This might actually be one of my favorite Sarkon's next to the rakdos colored one. I love that he turns all of your planeswalkers into dragons, that would be a fun way to win in limited.
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First and second abilities kinda don't combo with each other.
They don't. But the alterative design where they did (making planeswalkers dragons until your next turn) would be problematic too (having your planeswalkers in creature form during an opponent's turn opens them up to all sorts of sorcery-speed-creature-affecting removal).
I'm guessing Sarkhan Vol looked up The Ur-dragon decks on EDHREC and saw that a lot of people just shoehorn almost every splashy planeswalker they have into them so Sarkhan's like "I'm going to be a win condition for that."
Still though I'm kinda not entirely sure as to how to evaluate this card. Both dragons and planeswalkers have relatively high mana costs and its difficult to put a decent mass of both into even an EDH deck.
I will say I just love the idea of Nicol Bolas and Ugin transforming into 4/4 dragons.
Sarkhan gets consistently cool designs that are still simple. A Day of the Dragon for your planeswalkers is a neat extension of his abilities and really on-theme for the set.
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Planar Chaos was not a mistake neither was it random. You might want to look at it again.
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Man, what a cool card ! Praise to the innovative minds. Passive is Anti-Aggro (couple that with Soulscar mage ^^). +1 is either do nothin, or Uber damage ! I like it.
-3 hmm simple, but synergistic & strong.
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Sarkhan: "What's in your hand? Back at me. I have it, it's an oyster with two planeswalkers from that set you love. Look again. THE PLANESWALKERS ARE NOW DRAGONS."
Anything is possible when your man smells like a dragon. And can turn into a dragon.
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This is a fine iteration of Sarkhan, this means he goes into Dragon EDHs if not simply for his static ability, its a great firewall against mass enemies.
Here's hoping Narset combos with his +1 just 'cuz I totally want to do a deck based around the couple.
Also, no Haste given to the Planeswalkers? Wonder how many people will die in the prerelease to a Hasty-except-not-really Dragon 'walker.
Sarkhan: "What's in your hand? Back at me. I have it, it's an oyster with two planeswalkers from that set you love. Look again. THE PLANESWALKERS ARE NOW DRAGONS."
Anything is possible when your man smells like a dragon. And can turn into a dragon.
I am so mad that this matches Sarkhan's body language in the card art.
Sarkhan: "What's in your hand? Back at me. I have it, it's an oyster with two planeswalkers from that set you love. Look again. THE PLANESWALKERS ARE NOW DRAGONS."
Anything is possible when your man smells like a dragon. And can turn into a dragon.
I am so mad that this matches Sarkhan's body language in the card art.
That was more or less the first thing I thought of when I saw the art and the abilities, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
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For a second, I thought he Dragonshifted all your creatures. Then I re-read it and saw it was only for planeswalkers. Ah well, cool all the same.
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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.
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Legendary Planeswalker - Sarkhan
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, each Dragon you control deals 1 damage to that creature.
[+1]: Until end of turn, each planeswalker you control becomes a 4/4 red Dragon creature and gains flying.
[-3]: Create a 4/4 red Dragon creature token with flying.
{5}
Confirmation: https://twitter.com/bmkibler/status/1118522051038343169
*EDIT: Removed Oketra as there is a thread for it already.
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UBG Tasigur, the lab enabler UR Planeswalker Control
UBRW Breya's personal box of combos BRW Vampire beats, by Dre
1 Karn, where all lands are command towers UBR Inalla's Venser lock
UBRGW Atog Atog contraption tribal WUB Xur's second chance
UGW Derivi, bird tribal R Brother's Yamazaki
BRG Prosh, the scourge of multiplayer GW Capt. Sisay's Deck Dumping Service
UB All Your Spells do Belong to Me UG Tapioca Pearl
BG Meren's grinder
How do you get "the masterless" out of this?
Edit: ninja'd
Edited it a couple of minutes ago after I noticed it from the translation on MythicSpoiler.
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They don't. But the alterative design where they did (making planeswalkers dragons until your next turn) would be problematic too (having your planeswalkers in creature form during an opponent's turn opens them up to all sorts of sorcery-speed-creature-affecting removal).
Seriously though, the abilities are super cool. He doesn't give haste though? Kind of a bummer. Guess you'll almost always -3 him to start.
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StaffPretend you walked them all into Settle on purpose: "Uh, I just wanted to ramp."
Still though I'm kinda not entirely sure as to how to evaluate this card. Both dragons and planeswalkers have relatively high mana costs and its difficult to put a decent mass of both into even an EDH deck.
I will say I just love the idea of Nicol Bolas and Ugin transforming into 4/4 dragons.
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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-3 hmm simple, but synergistic & strong.
Praise to wizards for showin they can design other than Ob nixilis-template
Anything is possible when your man smells like a dragon. And can turn into a dragon.
Also, no Haste given to the Planeswalkers? Wonder how many people will die in the prerelease to a Hasty-except-not-really Dragon 'walker.
I am so mad that this matches Sarkhan's body language in the card art.
That was more or less the first thing I thought of when I saw the art and the abilities, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
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.