That's beside the point now, since Mark Gottlieb just confirmed that Fractured Powerstone is the only card that references Planechase mechanics. Illusory Angel does not care about whether you've planeswalked this turn.
The text is "if you've cast another spell this turn" (e.g. Cascade). The angel's ability is a mirror of Illusory Demon.
Updated cube with Commander cards... I noticed that deckstats changed Chaos Warp to Chaos Orb. I wasn't sure what to do about it other than make a note here. Thanks.
Who said there are ANY staple cards? We don't know lists yet. And really? Staple cards refer mainly to competitive play, *reference, Jace is a Staple, Tarmogoyf is a Staple, Bob is a Staple etc*. And I'm pretty sure most EDH staples like Sol Ring, Grim Monolith, Top, Doubling Season, Mystical Tutor *vamp, demonic, enlightened included* and cards like that are not going to be included for one reason or another.
Let's be serious, EDH is filled with Rares, and not just rares, rare staple cards. Most of which value between 5-10 bucks. I'm pretty sure this deck will not include any staples like that. You'd be lucky to see pain lands in these, Divining Top would be like winning a 10 mil lottery ticket for these. It's just not gonna happen.
To be fair, standard is a format full of rares. And they print event decks with staple rares.
For an artifact to be Time Warp it would probably use charge counters (or some kind of tempo disadvantage) like Lux Cannon--that is, if it's going to be balanced. Maybe they planted Hex Parasite for more than planeswalkers? hmm
edit: The art is good.
You mean like Magistrate's Scepter? Functional Reprint? That could be fun with Proliferate.
That and the fact that it has *No Textures*
its flat white on white. marble at best, but looks more like blank printer paper.
One could say it almost looks... PURE! The interesting thing to me is that if these were on store shelves, I'd probably be more likely to look at the eye-catching blankness of the mirrodin pure packaging rather than the dark busy new phyrexia packaging that looks like every other trading card game on the shelf.
<snip>If you consider recent heavily played cards and mechanics, including Cascade, Baneslayer Angel, the Titans, plus the overall focus on acquiring a new player base, it becomes quite obvious that design is heavily focused on pleasing Timmy above the other psychographics.<snip>
When you say "heavily played", are you talking about tournament-play? The only recent standard decks that I can think of as "Timmy" are Eldrazi green and possibly RUG.
From what I've seen, the've done a great job of appealing to all psychographics. Of course you can pick out a subset of cards to fit an argument, but taking the past several sets on the whole, I'd say the success has come from printing something for everyone (not everything for everyone). I think it's interesting that you mentioned the Titans, since the success they've had with the Titans stems from the fact that their appeal spans all of the psychographics.
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White: Disenchant, Faith's Fetters, Glorious Anthem, Elspeth, Knight-Errant
Blue: Memory Lapse, Dismiss, Future Sight, Jace Beleren
Black: Diabolic Edict, Carnophage, Thoughtseize, Profane Command
Red: Arc Lightning, Fireslinger, Wildfire, Bogardan Hellkite
Green: Fyndhorn Elves, Rancor, Noble Hierarch, Genesis
Artifact: Bonesplitter, Mind Stone, Basilisk Collar, Crucible of Worlds
The text is "if you've cast another spell this turn" (e.g. Cascade). The angel's ability is a mirror of Illusory Demon.
I agree. Sort of like reverse Illusory Demon
http://deckstats.net/deck-870741-41cb7d9e9ca72b3c9f778835d454c0b0-en.html
http://deckstats.net/deck-711442-234d9a8191ddc55361503f9717845c99-en.html
http://deckstats.net/deck-632778-b6ded47b6ba8ec12fff9608a76b88043-en.html
To be fair, standard is a format full of rares. And they print event decks with staple rares.
You mean like Magistrate's Scepter? Functional Reprint? That could be fun with Proliferate.
Also, the art is bad.
One could say it almost looks... PURE! The interesting thing to me is that if these were on store shelves, I'd probably be more likely to look at the eye-catching blankness of the mirrodin pure packaging rather than the dark busy new phyrexia packaging that looks like every other trading card game on the shelf.
When you say "heavily played", are you talking about tournament-play? The only recent standard decks that I can think of as "Timmy" are Eldrazi green and possibly RUG.
From what I've seen, the've done a great job of appealing to all psychographics. Of course you can pick out a subset of cards to fit an argument, but taking the past several sets on the whole, I'd say the success has come from printing something for everyone (not everything for everyone). I think it's interesting that you mentioned the Titans, since the success they've had with the Titans stems from the fact that their appeal spans all of the psychographics.