Thanks for posting this. I've had this, uh, 'discussion' with a number of shops that had proposed to launch Pauper nights and I try to ask them "MTGO rules or actual-paper printed rarity", they go "Whatever, if it was ever a common it's good unless it's on the banlist, if it was bad it'd be on the banned list", I explain "Hymn and Sinkhole aren't on the MTGO banned list because they're not MTGO commons..." "Whatever, man. We'll see how it plays out." Yeah, I already know how this plays out.
I don't want to bring a deck with Hymns and get in arguments with the faction that thinks they're illegal in paper pauper (not on the MTGO pauper valids list). I don't want to bring a deck with Chainer's Edicts and get in arguments with the faction that thinks they're illegal in paper pauper (never printed as paper commons). I don't want to bring a deck that resists using either flavor of corner case and then face decks all evening that didn't hold themselves to the same deckbuilding restrictions. I want a show-runner who gives a damn enough to make it clear to all players what the cardpool is; ideally, I want the organization that handles all the other formats (including the online version of Pauper) to actually give a damn enough to codify a ruleset for paper pauper. But for some reason they never do.
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I was curious about that one. Another case of thinking it works not so well in our usual devotion-aspect plan but might have a good home in non-aspect builds. But also thinking that with no inherent trample or evasion, it really would love to wear the rancor, not replace it.
And another card to consider if this is a gameplan being considered: Bone Picker.
(Another card worth considering in a build like that is Wild Cantor. Like an X=0 creature, it acts as a 'dark ritual' of sorts to power out Bone Picker. It also does the color fixing, getting us into black mana even off a basic forest or mountain. And it does a lot of the above things too - it can be effectively-zero-cost creature 1 of a two-creature turn to recur Vengevine).
Syr Faren, the Hengehammer (uncommon)
GG
Legendary Creature - Human Knight
2/2
Whenever Syr Faren, the Hengehammer attacks, another target attacking creature gets +x/+x until end of turn, where X is Syr Faren's power.
A base 2/2 for 2 ain't great but wow on doubling up our power boosts from Savage Swipe and Aspect and Rancor and Vines.
Think this is more along the lines of flavors that don't do the counters-synergy thing - no EOne/Pelty.
Yorvo's a GGG Giant, 0/0 printed, enters with 4 +1/+1 counters on him. Every time a green creature enters the battlefield under your control put a +1/+1 counter on Yorvo; then if that creature has more power than Yorvo, but another +1/+1 counter on Yorvo.
So in our deck it'll usually be attacking as a 5/5 or possibly even a 6/6 on turn 4...
I think legendary rule makes you not want it as a 4-of, but I would think it replaces at least one Steelie.
I’m not so sure. Even in 20 plains dec, you expect to have around 3 lands in your first 9 cards. If one of them is this ... then on one of the first three turns of the game you’re not curving out. You only get to spend 5 mana across the first 3 turns, rather than 6.
It may be a cost worth the benefit. But it’s absolutely a relevant cost even in a mono white deck.
I’m mostly curious what the green one will do because thats the one that’ll be most likely to have its fun with ramp and landfetching. I kinda would’ve liked this ability on the green one, for Incubation Druid and Growth-Chamber Guardian.
Scandal is an overstatement but this is the first fall set without a dual cycle in ... a decade? Anything that is a break from their established routine is noteworthy.
It is.
If it was as simple as that it would be. But 5 of that attacking power is so vulnerable. I mean Beauty can be easily destroyed (she's a 1/1), which shackles the Beast... but Beast can even be neutered by someone putting a +1/+1 counter on her!
So already in this set we have an Egg that isn't an Egg, and now that they've made Noble a creature type, we may also have existing Nobles that aren't Nobles. Unless they have another mass subtype errata planned.
To clarify the terminology - the spell is not 'countered', under the current rules. For several years that *was* the terminology the rules used - when a spell was to resolve but all of its targets were illegal it was "countered on resolution". With the rules changes with Dominaria, that spell now does nothing and is placed in graveyard, but it isn't 'countered'. Multani's Presence does not trigger anymore.
For Adapt they dodged this memory issue by tying adapt-activation-eligibility to the (non)existence of +1/+1 counters.