But the flavour of the mechanics of this card still aren't anyone releasing ghosts from anything; it's taking an already dead thing from a graveyard and turning it into a spirit that works for you. Sounds like more indebted spirits to me, not fewer.
Yeah this is dumb in many ways unless we find out next set that Teysa fooled Kaya and those ghosts were just let somewhere else.
This kills opponent spirits but creates more, and stronger ones, for yourself.
We've also already seen Kaya and a new walker join Chandra and Gideon in the novel's cover for the next set. So either she's betrayed and has to flip sides to survive when Bolas closes the plane with the Immortal Sun, or Teysa was the real Team Bolas Orzhov member all along.
That is a HUGE loss of Orzhov power lore wise. Most of their power came from contracts that bound the dead to their servitude, now they’re all gone.
Not that I have any love for Orzhov, but this is the biggest change happened to any of the guild this far. What exactly will happen to Orzhov now?
Feels like Bolas's game is less about his pawns being directly loyal, but more causing chaos to destabilize the plane as a whole.
The Golgari farm all the food for the plane, and they've locked themselves down to withstand whatever goes on with the surface city.
The Gruul are now trying to force the end of days destroying major swaths of city.
Kaya and Dovin are reshaping their respective guilds from within. Kaya unseating the Council and then freeing the debtors basically is an economic attack. Dovin militarizing and turning the Azorius into 'big brother' creates a state of constant paranoia and fear.
This will generally make Ravnica just... terrible to live in? Worse than it was before anyway.
1. You cast a big dude.
2. I destroy it with a removal spell.
3. Then I exile your big dude from your graveyard.
4. Good luck trying to reanimate that big dude after it has been exiled from the graveyard.
"Time to let the dead be dead."
Get it?
Well. No. It's not letting the dead be dead if you just reanimate them first. Sure, it might not come back on your side as the big dude it started as, but it's still back - just on my side as a 1/1 flyer. If she really wanted to let the dead be dead it should have been 'exile all spirits, zombies and graveyards' (and any other assorted undead creature types you care to mention)
That is a HUGE loss of Orzhov power lore wise. Most of their power came from contracts that bound the dead to their servitude, now they’re all gone.
Not that I have any love for Orzhov, but this is the biggest change happened to any of the guild this far. What exactly will happen to Orzhov now?
We...start over again. After a short cry at the office of course!
The beauty of an Orzhov mindset is the ability to see the terrible costs that must be paid in any decision of great import, even if that end is arguably "good". One may still decide to pay the cost of course, but few Black and White characters do so incognizant of the repercussions of said choice.
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Wizards. listen. The Vorthos community will await the consequences of the Eldrazi Titans' deaths/sealing. We will keep the watch.
“The wind whispers, ‘come home,’ but I cannot.”
— Teferi
Ethereal Absolution reminds me of the good ending to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's World of Light, and the lyrics to "Lifelight" in general.
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Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
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This kills opponent spirits but creates more, and stronger ones, for yourself.
We've also already seen Kaya and a new walker join Chandra and Gideon in the novel's cover for the next set. So either she's betrayed and has to flip sides to survive when Bolas closes the plane with the Immortal Sun, or Teysa was the real Team Bolas Orzhov member all along.
The Golgari farm all the food for the plane, and they've locked themselves down to withstand whatever goes on with the surface city.
The Gruul are now trying to force the end of days destroying major swaths of city.
Kaya and Dovin are reshaping their respective guilds from within. Kaya unseating the Council and then freeing the debtors basically is an economic attack. Dovin militarizing and turning the Azorius into 'big brother' creates a state of constant paranoia and fear.
This will generally make Ravnica just... terrible to live in? Worse than it was before anyway.
Well. No. It's not letting the dead be dead if you just reanimate them first. Sure, it might not come back on your side as the big dude it started as, but it's still back - just on my side as a 1/1 flyer. If she really wanted to let the dead be dead it should have been 'exile all spirits, zombies and graveyards' (and any other assorted undead creature types you care to mention)
We...start over again. After a short cry at the office of course!
The beauty of an Orzhov mindset is the ability to see the terrible costs that must be paid in any decision of great import, even if that end is arguably "good". One may still decide to pay the cost of course, but few Black and White characters do so incognizant of the repercussions of said choice.
The Vorthos community will await the consequences of the Eldrazi Titans' deaths/sealing. We will keep the watch.
“The wind whispers, ‘come home,’ but I cannot.”
— Teferi
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.