Some other attempts to create a powerful card draw engine for controllish decks. What do you think about them?
Serra's Monastery 2UW
Enchantment (Rare)
When Serra's Monastery enters the battlefield, gain 4 life.
During your upkeep, you may draw a card.
It's pretty good for control. Template should be "At the beginning of your upkeep."
Pact of the Council 1UW
Enchantment (Rare)
During your upkeep, you draw a card and each opponent gains 1 life.
Oof this is very powerful. It is a Phyrexian Arena with essentially no drawback, since giving u our opponent's life is pretty negligible for combo and control, where this would see the most play. Cards like Punishing Fire just make things like this backbreaking.
Vydar, Beast-Blooded1GG Legendary Planeswalker - Vydar (Mythic) +1: Put a +1/+1 counter on Vydar, Beast-Blooded or up to one target creature you control. 0: Until end of turn, Vydar, Beast-Blooded becomes a 2/2 beast creature with hexproof that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to her this turn. 0: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, up to one target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn." Activate this ability only if Vydar, Beast-Blooded has 8 or more counters on her. 2
You're right, Primal Discovery is pretty bad in multiple ways. I don't want a Cultivate reprint/ clome, but something closer, yet still reliant on having a beast. Will probably implement your suggestion exactly as is. Thank you. 2
Preychaser Baloth2RG Creature - Beast (Uncommon)
Other beast creatures you control get +1/+0.
4/4
Patinapalm Savage2G Creature - Elf Druid (Uncommon)
Whenever a beast creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may draw a card.
2/2
Vorpalclaw Stomphowler4G Creature - Beast (Uncommon)
When Vorpalclaw Stomphowler enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
4/4
Primal Discovery2G Sorcery (Common)
Search your library for a forest card and put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
If you control a beast creature, instead search your library for a forest and/ or a mountain card, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle your library.
Rageclaws1R Enchantment - Aura (Uncommon)
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+0 and has trample.
When Rageclaws is put into the graveyard from the battlefield, if it was attached to a beast, return it to your hand.
I would be very disappointed if we got a new Ixidor that had zero synergy with Morph
Lore-wise I don’t recall Ixidor having anything to do with morph. That was just his card. In the story he just created stuff iirc.
His illusion Magic was represented by Morph in game, and many of the cards relating to him fall into that theme. I would like synergy or similarity between a new Ixidor and an old one.
I really, really hope that Ashiok is somehow related to Ixidor and/ or Chainer, but that's mostly just wishful thinking
We can’t get legendary lands or enchantment lands in draft boosters because reasons.
And we can’t get legendary or enchantment lands in commander products, because reasons.
Basically, we can’t get anything interesting in MTG because reasons.
This easily could have been in any damn set. When are we getting some interesting powerful legendary lands? Enchantment lands? Things we can’t see outside all the draft and standard boosters which are confined by all their rules of mediocracy?
Legenedary and Enchantment lands are dar, far worse for Constructed/ Eternal formats than they would be for draft or Standard. If those were the only concerns, Theros would have had them.
Oooh, that Opal Palace looks great extended out. Not sure how many decks run it, but if I crack an extended art one, I might be tempted to try and find room for it in one of my decks
It's pretty good for control. Template should be "At the beginning of your upkeep."
Oof this is very powerful. It is a Phyrexian Arena with essentially no drawback, since giving u our opponent's life is pretty negligible for combo and control, where this would see the most play. Cards like Punishing Fire just make things like this backbreaking.
Legendary Planeswalker - Vydar (Mythic)
+1: Put a +1/+1 counter on Vydar, Beast-Blooded or up to one target creature you control.
0: Until end of turn, Vydar, Beast-Blooded becomes a 2/2 beast creature with hexproof that's still a planeswalker. Prevent all damage that would be dealt to her this turn.
0: You get an emblem with "At the beginning of combat on your turn, up to one target creature gets +3/+3 until end of turn." Activate this ability only if Vydar, Beast-Blooded has 8 or more counters on her.
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Legendary Creature - Beast (Rare)
4/3
Preychaser Baloth 2RG
Creature - Beast (Uncommon)
Other beast creatures you control get +1/+0.
4/4
Patinapalm Savage 2G
Creature - Elf Druid (Uncommon)
Whenever a beast creature enters the battlefield under your control, you may draw a card.
2/2
Vorpalclaw Stomphowler 4G
Creature - Beast (Uncommon)
When Vorpalclaw Stomphowler enters the battlefield, you may destroy target artifact or enchantment.
4/4
Canopy Vorpalclaw 3G
Creature - Beast (Common)
Reach
2/4
Primal Discovery 2G
Sorcery (Common)
Search your library for a forest card and put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle your library.
If you control a beast creature, instead search your library for a forest and/ or a mountain card, put one onto the battlefield tapped and the other into your hand, then shuffle your library.
Rageclaws 1R
Enchantment - Aura (Uncommon)
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets +3/+0 and has trample.
When Rageclaws is put into the graveyard from the battlefield, if it was attached to a beast, return it to your hand.
Vorpalclaw Cub 2R
Creature - Beast (Common)
Haste
2/2
More to come
His illusion Magic was represented by Morph in game, and many of the cards relating to him fall into that theme. I would like synergy or similarity between a new Ixidor and an old one.
I really, really hope that Ashiok is somehow related to Ixidor and/ or Chainer, but that's mostly just wishful thinking
Legenedary and Enchantment lands are dar, far worse for Constructed/ Eternal formats than they would be for draft or Standard. If those were the only concerns, Theros would have had them.
Thanks, burn spells are hard as heck(fire) to design.
So this set is a love letter to Otaria, I guess. My favorite Magic setting, so I'm not disappointed!
Wish we could have gotten a new Phage though. One that is easier to actually play as a commander.
Gods
Snow
Divine Arrow reprint with flavor text of "I used to be an adventurer..."
Power creep or not, this will continue to be one of the best commanders
What if I told you that this was one of the best commanders in the game?