I'm 90% certain this card is going to be a trap in limited. While I love some of the applications in constructed, I think a lot of newer players are going to pick this too highly in limited and play it too often without enough surveil card cards to make this worthwhile.
Lets take a moment to appreciate that with this printing, Sage of Lat-Nam will have been a common, uncommon, and a rare across three different printings.
Mythic sage when, Wizards?
This card's ability is designed perfectly and works wonderfully with protection from instants.
When you take control of their turn, you waste all their sorcery-speed removal (obviously, wrath effects work well against it). Then, you send all of your opponent's creatures to their doom against a massive 13/13 flier.
The card is more of a one-sided board wipe than anything.
Also, it's extremely flavorful in that it controls minds while manipulating time (both a reference to it being the Eldrazi of corruption and that its previous incarnation took extra turns). Furthermore, I love how the 13s are a reference to Innistrad's love of 13.
It might not be constructed playable, but it is very well designed.
Lore thoughts:
In the clue token, they mention the tide rising and chanting. There is something evil and madness-inducing in the deep. This is similar in lore the SOI's likely namesake -- The Shadow over Innsmouth (the next set, Eldritch Moon, should assure skeptics that this was intentional.) But there is something worthy of note about the focus on tides: tides are affected by the moon. This was also likely intentional.
Getting into some murkier territory, Warped Landscape and Thraben Inspector show similar geometric designs in the artwork. What do we know that is able to warp the landscape and has similar creeping tendrils? Emrakul. Of course, following The Shadow Over Innsmouth more closely, the lurking enemy in deep might just be some Lovecraftian sea monster. Alternatively, Emrakul could be hiding in the moon.
At the end of the day, all I want is a new Mikaeus card called "Mikaeus, Host of the Nightmare," with flavor texts that includes "Ah, Cosi... or as some say, Kozilek..."
Ahaha. I see what you did there.
I will buy a box of both sets if there is a card named The One Reborn.
Or if Mikaeus gets a new card called Mikaeus, Host of the Nightmare.
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Mythic sage when, Wizards?
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When you take control of their turn, you waste all their sorcery-speed removal (obviously, wrath effects work well against it). Then, you send all of your opponent's creatures to their doom against a massive 13/13 flier.
The card is more of a one-sided board wipe than anything.
Also, it's extremely flavorful in that it controls minds while manipulating time (both a reference to it being the Eldrazi of corruption and that its previous incarnation took extra turns). Furthermore, I love how the 13s are a reference to Innistrad's love of 13.
It might not be constructed playable, but it is very well designed.
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In the clue token, they mention the tide rising and chanting. There is something evil and madness-inducing in the deep. This is similar in lore the SOI's likely namesake -- The Shadow over Innsmouth (the next set, Eldritch Moon, should assure skeptics that this was intentional.) But there is something worthy of note about the focus on tides: tides are affected by the moon. This was also likely intentional.
Getting into some murkier territory, Warped Landscape and Thraben Inspector show similar geometric designs in the artwork. What do we know that is able to warp the landscape and has similar creeping tendrils? Emrakul. Of course, following The Shadow Over Innsmouth more closely, the lurking enemy in deep might just be some Lovecraftian sea monster. Alternatively, Emrakul could be hiding in the moon.
At the end of the day, all I want is a new Mikaeus card called "Mikaeus, Host of the Nightmare," with flavor texts that includes "Ah, Cosi... or as some say, Kozilek..."
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Ahaha. I see what you did there.
I will buy a box of both sets if there is a card named The One Reborn.
Or if Mikaeus gets a new card called Mikaeus, Host of the Nightmare.
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Innistrad 2.0 is Bloodborne the set confirmed.