MTG Salvation

I'll play these, they seem fun or useful while still affordable...

• Driven // Despair
  
• Mirage Mirror
  
• Nimble Obstructionist
  
• Ramunap Excavator
  
• Wildfire Eternal

Solemnity
Wildfire Eternal
Hour of Promise
Fraying Sanity
Crested Sunmare
edit: Abandoned Sarcophagus

I have Nicol Bolas Grixis theme deck on my 'maybe someday' list. If that ever materializes, I'll circle back to pick up the stuff I need for that. Probably 1x of the Gods and a few other things.

I'd buy the Locust god if it dropped in price.

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Crested Sunmare and Hazoret's Undying Fury are the only cards that really interested me.

I would be interested in it if it didn't have the "skip your next turn" clause. Card is awful as is.

Well, besides getting me some pretty new lands;

Lurching Rotbeast for my Living Death deck.
Hour of Promise
Ramunap Excavator
Wildfire Eternal strikes me as a removal magnet, but it looks like fun
Torment of Hailfire

I may just wait on a few of these as some are bound to come down, although I'm not sure about Ramunap Excavator - being just a unique card it may just go up.

I agree on the probable rise in price of the excavator.
Until one or more alternatives are printed it will probably keep rising.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned anything about Razaketh, the Foulblooded. He's only a small step below Griselbrand and will be insanely broken in GB Reaniamtor style decks that have mana dorks or Hapless Researchers or whatever.

We're holding out for the multiplayer set review

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I agree on the probable rise in price of the excavator.
Until one or more alternatives are printed it will probably keep rising.

Isn't it a promo piece? Those are traditionally quite cheap.

Hmmm... you might be right.
Still, if it (the Excavator) stays unique, it will rise.
It's pretty affordable at the moment. (Avg $5 atm.)

@Prid3: Razaketh is on my watchlist, but I'll only get it when it's cheap.
(just bought two Griselbrands so I'm not in a hurry. And I prefer raw card draw to tutors anyway...)

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I agree on the probable rise in price of the excavator.
Until one or more alternatives are printed it will probably keep rising.

Considering the price of the alternatives, it will probably go up.

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@Prid3: Razaketh is on my watchlist, but I'll only get it when it's cheap.
(just bought two Griselbrands so I'm not in a hurry. And I prefer raw card draw to tutors anyway...)

Griselbrand is broken and easily banworthy. Hell, you can't even play him in EDH. Still, there's no shame in being #2 and Razaketh is an absolutely bonkers Magic card. 2-card combos, more reanimation, Not of This World, hate, disruption, permission, the fact that he can tutor for anything for zero mana is utterly absurd so as long as you can afford to feed him then he's definitely worth acquiring and playing.

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I'm surprised that no one has mentioned anything about Razaketh, the Foulblooded. He's only a small step below Griselbrand and will be insanely broken in GB Reaniamtor style decks that have mana dorks or Hapless Researchers or whatever.

I was looking at him - but being a $10 card, and I own a full set of Griselbrand & Rune-scarred Demon already, this fella doesn't really strike me as something I need. I'm gonna wait on this one and see where the price goes, it IS a strong choice!

Price seems to be stabilizing on Razaketh, if anybody was holding out to pick them up.

I'm all for abusing the "skip your next turn" cycle in Awakening/Prophet/etc. shells, but they're fairly meh otherwise.

This is a somewhat uninspiring set. I don't know if that's a fair assessment on spec since the last few sets have been pretty phenomenal. Context is king.

I would like some advice on a card I picked up in a draft for a specific deck.

EDH. Gitrog Monster. It has a lot of land search to find urborg and coffers.

The card in question is Torment of Hailfire. This list has both a lot of sweepers (of all kinds) and a discard package with a symmetry broken by the deck (so cards like Oppression and Mindslicer.

What are your thoughts on replacing a card such as Exsanguinate with it? The lifegain is great, but the deck isn't well suited to applying pressure, and if it is, I probably already have an army capable of wiping players off the map in a moment. Plus, I have Glacial Chasm and Constant Mists for turbofogging the biggest aggressor on the board.

Seems a question for a new thread. (maybe even in a different forum)

Whether it's better than exsanguinate depends on your meta and mana I'd guess.