MTG Salvation

Nice art! I think I prefer the original version though.

Nah, Teyo was never supposed to be the new face of the game. Making shields (even if they're cool geometrical glowy shields) and blocking things isn't the most exciting kind of power. From a marketing perspective, a woman with flames for hair is much more eye-catching.

Basic lands are all reprints. It's a core set, so it's not exactly surprising, but still … lame.

At least they chose some good ones like the Jim Nelson forest, the John Avon island and the De Ro swamp I guess.

Wasn't the full spoiler supposed to be up on Monday (only one week of spoilers)? Did I miss something?

Anyway, nice card for Elemental tribal. The synergy with Vesperlark is sweet.

This card is TERRIBLE.

If you're paying nine mana for something, it should WIN YOU THE GAME. But not only do you have do connect with this, the equipment also takes away evasion so you'll get chumped by everything under the sun.

Wizards has been going downhill for a while, but this is a new low. Dumbed down, lazy design for the masses. Whoever designed this should get fired and they should hire me instead. I'd put Modern playable equipment on par with Jitte and the Swords in the set, not this worthless piece of junk.

Ahran, Vagrant Mystic 2WU
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Whenever a noncreature, nonland card would be put into your graveyard, put it on the bottom of its owner's library instead.
Whenever you would draw a card, you may pay 1G instead. If you do, put the bottom card of your library into your hand.
2/4

Next: A commander with phasing

Aven Windshaper 2WU
Creature - Bird Wizard
Flying
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, other creatures you control with flying get +1/+1 until end of turn.
2/3

Next: Riku of Two Reflections

Lingering Ones 3UB
Creature - Nightmare
Flying
When Lingering Ones enters the battlefield, choose an opponent. That opponent discards a card.
As long as you have more cards in hand than the chosen opponent, Lingering Ones gets +X/+X, where X is the difference.
3/3

To me, this card feels like one those spoilers that gets underestimated at first but then turns out to be pretty good in a certain shell

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Cloudkin Seer looks and sounds like a Lorwyn elemental to me. The name is reminiscent, the design is very similar, just with elemental air in place of elemental fire. Could this be a post-Eventide lorwyn character?

If it was from Lorwyn, it would just be a flamekin. Why WotC didn't use this perfect opportunity to throw Lorwyn fans a bone is beyond me.

This is a design I can get behind. Unexpected, but in a good way.

They probably used flush art for this. I fail to see how that picture shows the Dinosaur "shifting" in any way… Even the name feels weird.

Why do they keep reprinting the worst zombie tokens…

The bird and the golem are really nice.

@cyberium_neo: Thank you. That's exactly what I was thinking about Yarok. It's one of those cards that already make me groan when they've not even entered the format yet because everyone and their mother is going to play it and 90% of the time it's just going to be a "value/goodstuff deck", which has to be one of the most boring and uninmaginative ways to build a deck in all of Magic and especially in Commander.

I never quite liked the art of the original Temple of Silence. The new one is excellent.