MTG Salvation

• Creature – Human Soldier Werewolf

This is not new. Every 'normal' Werewolf from Innistrad (excluding Emrakul's corruptions from Eldritch Moon) is a Human Werewolf on front face (sometimes with a third type too) and just Werewolf on back face. However, "Soldier" would make me think that perhaps it's a white Werewolf. Most Soldiers are white.

Remember, "premier" sets means 'Standard-legal'. And it was _always_ stated that UB would not be Standard-legal.

AFR is an exception because, though it's not a Magic property, it IS a Wizards of the Coast property so it got to be Standard-legal.

Diamond Lion says 'Activate as an instant' as a timing restriction, nothing more. It's still an activated mana ability and resolves immediately.... but you can only do it when you have priority, so you can't pop the Lion while you're in the middle of casting a spell like you can with almost every other mana ability.

When the original Lion's Eye Diamond was made way back in 1996, the rules were much murkier and indistinct - it was a time when you had to activate your mana up front and it was impossible to use LED to cast a spell from your hand. When the 6th Edition overhaul happened in 1999, a 'you can only activate this as an instant' line was added. It used to say 'Activate this only when you could cast an instant' until recently.

This Lion is obviously a homage to LED.

And no, you can't use Voidslime on any activated mana ability for they don't use the stack.

... couldn't it have been a Lizard Wizard?

Quote from fleshrum »

And I'm lowkey excited for any outrage from the snowflake types. A black planeswalker *and* satanic imagery? oh man.

The only snowflakes I care about are those in mana symbols. This could be confirmation that Kaldheim is a snow-related set.

Quote from Mergatroid_Jones »

Wait, what is this? Why is it tagged ZNR? What's going on here?

THE LIST is a curated set of 'pick-ups' that can appear in the new Set Boosters. They are identical to original print except for the planeswalker symbol, just like the cards from Mystery Booster.

... this looks like a wishlist - there is nothing even remotely spoilery/leaky at all.

I mean, you can already abuse death triggers with the Mutate mechanic under current rules. If Child is mutated, and dies, and Child goes to command, it still 'died' and thus the Child can nuke the board.

Now to current news:

The official post about it is thus: https://mtgcommander.net/index.php/2020/06/07/june-7-announcement-on-dies-triggers/

If a commander is in a graveyard or in exile and that card was put into that zone since the last time state-based actions were checked, its owner may put it into the command zone.

If a commander would be put into its owner’s hand or library from anywhere, its owner may put it into the command zone instead. This replacement effect may apply more than once to the same event.

So the hand/library is still a replacement effect - the commander goes to grave/exile and the next time SBAs are checked, you can move it to command - but you only have that one opportunity.

Quote from nebuchadnezzaring »

• A card with thirty-one different options.

There are 31 different possible color combinations

1 W
2 U
3 B
4 R
5 G
6 WU
7 WB
8 WR
9 WG
10 UB
11 UR
12 UG
13 BR
14 BG
15 RG
16 WUB
17 WUR
18 WUG
19 WBR
20 WBG
21 WRG
22 UBR
23 UBG
24 URG
25 BRG
26 WUBR
27 WUBG
28 WURG
29 WBRG
30 UBRG
31 WUBRG

A new Reaper King-esque mana cost? Also, the 20-year-old mechanic could be phasing from that one potential leak.

I'll note that you can make this much simpler just by using Panharmonicon so you don't need 3 different cards just to make the Scepter trigger twice. The cost remains at 2 even with multiple spells.

Quote from Blackhowling »

looks like with this guy we can counter morph spell by discard land....nice

I think you still cant counter morph as its an ability.