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Quote from Ryperior74 »

Only con is how do we get to 100 cards in that

I got a speculation they are going to try to figure out a way to get a whole bunch of the older legendary creature cards to get the new legendary border ezuri is the first reprint to get the new border in elves vs inventors duel deck

Either lots of packs or having a lower minimum deck size.

Quote from Wizmin »

It definitely looks like Narset. The hour Glass could very easily be a legendary artifact to help her travel between timelines on tarkir. We last saw her on the verge of discovering the fact that tarkir had different timelines, so it'd make sense for her to go looking for such an artifact. Aside from this, we know karn will be involved in the story and he is capable of traveling through time and dominaria has had all kinds of time travel shenanigans in the past so there may be an entire time travel theme for the set.

Seems plausible since with the popularity KTK had over DTK, wizard might want to do something to reanimate the 1st timeline soon.

Wow Impale is bad its a strictly worse Murder and Ravenous Chupacabra the later from the same set...

No one thought of Mirror Gallery

Quote from AvalonAurora »

Resist Consumption 1WW
Instant
Surge 1W
Exile all creatures you control until end of turn. If you paid Resist Consumption's surge cost, prevent all combat damage that you would take this turn.

Mental Synergy U
Instant
Surge 1UU
Draw a card. If you paid ~'s surge cost, draw two more cards.

Dread Eye 2BB
Instant
Surge 1BB
Creatures you don't control get -1/-1 until end of turn. If you paid Dread Eye's surge cost, destroy target creature.

Inspired Rage 2R
Sorcery
Surge 1R
Creatures you control get +1/+0, haste, and trample until end of turn. If you paid Inspired Rage's surge cost, put a 3/1 red elemental creature token with haste onto the battlefield.

Survival 1GG
Instant
Surge G
Creatures you control gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. If you paid Survival's surge cost, target creature you control gets +2/+2 until end of turn.

The red sorcery is odd since the element don't get the bonuses with the current way it is written

What I find stange is that they print the colorless basics in oath rather than bfz.

there is also political control and punishment deck that work with Gisela.

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Didn't they say Prowess was more of a white ability than blue? Since white more often has creatures? I'd expect therefore that the W/R land has prowess.

Has deathtouch been done on a man land yet? If not maybe we get something like.

2WB: Land becomes a 1/5 creature with Deathtouch until end of turn. As a more defenseive option.

Prowess is primary U and R. As for white I don't know for sure but I think it's only secondary (except on Tarkir prowess as yet to appear on a non-blue non-red creature.
Prowess was made for blue to have a keyword that is not evasion nor hexproof/shroud and so UR had a common keyword.

Quote from Urabrask »

Can they put Devoid on basic lands? Maybe it could be the way they found to make colorless basic lands.

Aren't lands already colorless, because they don't have mana cost nor color indication ?

I view Commander as primarily a social game and I think Prophet of Kruphix violates that pretty glaringly. The banning makes sense even though it can be played around, or stopped by the rest of the table marshaling their resources against that player. A lot of powerful cards do that, but not many cards allow their caster to play four times as much Magic as everyone else.

As mentioned above, it's the two powerful abilities in tandem that makes PoK so obnoxious. If I play Vedalken Orrery, I'm basically just moving my turn to the end step of the person on my right. It's an advantage as I have more opportunities to interact with people and can play spells more safely, but I'm not really casting more spells, just casting them at a different time. Add "you untap during each player's untap to that" all of a sudden I'm taking a turn during my turn, during player 2's turn, player 3's turn, player 4's turn, etc (my group typically has games of about 3-5 people). The only thing stopping me is if I run out of cards or get my stuff countered/removed, but hey, I'm playing blue and regularly untapping. It's pretty much Easy Street in the right deck. And any experienced player playing the card is going to have the deck to exploit it. What I frequently saw at my table was "hang on, during your end step..." multiple times around the table until either the PoK was removed or the player won the game. This can really bog a game down and, personally, this is the same reason I try not to build decks with a bunch of extra turn effects, or decks that durdle with a million trivial actions while everyone else waits on me. I guess a lot of that comes down to play style, but it seems to go against the concept of a social/casual game to include a card that gives one person so much control over the flow of the game.

Not that the card itself isn't powerful for obvious reasons, but to me it's the way that power manifested in the game that took away from the "spirit of EDH" (if there is enough of a consensus that we can talk about such a thing).

It's a feature not a bug. To Gideon they're the same. Innocents are in danger. To Gideon it doesn't matter whether the life is endangered by an incomprehensible force beyond the veil of reality or a measly feuding goblin if an innocent would die Gideon feels like he must be there. It's what makes Gideon Gideon. Like MaRo likes to say; your greatest weakness is your greatest strength pushed to far. Gideon cares about everyone. He wants to protect every life he is able to. The problem is that he will try but he's only human. I, as a person who in the presented situation is UB, can say no I need to be in the place where I can be the best use rather than trying to do everything and dying in the process.

Also: Calling them "Old walker humbling" doesn't mean a whole lot in context. As far as I know the only neo-walkers who know of the concept of "Old walkers" are Tezzeret and Jace and they only likely understand it on a very vague level. So that sort of thing means nothing. Gideon doesn't know that the power of three near-Gods paled in comparison to these creatures. All he knows is that they're threatening innocent lives and he has to protect them.

Wouldn't it be easier to word the djinn as "Creatures you control have Prowess"...I mean

Yeah Piledriver and good elves again...Oh my