It looks very real. The english wording is a poor translation, and everything else looks real.
I'm really starting to strongly dislike how early spoilers begin these days. M19 was just released, C18 was spoiled yesterday, and now we're starting to yearn for the next thing? I think I need to take a break from spoiler sites like this so I can enjoy what's in front of me.
We're only about a month out from Guilds of Ravnica previews. For the longest time, product would be leaked early as this or earlier. But you can also blame the burnout partially on Wizards for bombarding us with new products every other month, now. Masters 25 came out about a month after Rivals of Ixalan, then Dominaria came out hot off of the heels of Masters 25, then Battlebond, Commander Anthology II and the Jace Spellbook all came out in June, and Core Set 2019 after that. There's not even really any leeway anymore to enjoy one thing before the next.
Master 25, Battlebond, Commander Anthology II, Jace's Spellbook were all skip products in my book, and now Commander 2018 is also a skip product as well.
Except for a few new cards in Battlebond and C18 to pick up as singles all of these were meh. Perhaps you would pick up Anthology II, but do you really want these exact 4 decks? I didn't, so I skipped that one ... Except for the Standard releases nothing did happen in Magic.
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I'm going to assume this is real. I guess it makes sense that this is a (R), as there are a lot of times this'd disappoint at (U) because it's too powerful or too weak (although, the green token generator, +1/+1 counter, and black -1/-1 counter variants were pretty back breaking at (U) too.).
I'm inclined to think this is real, sadly, because I would have included "you may" in here, but recently WOTC hasn't - because the rules say if you can't do it, you skip it... but new players (and old) don't realize this. This means there are some very, very rare cases where this makes you return something you don't want... but really, the wording means there will be some players who can only return 2 creatures who will mistakenly think they can't return them.
Kind of disappointed this doesn't target... but then again, it evades that poor (R) graveyard hate from IXA... meh.
This seems like a great post-wrath draw for some BW Vampires or B Zombie decks. Wording aside, this seems like a fairly designed card. A fair interessting build-around, not an auto-include, and not good when you're winning.
This is a cool card if it is real. Three utility creatures is some sweet value for five mana.
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EDH Decks UWB Oloro, Ageless Ascetic's spring of life RUG Animar, Soul of the Elements and friends... lots of them WBG Karador king of two worlds (value and attrition) WRKalemne's Angels BRUG Yidris's Wild Party UWBR Breya's Terrifying Tinker Toys UBRThe Pretender
Master 25, Battlebond, Commander Anthology II, Jace's Spellbook were all skip products in my book, and now Commander 2018 is also a skip product as well.
Except for a few new cards in Battlebond and C18 to pick up as singles all of these were meh. Perhaps you would pick up Anthology II, but do you really want these exact 4 decks? I didn't, so I skipped that one ... Except for the Standard releases nothing did happen in Magic.
I'm probably sticking with singles from commander 2018 (new cards after hype stock ends and knowing how they play)
Battlebond, dominaria, core 2019, and probably the ravnica sets are doing a much better job and reprints
I can imagine there emerging a synergy-based deck finding just the right combination of 1-drop, 2-drop and 3-drop to make this card perform well. A graveyard subtheme is a given with the existence of Golgari in the block.
Anyone else think the set symbol looks like a foteress's gate?
It's towers with walkways bridging the space in-between. From someone going underneath the bridge that's like a tunnel/gate. So, yeah. It's not quite Gatecrash, but thematically that is what the symbol is meant to invoke.
Wow. Just now I am noticing this pattern. Surprised there's nothing on white yet.
Something sick like:
Incremental Uselessness 3WW
Sorcery - Mythic
Gain 1 life. Then gain 2 life.
Then gain 3 life.
Lol, j/k.
Could be something kinda combat mathy.
Incremental Intervention 3WW
Instant - Rare
Prevent the next 1 damage to any target.
Prevent the next 2 damage to any target.
Prevent the next 3 damage to any target.
Incremental Tarrif 3WW
Sorcery - Rare
If a player controls more lands than you, search your library for up to one Plains card, and put it onto the battlefield.
If a player controls more lands than you, search your library for up to two Plains cards, and put them onto the battlefield.
If a player controls more lands than you, search your library for up to three Plains cards, and put them onto the battlefield.
Shuffle your library.
I could see the white one being:
Incremental Warfare 3WW or 4WW
Instant - Rare or Mythic
Put a 1/1 Soldier creature token onto the battlefield
Put a 2/2 Knight creature token with Vigilance onto the battlefield
Put a 4/4 Angel creature token with Vigilance and Flying onto the battlefield.
Might be too much, not sure.
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I am surprised this doesn't have a watermark. Golgari is supposed to be in this set, right? This isn't a Golgari card...?
Ravnica-based sets always had strict rules for guild watermarks: A card/spell that uses both colors of mana (hybrid, gold, monocolored card that is "enhanced" if you spend mana of the appropriate second color, Elves of Deep Shadow, lands that add exactly those two colors of mana, colorless cards that activated for those two colors of mana - basically everything we understand these days under "color identity") gets the guild watermark, so does every card - even monocolored - that use the guild mechanic (keyword or ability word must appear on the card) everything else doesn't.
It's that simple.
This is probably Golgari-flavored, but a watermark comes with mechanically being Golgari. And you don't get that if you can be played in a deck commandeered by Rakdos or Teysa and don't have the secret word.
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Just wandering, what if the Golgari are way more token based this time? We saw Vraska petting a baby abomination and saprolings are a big theme of Dominaria. Maybe this time golgari are more about sacrifing than reanimating
With Dominaria's saprolings in those colors still in Standard with this set, I wouldn't be surprised if Golgari focuses on tokens or even specifically saprolings this time around, and has a keyword that rewards you for going wide or sacrificing.
That's what you want to hear, right?
@Crazy Pierre that would be completely broken at instant, and still nuts at 4WW sorcery speed. If they made an instant that made two blockers and a finisher witg one card, I'd play UW draw-go for its entire lifespan in Standard.
I am surprised this doesn't have a watermark. Golgari is supposed to be in this set, right? This isn't a Golgari card...?
They'll want to leave the watermark off of as many monocolor cards as possible so they can be flexible about which cards go into which precons. This was a problem they had in RTR (golgari cards in the rakdos deck, for example) and something they talked about in KTK. I would only expect to see watermarks on two-color cards and cards that feature guild mechanics.
With Dominaria's saprolings in those colors still in Standard with this set, I wouldn't be surprised if Golgari focuses on tokens or even specifically saprolings this time around, and has a keyword that rewards you for going wide or sacrificing.
That's what you want to hear, right?
Honestly, not really, because i love saproling, but i also love my necromantic golgari overlord.
However, since saprolings are big thing on Dominaria and since the were a big thing on Ravnica too, i can see them being mechanically important.
In return to Ravnica they shifted the saprolings from the selesnya (they wanted to focus on bigger tokens, literally 0 selesnya cards from rtr block make saprolings) too golgari: korozda guildmage. (grand ossuary also count?)
It's only one card, but it's the only card in the entire block that makes saproling.
So they either give saprolings back to the selesnya, make them a big golgari theme, or make saproling almost irrelevant and nonexistant.
I'm happy with every option beside the last one
Support for a tribe in one set, doesn't mean there will be support for that tribe in upcoming sets. The zombies from innistrad didn't receive support until amonkhet. It's rare for wotc to make tribal support from set to set all while giving us weak tribes like pirates, saprolings, and knights that will see no support in the future.
I really want to play a viable zombie deck when amonkhet rotates, but I highly doubt they will print enough playable cards to support the tribe in ravinica where this card would be very useful, especially if they continue their trend of printing two mana tribal lords. Also, there's a new trend that wotc has taken, and that is to prioritize play-ability among certain colors first, then, fill the other color(s) with vulnerable cards to those specific colors. There is never parity, they overload red, green, and blue with the best cards(providing the most card advantage) and then hose the other colors.
I wouldn't, as Serpentine Spike might be inspired by it, but it's nonsense.
The design (not really a cycle anymore, is it?) is single spell that does something with 1, 2, and 3 for 3CC. Instant and Sorcery make sense, but it's conceivable they might an Oblivion Ring variant for 3WW, for example.
We're only about a month out from Guilds of Ravnica previews. For the longest time, product would be leaked early as this or earlier. But you can also blame the burnout partially on Wizards for bombarding us with new products every other month, now. Masters 25 came out about a month after Rivals of Ixalan, then Dominaria came out hot off of the heels of Masters 25, then Battlebond, Commander Anthology II and the Jace Spellbook all came out in June, and Core Set 2019 after that. There's not even really any leeway anymore to enjoy one thing before the next.
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Except for a few new cards in Battlebond and C18 to pick up as singles all of these were meh. Perhaps you would pick up Anthology II, but do you really want these exact 4 decks? I didn't, so I skipped that one ... Except for the Standard releases nothing did happen in Magic.
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After rotation... Can't make a zombie deck with 12 zombies total.
You even predicted this yesterday, and that's rather impressive!
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
I'm inclined to think this is real, sadly, because I would have included "you may" in here, but recently WOTC hasn't - because the rules say if you can't do it, you skip it... but new players (and old) don't realize this. This means there are some very, very rare cases where this makes you return something you don't want... but really, the wording means there will be some players who can only return 2 creatures who will mistakenly think they can't return them.
Kind of disappointed this doesn't target... but then again, it evades that poor (R) graveyard hate from IXA... meh.
This seems like a great post-wrath draw for some BW Vampires or B Zombie decks. Wording aside, this seems like a fairly designed card. A fair interessting build-around, not an auto-include, and not good when you're winning.
EDH Decks
UWB Oloro, Ageless Ascetic's spring of life
RUG Animar, Soul of the Elements and friends... lots of them
WBG Karador king of two worlds (value and attrition)
WRKalemne's Angels
BRUG Yidris's Wild Party
UWBR Breya's Terrifying Tinker Toys
UBR The Pretender
Fits right into the mega-cycle of:
Cone of Flame
Incremental Growth
Incremental Blight
Bestial Menace
On 7/14/10, broke 1900 mark! <3 ROE.
Too bad this card isn't called Incremental Necromancy.
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I'm probably sticking with singles from commander 2018 (new cards after hype stock ends and knowing how they play)
Battlebond, dominaria, core 2019, and probably the ravnica sets are doing a much better job and reprints
Something sick like:
Incremental Uselessness 3WW
Sorcery - Mythic
Gain 1 life. Then gain 2 life.
Then gain 3 life.
Lol, j/k.
Could be something kinda combat mathy.
Incremental Intervention 3WW
Instant - Rare
Prevent the next 1 damage to any target.
Prevent the next 2 damage to any target.
Prevent the next 3 damage to any target.
If they really wanted something awesome, what about
something like the Land Tax/Knight of the White Orchid mechanic?
Incremental Tarrif 3WW
Sorcery - Rare
If a player controls more lands than you, search your library for up to one Plains card, and put it onto the battlefield.
If a player controls more lands than you, search your library for up to two Plains cards, and put them onto the battlefield.
If a player controls more lands than you, search your library for up to three Plains cards, and put them onto the battlefield.
Shuffle your library.
That card would be sick.
UR Mizzix of the Izmagnus ~~~ Build your own win-condition: Finite Spellslinging
UR Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer ~~~ We are the Borg. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.
WUB Oloro, Ageless Ascetic ~~~ A Guide to dying slowly
UBR Marchesa, the Black Rose ~~~ Marchesa's undying Marionettes
RGW Mayael the Anima ~~~ All Hail the Big Chungus
GWU Chulane, Teller of Tales ~~~ Permanents Only ETB Shenanigans
BGU Sidisi, Brood Tyrant ~~~ Sidisi's Restless Servants
WUBRG The Ur-Dragon ~~~ Dragons eat your face
Incremental Warfare 3WW or 4WW
Instant - Rare or Mythic
Put a 1/1 Soldier creature token onto the battlefield
Put a 2/2 Knight creature token with Vigilance onto the battlefield
Put a 4/4 Angel creature token with Vigilance and Flying onto the battlefield.
Might be too much, not sure.
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That's great. I didn't even think about going straight infinite with them and more about your run-of-the-mill synergies.
Finally a good white villain quote: "So, do I ever re-evaluate my life choices? Never, because I know what I'm doing is a righteous cause."
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Ravnica-based sets always had strict rules for guild watermarks: A card/spell that uses both colors of mana (hybrid, gold, monocolored card that is "enhanced" if you spend mana of the appropriate second color, Elves of Deep Shadow, lands that add exactly those two colors of mana, colorless cards that activated for those two colors of mana - basically everything we understand these days under "color identity") gets the guild watermark, so does every card - even monocolored - that use the guild mechanic (keyword or ability word must appear on the card) everything else doesn't.
It's that simple.
This is probably Golgari-flavored, but a watermark comes with mechanically being Golgari. And you don't get that if you can be played in a deck commandeered by Rakdos or Teysa and don't have the secret word.
Finally a good white villain quote: "So, do I ever re-evaluate my life choices? Never, because I know what I'm doing is a righteous cause."
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Remnants: Valheim
Legendary Journey: Heroes & Planeswalkers
Saga: Shards of Rabiah
Legends: The Elder Dragons
Read up on Red Flags & NWO
Would you put Serpentine Spike in this list?
That's what you want to hear, right?
@Crazy Pierre that would be completely broken at instant, and still nuts at 4WW sorcery speed. If they made an instant that made two blockers and a finisher witg one card, I'd play UW draw-go for its entire lifespan in Standard.
Stay reasonable, be mindful of your expectations and don't feed the trolls.
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Support for a tribe in one set, doesn't mean there will be support for that tribe in upcoming sets. The zombies from innistrad didn't receive support until amonkhet. It's rare for wotc to make tribal support from set to set all while giving us weak tribes like pirates, saprolings, and knights that will see no support in the future.
I really want to play a viable zombie deck when amonkhet rotates, but I highly doubt they will print enough playable cards to support the tribe in ravinica where this card would be very useful, especially if they continue their trend of printing two mana tribal lords. Also, there's a new trend that wotc has taken, and that is to prioritize play-ability among certain colors first, then, fill the other color(s) with vulnerable cards to those specific colors. There is never parity, they overload red, green, and blue with the best cards(providing the most card advantage) and then hose the other colors.
I wouldn't, as Serpentine Spike might be inspired by it, but it's nonsense.
The design (not really a cycle anymore, is it?) is single spell that does something with 1, 2, and 3 for 3CC. Instant and Sorcery make sense, but it's conceivable they might an Oblivion Ring variant for 3WW, for example.
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