The Rampant Growth seems absolutely terrible. They had to push this more surely, given there's so many 4 mana double ramp spells with, some upside already, why on earth would you ever want this?
Elemental: Lame it's just Anticognition but a hair be...SQUIRREL!...but in the end it could have been able to target more types of spells
I guess the issue is it would be insane in combo decks if it could target all spells. If this was just put target spell on top or bottom of its owner's library it would basically be a better Force of Will in a deck that wanted to protect itself as it goes off, that's what I imagine is at play here.
I wonder if Hardened Scales has a use for this. Naya Hardened Scales?
Given Arcbound Worker has seen play in those decks, almost certainly, given this is better in than Worker in every way except for being legendary, but given the deck runs Ravager that's less of a problem than it is for some decks.
So this can be Unearthed, Collective Company'd, Chord of Calling'd or any creature tutor (GSZ maybe one day), Aether Vial'd, protected by Cavern of Souls, can't be Force of Negation'd, triggers Vengevine. Wonder if this finds a home. As a planeswalker it seems just ok, but it has a lot going for it otherwise.
Void Mirror hates on a lot of stuff, but almost nothing thats relevant in modern.
Countering 0 mana spells and "free" spells is the name of the game.
It hates on quite a lot floating about Modern, the question is does it hose anything to warrant the sideboard slots. Eldrazi Tron gets absolutely hosed by this in its current configuration, but will just move towards more Cavern of Souls, Urborg, something if this starts appearing in sideboards. It's less good against Tron that tends to be able to produce coloured mana, and these tend to get covered by same sideboard slots. There's lots of random things this hits, things like Summoner's Pact, Bring to Light, but are any of them significant enough to warrant the sideboard slots as hate against those decks as it doesn't totally hose the decks those cards are in.
Also suspect this hoses a lot in the set. The evoke cycle get hit by it, even if it doesn't seem particularly great against Grief, the suspend cycle gets hit by it. There's meant to be Shardless Agent, and generally spells encouraging Cascade/As Foretold style decks, which this hoses.
I wonder how good this will actually be against Urzatron. I'm not super up-to-date on lists, but don't most have ability to generate colored mana?
I think you are right which means this basically reads as "pay 1 more for Karn". So, sure, it slows Karn down by a turn but doesn't really slow down Ugin. Maybe it slows the deck down because they have to find colored mana? It still seems like it has the real potential to be a bust just like all the other Tron hate they have tried to print in the past.
I feel like it wasn't printed specifically as tron hate so much as free spell hate, like for pitch spells and cascade, but it offers some splash hate against stuff like tron and some artifact strategies.
It notably hits the new evoke Unmask creature as well, and there's likely more power in that cycle that we haven't seen yet too.
It's probably not very good against specifically Grief though, given they will cast it before you get this down, and if it bothers them that much can just take it.
The other thing is at what point in time did WOTC decide Swords are too powerful for Standard. As I fail to see how a card like this is too good for Standard, equipment is generally really risky, there's no Stoneforge to search them out, like paying 5 to play and equip this and having your creature removed in response is basically gg on the spot.
I kinda wish they wouldn't use mythic slots in Modern Horizon sets on Swords. The problem is unless they are pushed through the roof, Swords just aren't going to be Modern playable anymore, the last two haven't showed up anywhere, and this won't either, and I think this is probably quite powerful, especially in EDH, but this Sword would have had to have been pushed through the roof to be Modern playable given protection from green and white is some of the weakest protection you could have in Modern.
I find it unacceptable that they control the means to produce this card, and have neglected reprinting it to the point where its hit an absurd price... only to bump it from uncommon to mythic as a means to sell us more lotto tickets.
It was in a precon the one time they did actually reprint it
There is no excuse here.
Yer no idea why they couldn't put it at rare in a premium product.
What makes it worse is I don't even think it's Modern playable, it's just purely an EDH reprint. Yer there's the stuff with Urborg, but I'm to be convinced there's a deck there. It's not that quick to get on board and Modern is just a super powerful format.
how is it that everyone refuses to believe them when they said modern horizons 2 is a unlimited print run product
the pre-order prices was only because of COVID and the enemy fetchlands and how the MH1 did the first time.
It's still a premium product, one that costs like double the price of a regular set even when it bottoms out, and you're upgrading uncommons to Mythic that aren't even playable in Modern?
I find it unacceptable that they control the means to produce this card, and have neglected reprinting it to the point where its hit an absurd price... only to bump it from uncommon to mythic as a means to sell us more lotto tickets.
It was in a precon the one time they did actually reprint it
There is no excuse here.
Yer no idea why they couldn't put it at rare in a premium product.
What makes it worse is I don't even think it's Modern playable, it's just purely an EDH reprint. Yer there's the stuff with Urborg, but I'm to be convinced there's a deck there. It's not that quick to get on board and Modern is just a super powerful format.
Grief seems an insane card. With Ephemerate and any other black card this is T1 3/2 menace that nabs your opponents best two cards, that will be nabbing a third card on T2, gonna be hard for anything to come back from that.
This is just EDH chaff really, where it's cute that it can kill all your opponents at once if you have a load of mana. I just don't see it elsewhere, doesn't work with the cheating spells out of the graveyard plan, and costs a truckload to get going, ramp decks don't tend to be short of win conditions, and often don't even play red anyway. Curious how it plays in Limited, its floor is 5 mana deal 5 which is fine of course, but late game this is basically just win the game.
I guess the issue is it would be insane in combo decks if it could target all spells. If this was just put target spell on top or bottom of its owner's library it would basically be a better Force of Will in a deck that wanted to protect itself as it goes off, that's what I imagine is at play here.
Given Arcbound Worker has seen play in those decks, almost certainly, given this is better in than Worker in every way except for being legendary, but given the deck runs Ravager that's less of a problem than it is for some decks.
It hates on quite a lot floating about Modern, the question is does it hose anything to warrant the sideboard slots. Eldrazi Tron gets absolutely hosed by this in its current configuration, but will just move towards more Cavern of Souls, Urborg, something if this starts appearing in sideboards. It's less good against Tron that tends to be able to produce coloured mana, and these tend to get covered by same sideboard slots. There's lots of random things this hits, things like Summoner's Pact, Bring to Light, but are any of them significant enough to warrant the sideboard slots as hate against those decks as it doesn't totally hose the decks those cards are in.
Also suspect this hoses a lot in the set. The evoke cycle get hit by it, even if it doesn't seem particularly great against Grief, the suspend cycle gets hit by it. There's meant to be Shardless Agent, and generally spells encouraging Cascade/As Foretold style decks, which this hoses.
It's probably not very good against specifically Grief though, given they will cast it before you get this down, and if it bothers them that much can just take it.
It's still a premium product, one that costs like double the price of a regular set even when it bottoms out, and you're upgrading uncommons to Mythic that aren't even playable in Modern?
Yer no idea why they couldn't put it at rare in a premium product.
What makes it worse is I don't even think it's Modern playable, it's just purely an EDH reprint. Yer there's the stuff with Urborg, but I'm to be convinced there's a deck there. It's not that quick to get on board and Modern is just a super powerful format.