MTG Salvation

Quote from joejack8445 »

There are many reasons to call fake, but the biggest one is that Vorinclex instantly allows planeswalkers to ult the moment they drop, in particular, the newly revealed Kaya. Maro said that was the biggest reason Doubling Season isn't getting reprinted in a standard set. I'm probably wrong though, considering all the over powered garbage they've been printing into standard this past year.

Like literally Yawgmoth's Will but as a red enchantment in the form of Underworld Breach and it costed 1 less to boot.

Quote from WarMachinePrime »

I've changed my mind. I believe these are the real deal. This almost seems like a "planned" leak.

I'm also hoping Boast shows up in either white, blue or green as well.

Possibly planned or just lucky, hard to say. As it was posted on the facebook group for misprints and this was pulled from a Commander pack.

Quote from Lectrys »

Storyline implication-wise, I'm still thinking fake, and the lack of italics on the berserker card's "Boast" makes me even more suspicious. I also wouldn't trust the Surtland Elementalist picture, as that card already has been displayed on the mothership before that picture was released.

But if that Vorinclex card is somehow real, it gets to enable all your opponents' Persist and Undying infinite combos, and they now get to make infinite mana with Devoted Druid. Joke's on Vorinclex.

Donate him. Then do your persist undying combos. Big brain think.

Quote from mikol »

phyrexians could use Tezzeret, Master of the Bridge and Planar Bridge within him to cross the multiverse. we dont really know much of what contact tezz had with the phyrexians but what he did between the new phyrexia story and kaladesh story isnt really known as of now i am guessing Vorinclex got randomly sent to keldheim as a way to get rid of him

Maybe. There is the possibility of also the Sword of Realms cutting through and creating a rift that allows Phyrexians to pass. which in the hands of a sadist like Tibalt is bad news as he only cares about cultivating misery and pain of others.

Quote from The Lord of Tresserhorn »

Please, where is it confirmed there is no snow in the set??

Well based on the past history

• Ranar was speculated to use snow mana. But he doesn't, instead he utilizes 0 for the foretell-matters mechanic.
• Oko was speculated to be in this set, and he was tied directly to snow according to the leak, but he is not present, instead its Tibalt.
• The special pack cards and those that are known to be in the precons don't feature snow and are about tribal synergy instead.
• The DFC duals are not snow.

So that literally leaves basic lands in the actual set, the VIP packs, or in the precons as possible holdouts for snow related cards.

If you visit the link for the first three and click the flip button, you will see they have non-traditional backs.

I personally would recommend the lorwyn cycle for novels for a good read. But that is also my bias as I started magic with Lorwyn.

Quote from Flamebuster »

At this point Kaldheim was assumed to be the snow plane based on a novelty card in a novelty product with no further reference point prior to that.

Except when the plane was referenced again with Ramaz and was still snowy

Quote from ThyLordQ »

I just don't think this particular situation deserves the amount of vitriol we have seen in the forums.

If not now (with the release of a viking themed set on a plane only described as being a big snowball) then when? It would be a huge and massive flavour fail for a set like this to not have snow.

Quote from Gruul Storyteller »

Reviewing the spoiled cards again, as I'm working on a cube project, I noticed these have a fairly low power level. I just personally hope this is just a small selection and its actually really good and we don't have a Born of the Gods 2.0 for power.

I was ready to disagree, but looking back, you're kinda right. Even in a weaker (mostly) peasant cube, there's not a lot going on here. I have an enchantment theme that I really want to add some payoff to, but despite loads of enchantments, few of them are really worth looking at. There are lots of cards with constellation,but all the payoff basically amounts to a small one-turn advantage, like "tap target creature" or "flying until end of turn". The "gain 2 life" guy is the only one worth recurring Flickering Ward for.

Likewise, I play a major graveyard theme, and the escape cards we've seen tend to be mediocre at best. The spider's not terrible, and the 4/4 that becomes a 7/7 is good for a common, but nothing is really worth bringing to the cube forum. Even for the B-listers like myself, there's not much to talk about.

That Narcissus guy is interesting... probably not good, but interesting if you can get value out of the fact of the two bodies. Of course you'd have to be taking advantage of the high stats to make it as good as Eldrazi Skyspawner.

Elspeth does do some interesting stuff for cube: she supports the graveyard in white (the weakest graveyard color), and does so in a planeswalker slot. She also produces two bodies at once to support swarm strategies. Her -1 and -2 make her a playable curve-topper in aggro. The life gain will occasionally save you when the other things wouldn't, and control can sorta use her as a recursive value engine. She's not as outright powerful as several other white planeswalkers, but she fills several different roles, which I personally prefer over power. She'd be a great add for my big cube, but too powerful for my mostly-peasant. She's not gonna stand a chance with the high-power cubers.

Still, this is a totally random sampling, and there are always lots of cards of this power level. Mechanics wise, I like where the set is going.

It’s gotta be awkward escaping the underworld of one plane right into your death on another lol