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    posted a message on Mu Yianling, Sky Dancer NGA preview
    I'm glad the best card in magic can now have the best three words in magic on it.

    For a while I was afraid Island would lose its luster due to power creep.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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    posted a message on Mothership Spoiler 5/31 - Full Card Image Gallery!
    I appreciate that Echo is in the mechanics article twice.
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    posted a message on Twisted Reflection and Vesperlark
    I really like Twisted Reflection, especially given how entwining it just kills anything short of 7 power.
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    posted a message on Farmstead Gleaner
    Quote from Morphling »
    Quote from Ryperior74 »
    THATS ANOTHER Grand Architect infinite!


    What is the first one? Sneaky
    Pili-Pala
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    posted a message on Pyrophobia
    Apparently my memory is terrible today - I fixed my post.
    Lapsing on all the things with a Mistform/Changeling ability isn't really too important, as Boldwyr is the key here. That's the card that defines Coward as a creature subtype, which means everything else that cares about creature subtypes cares about it now. Adaptive Automaton can become a Coward if you want it to be.

    Not sure why anyone would, but you can do that.
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    posted a message on Spark Double
    Forests tapping for GGG seems good. (Or UGG for Breeding Pools et al)

    Double Wanderers means each one is protected from burnspells. Which is silly, but definitely complicates matters if you don't have a lot of guys to turn sideways.

    This Spark Double does Spark Joy.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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    posted a message on Biogenic Ooze
    Arcane Adaptation is legal in standard still, this could be a silly thing with any +1/+1 matters cards.
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    posted a message on Skewer the Critics (aka Spectacle sorcery Bolt) - The Mana Leek spoiler
    Quote from Ritokure »
    Wizard's Lightning prevents this from seeing Constructed, but still a fantastic card. Arena Pauper players will surely love this.
    Having a Wizard is a lot more of a dubious requirement than 'do the thing you wanna do to them anyway.' Wizard's Lightning is definitely the stronger card on its own, but synergy does have a point to make about playing this instead.

    ...or you use both.
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    posted a message on Teysa Karlov
    There was the question of what happens to the Obzedat in the Kaya thread, and Teysa's flavor text seems to answer that question, since the Obzedat was the previous Orzhov guildmaster.
    I just assumed that if a Planeswalker who has a gimmick of 'kill ghosts' is in town, the local Ghosts in Charge would get the exact same treatment Brago did.
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    posted a message on Dovin, Grand Arbiter (The Mana Source preview)
    Im very ambivalent about this

    As a planeswalker card, I like this. Very cool design. Pretty unusual for UW while still fitting in the color pair.

    As an Azorius planeswalker card... Ehhh. It really doesn't fit with the guild at all versus the other Bolas-guild-walkers we've seen so far who fit pretty well with theirs. I'm sure that you could find some story hoops to jump through to have this be in-flavor but if you took off the name and mana cost and asked me which guild walker has these abilities I definitely wouldn't guess Azorius.
    Because three out of five of Bolas's stooges are attached to their guilds.

    Ral is an Izzet weather mage.
    Vraska is a Gorgon who lives in the Golgari tunnels.
    Domri is a punk kid born to a Gruul clan.

    Kaya's doing the opposite of what the Orzhov do, she's eliminating ghosts instead of putting them to work. But she's also a Ghost Assassin, not a necromancer. And Dovin isn't an Azorius lawmage, he's a Kaladeshian artificer. So he's creating an aggressive spying network. The thing the Kaladeshi government loves. So he wants to be in a WU flyers deck, which I'm sure his Azorius guild will have the tools to make work (in set, as Dovin will make flying things a priority).
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