Thanks for posting this. I've had this, uh, 'discussion' with a number of shops that had proposed to launch Pauper nights and I try to ask them "MTGO rules or actual-paper printed rarity", they go "Whatever, if it was ever a common it's good unless it's on the banlist, if it was bad it'd be on the banned list", I explain "Hymn and Sinkhole aren't on the MTGO banned list because they're not MTGO commons..." "Whatever, man. We'll see how it plays out." Yeah, I already know how this plays out.
I don't want to bring a deck with Hymns and get in arguments with the faction that thinks they're illegal in paper pauper (not on the MTGO pauper valids list). I don't want to bring a deck with Chainer's Edicts and get in arguments with the faction that thinks they're illegal in paper pauper (never printed as paper commons). I don't want to bring a deck that resists using either flavor of corner case and then face decks all evening that didn't hold themselves to the same deckbuilding restrictions. I want a show-runner who gives a damn enough to make it clear to all players what the cardpool is; ideally, I want the organization that handles all the other formats (including the online version of Pauper) to actually give a damn enough to codify a ruleset for paper pauper. But for some reason they never do.
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I’ve been tossing this concept around in my mind all night. Is there a possible Modern deck there? Memnites and Ornithopters and these guys and Conclave Phalanx? Kinda feels like the roots of a white deck in the style of Hollow One - a deck that can get a crazy T1 board presence with the right opening hand. But how to make it more consistent in the absence of the perfect opening hand?
Dreamland: plains, 4 Memnites, this ... 12 power on board turn one.
With Memnites and Ornithopters it’s possible on T1.
Uhm, that's not true, unless rulings have flipped since the last time I saw this ruled.
Each potential blocker has two blocking requirements. But (barring some multi-block ability), each one can only block one creature. Each one can choose whichever one they want to (each one, unable to fulfil both of its requirements, must fulfil one), and this can result in them all blocking the same one and leaving the other one unblocked.
That's the standing ruling on Prized Unicorn.
Satyr Wayfinder is a 1/1. This is a 3/1. That's a pretty sizeable difference. It's not like they took a Satyr Wayfinder and made it strictly worse. They made its ETB ability weaker in exchange for making it a more relevant battlefield body. As a second turn play, a 3 power creature sure matters more than a 1 power creature.
You'd probably also need some means of granting this haste to accomplish what you want to here, but yes. "As long as you've surveilled this turn" is either true or not true regardless of whether or not this was on the battlefield at the time. If it needed to be on the battlefield at surveil-time to benefit they'd have worded it "When you surveil, ~ gains..."
Tremendous.
Any deck that wants Stitcher's Supplier to enter the battlefield tends to want it to leave the battlefield too.
The images of them we've seen have them with a "C" in their footer text. If they were landsheet/landslot they'd be "L", would they not?
It's 2 mana cheaper. Amphin Pathmage costs 3U. This costs 1U.
I don’t think that’s a particularly good way for this deck to go - but if one is committed to exploring this card they should do so in tandem with a creatures-only build ... and those cards would be a way to still have combat trick punch in a deck with no noncreature spells.
Yes, quite rarely are four mana commons made for constructed.
As a limited card this is amazing though.
Your creature has been the subject of an Un-Oxing.