Dang the vampire dragon is gonna go to town in rakdos colored involved aristocrats decks and for cherry on top you can Get rid of incarnations in graveyards (Any card really) and it gets bigger for it
If I read this correctly, the Immersturm Predator can attack, exile a creature from the graveyard to get a +1/+1 counter, then you can sacrifice a creature in response to the declare blockers step to give the vampire dragon indestructible until end of turn.
Oh, wow--it says any graveyard. I missed that at first. Suck it, Uro.
I wonder if Rakdos Dragons in Pioneer can do anything now.
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.
So is Kaldheim the new name for Valla? Immersturm is a plane from Planechase. I thought they both seemed similarish. Maybe Kaldheim and Valla are otherwise linked in some way by the Immersturm.
Card's not as immediately threatening as Falkenrath Aristocrat but it also provides a little bit of graveyard hate. Not terrible
So is Kaldheim the new name for Valla? Immersturm is a plane from Planechase. I thought they both seemed similarish. Maybe Kaldheim and Valla are otherwise linked in some way by the Immersturm.
Card's not as immediately threatening as Falkenrath Aristocrat but it also provides a little bit of graveyard hate. Not terrible
According to Maro, R&D had to change some of the plane names from Planechase. So it's likely just a name that was rewritten to Kaldheim.
I think it's a bit different since Mongseng (Kharasa Foothills) and Arkhos (Lethe Lake, River of Tears) still technically exist even though they're to thematically similar to go to. It's different because they've used the name "Immersturm" on Kaldheim instead of a new name for a functionally similar place. I think they'd have rebranded it as something else like they did with the name "Valla" if Valla is just Kaldheim
I guess it's possible that Kaldheim and Valla are the same plane at different time points also
If I read this correctly, the Immersturm Predator can attack, exile a creature from the graveyard to get a +1/+1 counter, then you can sacrifice a creature in response to the declare blockers step to give the vampire dragon indestructible until end of turn.
Is it really working this way? I read it that the dragon always get the counter no matter if a card is exiled or not.
If I read this correctly, the Immersturm Predator can attack, exile a creature from the graveyard to get a +1/+1 counter, then you can sacrifice a creature in response to the declare blockers step to give the vampire dragon indestructible until end of turn.
Is it really working this way? I read it that the dragon always get the counter no matter if a card is exiled or not.
If you don't target anything, the dragon gets the counter. If you target something and that target is gone by the time the ability starts resolving, the ability is countered and the dragon gets nothing.
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If I read this correctly, the Immersturm Predator can attack, exile a creature from the graveyard to get a +1/+1 counter, then you can sacrifice a creature in response to the declare blockers step to give the vampire dragon indestructible until end of turn.
Is it really working this way? I read it that the dragon always get the counter no matter if a card is exiled or not.
I missed the "up to one", so it doesn't have to target a creature card in a graveyard. That just makes it even better than I thought.
The heir to the Vampiric Dragon throne is a combination of Scavenging Ooze and a haste-free Falkenrath Aristocrat.
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Oh, wow--it says any graveyard. I missed that at first. Suck it, Uro.
I wonder if Rakdos Dragons in Pioneer can do anything now.
It's a B/R beats finisher that isn't wholly blind to the metagame in which it exists. A very unusual thing indeed.
Downsides: it's a bit slow, and a bit small (at first), so it's more a thumbtack in your opponent's coffin than a nail.
But as it protects itself from removal, your opponent will have to get creative to stabilize. I can see this shaking things up.
I particularly like that it can use its pseudo-regeneration right away to give itself a counter, so it can be a 5/5 on its first swing.
Is that why Raiders' Karve has a dragon head on it?
There are 11 other 3/3 dragons, most at a lower rarity, and most having a cmc of 5 or more.
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It's after the colon, so part of the effect, not cost
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RGW Marath - Ever shifting Wilds RGW || (U/R)C(W/B) Breya - Artificial Dominion (U/R)C(W/B)
UBR Becket Brass - take what you can, give nothing back UBR
Card's not as immediately threatening as Falkenrath Aristocrat but it also provides a little bit of graveyard hate. Not terrible
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According to Maro, R&D had to change some of the plane names from Planechase. So it's likely just a name that was rewritten to Kaldheim.
I think it's a bit different since Mongseng (Kharasa Foothills) and Arkhos (Lethe Lake, River of Tears) still technically exist even though they're to thematically similar to go to. It's different because they've used the name "Immersturm" on Kaldheim instead of a new name for a functionally similar place. I think they'd have rebranded it as something else like they did with the name "Valla" if Valla is just Kaldheim
I guess it's possible that Kaldheim and Valla are the same plane at different time points also
Is it really working this way? I read it that the dragon always get the counter no matter if a card is exiled or not.
If you don't target anything, the dragon gets the counter. If you target something and that target is gone by the time the ability starts resolving, the ability is countered and the dragon gets nothing.
I missed the "up to one", so it doesn't have to target a creature card in a graveyard. That just makes it even better than I thought.