The 2/3 flier with adapt isn't even a bad card. It's a three mana two power flier, which is fine on rate already, and if you have mana to spare it can be upgraded to stay relevant if your opponent plays a three power flier, or if you need to speed up your clock. The ability is basically free, it doesn't raise the casting cost at all sinceit is fine on rate even without it. Of course it will be expensive to activate then.
Maybe I'm just a limited player in a thread full of constructed players.
LSV joked about being "a pro, well, kind of" (or something like that) in yesterday's LR episode. Ben Stark pushed back on it, and he avoided to elaborate. Now we know what he referred to. I guess he hasn't played enough lately, I'm sure activity level enters into it somehow. Maybe yearly pro points.
Ben Stark made it though, YEAH! Go Ben!
Second Place in the last Pro Tour isn't "playing enough"?
You're confusing quality with quantity. Nobody doubts that LSV is still a beast and a top pro, but afaik he has been playing less for the last year or two because he has a lot of other things going on. If this list is based on something that is tied to activity level, such as yearly pro points, that could explain why he's not on it.
For limited, the black afterlife cards will be great as spectacle enablers in Rakdos, and the black spectacle cards will be very easy turn on in Orzhov. BW splash R and/or BR splash W will probably be common. This synergy overlap between neighbour guilds is very good game design.
Edit: I'm going to guess that the order they will reveal the final three guilds will be WU today, then UG, then GR, to highlight synergies between the guild mechanics.
I think that going 4+ colors on the back of Mox Amber is a trap. You need to build a deck that still works if you don't draw it. Remember that it doesn't fix your colors, since you need to have cast the color you're getting, unless it's hybrid or something like that. If you could stick to one creature type, you could run Unclaimed Territory and double up, but that's a tall order when you're also restricted to legendary cards.
It seems to me like this deck wants to be GWx and very creature heavy with Emmara, Shanna and Trostani to enable a go-wide strategy. And you want enough legends to be able to replace lands with Mox, since adding it in spell slots would keep you away from critical mass. Your third color is probably blue for Lavinia and Tetsuko, or red for Tajic and Aurelia. Turn three Aurelia sounds pretty busted...
If it works, your payoff is to follow up your legendary two drop on turn two with two legendary two drops on turn three. And even then, it requires some luck to have three legends that are not duplicates. The legend rule inherently makes it harder to build a deck with enough legends to enable Mox Amber, you can't jam 4 of each and cross your fingers.
Mox Amber makes me sad. It's such a cool card, yet also so aggravatingly hard to build arould. You have to warp your whole deck so hard around it that it always ends up not worth it compared to running the same strategy without it. Like the above GW strategy, how can it be better than running the stock GW tokens list when it dissuades you from playing too many token makers and it doesn't help you cast Flourish?
Can we take a minutw and acknowledge how much FNM promos have improved since before the token snafu? Look at this, three very playable cards, all potential Standard staples. The GRN ones were great too, we got the Thoughtseize effect, the best counterspell and a staple removal spell. Before that, Bugler, Cast Down, freaking Opt ... they are just nailing it.
Doesn't look like there's going to be Jace in this set
Thats pretty much a given, Maro even said the walkers in these sets are two colored and working for Bolas and the gatewatch won't appear at all.
If it's any consolation, I'm sure the 'watch will appear in the next set, dramatic entrance to the big fight scene vs. Bolas and his newfound henchmen. I bet three of them even get PW cards.
Doesn't look like there's going to be Jace in this set
Thats pretty much a given, Maro even said the walkers in these sets are two colored and working for Bolas and the gatewatch won't appear at all.
If it's any consolation, I'm sure the 'watch will appear in the next set, dramatic entrance to the big fight scene vs. Bolas and his newfound henchmen. I bet three of them even get PW cards.
Dredge, KCI, Hollow One, Tron, Spirits, GDS, and even Phoenix, are all just as competitive.
Humans is certainly Tier 1, but 0, is a special place reserved for garbage like Eldrazi.
And Treasure Cruise Delver. And in Standard, Temur Energy and Caw Blade. We don't refer to a "Tier 0" unless a format is deeply dysfunctional because of that deck. Small quibble spun out of hand, but there you have it.
Wow. That Rakdos cardcis going to be an absolute house in draft. Easy 2 for 1 plus chip damagecat a great rate. The black flier will play out better than it looks, and iæI still feel that the similar card in Dominaria was underrated. 3 toughness will keep it out of constructed. Simic Ascendancy is hilariously bad - the alt win is nearly impossible to pull off, and the counter adding ability is not enough to carry the card on its own. Can you imsgine a game where you add 20 +1/+1 counters and still need another wincon? Is it an EDH thing? I like Ascendancy cards though, I hope it's a cycle. Mortify is a cool reprint, but it makes my Experimental Frenzy deck very sad. If BW is a color pair for Standard, it could be a new Abrade, making the whole card type less viable. Lastly, the UG instant looks ok, not great. Exploration type cards are almost always worse than they look, so... Uh, how much do you want a 2 mana cantrip?
LSV joked about being "a pro, well, kind of" (or something like that) in yesterday's LR episode. Ben Stark pushed back on it, and he avoided to elaborate. Now we know what he referred to. I guess he hasn't played enough lately, I'm sure activity level enters into it somehow. Maybe yearly pro points.
Spanish speaker here, if this is legit, then the English name should definitely be "Light the Stage".
Professional translator here. When translating titles and such, a lot of other aspects than exact literal translation come into play, such as intended flavour (what kinds of feelings are evoked by the words) and how cool/natural it sounds in the target language. Translation is not an exact science, and shouldn't be treated as such.
This is not meant as criticism towards you, your input here is super useful. I just want people on the forums to not decide that "this MUST be the English name because that's what it says in this other language" like they wrongfully do over and over again during spoiler season. Don't name/number crunch this based on its most literal translation.
OP lacks link to the article.
Maybe I'm just a limited player in a thread full of constructed players.
Edit: I'm going to guess that the order they will reveal the final three guilds will be WU today, then UG, then GR, to highlight synergies between the guild mechanics.
It seems to me like this deck wants to be GWx and very creature heavy with Emmara, Shanna and Trostani to enable a go-wide strategy. And you want enough legends to be able to replace lands with Mox, since adding it in spell slots would keep you away from critical mass. Your third color is probably blue for Lavinia and Tetsuko, or red for Tajic and Aurelia. Turn three Aurelia sounds pretty busted...
If it works, your payoff is to follow up your legendary two drop on turn two with two legendary two drops on turn three. And even then, it requires some luck to have three legends that are not duplicates. The legend rule inherently makes it harder to build a deck with enough legends to enable Mox Amber, you can't jam 4 of each and cross your fingers.
Mox Amber makes me sad. It's such a cool card, yet also so aggravatingly hard to build arould. You have to warp your whole deck so hard around it that it always ends up not worth it compared to running the same strategy without it. Like the above GW strategy, how can it be better than running the stock GW tokens list when it dissuades you from playing too many token makers and it doesn't help you cast Flourish?
Man, I hope someone figures it out at some point.
Ben Stark made it though, YEAH! Go Ben!
This is not meant as criticism towards you, your input here is super useful. I just want people on the forums to not decide that "this MUST be the English name because that's what it says in this other language" like they wrongfully do over and over again during spoiler season. Don't name/number crunch this based on its most literal translation.