MTG Salvation

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Ghosts she freed (Ethereal Absolution) secretly were Ravnica's defense forces, and after facing some economic problems after freeing all debt slaves, Kaya just decided to rise up the taxes - and it caused massive upheavals and more casualties, weakening the plane overall right before the invasion (Smothering Tithe). Enough?

Enough? Of course not. She followed a plan to take power, what she did was under manipulation, and once she realized what the real consequences were she flipped sides. Might as well get angry at Ral for his part in the plan even though, again, he flipped once he realized what the real consequences were.

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Okay, the card is pretty decent and I love Kaya, so I have a fairly positive opinion about this card. However, I thought we were done with the Gatewatch after this story arc?

On the bright side, though, her oath quote is just badass.

It's very bold to say something like this after NOT facing any backlash from what she did to Orzhov while being a Bolas agent. I don't even. This just feels so wrong.

? The Council was a corrupt entity feeding on the weak. No one in-universe mourns them. Why should they? They were ghostly robber barons entrenched in power. Teysa, at least, is more willing to play ball with other guilds and will be better for the plane moving forward.

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I don't understand why people are so excited for this card. It isn't that good of a card. Standard and Modern wont play this. Is it that good for commander? Did she have some sort of lore that people are all silly about?

It's both. She does things in Boros that other Boros commanders don't, essentially giving the least tricksy color with the least amount of card advantage an avenue for both. As for lore, she's a character from back in the original Ravnica block that people have been waiting to see a card for. Combined, that's a slam dunk for the Commander crowd.

Can confirm, as a commander player I am currently dunking

Quote from Caranthir »

Well,

Several hours before I thought to myself... that the only thing that can ruin Feather getting a card for me would be her getting an ugly art,like something spiky, angular, spread-eagled from Wayne Reynolds.

And here we are...

I want to hug each and every one of her glorious spikes for letting me do something new in Boros EDH

thank you, Mr Reynolds

thank you, Wizards

want

i want this

i want this in EDH right now i cant even use proper style guides

Besides, I'd be pretty shocked if both Lili and Gideon made it out alive.

Mostly I just hope Bolas stays dead this time and the story can move on. It's my one wish.

I was fretting over how I was going to deal with an opponent's Estrid, the Masked before it ulted when I had only basic Mountains in hand and an Argentum Armor in play. During the previous player's turn a different opponent got clocked for ten damage and I remembered two things:

1) I have a Spinerock Knoll
2) For some reason, seven turns ago I hid a Tin Street Dodger under there

Whole lotta things died to that goblin before the fires got put out

And it still doesn't make mana bloom playable!

Blue is balanced because it doesn’t get good creatures
I mean good beefy creatures
I mean good beefy creatures at an efficient mana cost
I mean good beefy creatures at an efficient mana cost that, uh, destroy lands on etb

My boy Young Pyromancer got swole!

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Love Morophon, hate the name. Seems pretty lazy. Like why does it have to almost have "Morph" in it's name?
"Oh, what do we call this changeling lord that can morph into any creature?"
"Morpho The Magnificent?
"I know you're joking, yet I think you're onto something..."

I guess they wanted you to be able to shout "IT'S MOROPHON TIME!" when you play him.

Unfortunately you will only get 9. You perform the actions as they appear on the card. You put the counters on the land, then then land becomes a creature.

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Combo decks [...] generally raises the playskill of everyone involved; if you miss a single opportunity, it could cost you the game.

I don't think I can let that one slide. I'd say playing cEDH drastically reduces the number of interactions to worry about because the pool of played cards is so much fewer, as are the number of decks and archetypes. It also drastically reduces the number of important decisions in a game because it's so much shorter. Granted, those decisions are much more likely to be life and death than any of the myriad mostly-irrelevant decisions made in a normal commander game, but I think being able to identify the critical junctures in a normal commander game from among all the unimportant ones - and to make the right choice in those decisions - can be a lot harder than making the right decisions in a fast combo game, because in the fast combo game it's mostly the same kinds of decisions every game. Whereas in the normal commander game, the kinds of decisions can be enormously diverse and require more critical thinking and less rote memorization.

Not that the play skill of most normal commander players is high - it is not. And the skill of cEDH players tends to be higher, partly because you have to be fairly invested and familiar with the game to buy in at that level. But there's way, way more room to perfect your gameplay in a normal game of commander than a cEDH one, at least imo.

I only run it in a mono-blue sea monsters theme deck because it looks suitably spooky. Other than that bit of flavor it's really hard to justify.

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Good best thing IMO to happen to Bolas and it closes his story just like it had opened;

they do not notice the last egg-stone. It unfurls into not one, but two small dragons born twinned together. Not twenty paces from the clearing they hit the canopy, crashing down through branches and, with twin thumps, come to rest on the forest floor amid a welter of needles and fern.

"Ouch," says the smaller of the two. He rubs his head against the ground to wipe away a trickle of blood where the tough branches have scratched through the still-tender scales.

The other one tries to shake open his bruised wings but is trapped by branches fallen like a net over him. A broken tree trunk pins his body. "I'm stuck," he says.

"I'll help you," says the first, studying the other with a keen eye. "You're Nicol, aren't you? That's your name."

bye *****.

Wait. Is this how an actual MTG novel reads? Wow, dodged a bullet there, I guess.

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Given we knew a multicolor walker was going to have to be in the Gatewatch if that happened I'm not too surprised it's Kaya. Was hoping for Tamiyo though.

Also find it really odd people are upset with Kaya for killing the Ghost Council. Like... Ghost Council was evil. Not saying Kaya is faultless but in Kaya v Ghost Council the scales weigh more heavily with the Ghost Council.

Maybe they were evil, but Bolas was a greater evil.
I find it ridiculous when Domri dies like a filthy traitor of Ravnica after serving Bolas even though all he did was smashing things like Gruuls usually do 24/7 - and Kaya, who also was a Bolas agent and made some moves to weaken Ravnica before the invasion, gets nothing and then even joins the Gatewatch to be treated like a hero in the future.

And if Kaya had any idea what was going on with Bolas she wouldn't have gone through with it (I'm presuming, it's possible she'd still have done it but tried in another manner). Domri, on the other hand, sees Bolas come in and start wrecking things and decides to double down and work for the guy.