You know what? This card is substantially better in several ways. It doesn’t punish mana producers to the point where it is never worth using them and instead makes players make an informed choice. You also can’t pay 4 life to force your opponents to waste their first turn dealing with this card, which is also appreciated.
It very much looks like you took the criticisms received in your previous thread and actually used them to create something good, which is what a lot of us have been wanting for you for a long time.
It’s a bit hard to parse through that jumbled list so could you give us the winning combos/lines for this deck.
I see LED + Underworld Breach… but not the full combo that normally uses brain freeze to generate infinite mana and access your entire deck.
I see doomsday and consultation but there’s no Thoracle so I don’t know what you are going after.
At first blush, it looks like you mashed together a bunch of high end commander cards with every card you could find that has a chance to blow up in your face… which isn’t what “suicide” decks are about at all.
Edit: is this just a rakdos reanimator beat down deck that just so happens to use a bunch of tutors and apparent combo pieces.l?
I think it generally might be related to nighttime mouth-breathing, so if you do that as well, my advice is a hot shower before bed where you actively remove all solids from your nasal passages. Shaving back nose hair can help too. You'll have less sore throats in the mornings as a result. If it's because you're suffering from night terrors, I don't know what to tell you.
You think that a real person with no past posting history created a profile on an MTG site just to ask a question regarding sleep talking and that this is in no way a spam-bot?
nah, man. This is the oldest trick in the book. The obvious question in the title attracts the attention of anyone who has had similar problems so different people can list their solutions and start paying attention. Then, the original poster comes back and posts something like
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So… these look fairly authentic as it’s new art, a new foiling and art style, and the cards shown aren’t too exciting (whereas most people trying to pass off total fakes wouldn’t put in this much time and energy unless making something that looks exciting and powerful like that fake Sheoldred not long ago). The pictures are also fairly clear by leak standards (and blurry images are easily used to hide mistakes).
As to whether it’s a leak or a “leak”… I don’t think we’ve ever had evidence of a purposeful “leak” before. I can buy the excuse of wanting something to distract from bad 30th anniversary PR but we saw a whole motherload of secret lairs in the same week so wizards already had some shiny keys to jingle in front of our face. I understand people saying that it must be a genuine leak as the cards aren’t exciting and they could show off cool cards from Brother’s War… but I would also understand if Wizards wants to control the flow of information on this highly anticipated set (using a new Mox or other attractive mythic as a concerted marketing push rather than an emergency distraction) and instead release low-impact spoilers for a future set as we are known to fixate on unknown mechanics (I remember people speculating for weeks regarding how Waste would work, what eternalize would work after seeing adorned pounder, and so forth).
I’m honestly not sure whether the rules play well with this type of replacement effect.Honestly, it seems easier to just do something like.
The Darksteel Titan 0
Legendary Artifact- Vehicle
Indestructible, Trample, Vigilance
As long as the Darksteel Titan is a creature, it is a construct.
8: The Darksteel Titan becomes an Artifact Creature until end of turn.
5/5
How is the Scamp infinite with Cloudstone Curio? I saw someone else mention it on Reddit and I am honestly confused. You'd get infinite oil counters, certainly, but each activation of the ability takes a separate tap to work.
I don't think that we're going to see any cards in this decks worth value. Maybe 1-2 cards in the $2 range at most. Here's the type of thing that I'm expecting for the Azorius deck, for example...
Lots of things that make sense or may look interesting or synergistic when shoved next to each other but nothing of real substance... and virtually no non-evergreen abilities, either.
… you are aware how the weaker versions of the decks started in zendikar rising? It still had good reprints in those decks
I’m aware. I’m just extra pessimistic on this particular set of them.
Wizards doing good intro commander decks with value, doing away with them to make a whole bunch of full-cost commander decks, and spontaneously deciding to change course again to make another set of intro just as powerful as the first ones seems a bit odd.
I don't think that we're going to see any cards in this decks worth value. Maybe 1-2 cards in the $2 range at most. Here's the type of thing that I'm expecting for the Azorius deck, for example...
Lots of things that make sense or may look interesting or synergistic when shoved next to each other but nothing of real substance... and virtually no non-evergreen abilities, either.
The Assassin's Creed one might just be a Templar vs Assassin's Commander deck pair. Final Fantasy has enough material that they might just end up making Dissidia: the Set.
I’m not invested in Assassin’s creed but I would buy an orzhov or esper assassin tribal commander deck in a heartbeat.
What I fear will end up happening instead, however, is a continuation of the Legends Retold and the Trnasformers cards in Brother’s war: bringing in 15-20 new legends from a different series with every new premier set and giving them out in collector packs.
So… this card seems broken with the miracle mechanic? For 0 mana, you are both putting a miracle card on top of your library and are then drawing it back in a way that won’t stop you from getting an additional miracle effect on your next turn…
Even if you reason that this card leaves you one card behind, you are essentially getting a free ritual that covers the difference in cost between a miracle spell’s full cost and miracle cost. This is a 0 mana card that essentially adds 5 mana if you have Terminus or Temporal Mastery in your hand, for example.
Not balanced, I’m afraid.
Edit: didn’t realize that it makes you wait for YOUR next upkeep (unlike the other two free baubles). Even so, all other points are still valid.
Honestly, one of the bigger obstacles for this card might be Lurrus. This card thrives when you take the same sort of trinket artifacts that Lurrus decks love... but lurrus is the deck that uses them better as an engine and this doesn't fit into lurrus.
Two mana to play as a vehicle, crack a free bauble to transform into a 2/4 at a convenient time (letting it hide from sorcery speed creature kill for the turn unless it needs to block), and use the lifelink to bring the bauble when it attacks. Seems like a decent line if everything goes well, acting as a sort of white ophidian that deals damage and has a bigger butt.
How likely you are to get the right cards to let this little value engine work is the real question, I think.
63 distinct artifacts in the “archive”, huh… I dig it. (22 cards before normal ivory tower so subtract 22 from 86 for the schematic ivory tower and the schematics start at 64). I hope that wizards slipped in one or two stax pieces in there somewhere, if only because it’s so hard for wizards to find a place to reprint them.
It very much looks like you took the criticisms received in your previous thread and actually used them to create something good, which is what a lot of us have been wanting for you for a long time.
Excellent work.
I see LED + Underworld Breach… but not the full combo that normally uses brain freeze to generate infinite mana and access your entire deck.
I see doomsday and consultation but there’s no Thoracle so I don’t know what you are going after.
At first blush, it looks like you mashed together a bunch of high end commander cards with every card you could find that has a chance to blow up in your face… which isn’t what “suicide” decks are about at all.
Edit: is this just a rakdos reanimator beat down deck that just so happens to use a bunch of tutors and apparent combo pieces.l?
You think that a real person with no past posting history created a profile on an MTG site just to ask a question regarding sleep talking and that this is in no way a spam-bot?
nah, man. This is the oldest trick in the book. The obvious question in the title attracts the attention of anyone who has had similar problems so different people can list their solutions and start paying attention. Then, the original poster comes back and posts something like
can we get the obvious scam bot thread closed?
As to whether it’s a leak or a “leak”… I don’t think we’ve ever had evidence of a purposeful “leak” before. I can buy the excuse of wanting something to distract from bad 30th anniversary PR but we saw a whole motherload of secret lairs in the same week so wizards already had some shiny keys to jingle in front of our face. I understand people saying that it must be a genuine leak as the cards aren’t exciting and they could show off cool cards from Brother’s War… but I would also understand if Wizards wants to control the flow of information on this highly anticipated set (using a new Mox or other attractive mythic as a concerted marketing push rather than an emergency distraction) and instead release low-impact spoilers for a future set as we are known to fixate on unknown mechanics (I remember people speculating for weeks regarding how Waste would work, what eternalize would work after seeing adorned pounder, and so forth).
Honestly, I could imagine it going either way.
The Darksteel Titan 0
Legendary Artifact- Vehicle
Indestructible, Trample, Vigilance
As long as the Darksteel Titan is a creature, it is a construct.
8: The Darksteel Titan becomes an Artifact Creature until end of turn.
5/5
“Cool, which deck are you using?”
“I just told you. I’m playing Modern!”
I’m aware. I’m just extra pessimistic on this particular set of them.
Wizards doing good intro commander decks with value, doing away with them to make a whole bunch of full-cost commander decks, and spontaneously deciding to change course again to make another set of intro just as powerful as the first ones seems a bit odd.
Aegis Angel
Angelic Arbiter
Archon of Redemption
Aven Gagglemaster
Djinn of Wishes
Drogskol Cavalry
Empyrean Eagle
Faerie Formation
Hanged Executioner
Herald of the Sun
Jubilant Skybonder
Kangee, Sky Warden
Luminous Angel
Radiant, Serra Archangel
Siani, Eye of the Storm
Skycat Sovereign
Soulcatcher
Sphinx of Magosi
Spirit of the Spires
Sprite Noble
Steel-Plume Marshal
Thunderclap Wyvern
Tide Skimmer
Warden of Evos Isle
Watcher of the Spheres
Windreader Sphinx
Windstorm Drake
Wingspan Mentor
Aerial Assault
Favorable Winds
Field of Souls
Gust of Wind
Midnight Haunting
Rally of Wings
Seraphic Greatsword
Soulcatcher’s Aerie
Winged Words
Lots of things that make sense or may look interesting or synergistic when shoved next to each other but nothing of real substance... and virtually no non-evergreen abilities, either.
I’m not invested in Assassin’s creed but I would buy an orzhov or esper assassin tribal commander deck in a heartbeat.
What I fear will end up happening instead, however, is a continuation of the Legends Retold and the Trnasformers cards in Brother’s war: bringing in 15-20 new legends from a different series with every new premier set and giving them out in collector packs.
Even if you reason that this card leaves you one card behind, you are essentially getting a free ritual that covers the difference in cost between a miracle spell’s full cost and miracle cost. This is a 0 mana card that essentially adds 5 mana if you have Terminus or Temporal Mastery in your hand, for example.
Not balanced, I’m afraid.
Edit: didn’t realize that it makes you wait for YOUR next upkeep (unlike the other two free baubles). Even so, all other points are still valid.
How likely you are to get the right cards to let this little value engine work is the real question, I think.