Whoa. Build a better Decimate. Yeah, you're probably not going to be able to choose all the modes, but you're going to get good enough value out of this in most Commander games...and probably make everyone hate you in the process.
The year is 2003
Wizards print a brand new set called "Mirrodin", with a novel focus on artifacts as a card type to flesh them out in ways they haven't been done before.
Then they include this card;
The MemnaspellBB
Sorcery (R)
Any number of target artifacts lose all abilities until end of turn, then destroy them. Choose an artifact you control. Put either two +1/+1 counters or two charge counters on it for each artifact destroyed this way.
basically what this feels like
How warping can a single card be? It would be one thing if it was just a hoser, but instead its an "I win on the spot" in any planeswalker vs planeswalker matchup, encouraging you to use walkers and beat your opponents walkers, thereby creating a degenerate arms race around one card.
It reminds me a lot of original Innistrad, being a heavy “graveyard matters” block. And then they drop Grafdigger’s Cage on everyone. A 1 mana artifact that hosed an entire block’s theme. It was a powerful card that was used, but it was never banned.
I noticed there is some spoilers for a Gideon planeswalker deck in WAR, but do we know who the other Planeswalker deck will feature? If I had to guess, I would imagine it would be Bolas, because of the story.
edit: I wish The Edlerspell said "Destroy any number of target planeswalkers you don't control" so it would be truly anti-walker. The way it's worded, this is more of a combo-walker card than anti-walker. Sacrifice 1-2 of your walkers to trigger an ultimate on another.
I don't want to waste my time on a story with a downer ending where the good guys I've been rooting for end up losing. And I flat out reject stories that confuse "realism" with "pessimism", where the downer ending is supposed to represent some fatalistic philosophy about life. It's bad enough that real life has been disappointing and depressing, I will NOT waste my time on disappointing and depressing fiction. If the bad guy ends up winning, what's even the point of caring? What's even the point of reading the damn fiction in the first place!? Amonkhet felt like a waste of time. Shadows Over Innistrad felt like a waste of time. Scars of Mirrodin felt like a waste of time. Kaladesh, Ixalan, and Dominaria didn't feel like a waste of time.
So yeah, pardon me if I celebrate with the Ravnicans here. Down with Bolas and good riddance. At least in fiction world, dictators and tyrants get the death and defeat they deserve.
meanwhile it seems instead that the defenders just steamrolled bolas like he was more of a punchline than Tibalt from the cards.
Basically, this.
An ancient dragon who was the smartest and most powerful creature to ever walk the multiverse was out-smarted and overpowered with no meaningful cost to those who bested him.
Course he lost. If he won the story would sorta end and that's not good for business.
I was hoping for a multiverse-reset event.
Nicol Bolas is defeated, but not after the majority of planeswalkers die. Then for the next few years, there would be zero planeswalkers until their eventual return.
Killing their most popular characters and one of the things that makes Magic what it is would be silly. And we already know every living Planeswalker isn’t there as well, so it wouldn’t even make any sense. Not like Bolas dying would stop Walkers from sparking either.
We also have the Chandra comic which wouldn’t make sense with that context either. And just so many other holes.
They killed Urza and Gerard. It's not unheard of.
I was hoping War of the Spark was on the level of Apocalypse, but it's not.
Course he lost. If he won the story would sorta end and that's not good for business.
I was hoping for a multiverse-reset event.
Nicol Bolas is defeated, but not after the majority of planeswalkers die. Then for the next few years, there would be zero planeswalkers until their eventual return.
When I was invited back to these forums, I looked forward to sharing my decklists with others here. However, after posting a couple and getting minimal responses, I'm wondering what the point is. I'm proud of my decklists and have spent a fair amount of time tuning these decks, so to take the effort to post it up in the multiplayer decklist forum and receive little to no feedback is disheartening. Are people here just not interested in other folks' decklists or what?
I agree. I think half of my deck threads received zero responses and get buried tot he 2nd page in under 48 hours. I haven't posted that many. Maybe 10 deck lists over the past 6 years.
Well, I guess this is the point in the story where it turns for the "good" team. He even seems to be underestimating the strength and resolve it's giving the resistance.
We'll wait and see storywise where this goes but it's a decent limited card at common.
'buster
The bulk of the resistance seems to be coming from Boros & Selesnya.
This is a pretty major set story-wise, so why then do they use a rare slot on a running joke character? Why is he even in the set to begin with? Mechanically he feels..odd, like I don't get how the first effect really ties in with him at all, the second at least is somewhat worthwhile as far as flavor goes. I'm sure most people don't care, they're just happy that he finally got a card, but this really feels like something that should have been in a supplemental set or something, where they usually stick characters like this. I mean, they literally took a non-character from some flavor text and made him a full blown rare legend in one of the biggest even sets the game's ever had. Like, really? But again, this is probably falling on deaf ears because "omg hahaha, they actually made a Fblthp card!"
"But the meme value is through the roof!"
-WotC, probably
edit: I found it on another site:
B
Sorcery
Remove up to five counters from target artifact, creature, planeswalker, or opponent.
Jund and blow everything up.
It reminds me a lot of original Innistrad, being a heavy “graveyard matters” block. And then they drop Grafdigger’s Cage on everyone. A 1 mana artifact that hosed an entire block’s theme. It was a powerful card that was used, but it was never banned.
It's Jace. Image is on the packaging:
https://www.coolstuffinc.com/p/272414
So you're saying speculators need to jump on Shalai, Voice of Plenty?
Deliver unto evil has... interesting art work.
edit: I wish The Edlerspell said "Destroy any number of target planeswalkers you don't control" so it would be truly anti-walker. The way it's worded, this is more of a combo-walker card than anti-walker. Sacrifice 1-2 of your walkers to trigger an ultimate on another.
Basically, this.
An ancient dragon who was the smartest and most powerful creature to ever walk the multiverse was out-smarted and overpowered with no meaningful cost to those who bested him.
They killed Urza and Gerard. It's not unheard of.
I was hoping War of the Spark was on the level of Apocalypse, but it's not.
I wish it put the revealed card on the bottom of your library or something like that.
I was hoping for a multiverse-reset event.
Nicol Bolas is defeated, but not after the majority of planeswalkers die. Then for the next few years, there would be zero planeswalkers until their eventual return.
I agree. I think half of my deck threads received zero responses and get buried tot he 2nd page in under 48 hours. I haven't posted that many. Maybe 10 deck lists over the past 6 years.
The bulk of the resistance seems to be coming from Boros & Selesnya.
Seems good.
But who would crew it?
I like the card, but to be fair, I would have rather have had a nine or ten mana version which had Skysovereign text which triggers ETB or attacks.
EDH only, but flicker can be fun and instant value.
"But the meme value is through the roof!"
-WotC, probably