MTG Salvation

Plot twist: Gideon ults and has 1 loyalty left. Jace cracks Emergence Zone. Rescuer Sphinx dives in and saves Gideon from an untimely exiling. Go Gatewatch.

The flavor though. Windstorm picks up a land and smacks something with it. 10/10

5 for a 3/5 who casts odd CMC cards for free or draws 1 card. 3 relevant combat abilities, and only even-ness can stop her because she must be blocked by at least 2 creatures. EVERY WORD in her name and her flavor text has an odd number of letters.

Gorgeous.

Love the “if X is [x] or more, [other effect]” mechanic. Feels full circle from the “X is 5 or more” from Conflux, our dragon enemy’s other big event.

Oh, Jace. Last time you went toe-to-toe with Bolas, you got curbstomped so badly that you woke up on a desert island a thousand planes away, unable even to remember your own name.

But yes, tell me more about how much better you are than Bolas, on principle.

His triumph was not in drawing two cards, but in drawing three of them.

I feel like people are being overly harsh. Having a card that dodges board wipes and provides card advantage (not just card quality like copter, but actual CA) has potential, especially at only 2 cmc. Imagine playing a fairly creature-light control deck with lots of wipes - this could be a good way to swing in and get cards after a wipe, while putting on some pressure. And there are a lot of wipes in standard right now...

Not saying it's amazing, but I wouldn't say it's terrible.

"Her triumph came not from destroying the unnatural, but from fostering life"

Immediately uses Vitu Ghazi to topple the very unnatural statue

Urgdar is my new favorite philosopher.

Everything about this set and its story reminds me of Apocalypse and the whole Invasion cycle. You have all these powerful walkers fighting against an all-powerful god and the actual plane itself rising up in pretty spectacular ways to just dump all over mindless, recyclable minions throwing themselves in waves against the defenders. You've even got The Wanderer as a Blind Seer analog. It's really cool and somewhat nostalgic.

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I don't understand why people are so excited for this card. It isn't that good of a card. Standard and Modern wont play this. Is it that good for commander? Did she have some sort of lore that people are all silly about?

It's both. She does things in Boros that other Boros commanders don't, essentially giving the least tricksy color with the least amount of card advantage an avenue for both. As for lore, she's a character from back in the original Ravnica block that people have been waiting to see a card for. Combined, that's a slam dunk for the Commander crowd.

Can confirm, as a commander player I am currently dunking