MTG Salvation

Honestly, I'm fine with all of them (Not that I would buy them), except the "Draw Your Hand" drop. I HATE when they make utterly illegible cards like this. I hated that other drop too, what was it, Heavy metal or something? Cards need either 1)Identifiable art, or 2) a fully legible name. These style of cards have neither. If they were *purely* collectibles that's fine, but they have no place in a playable card game.

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Right, thank you. She still seems sort of weak when she's supposed to be the most powerful one.

Keep in mind that Power is not synonymous with Strength. I mean, many of the most powerful people in the world are frail old men/women. Elesh Norn leads what has become the most powerful faction of New Phyrexia (and through them, New Phyrexia as a whole), but that doesn't necessarily mean that she's the strongest Praetor.

Okay, completely off topic but, Blessed Spirits always makes me tear up a bit, and I don't even LIKE kids.

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Now as for brewing The archimandrite

it’s definately need the following when built

1. the Creatures get higher power from lifegain so we definitely need lifegain theme.
2. Artificers appears the most from creature types so artifacts is definitely another subtheme for this triple tribe.
3. The monks part of the tribe most have a prowess like abilities with noncreature casting stuff so going back to #2 Make the artifacts noncreature as best as possible.

Righteous Confluence seems like a great option in that deck. 5 mana +15/+15 EOT.

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No, it says "as long as", so this ends when the turn ends. If I'm mistaken, then you not just straight-up print menace on the card? It would always have menace (unless you somehow flash it in during someone else's turn, which seems like a such narrow possibility to not give it straight-up menace.)

A judge will surely pipe-in with the true answer

Yes, it ends at the end of turn, but I believe their point was that all you have to do to get the boost back on subsequent turns is draw an extra card again. It's not a one and done boost.

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but surely having the basic super type doesn't mean that the lands have all the subtypes i.e plains, island, swamp, mountain and forest...?! They are just basic lands like Wastes right?

Correct. It means that anything that refers to Basic lands affects all of your lands, and that things that refer to nonbasics don't. Nothing more.

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Does anybody even like the old gold border? Blake keeps hyping them up, but I just can't get excited about them.

Quite frankly, I've always hated the old border, and I say that as someone who's played Magic for over 20 years. I fully don't understand the obsession with them other than some kind of rose-colored-glasses, back-in-my-day nostalgia.

Hmm. Interesting that it says "Activate... only once." and not "... once a turn."

Why is the templating on the token creation ability wrong? She has the color before the P/T, instead of after.

So uh,.. am I wrong, or does Bloodthirster + Chaos Terminator Lord = 12 combat steps in a single turn? (Assuming 3 opponents)(the bloodthirster can only attack during 3 of them)

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Fires of Victory seems quite strong. Kicked it's Master the Way and it's good enough at 3 cards in hand otherwise.

And it's an instant too!

Master the Way hits players though, Fires of Victory doesn't.

Has wings, is standing on a cloud, surrounded by birds in flight.... doesn't have flying. I thought they said they stopped doing that a long time ago?

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So archangel of wrath does two damage to two targets when double kicked, correct? That is some awful wording.

It could also deal 4 damage to one target, since it's two separate instances of "any target". A bit underwhelming for that much mana, really.

To be fair, the angel has lifelink, so you also gain 4 life.

True enough, I had overlooked that.

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So archangel of wrath does two damage to two targets when double kicked, correct? That is some awful wording.

It could also deal 4 damage to one target, since it's two separate instances of "any target". A bit underwhelming for that much mana, really.

Basically all the creatures like this have flash. The purpose is so that you can hold it until it's actually useful instead of just running it out onto the battlefield and *hoping* it does something before it inevitably dies.