Gor Muldrak, of Cryptohistoriesfame, is here to warn you of the Amphinocalypse, and give you a GU legend that has absolutely nothing to do with mana or card draw. His one Amphin friend agrees. Also, cascade Naturalize.
Just a heads up, outside of the Mutineer, there are ten Salamanders in Magic so far.
I... i just don't know. What the ****?
And that salamander is a pirate! Amazing!
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How i feel about competitive players and casual players in EDH: The competitive are german tourists, the casual are italian tourists, both in a italian beach. The italians asking themselves "why are the germans here?" make a legitimate question, the answer is because the beach is beautiful, no matter the country you came from. The italians wanting to ban the germans are dumb, because if the germans pay for their stay and follow the rules like everyone else, they have the right to be in the beach. Hovewer, if the germans started to ask themselves "why are the italians here?"... they would be dumb as hell.
When I think of Salamander I think of fire spirits... so red not blue
Salamanders earned their association with fire and flames due to the fact that people harvesting wood for fireplaces in the winter would often find salamanders scurrying out of their fireplace after adding another log. It was thought that salamanders originated in the flames of fireplaces. People didn't realize that they were just living in the damp logs harvested from the woods.
If you look at early salamanders in MtG, you'll find that they are red creatures due to this association. I think returning them to their amphibious roots is a fine idea, since general lizards have overtaken salamanders as far as red creatures go. Red also has Viashino as their anthropomorphic red lizard-creature.
I love how U/G finally got a Commander outside of Valuetown. Not sure how to abuse this one yet, but it will be in my collection of "Commanders who need a weird home" decks. I currently have a few of these decks that I keep for fun political nights where everyone plays someone like Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer or Mathas, Fiend Seeker.
I love how U/G finally got a Commander outside of Valuetown. Not sure how to abuse this one yet, but it will be in my collection of "Commanders who need a weird home" decks. I currently have a few of these decks that I keep for fun political nights where everyone plays someone like Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer or Mathas, Fiend Seeker.
You can run Gor Muldrak as your only creature and slap things like swiftfoot boots, darksteel plate, and/or diplomatic immunity on him and just let him hang around. He actually kinda reminds me of Edric, spymaster of trest. I have a friend who runs the elf spy in a politics deck as the only creature - just cast Edric and let your opponents duke it out amongst themselves for the value.
Lol didn't see this commander for the protection from salamanders dude (I thought the creature would be a predator that eats salamanders but turned out to be a Herpetologist)
This might end up being simic's feather (by not being broken nor mega value)
Liked this throwback to m12 and will probably do a deck for Gor Muldrak and this misterious plane that i hope is not Dominaria nor Shandalar (if i had to choose between those 2 then Shandalar).
I love how Amphin are basically MTG's equivalent of mole men or reptilians at this point.
As for the card itself... it's okay. It's a shame it has less to do with Salamanders and more to do with pillowforting though. It's also a real shame that the two things you'd want to do with him the most (keep a low creature count to get a Salamander yourself, and control the number of creatures on board to ensure multiple players get a Salamander) are the two things that UGisn't good at.
Salamanders earned their association with fire and flames due to the fact that people harvesting wood for fireplaces in the winter would often find salamanders scurrying out of their fireplace after adding another log. It was thought that salamanders originated in the flames of fireplaces. People didn't realize that they were just living in the damp logs harvested from the woods.
To elaborate even further, the "Salamanders as fire spirits" trope comes from the theories of the alchemist Paracelsus, which defined the four spirits as Sylph, Gnome, Undine and Salamander, each one of those mythological creatures associated with one element, which ended up defining "elementals" in fantasy. Sure old myths had stuff like Dryads and Nymphs and Fire Giants but those beings were byproducts of their ambient, it was Paracelsus's Four Elements theory that really defined the idea of a being embodying an element of nature.
I love the flavor of him having diplomatic immunity
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How i feel about competitive players and casual players in EDH: The competitive are german tourists, the casual are italian tourists, both in a italian beach. The italians asking themselves "why are the germans here?" make a legitimate question, the answer is because the beach is beautiful, no matter the country you came from. The italians wanting to ban the germans are dumb, because if the germans pay for their stay and follow the rules like everyone else, they have the right to be in the beach. Hovewer, if the germans started to ask themselves "why are the italians here?"... they would be dumb as hell.
I like the quirky effect and you can definitely control the number of creatures on the board in Simic through bounce for example. The fact that you don't kill their creatures with it is kind of a bonus because then they're even less likely to become aggressive towards you.
The one thing that I don't like is that he looks like a regular-ass human. There's nothing fantasy about his looks.
I love how Amphin are basically MTG's equivalent of mole men or reptilians at this point.
If there are any German players here who have also played the RPG Das Schwarze Auge... This guy is Magic's Rakorium Muntagonus (a crazy old wizard who sees plans for draconian world domination everywhere)!!
I like the quirky effect and you can definitely control the number of creatures on the board in Simic through bounce for example. The fact that you don't kill their creatures with it is kind of a bonus because then they're even less likely to become aggressive towards you.
The one thing that I don't like is that he looks like a regular-ass human. There's nothing fantasy about his looks.
I think that's my favorite part. He's like a regular human explorer who is fantasizing about finding the Salamander equivalent species of Sasquatch.
As for how to build the deck, I have no idea. Probably heavily controlling, and possibly some weird Polymorph effects to get out some big creatures? I have no idea. It seems hard to capitalize on making salamanders each turn.
I like the Natural Reclamation despite the fact that the word "reclamation" ought to be retired for mtg card titles. A reclamation does too many different things on too many cards. "I'll reclamation your Sol Ring to destroy it." "I'll reclamation to bring it back to the battlefield." "I'll respond to your reclamation by flashing back my reclamation, shuffling your Sol Ring and your other reclamation into your library." "But you tapped out!" "Reclamation untapped my lands."
Amphin guy is a good play on the Reptilian conspiracy meme
Gor Muldrak, of Cryptohistories fame, is here to warn you of the Amphinocalypse, and give you a GU legend that has absolutely nothing to do with mana or card draw. His one Amphin friend agrees. Also, cascade Naturalize.
Just a heads up, outside of the Mutineer, there are ten Salamanders in Magic so far.
Source: Mashable
And that salamander is a pirate! Amazing!
Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger
Omnath, Locus of Rage
Kinnan, Bonder Prodigy
Toshiro Umezawa
Thraximundar
Jirina Kudro
Geist of Saint Traft
Krark, the Thumbless + Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
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A salamander is a real animal found in woodland streams and swamps, lakes, etc.
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Salamanders earned their association with fire and flames due to the fact that people harvesting wood for fireplaces in the winter would often find salamanders scurrying out of their fireplace after adding another log. It was thought that salamanders originated in the flames of fireplaces. People didn't realize that they were just living in the damp logs harvested from the woods.
If you look at early salamanders in MtG, you'll find that they are red creatures due to this association. I think returning them to their amphibious roots is a fine idea, since general lizards have overtaken salamanders as far as red creatures go. Red also has Viashino as their anthropomorphic red lizard-creature.
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You can run Gor Muldrak as your only creature and slap things like swiftfoot boots, darksteel plate, and/or diplomatic immunity on him and just let him hang around. He actually kinda reminds me of Edric, spymaster of trest. I have a friend who runs the elf spy in a politics deck as the only creature - just cast Edric and let your opponents duke it out amongst themselves for the value.
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This might end up being simic's feather (by not being broken nor mega value)
As for the card itself... it's okay. It's a shame it has less to do with Salamanders and more to do with pillowforting though. It's also a real shame that the two things you'd want to do with him the most (keep a low creature count to get a Salamander yourself, and control the number of creatures on board to ensure multiple players get a Salamander) are the two things that UG isn't good at.
To elaborate even further, the "Salamanders as fire spirits" trope comes from the theories of the alchemist Paracelsus, which defined the four spirits as Sylph, Gnome, Undine and Salamander, each one of those mythological creatures associated with one element, which ended up defining "elementals" in fantasy. Sure old myths had stuff like Dryads and Nymphs and Fire Giants but those beings were byproducts of their ambient, it was Paracelsus's Four Elements theory that really defined the idea of a being embodying an element of nature.
Honestly i don't think that a monoblue creature that exiles on etb and can do it multiple times already on its own is bad. It's also a pirate!
I love the flavor of him having diplomatic immunity
The one thing that I don't like is that he looks like a regular-ass human. There's nothing fantasy about his looks.
I guess Salamanders are Magic's next Squirrels.
Perhaps the next Un-Set will be Unphibian.
I think that's my favorite part. He's like a regular human explorer who is fantasizing about finding the Salamander equivalent species of Sasquatch.
As for how to build the deck, I have no idea. Probably heavily controlling, and possibly some weird Polymorph effects to get out some big creatures? I have no idea. It seems hard to capitalize on making salamanders each turn.
Amphin guy is a good play on the Reptilian conspiracy meme