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What Phoenix wants right now is answers for Narset, which is the card that kills the whole deck dead.

Fry?

Yeah, but that's not a main deck card. A way to not instantly lose game 1 when facing Narset would be nice.

Damn, Reimu really let herself go huh.
Shame she doesn't curves very well with The Royal Scions, 'cuz it seems those two would go perfectly together. She does curves well with Crackling Drake though, the only question is if Standard Phoenix actually wants this, and if I had to guess I would say no. What Phoenix wants right now is answers for Narset, which is the card that kills the whole deck dead.

Quote from Kjeldoran Ninja »

Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree had support like Glare of Subdual and convoke.

Glare of Subdual is already accounted for. We also have Convoke.

It was also an uncommon. This is a rare in an unexciting color for the set.

Completely irrelevant anywhere except kitchen table.

There are lots of things better than 1/1s for 5 and white is usually looking for fast attacks not reactive 5 mana sinks.

Funny you mention that when a 4 mana sink became one of the mainstays of the White Aggro archetype in Standard during its entire existence. These kinds of effects are supposed to give your White deck extra reach once you're out of gas or against Control, and considering there's almost no drawback on running this as 4-of in monocolor and possibly smaller quantities in duo, I fail to see your reasoning.

Not every exciting, which seems to be an ongoing theme for White cards in Eldraine, but Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree was the real deal in Ravnica. Yes, we don't have Glare of Subdual but this taps for W. Will still see play.

Damn these W Legends are boring. Guess this at least settles the question of wether the legendary clause in The Circle of Loyalty will be relevant aside from reducing second copy redundance.

Hey, this is a Golem with a decent-ish body that curves into Master Splicer, so I guess at least one person building Golem Tribal is happy about this, right...?

Seems like a neat Selesnya target for 5c Niv-Mizzet Reborn. Other than that, no idea what other decks in current Standard could want this.

I love the fact that him being a 4/4 means he loses a fight with King Arthur. But due to the second effect, he must keep attacking anyway.

Damn Edgewall Innkeeper seems GOOD. A one-mana Beast Whisperer if you go through the hoops? At Uncommon? And it works well with Lovestruck Beast? Yeah, unless every other Adventure is utterly unplayable I think this should make some waves in Standard.

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Right, so apparently the dwarves aren't the only thing in this art in sevens. Time to start looking? Here's some music for inspiration.

That's what I've got

Welp, now this got me excited for a potential No-Face creature.

"Carvalhandia" is probably a combination of "Oak" (Carvalho) and "Land" (suffix -landia). So most likely Oakland Ranger.

If I had to guess, Ikoria seems to be the "not-Kamigawa" Japanese inspired block MaRo has been teasing for years. More "Modern Japan Sentai Kaiju World" and less "Traditional Japan Spirit Samurai World", just like Eldraine is less Lorwyn "Fairtyale Fair Folk Celtic Horrors World" and more "Fairytale Disney Reboot Arthurian World".

Return to Theros is like "you don't say" and Zendikar is a big meh for me. Meanwhile, the words "Teferi Core Set" just made me very nervous.

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That ult is unbelievably weak. -8 should change the game. I’m not impressed.

As it should be. They enter with 6 Loyalty, Ult at turn 6 and have no minus abilities. I can't think they would be willing to make that Ult any stronger considering how resilient they are. I think as far as Ultimates goes, it's much better than, say, Ashiok.

What in the goddamn of even is Syr Konrad? "Whenever graveyard or graveyard or graveyard, ping your opponent". He's the wordiest thing ever to do the most mundane thing ever... which now that I think of it, if this is WotC's flavorful way of making a "fantasy noble that talks a lot but does very little", this is pure brilliance. Still has potential in Commander though, considering he says "ANY creature dies or ANY creature is put into a graveyard", the damage racks up fast.

Adventures are cool, but a bit weird - they function mostly how I predicted they would, some Creature/Spell Split. But I was not expecting the "you can cast the creature half later" part. Order of Midnight seems very much playable though.
Also, Smitten Swordmaster is literally just Lord Farquaad. Please tell me I'm not the only one seeing this.