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Nov 4, 2021
Neuroticneurok posted a message on [VOW] Bloodtithe Harvester and Sanguine Statuette— Infinitokens previews

Pretty ugly vampire. Looks like someone hit him in the face with a skillet.

Aggressive stats, gives you a free token, all very nice, but I just don't like this card at all. I guess it can be useful if you're hard up for a kill spell, but I don't care for this at all.
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Nov 4, 2021
Neuroticneurok posted a message on [VOW] Odric, Blood-Cursed— Polygon preview

What a complete waste of a rare slot. I'll happily tear up all the copies of this I pull from packs.
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Nov 3, 2021
Neuroticneurok posted a message on [VOW] "Skull Skaab"— BIGWEB preview

Why did they switch from Decayed tokens to the regular ones? Any ideas what their thought process was?
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Nov 3, 2021
Neuroticneurok posted a message on [VOW] Stormchaser Drake— The First Pioneers preview

A very good card indeed. No 'can only block creatures with flying' rider leaves Welkin Tern, Vaporkin, and Tattered Haunter in the dust, and is the more or less the complete inversion of Gossamer Phantasm.
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Nov 3, 2021
Neuroticneurok posted a message on [VOW] Child of the Pack // Savage Packmate— ABeardedHusky preview

Compared to the Gruul signpost from Midnight Hunt, this one is super basic.

Quote from The Lord of Tresserhorn »
Day artwork is 100% Throne of Eldraine.

So the wolf she is riding is 1 1/2 / 4 1/2??

The girl is the 2, and the wolf is the 5.
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Nov 1, 2021
Neuroticneurok posted a message on [VOW] "Mischievous Geist" // "Catlike Curiosity"— @MTGArenaJP preview

All these Disturb auras remind me of the problems with Bestow. While there are ways to reduce Disturb costs, having to include them just to make them a little more viable leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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Nov 1, 2021
Neuroticneurok posted a message on [VOW] Necroduality— IGN SEA preview

Probably one of the best mythics in the set. It's more niche than Doubling Season/Parallel Lives, but very much in the same vein. It'll be expensive initially, but it'll settle down for a while.
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Oct 30, 2021
Neuroticneurok posted a message on [VOW] Archghoul of Thraben— Todd Kenreck preview

This is going to do lots of work, in Standard or elsewhere. Aggressive stats, high tribal synergy, no 'once a turn' clause, no real downsides (you don't lose life for putting cards into your hand!), this is excellent.

This thing will be great for refilling your hand after a board wipe. All those delicious triggers.
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Oct 30, 2021
Neuroticneurok posted a message on [VOW] Kindly Ancestor // Ancestor's Embrace— TheKristenEmily preview

Quote from soramaro »

Also I really don't like all these spirits that are totally flying/floating but don't have the flying keyword.

Kamigawa was full of non-flying Spirits.

The card is pretty, but I wouldn't fall over myself to run it. To think at one point we only had to pay W for Lifelink.
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Oct 30, 2021
Neuroticneurok posted a message on [VOW] Halana and Alena, Partners— @wizards_magic preview

Just one step up from "Halana and Alena, Gal Pals".
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Oct 30, 2021
Neuroticneurok posted a message on [VOW] Geralf, Visionary Stitcher— Marshall Sutcliffe preview

Quote from Crispen_Smith »
I really wish they'd clean up the flying templating, for this card in particular and have "Your zombies fly".

But then they'd have to clean up the rest of the keywording templates, which would result in:
Your creatures haste.
Your creatures vigilance.
Your creatures deathtouch.
Your creatures lifelink.
Your creatures ward.

Glad to see he's gone from exiling creatures to sacrificing them instead. Was very pleased to see that. Not sure what making a sister zombie in the art has to do with zombies flying but whatever. They just put in Hordewing Skaab in the Zombie commander deck and this is already better than that.
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Oct 30, 2021
Neuroticneurok posted a message on [VOW] Cemetery Protector — Jordan Uhl

The name and the effect are total mismatches. Doesn't protect ANYTHING, especially graveyards - nothing about preventing damage, nothing about indestructibility, no ward, no Hexproof, etc, etc...
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Oct 28, 2021
Neuroticneurok posted a message on [VOW] Mothership 10/28— The Mechanics and Collecting Crimson Vow

I appreciate that they want to make new mechanics to pique our interest, couldn't they have just brought back Outlast instead?

Probably the next time we see a counter strategy in GW, it'l be Convoke = +1/+1 counter. "When you cast this creature, you may tap two other creatures you control. If you do, this creature comes into play with a +1/+1 counter on it".
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Oct 28, 2021
Neuroticneurok posted a message on [VOW] Grolnok, Wedding Announcement // Wedding Festivities, and more— Weekly MTG previews

Quote from user-100026896 »
I'm not really getting Wedding Announcement. The card seems really bad to me. The fact you have to transform it means you can't use it as some win con token generator, and it seems way too slow for any aggro deck to want it that is triggering the card draw part.

Quote from Neuroticneurok »
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I don't see what you wanted from Demonic Bargain. You can already cast the card as it goes to your hand, or did you mean for free? The card would be beyond absurd at that point. 3 mana go and get Emrakul and cast it for free? Yer right.

As it is it's mostly a better Grim Tutor for any deck that wants that. Exiling 13 cards is barely even a cost. Grim Tutor isn't particularly great to begin with though. If this shows up it will be in some combo deck as that's the only real type of deck that wants 3 mana tutors.

No, not for free - "you may cast that card this turn and use mana of any color to play it".

I would still play Grim Tutor over this. Exiling 13 cards to gain one is a price too high for me. Unless you have manipulated your library to the highest possible extent, permanently removing potential answers, threats, and resources from your deck seems VERY rash to me.
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Oct 28, 2021
Neuroticneurok posted a message on [VOW] Anje, Maid of Dishonor— Deborah Ann Woll preview

Quote from TheOnlyOne652089 »
The blatant powerlevel creep in p/t of creatures becomes kinda painful to witness ... (as there is no way back, it just gets worse)

Without something like Stensia Masquerade or Stromkirk Captain, she's just a beater. She has no evasion whatsoever and can be chump blocked all day. She doesn't even have haste!
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