So, with the repeated statements from Maro that the third set would be focusing on Ravnica but not the guild structure and now this name, can we offcially infer that there will be more than usual "Planeswalker matters" type cards?
Honestly, I'm a little curious as to how viable a strategy built around them could be for draft or even sealed. If you can snag 4 in Draft, you are just ridiculous, I would think.
It actually bums me out that this is an enchantment rather than a creature. Gruul seems flavored not just to be anti-noncreature spells, but specifically creatures that hate NC spells.
Step 1, cast Mirror Gallery. Step 2, cast March of the Machines. Step 3, cast Opalescence. Step 4, cast Dual Nature getting a total of 2 because it triggers itself since it is a creature. Step 5, cast Krark's Thumb, and stack the triggers so you get the tokens from Dual Nature before resolving the trigger from Mirror Match. You will get to flip 8 coins each time to try to win 1. Let's say you end up with 9 extra Krark's Thumbs, for 12 total because you're fairly lucky.
Step 6, cast Doubling Season and stack the same way as for the thumb. When the 1st Dual Nature trigger resolves, you will get 2 Doubling Season tokens. When the 2nd Dual Nature trigger resolves, you will get 8 (2^3) more tokens for a total of 11 Doubling Seasons. Now you resolve the Mirror Match trigger. You have 12 Thumbs on the battlefield, which means you flip 4096 (2^12) coins and keep 1 for each flip. The odds of you losing any particular flip are 1/(2^4096) power. I almost forgot to mention that you might need to bring along a very powerful computer to simulate this, as 2^4096 can be rewritten as (2^512)^8, where 2^512 approximately equals the number 134 followed by 152 zeroes.
Step 7, profit!!
The fact that this strategy is coming from someone named "Pants_On_head" cannot be understated. I applaud you, sir.
You do realize that if you spend Domri's mana to cast a riot creature with Rhythm of thr Savages on the board your creature gets to riot, while it riots as it's also rioting?
Chanting riot three times as you cast a creature seems like a perfectly Gruul thing to do.
Kinda odd having a pseudo-ramp ability on a 4 mana walker, but 5 loyalty and 3 solid abilities is nice.
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Just realized that his +1 doesn't require that mana to be spent on something specific, which effectively makes him cost 3 mana on turn 4. That's not bad at all.
Who would be a better commander for an all-creatures Gruul EDH deck, her or Ruric Thar?
I was going to say a RG all-creature with morph subtheme to replace the noncreature spells. It could work.
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Personally, I don't think there are enough good Morph creatures in RG to make that a viable theme, but that's just me. I'd rather use ETB creatures and stuff like Temur Sabertooth or Stampeding Wildebeests to replace noncreatures, myself.
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Hey, sweet - Archmage status! And it only took me 14 years!
A true Giant Shaman among men.
Cool card, but that art is terrible.
The fact that this strategy is coming from someone named "Pants_On_head" cannot be understated. I applaud you, sir.
What a riot.
Edit:
Just realized that his +1 doesn't require that mana to be spent on something specific, which effectively makes him cost 3 mana on turn 4. That's not bad at all.
Personally, I don't think there are enough good Morph creatures in RG to make that a viable theme, but that's just me. I'd rather use ETB creatures and stuff like Temur Sabertooth or Stampeding Wildebeests to replace noncreatures, myself.