Honestly... I already feel like this commander set is going to disappoint me. All 4 planeswalker commanders spoiled (they did decide to stop doing 5 decks and are doing 4 now right?), and Saheeli is the only one even half decent and only because of her two +1's and mostly for the one that'll let you Comet Storm win out of nowhere. None of the planeswalkers actually have impact at all. Saheeli is the only one with an ability that can actually win the game with any sort of regularity, and it's not even her -; let's face it, the esper 'walker's -6 is absolute random chance as to whether it'll ever even be useful let alone game winning. Bant 'walker is another The Chain Veil combo, but it can't even win the game with it unless you -1 on a Staff of Nin or something of the like. It seems like WotC pulled another planeswalker deck thing and made them intentionally subpar so that they would never be viable in legacy, though to a lesser extent (I'm not going to **** on them that bad). They just seem generally weak. I can't even think of anything I'd run them in the 99 of, Saheeli excluded of course.
As for the legendary creatures... I'm not impressed.
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer seems good until you realize it makes a token and allows you to shift your copies once per turn cycle, but on a 6cmc 4/4. My only comparison is Trostani, Selesnya's Voice, but Brudiclad let's you copy any permanent type and Trostani's ability is reusable as it's a tap ability and not an upkeep trigger. Both go rather nuts with Helm of the Host, but trostani can do it a lot faster with some untap effects. I was honestly a lot more excited for Trostani than Brudiclad and Mirrorworks is one of my favorite cards ever.
Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor seems interesting. Interesting where I'd want to drop Repercussion, give everyone a bunch of tokens, and then Blaphemous Act for the win, but I could do that in any red deck. Varchild really, really needed some sort of evasion. A 3/3 for 3 with no evasion that gives opponents tokens when it deals damage is honestly hot garbage. Either you ramp it out early and give people tokens that are going to help them, or it comes down on turn 3 and is completely negligible. Honestly just hot garbage. Grand Melee seems funny, but the second someone plays Skullclamp and just starts winning the game is... Varchild is just bad. Interesting, potentially monored grouphug, but otherwise just bad.
Tawnos had so much potential as a card. Almost any variation of his ability would be good. Why does he have to tap for it? WWWWHHHYYY? The only reason I'm not considering him strictly worse than Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient is because he's also blue. Yeah, he can copy activated abilities, but Rings of Brighthearth is a card. Had this been Rings of Brighthearth on a commander, even with an artifact restriction, would have been amazing. The fact that it costs UR and has him tap to do it is absolute just disappointing (I really almost typed garbage there... I really wanted to type garbage there.). Pemmin's Aura and Freed from the Real are cards, but he's just so disappointing.
Some very interesting cards, some quite powerful, but I don't see anything (except possibly Treasure Nabber) which is under-costed.
Treasure Nabber is going to be pretty much kill-on-sight. I find it interesting that he is one of the best counters to others' mana ramp (can't imagine people who play Eldrazi generals liking him any, while at the same time allowing whomever runs the Nabber to ramp themselves up. The Nabber seems one of the best ways to shut down some of the most typical Paradox Engine tricks, but if the Nabber's controller also runs the Engine... yow.
Brudiclad is good in this deck as is, but also seems pretty strong on his own. Servos and Thopters becoming dragons or Eldrazi Twins.... seems pretty strong. Another reason to play Aether Snap.
Vedalken Humiliator is an unusually strong combat ability for a blue creature. Polymorphist's Jest for all opponents, repeatedly. Seems pretty darn good.
Enchanter's Bane. Red gets some cheap and color-appropriate enchantment hate. And at the same time a new Enchantress deck is released. Seems pretty good to me.
Forge of Heroes seems pretty weak (but hey, it is a common), while Coveted Jewel seems like an expensive gift you'll be handing over to people playing token decks (whether or note they are run by Brudiclad), but most of what has been released is pretty interesting. I wonder if every color will get new lieutenant creatures like Loyal Drake.
As to those stating burnout with all the good commander cards of late, I prefer to view it as an abundance of riches. Starting with Ixalan (and especially in Rivals), we have consistently been getting a lot of good, solid cards, everything from strong utility creatures like Ravenous Chupacabra and Pitiless Plunderer to splashy, new build-around legends and cool new artifacts. I personally love having new toys to play with, and seeing others enjoy their own new toys.
I am more annoyed we got a new izzet deck in C18. While the card srae interesting, most will not fit in my Kenrith Twins deck.
I am really hoping the jund has some interesting cards coming because a land deck is the most appealing. (I still may end up getting all 4 decks cause you know, planeswalkers, but i may instead opt to just go with buying singles for the ones I do not get.
Vedalken Humiliator is an unusually strong combat ability for a blue creature. Polymorphist's Jest for all opponents, repeatedly. Seems pretty darn good.
Humiliator is going straight into my Thraximundar deck. Which has Night of Souls' Betrayal in it, along with plenty of artifacts to turn on Metalcraft...
The deck currently only has 5 creatures including the commander. One of them is OG Squee, who mostly gets discarded to things like Liliana of the Veil or Compulsion, and another is Phyrexian Metamorph, which mostly copies noncreature artifacts. But I think I definitely need to find a spot for Humiliator and Treasure Nabber.
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer seems good until you realize it makes a token and allows you to shift your copies once per turn cycle, only during your upkeep, and on a 6cmc 4/4. My only comparison is Trostani, Selesnya's Voice, but Brudiclad let's you copy any permanent type and Trostani's ability is reusable as it's a tap ability and not an upkeep trigger. Both go rather nuts with Helm of the Host, but trostani can do it a lot faster with some untap effects. I was honestly a lot more excited for Trostani than Brudiclad and Mirrorworks is one of my favorite cards ever.
It's not during upkeep. It's at the beginning of combat.
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer seems good until you realize it makes a token and allows you to shift your copies once per turn cycle, only during your upkeep, and on a 6cmc 4/4. My only comparison is Trostani, Selesnya's Voice, but Brudiclad let's you copy any permanent type and Trostani's ability is reusable as it's a tap ability and not an upkeep trigger. Both go rather nuts with Helm of the Host, but trostani can do it a lot faster with some untap effects. I was honestly a lot more excited for Trostani than Brudiclad and Mirrorworks is one of my favorite cards ever.
It's not during upkeep. It's at the beginning of combat.
I'm not saying the Brudicad is good (it costs 6 mana after all) but some funny memes are going to be made with helm of the host.
I wish Buriclad was a Myr Artificer, I mean come on, we were so close to getting a legendary myr and we miss it. (Maybe they will do a day 0 revision and make him a myr.)
As for the legendary creatures... I'm not impressed.
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer seems good until you realize it makes a token and allows you to shift your copies once per turn cycle, only during your upkeep, and on a 6cmc 4/4. My only comparison is Trostani, Selesnya's Voice, but Brudiclad let's you copy any permanent type and Trostani's ability is reusable as it's a tap ability and not an upkeep trigger. Both go rather nuts with Helm of the Host, but trostani can do it a lot faster with some untap effects. I was honestly a lot more excited for Trostani than Brudiclad and Mirrorworks is one of my favorite cards ever
wat. that totally incorrect. its once PER COMBAT on your turn. and it gives your tokens haste. and you can make any kind of token into a creature or artifact like turning a ton of treasure or clue tokens into hasty creatures. its gonna be quite strong
As for the legendary creatures... I'm not impressed.
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer seems good until you realize it makes a token and allows you to shift your copies once per turn cycle, only during your upkeep, and on a 6cmc 4/4. My only comparison is Trostani, Selesnya's Voice, but Brudiclad let's you copy any permanent type and Trostani's ability is reusable as it's a tap ability and not an upkeep trigger. Both go rather nuts with Helm of the Host, but trostani can do it a lot faster with some untap effects. I was honestly a lot more excited for Trostani than Brudiclad and Mirrorworks is one of my favorite cards ever
wat. that totally incorrect. its once PER COMBAT on your turn. and it gives your tokens haste. and you can make any kind of token into a creature or artifact like turning a ton of treasure or clue tokens into hasty creatures. its gonna be quite strong
Add to that that you can give any important creature the ability to survive wraths with Totem Armor (I.E: Totem Armor your win con then Wrath of God for a clear board to swing in with) and she becomes even more busted to hell.
AND THAT'S NOT EVEN considering the fact that her -7 is basically build your own Bruna, Light of Alabaster.
And all that mana ramp/protection becomes even more ridiculous when you throw in The Chain Veil.
Saheeli is obviously powerful just by looking at her, but Estrid is powerful when you think about her.
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Add to that that you can give any important creature the ability to survive wraths with Totem Armor (I.E: Totem Armor your win con then Wrath of God for a clear board to swing in with) and she becomes even more busted to hell.
AND THAT'S NOT EVEN considering the fact that her -7 is basically build your own Bruna, Light of Alabaster.
And all that mana ramp/protection becomes even more ridiculous when you throw in The Chain Veil.
Saheeli is obviously powerful just by looking at her, but Estrid is powerful when you think about her.
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer seems good until you realize it makes a token and allows you to shift your copies once per turn cycle, only during your upkeep, and on a 6cmc 4/4. My only comparison is Trostani, Selesnya's Voice, but Brudiclad let's you copy any permanent type and Trostani's ability is reusable as it's a tap ability and not an upkeep trigger. Both go rather nuts with Helm of the Host, but trostani can do it a lot faster with some untap effects. I was honestly a lot more excited for Trostani than Brudiclad and Mirrorworks is one of my favorite cards ever.
It's not during upkeep. It's at the beginning of combat.
I'm not saying the Brudicad is good (it costs 6 mana after all) but some funny memes are going to be made with helm of the host.
Yeah, beginning of combat does make it a lot better. Edited my post for the correction. I do still stand by my Trostani comparison. Though, now that I think about it, Trostani does have access to 4 token doublers and has an ability that can keep you alive near indefinitely so long as no one combos off or get's in commander damage. Casual meta, Trostani is just better imo. Competitive meta, they're both going to lose a lot more often than they win.
As for the legendary creatures... I'm not impressed.
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer seems good until you realize it makes a token and allows you to shift your copies once per turn cycle, only during your upkeep, and on a 6cmc 4/4. My only comparison is Trostani, Selesnya's Voice, but Brudiclad let's you copy any permanent type and Trostani's ability is reusable as it's a tap ability and not an upkeep trigger. Both go rather nuts with Helm of the Host, but trostani can do it a lot faster with some untap effects. I was honestly a lot more excited for Trostani than Brudiclad and Mirrorworks is one of my favorite cards ever
wat. that totally incorrect. its once PER COMBAT on your turn. and it gives your tokens haste. and you can make any kind of token into a creature or artifact like turning a ton of treasure or clue tokens into hasty creatures. its gonna be quite strong
Yeah, yeah. Someone made the combat correction already. Also, just because I'm already replying to you, please work on your spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer seems good until you realize it makes a token and allows you to shift your copies once per turn cycle, only during your upkeep, and on a 6cmc 4/4. My only comparison is Trostani, Selesnya's Voice, but Brudiclad let's you copy any permanent type and Trostani's ability is reusable as it's a tap ability and not an upkeep trigger. Both go rather nuts with Helm of the Host, but trostani can do it a lot faster with some untap effects. I was honestly a lot more excited for Trostani than Brudiclad and Mirrorworks is one of my favorite cards ever.
It's not during upkeep. It's at the beginning of combat.
I'm not saying the Brudicad is good (it costs 6 mana after all) but some funny memes are going to be made with helm of the host.
Yeah, beginning of combat does make it a lot better. Edited my post for the correction. I do still stand by my Trostani comparison. Though, now that I think about it, Trostani does have access to 4 token doublers and has an ability that can keep you alive near indefinitely so long as no one combos off or get's in commander damage. Casual meta, Trostani is just better imo. Competitive meta, they're both going to lose a lot more often than they win.
As for the legendary creatures... I'm not impressed.
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer seems good until you realize it makes a token and allows you to shift your copies once per turn cycle, only during your upkeep, and on a 6cmc 4/4. My only comparison is Trostani, Selesnya's Voice, but Brudiclad let's you copy any permanent type and Trostani's ability is reusable as it's a tap ability and not an upkeep trigger. Both go rather nuts with Helm of the Host, but trostani can do it a lot faster with some untap effects. I was honestly a lot more excited for Trostani than Brudiclad and Mirrorworks is one of my favorite cards ever
wat. that totally incorrect. its once PER COMBAT on your turn. and it gives your tokens haste. and you can make any kind of token into a creature or artifact like turning a ton of treasure or clue tokens into hasty creatures. its gonna be quite strong
Yeah, yeah. Someone made the combat correction already. Also, just because I'm already replying to you, please work on your spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
Aminatou, the Fateshifter: The entire "top of your deck matters" theme has me curious as to what the payoffs in the deck will be, since Amy's (as I will call her) +1 ability doesn't do a great deal, aside from the obvious synergy with Miracles. If there's enough in the deck to get the idea off the ground, I'll build it, if not, then she goes into a bin until she can do some form of shenanigans. I almost wish her + was something like "Scry 2, then draw 1" (Preordain), because at least it would be an advantage engine. Fingers crossed, gonna wait till' the deck spoilers to comment on her again. She's gotta compete with Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire now, after all.
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer: New Saheeli is definitely stronger, but this is hilarious. It doesn't even care what the tokens were before. I can turn all of my Treasure or Gold Tokens into an actual threat, at the beginning of combat. No waiting for your upkeep. And worst comes to worst, he still produces a token of his own each turn. A nice alternative to The Locust God, for a less linear style of play, I think.
Add to that that you can give any important creature the ability to survive wraths with Totem Armor (I.E: Totem Armor your win con then Wrath of God for a clear board to swing in with) and she becomes even more busted to hell.
AND THAT'S NOT EVEN considering the fact that her -7 is basically build your own Bruna, Light of Alabaster.
And all that mana ramp/protection becomes even more ridiculous when you throw in The Chain Veil.
Saheeli is obviously powerful just by looking at her, but Estrid is powerful when you think about her.
Yeah, after posting my initislmcomment I couldn’t stop thinking about her and came to the same general idea. Might pick her up too. I don’t have an echantress deck yet and this provides for a nice variation on the existing themes.
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So far, only Varchild caught my attention and that's because I run Ryusei (and Repercussion). Equip a pro-red sword and that's like 5 damage with 25 more on the way.
Forge of Heroes is considerable for Freyalise for sure, but I'm not in the greatest hurry to get it. I feel that Opal Palace serves Animar better, so Forge has no place there (Animar does put a limit on colorless-only lands).
Her -1 on a Serra's Sanctum and then +2-ing is going to be a solid play
This is where Gaea's cradle needs to get banned. we are at the point where it is no longer fair.
What makes this the tipping point for Cradle? Estrid is no better at abusing it than the myriad of already existing cards that can untap Cradle. In many ways she's worse - it takes either multiple turns or additional auras before your actually getting any extra mana. Compare to, say, Garruk Wildspeaker who just gets untapping immediately. Not to mention, for all of Cradle's power, it's not at all hard to deal with - all colours get easy access to land destruction (in the form of lands) and only green has trouble clearing the board of creatures. Not saying Cradle isn't a great card, it is, but it can be dealt with reasonably easily especially if the person with it is taking multiple turns to set up whatever they're trying to do. Cradle is fine in the current state of EDH, and nothing we've seen so far from C18 is going to really change how the card performs.
As for other new cards, is it just me or are these <xx> Storm (Echo Storm and Fury Storm so far) cards really bad? They do nothing until you've cast your commander, and only start becoming worth the mana when you've done so twice. Outside of decks that actively want to be killing and recasting their general, they're going to be a waste of a card slot. Maybe the other colour ones (assuming they're a cycle) will be better, but I'd much rather just have a generic version of the effects than a scaling one that only gets worthwhile when something I don't want to happen has happened multiple times.
This beautiful little phyrexian is the reason we even have new phyrexia (her heart is in karn and thus leaked phyrexian oil out). Seeing her also gives me hopes of a Gix card.
Per the card it is a very I interesting ability. Political fun stuff in rakdos with a repeatable card advantage attached seems very good.
Her -1 on a Serra's Sanctum and then +2-ing is going to be a solid play
This is where Gaea's cradle needs to get banned. we are at the point where it is no longer fair.
What makes this the tipping point for Cradle? Estrid is no better at abusing it than the myriad of already existing cards that can untap Cradle. In many ways she's worse - it takes either multiple turns or additional auras before your actually getting any extra mana. Compare to, say, Garruk Wildspeaker who just gets untapping immediately. Not to mention, for all of Cradle's power, it's not at all hard to deal with - all colours get easy access to land destruction (in the form of lands) and only green has trouble clearing the board of creatures. Not saying Cradle isn't a great card, it is, but it can be dealt with reasonably easily especially if the person with it is taking multiple turns to set up whatever they're trying to do. Cradle is fine in the current state of EDH, and nothing we've seen so far from C18 is going to really change how the card performs.
As for other new cards, is it just me or are these <xx> Storm (Echo Storm and Fury Storm so far) cards really bad? They do nothing until you've cast your commander, and only start becoming worth the mana when you've done so twice. Outside of decks that actively want to be killing and recasting their general, they're going to be a waste of a card slot. Maybe the other colour ones (assuming they're a cycle) will be better, but I'd much rather just have a generic version of the effects than a scaling one that only gets worthwhile when something I don't want to happen has happened multiple times.
overall echo storm is bad but if you play a deck that doesn't focus on your commander going to the ommand zone and instead to grave or hand. It may fair better.
after having very high hopes because of the beautiful art, i find the spider commander a big letdown. It's really *****ty and boring.
Please change my mind.
I'm still on the Xantcha hype. I'm dreaming of a deck that pushs her out, lands heartstone then sculpting steel on heartstone. Such a fun dream.
That sounds cool, Im also thinking about Xantcha. I think it would be really funny to have a voltron general that isn't under your control, but someone else's.
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She is actually a psuedo infinite-mana combo general too. While lyzolda, the blood witch is the obvious infinite black+red mana = win, Xantcha can fill the same roll. I already run a worldgorder dragon Lyzolda deck, and will have to think on fitting Xantcha in for testing.
The biggest difference between Xantcha and Lyzolda is the color required to go infnite. In a 4-player game with 3 opponents at 40 life, Lyzolda has to be cast+sac'd 60 times, which requires 60 black and 60 red mana. Xantcha only requires 3 black and 3 red mana, so other easier infinite mana creation stuff can be used instead of worldgorger dragon.
As for the legendary creatures... I'm not impressed.
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer seems good until you realize it makes a token and allows you to shift your copies once per turn cycle, but on a 6cmc 4/4. My only comparison is Trostani, Selesnya's Voice, but Brudiclad let's you copy any permanent type and Trostani's ability is reusable as it's a tap ability and not an upkeep trigger. Both go rather nuts with Helm of the Host, but trostani can do it a lot faster with some untap effects. I was honestly a lot more excited for Trostani than Brudiclad and Mirrorworks is one of my favorite cards ever.
Varchild, Betrayer of Kjeldor seems interesting. Interesting where I'd want to drop Repercussion, give everyone a bunch of tokens, and then Blaphemous Act for the win, but I could do that in any red deck. Varchild really, really needed some sort of evasion. A 3/3 for 3 with no evasion that gives opponents tokens when it deals damage is honestly hot garbage. Either you ramp it out early and give people tokens that are going to help them, or it comes down on turn 3 and is completely negligible. Honestly just hot garbage. Grand Melee seems funny, but the second someone plays Skullclamp and just starts winning the game is... Varchild is just bad. Interesting, potentially monored grouphug, but otherwise just bad.
Tawnos had so much potential as a card. Almost any variation of his ability would be good. Why does he have to tap for it? WWWWHHHYYY? The only reason I'm not considering him strictly worse than Kurkesh, Onakke Ancient is because he's also blue. Yeah, he can copy activated abilities, but Rings of Brighthearth is a card. Had this been Rings of Brighthearth on a commander, even with an artifact restriction, would have been amazing. The fact that it costs UR and has him tap to do it is absolute just disappointing (I really almost typed garbage there... I really wanted to type garbage there.). Pemmin's Aura and Freed from the Real are cards, but he's just so disappointing.
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I am more annoyed we got a new izzet deck in C18. While the card srae interesting, most will not fit in my Kenrith Twins deck.
I am really hoping the jund has some interesting cards coming because a land deck is the most appealing. (I still may end up getting all 4 decks cause you know, planeswalkers, but i may instead opt to just go with buying singles for the ones I do not get.
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The deck currently only has 5 creatures including the commander. One of them is OG Squee, who mostly gets discarded to things like Liliana of the Veil or Compulsion, and another is Phyrexian Metamorph, which mostly copies noncreature artifacts. But I think I definitely need to find a spot for Humiliator and Treasure Nabber.
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It's not during upkeep. It's at the beginning of combat.
Something like aggravated assault, helm of the host and iron myr goes infinite with little effort.
I'm not saying the Brudicad is good (it costs 6 mana after all) but some funny memes are going to be made with helm of the host.
I wish Buriclad was a Myr Artificer, I mean come on, we were so close to getting a legendary myr and we miss it. (Maybe they will do a day 0 revision and make him a myr.)
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wat. that totally incorrect. its once PER COMBAT on your turn. and it gives your tokens haste. and you can make any kind of token into a creature or artifact like turning a ton of treasure or clue tokens into hasty creatures. its gonna be quite strong
Helm of the host Kozilek, butcher of truth. Then use your token to copy the token and swing for a huge annihilator effect.
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Add to that that you can give any important creature the ability to survive wraths with Totem Armor (I.E: Totem Armor your win con then Wrath of God for a clear board to swing in with) and she becomes even more busted to hell.
AND THAT'S NOT EVEN considering the fact that her -7 is basically build your own Bruna, Light of Alabaster.
And all that mana ramp/protection becomes even more ridiculous when you throw in The Chain Veil.
Saheeli is obviously powerful just by looking at her, but Estrid is powerful when you think about her.
And she allows you to play both sterling grove and Privileged position.
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Yeah, beginning of combat does make it a lot better. Edited my post for the correction. I do still stand by my Trostani comparison. Though, now that I think about it, Trostani does have access to 4 token doublers and has an ability that can keep you alive near indefinitely so long as no one combos off or get's in commander damage. Casual meta, Trostani is just better imo. Competitive meta, they're both going to lose a lot more often than they win.
Yeah, yeah. Someone made the combat correction already. Also, just because I'm already replying to you, please work on your spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
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Her -1 on a Serra's Sanctum and then +2-ing is going to be a solid play
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Aminatou, the Fateshifter: The entire "top of your deck matters" theme has me curious as to what the payoffs in the deck will be, since Amy's (as I will call her) +1 ability doesn't do a great deal, aside from the obvious synergy with Miracles. If there's enough in the deck to get the idea off the ground, I'll build it, if not, then she goes into a bin until she can do some form of shenanigans. I almost wish her + was something like "Scry 2, then draw 1" (Preordain), because at least it would be an advantage engine. Fingers crossed, gonna wait till' the deck spoilers to comment on her again. She's gotta compete with Vaevictis Asmadi, the Dire now, after all.
Brudiclad, Telchor Engineer: New Saheeli is definitely stronger, but this is hilarious. It doesn't even care what the tokens were before. I can turn all of my Treasure or Gold Tokens into an actual threat, at the beginning of combat. No waiting for your upkeep. And worst comes to worst, he still produces a token of his own each turn. A nice alternative to The Locust God, for a less linear style of play, I think.
This is where Gaea's cradle needs to get banned. we are at the point where it is no longer fair.
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This is the point? Not when it was printed?
Forge of Heroes is considerable for Freyalise for sure, but I'm not in the greatest hurry to get it. I feel that Opal Palace serves Animar better, so Forge has no place there (Animar does put a limit on colorless-only lands).
But, to avoid getting too far off-topic,
Estrid's -1 works great with Disk and Boompile
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What makes this the tipping point for Cradle? Estrid is no better at abusing it than the myriad of already existing cards that can untap Cradle. In many ways she's worse - it takes either multiple turns or additional auras before your actually getting any extra mana. Compare to, say, Garruk Wildspeaker who just gets untapping immediately. Not to mention, for all of Cradle's power, it's not at all hard to deal with - all colours get easy access to land destruction (in the form of lands) and only green has trouble clearing the board of creatures. Not saying Cradle isn't a great card, it is, but it can be dealt with reasonably easily especially if the person with it is taking multiple turns to set up whatever they're trying to do. Cradle is fine in the current state of EDH, and nothing we've seen so far from C18 is going to really change how the card performs.
As for other new cards, is it just me or are these <xx> Storm (Echo Storm and Fury Storm so far) cards really bad? They do nothing until you've cast your commander, and only start becoming worth the mana when you've done so twice. Outside of decks that actively want to be killing and recasting their general, they're going to be a waste of a card slot. Maybe the other colour ones (assuming they're a cycle) will be better, but I'd much rather just have a generic version of the effects than a scaling one that only gets worthwhile when something I don't want to happen has happened multiple times.
This beautiful little phyrexian is the reason we even have new phyrexia (her heart is in karn and thus leaked phyrexian oil out). Seeing her also gives me hopes of a Gix card.
Per the card it is a very I interesting ability. Political fun stuff in rakdos with a repeatable card advantage attached seems very good.
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Primary EDH; Rakka Mar Token Perfection, Crosis Mnemonic Betrayal, Cromat Villainous, Judith Gravestorm, Rakdos Empty Storm, Exava Artifacts, Bant Trash, & Fumiko Voltron!
EDH kept at home; Ruzzian Isset & Rakdos LoR!
EDH (nostalgic/pimp/retired) in storage;
Latulla Burns, Akroma Smash, Jeska Voltron, Rakdos Storm, Bladewing Darghans, Lyzolda Worldgorger, Xantcha Steals your Heart, Jori Storm, Wydwen Permission, Gwendlyn Paradox, Jeleva Warps, & Sigarda Brick!
Legacy Showanimator and High Tide!
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What spider?
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Thantis the Warweaver
3BRG
Legendary Creature - Spider
Vigilance, reach
All creatures attack each combat if able.
Whenever a creature attacks you or planeswalker you control, put a +1/+1 counter on Thantis the Warweaver.
^that spider
I'm still on the Xantcha hype. I'm dreaming of a deck that pushs her out, lands heartstone then sculpting steel on heartstone. Such a fun dream.
Links to my most current deck lists;
Primary EDH; Rakka Mar Token Perfection, Crosis Mnemonic Betrayal, Cromat Villainous, Judith Gravestorm, Rakdos Empty Storm, Exava Artifacts, Bant Trash, & Fumiko Voltron!
EDH kept at home; Ruzzian Isset & Rakdos LoR!
EDH (nostalgic/pimp/retired) in storage;
Latulla Burns, Akroma Smash, Jeska Voltron, Rakdos Storm, Bladewing Darghans, Lyzolda Worldgorger, Xantcha Steals your Heart, Jori Storm, Wydwen Permission, Gwendlyn Paradox, Jeleva Warps, & Sigarda Brick!
Legacy Showanimator and High Tide!
That sounds cool, Im also thinking about Xantcha. I think it would be really funny to have a voltron general that isn't under your control, but someone else's.
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The biggest difference between Xantcha and Lyzolda is the color required to go infnite. In a 4-player game with 3 opponents at 40 life, Lyzolda has to be cast+sac'd 60 times, which requires 60 black and 60 red mana. Xantcha only requires 3 black and 3 red mana, so other easier infinite mana creation stuff can be used instead of worldgorger dragon.
Links to my most current deck lists;
Primary EDH; Rakka Mar Token Perfection, Crosis Mnemonic Betrayal, Cromat Villainous, Judith Gravestorm, Rakdos Empty Storm, Exava Artifacts, Bant Trash, & Fumiko Voltron!
EDH kept at home; Ruzzian Isset & Rakdos LoR!
EDH (nostalgic/pimp/retired) in storage;
Latulla Burns, Akroma Smash, Jeska Voltron, Rakdos Storm, Bladewing Darghans, Lyzolda Worldgorger, Xantcha Steals your Heart, Jori Storm, Wydwen Permission, Gwendlyn Paradox, Jeleva Warps, & Sigarda Brick!
Legacy Showanimator and High Tide!