I don't know why people think we can't do a land that makes colored mana without it being part of a cycle. If we make an enchantment it will only be one color and won't be part of a cycle. Why couldn't we do the same with a land? Yes, wizards has historically done lands in cycles, but not always (hellion crucible is a great example of this... where are the blue/green/white/black lands that become creatures?) So there is no reason we couldn't create a blue land that does something without it being part of a cycle.
Which are two great plays directly following the turn 4 sweeper that is already integral for surviving against aggro.
Sure, the existence of this card does not invalidate the existence of Supreme Verdict. I'm not saying it's the only sweeper your deck should run or that it is the best sweeper in standard, I'm saying that decks that know they can get to the late game are going to want this card because it does so much more against a lot of the problems the deck faces.
You can't sacrifice a Gravecrawler to make your Falkenrath Aristocrat dodge this one.
You can't sit there and mill me with Jace, Memory Adept or lock me down with Tamiyo, the Moon Sage when I have this in my hand.
You can't laugh as my Thragtusks that could be winning me the game sit under your Detention sphere.
Etc. etc. etc.
But rakdos aggro is a thing as well. Its meta dependent.
I agree, but rakdos aggro was a thing in the same meta that gained insane amount of life... I haven't seen anything to lead me to believe that the format will not be similarly grindy for at least some of its time in standard, I would expect another shifting meta like the one we just had.
Are people really saying this spell is too slow? This is still a format with Thragtusk and Sphinx's Revelation. Sure, there are some lifegain hosing cards, and the boros stuff looks petty sweet in constructed, but this has been a standard season where the major win condition was Nephalia Drownyard. If you've been playing on MODO the last few weeks you've seen the Esper Superfriends list that is only going to get better at walling itself off.
This spell comes on the tail end of a season that brought us Omni-doorThrag-fire and you guys are concerned about a six mana sweeper that is good in any matchup. If they don't have creatures/artifacts/enchantments/planeswalkers on the board by the time you can cast a six mana spell then yes, this is pretty sucky, but you were probably winning that one anyway.
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Sure, the existence of this card does not invalidate the existence of Supreme Verdict. I'm not saying it's the only sweeper your deck should run or that it is the best sweeper in standard, I'm saying that decks that know they can get to the late game are going to want this card because it does so much more against a lot of the problems the deck faces.
You can't sacrifice a Gravecrawler to make your Falkenrath Aristocrat dodge this one.
You can't sit there and mill me with Jace, Memory Adept or lock me down with Tamiyo, the Moon Sage when I have this in my hand.
You can't laugh as my Thragtusks that could be winning me the game sit under your Detention sphere.
Etc. etc. etc.
I agree, but rakdos aggro was a thing in the same meta that gained insane amount of life... I haven't seen anything to lead me to believe that the format will not be similarly grindy for at least some of its time in standard, I would expect another shifting meta like the one we just had.
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This spell comes on the tail end of a season that brought us Omni-door Thrag-fire and you guys are concerned about a six mana sweeper that is good in any matchup. If they don't have creatures/artifacts/enchantments/planeswalkers on the board by the time you can cast a six mana spell then yes, this is pretty sucky, but you were probably winning that one anyway.