MTG Salvation

I like narrow "play more kicker" stuff but I really don't like storage lands. Ah well - it's not a cycle so it's not the end of the world.

I love this so much. I definitely prefer the non-showcase one, though.

Ardent Electromancer going infinite with a sac outlet, enough party members, and Enduring Renewal will be a fun thing to do once in casual!

Quote from seilaoque »

this won't be something you'll be playing just a handful, you'll either go full retard on the mechanic to get the full advantage or drop it completely.
weird new mechanic.

I think this makes it more interesting, but yes, weird.

Quote from Spaz350 »

Clever in theory, but probably could use a power boost in practice.

I still think in some environments (limited primarily, I guess) the power level will depend on how much you want party enablers (I assume all the uncommon ones are going to be party creatures) and/or landfall drops, so will depend to some extent on the power level of party and landfall cards in the set.

My first thought when looking at these cards was that the land coming into play tapped (including on the rares) is a huge disadvantage when they already lack basic land types. I assume they are working along the lines that the landfall trigger can be so powerful that it's sometimes a trade-off worth making.

Even so, you couldn't replace many land slots with them, because they come into play tapped and don't count as lands in your hand so it's more difficult to get more than one onto the battlefield in one turn.

Obviously I'll wait and see how they play. I think the concept is fun.

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I think that the Mana Symbol thing will be (2/W)(2/U)(2/R)(2/G) for Omnath, as all those symbols have only been used twice and makes sense for Omnath to be a bit splashy for Limited. Also I would believe that the 'red mana does not empty' may be Omnath, though it could be a red herring tbh.

I think this is correct and that the people thinking the omission of the fifth colour to be a mistake and expecting a cycle of 4-colour legends in this set are going to be disappointed.

If Omnath is indeed part of a cycle, it could be a megacycle akin to the swords or magi, in which case I'd expect to see another one soon afterwards to shut people up.

I guess we can assume there are at least 2 lightning packs and that Ball Lightning is the rare in the other one.

I love that Towering Titan's second ability is all creatures, not creatures you control, so it can be used for politicking in multiplayer or boosting a team-mate in two-headed giant.

The art is on deviantart - it's at least 5 years old

https://www.deviantart.com/namkoart/art/Mine-426436319