MTG Salvation

Direct Current is AWFUL. 3 mana sorcery Shock that requires another 3 mana and discard to deal another 2 damage, is terrible. Radical Idea just.... I don't know on first look it feels like a bad Think Twice. That discard in the Jump-start mechanic, just really really feels bad on these cards that it looks like WotC decided to cost very safely (aka under-powered).

Quote from Slaugh »

It returns all zombies on curve, interesting. Now they need to print 3 playable zombies, but I know they'll never do that.

Diregraf Ghoul, Graveyard Marshal, Death Baron ? Still need more playable Zombies with the Amonkhet ones leaving, but just saying.

Possible in standard:

G Ramp; G Elves; GB Saporlings; W Knights; UR Wizards; R Goblins; B Artifacts?; B/x/x Lich Control; UW Control

It is a lot of cards to go through and honestly a LOT of the Legendary creatures are kinda expensive mana-wise.

I am not sure I like:

-Legendary Sorceries being so expensive mana-wise and still requiring a Legendary creature to be on the battlefield.
-Only a few of the Sagas look playable (White Knight, Black Destroy non-artifacts) having the effects slow roll off allows the opponent to plan for them and then having to sacrifice them after 3 lore counters feels bad.
-Power level still seems a little low, with too many spells trying to be like their old counterparts, but requiring harsh hoops to jump through.

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Instantaneously prefer the older art

Should have still ben In The knight helmet

I agree, old art is way better.

Good, those tokens were LAME!

So many complaints on here will be from people not reading the article and the reasoning for each ban. That is the internet though, read the headline and instantly form opinion with no real backing. We humans are creatures of emotion.

Banwise all of these make sense based off their reasoning and I would like see to where the format evolves. Does RG Pummler rise to take over the Energy mantle? Does UW Cycling or UB Control lock opponents out of their game for dominance? Does UW GPG and Scarab God force graveyard hate into every deck? Do any of the Ixalan tribes actually stand a chance against the evil remnants of Kaladesh and Ahmonket?

Slaughter the Strong looks like it could be a good board wipe for modern. You can have your 4 fish lords, but only one will live!

Captain's Hook at 3 cost went from maybe pleayable to nope, nope, nope. Seriously, you LOSE THE PERMANENT if it gets detached, why have it cost so much? Also, we already have one or two other promo Evolving Wilds, another one over the tens of thousand other cards we could have a promo of is irksome.

Day 1 gone, a quick breakdown: The three "safe" decks have all emerged on top, but maybe not the exact builds people were expecting. Sultai Energy (closely followed by Temur and 4 color Energy), UW Approach, and Red Deck Wins. A lot of people in the Twitch chat were crying about the lack of dinosaur presence and some were hoping for a Pirate deck to show up. Most played/impressive cards out of Ixalan: Hostage Taker and Search for Azcanta, only dino to show up on camera: Deathgorge Scavenger. Most on camera deck was the several variants of Energy. Best Tier 1.5 decks that were shown (closest to breaking into the meta, IMO) Esper God's Gift and Grixis Improvise. Most unique deck that could break into the meta (probably a Tier 2 deck, maybe 1.5) Esper Tokens (with Marionette Master). Only Ixalan Tribe deck to show up on camera (you will never guess it)..... GW Vampires! Mono White Vampires with green splash for Rishkar and Blooming Defense doing some work.

I don't consider it value when a limited print run set with super inflated booster prices sticks in 1-2 $100+ cards and 3-4 $50+ cards and the rest are $5-, especially when some are banned/not legal in multiple formats and the others have been overly-reprinted half a dozen times. If you have the money to waste on inflated MTG lottery, I am not stopping you. But don't expect these super-rare and expensive sets to lower prizes on the reprint by any significant amount.

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