I really like the idea of a buy-a-cube, but Magister of Worth is number *28/210.
I think that they changed the numbering scheme for this product only to make it easier to reassemble the cube as the out-of-box experience if people want to. I expect this product is a full cube out of the box, pre-divided into seeded booster packs, made to be cracked and played as soon you buy it in the store.
They built pre-seeded booster packs that they felt would make an interesting draft experience for your first play through, which you can then shuffle up and build into new boosters with different orders. But in case people wanted to reassemble the original play experience, they made it so the cards are numbered in order, so instead of having to read a list of the original boosters, you just put the cards in collector number order, and break them up by the number of cards in each booster - voila, back to stock experience.
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EDH: WUBRG Chromanticore/Karona, False God (Allies/Maze's End) - WB Teysa, Orzhov Scion (Stax) - GW Karametra, God of Harvests (Landfall & Goodstuff) - W Kytheon, Hero of Akros (Aggro Voltron)
So, sac a bunch of duders to clear a path for this guy to bash someone in the face, then you get those duders back to recast? Not insane but not terrible either. A little pricey, but I think my Teysa Stax deck will like it.
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EDH: WUBRG Chromanticore/Karona, False God (Allies/Maze's End) - WB Teysa, Orzhov Scion (Stax) - GW Karametra, God of Harvests (Landfall & Goodstuff) - W Kytheon, Hero of Akros (Aggro Voltron)
Pretty neat application of a black, one-sided, non-optional version of Fecundity.
I'm wondering whether triple black was necessary for this one, or they just wanted to evoke the most famous black enchantment of all time for nostalgia's sake. Either way, I think it killed the card.
Pretty sure they just like the historical significance of the triple-black card-drawing enchantment that costs a sacrifice of some sort by the player.
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EDH: WUBRG Chromanticore/Karona, False God (Allies/Maze's End) - WB Teysa, Orzhov Scion (Stax) - GW Karametra, God of Harvests (Landfall & Goodstuff) - W Kytheon, Hero of Akros (Aggro Voltron)
*cue the chorus of posters who complain about non-Standard playable FNM promos simultaneously creaming their pants*
Honestly, I love all of the promos they've been printing, but I'm happy to see cards that do see heavy rotation in Standard getting promos. Regarding the GP promos, I'm kind of bummed I won't get a Prime Time promo (my EDH group is totally OK with me playing Prime Time in my Ghave deck because I don't do anything absurd with it beyond Avenger of Zendikar shenanigans), but the All is Dust promo is pretty cool too.
All in all, definitely seems like WotC is listening to the layers when it comes to the promos.
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Staff of Domination will be fun, going to have to resist the temptation of slamming one into every single deck. Trade Secrets out but Consecrated Sphinx still legal? OK by me. I haven't seen any issues with Trade Secrets in my meta but maybe others are abusing it. Not saying I want CS banned, just surprised TS got banned before it.
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EDH: WUBRG Chromanticore/Karona, False God (Allies/Maze's End) - WB Teysa, Orzhov Scion (Stax) - GW Karametra, God of Harvests (Landfall & Goodstuff) - W Kytheon, Hero of Akros (Aggro Voltron)
Long time lurker, posting my submission, here goes:
Reconstitution of Matter BBB
Exile two permanents you control: Return a permanent from your graveyard to your side of the battlefield.
I found it simple yet very effective in my mind and it is left open for many ways of use and is still simple.
That seems pretty broken being just generic permanents - it turns Lingering Souls into a double Obzedat's Aid for the same price, and the reanimation can happen at instant speed. Token strategies will break this card to no end, I know my Teysa deck would eat it up. Maybe to crank it down just a bit, make it non-token permanents?
EDIT: Oh god, the idea of (Pick any two: Teysa + Darkest Hour, Requiem Angel, Ogre Slumlord) + this enchantment = infinite instant reanimation of all your creatures. Sure, several card combo, but man, that's just gross, especially if you pair it with Blasting Station or other sac outlet ridiculousness. I would slam this card in Teysa, but I definitely think it's broken.
Depending on mana cost this could be extremely good almost borderline broken.
If you gain two life a turn or more, you can turn off a normal draw step which is what most decks have. Even if they are holding a nice draw spell that only hits you one time and then they are stuck. Basically once this comes down the opponent is stuck with what they have in hand if you have constant life gain.
I guess the only "hard" counter to this card besides removal/counter is like stacking mine effects or removing the life gain source obviously, because then you are losing more life each turn.
Maybe make it like Cumulative Upkeep - like:
Whenever an opponent would draw a card, instead put a migraine counter on [CARDNAME], then you lose life equal to the number of migraine counters on [CARDNAME].
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EDH: WUBRG Chromanticore/Karona, False God (Allies/Maze's End) - WB Teysa, Orzhov Scion (Stax) - GW Karametra, God of Harvests (Landfall & Goodstuff) - W Kytheon, Hero of Akros (Aggro Voltron)
I wanted mine to be flavorful, fun, and not too over the top crazy. Also, I love reanimation shenanigans, as any of my EDH playgroup partners who have played against my Obzedat/Teysa deck will attest to. Mine is:
Gravedigger's Barter
Whenever a creature dies, you may pay 3. If you do, exile it, then return a creature card in your graveyard with converted mana cost equal to or less than the converted mana cost of the exiled creature card to the battlefield.
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EDH: WUBRG Chromanticore/Karona, False God (Allies/Maze's End) - WB Teysa, Orzhov Scion (Stax) - GW Karametra, God of Harvests (Landfall & Goodstuff) - W Kytheon, Hero of Akros (Aggro Voltron)
I've been terrorizing my playgroup with the black and green Primordials for the past few weeks.
With the black one, in my Obzedat Stax deck, I managed to assemble the board state of Sheoldred (stolen from the Jarad player at the table), Sepulchral Primordial, Kokusho (also stolen from the Jarad player), and Spawning Pit. Turns out cycling Kokusho (end of previous opponent's turn, sac Kokusho and Primordial, upkeep, Sheoldred grabs Primordial who grabs Kokusho again as well as grabbing value from the other players' yards) during each of your upkeeps is pretty powerful, and I won in short order.
Then this past week, I managed to live the dream of bonding Deadeye Navigator with Sylvan Primordial and completely wrecking my opponents' manabases in my Maelstrom Wanderer deck. As you can expect, it's pretty backbreaking.
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EDH: WUBRG Chromanticore/Karona, False God (Allies/Maze's End) - WB Teysa, Orzhov Scion (Stax) - GW Karametra, God of Harvests (Landfall & Goodstuff) - W Kytheon, Hero of Akros (Aggro Voltron)
Last time I pulled an Abrupt Decay and traded it for some worthless 10 cent uncommons and dont want that to happen again.?
The best way to avoid that is to insist on getting a price quote from an online site like TCGPlayer or SCG before agreeing to a trade. In our modern era, any smartphone can access their websites at the event, and there are great apps for your smartphone that makes getting quotes even easier. If you don't have a phone or tablet, I guarantee there will be someone who can lend you their device to check.
Don't let a sharkish trader belittle you for checking prices. You are not being rude or a snob by checking prices, you are ensuring both parties get a fair trade.
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EDH: WUBRG Chromanticore/Karona, False God (Allies/Maze's End) - WB Teysa, Orzhov Scion (Stax) - GW Karametra, God of Harvests (Landfall & Goodstuff) - W Kytheon, Hero of Akros (Aggro Voltron)
I think that they changed the numbering scheme for this product only to make it easier to reassemble the cube as the out-of-box experience if people want to. I expect this product is a full cube out of the box, pre-divided into seeded booster packs, made to be cracked and played as soon you buy it in the store.
They built pre-seeded booster packs that they felt would make an interesting draft experience for your first play through, which you can then shuffle up and build into new boosters with different orders. But in case people wanted to reassemble the original play experience, they made it so the cards are numbered in order, so instead of having to read a list of the original boosters, you just put the cards in collector number order, and break them up by the number of cards in each booster - voila, back to stock experience.
Pretty sure they just like the historical significance of the triple-black card-drawing enchantment that costs a sacrifice of some sort by the player.
Pack Rat + Ogre Slumlord + Dark Prophecy = self-replacing deathtouch rats that cantrip. Seems pretty solid.
Honestly, I love all of the promos they've been printing, but I'm happy to see cards that do see heavy rotation in Standard getting promos. Regarding the GP promos, I'm kind of bummed I won't get a Prime Time promo (my EDH group is totally OK with me playing Prime Time in my Ghave deck because I don't do anything absurd with it beyond Avenger of Zendikar shenanigans), but the All is Dust promo is pretty cool too.
All in all, definitely seems like WotC is listening to the layers when it comes to the promos.
That seems pretty broken being just generic permanents - it turns Lingering Souls into a double Obzedat's Aid for the same price, and the reanimation can happen at instant speed. Token strategies will break this card to no end, I know my Teysa deck would eat it up. Maybe to crank it down just a bit, make it non-token permanents?
EDIT: Oh god, the idea of (Pick any two: Teysa + Darkest Hour, Requiem Angel, Ogre Slumlord) + this enchantment = infinite instant reanimation of all your creatures. Sure, several card combo, but man, that's just gross, especially if you pair it with Blasting Station or other sac outlet ridiculousness. I would slam this card in Teysa, but I definitely think it's broken.
4 Squadron Hawk
Emrakul/Kozilek/insert dumb fatties here
4 Possibility Storm
Assorted mana rocks and land
This card is big and dumb and crazy and wonderful. I already expect one of my friends playing a chaos Zedruu deck to throw it in and troll us all.
Maybe make it like Cumulative Upkeep - like:
Whenever an opponent would draw a card, instead put a migraine counter on [CARDNAME], then you lose life equal to the number of migraine counters on [CARDNAME].
Gravedigger's Barter
Whenever a creature dies, you may pay 3. If you do, exile it, then return a creature card in your graveyard with converted mana cost equal to or less than the converted mana cost of the exiled creature card to the battlefield.
With the black one, in my Obzedat Stax deck, I managed to assemble the board state of Sheoldred (stolen from the Jarad player at the table), Sepulchral Primordial, Kokusho (also stolen from the Jarad player), and Spawning Pit. Turns out cycling Kokusho (end of previous opponent's turn, sac Kokusho and Primordial, upkeep, Sheoldred grabs Primordial who grabs Kokusho again as well as grabbing value from the other players' yards) during each of your upkeeps is pretty powerful, and I won in short order.
Then this past week, I managed to live the dream of bonding Deadeye Navigator with Sylvan Primordial and completely wrecking my opponents' manabases in my Maelstrom Wanderer deck. As you can expect, it's pretty backbreaking.
The best way to avoid that is to insist on getting a price quote from an online site like TCGPlayer or SCG before agreeing to a trade. In our modern era, any smartphone can access their websites at the event, and there are great apps for your smartphone that makes getting quotes even easier. If you don't have a phone or tablet, I guarantee there will be someone who can lend you their device to check.
Don't let a sharkish trader belittle you for checking prices. You are not being rude or a snob by checking prices, you are ensuring both parties get a fair trade.
Because Nirkana is disgusting in Limited and Ghast is merely OK to meh?