MTG Salvation

Good card in Azusa, Lost but Seeking and Omnath, Locus of Rage or similar landfall deck obviously. Otherwise, yeah not so great.

Wow. Didn't know there was a land as a part of the Rhystic cycle. I honestly can't say I haven't heard of a card very often.

Meteor Crater in...Apocalypse/Extinction theme deck? Meteor Golem, Star of Extinction, Armageddon (please use responsibly throw in some dinosaurs...could be fun. Led by Zacama, Primal Calamity.

I may have a new side project to work on. It would be so nonbo having Zacama and Armageddon effects together though.

I feel like flashing this in in response to declaring blockers is the way to go. I think I am going to need to try that.

This seems a bit weird to me given that it's namesake card is banned in the format that this product is printed for...I guess it being a creature with a more expensive tap ability will definitely make it more...balanced.

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Uhm. Noticing that i have never played against a card with bestow, i have a couple of questions regarding Kestia:
1) if i bestow her to a creature, her card drawing ability is lost, right?
2) if i bestow her to a creature and they doom blade the creature, will Kestia return to the battlefield as a creature or die?

1) No. She would be an aura with the buff and drawing abilities. You would draw a card when the enchanted creature attacks.
2) The bestow card becomes a creature when the enchanted creature dies. Kestia lives on as a creature.

"Choose your commander and carve your path to victory in this unique multiplayer Magic format. Call on powerful planeswalkers and deploy their signature strategies to make sure you're the last player standing." - Wizards product description

This is the only evidence I have heard of. It sounds convincing, but until it is officially announced I am personally just going to wait and see. The planewalkers could be in the decks and not have the "may be your commander clause." The colors of the themes chosen may be restricting the planewalker designs they were going for.

Or someone at Wizards may be just trying to hype a product and the description could be intentionally or unintentionally misleading.

And I literally just built Selesnya Enchantress this last week... I suppose the staples are going to spike for whatever isn't in the deck.

Yes, I think if these were enemy colors they would be seen a lot more frequently by now. There are now four notable land cycles that have allied pairs only (Battlelands from BFZ, Battlebond lands, Amonkhet cycle lands, and the Odyssey filter lands). On top of that many of the enemy land cycles have been printed far less than their allied friends.

I put Path of Ancestry in two of my decks because I have 4 of them lying around and I have 14 decks. Not sure that I shouldn't take it out for something else in one of them. One is in my budget Edgar Markov so that actually makes sense.

Thought I should edit this so I wouldn't give a false impression. Of those 14 decks 10 of them are mono or dual colored which are less likely to want this land. Of my 3+ color decks two are basically cEDH decks that have a full array of fetches and shocks etc with no need for this fixing. The last 2 are the ones with Path of Ancestry in them and as mentioned you get a pretty big upside from it in Edgar Markov when your turns are literally spamming all the same creature types as your commander.

I would use it more if i had additional budgetish 3+ color decks.

Any thoughts on Panharmonicon? It costs four but it would double up on any of like 30 etb effects in this deck including experience counters.

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It would be pretty awkward for the Red/Black one, Demigod of Revenge, to be legendary. I occasionally whip out Deus of Calamity and think Godhead of Awe sees less play than it should, but I don't think any of them are strong to the point of aggressive autoinclusion.

I think the mana costs have something to do with that though. It's hard to auto include something you struggle to cast.

In a 3+ color deck probably, but in a two color deck it would generally be a non-issue. Worst is you can't cast them on curve due to utility lands. I can see Deus of Calamity in a Xenagos, God of Revels deck. Play with a Blade of Selves and you are almost guaranteed to get some land destruction triggers. Same with Ghastlord. I could see Godhead in some sort of control/prisony build.

Oversoul of Dusk and Demigod of Revenge are mostly unplayable though.

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I'm still trying to figure out if I should use it in decks that don't combo with it. Is it a good enough mana rock?
I don't think it is.

I agree it isn't good enough. Unless you run the Rings of Brighthearth combo or have a few other ways to untap it for free such as Unwinding Clock or Seedborn Muse, you are most often better off with 2 cmc rocks or the other usual 3cmc suspects. I suppose you can use this as a one shot battery of sorts for a big x spell or something on a following turn, but that generally seems like a waste of a card slot. And Mana Vault does that much better also.

So if I am sitting across from this thing and respond to its impending death with a lightning bolt...I basically have a color shifted Ancestral Recall. In red! That's pretty cool.

Add that to the list of reasons Lightning Bolt is an underplayed card in Commander.

I also feel like I need to go jam Stifle in all my blue decks that don't already have one.

I feel like the value in this set, while excellent, was less an intentional thing on WotC's part than a byproduct of the set was essentially finished 2 years ago. I would wager if you looked at prices 2 years ago half of these good value rares were considered jank or didn't have near the value then that they do now.

I didn't look anything up and it's just a feeling... but this set doesn't fit their MO.

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It's weird, years ago Swords was a thing they wouldn't dream of reprinting so often, but now it's in just about every single supplementary set with reprints. More Path to Exile would be nice.

They don't want it in Standard. Personally, I think it's weird they're putting it in so many draftable sets: I don't want it in limited. (Mostly it's "way too good for white". Remember how white is supposed to be third for removal?)

The pronoun game is alive and well. I can't say for certain which card you are discussing.