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What color do we expect these Angels to be? Tricolor?

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Ugh. Why did they have to make that cycle anyway? Why not just reprint the strictly superior life lands from Khans? I really don't get it.

For one thing, because "Scoured Barrens" doesn't mesh with the established geography of Innistrad.

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One of the big problems with keywording milling is that there's three versions of it: mill an opponent, mill yourself, and mill any player. Each usage of the concept is carefully balanced - so it doesn't really save a lot of space since they can only really replace one of the three with a single keyword. If there was a way to add targeting restrictions to keywords, then maybe, but that just wouldn't work in the rules right now.

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Seeing as we are likely to get several updates as to the title of the set, would it not be wise for it to be labeled as just Conspiracy 2 for a while? Otherwise the title might become Conspiracy 2 :Some other title, not Some Title, not The Empty Throne, Not Reign of Brago. With the amount of advanced warning for this set, I can't imagine they don't play with us for a long long time.

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Just gonna give my contribution here:

This commander sucks for duel commander. There are three types of commanders that you should look for when playing duel:

- A card that is so good that makes a somewhat fragile color or color/combination much better (such as Yisan for monogreen, Daretti for monored, Gaddock Teeg for G/W or Varolz for B/G - not saying all of them are tier 1, but I'm saying they make it possible to build the deck).

- A card that is decent, but it really isn't necessary for your gameplan since your colors take care of the game (Jenara, Thraximundar, Child of Alara).

- A card that is in good colors AND is also a crazy strong card (Marath, Keranos, Narset).

Kalemne is in a terrible color combination, so she would have to make up for that being a pretty good card. Well, let's check what makes a general good in duel commander:

- Generating resources/advantage by itself (Keranos, Narset, Tasigur)
- Being extremely efficient for combo gameplans (Grenzo, Saffi, Sidisi vizier)
- Having an extremely opressive presence for an aggro, midrangy gameplan (Titania, Marath, Ezuri)
- Having an extremely opressive presence for lockdown, taxing gamplans (Augustin, Braids, Gaddock Teeg)

Most commanders fall in these categories, with some being kinda unique in what they do and therefore hard to classify, because they basically enable a gameplan that wouldn't be feasible otherwise. Kalemne does not generate resources, she is not a combo enabler and her presence, while is not to be disconsidered, is far from the standards necessary for duel commander. She is slow, she does not protect herself and she can be chump blocked for days. With all that in mind, I think she is not adequate for duel.

Idk dude, I think she has a strong enough oppressive presence for a tier 2 aggro deck. She is competitively costed, can kill with general damage, doesn't require other cards to be in play to be good and unlike Rafiq isn't limited by her abilities. I'm not saying she is better then Rafiq but she is similar and has some advantages over him. No she doesn't protect herself nor does she have evasion but neithor does Rafiq and he gets around that just fine using equipment and protective creatures like Mother of Runes.

If nothing else she is (imo) the best option Boros has for Dual Commander.

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Had this been at 5 mana it would have been sweet, at 4 it would have been playable in modern, at 7 it's just another bulk rare.

are you crazy? printing this at 5 let alone 4 cmc would be stupid broken.

How so exactly. Wow you get a plains out of your graveyard when you hit a land drop, which lets you get another card to your hand? Man that is totally game breaking. It would be a solid card and might push white into playable, but nothing is broken at 5 or 4 mana about this card. You get some stuff out of the yard, but unless its a land you have to recast it. It's fine.

I know you're excited to comment ASAP on this card, but you need to take the time to read and reread the card and make sure you understand how it works before judging. Playing plains gets a nonland permanent to the battlefield, playing other kinds of lands gets it to your hand. It can't get lands back, and it can be used to circumvent casting costs.

I did miss read it there, but still I am largely unimpressed. At 7 mana it's an unplayable bulk rare, and will stay that way. Five mana is too slow for modern, as you will have to set up for your reanimation, with will require Liliana or Faithless Looting, waiting until turn 6 to actually get the ball rolling on your engine. At four mana you can at least start on turn 4, unless you want to splash green, and try to rely on things like Commune with the Gods or Grisly Salvage, all of which is pretty weak to graveyard hate. It would be sweet at 4 mana, and would probably find a home in modern, but if you get any higher than that you've got to have a good reason to play it and the Shepherd doesn't give you one at 5 cmc, let alone 7.

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Costs too much and I don't think it fits my or other peoples kaalia Edh decks since it does to little without the plains.

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Man, I have no idea about better, but this card is certainly way more exciting than anything else in this cycle.

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Can it really be called an ambush when you're showing them the allies that will be coming up?