MTG Salvation

Quote from jknott85 »

You're trying to compare apples to oranges. Indestructible and regenerate, while being similar, operate on two very different axes. Regenerate tends to have an activation cost, while indestructible is a static effects. There should be ways to get around static effects.

I agree. I can't wait for the next set.

Life from Within
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1W 2/2
Indestructable
~ can't lose Indestructable.

Balance, right? Dealing with an annoying mechanic, right?
No, this card is *****ty design. "Parasitic" is the operative term here. Adds nothing new to the game. Just takes away from what already exists.

What they should have done is waited until an infect, or wither set, and then given this card that keyword.

Quote from rejuvenile_30 »

such awkward text. so do ulamog 1 with this. then a bone splinters it to exile it lol. i think there will be some number of missed exile triggers for other non indestructible creatures off this card too.

Or if you play green, you could use Bonds of Mortality and get a card back. Also fuels your graveyard for Delirium.

1. First, I think having a few cards that can directly deal with an annoying mechanic is okay, so long as it is done infrequently. It's always good to have sideboard cards like that, JUST in case. Also, this does give red AN option of dealing with indestructible, where it didn't have any before.
2. Second, The problem with the 'can't be regenerated' clause was that it was gorram EVERYWHERE on tournament quality removal, which made regeneration not matter as an ability. By not printing that clause at the same frequency, they could make regeneration actually MATTER in constructed formats.
3. Third, I do think regeneration is on the downswing, due to general rules confusion the ability has in it's current form. So having the clause be 'if this would die, exile it instead' show up infrequently could work until they solve the regeneration problem.

You're trying to compare apples to oranges. Indestructible and regenerate, while being similar, operate on two very different axes. Regenerate tends to have an activation cost, while indestructible is a static effects. There should be ways to get around static effects.

Besides, WoTC says they don't want to print anymore removal with the clause "destroy x, it can't be regenerated", but now they do the same thing with another mechanic?[/quote]

Also, MaRo says that's mainly because they're phasing out regeneration, so the "it can't be regenerated" clause is gonna be less and less relevant.

Eeehhh, it's a good card. Indestructible creatures are important, but mtg is a game of balance. Every strength must have a weakness. What dictates the value of a card is the strength-weakness ratio. As long as they don't flood the set with cards like this and exile effects, it's a nice burn spell that might get you out of a sticky situation.

As for killing the titans, that flavor was on point, especially if you read the stories. It wasn't easy. It was a stupid, half-formed, desperate last stand of a plan, fueled in part by Chandra's impulsiveness, and it almost incinerated Zendikar along with the eldrazi. It used all the plane's mana. Literally all of it. Nobody except Nissa and Chandra could cast spells during the incineration- Nissan channeling the leylines to Chandra, Chandra setting the leylines ablaze. It barely worled, Emrakul is out there, and Ugin warned of dire consequences. (Perhaps in the former of other Eldrazi? Perhaps their creator?)
It didn't break flavor, it advanced the story in a satisfying way and left the option open for further developments.

Several easy ways? Besides all the ways that have existed before indestructible creatures were even a thing — for instance, exiling — I can only think of two. Bonds of Mortality is the only other one. Compared to just how many creatures have hexproof and/or indestructible, the answers to the abilities themselves are actually quite scarce.

Are we just going to ignore the fact that this card might be picturing Sorin's death...

Another Junk rare

Pretty much. The XR Sorceries have always been goofy, especially when at Rare rarity, just marginally bumping up their utility above Blaze with effects like Banefire, Crater's Claws, Demonfire, and Devil's Play. As creature removal, they become increasingly inefficient as toughness rises, and as MonoRed To-The-Dome mana sinks, you often need to get past turn 5 before they even start beating out the efficiency of Bolt and other burn spells.

Pretty sure this should have Gideon's picture on it not that vampire (better not be Sorin or I will be pisthd)

It's gets a for being a single target :symr:x sorcery, but gets for doing something truly unique in red. If we have to blaze 16.0 then it's good it at least does something novel even if the situations where you could put it to good use are pretty rare.