Countervailing Winds, the closest thing to Circular Logic and it is great. Love it! And it has Cycling to boot, making it better. How this wasn't made a rare by them I don't know, but I am grabbing as many as I can, because it is great.
Riddleform is pretty interesting, hard to kill and can be easy to swing with, especially when scrying. This will go great in my Melek EDH deck, I always run into strings of lands and this will help with that.
Blur of Blades is nice if you can kill something with it and get extra damage in.
Obelisk Spider helps the -1/-1 decks even more. Blocking a creature and draining for one is pretty good and on a body that can block quite a few things.
Crypt of the Eternals is quite interesting. I didn't expect a Grixis land, although I should have.
seems like G didn't get a new legendary, unlike the other 4 colours
The whole block seemed to disfavor green a bit. Even taking into account that this set is supposed to be a "Bolas-themed" one, white gets a lot more love than green here (green is maybe the least Bolas-y color?)..
Well, Wizards flat out lied about having better answers starting with this set as far as I can tell. I'm glad to see that Bolas is cool, and I want a foil HoD,but that doesn't change them being liars, and I hope this set sells like Homelands.I usually do a few drafts, that will not be the case with this set. I will buy my couple busted threat singles and be done
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Power level of the set is low as hell for a Bolas set. Kaladesh block was just too strong of a block I guess. Unsummon and that counterspell that's current day Circular Logic is the most exciting things today.
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"The essence of every world, every spell and every thought is power. Nothing else matters, because nothing else exists."
Yeah, I may pick up a few singles (Hour of Promise, Supreme Will, maybe a couple of others), but I'm not excited about this set at all. At least it's only a few more months until dino-pirates!
Yeah, I may pick up a few singles (Hour of Promise, Supreme Will, maybe a couple of others), but I'm not excited about this set at all. At least it's only a few more months until dino-pirates!
Some great art, I like the idea of a few of the cards, but there is...literally nothing but the man land, and Claim//Fame that jump out at me as playable or build around.
Back to sleep for a few months, Amonkhet didnt do it for me either.
Vile Manifestation looks pretty fun. That's some good brewing material. Blur of Blades might actually be an okay burn piece. It basically reads as a worse Searing Blood. Firebrand Archer Well this reads as a worse Guttersnipe (one of my favorites) by only one point of damage but it has a wider net. I wanna brew with this one too. Frilled SandwallaBasking Rootwalla's egyptian brother is a friend!! Obelisk Spider I feel like this is definitely the most obvious one on my list but, again, that's some good brew material.
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"Pop in, find a dragon, roast a dragon."
-Chandra Nalaar
sigh Crypt of Eternals is sutch a disapointment of a story relevant card.
In what way? It looks more like our second ever type of tri-land then a story card.
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"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
No Jackal lord? Meh. I was pretty excited about an ancient Egyptian themed block when I first heard about it, but man did this block disappoint me. I guess I'll be interested in the Planeswalkers, the Scorpion god and a few other cards and that's about it. Kinda hate how the Scorpion God is RB when almost all of the awesome -1/-1 counter card support is in GB. Want to build an EDH deck around it but when you have cards like the newly spoiled Obelisk Spider and old goodies like Quillspike in G, it just doesn't feel worth it. Would have been awesome if he were RGB.
Have a look
-Chandra Nalaar
Only cards I'm interested in:
Hollow One
Reason/Live
Nimble Obstructionist
Solemnity
Choose one of these judge of creation:
Make Strionic Resonator shine!
You can not grasp the true form of Ashiok's attack!
Riddleform is pretty interesting, hard to kill and can be easy to swing with, especially when scrying. This will go great in my Melek EDH deck, I always run into strings of lands and this will help with that.
Apocalypse Demon seems a tad overcosted, but it's alright.
Banewhip Punisher may help Standard -1/-1 decks.
Blur of Blades is nice if you can kill something with it and get extra damage in.
Obelisk Spider helps the -1/-1 decks even more. Blocking a creature and draining for one is pretty good and on a body that can block quite a few things.
Crypt of the Eternals is quite interesting. I didn't expect a Grixis land, although I should have.
Dunes of the Dead for Smallpox?
The whole block seemed to disfavor green a bit. Even taking into account that this set is supposed to be a "Bolas-themed" one, white gets a lot more love than green here (green is maybe the least Bolas-y color?)..
Ooooh Riddleform is such a cool card
-Chandra Nalaar
-Chandra Nalaar
The uncomons and comons feels very meh but there quite a few singles that im picking up.
But first
Dragon tribal and 3 others.
Back to sleep for a few months, Amonkhet didnt do it for me either.
Spirits
Blur of Blades might actually be an okay burn piece. It basically reads as a worse Searing Blood.
Firebrand Archer Well this reads as a worse Guttersnipe (one of my favorites) by only one point of damage but it has a wider net. I wanna brew with this one too.
Frilled Sandwalla Basking Rootwalla's egyptian brother is a friend!!
Obelisk Spider I feel like this is definitely the most obvious one on my list but, again, that's some good brew material.
-Chandra Nalaar
In what way? It looks more like our second ever type of tri-land then a story card.
"You can tell how dumb someone is by how they use Mary Sue"
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