Aye seems clearly BW...between 3 Murderous compulsions, anguished, dead weight and throttle, you're all set on removal. Add sorin to that and yikes. No amazing creatures but dauntless cathars and the missionaries should do fine.
On another note, your green pool seems to have strong creatures, but red looks meh, so not looking so good for Arlinn as it is for Sorin and BW.
(in reference to vampire and other mutations) Ah, I hadn't noticed that. Those physical deformities are really odd, though. Are Eldrazi known to cause such mutations? The closest thing I can think of is Chaos influence in the Warhammer world. Slaanesh and Tzeentch, specifically, seem to specialize in both physical and mental corruption. I probably don't know enough about Magic lore, but I hadn't encountered anything so close to Warhammer stuff in Magic so far.
I suppose Emrakul is the most obvious choice at this point, given what we have. It doesn't explain everything I suppose, but nothing really contradicts the hypothesis so far. Not that I'm happy with it, I'm not. I hated the BFZ block, and just couldn't get around to playing it; Eldrazi look so stupid it just completely turns me off.
In truth, I'm just vaguely following discussions, and haven't researched the whole plot, just been wishing something would pop up and completely disprove Emrakul. That didn't happen. For the sake of curiosity, though, and most likely totally unrelated, but were Shilgengar's whereabouts ever mentioned? What happened to him? I'm reaching here, and this has probably been discarded long ago by better informed posters, but he's indirectly responsible for the creation of vampires, in which angel blood was apparently used. The guy is also called "the whisperer", and vampires seem to be the only ones unaffected by what's happening. It certainly doesn't make any sense with anything related to the moon or Tamiyo, unless a way was found to corrupt the moon's silver, and a demon wouldn't be a big enough threat, so that's that.
What nags at me is Avacyn's "madness", though. It seems to be more like someone very intent on targeting her, more like some kind of corruption than a passive effect that the mere presence of a semi sentient, godlike being should bring. It's basically too specific, too precise, to be Emmy induced, to me. But what do I know, I'm just keeping my hopes up, I'll readily admit that.
While everyone is expecting Chandra, Tibalt will be crashing Oath's party. And since WOTC has now figured out how to make a playable 2CMC walker, Tibalt will be 1CMC. And utterly unplayable, of course.
Went 3-1 with Kolaghan. Had Boltwing Marauder as my promo, a foil Foul Renewal as well as Sidisi. Lost in the finals to a...Kolaghan player as well. He had Thunderbreak Regent, Sidisi, Brutal Hordechief and that new 5/3 for 3CMC.
We both had insane removal. BR is really nasty this prerelease. Ojutai seemed really awful, and Atarka players didn't too too well either. Silumgar seemed to do okay, so did Dromoka. A couple of Ojutai players actually dropped, claiming their pool was unbelievably bad, and completely unplayable.
No single card is going to make the set exciting, imo. Even reprinting Goyf wouldn't get everyone excited. This set is a failure not because it has absolutely no good cards - a few of them are - but because generally speaking, it's pretty bad. I don't think there's too many dragons, they're just no good. Most are overcosted, the legendary dragons are worse than their FRF counterparts. The uncommon, monocolored cycle is an outrage. What were design thinking when they got this idea of making dragons this bad in a Dragon centered set, for god's sake? In limited, it doesn't seem like this set will be very enjoyable. Not to me, anyway. To add insult to injury, 15 basics is bad enough, but delaying their spoiling until now, when Wizards was not only aware of the hype, but even managed to infuriatingly tease people at PAX is just nonsense.
I'm not looking forward to this set, frankly. It has little going for eternal formats, and more importantly, a whale slugfest is not going to be fun to play in limited.
It's looking increasingly like 15 half art basics then? Wow. Poorly handled by Wizards. Fetches aside, why on earth would they tease and refuse to answer questions on lands, only to deliver 15 half art basics? Ugh.
What a letdown. The dragons have been super disappointing, and there's all in all very little in this set that's worth mentioning. This spoiler season has been hugely disappointing to me. I wasn't particularly excited by the prospect of fetches, but after seeing most rares being unplayable whales outside of limited (or particularly uninspired), I was hoping there'd be something more to this set. I'd take FRF over this any day, at this point. The dragons felt superior, and so did most mythics. Ugh.
I don't understand how Bloodrush works, exactly, in regards to Spellskite. I know you're not actually playing a spell when discarding when playing a Bloodrush card, so it can't be countered. But as an ability, can't Spellskite redirect it to itself?
If for whatever reason I'm missing it indeed can't, I'd really consider including Slaughterhorn in the sideboard, especially in mirrors, or versus Twin? Got beaten in the last round of a tournament this weekend, in a mirror match. I was running a singleton Spellskite in my deck, as I didn't have more. My opponent maindecked 2, and had two in the sideboard. In the end, despite dealing with one with Twisted Image, I wasn't able to deal with the second, and never drew my own. Cost me the round.
I'm unsure about Ghor-Clan Rampager though. Great card, but I'm iffy on the splash.
How can you people be so blind? It may be a little soon, but it's obvious from these pictures they're reprinting shocklands. First one is Breeding Pool, second one is Sacred Foundry. I mean duh!
I guess I would have liked him to have haste, or a dash cost of only R. Making him kind of Goblin Guide-ish, I suppose, with a drawback of not being able to block.
I play Boss Sligh, and it may be a personal preference, but I don't like Dash creatures in it at all. It may be great for slower, RDW styles, but in a deck where one plays combat tricks and hammerhand or dragon mantle with only 18 lands, you typically don't have mana to spend on dashing a creature. In any case, since he's legendary, you probably don't want 4 of him in a deck, which is a slight drawback as well.
He's completely playable, I was just hoping for a bit more.
On another note, your green pool seems to have strong creatures, but red looks meh, so not looking so good for Arlinn as it is for Sorin and BW.
In truth, I'm just vaguely following discussions, and haven't researched the whole plot, just been wishing something would pop up and completely disprove Emrakul. That didn't happen. For the sake of curiosity, though, and most likely totally unrelated, but were Shilgengar's whereabouts ever mentioned? What happened to him? I'm reaching here, and this has probably been discarded long ago by better informed posters, but he's indirectly responsible for the creation of vampires, in which angel blood was apparently used. The guy is also called "the whisperer", and vampires seem to be the only ones unaffected by what's happening. It certainly doesn't make any sense with anything related to the moon or Tamiyo, unless a way was found to corrupt the moon's silver, and a demon wouldn't be a big enough threat, so that's that.
What nags at me is Avacyn's "madness", though. It seems to be more like someone very intent on targeting her, more like some kind of corruption than a passive effect that the mere presence of a semi sentient, godlike being should bring. It's basically too specific, too precise, to be Emmy induced, to me. But what do I know, I'm just keeping my hopes up, I'll readily admit that.
We both had insane removal. BR is really nasty this prerelease. Ojutai seemed really awful, and Atarka players didn't too too well either. Silumgar seemed to do okay, so did Dromoka. A couple of Ojutai players actually dropped, claiming their pool was unbelievably bad, and completely unplayable.
I'm not looking forward to this set, frankly. It has little going for eternal formats, and more importantly, a whale slugfest is not going to be fun to play in limited.
If for whatever reason I'm missing it indeed can't, I'd really consider including Slaughterhorn in the sideboard, especially in mirrors, or versus Twin? Got beaten in the last round of a tournament this weekend, in a mirror match. I was running a singleton Spellskite in my deck, as I didn't have more. My opponent maindecked 2, and had two in the sideboard. In the end, despite dealing with one with Twisted Image, I wasn't able to deal with the second, and never drew my own. Cost me the round.
I'm unsure about Ghor-Clan Rampager though. Great card, but I'm iffy on the splash.
I play Boss Sligh, and it may be a personal preference, but I don't like Dash creatures in it at all. It may be great for slower, RDW styles, but in a deck where one plays combat tricks and hammerhand or dragon mantle with only 18 lands, you typically don't have mana to spend on dashing a creature. In any case, since he's legendary, you probably don't want 4 of him in a deck, which is a slight drawback as well.
He's completely playable, I was just hoping for a bit more.