Conqueror's Galleon - Frankly, I'm thinking of putting this in damn near all my decks except maybe Selvala, Explorer Returned (And Child of Alara but that's commons only). Drawpower on a land is HUGE and this thing is easy to flip. There's always someone it can attack into unhindred. Decks with Seedborn Muse in it will be especially happy.
Conqueror's Galleon seems barely better than Jayemdae Tome, if it's better at all (the flexibility is nice, but it is dependent on already having reasonably strong creature(s) in play to flip it; being a land is marginal at best).
So is the lizard creature type relegated only to tiny ones now? So yeah, Lathnu Sailback is easy, but what about something like Plated Crusher? Is it a dinosaur, or is it just a big ole lizard? And where is the line? What feature, exactly, separates the two?
Plated Crusher is neither a Dinosaur nor a Lizard. It's a Beast. Don't try to logic with Magic creature types.
Whatever they do, don't make EDH a tournament format...
Oh man, that would actually be awesome. Not as a regular thing of course, but a spicy one-off oh my God it would be amazing! I'd be all over that coverage
Team event where the games are actually multiplayer, with all our favourite figureheads of magic duking it out together? Don't tell me you wouldn't love to see that as a special one-of-a-kind protour event?
Nope. They would literally all run B/x so they could have a stupid amount of tutors and an easy kill card like Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
Nah it's not Skithyryx it's infinite combos for the win.
Combos, yes, though not infinite combos. Watch out for all decks being Doomsday or Hermit Druid.
I hate Dutiful Servants so much it's not even funny. You know Wizards did this on purpose. And poorly designed zombie camel aside, this may be the insult that breaks my back. It's a poorly designed vanilla, with art and flavor purposely designed to trick you to confuse it for another card in the same block. This is the sort of thing that leads to entirely preventable gameplay mistakes in limited. And somehow MaRo said "Print it."
Well, I'm sorry MaRo, but peddle your joke cards elsewhere. And I'm sorry piss-poor designers, but PAY ATTENTION to what you do.
Of course they did it on purpose, the flavor is the point. The Annointed mummies seen in Those Who Serveare completely hardwired to serve their duties, even when the world is literally falling to pieces around them. So yes, even as the river turns to blood and the sky is full of plagues and the pyramids are falling down, the mummies just continue to do what they were programmed to do, in this case carrying parcels around. In fact, the most recent story made a point of talking about mummies who had were tasked to cook meals, automatically preparing so much food that it was piling up around them as they blindly did their jobs ad infintum. They show that by having the art in the new card mimic the old. It's not a joke card, it's actually flavorful.
So what if it's a vanilla? It's a white common vanilla creature, we get at least one in just about every set. We'll get another one in Ixalan, i'd put money on it. Finally, is this REALLY going to cause gameplay mistakes? Different name, different p/t, different card, it's not esepcially difficult to get confused. Furthermore, how often are vanilla commons like this actually drafted, much less see play? I think you're overreacting here.
I'm not particularly mad, but why not just reprint the same card with different art?
Exactly. How many times are you going to untap four times with Jayemdae Tome in play? Plus you could in theory keep scrying even then. I mean, Jayemdae Tome is bad, but this may be a sign that they are open to making somewhat better artifact-based draw.
Funny how much more receptive people are to the punisher mechanic of Wildfire Eternal compared to that of Oracle of Bones. Not saying that Wildfire Eternal isn't better, but the reactions are way more positive than would be expected for a punisher mechanic.
Those are all creature version of some of the best cards and those are like $200+ and these magus's average to the $1 range
The one and only magus on par with the real version price is magus of the moon
This is Basicly magus of the crucible so it's immensely safe bet this one will be on par pricing with the others, plus this is going to be on a heavy and I mean heavy print run since it's not mythic.
As a matter of fact harsh mentor is potentially the final broken 2 CMC creature of the cycle (the red one) and that's only $2
Alright, I have to stop you right there. The reason why some of those cards are so expensive is because they are on the Reserved List and because they were only printed in incredibly small numbers by today's standards.
In addition, with creatures suffering from summoning sickness, they can't use abilities that require tapping until the next turn, making them inherently worse than other permanents that can activate those abilities immediately.
True, creatures are easier to remove than artifacts, enchantments, and lands, but that isn't enough to justify a massive price difference between the two. In fact, giving an old enchantment legs makes it a lot better sometimes (see Eidolon vs. Pyrostatic Pillar).
The reason this card won't reach really high prices is not because of a lack of demand. It's because Wizards prints the sh** out of sets nowadays, and there will be a billion and a half copies of Crucible Magus floating around. It will be an auto-include in a ton of different green EDH decks. There may also be some Standard decks that run this along with one or more of the ton of strategies available that put lands in graveyards.
Yea that's a much better explanation why the magus cycle is not to hard to gather
The moon magus probably just has smaller print run and is in the same boat as damnation.
Yes, though a big part is that Magus of the Moon's only disadvantage relative to Blood Moon is being easier to remove because it is a creature. Other than Magus of the Moat (and I doubt Moat would see much play if printed today), the others have various other disadvantages:
I think the chances of Angels, Demons or Dragons is substantially reduced by the theme for Iconic Masters. They don't need to do a deck for Angels, Demons or Dragon (or Sphinxes or Hydras) here. I doubt we see any of those groups.
Sometimes you only want to put two cards back into your deck. Way back when Krosan Reclamation was in Standard, there was a crazy rogue combo deck built around it and Future Sight the details of which escape me but the gist of which was vomiting your entire library onto the battlefield and your graveyard and using Krosan Reclamations to recur Early Harvest a bunch of times to generate enough mana for a lethal Blaze. The deck probably wouldn't have worked if you had to put three cards back instead of two.
Edit: Never mind, Memory's Journey says "up to three". So it is strictly better barring color considerations. Still better to have two copies of the effect than one if you're going to do crazy janky combo things, though, which is all both cards are good for.
Its not legendary, so you could run 8x indestructible lands with Darksteel Citadel.
You can make something like Armageddon kinda one-sided if your lands cannot be destroyed.
Probably something to work with.
I would laugh really hard if Armageddon.dec became a thing in Legacy with this, Darksteel Citadel and Ravages of War. But too slow in my opinion, and also Ravages is just too expensive.
Like Nevermore, this is very powerful in Commander as a way to shut off an opponent's Commander. Better than Nevermore in that it protects you even if the Commander is on the field, though worse in that it costs an extra mana so won't be able to beat the Commander to the board (and block its casting) as often.
Conqueror's Galleon seems barely better than Jayemdae Tome, if it's better at all (the flexibility is nice, but it is dependent on already having reasonably strong creature(s) in play to flip it; being a land is marginal at best).
Plated Crusher is neither a Dinosaur nor a Lizard. It's a Beast. Don't try to logic with Magic creature types.
Apparently? Although the hairstyle on the bishop is very east Asian. Maybe like a weird Japanese/Spanish mash-up.
Combos, yes, though not infinite combos. Watch out for all decks being Doomsday or Hermit Druid.
I'm not particularly mad, but why not just reprint the same card with different art?
Exactly. How many times are you going to untap four times with Jayemdae Tome in play? Plus you could in theory keep scrying even then. I mean, Jayemdae Tome is bad, but this may be a sign that they are open to making somewhat better artifact-based draw.
Yes, though a big part is that Magus of the Moon's only disadvantage relative to Blood Moon is being easier to remove because it is a creature. Other than Magus of the Moat (and I doubt Moat would see much play if printed today), the others have various other disadvantages:
The central conceit of Kamigawa block was white villains (Konda and O-Kagachi), black heroes (Toshiro and Night's Reach).
O-Kagachi is canonically mono-white, and I can't see them doing spirits as mono-white.
Sometimes you only want to put two cards back into your deck. Way back when Krosan Reclamation was in Standard, there was a crazy rogue combo deck built around it and Future Sight the details of which escape me but the gist of which was vomiting your entire library onto the battlefield and your graveyard and using Krosan Reclamations to recur Early Harvest a bunch of times to generate enough mana for a lethal Blaze. The deck probably wouldn't have worked if you had to put three cards back instead of two.
Edit: Never mind, Memory's Journey says "up to three". So it is strictly better barring color considerations. Still better to have two copies of the effect than one if you're going to do crazy janky combo things, though, which is all both cards are good for.
Ixidron was named for Ixidor, Reality Sculptor and is from Dominaria.
I would laugh really hard if Armageddon.dec became a thing in Legacy with this, Darksteel Citadel and Ravages of War. But too slow in my opinion, and also Ravages is just too expensive.
An easy way to shut down CopyCat also.