maro better explain this they brought back fortification well it’s a 8 on the storm scale and that’s requires stars to align
and The stars align due to the fact it was impossible to resist making a shelter on land since fortifying is a thing in survival video games.
Hasn't he been pretty clear about the storm scale only applying to premier sets? Hence storm itself appearing in a whole bunch of products that aren't premier sets, including this one.
All five in this cycle were definitely named so they can be reprinted in MTG universe sets and not specific to anything in fallout.
and tinfoil it will either be outlaws of thunder junction or modern horizons 3 (the boros one name is like 100% perfect for thunder junction since most of this goes down in deserts which are very hot.)
They've been putting the others in every commander deck, so they may have just done it for that reason. Wouldn't mind seeing them in OTJ, though.
Edit: from Gavin Verhey's Twitter
"We've been asked about these for mana bases for ages. But there wasn't ever a booster set for them"
Based on the hands or is there other evidence I'm missing? I don't know enough to say that's Tibalt. His "death scene" was really disappointing and quick in a story full of disappointing and rushed story resolution by death. In consequence I really hope, you are correct. He's definitely a character I had penciled in for a prospective "villains" set, too.
Tibalt's death definitely falls into the "never checked the body" category. It's told from Elspeth's perspective as she's running the other direction. She sees him stabbed in what "should have" been his heart, he screams, he falls, he stops screaming. I assume he wakes up a bit later, complains about his head hurting and limps through an omenpath just before New Phyrexia gets phased out.
"The last thing Elspeth saw before she ran off the bridge, following the trail the others had taken, was Tyvar driving the twin barbs of Tibalt's tail into the space that should have held the Phyrexian's heart. Tibalt screamed, high and agonized, and was still screaming as Tyvar shoved him from the bridge. There was a sickening crunch as Tibalt slammed into the bridge below, followed by silence."
I Can speculate on the theft deck right away for hype cards defintely get Xanathar, Guild Kingpin, and Tasha, the Witch Queen while you can unless D&D universe cards can be reprinted in mtg universe commander decks safe bet those won't be reprints.
They certainly can be, legally. Thematically, they did reprint Improvised Weaponry in Jumpstart 2022 with the art that clearly depicts a mind flayer.
That's a useful side use in case of a Wrath effect, but hardly breaks the card. You can have all your creatures survive a Wrath for 2 or 3 mana, so this saving half of your creatures for 4 mana is nothing too exciting.
Well, yeah I had misunderstood the card due to the fact it uses "whenever" and not "instead". As I understand it, you can save all your creatures except one. (You make the first save the 2nd, the 2nd the 3rd, etc. The card text does not link the exiling to the returning (It does not say "when you do...")
It is better than a give-indestructible in the cases your creatures have ETB effect or when they were face-down as they come back face-up.
So, yes, it is better than I thought in the wrath scenario. And that's a problem: if they only die one by one, then you cannot make that chain and my point about being a non-bo with itself still stands.
Saving all your creatures, retriggering their ETB effects and turning them face-up if they were face down is still what Ghostway does for three mana, but yes, I suppose you can save all but one of your creatures rather than half.
Illicit Masquerade only works well with self-mill. The card is a nonbo with itself since it prevents your creatures in already play from going to the graveyard to be brought back. So you must already have a filled GY for it to be of any value. Plus, it's also a nonbo with collect evidence, preventing your GY to be filled with things to be collected... so it seems quite narrow and awkward to me.
well you my friend are servilely I mean servilely underrating the card Illicit Masquerade to be faaaaaar more broken that what meets the eye. (And yes I checked with a judge on this)
so this is the English translation
so here’s the most important things about this.
1. It’s not a replacement effect for the exile thing. That means they will be in the bin when it resolves (it means you can target the creatures that just went in.)
2. Like I said “nontoken” is missing from the wording. So tokens with the counter trigger it
3. It only triggers if a creature with the counters it gave go to the yard (thus flicker effects on illicit put some back on)
the key is if you have more token creatures with the counters, more than the number of creatures in play plus the ones already in the graveyard. You can put all the token creatures ones on the stack so they trigger before the nontoken ones trigger and save everything. (Then the nontoken ones fizzle because they left the yard.)
That's a useful side use in case of a Wrath effect, but hardly breaks the card. You can have all your creatures survive a Wrath for 2 or 3 mana, so this saving half of your creatures for 4 mana is nothing too exciting.
Ugin's unparalleled knowledge allowed him to transcend the colors of mana, and he is now centered in colorless mana, although he retains the ability to use all 5 colors.[6] Before this, it is implied he had access to at least red and blue.
Like his twin brother, Ugin is one of the most powerful planeswalkers in existence
secondly the flavor is simply he thought all 5 clans of tarkir the technique of morphing
besides could it they loophole the colors like they did with Golos, Tireless Pilgrim i can picture something like “cost to flip face down cards face up cost WUBRG less”
The story refers to him as a planeswalker and Tomik, Wielder of Law has affinity for planeswalkers.
Edit: Oh, it's a showcase alternate thing, never mind.
Hasn't he been pretty clear about the storm scale only applying to premier sets? Hence storm itself appearing in a whole bunch of products that aren't premier sets, including this one.
Just remember to stack your triggers so the mentor ability resolves first.
They've been putting the others in every commander deck, so they may have just done it for that reason. Wouldn't mind seeing them in OTJ, though.
Edit: from Gavin Verhey's Twitter
"We've been asked about these for mana bases for ages. But there wasn't ever a booster set for them"
Implies they're not gonna be in boosters.
True. Perhaps I should have phrased that in a way that indicated I was singling out a specific use that was particularly affected.
Vulshok Battlegear OP.
Tibalt's death definitely falls into the "never checked the body" category. It's told from Elspeth's perspective as she's running the other direction. She sees him stabbed in what "should have" been his heart, he screams, he falls, he stops screaming. I assume he wakes up a bit later, complains about his head hurting and limps through an omenpath just before New Phyrexia gets phased out.
They certainly can be, legally. Thematically, they did reprint Improvised Weaponry in Jumpstart 2022 with the art that clearly depicts a mind flayer.
Saving all your creatures, retriggering their ETB effects and turning them face-up if they were face down is still what Ghostway does for three mana, but yes, I suppose you can save all but one of your creatures rather than half.
That's a useful side use in case of a Wrath effect, but hardly breaks the card. You can have all your creatures survive a Wrath for 2 or 3 mana, so this saving half of your creatures for 4 mana is nothing too exciting.
Sure, but here's 9 colorless cards an 1 blue one to think about.
Not saying it's impossible, just not something I'd expect.
I question this assumption about a character specifically known for his colorlessness.