Reprints the one card that people point to when saying that art objectifies women.
Well done Wizards.
Liliana does not objectify women in any way at all. We have gotten to a point in our society that every single picture of a women must be objectifying a women in some negative way......blah blah blah.. That is not the case. (((Sarcasm)))Picture of a girl drinking a milk shake, must be sex related and putting women down, picture of girl sitting on a beach, picture of a girl driving a car, picture of a girl on the moon at a new space station.)))
You have a picture of an attractive strong power women who girls dress up as for anime conventions. What more do you want? The picture is fine, happy to see a reprint. Sick of of seeing people claim that everything in existence must be putting women down. Then all I have to do is replace the word "women" with anything else to get the same mentality; fish, cats, arabs, blacks, jews, men, environment, whites, chinese, old people, etc. It doesn't matter what word I put in. Stop sucking life out of everything man. That artwork of her is awesome. Stop putting stuff down man. Just stop. If the picture was really as negative as you claim she would totally nude, in a kitchen, making sandwiches and giving blow jobs. Her abilities would be horrible as well. +1 do nothing -2 do nothing -6 do nothing. Instead liliana of the veil is an amazing planeswalker comparable to jace, the mind sculpter with great art to appreciate.
My suggestion listen to some comedy radio for a while, pandora is free, youtube is free there is something out there for you. ***** go make fun of somebody. The whole world is so serious and campaigning for some cause, or someones rights, everything is a hate crime, racist, sexist. blah blah blah.
"O no mcdonalds must be slandering a hate crime against skinny people every time they make a big mac." hahaha jeeze You're just someone perpetuating another groups negative perspective that they've made you believe is correct. Look at the picture for a hour and tell me what's wrong with it? I don't see anything.
I have heard vague rumors of a moustache-dispensing vending machine in a distant laundromat, across the street from a tattoo parlor. However, this information is shaky, and time is of the essence.
hmm... it was $2.50 on SCG and I was debating whether or not I should snag a playset preorder or wait to see other prices... 20 in stock, refresh, they're out of stock now (happened in no more than 20 minutes since it was put up). Idk if they pulled it or if they were bought out...
Everywhere else that pre-sold it is also sold out. Weird!
These lands are putting the Ravnica guild lands ones to shame! At first I did not realize it was all creatures. You get the best of both attacking and defending with this card.
As others have said - the already existing utility lands in the cycle have pretty much defined the deck creation process. UWHumans and MageBlade exist because of Haunt, GWTokens because of Gavony, and WRR due to Kessig Wolf Run.
This land is perfect in a token deck or any whiteblack creature strategy really. Having this and intangible virtue for blackwhite tokens will be crazy strong.
I don't think this card will be played very much in the near future. while the card itself is obviously powerful the mana is terrible for enemy colored decks, and playing this card would force one to have a aweful manabase.
Say you play a 24 land deck with 3 vault of the archangel being 3 of those lands
A mono black deck splashing vault would run
This mana is fine, but still gets some fairly awkward hands like
Isolated chapel vault spells
plains Vault of the archangel
swamp vault of the archangel
However most people are talking about a B/W deck running the new sorrin and some token producers. Running 24 lands + 4 sphere of the suns seems reasonable since the curve would likely be high. Plus obtaining the correct colors of mana is still hard.
Sphere of the suns is the only good way currently to fix the mana in a black/white deck other than isolated chapel. I still don't like how inconsistent the manabase is but hopefully there is a way to make the mana work
Maybe it's just because I've been spoiled with 8x duals for a while, but I'm not sure I'd risk running this in a BW deck yet when the mana base for the deck is already pretty weak with just Isolated Chapel to help you fix your mana.
I don't think this card will be played very much in the near future. while the card itself is obviously powerful the mana is terrible for enemy colored decks, and playing this card would force one to have a aweful manabase.
Say you play a 24 land deck with 3 vault of the archangel being 3 of those lands
A mono black deck splashing vault would run
This mana is fine, but still gets some fairly awkward hands like
Isolated chapel vault spells
plains Vault of the archangel
swamp vault of the archangel
However most people are talking about a B/W deck running the new sorrin and some token producers. Running 24 lands + 4 sphere of the suns seems reasonable since the curve would likely be high. Plus obtaining the correct colors of mana is still hard.
Sphere of the suns is the only good way currently to fix the mana in a black/white deck other than isolated chapel. I still don't like how inconsistent the manabase is but hopefully there is a way to make the mana work
So what just run 2 instead you only need one in play for it to be good.
That way your mana should be fine without having to play Sphere over good cards in your 2 drop slot.
This is the strongest constructed card previewed yet. It might as well read ":symtap::2mana::symw::symb:: Target player skips their attack step". Pair this up with Gideon/Elspeth/Sorin with a few token generators and you are talking a very powerful midgame that adequately gets around countermagic.
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Not to be a debbie downer, but I highly doubt this card will see constructed play. At requiring five lands to activate, in the current standard meta you'll probably be dead before you can activate it.
But if this land is going to be in the "current meta" then you have to assume the other cards will be too, and a W/B tokens deck has WAY more than enough stuff in it's kit right now to take on U/W Humans AND Wolf Run.
I am very satisfied. Lifelink and deathtouch are amogst the mose useful abillities I like to play. 4 mana might be quite a lot but it must be so sweet putting your opponent to the choice of a) suffer from your constant life gain or b) bitterblossom deathtouchy faeries blockers.
I'm far less concerned about the mana in B/W than most people in this forum are. There are ways to deal with the mana in standard as long as you don't play too many BB or WW cards in the deck.
The concerning thing to me regarding this new land is the fact that it costs 4 mana in addition to the land to grant abilities that do not increase damage output. Seems like the last thing tokens wants to do is keep 5 mana open. It's one of those "wow" cards on the surface that is going to be too expensive for what it does. It may be a 1-of in tokens but I can't see this being a 3 or 4-of like Moorland Haunt
Now if only that deck was actually viable this could be plausible in some way.
Didn't Conley Woods just win Grand Prix Orlando with a GB Primeval Titan ramp deck that could easily splash an extra land or two (possibly even ditching the Wolf Run package in favor of this card)? Oh waity, he totally did. Imagine that.
This card is awesome. It can create a massive tempo swing, be used to bluff people in your or their combat phase so well, and will be highly playable, of that I have no doubt. Even the weakest of the Innistrad lands (Bloodhall) has potential, and I think this card is superior to it in many ways.
So, can we assume now that Avacyn is going to be a black/white creature?
Well, I'm not so sure we can rule mono-white out just yet. Sorin is obviously B/W and Avacyn could be one - or both - of those colors, it seems. As for her hall, I don't believe it completely justifies her being B/W.
Prime-Time, fetch this and Plains. Attack, fetch Swamp.
Done.
I was thinking a poxinator build.
Now if only that deck was actually viable this could be plausible in some way.
Don't forget to fetch the mountain and wolf run. Those are a little scarier for your opponent to face down when you have 10+ mana on the field...
Everywhere else that pre-sold it is also sold out. Weird!
As others have said - the already existing utility lands in the cycle have pretty much defined the deck creation process. UWHumans and MageBlade exist because of Haunt, GWTokens because of Gavony, and WRR due to Kessig Wolf Run.
This land is perfect in a token deck or any whiteblack creature strategy really. Having this and intangible virtue for blackwhite tokens will be crazy strong.
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Say you play a 24 land deck with 3 vault of the archangel being 3 of those lands
A mono black deck splashing vault would run
This mana is fine, but still gets some fairly awkward hands like
Isolated chapel vault spells
plains Vault of the archangel
swamp vault of the archangel
However most people are talking about a B/W deck running the new sorrin and some token producers. Running 24 lands + 4 sphere of the suns seems reasonable since the curve would likely be high. Plus obtaining the correct colors of mana is still hard.
Sphere of the suns is the only good way currently to fix the mana in a black/white deck other than isolated chapel. I still don't like how inconsistent the manabase is but hopefully there is a way to make the mana work
Edit: Pretty much nath'd.
So what just run 2 instead you only need one in play for it to be good.
That way your mana should be fine without having to play Sphere over good cards in your 2 drop slot.
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But if this land is going to be in the "current meta" then you have to assume the other cards will be too, and a W/B tokens deck has WAY more than enough stuff in it's kit right now to take on U/W Humans AND Wolf Run.
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The concerning thing to me regarding this new land is the fact that it costs 4 mana in addition to the land to grant abilities that do not increase damage output. Seems like the last thing tokens wants to do is keep 5 mana open. It's one of those "wow" cards on the surface that is going to be too expensive for what it does. It may be a 1-of in tokens but I can't see this being a 3 or 4-of like Moorland Haunt
Didn't Conley Woods just win Grand Prix Orlando with a GB Primeval Titan ramp deck that could easily splash an extra land or two (possibly even ditching the Wolf Run package in favor of this card)? Oh waity, he totally did. Imagine that.
This card is awesome. It can create a massive tempo swing, be used to bluff people in your or their combat phase so well, and will be highly playable, of that I have no doubt. Even the weakest of the Innistrad lands (Bloodhall) has potential, and I think this card is superior to it in many ways.
This is the only DKA land spoiled so far...
or did you mean block?
Well, I'm not so sure we can rule mono-white out just yet. Sorin is obviously B/W and Avacyn could be one - or both - of those colors, it seems. As for her hall, I don't believe it completely justifies her being B/W.
I like this card tons and tons.
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