I'm really disappointed that pauper isn't seeing any bans at this time. I was really hoping for at least Gush, and maybe even Augur of Bolas. Glad to see them at least acknowledge that the current state of the metagame is something to keep an eye on.
Agreed.
But then with that acknowledgement they go and ban 3 other "colored" cards.
Hada Freeblade, Spatial Contortion, and Circle of Flame will be banned in Pauper to correct a format issue
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Blue needs to have the banhammer come down hard in Pauper.
Just to note, the three cards banned in pauper were banned because they were not actually commons, but had snuck in through how the promo versions of them were classified on magic online. It's explicitly not a power level ban, but just the closing of a loophole.
Additionally, it mitigates the amount of time you get stuck playing "that guy" (which is often a big boon in many people's books).
Shouldn't "that guy" also get to play Magic? I mean yeah, he's annoying and/or smells, but he's still a worthy opponent, and part of what makes this game so beautiful is that it brings people together and give them an easy, safe and non-awkward platform to communicate through, regardless of social skills. Don't take that away from "that guy", he needs all the social interaction he can get so that he might one day stop being "that guy".
Edit; I do agree that player-chosen pairings at FNM and higher is very, very unlikely.
I think the idea they're referring to is that when you do get paired with "That Guy", you're only in it for one game. Being stuck with "That Guy" for 20 minutes is better than being stuck with them for an hour, and "That Guy" is still getting to interact with people... but the burden is less on any individual person to bear with him for a while.
It's also possible that "Canonize" is the wrong translation. I think that's more likely, as "Consecrate" seems like a fairly similar word that's not currently being used to my knowledge, while synonyms for consume that start with Can- are scarcer.
Does this work with Haunt? As in, if the creature with Haunt dies, would it haunt two things? And would the creature it haunts dying trigger haunt twice?
No, for two different reasons. The creature can't haunt two things, because part of Haunt involves "exile this card haunting target creature". So you'd be able to have two triggers, both targeting different creatures, but only one could successfully exile the card. So I believe, barring official word differently, it would function like academy rector and only haunt one of the two.
Regardless of how that interaction works, Haunt triggers from exile, so she can't double "when the haunted creature dies" triggers, as those are not triggers on permanents.
The best synergies are Gruul-Simic and Rakdos-Orzhov. It was like this in GRN too, where some neighbouring mechanics cooperated and others didn't. Expext draft to be lots of Simic splash R and lots of Mardu.
How does Spectacle and Afterlife synergies with each other?
Small flying creatures make it easier to deal damage to the opponent, thus triggering Spectacle.
I mean UG doesn't have great removal options but I don't think exile is worth an additional 2 CMC. I think it should be UG: Exile Target Creature, Give Opponent a 2/2 Token.
It's not the exile that's adding most of that mana, it's the fact that it's a split card. Just like any card with cycling is typically slightly more expensive than their equivalents without, the versatility of being able to also cast it to find a creature is extremely powerful.
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As for the Azorius mechanic, I was hoping for something a little more than keywording ability-wording something that they came up with in Time Spiral (see Careful Consideration, Return to Dust, Might of Old Krosa, etc.). Emergency Powers is seemingly a pretty powerful card, but they have made it such that playing it outside of the main phase makes little sense.
It's interesting, because my evaluation of Emergency Powers was the exact opposite: I feel like it makes little sense to play during the main phase, and should always be held for just before your turn. Being able to be the first player to untap with your new 7 card hand seems way better than dumping one permanent onto the field.
Just a note, but I don't think Necrotic Ooze combos with Pili-pala/Grand Architect, at least not without an external way to turn Necrotic Ooze (or Lazav, once he's copying the ooze) blue or into an artifact creature.
I don't see why they keyworded Prowess in the first place. Like unblockable, there are too many variations of the ability to justify keywording only one. I think it should be dropped altogether.
That leaves UR and UB still without evergreen creature keywords, but what else is new.
I don't know that there were that many variations. Either it was all noncreatures or it was Instants and Sorceries.
And UB seems to be leaning towards Flash as its shared Keyword.
Flash is still secondary in green as well as black, so we're not exactly there right now, but it looks like it could be the case if they at least push it so green is lower end of secondary and black is higher.
I think they're more likely to do something similar to creature pumping, where Green gets flash on big dudes that might just eat a guy, and black gets flash on small dudes that are most likely to trade. Stuff like Ambush Viper is probably going to move out of green, while stuff like Swift Warden and Snapping Sailback are more of what we'd expect out of green.
Additionally, it's the only practical way they can ensure the proper rarity for mythics. By having one mythic, and 7 other rares, they can ensure the 1 in 8 rarity of mythics is maintained. Barring going up to 16 cards (and you've already seen how hard it is to just put together a list of 8 rares/mythics that fit), any other number would require duplication of some of the cards to maintain that 1 in 8 ratio, which would result in wonky rarities.
If all the lists of the first seven cards for each guild in Sylve´s post plus Gruesome Menagerie from the post above mine are all correct, and there are in fact 8 promos for each guild, we are only missing the last Boros card. Though to be honest, I think those lists are looking a bit too hard for cycles/patterns.
Nah, something is wrong or we can get more than 8 possible promos. Beast Whisperer was the promo for Selesnya in a russian preprerelease video (2 posts above...)(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viJosJ7AgGk ) Gruesome is promo confirmed since it was first leaked.
Beast Whisperer probably just means that Bounty of Might isn't in Selesnya packs as a promo, which makes some sense. I think Thousand-Year Storm shows that they didn't put the Planeswalkers as guild mythics, which also makes sense since they probably didn't want the balance warped by half the guilds getting lots of planeswalkers, plus that would drive down the rarity of said planeswalkers. So that would give Golgari Underrealm Lich as their mythic, instead of Vraska.
They've had different commons and uncommons for a while now in seeded packs, so that's not really evidence of anything. The things that could disprove the current theory is a 3rd Selesnya non-watermarked rare, a 2nd non-watermarked rare for any of the other guilds, or seeing Ral or Vraska or the non-guildleader mythic for Boros, Selesnya, or Dimir. Otherwise, we've got a fairly solid idea of what could be in each pack, with the exception of the Boros non-watermarked card.
Weird that they'd go with Izoni and Etrata over Jarad and Lazav.
But I think I like this Izoni more than the regular one.
Jarad, at least, already got an alternate art in the Izzet vs. Golgari deck, and might not be popular enough to warrant yet another version like Niv Mizzet.
It's safe to say Gruesome Menagerie is Golgari's eighth promo. The leak of it showed it as a Prerelease Promo.
If they want a different color for each guild's monocolor that means Dimir gets Blue, Izzet gets Red, Boros gets White and Selesnya gets Green. We can't assume they're doing this when we only know one of the promos, but I still wanted to say which guild would get what color if they did a different color for each.
That makes sense. Theoretically, it could also be a Dimir kit, but that seems pretty unlikely.
Regardless of how that interaction works, Haunt triggers from exile, so she can't double "when the haunted creature dies" triggers, as those are not triggers on permanents.
They've had different commons and uncommons for a while now in seeded packs, so that's not really evidence of anything. The things that could disprove the current theory is a 3rd Selesnya non-watermarked rare, a 2nd non-watermarked rare for any of the other guilds, or seeing Ral or Vraska or the non-guildleader mythic for Boros, Selesnya, or Dimir. Otherwise, we've got a fairly solid idea of what could be in each pack, with the exception of the Boros non-watermarked card.
Each color has a 3 or so non-affiliated options left for the final slot (Green has 4, but that's counting Bounty of Might as non-affiliated, when it seems pretty likely to be Selesnya). White gets Bounty Agent, Citywide Bust, and Dawn of Hope, Blue gets Drowned Secrets, Narcomobea, and Omnispell Adept, Black gets Gruesome Menagerie, Midnight Reaper, and Ritual of Soot, Red gets Erratic Cyclops, Experimental Frenzy, and Runaway Steam-kin, and Green gets Beast Whisperer, Pelt Collector, and Vivid Revival. There's some I can definitely see not being used as prerelease promos, like Runaway Steam-kin, but it definitely feels like there's a lot of combinations that would work. My guess would probably be Narcomobea for Dimir, Citywide Bust or Bounty Agent for Boros, Erratic Cyclops or Experimental Frenzy for Izzet, and Pelt Collector or Beast Whisperer for Selesnya.