seems very good for draft if you can afford the colors. two common card types right there. probably playable in sealed as well with everyone getting a giant bomb creature.
Auras? It couldn't even be enchantments? Remove Soul was already a pretty baseline card, only used when no better alternatives were available. The ability to counter bestow creatures as auras is not too constructed relevant so far and is just a slap to the face reminding us how bestow is just soulbond 0.5-oh boy, the difference is its an enchantment, so instead of giving you a 1U remove soul, we give you a UU remove soul that can also hit those bestowed critters. Red queen all over the place
Auras? It couldn't even be enchantments? Remove Soul was already a pretty baseline card, only used when no better alternatives were available. The ability to counter bestow creatures as auras is not too constructed relevant so far and is just a slap to the face reminding us how bestow is just soulbond 0.5-oh boy, the difference is its an enchantment, so instead of giving you a 1U remove soul, we give you a UU remove soul that can also hit those bestowed critters. Red queen all over the place
Those were my thoughts. There really aren't any constructed relevant auras (well I guess Underworld Connections...) so I'll stick with Essence Scatter. This is just for limited.
Auras? It couldn't even be enchantments? Remove Soul was already a pretty baseline card, only used when no better alternatives were available. The ability to counter bestow creatures as auras is not too constructed relevant so far and is just a slap to the face reminding us how bestow is just soulbond 0.5-oh boy, the difference is its an enchantment, so instead of giving you a 1U remove soul, we give you a UU remove soul that can also hit those bestowed critters. Red queen all over the place
Wow. I've been lurking around the BNG spoiler threads here, and you seem to manage to find fault in almost every card revealed. There's just no satisfying you, no?
Those were my thoughts. There really aren't any constructed relevant auras so I'll stick with Essence Scatter. This is just for limited.
Its the running in place that offends me. If the whole relevance of bestow is to the mechanics of being an enchantment/aura, then you take the fill-in-the-blanks core set cards and modify them to act the exact same for the bestow critter as it would for the soulbonded one in AVR, what have we really accomplished
Wow. I've been lurking around the BNG spoiler threads here, and you seem to manage to find fault in almost every card revealed. There's just no satisfying you, no?
I react positively to good cards, negatively to bad cards.
If you lurk a little longer you'll see me find a diamond in the rough with any luck, however design has been in a slump from the phoned in RTR to fapping one out in theros. There have been good sets like NPH and Zendikar and RotE, and bad sets like (every 2nd set of a block since planar chaos). There already been a few cards I found some hope in with this set, but not many, because at the crossroads of creature power shrivel and a apprehension over non-creature strategies lies a pretty desolate stretch of design space
Meh, 1U would mean strictly better Essence Scatter. UU just isn't worth it in 3 color decks, but I can see some over essence scatter in 2 color control decks.
Seeing as Annul is a reprint in Theros I don't see a reason to tack on all enchantments to this type of Remove Soul variant. And please stop thinking Counterspell will get a functional reprint. You are all delusional.
Thassa's Rebuff not enough for Standard players to have fun with? I don't get it. This card is obviously created for draft and sealed play.
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No, obviously it is not as good as counterspell. Nothing will ever be as good as counterspell again. Deal with it.
Nevermind Counterspell, this card is an insult to freak'n Remove Soul/Essence Scatter. That is scraping the bottom of the counterspell barrel. Nothing new from wizards there at least.
Point is everyone complains when there is a counterspell varient that isn't as powerful as Counterspell or some relevant card. What I don't understand is that everyone keeps complaining. Both cards are playable in their respective Standard draft/sealed/block formats. As for constructed I can only speculate.
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And here I thought y'all would be happy with this. This counters 67 (out of 109 currently spoiled) cards in BNG, and it's amazing in Theros limited. While not Counterspell, this is the not-pushed modern counterspell we get.
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And here I thought y'all would be happy with this. This counters 67 (out of 109 currently spoiled) cards in BNG, and it's amazing in Theros limited. While not Counterspell, this is the not-pushed modern counterspell we get.
I'm not seeing your point. Remove Soul counters the majority of cards too and has the grace at least to be 1U rather than UU. I hope you're not saying that Remove Soul is now too good for a modern counterspell and thus needs to be nerfed like this too... Or was this sarcasm? It's hard to tell sometimes.
Why is such a card previewed? I don't mind reading this stuff tomorrow in the bulk common list. Not every card has to be good, but also not every card has to be previewed.
It could have something to do with the fact that Wizards spoiled all the more interesting cards themselves the other night This card was sent to the stream live (watch at 14:40) because their orginal preview had been spoiled by Wizards.
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The rules text hasn't been spoiled yet. I'll update the first post if the OP doesn't when they show it.
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Oh boy! Starting bad!
Remove Soul was already a pretty baseline card, only used when no better alternatives were available. The ability to counter bestow creatures as auras is not too constructed relevant so far and is just a slap to the face reminding us how bestow is just soulbond 0.5-oh boy, the difference is its an enchantment, so instead of giving you a 1U remove soul, we give you a UU remove soul that can also hit those bestowed critters. Red queen all over the place
We're never getting a Counterspell reprint
Those were my thoughts. There really aren't any constructed relevant auras (well I guess Underworld Connections...) so I'll stick with Essence Scatter. This is just for limited.
Wow. I've been lurking around the BNG spoiler threads here, and you seem to manage to find fault in almost every card revealed. There's just no satisfying you, no?
Its the running in place that offends me. If the whole relevance of bestow is to the mechanics of being an enchantment/aura, then you take the fill-in-the-blanks core set cards and modify them to act the exact same for the bestow critter as it would for the soulbonded one in AVR, what have we really accomplished
I react positively to good cards, negatively to bad cards.
If you lurk a little longer you'll see me find a diamond in the rough with any luck, however design has been in a slump from the phoned in RTR to fapping one out in theros. There have been good sets like NPH and Zendikar and RotE, and bad sets like (every 2nd set of a block since planar chaos). There already been a few cards I found some hope in with this set, but not many, because at the crossroads of creature power shrivel and a apprehension over non-creature strategies lies a pretty desolate stretch of design space
If I skewer a card like archangel's light its well deserved
Thassa's Rebuff not enough for Standard players to have fun with? I don't get it. This card is obviously created for draft and sealed play.
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Why? It's worse than spell rupture.
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Nevermind Counterspell, this card is an insult to freak'n Remove Soul/Essence Scatter. That is scraping the bottom of the counterspell barrel. Nothing new from wizards there at least.
Point is everyone complains when there is a counterspell varient that isn't as powerful as Counterspell or some relevant card. What I don't understand is that everyone keeps complaining. Both cards are playable in their respective Standard draft/sealed/block formats. As for constructed I can only speculate.
Perhaps. Personal preference I guess.
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I'm not seeing your point. Remove Soul counters the majority of cards too and has the grace at least to be 1U rather than UU. I hope you're not saying that Remove Soul is now too good for a modern counterspell and thus needs to be nerfed like this too... Or was this sarcasm? It's hard to tell sometimes.
It could have something to do with the fact that Wizards spoiled all the more interesting cards themselves the other night This card was sent to the stream live (watch at 14:40) because their orginal preview had been spoiled by Wizards.
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