MTG Salvation

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Does anyone else think Court of Cunning is Legacy playable? A 3 drop Monarch spell that can be exiled to Force of Will / Negation with serious mill, dredge, and reanimation applications. Heck, a control deck could just mill no one and use it as a blue Phyrexian Arena. Thoughts?

Blue has much better card draw...

1. Would not play this in limited. Probably why it is Mythic as you don't want a common or uncommon to be unplayable in limited.
2. Can only be played in monocolor commander decks that will cheat this into play. Assuming anything that is 2+ colors will have better options than a bunch of vanillas.
3. Would be really cool if it was less expensive. Like, a 3/3 for 3 that makes one token when it dies and Encores for 6 mana. Would especially be cool for precursor golem decks.

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Tevesh Szat - really do not like that they made a planeswalker commander that wins the game when it ults. None of the previous ones won the game with their ults - they gave huge advantages but you had to find synergies. This guy seems like he will be annoying. Spam tokens to block, play interaction on evasive attackers, then ult to steal 3 commanders.

How exactly is stealing 3 creatures winning the game? The most annoying part here seems to be his ability to force out creatures from the command zone and thus ticking up the command tax of your opponents commanders. And even that takes at least four turns of protecting it (without proliferate shenanigans).

Most people build around their commanders. So when they can't play their commanders their decks are much weaker. Stealing 3 commanders should be a big enough swing to win you the game, even if they don't help you that much.

I know there are stronger ults than this but I think this is the most game-winning of the PW ults from the command zone so far. I play some of the PW commanders and I don't even try to ult them.

Tevesh Szat - really do not like that they made a planeswalker commander that wins the game when it ults. None of the previous ones won the game with their ults - they gave huge advantages but you had to find synergies. This guy seems like he will be annoying. Spam tokens to block, play interaction on evasive attackers, then ult to steal 3 commanders.

I finished making a list, though I have not tested it yet.
120 cards x 4. I realized that with more people we can draft a normal cube, so this is a good option for less than 4 people.

It is 5 colors, though there are imbalances with the gold cards as I want some people to play 2 colors and others to play 3 colors. I chose not to make any one color deep enough to go monocolor. If I want to enable this I would probably need to cut some gold cards and put some hybrid cards.

Will post the list once I pickup the sleeves.

Do you think there should be sideboarding or no? I think best of 1 would be best. You play each opponent once - 3 quick games.

Hey, it's mini kalonian hydra

Could be interesting with ghost quarter and path to exile and friends.

if you have a card draw doubler in play, what happens with the 0 ability? Reveal both cards, get hit twice?

Seems good on turn 3 or turn 5, honestly. You are probably going to tick up more often than not, and use the 0 probably when you know what's on top (or in a very lean deck).

This would be a lot of fun with doubling season

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he is talking about what people criticized most... so apparently no one criticized the price increase and the spam of products? why is he just focusing on the main sets ?
am i living in a bubble ?

He talks about what he knows, which is always the 4 main sets every year. He did talk about Jumpstart which was interesting. He rarely works on supplemental sets and there is not much to talk about when they are mostly reprints.

I think that Paul Cheon's team probably got too aggressive this year. they pushed cards way too much. It was a new team so I guess they need to be reigned in a bit. Hopefully the balance issues will start going down with the rotation.

I liked what Mark said about Companion - it was a bad idea for Set Design to design this mechanic. It was too hard to balance. They should have realized this however and removed it from the set.

I have trouble believing that Deepglow skate would be common, so I don't see how it would show up as Pauper legal...
Someone in the reddit post claims that regardless of rarity, all 2XM cards are showing up as legal in Pauper. If this is true, then I guess it's possible.

more first-pickable than 75% of the rares.
Surprised they didn't upshift lol

the 2/1 myr looks like the robot in the Netlfix Lost in Space.

I don't even like these for drafting

this set is such a lottery. I hope we get inquisition of kozilek and other good cards at uncommon/common to increase the value.

oh no, if I open Sunforger I am going to draft myself into a hole. Love that card.
Silly sword to reprint.