MTG Salvation

Quote from Ratinyourwalls »

Are there any enchantments that enjoy hitting the yard?

Does Treacherous Blessing count?

Eat It Hydroid Krasis!
I'm much more concerned about it countering on cast triggers and abilities in general than countering storm cards.

Quote from SilvosRogueElemental »

I really don’t understand why it only gives 1 creature a counter instead of all of your creatures. This is not a mythic Mythic. Do they actually want White to be the worst color in Magic? They could do so many little things to make White more viable but they consistently choose not to.

Is this sarcasm? I am legitimately unsure.

Quote from MicSwat »

Walking Ballista even better? Lifelink + ping to death in Pioneer...

Seems pretty bannable. Saheeli cat combo got banned although this requires either a 3rd card, 6 mana (4 for balista and 2 for lifelink) or 2 turns to go off. Bellowing Aegisaur + walking ballista never got banned so maybe this won't either?

Sweet Baby Jesus. I can finally justify acquiring one to playtest in my enchantment edh deck.

This is hilarious flavor. I am putting it in my equipment commander deck even if it's not actually good with Aurelia, the Warleader. Don't let your memes be dreams.

Quote from TearingEons »

So the Raptor goes infinite with Polyraptor, and you'd need either an Impact Tremors or Goblin Bombardment ability to not have a game draw. Seems like fun though!

not in mtgo though. MTGO has a token limit so once you hit the limit no new token->no new trigger. So you would get 201 polyraptors.

Kalia grabing resto angel to blink kalia seems like some pretty good value. Value decks aren't good in modern, but I still want to take it for a spin.

Quote from Diarmuid »

Free mana for 0 always ended up good, no matter the restrictions.

Not true. Unknown Shores hasn't been seeing play.

Quote from Manite »

Yeah, I can picture the arguments:

Chrome Mox - "You have to exile a card, and risk getting 2-for-1ed. Total jank."
Mox Opal - "You have to get three whole artifacts on the battlefield. Unplayable garbage."
Mox Amber - "You need to have a legendary creature or planeswalker on the battlefield. Jaaaaank."
Mox Tantalite - "You have to wait three whole turns!? JAAAAAANK!"

I wonder how many players deride Lotus Bloom for the same reason.

Mox amber is jank, It sees zero serious play. Occasionally it posts results, but pros don't show up to tournaments with mox amber decks. Only a few people were down on mox opal. I pretty sure I remember people losing their minds over it being busted. And noone thought chrome mox was bad. Mox diamond was almost the same card and was generally recognized as being good.

As another user pointed out, fast mana is what is good, 3 turns for 1 mana is not above curve in modern and this isn't going to be legal in standard. Best case scenario you have multiple in your opening hand and end up with 5-6 mana on turn 4, but lotus bloom already does this as a single card. You don't need 6+ mana for multiple turns to win and if you are using this to get to anything less than 5 mana on turn 4, you are just playing a bad land.
Lotus is the only card in modern that can put you up 3 mana by turn 4 in a single card. There are dozens of cards that can put you up 1 mana by turn 4.

Quote from darrenhabib »

I cannot express how much worse this is than Mother of Runes. The thing with MoR is that she makes it impossible to cast your targeted removal, because she can just neutralize it. This doesn't shut off removal as you can target her.

I guarantee you once any hype has settled down, this will not be making it into any serious constructed decks in any format. Save your pennies on any hype girls and boys.

I agree mostly, in fact that's what I thought at first, but I think the card deserves a little more credit. A lot of modern decks rely on creatures to win and this has a huge impact on combat. Otherwise there are still a few decks that would play a flag bearer for 1 mana. In rare cases you can do a mom impression with two of these out. It's definitely not mom though. Mom would have been pretty busted. I predict this will see fringe play.

seems cute with persist creatures and the like. It adds another infinite combo to the list of Necrotic Ooze combos (Devoted Druid and this in the yard). I don't think it will be that good, but it seems fun.

Walking Ballista even better? Lifelink + ping to death in Pioneer...

Having spent several years and several thousand posts here, this makes me very sad. I will happily migrate to a new location, so long as it is a traditional forum style and contains sections for Modern.

I don't mind reddit, but for the most part, I can't stand its branch comment system. It buries anything other than the clickbait trolly stuff that gets upvoted and spammed.

Just how modeled after it is it? Seriously? Arena regularly matches up people that are 1-2, 2-2, 1-1 against people 5-2, 6-1, 6-0 and what not. Pay outs are a joke on Arena for prizes.... if anything Arena should think about remodeling their draft after paper magic, let people sign up and once it hits 8 people fire a pod, What Arena has now is not really drafting since all you do is pick cards and bots take random cards out after you so everyone you play saw completely different packs and thus could of had a much stronger pool to choose from or far worse....

If you want to get any value from this you need to destroy 2+ creatures with its engine. Otherwise you might as well slot in any 2-3 cmc black removal spell like murder or cast down for better effect. The only output on this card is destroying creatures. And if its 2B to destroy 1 creature only after you've paid 4 life somehow, that's terrible. But if you're destroying 2+ creatures, that means you're both paying 8+ life in a game and facing a creature matchup where you need to destroy enemy threats- where paying 8 life is suicidal.

Quote from Turn30Win »

Found the new Wort Raidmother staple.

That's not going to do what you think it's going to do.

Quote from Courier7 »

Doom Whisperer + Mark of the Vampire

Nah, life paymant is not damage, you still pay 2 life and get nothing.

Hey y’all! It’s been awhile

I recently had a baby and was locked out of salvation and couldn’t dedicate time to get it resolved. I’m aware that there are broken links in the primer and I’ll plan on having a full fix after ban announcement and m19 spoiler season ends.

Holler,
Catmix

While this Gideon is nice, I think that people are blowing him out of proportion.

His +1 slows down midrange and vehicles while his animate ability breaks the mana curve and... that's about it. Still really good but overblown.

As for the emblem... honestly, that's not a factor in most games. Nine times out of ten, the emblem effectively adds the planeswalker's loyalty to your life total. Technically, you add the loyalty counter of each Gideon you play to your life total. With that said, however, nothing is stopping your opponent from knocking you to 0 life BEFORE going after Gideon (other than, you know, pressure from Gideon). Beyond acting as a cute "life gain" mechanic, this emblem only seems to do two things.

1. it stops alternative win conditions such as mill decks.
2. It allows some janky plays that would ordinarily kill you (such as demonic pact)

TLDR: This guy isn't platinum angel. While there are fewer DIRECT kill spells, you can directly attack Gideon in a way that you could never directly attack the angel. Since very few decks count on winning without damage, the emblem rarely serves any purpose beyond "life gain". The other effects are the significant part.