Now that we have all the Big Score cards revealed, it really seems like a good thing that they wised up and just folded what would have been another Epilogue set into the Main set. Not to say that the individual cards themselves are bad or anything, but they all seem to be SUPER random and unconnected from any sort of story epilogue to Thunder Junction. If they had left The Big Score as its own mini-set, it would have been very messy and disjointed thematically, just like the majority of the MoM Aftermath stuff.
In a vacuum? Happy - most of the new cards in the deck don't really do much for me, so I won't be buying the deck itself but happy for reprints to drive their prices down!
Anyone else getting big "Uh oh" vibes from Jace and Vraska's new mindset? One doesn't exactly start talking about Multiversal rebirth and burning things down while expecting things to be happy and sunny.
Lilah looks strong, but there are some pretty significant constraints to building around her. A lot of the izzet-colored sorceries and instants are really niche spells, counters, or combat tricks. The last two are really hurt by only being able to play the plotted spells at sorcery speed.
I think this is why Lilah's best friend in EDH will be Painter's Servant, to make her trigger on every instant and sorcery in your deck and not just the Izzet ones.
Absolutely valid point, but I'll still bet that needing a $50 card to make her function well at all will likely keep the number of Lilah-led decks overall pretty minimalized. Probably best in the 99 of another deck.
Lilah looks strong, but there are some pretty significant constraints to building around her. A lot of the izzet-colored sorceries and instants are really niche spells, counters, or combat tricks. The last two are really hurt by only being able to play the plotted spells at sorcery speed.
Okay, setting aside the card itself (Which is honestly just silly and going into like 4 of my decks immediately)... is that an electrified cat-o-nine-horseshoes?
First thing that comes to mind would be Blaze-esque X-spells, since that would allow you to tweak the amount of damage each spell was doing. Getting a single card draw for the amount of work going in to do exact damage feels like a little bit light, but that's just me.
Bonus points for yelling "Headshot!" every time you kill a creature and draw a card, though.
In a vacuum? Happy - most of the new cards in the deck don't really do much for me, so I won't be buying the deck itself but happy for reprints to drive their prices down!
We FINALLY broke Krark-Clan Ironworks!!!
Absolutely valid point, but I'll still bet that needing a $50 card to make her function well at all will likely keep the number of Lilah-led decks overall pretty minimalized. Probably best in the 99 of another deck.
2) Did this really need the "once per turn" clause?
3) Good lord, that flavor text is awful.
Bonus points for yelling "Headshot!" every time you kill a creature and draw a card, though.