Undead Sled Team1BB
Snow Creature - Zombie Hound (U)
Undead Sled Team gets +1/+1 and has haste as long as you control 2 or more Snow permanents. "A tireless team to traverse the tundra? Sign me up!" 2/2
Freezing Rain2GG
Sorcery (U)
Freezing Rain deals damage to each creature with flying equal to the number of snow lands you control. If Freezing Rain was kicked, creatures dealt damage this way don't untap during their controller's next untap step. "I'm not going to let a little rain ruin a nice flight." — Last words of Kiri, Prince of the Fae
Unless I'm mistaken (and this might have changed since the G. Probe banning) but didn't Storm and Thing Ascension both play Pyromancer's Ascension? Seems like a good reprint to me.
Truna, Kazandu Explorer3RG
Planeswalker - Truna
+1: Search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield tapped.
-2: Create three 0/1 green Plant tokens.
-6: Creatures you control gain haste and +X/+X where X is the number of lands you control until end of turn.
Starting Loyalty: 3
Next: A planeswalker based on a character quoted in flavor text. (That doesn't have their own card yet.)
Critical Creator1UB
Creature - Human Artificer (R) B,t, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token. U, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card. "If it isn't perfect then it isn't good enough." — Tirno Isarta 1/2
Servo Exhibition seems like a good way to get creature tokens out and is cheaper than Oath of Gideon. I feel like the deck could stand to have a few more copies of Ulamog, Gisela and Bruna for redundancy. I don't think the deck can stand against a list playing a decent amount of instant speed removal.
Sanctum Protector2WWG
Creature - Beast
Flash
When Sanctum Protector enters the battlefield, creatures you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Sacrifice Sanctum Protector: Creatures you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn. 5/4
Does anyone here actually have any proof that WotC is leaking ban information to SCG? If your only answer is "Well the pros seem to have a good idea what's going to get banned." then maybe you should also look to our forums here where people claimed months ago that Emrakul was going to get banned. That Smuggler's Copter is too OP or that reflector mage could get banned. It turns out that pro players play a lot of magic and can often get things right.
Your phrasing for your last point is hard to follow so I'm going to summarize and you can feel free to correct me. You're saying that if a store can't get in a large amount of players for a format then that format will no longer be successful locally but SCG can adjust by choosing different formats.
Isn't the local game store capable of doing the same thing by promoting different formats? Not all formats are going to be popular or have the same amount of support. This is truer for smaller areas with fewer players. In those cases it's still the onus of the store to do something, not WotC.
You mention if there are any resources going to promote larger stores from Wizards but as far as brick and mortar LGS stores go I don't see WotC pulling favorites or at least if they are it's not well advertised. Standard is the biggest selling format that WotC has and they endorse people using FNM for any format possible. That being said, creating or distributing product for formats that aren't popular, simply will not happen. They have market research available and tons of events to sift through to tell them that Standard is more popular than Modern or that Vintage and Legacy events don't happen nearly as much. After all, when was the last time you heard of people asking for more Vanguard support?
I'm sorry to hear that your local game store is having issues selling or pushing a format but that has nothing to do with SCG, CFB or even WotC.
1: So you're suggesting that random local LGSs should be given preview cards that not as many people will get a chance to see instead of large market vendors with traffic in the millions per day? (Ignoring internet celebrities or other MTG writing websites such as magic.tcgplayer, manadeprived.com, etc.)
2: They probably pay royalties/licensing fees in order to use official Magic art.
3: Can you please clarify some of the policy changes that are causing LGS locations to suffer while online merchants are not?
Food Chain2G
Enchantment
Exile a creature you control: Add X mana of any one color to your mana pool, where X is the exiled creature's converted mana cost plus one. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.
Okay, okay in all seriousness: Kobold Festival Ground2RRG
Enchantment
Whenever a non-token creature you control dies you may pay 1. If you do, Kobold Festival Ground deals 1 damage to target creature.
Nissa, Lorwyn's Champion3BG
Legendary Creature - Elf Warrior
Menace
Whenever Nissa, Lorwyn's Champion attacks, you may tutor for a card named Nissa's Chosen and put it onto the battlefield. (Shuffle your library after tutoring) 3/4
*Tutor is a short form I use for search your library similar to how dies is is put into a graveyard from the battlefield.
Next: If you could design a commander to fit your play style what would it be?
It was a placeholder in my regard but thanks
Sorcery (U)
Freezing Rain deals damage to each creature with flying equal to the number of snow lands you control. If Freezing Rain was kicked, creatures dealt damage this way don't untap during their controller's next untap step.
"I'm not going to let a little rain ruin a nice flight." — Last words of Kiri, Prince of the Fae
Planeswalker - Truna
+1: Search your library for a land card and put it onto the battlefield tapped.
-2: Create three 0/1 green Plant tokens.
-6: Creatures you control gain haste and +X/+X where X is the number of lands you control until end of turn.
Starting Loyalty: 3
Next: A planeswalker based on a character quoted in flavor text. (That doesn't have their own card yet.)
Creature - Human Artificer (R)
B,t, Pay 1 life: Create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.
U, Sacrifice an artifact: Draw a card.
"If it isn't perfect then it isn't good enough." — Tirno Isarta
1/2
Just curious what role Collective Defiance plays in your matchups? Is it typically just a removal spell or is the hand refresh worth it?
Creature - Beast
Flash
When Sanctum Protector enters the battlefield, creatures you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Sacrifice Sanctum Protector: Creatures you control gain hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
5/4
Next: Isamaru, Hound of Konda
Isn't the local game store capable of doing the same thing by promoting different formats? Not all formats are going to be popular or have the same amount of support. This is truer for smaller areas with fewer players. In those cases it's still the onus of the store to do something, not WotC.
You mention if there are any resources going to promote larger stores from Wizards but as far as brick and mortar LGS stores go I don't see WotC pulling favorites or at least if they are it's not well advertised. Standard is the biggest selling format that WotC has and they endorse people using FNM for any format possible. That being said, creating or distributing product for formats that aren't popular, simply will not happen. They have market research available and tons of events to sift through to tell them that Standard is more popular than Modern or that Vintage and Legacy events don't happen nearly as much. After all, when was the last time you heard of people asking for more Vanguard support?
I'm sorry to hear that your local game store is having issues selling or pushing a format but that has nothing to do with SCG, CFB or even WotC.
2: They probably pay royalties/licensing fees in order to use official Magic art.
3: Can you please clarify some of the policy changes that are causing LGS locations to suffer while online merchants are not?
Enchantment
Exile a creature you control: Add X mana of any one color to your mana pool, where X is the exiled creature's converted mana cost plus one. Spend this mana only to cast creature spells.
Okay, okay in all seriousness:
Kobold Festival Ground 2RRG
Enchantment
Whenever a non-token creature you control dies you may pay 1. If you do, Kobold Festival Ground deals 1 damage to target creature.
Next: Sygg, River Cutthroat.
Legendary Creature - Elf Warrior
Menace
Whenever Nissa, Lorwyn's Champion attacks, you may tutor for a card named Nissa's Chosen and put it onto the battlefield. (Shuffle your library after tutoring)
3/4
*Tutor is a short form I use for search your library similar to how dies is is put into a graveyard from the battlefield.
Next: If you could design a commander to fit your play style what would it be?
Creature - Germ
Deathtouch
Each creature has "At the beginning of your upkeep this creature deals 1 damage to you."
1/1