This set looks insaaane for edh just from what we got here, which means I like it a lot already! And could it be, it really IS a UR artifact commander? Costing 4 mana is okay I guess, I'm just happy this finally exists.
I'm SO SICK of the "too strong for Standard" argument. It's the new "Dies to removal". We can have a two mana 4/4 with a zillion abilities, but we can't just have Accumulated Knowledge. Makes sense.
If true, I feel like the designs alone show a fair effort. Like, they seem interesting enough to actually give me confidence in the potential of this set.
I always like seeing good build-arounds.
The designs are deeper and more interesting than usual...Richard Garfield's hand is definitely evident in this design. Like you, I'm genuinely excited about this set.
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Kahn's time is fragmented
{ 4 }{ Blue }{ Blue }
Legendary Witchcraft
(Only you can cast Legendary Witchcraft when you control Legendary Creature or Planeswalker.)
The target player makes an extra round after this turn. Move at most one target nonland permanent back to its owner's hand. The time of banishment of Kahn is fragmented.
Devil Lord Bezello
{ 4 } { Black } { Black }
Legendary Creature - Elder/Demon
6/6
Flying, trampling
When demon lord Besanlow enters the battlefield, he begins to exile cards from the top of your library until a nonland card is exiled, then places the card in your hand. If the card's total magic cost is equal to or greater than 4 , repeat this process. Each time you put a card in your hand in this method, Demon Lord Bezzallo deals 1 damage to you .
The death of KSA
{4}{white}
Legendary Witchcraft
(Only you can cast Legendary Witchcraft when you control Legendary Creature or Planeswalker.)
Exile all non-legend non-land permanents.
Binaria History
{1}{white}{white}
Enchantment - Transmission
(Here's the time when you entered the battlefield and after your draw step, add a learning counter. Sacrifice it after III.)
I, II—Delivers a 2/2 white knight-derived creature with vigilance.
III—The knight you control gets +2/+1 until end of turn.
Guest cabin sticky foot {1}{Black}{Green} Legendary Creature ~ Fungi 2/3 Whenever a rot that you control dies, the mailer inflicts 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life. {4}: Send a 1/1 green rot-derived creature.
Pick off {1}{white} Enchantment flash When plucked into the battlefield, Exile target creatures that have been manipulated by opponents until they are removed from the battlefield.
Wings of Sarah {3}{white} Legendary Enchantment - Reiki Enchant Creature The attached creature is Legendary, gaining +1/+1, and has Flying, Vigilance, and Lifelink abilities.
Dawn of the Lambs {3}{white}{white} Legendary Creature - Angel 5/5 Flight, first strike, lifelink Other Angels you control get +1/+1 and lifelink.
Fermi Rui’s Awesomeness {3}{white} Legendary Creature - Human/Knight 2/2 batter The creature you control and has first strike has combo ability.
Calling God {2}{white} Instant Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 4 life.
Healing Brightness {White} Instant Choose a source. Until end of turn, prevent a source from dealing 3 damage to any one target. You gain 3 life.
Ning Cheng witness Evra {4}{white}{white} Legendary Creature - Saints 4/4 Lifelink {4}: Exchange your life total with the power of ~.
Seal - {2}{white} Enchantment - Reiki Enchant creature Enchanted creatures get +2/+2, first strike abilities, and become a Knight.
Unbreakable Guardian {White} Creature - Human/Knight 2/1 When you are unyielding guards into the battlefield, choose another creature you control. Sacrifice defender: The creature gains immortality until the end of the turn.
charge - {White} Instant Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
Marshal Binaria {white} {white} {white} Creature - Human/Knight 3/3 Other creatures you control get +1/+1.
Akif custodian Baird {2}{white}{white} Legendary Creature - Human Soldier 2/4 Alert - For each creature, unless its controller pays {1}, it cannot attack you or the Planeswalker you control.
Homeily explorer {3}{Blue} Creature - Homerley / Scout 3/3 When the Homeily explorer enters the battlefield, target player places four cards on top of his library into his graveyard.
Fire and Song Day {4} {red} {white} Legendary Creature - Minotaur/Monk 4/6 Red instant and sorceries you control have lifelink. Whenever a white instant or sorcery spell grants you life, ~ deals 3 damage to target creature or player.
Master lightning strike {2}{Red} Instant If you control a magician, this spell is reduced by {2} to cast. Master lightning strikes deal 3 damage to any target.
Gluttony Barosi {2} {Green} {Green} Creature - Beast 4/4 Increase {4} (You can pay {4} when you cast this spell.) If gluttonous Barosi has increased, it has three +1/+1 counters on the battlefield.
St. Zuling Disciple Iron Summer - 3W Legendary Creature - Bird / Monk 2/2 Flying Whenever you cast a historic spell, return target creature card with total mana cost of 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Artifacts, legends, and disciplines are historic.)
Note that this translation is very likely not correct. It says "If you tap a land to create two or more magical powers, it instead produces { nothing } instead of other categories and quantities."
A few cards later, there's a mana rock that taps for {no}.
Magic Stone Shard
{ 3 }
Artifact
{ Tap } : Add { No } to each artifact you control called Magic Stone Shard .
It's very likely this is a translation quirk and it makes those lands tap for 1 and not zero.
It'a also possible from the wording that the mana reduction only affects *you* - in which case this is extremely corner-case tailored to provide a Sphere of Resistance type spell that can't just get jammed in Shops in Vintage.
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Note that this translation is very likely not correct. It says "If you tap a land to create two or more magical powers, it instead produces { nothing } instead of other categories and quantities."
A few cards later, there's a mana rock that taps for {no}.
Magic Stone Shard
{ 3 }
Artifact
{ Tap } : Add { No } to each artifact you control called Magic Stone Shard .
It's very likely this is a translation quirk and it makes those lands tap for 1 and not zero.
It'a also possible from the wording that the mana reduction only affects *you* - in which case this is extremely corner-case tailored to provide a Sphere of Resistance type spell that can't just get jammed in Shops in Vintage.
even if it's not that super powerful of a hoser as i would like it to be, it's still a great hoser for g2/3 against tron. Definitely a great sideboard card
Really want the Orb so no one else has them, and want the new Squee so I can dispose of them at my leisure, cos that guy is gonna be annoying...
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Unfortunately, NO mention of Masterpieces....
I hope they are in there somewhere
"Unfortunately"? Last time they had masterpieces, they gave us Hazoret the Pervert.
I'm assuming Kahn is Karn. Belzenok or Besello or Bezello could be Belzenlok. Most likely.
The death of KSA? Do we know a character with the initials KSA?
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
The death of KSA? Do we know a character with the initials KSA?
On reddit planeforger speculated that this is what happens when you translate the Chinese phonetic equivalent of Urza into English.
Great Allosaurus - 2GG
Creature - Dinosaur
Kicker 2G
When ~ enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, it fights another target creature.
5/5
Freyalise's Song - 1G
Enchantment - Chronicle
(When ~ enters the battlefield and during your upkeep, put a chronicle counter on ~, then activate the corresponding effect. Sacrifice ~ after the third chronicle counter has been placed.)
1, 2: Until end of turn, creatures you control gain "T: Add one mana of any color."
3: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. They gain trample, vigilance, and indestructible until end of turn.
Battle of Ancient Civilizations
{ 3 }{ Blue }
Enchantment - Transmission
(When this enters the battlefield and at the beginning of your upkeep, add a learning counter. Sacrifice it after III .)
I , II— Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card and place it in your hand. Put the rest of the cards in random order at the bottom of your library.
III— Artifacts you control become Artifact Creatures with power and toughness of 5/5 until end of turn.
Ying Qi Bao Zhu explore
{ 4 }{ Blue }
Enchantment - Transmission
When this enters the battlefield and at the beginning of your upkeep, add a learning counter. Sacrifice it after III .)
I— Return target instant card from your graveyard to your hand.
II— Return target wizard card from your graveyard to your hand.
III—Before the end of the turn, whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Tia Na spacecraft protector
{ Three } { red } { white }
Legendary Creature - Angel / Artifact division
3/3
Flight, first attack
Whenever a Reiki or a weapon controlled by you enters the graveyard from the battlefield, you can move that card back to its owner at the beginning of the next closing step.
Despise the change from he or she to they. It’s bad grammar. One of the things I love (well loved now) is they actually used proper grammar on their cards in that regard. If it’s a type space issue, then just use he/his, and it also uses less space. Moronic move.
I understand the change with regards to removing “to your mana pool”, as that’s now a ton of space being saved, but it seems incredibly awkward and incomplete. Is Black Lotus now going to be “Sacrifice to add three mana of any one color”? Don’t like it, but I do understand the reasoning behind it.
This feels more like a wishlist/fantasy set more than a real set... Things are just costed oddly, over or undercosted, and the abilities... eh... And I don't think the whole cycle of Checklands in Standard will ever happen. With the exception of the Guildgates, when is the last time we had a full cycle of 10 duals all doing the same thing in Standard?
I was super happy for the enemy checklands making Vampires and Merfolk playable in Standard but there's two mediocre merfolk and two terrible vampires vs Goblin Warchief and Siege-Gang Commander. Also Wizard tribal gets Lightning Bolt and Counterspell.
And most disgusting of all a Lich with Hexproof for 3BB that draws you cards when you gain life. Approach of the Second Sun will be insufferable for six months.
This feels more like a wishlist/fantasy set more than a real set... Things are just costed oddly, over or undercosted, and the abilities... eh... And I don't think the whole cycle of Checklands in Standard will ever happen. With the exception of the Guildgates, when is the last time we had a full cycle of 10 duals all doing the same thing in Standard?
Too many red flags reading it.
It came directly from wizards though, right?
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Guest cabin sticky foot {1}{Black}{Green} Legendary Creature ~ Fungi 2/3 Whenever a rot that you control dies, the mailer inflicts 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life. {4}: Send a 1/1 green rot-derived creature.
Please please please be the name of that card. I have never laughed so hard before.
Long live Guest Cabin Sticky-Foot!!!!
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STOP using "dude/bro" as a pejorative or insult. Grow up.
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This feels more like a wishlist/fantasy set more than a real set... Things are just costed oddly, over or undercosted, and the abilities... eh... And I don't think the whole cycle of Checklands in Standard will ever happen. With the exception of the Guildgates, when is the last time we had a full cycle of 10 duals all doing the same thing in Standard?
Too many red flags reading it.
It came directly from wizards though, right?
It's rumored to have, or has it been confirmed and I didn't see that?
This feels more like a wishlist/fantasy set more than a real set... Things are just costed oddly, over or undercosted, and the abilities... eh... And I don't think the whole cycle of Checklands in Standard will ever happen. With the exception of the Guildgates, when is the last time we had a full cycle of 10 duals all doing the same thing in Standard?
This feels more like a wishlist/fantasy set more than a real set... Things are just costed oddly, over or undercosted, and the abilities... eh... And I don't think the whole cycle of Checklands in Standard will ever happen. With the exception of the Guildgates, when is the last time we had a full cycle of 10 duals all doing the same thing in Standard?
Too many red flags reading it.
It came directly from wizards though, right?
It's rumored to have, or has it been confirmed and I didn't see that?
The "scoop" is China posted the Dominaria set release faq instead of A25.
That Stabilization Orb, wow. Potent hate for Storm and Shops could shake up the Vintage meta a fair bit.
Disappointing to see a leak like this but these designs are exciting, gives me hope that this set will be a step in the right direction.
Kahn's time is fragmented
{ 4 }{ Blue }{ Blue }
Legendary Witchcraft
(Only you can cast Legendary Witchcraft when you control Legendary Creature or Planeswalker.)
The target player makes an extra round after this turn. Move at most one target nonland permanent back to its owner's hand. The time of banishment of Kahn is fragmented.
Devil Lord Bezello
{ 4 } { Black } { Black }
Legendary Creature - Elder/Demon
6/6
Flying, trampling
When demon lord Besanlow enters the battlefield, he begins to exile cards from the top of your library until a nonland card is exiled, then places the card in your hand. If the card's total magic cost is equal to or greater than 4 , repeat this process. Each time you put a card in your hand in this method, Demon Lord Bezzallo deals 1 damage to you .
The death of KSA
{4}{white}
Legendary Witchcraft
(Only you can cast Legendary Witchcraft when you control Legendary Creature or Planeswalker.)
Exile all non-legend non-land permanents.
Binaria History
{1}{white}{white}
Enchantment - Transmission
(Here's the time when you entered the battlefield and after your draw step, add a learning counter. Sacrifice it after III.)
I, II—Delivers a 2/2 white knight-derived creature with vigilance.
III—The knight you control gets +2/+1 until end of turn.
Guest cabin sticky foot {1}{Black}{Green} Legendary Creature ~ Fungi 2/3 Whenever a rot that you control dies, the mailer inflicts 1 damage to each opponent and you gain 1 life. {4}: Send a 1/1 green rot-derived creature.
Pick off {1}{white} Enchantment flash When plucked into the battlefield, Exile target creatures that have been manipulated by opponents until they are removed from the battlefield.
Wings of Sarah {3}{white} Legendary Enchantment - Reiki Enchant Creature The attached creature is Legendary, gaining +1/+1, and has Flying, Vigilance, and Lifelink abilities.
Dawn of the Lambs {3}{white}{white} Legendary Creature - Angel 5/5 Flight, first strike, lifelink Other Angels you control get +1/+1 and lifelink.
Fermi Rui’s Awesomeness {3}{white} Legendary Creature - Human/Knight 2/2 batter The creature you control and has first strike has combo ability.
Calling God {2}{white} Instant Destroy target artifact or enchantment. You gain 4 life.
Healing Brightness {White} Instant Choose a source. Until end of turn, prevent a source from dealing 3 damage to any one target. You gain 3 life.
Ning Cheng witness Evra {4}{white}{white} Legendary Creature - Saints 4/4 Lifelink {4}: Exchange your life total with the power of ~.
Seal - {2}{white} Enchantment - Reiki Enchant creature Enchanted creatures get +2/+2, first strike abilities, and become a Knight.
Unbreakable Guardian {White} Creature - Human/Knight 2/1 When you are unyielding guards into the battlefield, choose another creature you control. Sacrifice defender: The creature gains immortality until the end of the turn.
charge - {White} Instant Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.
Marshal Binaria {white} {white} {white} Creature - Human/Knight 3/3 Other creatures you control get +1/+1.
Akif custodian Baird {2}{white}{white} Legendary Creature - Human Soldier 2/4 Alert - For each creature, unless its controller pays {1}, it cannot attack you or the Planeswalker you control.
Homeily explorer {3}{Blue} Creature - Homerley / Scout 3/3 When the Homeily explorer enters the battlefield, target player places four cards on top of his library into his graveyard.
Fire and Song Day {4} {red} {white} Legendary Creature - Minotaur/Monk 4/6 Red instant and sorceries you control have lifelink. Whenever a white instant or sorcery spell grants you life, ~ deals 3 damage to target creature or player.
Master lightning strike {2}{Red} Instant If you control a magician, this spell is reduced by {2} to cast. Master lightning strikes deal 3 damage to any target.
Gluttony Barosi {2} {Green} {Green} Creature - Beast 4/4 Increase {4} (You can pay {4} when you cast this spell.) If gluttonous Barosi has increased, it has three +1/+1 counters on the battlefield.
St. Zuling Disciple Iron Summer - 3W Legendary Creature - Bird / Monk 2/2 Flying Whenever you cast a historic spell, return target creature card with total mana cost of 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Artifacts, legends, and disciplines are historic.)
I hope they are in there somewhere
THATS indeed why they hide Ezuri, Renegade Leader in the Grande finale duel decks
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-preview/duel-decks-elves-vs-inventors-packaging-and-previews-2018-02-06
So how are they going to reprint commanders product sets from the past and other legendarys to this border
By the way is the "a legendary in every pack" going to be all sets forward or is that dominaria exclusive.
sup Tron players
Note that this translation is very likely not correct. It says "If you tap a land to create two or more magical powers, it instead produces { nothing } instead of other categories and quantities."
A few cards later, there's a mana rock that taps for {no}.
It's very likely this is a translation quirk and it makes those lands tap for 1 and not zero.
It'a also possible from the wording that the mana reduction only affects *you* - in which case this is extremely corner-case tailored to provide a Sphere of Resistance type spell that can't just get jammed in Shops in Vintage.
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even if it's not that super powerful of a hoser as i would like it to be, it's still a great hoser for g2/3 against tron. Definitely a great sideboard card
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"Unfortunately"? Last time they had masterpieces, they gave us Hazoret the Pervert.
I'm assuming Kahn is Karn. Belzenok or Besello or Bezello could be Belzenlok. Most likely.
The death of KSA? Do we know a character with the initials KSA?
On phasing:
Great Allosaurus - 2GG
Creature - Dinosaur
Kicker 2G
When ~ enters the battlefield, if it was kicked, it fights another target creature.
5/5
Freyalise's Song - 1G
Enchantment - Chronicle
(When ~ enters the battlefield and during your upkeep, put a chronicle counter on ~, then activate the corresponding effect. Sacrifice ~ after the third chronicle counter has been placed.)
1, 2: Until end of turn, creatures you control gain "T: Add one mana of any color."
3: Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control. They gain trample, vigilance, and indestructible until end of turn.
Battle of Ancient Civilizations
{ 3 }{ Blue }
Enchantment - Transmission
(When this enters the battlefield and at the beginning of your upkeep, add a learning counter. Sacrifice it after III .)
I , II— Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal an artifact card and place it in your hand. Put the rest of the cards in random order at the bottom of your library.
III— Artifacts you control become Artifact Creatures with power and toughness of 5/5 until end of turn.
Ying Qi Bao Zhu explore
{ 4 }{ Blue }
Enchantment - Transmission
When this enters the battlefield and at the beginning of your upkeep, add a learning counter. Sacrifice it after III .)
I— Return target instant card from your graveyard to your hand.
II— Return target wizard card from your graveyard to your hand.
III—Before the end of the turn, whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, copy it. You may choose new targets for the copy.
Tia Na spacecraft protector
{ Three } { red } { white }
Legendary Creature - Angel / Artifact division
3/3
Flight, first attack
Whenever a Reiki or a weapon controlled by you enters the graveyard from the battlefield, you can move that card back to its owner at the beginning of the next closing step.
I understand the change with regards to removing “to your mana pool”, as that’s now a ton of space being saved, but it seems incredibly awkward and incomplete. Is Black Lotus now going to be “Sacrifice to add three mana of any one color”? Don’t like it, but I do understand the reasoning behind it.
Spirits
Too many red flags reading it.
And most disgusting of all a Lich with Hexproof for 3BB that draws you cards when you gain life. Approach of the Second Sun will be insufferable for six months.
It came directly from wizards though, right?
Please please please be the name of that card. I have never laughed so hard before.
Long live Guest Cabin Sticky-Foot!!!!
STOP using "dude/bro" as a pejorative or insult. Grow up.
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It's rumored to have, or has it been confirmed and I didn't see that?
I KNEW IT!!!!!!
dinosaurs are indeed a deciduous creature type
and yes dominaria is confirmed to be known to have allosaurus's on that plane
kudos to pygmy allosaurus proving that
Get ready for Commander sealed and draft, people.
They're real.