Herald of War 3WW
Creature-Angel (R)
Flying
When Herald of War attacks, put a +1/+1 on it.
Angels and Humans you cast cost 1 less for each +1/+1 counter on Herald of War.
3/3
Huh. That's cool, I'm glad it says angels as well as humans.
But seriously Wizards, print another damnedWB legendary angel already. Kaalia doesn't work as an angel deck, and you're making want to build an angel EDH deck.
Maro has already said on tumblr that there won't be one.
In this block, yes I know (which is insanely depressing, considering they're printing cool and powerful multicolor angels for the first time in a while). I just mean at some bloody point, Wizards. 3, THREE of your WB legends use sacrifice, and the fourth one blows.
Barring the blue and green intro pack rares, seems like this might be the worst, a win-more card in white aggro, might see play in casual w/x control decks that want to hard cast Avacyn. Otherwise pass and please give some more demon goodness previews Wizards.
Ok so that's 9 mana for a 8/8 flying beatstick that will (probably) make all your other angels/humans free to cast. One would hope that with an 8/8 flying beatstick you are going to win in a couple of turns rendering her ability somewhat redundant.
I dunno, I've never been the best at appraising new cards but this one gave me an immediate "Meh" feeling
Yeah, cause those humans sure do cost a lot of generic mana to cast...
i am now playing swiftfoot boots. I might also play bant colors, xenograft, increasing savagery, proliferate, and blightsteel colossus.
More seriously though, swiftfoot boots, and +1/+1 counter granting things such as gavony
Best current cards for use in my opinion: Beguiler of wills, Kessig Cagebreakers, Auriok Survivors (actually this is damn good), Bitterheart witch (ok this is stretching it a bit), thraben sentry benefits a good deal, any splicer!!!!, chancellor of the annex, aegis angel, requiem angel.
AVR: obviously avacyn, zealous conscripts!!!, Gisela, and bruna.
Bant, U/W, R/W, and Naya builds could try it. I know I will try an R/W one.
Huh. That's cool, I'm glad it says angels as well as humans.
But seriously Wizards, print another damnedWB legendary angel already. Kaalia doesn't work as an angel deck, and you're making want to build an angel EDH deck.
I love that you are a Kaalia fan too, and this set pretty much gaurantees Kaalia will have a 'break out' in EDH-
but think of this Angel as a completely different card: Awakening Zone. This Angel will make the Big Giant Dork Angels playable in Standard, and that's fine....but come on- everyone who really exploits Eldrazi to the fullest are doing it with better ramp or straight combo cards- just like Kaalia has no real need for this card, because she combos Angels, Demons, AND Dragons out so much faster.
So in Kaalia this is an Angel Slith. Which isn't bad but it's not good enough. Be glad you don't have to buy EVERY Angel in this set for your Kaalia deck lol.
Kaalia *does work as an Angel deck though- that Mono-White pumper that hates Black effects? Put her in Kaalia-Mono-Angels, with Iona, Linvala, Arbiter, and other Hate You cards. Stranglehold and Grafdigger's Cage...lol. Kaalia's Angels can rain Hate on just about anything you can think of.
I am probably every color-combination it is possible to be, though it's really hard to figure out what it would mean to be 4-colored....it doesn't seem logical to be 4-colored without being 5-colored.
Sphinx is really good. Control will play it and be able to protect him just fine, hes a much better finisher then Jwar Isle and thats saying a lot considering how good he alone is. Bazzar Trader.dec now has 16 threaten effects. Thats really, really, really,really good. Really good.
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very good in Kaalia as she is an Angel and reduce the cost for angels AND HUMAN (Kaalia is human) so if you eat removal on Kaalia the first time you get to pay 1 Colorless less to recast her..!
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Neat concept but costs too much for what it does. You don't want to start playing your spell cost reduction spells on turn 5 and not turning them online until turn 6. By that point you're probably one land drop away from casting anything you could possibly want to. She should have cost 2WW or maybe something like 1WW and been a 2/2.
Huh. That's cool, I'm glad it says angels as well as humans.
But seriously Wizards, print another damnedWB legendary angel already. Kaalia doesn't work as an angel deck, and you're making want to build an angel EDH deck.
Kaalia works fine in my deck. If you want a build that's exclusively angels, I can understand Kaalia not being a fit.
Herald of War, unfortunately, does not work with Kaalia, since putting her on the battlefield misses the declaration of attackers, so it doesn't trigger.
I don't think anyone has mentioned this, but this card encourages you to play the creatures after combat. While the card itself isn't that amazing, this is a nice little bit of reinforcement to teach people the value of their second main phase.
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Creature-Angel (R)
Flying
When Herald of War attacks, put a +1/+1 on it.
Angels and Humans you cast cost 1 less for each +1/+1 counter on Herald of War.
3/3
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But seriously Wizards, print another damned WB legendary angel already. Kaalia doesn't work as an angel deck, and you're making want to build an angel EDH deck.
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--- Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief --- Ghoulcaller Gisa --- Akroma, Angel of Fury --- Titania, Protector of Argoth ---
In this block, yes I know (which is insanely depressing, considering they're printing cool and powerful multicolor angels for the first time in a while). I just mean at some bloody point, Wizards. 3, THREE of your WB legends use sacrifice, and the fourth one blows.
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Yeah, cause those humans sure do cost a lot of generic mana to cast...
More seriously though, swiftfoot boots, and +1/+1 counter granting things such as gavony
Best current cards for use in my opinion: Beguiler of wills, Kessig Cagebreakers, Auriok Survivors (actually this is damn good), Bitterheart witch (ok this is stretching it a bit), thraben sentry benefits a good deal, any splicer!!!!, chancellor of the annex, aegis angel, requiem angel.
AVR: obviously avacyn, zealous conscripts!!!, Gisela, and bruna.
Bant, U/W, R/W, and Naya builds could try it. I know I will try an R/W one.
I love that you are a Kaalia fan too, and this set pretty much gaurantees Kaalia will have a 'break out' in EDH-
but think of this Angel as a completely different card: Awakening Zone. This Angel will make the Big Giant Dork Angels playable in Standard, and that's fine....but come on- everyone who really exploits Eldrazi to the fullest are doing it with better ramp or straight combo cards- just like Kaalia has no real need for this card, because she combos Angels, Demons, AND Dragons out so much faster.
So in Kaalia this is an Angel Slith. Which isn't bad but it's not good enough. Be glad you don't have to buy EVERY Angel in this set for your Kaalia deck lol.
Kaalia *does work as an Angel deck though- that Mono-White pumper that hates Black effects? Put her in Kaalia-Mono-Angels, with Iona, Linvala, Arbiter, and other Hate You cards. Stranglehold and Grafdigger's Cage...lol. Kaalia's Angels can rain Hate on just about anything you can think of.
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I am probably every color-combination it is possible to be, though it's really hard to figure out what it would mean to be 4-colored....it doesn't seem logical to be 4-colored without being 5-colored.
That does not work I think. Even with 4 counters on the angel, you still need to pay 2W.
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Kaalia works fine in my deck. If you want a build that's exclusively angels, I can understand Kaalia not being a fit.
Herald of War, unfortunately, does not work with Kaalia, since putting her on the battlefield misses the declaration of attackers, so it doesn't trigger.