match the color of the Magus to the effect it is most attributed to, that is fine as seen in Candelabra and Arena. But tell me exactly how Library of Alexandria is a green thing.
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That said, such mass creature kill is of course also in black's toolbox, since black is arguably the most pragmatic color not to mention the necromantic color. Red gets damage-dealing and artifact-destroying wraths to represent its destructive and wrathful aspects. Put simply, wraths are one of the areas where white overlaps with its enemies.
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
More like Magus of the Meekstone. Which wouldn't be a terrible idea for a second artifact cycle in the future. The first cycle all adapted artifacts with tap abilities, so I suppose the second cycle would adapt artifacts with static abilities?
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
Eureka maybe. Definitely not Channel.
What about Genesis Wave? Tooth and Nail would be the best choice but I don't see how it would be templated.
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All of the Magus cards so far are based on cards that came out before the 8th edition border, so those cards would definitely be a step forward, chronologically speaking. The focus on older cards makes Natural Order more likely, but if we look at newer green sorceries that have received bans (like a number of other cards that became Magi), then Glimpse of Nature is also a possibility.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
The Eureka effect has been blue since Urza block. Thus I find it highly unlikely that it will be a Magus of Eureka.
I think something like Hurricane, Collective Unconscious, Whirlwind, Praetor's Council, Overrun, or Crush of Wurms or similar effects would be much more likely.
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White will be Balance. i cant think of a more iconic white sorcery
Green will be Eureka, Natural Order, or Channel. Each of these can be valid choices
Both of those two cards are considered mistakes and where the primary reason MaRo set up the council of colors, which is why they are a very bad example to use.
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Of all the cards banned in EDH,
Balance is the one I most want to see unbanned.
It's very arguably the best tool against ramping ever printed,
and the format could really use such a card.
Hell, I would take a lands-only Balance (yes, I know about Land Equilibrium),
but Magus of the Balance would be better.
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MaRo is the head of Design, and the guardian of the color pie. Chaos Warp and Song of the Dryads both break the color pie by giving the colors access to something they are not supposed to do (enchantment removal in red and creature/planeswalker removal in green). We will not get more such cards.
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I say color pie violations should be ban-worthy on the basis that they hurt the game in the long run. Colors have to have weaknesses for the choice of color to matter. Give us a new version of Chaos Warp that doesn't undercut red's biggest weakness, the inability to destroy enchantments. Just put the permanent on the bottom of the deck and reveal until you reveal a card that shares a card type, etc. That ensures that if the target is an enchantment, the result will always be an enchantment unless the card in question is also an artifact or creature in which case red has other answers for it.
Anyway, Magus of the Balance sounds a little weird. Magus of the Meek sounds more natural.
Magus of the Cleansing
Magus of the Herd
Magus of the Reckoning
Magus of the Righteous
On the crazy off chance that this cycle isn't just for Sorceries but also Instants, what about Magus of the Chant?
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
Reprinting a break in an auxiliary product is Ok, it's making new ones that is frowned upon, and why the council was made in the first place. To prevent further Chaos Warps from seeing the light of day.
I'd actually like a Magus of the Herd, bonus points if it has flying and is an Aven.
Other possibilities for the Sorcery for a white Magus: Wave of Reckoning would be flavorful. Replenish would be on point as well.
As for green, I keep thinking Saproling Symbiosis, literally doubling the number of creatures you control seems very, very green. But I still want to see a Magus of Crush of Wurms, mostly because sacrificing a creature to create three 6/6 creatures makes me giggle. (I have not at all flinged a Worldspine Wurm at my opponent in commander... twice... in the same game. )
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Numquam evolutioni obstes. Solum conculceris.
Pascite draconem, evolvite aut morimini.