MTG Salvation

I've changed my mind about this card. I think I'm gonna run it just so I can say "I'll take cabal the rapist for $200, Alex".

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I'm not sure they would want to reprint another Vampire Hexmage at uncommon, tho.

I mean, Hexmage already exists, dark depths is already banned in modern, and I doubt a 2nd hexmage is gonna suddenly break the deck in legacy.

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I am betting on flipwalkers for every planeswalker.

Rosewater essentially confirmed it by talking about the “Crazy” element in the set and alluding to it in other comments on his blog.

http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/?amp_see_more=1

You would get every walker as a legendary creature trying to regain their spark after Bolas stole/suppressed it with the Immortal sun.

It would stop games from being grindy, limit mana issues, and keep you from having to print 30 new planeswalker kill cards.

Not only that, but that would make all 36 flipwalkers playable as commanders, which would excite a lot
of players.

I don't get how he's reaching this conclusion from MaRo's post, when the post clearly states that the PW in every pack itself was the crazy mechanic.

"bidoofvselite-four asked: So War of the Spark is confirmed to have 36 planeswalkers, with a planeswalker in every pack. Is that the crazy aspect about the set that you're super excited for us you see?

Yes! : )"

So, there's no indication here that they are all flip walkers or that there's an additional crazy aspect. Now, they could still all be flip walkers, we don't know, but this isn't very compelling evidence.

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Also I hope Tibalt's pw card isn't Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded and they actually do him justice this time.

MaRo says no reprints, all new - http://markrosewater.tumblr.com/?amp_see_more=1

I have to imagine most will be utility-level PW's with only minus abilities or no ults, so they will be safe to ignore a lot of the time in limited, otherwise limited would be a massive grind fest.

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Sol Ring is amazing, don't get me wrong, but if there are enough other rocks, then I think sol ring is okay. We are talking about 1 card in the entire cube, which you may not even see in a given draft, which goes into a players deck, and is 1 card of 40 that they may not even see. Sol ring on turn 1 is great, sol ring on turn 5 is good.

If you don't run moxen for power reasons, I can't imagine running Sol Ring, which is just better than the moxen. I also wouldn't run mana crypt, as in a fair number of decks it's just a better sol ring. Especially where the only cards that can reasonably compete with crypt and sol ring are power, so if those are out, sol ring and crypt are just miles away the best card in the cube.

Library should be out for similar reasons, as without power (and sol ring and crypt), it will be substantially better than any other card in the cube.

IMO, anything else is fair game. Mind twist has been in my cube since day 1 and never felt broken (a lot of what makes it broken is moxen and sol ring/crypt), tinker and channel are both fragile enough and all-in enough that they don't feel unfair.

Now, all this is if you want a more balanced power environment. If your group WANTS to try sol ring, crypt, library, etc, go for it! If it's unfun they'll let you know.

This card ended up being extremely meh for us.

I'd run 1st ral zarek, electrolyze, and izzet charm of cards I'm not running now (which would get me to 7) before steam augury.

If I'm playing aggro and my opponent plays this spell, I'm thrilled.

Ok, so I COMPLETELY missed that it was until the end of your NEXT turn (despite multiple people mentioning it lol), and now am interested in testing it.

One day, a meme cube will rise up to supplant all others. And on that day I know exactly what card I’ll be first picking.

It’s a card that looks uncubeable, smells uncubeable, and tastes uncubeable. What a mystery this is.

I'm running Sphinx's Rev still, and I think I'd rather have that than this.

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I predict many Princess Celestia alters will be made of this card.

I hope not, there's already enough altered cards relating to that cancer in this game.

"There is a fandom I dislike, therefore I will refer to it as cancer."

Know what's more annoying than overzealous MLP fans? Overzealous MLP bashers.

OT: It makes its own gravy.

Why is this uncommon aftermath better than most of the rare aftermaths?

Sometimes two marginal effects stapled together on one card creates something playable because the versatility makes up for the weakness of either effect. This is not one of those times.

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Wow, you're right! I totally forgot about this card. Thanks for reminding me.

I didn't play much during Time Spiral block, so I can't recall how often this saw play. Intuition tells me it didn't make many waves though.

I was playing at the time and I can tell you your intuition is correct.

It's the Champion of Rhonas thread again. People never learn. If you think this card is good, feel free to put your money where your mouth is and preorder a ton of them.

U for Scry 3 at Sorcery speed is not fine. It's card disadvantage and negative tempo for a marginally useful effect. Even at Instant I couldn't imagine playing it but Sorcery is right out. The card doesn't even lend itself to playing the Scry half early and then the Aftermath later because you've lost your deck manipulation by then. Best case scenario you ramp in to playing this turn 4 and then you've got to hope you can hit something worth spending 6 mana on in your top 4 cards, otherwise you just spent 6 mana on a slightly better Preordain. It's awful.