MTG Salvation

I wanted to take a stab at Titans. Uro is a cool card but unfortunately he is almost too good. I also wanted to try a different approach to them escaping and avoid the escape mechanic in place of something else. The idea remains the same for the most part.

Vrex, Titan of Life and Death 1BG
Legendary Creature - Elder Giant
When Vrex enters the battlefield, sacrifice it unless it was Summoned.
Whenever Vrex, Titan of Life and Death enters the battlefield or attacks, you may return a card from your graveyard to your hand.
Summoning BBGG (You may cast this from your graveyard by sacrificing three permanents and paying its Summoning cost.)
6/6

I remember waiting mo ths for spoilers and sometimes the anticipation would kill me. There were times when WotC would say absolutely nothing about the new set until it was at your front door. Now, people complain because they see too many new cards too often. Im not sure this is actually a problem.

Quote from ColossalDreadmaw »

I'm curious about the new mechanic, hopefully nothing silly like party

I honestly don't think party is that bad just because there are so many creatures of those types already. Its not hard to make a decent party deck.

I think I would rather not see this printed rather than run the risk of having it spawn some absurdly broken commanders. In theory the concept is cool; I would love to run things like Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper with Mina and Denn, Wildborn and make a fun landfall/spell deck, but not everyone is going to play fair with this, and thats the problem.

Went with both suggestions just to see how it looked.

so I'm redesigning a bunch of cards from the reserved list and essentially making new versions of them. Here is a modern take on an old favorite of mine, City of Shadows.

Crypt of Shadows
Land - Swamp
T, sacrifice a creature: Put a Storage counter on Crypt of Shadows.
B, T: add B to your mana pool for each Storage counter on Crypt of Shadows.

The idea was that City of Shadows was originally a powerful card, but we have seen lands that can easily make it look weak in comparison. Ideally, I've added a bit more restrictions onto it for it to act as more of a functional land in today's MtG meta.

Another interesting card is Gate to Phyrexia. I think this could specifically work well if it was adjusted a bit. Although black doesn't deal with artifacts, this might be appropriate.

Phyrexian Gatekeeper 2CC
Artifact Creature - Horror
Deathtouch
Sacrifice a creature: Destroy target artifact.
2/2

- Please Note that the colorless mana symbols are supposed to be Black Phyrexian mana, I just couldn't figure out how to format it on here.

Quote from ilovesaprolings »

Honestly looks like a really good list. Quite fun and effective as a first EDH list. Sad that they made Obuun too safe

My only complaint is that he didn't permanently animate the land like Awakening cards do.

I think they should do this with each set!

I wish it had better protection. I'm tired of poor man's hexproof. It's a legendary creature, just put it on there. It's not like it's going to break the meta.

Quote from Ryperior74 »

Welp only one teaser to go

The Leviathan crab

if the leak is right it should be a 0/17 with 2U +X/-X For number of islands Until ET

now the two cards


the golem is nice for Bruvec and the upcoming rogue deck

and vial is nice with or without a cleric

Wait where did you see a leak of the leviathan crab?

All around decent card. I wish i could abuse kicker with etb effects though.

I need like 7 of these asap.

This thing is immediately going into Windgrace and will be probably one of the best cards in the deck.

Quote from Spaz350 »

Ghave, Guru of Spores: "Well, this is just freaking great."

I was thinking the same thing lol

Quote from seilaoque »

I think we should nickname it Badghast...

man, at least they should drop the whole "can't block" line if it was kicked... add a "can't block while it has no +1/+1 counters on it"
because, hell, 3/1 can't block for 2 is terrible, 5/3 can't block for 5 is even more terrible.

even if keeps coming back, it's very inneficient.

Quote from protoaddict »

Bloodghast this is not. For that matter Prized amalgam, Sliversmote ghoul, Ichord this is not either. I guess it will see play somewhere but it feels very grindy and not that great for a grindy card.

at the end of the day, it seems just as good as the last self reanimating black rares like Gutterbones or Bloodsoaked Champion

Idk... it does have more meat to swing in with. Gutterbones couldn't close a game as fast

It fits into my black aggro build I've been testing. It needed a decent 2 drop, and something that reanimates seems good