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  • posted a message on [C19] Thieving Amalgam- Wizards Twitter preview
    Sweet card, I love this type of effect.
    This Commander product is really hitting the mark, powerful abilities without super broken potential, for the most part.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • posted a message on [C19] Sudden Exchange
    Quote from DoogieBHB »
    I’m struggling to understand what this does, is the translation incomplete or am I just not smart enough?


    Say they cast an Ancestral Vision, target themselves. You get their Ancestral Vision and give them some junk Myr token that's on the battlefield. Note you don't need a creature, it's just any creature out there.
    Fun, but super mean, card.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • posted a message on Prismatic Vista
    Yeah, got into an argument with a good friend that this would hit close to 40, didn't believe me.
    I have 0 right now, will need to get some backs asap while they aren't crazy expensive.
    Great design, flawed distribution at rare.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • posted a message on [C19] Sanctum of Eternity and Leadership Vacuum
    Quote from DoubleT »
    Does Leadership Vacuum increase the commander tax or does it just go back with the same tax it had before?


    This is a really good question. If it increases the tax, the card is super busted, and there needs be a method to lower commander tax.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • posted a message on Major changes to Magic announced at SDCC? (New booster variants and premium styles)
    All of this is leaving me *shrug*?
    The all-foil boosters are great, but I won't get them unless there are absolute bombs in the set.
    Throne of Eldraine looks thematically awesome, but as I tweeted to Magic, this looks like another set without Zendikar fetches or other Modern/Eternal staples being re-printed.

    I don't see anything here that would be a "Major Change". That would involve retiring an eternal format, formalizing a "staples" reprint policy or somesuch.
    The 25th year was super cool for a bunch of reasons, but this year has been pretty hit and miss.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • posted a message on Commander July 8th Banlist Update
    Glad to see Engine go, Iona was very meh.
    Painter's Servant is super obnoxious. My friend who ran Engine decks is going to jam Servant instead, with Wash Out, Llawan, etc.
    We'll deal, since it's a creature, but man.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • posted a message on New Sol Ring promo
    YEah, the art is way too busy for a simple thing like a Sol Ring, but it's good to have another print of this card.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • posted a message on On Thin Ice
    Yeah, this needed Flash to be sorta playable. As it is, it's too narrow and too slow. Pity, they could have printed another efficient human at Rare in this slot.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • posted a message on Kaya's Guile BBD preview
    Quote from Reesepuff »
    As happy as I am with the card, Kaya as a character seems to be forced almost as if they’re trying to make her a main protagonist post WAR.



    I agree with this. Kaya is reaching former Jace levels here. This card is fantastic, but with the amount of jumping through walls to kill people she does, you'd think they'd have some sorrt of ecto-trap and go back to their poker games. I would have preferred another art direction, as nothing in this card art calls to mind trickery or cleverness, just "stabby time!".
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • posted a message on Battle screech reprint
    Always a fun card to have around, even though it's more than fair in the current Modern Meta. Nice art as well, good job here. Smile
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • posted a message on Mox Tantalite Twitch TV stream
    So one thing I've been hearing is these might see play in Bolas's Citadel decks, since they become extra land drops, essentially. Not sure how good this would be in Modern, but kinda glad it isn't in Standard if that's the case.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • posted a message on Mox Tantalite Twitch TV stream
    Disappointing. This will probably find a niche in Modern at some point, but man. This was their chance to pull a few nice levers for Modern and they have certainly printed some viable cards for the format (Lava Dart, Prohibit, the Bazaar Djinn, Canopy lands) but it really feels like they had overflow Commander product and just used it as filler in this set. It's a pity, really, because they could have used this to print safety valves for items they find problematic as well.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • posted a message on Zhalfirin Decoy
    Kind of disappointing it did not have Flanking, seeng it's a Zhalfirin. This will probably be fine if there's token generation of some sort at instant speed.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • posted a message on Glacial Revelation and Ravenous Giant
    Quote from Lowynd »
    In the right deck it could be up to 'draw six' for 3 mana, which is bonkers. Even if the average is 'draw three', this is already above the line.



    Was just thinking Sasaya with Snow Forests. Just grab 5-6 of those, instant flip and off to the races.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
  • posted a message on Altar of Dementia reprint
    Unless you can mill their deck in short order, I think Lantern selecting your draws is still better than Altar right? And that deck isn't exactly at the top of the meta at the moment. Altar in Modern seems brave, but not game-breaking. It might inadvertently boost some strats but we can deal with that later, etc.
    Posted in: The Rumor Mill
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