MTG Salvation

I feel kinda iffy about it. there are a few good things, but overall i just dont like it.

Remember that green red legendary werewolf everyone wanted? You finally got it.

i love emerge, except for the fact that there's very few actual emerge cards. and fewer still that's playable. it seems like wizards is just showing some mechanics lately, but not printing enough of it for them to be actually useful. I'd have loved to see more emerge, and spell mastery back in origins.

bant tamiyo is neat.

i don't like lili. i just don't. in standard i don't see her doing much, and in modern she just seems like a straight worse veil. it feels like they wanted to support zombies, but instead of actually supporting zombies, threw a planeswalker at it and called it good.

another thing i don't like is how all the power is in one specific color again. White. white has a lot of the great stuff in standard right now. apparently things like go for the throat and doom blade are to powerful for kill spells that hit almost everything, but silkwrap is just fine because, ya know, logic. in terms of creatures avacyn is GREAT and so is the new gisela. if you happen to pla bruna with a gisela on the field, then you essentially pay 7 mana for a Brisela, Voice of Nightmares which is totes worth.

im not saying this is bad. remember back in return to ravnica / theros blocks where the only decks were esper control and mono black? yeah me too. It seems like wizards has taken to making this color great (at that point black), then that color great, then this color great. it just feels like it shafts a lot of colors. and right now especially so since the printing of 1 cmc mana dorks is gone, and 2 mana kill spells is gone and....a lot of red that hits players is gone and any blue 2 cmc counter worth any kind of damn is gone. remember essence scatter? it just seems like everything but white has been nerfed into the ground to me. certain colors have been able to handle it better than others, like green, which is def #2 right now. but this set definitely hasn't restored any kind of balance. but i think im rambling, i can't really blame this set for that.

flavorfully it's been kind of a hit and miss for me. i think the whole gothic horror thing is great on it's own. it didnt need lovecraftian eldrazi's too. i just think they're dragging it out to far, and taking story away from a potentially, really neat plane. instead of giving us the gothic story we love from innistrad, they just gave us eldrazi and put it in innistrad. at least it kind of gives it a dunwich horror feel? i guess? I don't know i think i'll just be happier when we're finally done with the eldrazi, as much as i'm loving innistrad/eldrazi art.

I agree, we see so much Anger and so little of every other emotion from red it gets hella boring. At least they've started to add it with some cards (like chandra's parents) but I'm still hoping for a mechanic where anything other than anger is reds driving force

While i may or may not agree we need more "cute" cards, i do feel something is neglected. That would be an aspect of red.

Any emotion that isn't directly tied to either anger or hatred seems to be thrown under the rug 90% of the time. Occasionally we'll get a card with a married couple on it like anax and cyamed or chandra's parents, but those few cards fsll way into the exception.

She very underwhemling

Liliana, the Last Hope... I was really hoping this would be a good planeswalker, but alas it is not.

Her +1 giving -2/-1 is stupid, doesn't kill even half of the creatures in standard which happen to be 2/3, Sylvan Advocate, Reflector Mage, heck it doesn't even kill Tireless Tracker. This ability should've been a -2/-2 at least!

Her -2 is underwhelming AF since she only comes in with 3 loyalty, this would probably mean she will die immediately. Also it only mills 2 cards? Are you freaking serious? Even Corpse Churn mills 3 at Instant speed. This should've been a mill 4, being sorcery speed and costing loyalty counters.

Her -7 ult is the only good thing about her. Which still will never happen given the fact that she comes in with 3 loyalty and they just printed a 2 mana burn spell for 3 that hits both creature and players.

Wizards of the Coast you ruined Liliana, yet you printed Tamiyo, the Field Researcher in Green and White... Which were already overpowered! Thanks for nothing! How about you print good cards in other colors like Red, Blue and Black?

She's supposed to take down M'Rakul?

She wouldn't last the four turns needed to even get her emblem...