Welp that was a messed up stream at the beginning.
No Tibalt preview? Balls!
Affinity and proliferate and amass OH MY!
What I want to know is what caused Lilly to turn the dreadhorde against Bolas in the trailer and if she winds up disintegrating as a result. Is Lilly a casualty?
Please note that affinity is NOT in the set. Only on this promo card.
Suprised about Proliferate though.
To throw something nontribal in the mix: I'm betting on aristocrats for one of the decks.
There are usually some plants in the sets before and I noticed that we had quite a few aristocrat cards recently, Teysa Karlov and the whole orzhov guild mechanic, Priest of Forgotten Gods, Whisper, Blood Liturgist, Isareth the Awakener to name a few.
They could branch into Abzan or Mardu or go straight WBRG. Or just keep it vanilla (W/B).
And if I'm right I certainly hope they'll reprint Ophiomancer in it. For token reasons.
No Teferi is not suprising but I was hoping for a Karn somewhere. No Search for Azcanta is disappointing though.
The decks look playable out the box to me, but the GB deck seems lacking in value a little on first glance.
They could've shoved 2 more Jadelights in there imo. But that's probably why it got that single shock land.
Overall okay.
Dude, this is not a card created for be tournament viable in Storm, in fact no serious modern or legacy deck would ever play that card, because it's completely useless for the archetype, it costs too much and it does nothing on it's own. When I talk about supporting storm I'm talking about more aggressive and cheaper rituals, cantrips or the actually storm mechanics, not overcosted junk that could see real play only in casual games inside casual strategies.
I myself wouldn't mind if Grapeshot would cost 15 mana instead of 2. At least wouldn't be tournament viable.
Oh yeah about that : Seething Song another card banned exactly because it was played only in Storm and make it too good.
Counterpoint: they banned ~8 cards in modern mostly because of storm but made sure to never ban the actual storm cards.
Someone somewhere at WotC clearly thinks that it is a deck worth preserving.
Which imo speaks against your "WotC thinks storm is unhealty and unfun" narrative.
Storm plays nothing like eggs and wasn't mentioned in the article even once.
Sounds to me like WotC disagrees with you on that it needs to be banned right now, otherwise it would be.
Not like there's a lack of other non-combo solitaire decks in the format anyway.
Well that's not a nice suprise.
I'd like to restore my account. I believe my screenname was Sylphnir? Not sure tbh I changed it somewhere last year.
The account name might still be Azurhawk if that helps.
Not a planeswalker? Sorry you look like *****.
Please note that affinity is NOT in the set. Only on this promo card.
Suprised about Proliferate though.
There are usually some plants in the sets before and I noticed that we had quite a few aristocrat cards recently, Teysa Karlov and the whole orzhov guild mechanic, Priest of Forgotten Gods, Whisper, Blood Liturgist, Isareth the Awakener to name a few.
They could branch into Abzan or Mardu or go straight WBRG. Or just keep it vanilla (W/B).
And if I'm right I certainly hope they'll reprint Ophiomancer in it. For token reasons.
No Teferi is not suprising but I was hoping for a Karn somewhere. No Search for Azcanta is disappointing though.
The decks look playable out the box to me, but the GB deck seems lacking in value a little on first glance.
They could've shoved 2 more Jadelights in there imo. But that's probably why it got that single shock land.
Overall okay.
Based on their usual shedule and assuming nothing weird happens - monday, april 29th should be the next announcement.
Serra is cute though.
Counterpoint: they banned ~8 cards in modern mostly because of storm but made sure to never ban the actual storm cards.
Someone somewhere at WotC clearly thinks that it is a deck worth preserving.
Which imo speaks against your "WotC thinks storm is unhealty and unfun" narrative.
Sounds to me like WotC disagrees with you on that it needs to be banned right now, otherwise it would be.
Not like there's a lack of other non-combo solitaire decks in the format anyway.
I'd like to restore my account. I believe my screenname was Sylphnir? Not sure tbh I changed it somewhere last year.
The account name might still be Azurhawk if that helps.