I can't help but wonder how useful Indestructible will be
in a supposedly exile-heavy set.
Still, my Sen Triplets EDH needed a defensive Fatty,
and Avacyn will work better there than Elesh Norn did...
I doubt most of the exilers will be popular in T2, they likely will just help deal with this card completely dominating every limited game it shows up in by itself.
I mean unless a card exiles a creature for 2 mana or less it really isn't usually heavily played without a nice bonus attached.
EDH will most definitely love her but most people who've been playing awhile probably won't be worried with all of the exiling and tucking that goes on
I don't think that this card will see much play in Frites. What card is it better than? It dies to most of the same things that Elesh Norn does, aside from Day of Judgment and Go for the Throat. Sure, it can end games quickly, but you don't gain much after a Dispatch, Tragic Slip, Oblivion Ring, Fiend Hunter, Phantasmal Image, Phyrexian Metamorph, Vapor Snag, Geth's Verdict, Lilian of the Veil, or similar effects. What Frites wants is a creature that acts as a finisher, but can still do work if removed. Elesh Norn, Grave Titan, Inferno Titan, and the like all can do that, but Avacyn cannot.
I was guessing BW (most recent guess: XWWB, where X is between 2 and 4), but the "Angel of Hope" moniker had me second-guessing myself pretty hard. Ah well, at least she isn't GW.
I've got a hunch her flavour text isn't telling the full story. Last time we heard from her, didn't she have a demonic spear through her heart, and wasn't the reason Mikaeus wouldn't bust her out of the Helvault because he wasn't sure how he could do so without Avacyn dying from her wounds? (The Helvault has special time stasis magic. We've got no clue how it got enchanted that way, but it does.) I suppose she did get completely healed, unlike my initial guesses--maybe through Thalia's initial support and Sorin arriving later?
Now what will they present on April 9 besides the story of how the Helvault exactly broke--the Griselbrand card?
I've got a hunch her flavour text isn't telling the full story. Last time we heard from her, didn't she have a demonic spear through her heart, and wasn't the reason Mikaeus wouldn't bust her out of the Helvault because he wasn't sure how he could do so without Avacyn dying from her wounds? (The Helvault has special time stasis magic. We've got no clue how it got enchanted that way, but it does.) I suppose she did get completely healed, unlike my initial guesses--maybe through Thalia's initial support and Sorin arriving later?
I guess she's alright because she's indestructible?
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so how the hell did she get previewed without the app getting 10k shares?
the app server broke, and WotC figured, rather than try to fix it to finish the counter (was around 6k at 5:30?), they did the SMART thing and posted her.
As for the 5 white cards in front of her, "Avacyn's XXXX" would come after her, right?
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Right, but we also have 3 large sets releasing before then as well. Fact is, while Elesh is legal (until October), Avacyn seems sub-par in the Frites deck. We'll have to see what else is in the set. I've seen people mentioning that the set is supposed to have more exile and more cheat-into-play effects, but I haven't seen those from official sources.
I don't think that this card will see much play in Frites. What card is it better than? It dies to most of the same things that Elesh Norn does, aside from Day of Judgment and Go for the Throat. Sure, it can end games quickly, but you don't gain much after a Dispatch, Tragic Slip, Oblivion Ring, Fiend Hunter, Phantasmal Image, Phyrexian Metamorph, Vapor Snag, Geth's Verdict, Lilian of the Veil, or similar effects. What Frites wants is a creature that acts as a finisher, but can still do work if removed. Elesh Norn, Grave Titan, Inferno Titan, and the like all can do that, but Avacyn cannot.
the app server broke, and WotC figured, rather than try to fix it to finish the counter (was around 6k at 5:30?), they did the SMART thing and posted her.
As for the 5 white cards in front of her, "Avacyn's XXXX" would come after her, right?
Not to mention it probably broke because it was getting slammed with traffic that caused the problem.
So basically it would have had the 10k probably easier then that as word spread.
Great card, powerful, but not overwhelmingly so. Seems incredibly unlikely to see competitive play, unless in reanimator, and I think there are better options.
One word: Reanimator. Pod could benefit from this somehow, but I'm not exactly sure how. Not sure you'd want to Pod an Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite for this...
Still, I like the EDH implications. Mono-White Angel EDH, anyone?
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I'm glad we have this first card from AVR spoiled now, but I, for one, am going to need more now to satisfy my new card craving. I miss the days of spoiled sets a month in advance.
I doubt most of the exilers will be popular in T2, they likely will just help deal with this card completely dominating every limited game it shows up in by itself.
I mean unless a card exiles a creature for 2 mana or less it really isn't usually heavily played without a nice bonus attached.
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We broke the app.
The app crashed 2-3 hours ago. 10,000 shares would have been reached around this time.
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I've got a hunch her flavour text isn't telling the full story. Last time we heard from her, didn't she have a demonic spear through her heart, and wasn't the reason Mikaeus wouldn't bust her out of the Helvault because he wasn't sure how he could do so without Avacyn dying from her wounds? (The Helvault has special time stasis magic. We've got no clue how it got enchanted that way, but it does.) I suppose she did get completely healed, unlike my initial guesses--maybe through Thalia's initial support and Sorin arriving later?
Now what will they present on April 9 besides the story of how the Helvault exactly broke--the Griselbrand card?
It's actually not at all.
Pretty epic if you ask me.
I guess she's alright because she's indestructible?
the app server broke, and WotC figured, rather than try to fix it to finish the counter (was around 6k at 5:30?), they did the SMART thing and posted her.
As for the 5 white cards in front of her, "Avacyn's XXXX" would come after her, right?
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Probably to be explicit. There are a few abilities that use more words than are strictly necessary, just to be as clear as possible.
And $1.50 by rotation. Speaking of which...
Right, but we also have 3 large sets releasing before then as well. Fact is, while Elesh is legal (until October), Avacyn seems sub-par in the Frites deck. We'll have to see what else is in the set. I've seen people mentioning that the set is supposed to have more exile and more cheat-into-play effects, but I haven't seen those from official sources.
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Not to mention it probably broke because it was getting slammed with traffic that caused the problem.
So basically it would have had the 10k probably easier then that as word spread.
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Still, I like the EDH implications. Mono-White Angel EDH, anyone?
Heck yea. Very solid reanimation target! Frites may live on post-rotation!
Frites might become a very, very scary deck in Standard post-rotation with this at its disposal.
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