Glacial Grasp is just a worse Crippling Chill for us, as mill is not an offensive strategy and auto-mill is card advantage in cube.
Glacial does draw you a card. But I am not as high as Humphrey on it.
EDIT: you are right. I got the two cards mixed together and thought you were comparing to Chilling Grasp. Crippling Chill is indeed the same card minus the mill.
I wanted to put this in its own post cause it's pretty absurd - as written, you can't play these off the top with Courser, but you can with Muly Duly. However, Courser has apparently had an oracle change at some point to just say "lands" instead of "land cards," so you can actually play these with courser, but you'd only know that if you decided to randomly check the oracle text for Courser. If you looked at the rulings on these MDF cards, and the rules themselves for these MDF cars themselves, everything you read would tell you Courser couldn't play these cards.
I always tend to be err on the conservative side (eg I personally think mutate is an overcomplicated mess for little gain over auras) but mdfcs strike me like they could've just been (basic [[type]])cycling: 1 and achieved nearly the same effect. Yes there would be a number of functional differences but without the enormous baggage we get here. Granted it wouldn't have been nearly as splashy and I know they want to limit shuffle effects. But still.
hm lol, yeah. it was (too) late i guess.
i was kinda surprise we get a better Viashino Sandstalker.
but then again, compared to bruteforce not too much of an upgrade. certainly doesnt feel rare.
I think it just has too much going on to be a common, not totally sure about power level but it's no world beater I don't think.
I have to agree that this card is more about improving your odds of having a good opening hand, which I like a lot. And even in the late game people still tap out often enough that a Force Spike isn't completely useless.
This assessment is well on point. Blue is getting some shocking love with this set. Can't wait to test these MDFCs. More are coming in the Winter and Spring 2020 sets too.
Supposedly in the other sets the MDFCs won't have lands as the back side
I think it's really easy to underestimate the value of flexibility here, but also really easy to underestimate the cost of a tapped land vs an untapped land.
Agreed - I'm having a really hard time evaluating the MDFCs with ETBT lands as a mode because of precisely this reason. This card could be a miss or a staple and I really don't have a clue which it will be.
I think the Eruption beats Rift Bolt for me. The potential upside of damage beats the forecasting cheaper cost for me. (Rift is better in a dedicated burn deck, which rarely a thing in cube)
spoilers are ebbing down, i guess weve seen pretty much the whole set by now
By my count we've seen 60 commons so still ~40 to go assuming it is the normal 101 commons.
Oh, and since a bunch of commons are being spoiled because previewers are getting full "partys" to spoil some of the commons previewed have been limited fodder. So there might be some non sucky ones left still.
Glacial does draw you a card. But I am not as high as Humphrey on it.
EDIT: you are right. I got the two cards mixed together and thought you were comparing to Chilling Grasp. Crippling Chill is indeed the same card minus the mill.
I always tend to be err on the conservative side (eg I personally think mutate is an overcomplicated mess for little gain over auras) but mdfcs strike me like they could've just been (basic [[type]])cycling: 1 and achieved nearly the same effect. Yes there would be a number of functional differences but without the enormous baggage we get here. Granted it wouldn't have been nearly as splashy and I know they want to limit shuffle effects. But still.
I think it just has too much going on to be a common, not totally sure about power level but it's no world beater I don't think.
It's this guy. Definitely not a common.
in fairness, that's how wotc numbers the sets these days
it depends on how they use the mana that would've been spent to recast the repulse target
Supposedly in the other sets the MDFCs won't have lands as the back side
Try thinking of the backside as Swampcycling 1
It's definitely possible.
By my count we've seen 60 commons so still ~40 to go assuming it is the normal 101 commons.
Oh, and since a bunch of commons are being spoiled because previewers are getting full "partys" to spoil some of the commons previewed have been limited fodder. So there might be some non sucky ones left still.
Haven't seen this one posted yet. Anybody thinking about it?
Very. Cliffside Lookout is just a 1/1 instead of 1/2. There is also Sunblade Elf in two colors.
Yeah the Wild Leotau comparison is about how they function not their relative power levels. The Zendikon doesn't seem that good.