I dunno about everyone else, but having three weeks of spoilers dragged out is pretty dull. Especially when it is bland-mediocre rares from the mothership herself. Hope they go back to two weeks or less after this.
Oh crap, they're here! And they've announced their arrival with a rather mediocre card! It seems like an excellent Limited card but I really don't know if this is playable in Constructed formats.
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Maybe though the art shows Bontu and Kefnet could just be Bontu drains life, Kefent mills and together they amass.
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I agree with LuckyJoe1988, just cram everything over two weeks, give us a spoiler so we can plan decks and move on to the next set.
the card itself is pretty cool. That's a lot of value for 5 mana, going to be a limited bomb at the very least.
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I also wonder if this means if we will get spoilers today. It’s interesting because the crunch cannot fit Kefnet, god eternal or rhonas, god eternal so I think it’ll be like god eternal (name of god). That’s the only way I could get it to fit (unless they’re all one color which I don’t see). They don’t fit in the multicolored part
Couple things. There are only Kefnet and Bontu shown here, right? I wonder why the four theme if you only see two of the gods in the art.
And are these gods much larger than they were while alive? I seem to remember them as being described as 2 stories tall or something in the story, but maybe I'm just misremembering.
It's very interesting that they made this separately target a creature and target a player, rather than have the mill automatically mill that creature's controller.
It means that the spell won't fizzle if the creature becomes an invalid target. Even if the creature is, like, hexproof'd in response... this spell still has one legal target (the player) and thus the spell (importantly, the amass) resolves.
You do need to target a creature and player to be able to cast this though. You can't cast it at all if there's no creature to target, no matter how much you want the mill or the amass.
Lazotep Plating could fizzle this by making both the creature and player hexproof... if you fear that, choose yourself as the mill target, rather than your opponent.
The wording on the life gain bugs me. You only gain four life if all four damage is dealt. Couldn't it just say "you gain 4 life"? I get that if the damage is prevented (or increased) you would game less or more life, but it would seem cleaner if it was just "gain 4 life". Maybe one of the eternals has an ability worded that way or that will affect how much damage this card deals?
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EDIT: It isn't!
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-preview/bad-news-heroes-2019-04-11
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Cool card, four things at
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Looks like it costs 5 mana to me.
Oketra, God-Eternal = life gain?
Bontu, God-Eternal = removal?
Kefnet, God-Eternal = mill?
Rhonas, God-Eternal = 4/4?
Is that a representation of each of them?
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Purely because everything is based around 7 (7 life, 7 cards, 7/7) but it costs 8 mana...
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This is exactly what I was thinking too. Hopefully Rhonas will have more going on than simply being a 4/4 though.
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Maybe though the art shows Bontu and Kefnet could just be Bontu drains life, Kefent mills and together they amass.
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the card itself is pretty cool. That's a lot of value for 5 mana, going to be a limited bomb at the very least.
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ok I'm teasing, the card is neat
I wasn't even thinking about the art only showing Bontu and Kefnet. Maybe there's also a Green White card, as well?
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Zombie creature tokens you control have deathtouch and double-strike. Amass 5.
The card looks okay as a sorcery honestly.
If this was a 4/4 for 5 mana that dealt 4 damage when it came down, drained life, and milled 4, maybe we would look at it differently.
And are these gods much larger than they were while alive? I seem to remember them as being described as 2 stories tall or something in the story, but maybe I'm just misremembering.
It means that the spell won't fizzle if the creature becomes an invalid target. Even if the creature is, like, hexproof'd in response... this spell still has one legal target (the player) and thus the spell (importantly, the amass) resolves.
You do need to target a creature and player to be able to cast this though. You can't cast it at all if there's no creature to target, no matter how much you want the mill or the amass.
Lazotep Plating could fizzle this by making both the creature and player hexproof... if you fear that, choose yourself as the mill target, rather than your opponent.
It’s saids bolas controls these dudes
And they better not be bad in commander