Also, card types that end up in 8- racks yard: instant (dark blast, victim of night) sorcery (thoughtsieze, IoK, Wrench mind, smallpox, ravenscrime) artifact (bridge, hopefully not the rack) enchantment (hopefully not shrieking affliction) plainswalker (LotV) land (day more salvage, ghost quarter, anything really with a ravens crime) creature (pack rat),and that's just mainboard.
Long games happen with 8 rack, things go wrong, and yeah, we can get delirium online with retrace, Lilly, pox, dredge.
Modern 8-Rack player here, my thoughts about this card:
I'm going to playtest this card in my SB extensively. Two reasons for this: One, it's better than Wrench Mind against affinity, two, it'll help me get cards out of my opponents hands late game if they are playing smart and hording their hand once mine is gone. If I can make them pitch one card every turn, and more than one on a few of them, I can wear them out way better. I think I might even try running 4 Wrench Minds and 4 Whispers of Emrakul, if I can force myself to get delirium.
Ah. Maybe instead of the binding holding her back, it was the other two Titans keeping her in check. That would definitely explain Ugin's frustration at the Titans having been destroyed.
Innistrad's silver moon is a manifestation of Emrakul and always has been. The Titans are interplanar beings, so she could have been manifest in several planes at once, and perhaps she was largely inactive/in stasis because of the hedron prison on Zendikar. The moon silver that Avacyn's spear is made of is a piece of Emrakul herself, which explains why it twists when Avacyn goes mad, and why other people can hear the buzzing as Avacyn gets close to them. MAYBE the angels on Zendikar were affected the same way, and that's how Em became the angelic avatar of Emrakul. Remember, Emrakul can induce madness and affect gravity, which is what this moon has been doing in this plane from the beginning. Now that Emrakul is active again, maybe it's gotten stronger, more difficult to predict.
Emrakul, the Titan of Corruption, as far as I can see, is there in some way. I bet Jace's mind begins to unravel as he delves deeper into the secrets of Innistrad and as he gets closer to the truth, we will be left wondering if he has reached or if he's approaching a point of no return.
Long games happen with 8 rack, things go wrong, and yeah, we can get delirium online with retrace, Lilly, pox, dredge.
I'm going to playtest this card in my SB extensively. Two reasons for this: One, it's better than Wrench Mind against affinity, two, it'll help me get cards out of my opponents hands late game if they are playing smart and hording their hand once mine is gone. If I can make them pitch one card every turn, and more than one on a few of them, I can wear them out way better. I think I might even try running 4 Wrench Minds and 4 Whispers of Emrakul, if I can force myself to get delirium.
Innistrad's silver moon is a manifestation of Emrakul and always has been. The Titans are interplanar beings, so she could have been manifest in several planes at once, and perhaps she was largely inactive/in stasis because of the hedron prison on Zendikar. The moon silver that Avacyn's spear is made of is a piece of Emrakul herself, which explains why it twists when Avacyn goes mad, and why other people can hear the buzzing as Avacyn gets close to them. MAYBE the angels on Zendikar were affected the same way, and that's how Em became the angelic avatar of Emrakul. Remember, Emrakul can induce madness and affect gravity, which is what this moon has been doing in this plane from the beginning. Now that Emrakul is active again, maybe it's gotten stronger, more difficult to predict.
Emrakul, the Titan of Corruption, as far as I can see, is there in some way. I bet Jace's mind begins to unravel as he delves deeper into the secrets of Innistrad and as he gets closer to the truth, we will be left wondering if he has reached or if he's approaching a point of no return.