My favourite Magic card, in terms of game play mechanics, is Blood Artist. Simple, to the point, unassuming yet completely terror inducing and in a tribe that I have a soft spot for.
In terms of art? Hands down Wolfir Silverheart.
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Kinda like this. Notice that often, the ones wielding the naginatas hit quicker and at safer distances than those with the swords.
I would not be at all surprised if this was cancelled. Which is a shame, really. Magic seems like a great IP to have in comic form. Terrible writing really doomed this series from the start.
- 1x Blood Scrivener
+ 1x Pain Seer
Pain Seer plays off the same mechanic as Blood Scrivener, is a human (so it interacts better with Xathrid Necromancer), fits better with the aggro feel of this deck and is actually from Born of the Gods.
- 1x Swamp
+ 1x Mutavault
The Thragtusk of today's Standard environment, Mutavault is currently the most played card in Standard and should have been an auto-include into this event deck to help keep prices down. Some places are selling Mutavaults for $40+, which is absolutely ludicrous. I'm very, very disappointed with WotC not including Mutavault.
- 1x Crypt Ghast
- 1x Fated Return
+ 1x Lifebane Zombie
Why is Crypt Ghast here? For the extort? Is that necessary? For the ramp? What are we ramping to? Our one-of Fated Return? I think Lifebane Zombie would have been a better pick for the aggro strategy and again, to keep it's price down.
That's my 2 cents anayway.
I think this set looks like a lot of fun. There's a lot of synergies embedded in these cards and while a majority of these cards aren't going to be breaking any formats, I think Standard got some nice goodies, Commander got some cool cards and I'm pretty confident in saying that Modern and Legacy might have gotten a bone thrown at them as well.
That said, I really think Limited is the big winner here. I think these cards are really going to diversify Theros draft and that they're really going to force us to re-evaluate the format, which I think is necessary. I've felt that Theros itself felt incomplete and I think adding Born of the Gods to the puzzle will really make it shine (unlike how DKA made INN feel more cluttered instead of adding to the enjoyment).
Lastly, the best card name with associated card art is Setessan Starbreaker. Not a great card, but that name and art is freakin' baller.
Sorry to go against the grain here boys... but I really like this set so far.
Nowadays I'm running a janky Sphere of Safety deck. Looks like it'll steam-roll this deck too.
That being said, the art is amazing and I'm looking forward to this challenge!
Bob's effect is a good, fun one, but Bob is a $70-$80 card for a reason. He's too good. WotC wants to give us a new Bob, but one that isn't completely busted. We just got a reprint in MMA, I'm sure he'll pop up again in MMA2 (maybe) or MMA3 (more likely).
People keep mentioning Springleaf Drum and Hidden Strings and Ral Zerak, but I feel there's a lot of ways to protect him in each of the colours. Blue has Aqueous Form and possibly Triton Tactics. Red has Madcap Skills. Green has Alpha Authority. I can see a BG Hexproof deck using Alpha Authority to protect Pain Seer for example.
Plus, there's a bunch of cards that'll help tap creatures in the set according to the article, so let's just see what those will be. I think Pain Seer is very, very fine for what he needs to be.
I'm sure that this has been mentioned before, but I just noticed that there's no Angel in this set. Blue has it's sphinx, B has a demon, R has it's obligatory dragon and G has two hydras.
White's missing its iconic. I wonder if that means something.
Better flavour text, of course, would have been: "From whence it came it shall remain, until it was complete again."