Sakashima the Impostor
2UU
Legendary Creature — Human Rogue
P/T: 3/1
Rules Text (Oracle): As Sakashima the Impostor comes into play, you may choose a creature in play. If you do, Sakashima comes into play as a copy of that creature, except its name is still Sakashima the Impostor, it’s still legendary, and it gains “: Return Sakashima the Impostor to its owner’s hand at end of turn.” Circu, Dimir Lobotomist - 2UB
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard (R)
Whenever you play a blue spell, remove the top card of target player's library from the game.
Whenever you play a black spell, remove the top card of target player's library from the game.
Your opponents can't play nonland cards with the same name as a card removed from the game with Circu, Dimir Lobotomist.
2/3
So when you play Sakashima and choose Circu, you get:
Sakashima the Impostor
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Whenever you play a blue spell, remove the top card of target player's library from the game.
Whenever you play a black spell, remove the top card of target player's library from the game.
Your opponents can't play nonland cards with the same name as a card removed from the game with ~this~
2UU: Return Sakashima the Impostor to its owner’s hand at end of turn.
Primordial Sage - 4GG
Creature - Spirit (R)
Whenever you play a creature spell, you may draw a card.
4/5
Green gets more of the "Oops, we didn't mean to" part of its color. Green learns more from each creature it sees, and this is no exception. I'm kinda chuckling at how WoTC is still including more spirits than other types so you can use them with Kamigawa. They desperately want you to play with Kamigawa.
Rosewater's article yesterday did say they were trying to make the blocks more interrelated, and that we were only seeing it in a backhanded way in Ravnica because that was where the philosophy started. So Kamigawa doesn't link to Ravnica, but Ravnica echoes back to Kamigawa intentionally. And, presumably, forward to the next block, which we don't know much about.
And blue gets randomly hosed again. It's like they tacked on "can't be countered" to the samurai because they hadn't quite hosed blue enough with Dosan and Boseiju.
This is reasonable as to-the-face burn on its own, but you can probably assemble a fairly nasty straight burn deck now. Some of it even has nice side effects, like Pulse o' the Forge returning if they're trying to rush you, Hammer returning if the game goes long (ha), new billy Blood Flame being unpreventable and stopping lifegain, Magma Jet letting you Scry, that sort of thing.
Unless you can eat counters you don't want (-1/-1, age, etc) then this is junk.
The more I think about it, a 4/4 flying Legend shouldn't cost more than :3mana::symu:. So as a pure "beatdown" creature, it's probably no good. To combo with other cards, though, it might be okay.
Most Legendary creatures do seem to get a discount of more than 1 colourless. I wonder if there's a reason in BoK that it was costed as if it had an ability rather than a drawback.
Maybe, he said bitterly, Wizards just doesn't like blue very much.
The two best uses I can see are in blue/white - either running Pious Kitsune, which just keeps producing counters, or Sensei Golden-Tail, which you have to pay mana to use, but when the counters go away, the creatures keep the type-change and bushido.
I wonder if the 6th genju could be the gold card that Scrye mentioned.
Also, no real need for half a dozen people to post the image. The card text would suffice, and even that's not really necessary. If people can access this forum, they surely can and will be reading mtg.com as well.
2UU
Legendary Creature — Human Rogue
P/T: 3/1
Rules Text (Oracle): As Sakashima the Impostor comes into play, you may choose a creature in play. If you do, Sakashima comes into play as a copy of that creature, except its name is still Sakashima the Impostor, it’s still legendary, and it gains “
Circu, Dimir Lobotomist - 2UB
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard (R)
Whenever you play a blue spell, remove the top card of target player's library from the game.
Whenever you play a black spell, remove the top card of target player's library from the game.
Your opponents can't play nonland cards with the same name as a card removed from the game with Circu, Dimir Lobotomist.
2/3
So when you play Sakashima and choose Circu, you get:
Sakashima the Impostor
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Whenever you play a blue spell, remove the top card of target player's library from the game.
Whenever you play a black spell, remove the top card of target player's library from the game.
Your opponents can't play nonland cards with the same name as a card removed from the game with ~this~
2UU: Return Sakashima the Impostor to its owner’s hand at end of turn.
Don't you?
Rosewater's article yesterday did say they were trying to make the blocks more interrelated, and that we were only seeing it in a backhanded way in Ravnica because that was where the philosophy started. So Kamigawa doesn't link to Ravnica, but Ravnica echoes back to Kamigawa intentionally. And, presumably, forward to the next block, which we don't know much about.
(And if we subtract what we -have- found from 5633, that's the number left to guess)
It will? 2 mana plus bouncing one of your own lands, just to tap one of theirs? What decks do you think it'll be used in?
I guess it taps down Nexi and Genju, but I'd rather use an Icy or something for that.
Most Legendary creatures do seem to get a discount of more than 1 colourless. I wonder if there's a reason in BoK that it was costed as if it had an ability rather than a drawback.
Maybe, he said bitterly, Wizards just doesn't like blue very much.
The two best uses I can see are in blue/white - either running Pious Kitsune, which just keeps producing counters, or Sensei Golden-Tail, which you have to pay mana to use, but when the counters go away, the creatures keep the type-change and bushido.
Also, no real need for half a dozen people to post the image. The card text would suffice, and even that's not really necessary. If people can access this forum, they surely can and will be reading mtg.com as well.