This is probably Tyvar approaching Harald and excoriating his older brother the King about how His Majesty has been following the words of the God of Lies too slavishly.
Along with maybe Skull Raid, this finally looks like a card worth Foretelling! UWx decks actually might be able to bust their Turn 2 against aggro saving their butts on Turn 3.
Oh do you think Birgi will work in burn vast majority of the spells cost R plus reminder Gut Shot exist to activate her when your tapped out
Regular Burn is more concerned with running out of damage cards than running out of mana. 3 mana is too steep to get Burn out of its early mana screw stages.
I'm trying to figure out if Birgi and her horn can slot into Modern Big Mono-R Prowess with Obosh, the Preypiercer as its Companion, a Storm build, or even a Big Red deck of some sort. In Mono-R Prowess, Seasoned Pyromancer and Bonecrusher Giant provide stiff competition, though.
"Birgi, God of Stories" behaves like a semi-jacked-up version of Runaway Steam-Kin and I'm sure that ritual ability of hers can be abused Goblin Electromancer-style...if she'd only survive the instant-speed removal no doubt flung her way.
It's interesting that Birgi and her horn are both the ritual and the CA engine in one card.
That horn looks like a very powerful Yawgmoth's Bargain-like draw engine if you can abuse it. Storm decks seem particularly prone to dumping all their spare lands in hand to this. I suppose its not actually drawing cards helps balance it out.
Wrenn and Six, get to work with the Immersturm Skullcairn. Shame about how expensive the ability is, though...and it's still the cheapest in Jund colours.
Shame Death and Taxes often doesn't have the legend density to make this worth the opportunity cost - indestructible, pumped Thalia, Guardian of Thraben would be neat otherwise.
In older formats there's so much cheap exile-removal such as swords to plowshares and path to exile that investing all the time and resources to make something indestructible doesn't seem like a winning payoff.
Sinking all that time and mana to make indestructible, pumped Gods may not be worth it against Swords and Path decks, but Bolt decks that run neither like R/x Prowess are huge in Modern, and Jund still has a slight foothold in Modern. Other aggro(-combo) decks like Colossus Hammer Time, Dredge, and Heliod Ballista decks also tend to skimp on exile effects.
All these God and indestructible counter shenanigans just might dodge Oko, Thief of Crowns to boot. (Oko is often found in RUG Tempo Thresh decks, among other Legacy decks.)
Well I see we're giving preview cards to anyone now. I enjoy Arin and the Game Grumps, but it seems odd to give him these amazing preview cards when for the most part he only opens packs and has had three or four Magic related videos. I feel there are other Magic personalities that deserve these far more than he does, by miles.
As for the cards they are very good. I almost enjoy the mana rock creation more than the free cast from Svella, but that's me, and a scry 5/draw 3 is amazing at instant.
This is the preview season where Wizards is giving cards to metal musicians, bands, and websites as a 1-2-of, and they'll probably never preview any MTG cards ever again. I think we're fine.
Shame Death and Taxes often doesn't have the legend density to make this worth the opportunity cost - indestructible, pumped Thalia, Guardian of Thraben would be neat otherwise.
Honestly, I didn't think of using the third step to Wish for a sideboard answer - I was thinking of Wishing for a sideboard threat a la The Prismatic Bridge.
That is a pretty darned good card for UW--a early creature and incidental life gain, maybe you get to peek at an opponent's hand, but chapter III lets you pull exactly the answer you need from the sideboard.
Who is that reaching down and exactly what is going on with the hand/arm? Is that person compleating?
I thought that was either Alrund's raven message being absorbed into the recipient or the person transforming into/from a raven. Note the similarity in art style of both the fuller raven and the raven arm.
And infinite creature ETB and LTB triggers to boot.
Win cons for this combo in a Birgi EDH deck shape up nicely, with Grapeshot, Purphoros, God of the Forge, and the on-flavour Warstorm Surge among them.
Regular Burn is more concerned with running out of damage cards than running out of mana. 3 mana is too steep to get Burn out of its early mana screw stages.
I'm trying to figure out if Birgi and her horn can slot into Modern Big Mono-R Prowess with Obosh, the Preypiercer as its Companion, a Storm build, or even a Big Red deck of some sort. In Mono-R Prowess, Seasoned Pyromancer and Bonecrusher Giant provide stiff competition, though.
It's interesting that Birgi and her horn are both the ritual and the CA engine in one card.
Sinking all that time and mana to make indestructible, pumped Gods may not be worth it against Swords and Path decks, but Bolt decks that run neither like R/x Prowess are huge in Modern, and Jund still has a slight foothold in Modern. Other aggro(-combo) decks like Colossus Hammer Time, Dredge, and Heliod Ballista decks also tend to skimp on exile effects.
All these God and indestructible counter shenanigans just might dodge Oko, Thief of Crowns to boot. (Oko is often found in RUG Tempo Thresh decks, among other Legacy decks.)
This is the preview season where Wizards is giving cards to metal musicians, bands, and websites as a 1-2-of, and they'll probably never preview any MTG cards ever again. I think we're fine.
Shame Death and Taxes often doesn't have the legend density to make this worth the opportunity cost - indestructible, pumped Thalia, Guardian of Thraben would be neat otherwise.
I suppose this is theoretically more useful in Mox Amber decks like some Urza, Lord High Artificer/Emry, Lurker of the Loch builds.
I thought that was either Alrund's raven message being absorbed into the recipient or the person transforming into/from a raven. Note the similarity in art style of both the fuller raven and the raven arm.