MTG Salvation

I'll repeat what I said in the Garruk topic:

First off, the visuals are absolutely beautiful. The gingerbread cookies look like they came right out of a Pixar film, complete with love song. I'm astonished at how well they're animated. And suddenly Garruk storms the castle and gets in a fight with the guards, and the poor cookies are looking for a place to hide or maybe escape. They find themselved trapped between a pot full of boiling orange fluid and a milk jar that shatters, leaving them dangling precariously over the edge. Garruk's axe comes down, separating the two cookies, and the female falls into the pot, seemingly dead. Garruk grabs the male cookie and bites his head off. Yes, Garruk is seriously eating a gingerbread cookie in a MtG trailer. Even the big bad huntsman loves him some home-baked sweets. Then we see that the female cookie survived...and she is MAD. She grabs a fork and leaps at Garruk, intent on putting an eye out. Yes, Garruk seriously has a cartoony gingerbread woman out for his blood because he ate her boyfriend.

I don't even know what to say to all this. It's so well animated and deranged and sad and hilarious and...WHAT THE FUNKY MONKEY DID I JUST WATCH? |8D

Just saw the set trailer, which features Garruk. Um...wow.

First off, the visuals are absolutely beautiful. The gingerbread cookies look like they came right out of a Pixar film, complete with love song. I'm astonished at how well they're animated. And suddenly Garruk storms the castle and gets in a fight with the guards, and the poor cookies are looking for a place to hide or maybe escape. They find themselved trapped between a pot full of boiling orange fluid and a milk jar that shatters, leaving them dangling precariously over the edge. Garruk's axe comes down, separating the two cookies, and the female falls into the pot, seemingly dead. Garruk grabs the male cookie and bites his head off. Yes, Garruk is seriously eating a gingerbread cookie in a MtG trailer. Even the big bad huntsman loves him some home-baked sweets. Then we see that the female cookie survived...and she is MAD. She grabs a fork and leaps at Garruk, intent on putting an eye out. Yes, Garruk seriously has a cartoony gingerbread woman out for his blood because he ate her boyfriend.

I don't even know what to say to all this. It's so well animated and deranged and sad and hilarious and...WHAT THE FUNKY MONKEY DID I JUST WATCH?

Adamant is like Devotion-lite.

In Monster World, maybe you have Creature Parts that can be combined together? I bet Kiora is returning then to play with the big sea monsters that will inevitably exist on that world.

Wait...is Garruk playing the role of the Huntsman from Snow White?

HE'S BACK.

The pied piper of Hamelin.

...Warlock?

I've got a lot more than that:

@Chainwhip Cyclops: Whoah. Mind, blown. And stomped. And crushed. And trampled. And sat on...

Raging Kronch and Kronch Wrangler: Another pair of cards that really wanted Partner With. Maybe we'll eventually get a card that lets you choose two creature card names and gives creatures you control with the chosen names Partner With?

Whisper: Pull the lever, Kronch!

Whisper: WRONG LEVERRRRRrrrr...!

Whisper: Why do we even have that lever? *swat* Get out of my way!

So, Noble is our creature type for royalty as well as nobility. So much for the royalty batch. *fingersnap* Nobles matter as our WB draft theme, then?

"Normally I am not a violent creature, but now I have a girlfrind to impress, so..." *cracks knuckles*

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How nice of the Beast protecting his love Risen Reef.

A tale as old as brine.

Fixed.

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Is Wishful Merfolk a sign that the Throne of Eldraine versions of fairy tales are always going to take the darkest turns possible?

Well, unless something very icky is going on, Lovestruck Beast seems like a fairly innocent straightforward adaptation.

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How nice of the Beast protecting his love Risen Reef.

A tale as old as time.

How nice of the Beast protecting his love Risen Reef.

Did... did Wizards of the Coast just consciously give Eggs strategy players... an actual egg?

That said, it's nice to know what a Food Token does. The cards themselves seem fine. Golden Goose is a much worse Birds of Paradise, but depending on how Food Tokens pan out, it will be functional for the Format since Llanowar Elves is rotating.

https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/187472843433/are-food-tokens-artifacts-or-new-permanent-types

Food are artifacts. This make Oko a lot more fun and flavorful. Turn some breadcrumbs into an elk and/or switch it out for something fun on your opponents side. Very trickster feeling.

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WotC may eventually print a BWG elf for you, but not likely and they will never do it in an EDH set.

All the more reason to make a custom one, you say?

Do not really like this over-specilized kind of commander but the UWR one is good for that colors.
Also BUG one tickle my brain.
There's many red in this set!

David.

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It's a knight themed set. You are going to have white soldier and knights. They are going to be fighting red goblins and black demons. There will be blue mages manipulating the situation for fun. Then the white knights are going to call on the green mages for help fighting off the demons in the second act of the 2nd set that comes out. There will most likely be a large number of legendary creature. There might even be a new sub category called hero's for white.

Here is for sure a preview card. Skyknight Vanguard. Another Ironroot Warlord. Another Empyrean Eagle. and another preview card Corpse Knight. Here's part of the knight cycle preview Cavalier of Dawn.

And think you just summarized how over done high fantasy in magic and why they decided to add in the grimm* fairy tale elements to the set.

Wel also know the conflict is Rowan and Will searching for their missing father the king Arthur figure.

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It's a knight themed set. You are going to have white soldier and knights. They are going to be fighting red goblins and black demons. There will be blue mages manipulating the situation for fun. Then the white knights are going to call on the green mages for help fighting off the demons in the second act of the 2nd set that comes out. There will most likely be a large number of legendary creature. There might even be a new sub category called hero's for white.

Here is for sure a preview card. Skyknight Vanguard. Another Ironroot Warlord. Another Empyrean Eagle. and another preview card Corpse Knight. Here's part of the knight cycle preview Cavalier of Dawn.

I thought I've read somewhere that Eldraine will only get one set in a row. Nevertheless, the knights being plants for Throne of Eldraine makes sense...but I expect the only goblin to appear in Throne of Eldraine to be the MTG version of Rumpelstiltskin. There are no Arthurian goblins to my knowledge, and which (other) fairy tales have goblins in them? It's also hard to think of any fairy tales with demons besides the Devil in them, and to my knowledge, there are also no Arthurian demons.

https://markrosewater.tumblr.com/post/186401952743/will-eldrain-have-3-sets-like-the-recent-guilds

trevorstrnad asked: will eldrain have 3 sets (like the recent guilds of ravnica "block")? would be kinda sad if a new plane will only be featured in one set

A: Eldraine is just featured in one set. Baseball (the codename of the next set) will be on a different plane.

Also remember this is is magic version of fairy tales and Arthurian myth. Just like they added zombies and catfolk to Theros and angels and minotaurs in Amonkhet, we will see Eldraine feature some of magics characteristic and iconic races added in. While demons aren't found much in fairy tales, your right some stories have the Devil (and many other dark supernatural characters) who makes deals with people which could also be filled by magics version of demons.

Honesty one of my favorite things is seeing magics races translated in different worlds, like goblins being kappa like on Kamigawa or the returned on Theros.

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Takes me back to the good ol days of thragtusk and restoration angel in standard. I had a friend who can never remember the names of Magic cards and this card was always known as "Thraggletooth".

Just noticed the name is spelled wrong in the title which makes this even funnier to me