MTG Salvation

Well, that's a lot of text. Still, it seems that this card is missing "Hexproof from nonpurple", "Can't be countered by an opponent of an opposite sex" and "If it would go to the graveyard, shuffle it into your sideboard instead".

Immolation Mask 1R
Artifact — Equipment

When ~ enters the battlefield, create a 1/1 red Elemental creature token, then attach ~ to it.
Equipped creature has "Sacrifice this creature: it deals 1 damage to any target".
Equip 2

In the right deck it could be up to 'draw six' for 3 mana, which is bonkers. Even if the average is 'draw three', this is already above the line.

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Nope. This is missing the rarity symbol, so unless there's a gigantic empty spot on the mana line for some reason, it is 5GG.

Yeah, my bad. Missed that the url on non-english cards goes like 'mtgstory.com/es'. At 7 mana this card is far less exciting.

Static protects from Thought Erasure and edicts.
+1 synergises nicely with the explore mechanic.
-3 is a repeated Eternal Witness.

Very decent card overall. Could see her in Sultai replacing a small Vraska.

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Wow, Divine Visitation seems really nice. Pity it doesn't look any different than a basic land (as everything else).

Please explain

Assassin's Trophy

Aaaand there goes the dream of 1-mana surveiling cantrip.

Is it me, or this time around guildmage design suck? See, original ones had hybrid manacost (X/Y)(X/Y) and their abilities each required only one color (either X or Y), and it made sense, because you could play them even in the deck with only one corresponding color. In RTR their manacost included two colors, as their ablilites' cost did. Which also made sense, because if you already paid XY for the creature, you are probably able to pay XY for the ability. These new ones have multicolored cost, but their abilities require only single color and are weaker (compare Conclave Guildmage, which makes 2/2 tokens for 6 mana, with Vitu-Ghazi Guildmage, which for essentially the same cost makes 3/3s (yes, I know, vigilance, but I'd rather trade it for +1 p/t). Making abilities cost only single color would maybe be justifiable if you could use them multiple times in a turn, but the tap requirement doesn't allow that! I am not complaining that the new guildmages are bad cards, they will be used in limited, as they always were. It's just that their design is... less explainable, I would say.

Another card spotted in one of those spotlight videos:

Direct Current | 1RR
~ deals 2 damage to any target.
Jump-Start

Edit: oops, nath'd

While this is not exactly Tibalt, it looks like big MEH anyway.

I imagine he’s just pissed that he got called to a plane only to get trapped by the same damn thing as before.

"Jellyfish Hydra Beast". Now that's a type line.

What's better than one Goblin Dark-Dwellers? Seven of them.

On a serious note, nice to see more exile-draw (especially with how cheap it is here), though having to sac a creature makes me wary about it.

They done gone and made an Ape legend. At uncommon. The pseudo-Exalted ability is nuts bananas. Nuts Bananas I tell you!

I so want to make an Ape-based EDH deck...I want it to be THIS BIG!

'buster

Okay, there's a line to not cross on april first jokes. That is one of them.

This is the support card that Party Crasher deserved.

Omnath, Locus of Rage gives this card four thumbs up.

I knew I've been collecting all those Dwarven Ponies for a good reason!

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It's not THAT big of a deal. Yugioh sets are released in Asia 4 months before the rest of the world yet it still sells well.

Yeah. Let's get some perspective. WotC waaaaay overestimates the value of surprise in building up excitement. Keeping things in the dark and then revealing in a calculated manner may not have zero utility, but it's hardly a huge factor.

How about...a Standard that doesn't suck? That would go much further than ersatz tension-buildup in generating authentic excitement.