MTG Salvation

Let's see... in past set, when people claimed a set was good, it turned out to be busted. See: trone of Oko and Ravnica, city of planeswalkers. When people a set was mediocre, it turned out to be merely good.

My impression is that Zendikar has many mechanics that are incorrectly estimated: spell-lands and kicker. I think the land-spells will become widely played in multiple format for being lands. Sure, there are real duds, but there are real good ones. land / card draw, land / counter, ... kicker is easy to undervalue because they help the mana curve and add flexibility.

Party, I agree, will probably turn out not to be good in constructed... but very good in limited. The cards turn from mediocre to okay to good at 2 party members. They turn to great to amazing at 3 and 4 members. With full party, many of the card are at the busted level:

• a single mana to tutor any card and then cast a 4 CMC spell for free? For goodness sake! That's just bonker crazy over-powered.
• a single mana to destroy any creature or PW? Even alpha had nothing that good.

This does not make them good in constructed. But in limited they will shine.

I just realized that there is no terramorphic expanse, no evolving wilds, no expedition map, no traveler's amulet... they really did not want to enable double-landfall in limited! (outside of green)

Quote from Silent Wind »

'"The List" has commons, uncommons, rares, and mythic rares which will fall at the proper rate to one another.' from https://mtg.gamepedia.com/The_List .
What the f*ck does that even mean?

It means it's even worse than anticipated. It means that in your 1/6 (or is 1/4?) of boosters, you do *not* have a 1/300 to get a pact of negation. It means the ratio to open a card once it is not a token, comes out as if there 20 of each common for each 6 of an uncommon, for each 2 of a given rare, for each singular mythic.

So instead of being 1/1800 of getting food chain, it is 1/6 * 1/300 * 2/29. That means you'll open a lot of muscle sliver for each monastery mentor.

I counted about 21 cards I'd be happy to open (being very generous about "happy", like archdruid or bolt). So less than 1/14, so about 1/80 packs that would make me happy. IOW, very little value is being added by THE LIST. Over-hype, what a surprise.

Inclusion of a wastes is self-descriptive. It's a true lottery, on top of the 1/6 pack odds.

At first I didn't understand why trove warden needed to specify that cards exiled from *your* graveyard could have another owner... then I remembered that someone could temporarily steal that trove warden.

Why do you need doubling season? Each -1/-1 on a snake creates another.

Well, that's one debilitate cantrip.

It can easily be a 1-of in modern red aggro. Nothings syas you need to run 4. Even two seems plausible. The trick is, you want few enough that you almost are certain that you won't need to play it on turn 1.

Edit: so:

Turn 1: GG: 2
Turn 2: This + any bolt-like: 9
Turn 3: Any hasty (GG, this, switfspear) + another bolt-like: 18

18 total damage by turn 3 does not look bad to me.

Did it really need to enter tapped? It's multi-color restriction seemed enough to me.

Great DFC.

Quote from user-11102155 »

tbh i dont think is great.
i mean it is a playable card, but feels like an uncommon (allthough it reads like a rare, but the actual powerlevel in game might be different)

You only need to have a 2/2 for 2, which is super easy, and you'll attack with a 4/4 on turn 3, which your opponent most likely won't be to block nor kill. And it will only grow each turn. This puts your opponent in the bad position that they want to kill the ooze to prevent gain on other creature, but need to kill the big attacker.


So no, it's a great 3 drop, it won't get its own counter, will win the game by simply having another creature on the board when played on curve and is not an uncommon.

Misread the card. The ooze needs to attack.

Later in their evolution, they became tribbles.

I would have thought she would be a Kor Zombie? She did get thrown off from high by Nahiri in the trailer.

Gee, gah, wut, what?

Neat, a lot of combo potential. Mana ability of artifacts, lands or creatures don't use the stack right, so they can't be copied? OTOH, this copies PW abilities, for a cheaper cost than the the chain veil