Overall I think mono red will be the new deck to beat in frontier. Prowess is making a comeback and there's a bunch of decent removal in the color. And fling helps out with that. Cast it getting the prowess trigger and sacrifice something that you just made a little bit bigger should be enough to take out a bunch of the low toughness creatures that are running around. I think it will be faster than the emerge decks running around or the eldritch evolution decks out there. A r/g aggro might be up there too just because of eldritch evolution. It's a great card and I'm surprised it hasn't taken off yet. I played the crap out of it during the emn prerelease event in a r/g aggro deck. It got me t3 ulrich in like 3 games that I played. the other games I got him at worst on curve. those are the only decks I see benefiting from amonkhet in frontier. The rest of the set is pretty weak overall.
It drops creatures up to 2 turns early. And it's helpful in multicolored decks where you can go grab anything you may need at the time and put it directly into play. That's why I see it as an aggro toolbox. I'm actually looking at a mono green with a couple big bombs in other colors and evolution to help me fetch them out.
Radiant Flames has the upside of being able to deal 1, 2, or 3 damage instead of a fixed 3 which means you can run it alongside your own x/2s and x/3s. I run the sweeper as a sideboard card and in those games I would never want to cycle the card. That said I expect Sweltering Suns to be played more and is a better option for main board.
Rhonas the Indomitable seems to immediately be a staple creature in the format and the best of the Amonkhet gods. The others are harder to evaluate so I am interested in seeing what brewers are able to come up with there.
I love the design of Nissa, Steward of Elements. You can play her early as her Scry 2 feeds naturally into her middle ability. Later on she can ultimate immediately for 10 damage. I hope to see her in some kind of UG ramp strategy.
Radiant Flames has the upside of being able to deal 1, 2, or 3 damage instead of a fixed 3 which means you can run it alongside your own x/2s and x/3s. I run the sweeper as a sideboard card and in those games I would never want to cycle the card. That said I expect Sweltering Suns to be played more and is a better option for main board.
Rhonas the Indomitable seems to immediately be a staple creature in the format and the best of the Amonkhet gods. The others are harder to evaluate so I am interested in seeing what brewers are able to come up with there.
I love the design of Nissa, Steward of Elements. You can play her early as her Scry 2 feeds naturally into her middle ability. Later on she can ultimate immediately for 10 damage. I hope to see her in some kind of UG ramp strategy.
Nissa, Steward of Elements is a card that frontier probably needed, actually. Blue has been the weakest color in my frontier collection that I've been trying to find good additions to, and while she isn't blue per say, she's more solid than Jace, Unraveler of Secrets. Not to mention she is very flexible as a walker. Unfortunately I think for most people waiting until after the pro-tour hype train and brewer rush passes is the best idea for picking her up.
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
Most of the red cards won't see the light of day in Legacy or even modern and most likely I wouldn't waste my time in buying these cards... Thanks for the frontier format, I think I'm really excited to get my hands on some of these new cards for a frontier burn/sligh deck
Liliana's Mastery in a Starfield Nyx deck gives you a 5/5 with 2 3/3 tokens.
Champion of Rhonas is great support for dropping the more higher costing creatures from Trakir especially multi-color ones.
Legendary Monuments gives a discount for their color creature and a bonus effect for playing a creature spell. They combo with Inspiring Statuary giving non-artifact creatures of the color a good colorless discount of 2 or 3
There are new Warrior creatures in the set and a couple make Warrior tribal get better.
Rhonas the Indomitable seems to immediately be a staple creature in the format and the best of the Amonkhet gods. The others are harder to evaluate so I am interested in seeing what brewers are able to come up with there.
I love the design of Nissa, Steward of Elements. You can play her early as her Scry 2 feeds naturally into her middle ability. Later on she can ultimate immediately for 10 damage. I hope to see her in some kind of UG ramp strategy.
Nissa, Steward of Elements is a card that frontier probably needed, actually. Blue has been the weakest color in my frontier collection that I've been trying to find good additions to, and while she isn't blue per say, she's more solid than Jace, Unraveler of Secrets. Not to mention she is very flexible as a walker. Unfortunately I think for most people waiting until after the pro-tour hype train and brewer rush passes is the best idea for picking her up.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
In his Second 100 days - Yawgmoth's Bargain is unrestricted in Vintage.
What is going to happen in the Next 100 days!!!
I hope we go back to calling it Red Deck Wins (my favorite deck name ever)
Champion of Rhonas is great support for dropping the more higher costing creatures from Trakir especially multi-color ones.
Legendary Monuments gives a discount for their color creature and a bonus effect for playing a creature spell. They combo with Inspiring Statuary giving non-artifact creatures of the color a good colorless discount of 2 or 3
There are new Warrior creatures in the set and a couple make Warrior tribal get better.