MTG Salvation

Cauldron of Eternity at least goes nicely in a casual Grenzo or Scion of the Ur-Dragon EDH deck. Otherwise it's a bit too play it safe for anything serious.

With dragons this underwhelming I'm beginning to perfectly understand why there's so many cards in this set with illustrations of them being slain.

There is something strangely Quizno rat about the gingerbrute's face...

This card is my fault. I won Twisted Metal and asked Calypso for a red dragon card that has an etb effect that allows me to temporarily control an opponent's permanent but this is the card he made exist.

Seriously what is this? Would a Conquering Manticore dragon just be too much to ask for?

"Have you met my new soulmate Fblthp, the Lost?"

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I really am going to be eventually able to make a Jodah, Archmage Eternal 5 color Bishonen edh deck aren't I?

You can't already?!

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There really aren't enough bishonen in Magic yet to do so yet. I mean yeah there's half the Jaces, Jodah himself, Will Kenrith, Mairsil, Jor Kadeen, Yawgmoth, Tasigur, Raff, Ramirez, and Phelddagrif but I need more for a deck!

I really am going to be eventually able to make a Jodah, Archmage Eternal 5 color Bishonen edh deck aren't I?

Ok maybe people are right about Edgar Markov's eminence ability being a problem

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I see you being cute with the flavor text, Wizards of the Coast.

It's a time travel reference.

It's a sneaky reference to paradox engine and you know it.

I see you being cute with the flavor text, Wizards of the Coast.

Punishes ramp but rewards fast mana. Oooookaayyyy. Not like a lot of people are gonna play this thing anyway.

Legendary Wall....Ok this set is trolling us and I kinda love it.

Well the hellkite is kinda ok for like, a dragonstorm build or something but meh.

Ignite the Future looks like one of those cards you'd just dismiss because of both mana costs but then someone just takes a game out of nowhere with it.

Oloro did have proton-eminence and I will not even attempt to defend that thing. He was a mistake, plain and simple. In fact wasn't he why they tried harder to make eminence abilities narrow and more fair?

I fail to see what's toxic about Edgar. Heck I've played against a build with stuff like contamination and it's still not even remotely close to the worst, cheesiest experience I have had in EDH. I see Edgar's ability as an attempt to make a weenie strategy try and work against 3 other people that start with 40 life points each and that all have board wipes.

Here's the thing: I have the notorious examples of a mechanic gone wrong to use as comparison. We have 4 legal cards with eminence and none of them really ruined EDH. The most degenerate example is Inalla and she's still pretty far from the worst "Spike commander" we have gotten from a round of commander precons. It doesn't help her usage percent that a more busted commander lurks within her deck. You know, the one that flashes back instead of has eminence.

Outside of like, duels, I have never seen anyone fear Edgar. Playing aggro in multiplayer is basically reliving the 5 stages of grief over and over. As far as token value strategies go, we have much worse like Najeela and Ghave who don't need no out of play abilities to know how to rock.

I can see how eminence is a really hard ability to balance since you can't usually permanently strip someone of these effects and for what we got, wizards did a decent job of not pushing it way too hard. I bring up the haste comparison because I trust that they could do that again in another tribal/specific theme round of commanders much in the way they showed me that I can trust them to not make that haste, tap to win the game creature. Though I prefer the keyword theme we're apparently getting now for sure.