they never gonna admit it but lets face it nearly all the most played nonbasic lands in edh can tap for at least C this is almost armageddon in the format
and to prove it all of these would get hit by the overload.
(clearly hundreds more than this)
Exotic orchard and reflecting pool are safe - colorless is not a color (also you can't tap either if all your opponents are playing colorless.)
Orchard is safe since it says "any color" but I don't believe Reflecting Pool is, since it says "any type." Colorless mana is by definition not a color, but it certainly is a type of mana.
There's no restriction on the mana value of the spell you can cast, and with all of red's rummaging effects it's simple enough to get huge spells into your graveyard to cast for free.
tales of ancestors - THOSE FOOLS! This could have been a white card easily because of happily ever after WHITE NEEDS BETTER DRAW! (In other words this is a incredible group hug draw card that should have been white)
Also why is Tales of the Ancestors blue and not white? This card would fit in White both thematically and mechanically, what a waste.
Maro's already on record saying that white wont be getting these types of cards, even if they might thematically fit the color, because white still won't get mass card draw. While they're still debating the exact limitations for white card draw - is drawing 2 even ok? - even the potential for a whole new hand full of cards is too much.
For the record, I think that's BS, but it is what it is.
That Stoic Farmer is a joke, it's worse than Kor Cartographer, it's only upsides are Foretell and being 3/3 but still... what a let-down.
Foretell is a BIG upside. You can cast Stoic Farmer with only 2 lands, where you can only cast Kor Cartographer once you're at 4 mana. In *most* formats, if you're at 4 mana in white, you should have better things to do. In those other formats such as Commander, Farmer isn't an Either/Or with Cartographer, it should be an And.
Particularly given that white is deliberately terrible at card draw. You're very quickly going to exhaust your ability to have 2 spells to cast in a turn. If Black doesn't get some ungodly efficient draw to make up for it, this archetype seems DOA to me.
(Ability text)
[protection from God creatures]
Surprised this didn't happen in theros revisit
Interestingly, with the way that it's worded (God creatures) I don't think that this offers protection from the Theros gods while they're not active, since they're explicitly not creatures at that time. Admittedly, not that many of the gods have abilities that make this relevant (Erebos can neg it, Keranos can bolt it, Thassa can tap it, etc.), but it's an interesting rules quirk, I think.
Body of Knowledge plus Niv Mizzet (original or parun) lets you draw your deck, right?
Yep. Notably this is nothing new. That already worked with Curiousity, and it let you burn out your opponents while you did so, so this is a "worse" combo than Niv is already capable of.
Oh I thought he would just be another mono black partner
didn't exspected him for the esper legend
anyway Congradulations we finally have boardwipe theme legend
But Child of Alara is so much better, more colors, cheaper, bigger, destroys actually all non-land permanents.
Quite disappointing what this guy offers, even with all the weird wording for Hexproof and all its fancy abilities are pretty bad ...
With "Partner" this would have been much more interesting to get some late game value and a cheaper Partner to go with.
One plus that he has over Child is that you can run him as Esper Superfriends. Since he doesn't destroy ALL nonlands, you can wipe your opponents boards with him with minimal impact on your own.
Ghen could be fun in a Curse deck. They let you reset your curses (in a sort-of-round-about-way) from a player who's no longer a threat to the player who currently is one.
In fact I would say it actually makes more sense than Urza's final non-artifice method described in Timeshifted: turn the person two dimensional while in the Eternities. And I only just now realized that's a meta joke about the game...
Whoa, A Link Between Worlds was about Planeswalking the whole time.
Tezzeret can do this stuff too, right? With his Planar Bridge?
Unless they change it (which is always a possibility I suppose), the planar bridge can't transport organic material across planes... unless that material is a zombie covered in lazotep... for some reason.
So Tezzeret can't bring people* to other planes, only things.
*Other than other planeswalkers, who have their own sparks to shield them against the Blind Eterities.
I admit I was perhaps a bit harsh on Kaya being able to take people with her. It just felt like it came out of nowhere with no foreshadowing of any kind. Little more than her going "Oh, yeah, I can totally do that."
There's no restriction on the mana value of the spell you can cast, and with all of red's rummaging effects it's simple enough to get huge spells into your graveyard to cast for free.
AND you can potentially do it twice per combat.
Maro's already on record saying that white wont be getting these types of cards, even if they might thematically fit the color, because white still won't get mass card draw. While they're still debating the exact limitations for white card draw - is drawing 2 even ok? - even the potential for a whole new hand full of cards is too much.
For the record, I think that's BS, but it is what it is.
Foretell is a BIG upside. You can cast Stoic Farmer with only 2 lands, where you can only cast Kor Cartographer once you're at 4 mana. In *most* formats, if you're at 4 mana in white, you should have better things to do. In those other formats such as Commander, Farmer isn't an Either/Or with Cartographer, it should be an And.
Particularly given that white is deliberately terrible at card draw. You're very quickly going to exhaust your ability to have 2 spells to cast in a turn. If Black doesn't get some ungodly efficient draw to make up for it, this archetype seems DOA to me.
Interestingly, with the way that it's worded (God creatures) I don't think that this offers protection from the Theros gods while they're not active, since they're explicitly not creatures at that time. Admittedly, not that many of the gods have abilities that make this relevant (Erebos can neg it, Keranos can bolt it, Thassa can tap it, etc.), but it's an interesting rules quirk, I think.
It kinda feels like yet one more thing that White is now worse at than other colors. Add it to the list.
That is perhaps and overreaction, but it's certainly the feeling I get from it.
Unless they change it (which is always a possibility I suppose), the planar bridge can't transport organic material across planes... unless that material is a zombie covered in lazotep... for some reason.
So Tezzeret can't bring people* to other planes, only things.
*Other than other planeswalkers, who have their own sparks to shield them against the Blind Eterities.