I'm building a commander deck for a friend. It's a warrior deck with a Party subtheme. I have Coveted Prize as one of the deck's tutor effects and would like to include a wrath effect that Coveted Prize could cast immediately if my friend has a full party. I was wondering if the wrath on the reverse side of Selfless Glyphweaver//Deadly Vanity could be cast for free with coveted prize, since including a wrath that's also a cleric could fill the slot of board wipe while also reinforcing the deck's party subtheme.
I know in a 5-color deck, bring to light could cast both sides for free, but I'm a bit hazy on the wording required for casting either side of an MDFC when using spells or effects that allow spells to be cast without paying mana costs.
With tribal decks more or less gone from modern except for merfolk and elementals, I wonder if we’ll see unbannings rather than bans. How would modern elves be if they had access to Glimpse of Nature and/or Green Sun’s Zenith? Even then would orcish bowmasters and Fury make elves still unplayable?
I’m surprised Phyrexian Vindicator isn’t an phyrexian angel, given similar abilities have been on angels in the past like flameblade angel. I guess they really wanted to hammer home the notion that this is a part of a phyrexian obliterator super cycle.
This feels like it could be a very good, grind-them-out win-con for the more controlling limited decks. Play this out turn 1 and let the proliferate value build up, especially if there’s a lot of incidental proliferate on staple common removal spells, draw spells and similar. Then when your oppoenent is low on cards, begin making 3/3s every turn.
Also, this kinda makes me hope there’s a Dismantle variant in the format, one that would let you destroy an opponent’s artifact or creature and steal the oil counters from it.
Nah, it’s way less competitive. Not because of the life vs mana thing, but because it cannot untap creatures. So isn’t a two card, infinite, draw your-whole-deck combo with a mana dork that taps for 5 or more mana.
If you’re dedicated to the meme, Diabolic Intent also seems like a perfect fit for the deck. Finds the handoff and doubles as a sac outlet if you really need to get rid of a creature.
Archfiend of the Dross might also just be a really good beater without needing a way to sac it or give it to an opponent, depends on how playable the proliferate cards are in standard.
For 6 total mana its look at the top 6 and put a land and creature into play. Not a good rate for cheat-in effects. Sure, if you’re very lucky its a potential 1G draw two, giving the card a little more versatility than things like See the Unwritten, but I don’t think that’s enough to make it playable in formats like modern.
Honestly, a part of me really hopes that reversing phyrexian compleation takes a turn toward the ridiculous and involves Oko, Thief of Crowns first turning all the compleated walkers into elks. (No Seriously, dumb as it may sound, it might be the easiest way to remove all the oil, metal and mechanical parts).
More than ever I wish that there was a way to do phantom drafts in paper because I’ve been playing MTG for decades and already have almost all of the cards spoiled here. So there really isn’t much here for me other than what looks like a fun draft.
Gotta love Jumpstart for giving us some nice tribal lords. I'm still waiting for a skeleton legendary lord, perhaps one that cares about things coming back from the graveyard or if something regenerates.
If you go pure ape/monky with this in an EDH deck you have 8 monkeys and 26 apes (there are more, but those are silver border. Apes may be wrong as there are so many shAPEshifters to sift through on gatherer.) Good thing Changelings exist to fill out the rest of the deck.
yep it’s another situation we’re your probably gonna fill the deck with changelings
In any other set Scatter Ray would be downright playable in limited, given that essence scatter is almost always a good “removal” spell and paying 4 isn’t much of a drawback for the added versatility of countering artifacts in an artifact centric set. However I think it’s going to be pretty bad in this set mainly because the abundance of power stone tokens is going to quickly turn all soft counters into dead cards.
While powerful, I don’t think this will see much play in current standard. Six mana is a lot and there are several spells green would rather play over this one at 6 mana, Avabruck Caretaker, Tovolar’s Huntmaster and Storm the Festival to name a few.
I expect they specified non-mana ability because many players would just assume that she would trigger when sacrificing to Ashnod’s Altar even though mana abilities (without a target) don’t use the stack. So they specified non-mana abilities to spearhead the misunderstanding that would be caused in the rules from this, especially since their Commander products are probably the products that are most bought by casual “kitchen table” magic players.
I know I’ve tried to explain the stack and how it works to several friends I play commander with and they still have difficulty grasping it’s finer points, like why their spells and abilities on their turn are the ones that resolve last even though they are cast/triggered first.
I could see this in Mono green devotion, if there's a build of devotion that wants to have a surprise scapeshift into valakut, the molten pinnacle win.
This is definitely going in my 5-colors matter EDH deck, which ramps hard and tried to win with Last Stand.
I know in a 5-color deck, bring to light could cast both sides for free, but I'm a bit hazy on the wording required for casting either side of an MDFC when using spells or effects that allow spells to be cast without paying mana costs.
Also, this kinda makes me hope there’s a Dismantle variant in the format, one that would let you destroy an opponent’s artifact or creature and steal the oil counters from it.
If you’re dedicated to the meme, Diabolic Intent also seems like a perfect fit for the deck. Finds the handoff and doubles as a sac outlet if you really need to get rid of a creature.
Archfiend of the Dross might also just be a really good beater without needing a way to sac it or give it to an opponent, depends on how playable the proliferate cards are in standard.
Gargantuan Gorilla also isn’t the worst in a deck that can support it.
I know I’ve tried to explain the stack and how it works to several friends I play commander with and they still have difficulty grasping it’s finer points, like why their spells and abilities on their turn are the ones that resolve last even though they are cast/triggered first.