MTG Salvation

Giant Strength and Mark of Fury had a lovechild...

Honestly, Jump-Start should just be called Flashback. What's the point of coming up with new abilities, if your just gonna rename name old ones with slightly different wording? Retrace is the same, it's effectively "Flashback- <mana cost>, discard a land."

Can you tap equipped Equipment for such abilities? one of those questions i've wanted to ask, but since i don't play anymore- it's not important.

Why does it specify "in play"? I've always interpreted the "zones of control" as 'controls' implies 'in play' and 'owns' represents all zones.

if the card said 'target creature you own' would need the 'in play' so someone can't just have a Phyrexian Dreadnought with them in their trade binder to frag something, but could use a stolen creature to frag another.

>edit< apparently, it's only the Alara version that "in play" is on the card.

Isn't Serrated Arrows the only card from Homelands that is still played in Vintage decks?

'Surge and Shrink, and other likewise cards are handy versus stompy and could enable Swat shenanigans.

i want to see someone crazy enough to run Phyrexian Negator in a Lich deck... though with enough token generation, like Infernal Genesis, should be manageable.

Jitte vs Skullclamp- which was more broken.
i'd hate to see Jitte in a proliferate deck, because we all know a broken mechanic makes broken cards better!

Fire/Ice- i liked the simplicity of the original split cards; then they got complicated with Fuse and other set mechanics...

imo, it's funnier to Ovinize.

so... we have Treasure tokens that can be sac'd for mana. Clues that can be sac'd for draw... i'd have to investigate the 'investigate ability, but it just seems moot.

A bigger Phyrexian Rager... i'd still play Phyrexian Gargantua for the card advantage.

In regards to Haunting Echoes, it looks pretty powerful on paper- but in practice, not so much. You could run it in a mill deck with Traumatize but in truth, it'd be easier just to keep milling. In any other sort of deck, it's pretty useless as by the time it's going to have any impact, the game it either already won or lost. It's a decent sideboard against a Dredge deck...

In regards to the giant- without evasion or threat, it's a Hobble target. Let your opponent waste their resources to cast it- then just as easily lock it down. I prefer something like False Prophet- something that's easily killed without the exorbident mana costs.

Eh, Spidersilk Armor exists.

Two-CC Castle? Parapet?

Who'd play this over Naturalize? Maybe if you're running Kavu Predator

Gating Creatures enabled many a combo. The Loom is probably one of the more overlooked of the mechanic, because Shivan Wurm and Horned Kavu exists- where Green/Red don't have much in the way of self-bounce to enable combo's.

I was going to say, Call of the Wild needs some Scrying or top-decking to be useful, kind of blanked on Volrath's Stronghold. you could go a little more budget with Haunted Crossroads, which actually might be a better option for obvious reasons.