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...we play a game where we shuffle our decks. In any given game, win or lose at any given instant can be largely tied to the luck of the draw. It's not like we're playing chess here. Throughout every game, chance influences outcome.

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There is nothing generic about coin flipping on a constructed playable body - that is a lazy criticism imho. On average he's going to come in and eat half your opponents creatures, less for you if you build properly. He will never sac himself.

It's not like BR has zero tools to handle what's left over...

I think this will show up. It's a great effect and recurring this off eldest reborn (super doable) is going to absolutely back breaking a lot of the time.

Worst case scenario if I lose every flip I get a 6/6 flying trample for 6. That's fine. even if he eats one dude he is doing more than his cmc would suggest. ravenous chupacabra is 2 mana less for a 2/2 body. Granted it's targeted removal - but it's one shot on a mediocre body. Chupa is plenty playable and I think this will be too.

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I don't mind that they're making Rakdos into the Timmy guild this time. Rakdos v.1 (hellbent) was pretty Johnny, and Rakdos v.2 (unleash) was definitely Spike. So, kind of a nice trilogy, in fact.

Having Mr. Rakdos be a big, dumb coin flip card that goes boom is a very Timmy thing. I'm OK with all that.

But why does this card operate on the variable of creature types, instead of, like... almost anything else? Rakdos as a guild has never cared about tribal anything, as far as I can remember. I would have liked to see a different build-around. CMC? Power? Tapped/untapped? Any of those would have felt more "Rakdos". So, I rather dislike this card because it just doesn't feel like it plays with the guild. Had it been another B/R Demon in another set... sure.

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what do people here think is gonna happen with reprints now that we know this is gonna be the last masters set for the foreseeable future?

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Y'all really sounding like Jussie Smollett with these delusions.

The idea that far-right groups use Norse symbology is a demonstrable fact. The actual Nazis used a bunch of them- the whole idea of the Aryan race was linked with this sort of history.
This isn't a debatable point.

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So the two Aura versions stay in exile if they get flickered and have no target to enchant in a graveyard (if thats what "remains in its current zone" translates to) ?

In such a flicker scenario what happened in a game was that both Felidar Guardian and Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker are in a or multiple graveyards :

the first target for Animate Dead (Or Necromancy) is going to be the Felidar Guardian , it returns and flickers the aura, which then triggers the auras "leaves play , sacrifice this creature" part, but at the same time also targets Kiki-Jiki (delayed for Necromancy), in any case, the Guardian remains on the battlefield, with the trigger lingering on the stack and Kiki-Jiki is returned, which then proceeds to "infinite" combo with the Felidar Guardian producing copies and flickering to rinse and repeat (so the "aura" is put into the graveyard the time the enchanted Kiki-Jiki flickers the first time).
The combo finishes then by using the last copy cat to flicker the "original" cat which has the auras sacrifice trigger lingering.

So the net end result is a lot of haste copy cat tokens , an animate dead in the graveyard and a original card Felidar Guardian and an untapped Kiki-Jiki on the field (that wont die to any sacrifice triggers anymore).

Anything wrong happened in that interaction of chained triggers ? (its a lot of stuff happening).

• Assume Felidar Guardian and Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker are in your graveyard. You cast Animate Dead targeting Felidar Guardian.
• All players pass, then Animate Dead resolves. Its enters-the-battlefield ability triggers.
• All players pass, then that ability resolves. Among other things, Felidar Guardian enters the battlefield, its ability triggers, and Animate Dead is attached to it. That ability goes on the stack targeting Animate Dead.
• All players pass, then that ability resolves. Animate Dead is exiled (making its sacrifice ability trigger) and returns to the battlefield attached to a creature card in a graveyard, which you choose as Kiki-Jiki (making its enters-the-battlefield ability trigger). Now there are two abilities waiting to go on the stack: the enters-the-battlefield ability and the sacrifice ability. You put the latter below the former on the stack.
• All players pass, then the enters-the-battlefield ability resolves. Among other things, Kiki-Jiki enters the battlefield and Animate Dead is attached to it.
• You activate Kiki-Jiki's activated ability targeting Felidar Guardian, which is still on the battlefield.
• All players pass, then that ability resolves. You create a token that's a copy of Felidar Guardian, except it has haste (C.R. 108.1). The token's ability triggers, and that ability goes on the stack targeting Animate Dead.
• All players pass, then that ability resolves. Animate Dead is exiled (making its sacrifice ability trigger) and would return to the battlefield, but unless there is another creature card in a graveyard it won't return to the battlefield.

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Party hard will be my first SLD purchase. Probably be next Summer before I get it.

About the same time you may be able to play games in person again (hopefully)

(Would appreciate these cards artworks a lot more as playmats or big posters, rather than cards to be frank)

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Not exactly. Characters experience undeserved and unearned fortune all the time and that's not a problem.

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Yeah, can’t relate to the people complaining. Kaya barely has shown up to get fleshed out. Here maybe she will have a chance where it isn’t really just her being used by other people hopefully. It honestly just reads like a no win situation as you can’t flesh out a character without giving them some spotlight, but you’re going to complain about them getting some spotlight to do what you say needs to happen.

Almost as if its not Kaya character people don't like about her.

^^^^ That is a reasonable suspicion.
I'd also like to point out how strategic and normatively sound it was of WotC to make Kaya the face of the 'vikings' set.

Both ancient Norse fandom generally, and Asatru as a religious and spiritual movement more specifically, have become more and more closely associated with white supremacist movements.

Kaya as Kaldeim's face planeswalker and lead protagonist is brilliant: Not only does her anti-undead power-suit and philosophy work well with ancient Norse beliefs and themes re: the afterlife (honourable death, Valhalla, separation between realms)-

-but also, as a well-written character who is also a Women of Colour, Kaya as Kaldeim's face planeswalker also signals greater commitment on WotC's part at combatting racial discrimination and tropes.

For the record, I'm not at all arguing that WotC's choice of Kaya as Kaldheim's face planeswalker was solely informed by her status as a Women of Colour. As mentioned by myself and many others, Kaya's particular interest in maintaining stability in a plane's afterlife process works well in a set that may have as a main plotpoint, the cosmological discontinuity of life and death. Maybe people are no longer being shepherded to their rightful afterlives by the Valkyrie and other divine servitors? Maybe someone who was supposed to die escaped their fate?

WotC would of course have to be careful at sufficiently differentiating such plot from Theros: Beyond Death but I am confident in thier ability to do so.