MTG Salvation

The absence of Professor would only make his words more believable.

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https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-story/mentor-2021-04-16

Quint's turn.

Really loved this one.

By FAR the best part of the Strixhaven stories, this story is so good it deserved to be expanded into a trilogy, with the other students stories interwoven with it.

The main story has its good points, but it has too much CW teen drama vibe going on, although Professor Onyx is awesome in it. I simply see nothing in Lukka's character motivating him to do this kind of stuff and that is the other week point of the main story.

The setting itself seems amazing, not just Strixhaven, but Arcavios, it deserves a trilogy with the Plane itself as the star with the five students the main characters, without all the Planeswalker drama. So much potential, an insane amount of potential with this incredible taste of what this Plane could be, that gets one so excited, but then we quickly move on.

This is the problem with WotC deciding its not in the novel writing business anymore. Vast wasted potential. I really loved Quint's story (and the other 2) and especially Quint's story and I wanted more of that.

Imagine these 5 characters and in a full sized novel, or better yet a trilogy.

Proves that a world can have good stories without the meddling of PWs. I don't mind having PWs around so long as they respect the rules of the plane they're on. Despite Garruk's personality, he at least changes his attire base on the plane. He does it to better blend in, to hunt, but it's still more appropriate than Jace showcasing the same style blue robe everywhere he goes, or Liliana baring her breast regardless of custom.

I'd totally read a story of the five students. They represent young people who're still seeking their growth and destiny, instead of adults who behave like children, such as some PWs. If anything, Liliana being a reformed black mage is perfect to guide young people of potential mistakes; she learned it the hard way. Five students would also make a great team given their magic, background, and personalities we see so far.

Out of the five students, Killian is likely going to be the group leader. He's disciplined, introspective, and never stop improving, not to mention he already had experience in leading his peers. A leader must learn to question oneself, but not in a self-hindering fashion like Rootha. A leader needs to take charge, where I believe Quintorius prefers to stay back and provide support. A leader needs to have a stronger sense of right and wrong, and Dina is too playful (and daring) for that role. I don't know about Zimone yet, but I suspect she's more interested in academic study of unraveling the real world, rather than making improvement to it; constructive changes requires someone who had suffered intimately. It'd be nice to watch Kilian proves himself outside of his father's regulation, even if Embrose regards Kilian's success a result of fatherly tutelage.

Beautiful art, both of them.

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"Those who say money can't buy happiness clearly don't have enough."

Spoken like a true 1%er

He’s half right. Money can’t buy “every” happiness, but it can prevent certain misery from happening, such as unable to pay the medical bills for your loved ones.

Though in Karlov’s case, it’s also possible that his joy comes solely from gathering more wealth, which indeed buys all of HIS happiness.

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Well it did for like almost 20 years now.

White/Red basically only had the lifegain + burn going for it, and producing some fringe tokens here and there.

Equipment and vehicle theme was a thing (and that was terrible as ever).

All the other mechanics are super combat related.

Here White/Red gets stuff that doesnt even look or feel white/red at all, much more blue/red in its spell themes (could basically just be Izzet cards and nobody would blink an eye) , and a bunch of 3/2 token production, which feels somewhat Selesnia Green/White , and some form of working with the graveyard, which has vibes of green/black recursion mixed in.


White basically sacrificed all its identity and just does everything now, just do stuff.

The White/red themes are all over the place now, but the lorehold themes are much better in any multiplayer / casual format, where any source of card advantage is king.

Been playing since Tempest, so as far as I remembered white had always had permanent retrieval from graveyard, especially artifacts and enchantment, like using Mine Excavation/Replenish. While you call "working with the graveyard" a GB thing, Resurrection had been arpound since alpha, and Sun Titan is a widely popular card. How about Profound Journey? Emeria Shepherd? White also had token creation effect from graveyard, such as Funeral Pyre/Sanctifier of Souls. Red obviously contributes the spell retrieval part of the Lorehold WR equation. when you combine the graveyard affinity of both colors, you get Lorehold, the passionate historians.

Lorehold is thematically fine, it's just different from what people were used to after years of Ravnica Boros contamination. The world of WR is much larger than Ravnica, all you have to do is look into older cards to learn about them. WotC was just being lazy and went with a popular design.

I really wish Rootha was a thick, hulking girl.

And base on the description, Witherbloom remains boring as ever. They could've made it a department that cast magic through physical exercise; weight lift, gymnastic, martial arts, yoga, etc. Individual training and betterment (black) fuels the vital force (green) needed to generate mana. Instead, we get a Golgari lite.

I wonder if Ink Magic takes inspiration from Chinese calligraphy/painting.

Was Shalai suppose to be black?

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Rally the Ranks 1W
Enchantment
As Rally the Ranks enters the battlefield, choose a creature type.
Creatures you control of the chosen type get +1/+1.
(anyone know what the flavor text says?)

Shared Destiny finally gets a one-sided version. Maybe Humans wants this?

Source:

"Halvar created a triumphant joint force by rallied the deceased of each clan."

That said, I think this and Shared Triumph are both great for dwarf-vehicle decks. Think we might see Unicycle here?

So instead of Valla, Immursturm is now on Kaldheim?

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after seeing all these leaks i am wondering where were they found

I’m curious as well. Given they came in steady pace, it might be WotC’s own doing. Compare to, say, the massive leak on Commander Legends and Dominaria.

If you haven't gained life previously, then no. Regna's ability triggers at the beginning of the end step. Gaining life in the end step is after the window to trigger has passed.

Before blocks are declared, you have no information about what the opponent will block with, apart from inferring from restrictions and requirements generated by effects applicable at that time. Your opponent commits to nothing yet. If you remove one creature here, the opponent may block with another when that time comes.

After blocks are declared, they actually happen. It is part of the turn-based action of the declare blockers step; nothing intervenes between declaration and performance. Once creatures have blocked, attacking creatures that were blocked become blocked creatures, and blocked creatures, for almost every situation possible to construct with legal, black-bordered cards in Magic, do not become unblocked creatures again in the same combat. They won't "go through" without gaining trample.

Once a block has been declared the creature will remain blocked until end of combat no matter what happens to the blocker. You would need to kill the creature before blocks are declared.

If the object Skullclamp is attached to is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, Skullclamp's ability triggers. It doesn't matter why that object dies.

edit: Oh I see, Skullclamp is destroyed too. The ability triggers, because the Skullclamp's ability is checked just before the event to verify the ability is applying. However, this depends on the equipped creature and Skullclamp dying at the exact same time. dying not after Skullclamp. If that spell happens to destroy them in a that sequence, then the condition won't be satisfied.

I didn't mind not to specify what an instant or sorcery card would do, but forgetting that Scythe won't attach to a noncreature permanent was a genuine mistake. Thank you.

Note, that only a permanent card will be returned, instant cards and sorcery cards stay in the graveyard (those could be face down on the field through being manifested). And only if the permanent the card becomes is a creature at the time will the equipment get attached to it.

As the creature dies, if it is represented by a card, then it must be revealed. This happens anyway as it goes into the graveyard. If Scythe's ability triggers and "that card" is still in the graveyard to which it died to trigger that ability, then Scythe's controller puts it onto the battlefield under their control and then attaches Scythe to it.

Putting a card onto the battlefield means to put it so the card face is up. There's no reason not to do the general thing here.

Copy Enchantment says "You may have Copy Enchantment enter the battlefield as a copy of any enchantment on the battlefield" (C.R. 108.1).

Clever Impersonator says "You may have Clever Impersonator enter the battlefield as a copy of any nonland permanent on the battlefield" (C.R. 108.1).

Thus these abilities do exactly the same thing, except the set of permanents you can choose from is different in general.

However, it's unclear under the comprehensive rules whether a bestowed Aura permanent's effect of it becoming an Aura permanent is a copiable effect. Indeed:

• Under C.R. 702.103c: "If a bestowed Aura spell is copied, the copy is also a bestowed Aura spell. Any rule that refers to a spell cast bestowed applies to the copy as well." But this doesn't apply to bestowed Aura permanents.
• Under C.R. 702.103b, a spell cast bestowed "becomes an Aura enchantment and gains enchant creature", but it's unclear whether this effect is a copiable effect, especially because it behaves similar to mutating creature spells (which do produce a copiable effect) when the target becomes illegal (C.R. 613.2a, 608.3b).

CR303.4f applies just to Clever Impersonator as it does to Copy Enchantment, that's right.

I don't see any basis for

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I saw different answers for this one. So when Copy Enchantment copies a bestow creature in aura form (say, Celestial Archon), it copies the aura status of Archon and I could enchant a creature with it, and when the enchanted creature dies CE becomes an Archon as well.

this statement in the rules. The mere meaning of having gained the bestow ability by copying that Aura is to have gained some ability that lets the object be bestowed, but only if it is cast a certain way:


In other words, copying the bestow gives nothing. And, peteroupc is right that nothing says that copying a bestowed permanent transfers the bestowed quality. So it doesn't.

The Copy Enchantment or Impersonator is just a permanent copying some Aura, which was able to enchant something as it entered the battlefield because of 303.4f. But it's just an everyday Aura in that respect.

A token created with Hofri Ghostforge will have the copied creature's copiable power and toughness, and not necessarily be 1/1 (and due to Hofri Ghostforge, the token will also get +1/+1 and have haste if the token is a "Spiri[t] you control").

The effect of Storm of Souls making a returned creature "a 1/1 Spirit with flying in addition to its other types" is not a copiable effect (rather it's an effect that changes types, abilities, power, and toughness), so that effect won't carry over to an object that's a copy of that creature (C.R. 613.1d, 613.1g, 700.2; compare with C.R. 613.1a).

EDIT (Jul. 31): Correctness edit.