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.
Interesting that there are cards that are eternal legal that use stickers. Are the stickers removable? If not, is it legal to place the stickers over a card sleeve? I’m asking because presumably putting a sticker on a card and then shuffling up that card for another game would be considered playing with marked cards since the sticker would slightly increase the card’s thickness in that spot.
I’m surprised to see that the Space Marines/Inquisitors* are Esper. From what I’ve gleaned 2nd hand from my friends who play 40k, I was almost certain that they’d be either Boros, Orzhov, or full on Mardu.
*(not really sure about the proper name for the faction)
It’s notable that this creature’s ability can be activated at instant speed, so while it is useful just to cheat big dumb demons into play, it can also be used to blank targeted removal on your other creatures in the late game or sac a blocked creature during an alpha strike to tutor out a 2nd copy of this lord.
That’s quite some stats, a 5/7 for 5 mana. Unfortunately it has no keyword to go along with it’s stats like Trample, Vigilance or Reach. Still it might be notable just for the fact that it can’t be killed by Unholy Heat and can cheat lands into play.
However on second thought, even though it has 7 toughness, it is still a far cry from Primeval Titan which always gets ETB value even if it dies to heat the moment it comes down, because you need to cast another creature after casting this to get any value at all.
It feels like it’s just not worth running in most commander decks, unless your commander has a high mana value which is tied to a cost reduction mechanic like Ghalta, Primal Hunger. It would be more interesting if it revealed an additional 2 cards for each time you have cast your commander from the command zone so it scaled with the late game, but that would likely not fit in the rules text box.
I feel like any 2 mana card like this with such keyword soup HAS to be a target for constructed play somehow. I mean maybe boggles still does it better but Ward + Keywords makes me feel like he's sorta safe to voltron in legacy.
I am kind of wondering the same thing. Can’t be countered, takes 3 mana to bolt and trades with a transformed delver of secrets, though I doubt if it will end up being good enough versus the three toughness of dragon’s rage channeler.
Could be fun to test in the 99 of my Titania, Protector of Argoth deck, maybe in place of The Mending of Dominaria since mending always felt slow and mending often doesn’t mill a creature it can rebuy because the deck had 45 lands.
Could also be worth testing as ramp in my Kathril, Aspect Warper deck. Since Erinis has a deathtouch, a keyword Kathril cares about, and the deck goes all-in on dredge cards to fill it’s graveyard so there’s often an abundance of lands to rebuy and often the correct play in the early game is to demonic tutor for Life from the Loam just to hit land drops.
Ok, so can you run multiple Backgrounds in a deck or in play at once, or are you restricted to having one either in the command zone or on the field.
Loving the artwork for this set ngl.
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I’m pretty sure you can only ever have one background in the command zone, but I don’t think you are restricted to having only one background on the battlefield if you have other backgrounds in your deck. Since their explanation of the set’s mechanics does not mention being restricted to only having one enchantment with the background subtype in play. https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/commander-legends-battle-baldurs-gate-mechanics-2022-05-18
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.
*(not really sure about the proper name for the faction)
However on second thought, even though it has 7 toughness, it is still a far cry from Primeval Titan which always gets ETB value even if it dies to heat the moment it comes down, because you need to cast another creature after casting this to get any value at all.
I am kind of wondering the same thing. Can’t be countered, takes 3 mana to bolt and trades with a transformed delver of secrets, though I doubt if it will end up being good enough versus the three toughness of dragon’s rage channeler.
Could also be worth testing as ramp in my Kathril, Aspect Warper deck. Since Erinis has a deathtouch, a keyword Kathril cares about, and the deck goes all-in on dredge cards to fill it’s graveyard so there’s often an abundance of lands to rebuy and often the correct play in the early game is to demonic tutor for Life from the Loam just to hit land drops.
I’m pretty sure you can only ever have one background in the command zone, but I don’t think you are restricted to having only one background on the battlefield if you have other backgrounds in your deck. Since their explanation of the set’s mechanics does not mention being restricted to only having one enchantment with the background subtype in play. https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/commander-legends-battle-baldurs-gate-mechanics-2022-05-18