Huh. Is this a character tied to Silverquil, or is this something else entirely that I haven't learned about yet? Either way, it's pretty cool I guess. I was hoping Black/Green would get the "Magecraft - return a creature" ability to show off the life/death aspect, but this works I suppose. I just wasn't expecting an ally colored card to be secretly in this set.
Seems they do it more often now ... to slap a spell on the backside of a legend ...
I just dont like the double faced cards in that quantity ... its so annoying to play with them in paper form, and even digital its bad when you have to click around all the time and only see the front side except you hover of the card ... its just so pointless and adds more text to cards for the sake of it ...
The amount of these cards just gets overwhelming and annoying, as it seems every set has like 20+ of them now ...
The "Blood avatar" seems to be quite weak if thats some kind of crazy big evil to summon ...
Anyway, cards not particularly amazing no matter what, but the art looks fine.
In a deck running four copies Extus can attack and rebuy the copies of himself to cast awaken the blood avatar over and over once you get to enough mana.
In a deck running four copies Extus can attack and rebuy the copies of himself to cast awaken the blood avatar over and over once you get to enough mana.
It says "non-legendary" to prevent basically exactly that.
Huh. Is this a character tied to Silverquil, or is this something else entirely that I haven't learned about yet? Either way, it's pretty cool I guess. I was hoping Black/Green would get the "Magecraft - return a creature" ability to show off the life/death aspect, but this works I suppose. I just wasn't expecting an ally colored card to be secretly in this set.
The Oriq are a group of cultists that infiltrated the school and are accumulating knowledge from forbidden spells out of Strixhaven. They know about Planeswalkers and about Lukka, captured him to use him for something and have some nefarious purpose we don't know about yet. That said, it isn't exactly subtle his garbs are modeled after Emrakul.
Anyhows, both sides of the card are really cool. Awaken the Blood Avatar being a quick and powerful sac outlet in Commander is really powerful, while Extus can do stuff like cast Grapeshot and recur like 4+ creatures out of your graveyard at once, and it's not even that hard to do. Not sure about Standard playability though, I really can't see the Sorcery side being any good in Standard and Extus is slow as molasses. Maybe you can use 'em both in some zany variant of Historic Rakdos Sacrifice?
Soo its not just a set about a school of mages but it also has a cult that wants to control the world and make things the way they want. Interesting and original.
It's funny to see this as the first thing after the Crux of Fate discussion about art plagiarism. I know Extus does not borrow too heavily and the design is generic enough to potentially even be incidental but my first thought upon seeing him was 'Oh, Best Dad is in the set?'
He just looks very much like Bondrewd from the Made in Abyss manga and anime series.
Edit. Wait a second... That flavour text, too...
Edit2. And that pose in the Blood Avatar side. It's basically Bondrewd's signature pose even if it's also generic overall. But still.
In a deck running four copies Extus can attack and rebuy the copies of himself to cast awaken the blood avatar over and over once you get to enough mana.
It says "non-legendary" to prevent basically exactly that.
Yes, WotC is a party pooper
Nah, the real party pooper is putting Extus in the same set as Revel in Silence... then making Revel exile itself.
So, it's a creature on one side and a spell on the other, but the spell is effectively a creature with an ETB trigger, which sorta defeats the purpose of being a spell.
I just dont like the double faced cards in that quantity ... its so annoying to play with them in paper form, and even digital its bad when you have to click around all the time and only see the front side except you hover of the card ... its just so pointless and adds more text to cards for the sake of it ...
The amount of these cards just gets overwhelming and annoying, as it seems every set has like 20+ of them now ...
This is the last set with a large number of them for a while, per MaRo.
I just dont like the double faced cards in that quantity ... its so annoying to play with them in paper form, and even digital its bad when you have to click around all the time and only see the front side except you hover of the card ... its just so pointless and adds more text to cards for the sake of it ...
The amount of these cards just gets overwhelming and annoying, as it seems every set has like 20+ of them now ...
This is the last set with a large number of them for a while, per MaRo.
yes cause we are going to forgothen realms and then we will be triping in Innistrad once again
Y-yeah... that's the point. It's almost like we never had a mechanic stretch over three sets in the past when these were still called a "block" and basically defined the mechanical landscape of a year's worth of time. MDFC may not be the best mechanical tie to have around, but at least we know now that the individual sets went for lower numbers.
I really like the things they do in conjunction with "Year of Commander" here. Having a spell on the flip-side of a legendary creature is doing a lot of neat things. Look at how you can sacrifice creatures to pay for that spells commander tax! It's silly.
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So, the Oriq are related to the Blood Wars. Here's how.
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WAIT WAIT WAIT!!! maro you got to explain yourself you said 0% ally colored spells
So mardu aristocrats for EDH
I just dont like the double faced cards in that quantity ... its so annoying to play with them in paper form, and even digital its bad when you have to click around all the time and only see the front side except you hover of the card ... its just so pointless and adds more text to cards for the sake of it ...
The amount of these cards just gets overwhelming and annoying, as it seems every set has like 20+ of them now ...
The "Blood avatar" seems to be quite weak if thats some kind of crazy big evil to summon ...
Anyway, cards not particularly amazing no matter what, but the art looks fine.
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It says "non-legendary" to prevent basically exactly that.
Yes, WotC is a party pooper
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Anyhows, both sides of the card are really cool. Awaken the Blood Avatar being a quick and powerful sac outlet in Commander is really powerful, while Extus can do stuff like cast Grapeshot and recur like 4+ creatures out of your graveyard at once, and it's not even that hard to do. Not sure about Standard playability though, I really can't see the Sorcery side being any good in Standard and Extus is slow as molasses. Maybe you can use 'em both in some zany variant of Historic Rakdos Sacrifice?
He just looks very much like Bondrewd from the Made in Abyss manga and anime series.
Edit. Wait a second... That flavour text, too...
Edit2. And that pose in the Blood Avatar side. It's basically Bondrewd's signature pose even if it's also generic overall. But still.
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This is the last set with a large number of them for a while, per MaRo.
yes cause we are going to forgothen realms and then we will be triping in Innistrad once again
This will be the year of DFC
They were so busy looking for a Praetor, they never saw the Eldrazi Titan coming...
Y-yeah... that's the point. It's almost like we never had a mechanic stretch over three sets in the past when these were still called a "block" and basically defined the mechanical landscape of a year's worth of time. MDFC may not be the best mechanical tie to have around, but at least we know now that the individual sets went for lower numbers.
I really like the things they do in conjunction with "Year of Commander" here. Having a spell on the flip-side of a legendary creature is doing a lot of neat things. Look at how you can sacrifice creatures to pay for that spells commander tax! It's silly.
Although ninjas are experts of camouflage and concealment, they are actually horrible liars. This means that no matter where you are, you can shout out, “Are there any ninjas here?” and if there’s a ninja within earshot, he’ll be compelled to respond.
Offtopic, but mind sharing that decklist with me? It sounds fantastic.