MTG Salvation

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Haha not only uro and kroxa decks are a goner now it's another money reprint

Ooze actually doesn't have a firm hold in Modern right now, and Uro decks there are making out like bandits...and actually still were while Lurrus Jund decks were popular and the Jund decks' Ooze numbers went up. Kroxa is also reasonably popular in Modern despite Ooze and other vicious graveyard hate, although both of them having ETB triggers and reasonable converted mana costs also helps the Titans.

Speaking of Conspicuous Snoop, it's capable of a Turn 3 infinite combo if it's not summoning sick and you play Boggart Harbinger:

1. Harbinger tutors for Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
2. Snoop taps to make a Snoop copy with Haste, which taps to make a Snoop copy with Haste, etc.
3. The last Snoop copy taps to make a Harbinger copy
4. Harbinger copy tutors for Sling-Gang Lieutenant/Mogg Fanatic
5. Snoop copies sacrifice themselves for infinite damage/life loss

Goblin Matron can enable a Turn 4 infinite combo if you have it instead of Harbinger.
A drawn Kiki-Jiki can copy Harbinger/Matron/Goblin Ringleader until you get the combo.
If Sling-Gang is on the battlefield, there's always getting lucky with a Snoop with Kiki-Jiki on top.

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Could Chandra's Incinerator be viable in Burn? It seems very easy to make it cost just R.

Nah--Skewer the Critics has cost 3 mana shockingly often, and Chandra's Incinerator is too expensive for Burn at 3 mana if you get Spectacle active with only 1 burn spell.

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Quote from m_pathogen »

That is one pushed pooch.

Given that they won't give Standard or Pioneer Benevolent Bodyguard, yes, this seems pushed. (I'm assuming the translation is correct here: I've seen some bad translations in the Rumor Mill for this set, with anything from missed information to outright unbelievable card names.)

Of course, the final thing Wizards could have done to push this harder would be to make it grant hexproof instead of indestructible. Targeted exile, -X/-Y, and tuck effects are still too common.

You could always do the translations for us.

Give me half an hour and an exclusive preview nobody else will post first and I just might. "Whale Whale" was a TERRIBLE translation given that none of the words in that card's name were repeated and only the last word was in the creature type section.

Yup, this card also works with Abbot of Keral Keep's card-flipping trigger.

As someone who tried Strategic Planning in Modern UR Storm, though, sorcery speed and 2 cmc arguably more than compensate for dumping cards in the graveyard instead of the library, which is why Strategic Planning saw barely any play in UR Storm and I don't see this card getting into UR Storm.

The flavour text seems pretty stupid, though (on the bright side, its translation actually looks reasonable, unlike some other Chinese translations of previews of this set I've seen). This man cannot see that the answer right in front of his nose is the present.

And over in Modern, removal is so brutal that all we can say about this creature is "at least it doesn't die to Bolt, Fatal Push, or Dismember" because all the stronger removal spells will give it the boot before you can get any benefit from it. And they will have stronger removal spells by then because this guy is 5 cmc.

Quote from m_pathogen »

That is one pushed pooch.

Given that they won't give Standard or Pioneer Benevolent Bodyguard, yes, this seems pushed. (I'm assuming the translation is correct here: I've seen some bad translations in the Rumor Mill for this set, with anything from missed information to outright unbelievable card names.)

Of course, the final thing Wizards could have done to push this harder would be to make it grant hexproof instead of indestructible. Targeted exile, -X/-Y, and tuck effects are still too common.

We have some spicy cards on the horizon.

I needed Containment Priest several sets ago--trashing Collected Company would have been more valuable some meta shifts ago. At least it shuts off Finale of Devastation, Aether Vial, Dredge creature recursion, and friends.

I have a feeling Grim Tutor will enable at least one midrange-combo or combo-control deck into tournament Top 8 levels.

Fierce Empath might end up enabling something, too. At the very least, Nykthos Green will love it.

Necromentia is basically Unmoored Ego that doesn't need blue mana. Sideboards are going to love it.

Shame none of the new planeswalkers look all that playable.

This doesn't need blue mana, unlike Unmoored Ego. Booyah! It's rare to snipe cards out of hands with this type of card, anyway. Shame you can't point this at yourself and name Eternal Scourge, though.

Weaponized Scrap's Upgrade ability looks an awful lot like Mutate.

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What’s with the spoilers today? Did people not get the memo, or just being disrespectful?

Apparently it was a birthday stream.

That's a pretty good reason to stream TODAY and not tomorrow.

Regarding the card, it's likely not aimed at Modern and up (and I suspect it's too weak for Pioneer). If only it cost 1-2 less mana for those formats....

I just realized that Casualties of War is already a 31-option card. Now I'm expecting a similar card in this core set.

Why do I have a feeling that the Human Monk is Monastery Swiftspear?

Here I was, thinking that the card with 31 options would have the numbers 1-31 or 0-30 as the only options....

Magus of the nerfed Desert Twister?