Blue: I did want to test Dream Eater, but since I'm fiddling with rebalancing shard/wedge cards instead of cheating on off-color activations, I don't have a testing slot identified. I've been trying to find a blue 6-drop that I can use to replace Consecrated Sphinx, which I find is one of the least fun cards in the cube, but this definitely isn't it.
Yeah, the first place my mind went when I saw the spoiler was to a janky Earthquake based commander build. It's a weird ability.
do it... Anything that will get more people blasphemous acting with boros reckoner, I encourage! Though I guess it's a nonbo when they are both on the battlefield
It's a weird ability, but original Ravnica Boros specifically has had the ability to prevent damage to its own creatures with Light of Sanction, so it's at least on-theme.
I'll be testing it over Captive, probably. I think I like Prowler more.
This is deviating a bit, but I agree that I need to overhaul my classification on some cards that should be 3-color, but I've been putting it off because I haven't been sure how to divvy them up. I should probably just suck it up and do it.
This seems like a way less flexible Walking Ballista to me, and I think it's below the line for my cube. I don't think that its cost is flexible either - it enters based on the number of colors spent to cast it, so the X is a trick here.
It can only ping one thing per turn cycle, has sunburst so it's not the best mana sink for redundant colors (as noted above), can't add counters otherwise, and due to that, has a hard cap of being a 5/5. The only way I'm interested in jamming this is if I can recur it, and 5-color decks don't come together in my cube that often. Even if they did, I'm not sure what the 5-color deck would look like that would utilize this.
Unrelated, I have two flavor complaints:
1. How do you collect someone's pelt when they enter the battlefield?
2. How does stacking coats on top of each other gain you trample?
The untap creature aspect is likely overcosted because this is a format with convoke in it. They likely costed it so high so that it would be used for protection and not as a mana ramp spell.
I'm not sure this is good enough, but it does a decent amount of cool things all in one card, and I think is worth bringing up. The Control Magic mode only costing 2 makes the 2-power restriction fine, and is an acceptable stopgap, and the Reanimator mode helps ensure that you'll have something worth reanimating.
I'm not sure this is good enough, but it does a decent amount of cool things all in one card, and I think is worth bringing up. The Control Magic mode is fine, even with the 2-power restriction, and is an acceptable stopgap, and the Reanimator mode helps ensure that you'll have something worth reanimating.
White: Nothing.
Blue: I did want to test Dream Eater, but since I'm fiddling with rebalancing shard/wedge cards instead of cheating on off-color activations, I don't have a testing slot identified. I've been trying to find a blue 6-drop that I can use to replace Consecrated Sphinx, which I find is one of the least fun cards in the cube, but this definitely isn't it.
Black: Night Incarnate -> Doom Whisperer. I'm really excited for this card.
Red: Harsh Mentor -> Goblin Cratermaker, Fire Imp/Manic Vandal -> Legion Warboss. Not sure what the cut is for Warboss yet, as I don't want too high a density of artifact destruction.
Green: With green losing a bunch of cards to my color rebalance, I think I get to just add Pelt Collector in exchange for a blue card.
Multicolor:
Hostage Taker -> Connive//Concoct. I really want to test this split card.
Qasali Pridemage -> Knight of Autumn. One of the easiest includes in the set (I'm higher on Doom Whisperer, personally).
Abrupt Decay -> Assassin's Trophy. Removal swap. I don't like Golgari being "the answers guild", so I don't let more than 2 of the 4 slots be removal.
Boros Charm -> Tajic, Legion's Edge. This was going to be Aurelia, but I want to test Tajic now that I've seen him.
Tried it a few different ways, but this configuration seems to be up and ready to go!
This is deviating a bit, but I agree that I need to overhaul my classification on some cards that should be 3-color, but I've been putting it off because I haven't been sure how to divvy them up. I should probably just suck it up and do it.
It can only ping one thing per turn cycle, has sunburst so it's not the best mana sink for redundant colors (as noted above), can't add counters otherwise, and due to that, has a hard cap of being a 5/5. The only way I'm interested in jamming this is if I can recur it, and 5-color decks don't come together in my cube that often. Even if they did, I'm not sure what the 5-color deck would look like that would utilize this.
-Kessig Prowler
-Warden of the First Tree (lazily classified as monogreen)
-Wild Nacatl (also classified as monogreen)
-Wolfbitten Captive
Unrelated, I have two flavor complaints:
1. How do you collect someone's pelt when they enter the battlefield?
2. How does stacking coats on top of each other gain you trample?
A reasonably cool if not high-powered surveil payoff!
A solid Dimir common from Twitter!
I'm not sure this is good enough, but it does a decent amount of cool things all in one card, and I think is worth bringing up. The Control Magic mode is fine, even with the 2-power restriction, and is an acceptable stopgap, and the Reanimator mode helps ensure that you'll have something worth reanimating.
May fall short for me with my section being Baleful Strix, Hostage Taker, The Scarab God and Dragonlord Silumgar, but it would be nice to put a noncreature card back into Dimir.
EDIT: Control Magic mode doesn't cost 2.