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Bearer of Silence 1B
Creature - Eldrazi (R)
Devoid
When you cast Bearer of Silence, you may pay 1C. If you do, target opponent sacrifices a creature.
Flying
Bearer of Silence can't block.
2/1

Eldrazi Gatekeeper of Malakir, more or less.

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Not really.

Know my favorite part of this set so far?

It's that the background on these two is the exact same.

/Awkward Nodding.

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Thought-Knot Seer 3<>
Creature - Eldrazi (R)
When ~ ETB, target opponent reveals their hand. You choose a non-land card from it and exile that card.
When ~ LTB, target opponent draws a card.
4/4

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Congrats on getting a job that doesn't pay anything Jivan!

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It pays in anonymous angry messages.

I look forward to paying Jivan generously.

He needs a helpdesk already too, so we can go spam that as well.

Haven't seen Reality Smasher comments yet.

Reality Smasher 4<>
Creature - Eldrazi (R)
Trample, haste
Whenever ~ becomes the target of a spell an opponent controls, counter that spell unless its controller discards a card.
5/5

Strip your opponent's hands and freely beat face. Doesn't help against abilities, admittedly, especially from the likes of Drana 1.0. Perhaps better in 1v1, but most 1v1 decks run maybe run a couple of 5 mana cards at most?

Chandra, Flamecaller was officially revealed, still want a couple copies to try out. Oath of Chandra I want to try and make it work, but how many planeswalkers would it take to make the ongoing Shocks to opponents worth it?

Thoughts on Hedron Alignment? The win-the-game ability is either really hard or actually impossible to pull off, but a 3 mana, easily splashable, hexproof, repeatable scrying enchantment could do some work.

Bonds of Mortality will be good. If nothing else, it cantrips, and at best, it helps you deal with Theros Gods and Voltron commanders or things like Asceticism. Fall of the Titans, even disregarding that it's a burn spell "which doesn't work here" or whatever, seems alright. Definitely want to Surge it, but being able to dome two things at once is always welcome on those X burn spells.

Drana's Chosen is just bad. Bloodline Keeper all day everyday instead.

Cliffhaven Vampire, Stormchaser Mage, and Weapons Trainer will definitely see some play. The other two might, but I would imagine more as placeholders for those kinds of effects.

Inverter of Truth. I dunno, it could be a fun deck to play where you screw with your own library like that, but I'm not sure how many useful effects like this have been printed, and how many of them I like.

Bluh. I think that's everything.

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- Legendary Enchantment, to allow a bit of power creep.

This has nothing to do with power creep. Making cards legendary doesn't justify them to be more powerful. It's for flavor reasons, and probably because they don't want you to instantly ultimate a planeswalker with multiple Oaths of Gideon out.

MaRo' second to last paragraph here before revealing Oath of Gideon says something to this kind of an effect though. Fair enough that being Legendary doesn't inherently justify a higher power level, but on the flip side since you can only control one at a time, they tend to be more powerful anyway to get people to play them.

Oath of Liliana's ongoing effect seems good. Put the Oath of Sorin ETB-effect here and it's great.

Oath of Sorin: Even without the ETB-effect, you'd have to pay at least 5-6 mana to get that enchantment. And the effect has nothing to do with planeswalkers. How did you end up with this design?

Oath of Chandra: I really hope the Oath of Chandra will retaliate damage dealt to your planeswalkers, because that would be a very good effect for planeswalker Commander decks.

Retaining the same mana cost as well for Oath of Liliana? Works for me.

Oath of Sorin - Liliana and to a lesser extent Sorin are both necromancers or can at least use necromancy, so this card constantly gets your creatures back to protect you and your planeswalkers. I was thinking of things like Phyrexian Reclamation, but I must have worded the Oath wrong for it to cost so little. Admittedly it doesn't explicitly mention planeswalkers so I suppose it's a bad design overall.

Oath of Chandra was actually spoiled today, but if you're avoiding spoilers, I will just say that OoC is entirely burn-based.

Liberal Arts majors occasionally have a way with words. *gentlemanly bow*

Jivan, may your moderation of EDH Cultivate our corner of the MtG garden into a worthy adversary to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

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Pyromancer's Assault 3R
Enchantment (U)
Whenever you cast your second spell each turn, ~ deals 2 damage to target creature or player.

Auto-add for Jori-En? Cast that second spell for a card and a Shock sounds decent.

I need to play Dark Souls 2 again, I think I got distracted by Dragon Age Inquisition. Or maybe by how awful my job was at that time.

My main character for any Elder Scrolls game always ends up being a "does everything fairly well" kind of a character. Heavy Armor Dark Elf Battlemages in the previous two games, and in Skyrim a Redguard in light armor who's mainly an Assassin but can mage or warrior it up well enough. Being a mage in Skyrim always kind of annoys me. You spend the first half of your character's "life" broke, and it's just a weaker system than in previous games, so it's kinda surprising how much I've played my High Elf lately. Considering a sneaky Breton assassin/mage that I'll turn into a vampire really early on, see what that's like. I have that Better Vampires mod too, so occasionally Dawnguard hunters come after you. I totally have elaborate stories in my head about my characters too.

Never been into multiplayer video games much, except for Smash Bros. I liked Melee the best, only put up with Brawl, and have since moved away from console playing almost completely. The dungeon crawler-ness of things like PSO and Borderlands kinda turn me off because I'm like Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation in that I want my games to have a story.

Fire Emblem is a great series, haven't played them recently though. Always wanted to find more game series-es like it.

Frozen yogurt is also good. Haven't had it, or mint chocolate chip ice cream for that matter, in forever though.

I recently picked up Skyrim again too. Restarted my main character and made an extra save pretty early on for her so that I can come back in a few years and replay her if I want to. I've really put some time into this psychotic High Elf character of mine too.

In that one Rumor Mill/New Card Discussion thread about "why is BFZ so unappealing", someone linked to an offsite story critique which was a good read. Basically, the Eldrazi are supposed to be somewhat Lovecraftian but simply aren't (or aren't anymore). The critic also touched upon why he doesn't like Jace, at all, and I realized that his reasons were more or less my own. I just didn't know how to put it into words and didn't want to even try either lol.

Which is exactly what the MMO designers want. They basically design video game crack cocaine. Kind of obvious, but still.

I posted a few ideas for Oaths of characters we're not gonna see in this block over in CCC. Sorin seems like a much more likely candidate than Liliana for the GateAvengeWatchers thing, now that I've thought about it.

I like mint chocolate chip ice cream.