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Entropic posted:I feel like the blue ibis god will do a lot of blocking and then leaving combat as it stops being a creature because you cast a removal spell on their other unblocked creature. it doesn't stop being a creature
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Also I wish Ensnaring Bridge wasn't so expensive because playing hellbent dog with EB in a jank FNM deck would be fun. Mostly because "burning bridges" would be a great name for that deck.
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It is a limited bomb for sure, and may be a decent sideboard card for control mirrors; being able to draw extra cards while turning off your opponents removal seems good.
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mandatory lesbian posted:it doesn't stop being a creature Oh right, huh. I'm still used to the Theros ones.
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Green god, control creatures with total power of 10; Black god, opponent has 2 or fewer cards in hand; White god, control 4 or more creatures?
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Elyv posted:
That's uh. Why does it have to be Azure Mage? I like it but it's so dang expensive to activate and getting to 7 cards in hand is kind of hard in this Standard. Without an X card draw spell, I don't see how you can easily enable this.
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Use the cat to flicker the draw enchantment spoiled earlier.
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Sampatrick posted:That's uh. Why does it have to be Azure Mage? I like it but it's so dang expensive to activate and getting to 7 cards in hand is kind of hard in this Standard. Without an X card draw spell, I don't see how you can easily enable this. As the guy playing Fevered Visions, I have seven cards in my hand quite a bit actually! (This doesn't really fit in that deck though, paying mana to draw cards isn't really what you want and you're not lacking for finishers either)
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Sampatrick posted:That's uh. Why does it have to be Azure Mage? I like it but it's so dang expensive to activate and getting to 7 cards in hand is kind of hard in this Standard. Without an X card draw spell, I don't see how you can easily enable this. Ideally they reprint sphinx's rev
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GeneX posted:Ideally they reprint sphinx's rev It would even be perfectly on-flavour!
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Elyv posted:(the return land is actually a "may" apparently) I hear the opposite, that it's 'return a land, you may draw a card' Any japanese speakers about?
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mossyfisk posted:Green god, control creatures with total power of 10; Black god, opponent has 2 or fewer cards in hand; White god, control 4 or more creatures? I would guess Green: control 6 or more creatures Black: 7 or more cards in your graveyard White: something life-total related (either less than/equal to five or greater than/equal to ~35)
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Too bad that drake roost is rare so you're basically never going to get more than 1. Between that and the scarabs it looks like there could be some fun draft decks possible
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So what has been spoiled so far that seems interesting to play? Stormbreath Jr?
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GeneX posted:Ideally they reprint sphinx's rev Do you really think WotC will reprint Sphinx's Revelation? Have they even printed a scaling card draw spell since RTR?
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My favorite thing about this new god is how perfectly he would have fit into Saviors of Kamigawa as a moonfolk
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The monument cycle is really cool, though I'm disappointed Kefnet's doesn't use Exert. Huge missed opportunity there Wizards! Essence Scatter being finally back is a sign things are moving in the right direction, even if it's not amazing. Colorshifted Unstable Mutation is awesome especially with the -1/-1 counter theme, I like it. Temmet's token having "~ is legendary" instead of it just being on the typeline is dumb and ugly looking. Drake Haven is awesome and I hope we see more cycle payoff cards. Apart from Drake Haven, all of the spoiled rares seem really underwhelming. Mythics are good though. Rip_Van_Winkle posted:Booooring. Hellbent in a RDW/burn/zoo deck means you're probably doing well. 7+ cards in hand in a grindy control deck means you're probably doing well. They fit their archetypes well, I think.
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Sickening posted:So what has been spoiled so far that seems interesting to play? Stormbreath Jr? If there's any other good exert creatures, they all combo with Always Watching...
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Sampatrick posted:Do you really think WotC will reprint Sphinx's Revelation? Have they even printed a scaling card draw spell since RTR? Epiphany at the drownyard off the top of my head, probably more
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Can they print a god that doesn't suck outside standard please
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Sampatrick posted:Do you really think WotC will reprint Sphinx's Revelation? Have they even printed a scaling card draw spell since RTR? No but I can hope
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TheKingofSprings posted:Can they print a god that doesn't suck outside standard please All the gods are great in EDH, even if I hate them as commanders.
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Must stop imagining melira chord Coco decks capitalizing on not getting the -1/-1 counters with these under costed beaters.
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TheKingofSprings posted:Can they print a god that doesn't suck outside standard please EDH 
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GoutPatrol posted:All the gods are great in EDH, even if I hate them as commanders. Really should've qualified that statement a little more thoroughly
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Sampatrick posted:Do you really think WotC will reprint Sphinx's Revelation? Have they even printed a scaling card draw spell since RTR? Yes, but not in this set--it would have been an Invocation. I suspect it'll be in the Hour of Devastation invocations, 10% chance to show up in that set. e: X Draw spells aren't particularly strong outside of revelation. Mind Spring wasn't exactly a powerhouse and it got reprinted multiple times. Drawing 3 cards for 5 mana at sorcery speed don't break the game.
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TheChirurgeon posted:Yes, but not in this set--it would have been an Invocation. I suspect it'll be in the Hour of Devastation invocations, 10% chance to show up in that set. BSZ and Stroke both saw play. It's mostly the instant speed ones that are very good; it's hard to fully abuse Mind Spring/Braingeyser. Instant speed x draw spells are powerful because they are insanely good late game.
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Sampatrick posted:Do you really think WotC will reprint Sphinx's Revelation? Have they even printed a scaling card draw spell since RTR? what kind of a dumbass complaint is this, just because they don't print an X draw spell every set doesn't suddenly mean they've decided to never print one ever again also like someone said, epiphany at the drownyard was printed and is standard-legal
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mandatory lesbian posted:what kind of a dumbass complaint is this, just because they don't print an X draw spell every set doesn't suddenly mean they've decided to never print one ever again I mean, it's kind of in line with the current design philosophy of avoiding very durdly blue control decks. It's also been, what, four and a half years since RTR was printed? In that time we haven't gotten a single x draw spell. Epiphany really, really doesn't count. Epiphany scales pretty drat poorly and doesn't have the late game power of a x draw spell. It looks like one, but it doesn't do the same thing.
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It's also been like five years since we've gotten an Essence Scatter reprint, yet here we are. I think Wizards might finally be letting the pendulum swing back towards some semblance of control viability, even if only slightly.
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mossyfisk posted:I hear the opposite, that it's 'return a land, you may draw a card' Yep. 3U: Draw a card. Then, you may return a land you control to its owner's hand.
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They're not gonna reprint Sphinx's Rev any more than they're going to reprint Siege Rhino. They pretty much never bring back format-defining Standard cards.
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Some Numbers posted:Yep. That's such a weird random thing to add to the ability. I guess if you don't draw a land, you can bounce and replay a tapped land to get an extra mana for the turn. And you can bounce cycling lands to pitch if you're really flooded.
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It's to make your hand size go to 7 faster so you can swing.
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Tales of Woe posted:They're not gonna reprint Sphinx's Rev any more than they're going to reprint Siege Rhino. They pretty much never bring back format-defining Standard cards. Eh, I think Sphinx's Rev is probably like a 7 or 8 on the Thragtusk scale.
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Tales of Woe posted:They're not gonna reprint Sphinx's Rev any more than they're going to reprint Siege Rhino. They pretty much never bring back format-defining Standard cards. 
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Tales of Woe posted:They're not gonna reprint Sphinx's Rev any more than they're going to reprint Siege Rhino. They pretty much never bring back format-defining Standard cards. That, and they've made some high-profile mistakes with where to put powerful reprints in recent years - between Thoughtseize/Mutavault and the fetches with BFZ duals I think they're feeling pretty burnt on the whole endeavor. And now we get Masterpieces instead.
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Attorney at Funk posted:That, and they've made some high-profile mistakes with where to put powerful reprints in recent years - between Thoughtseize/Mutavault and the fetches with BFZ duals I think they're feeling pretty burnt on the whole endeavor. And now we get Masterpieces instead. What a wonderful feeling, to be able to get hideously gaudy cards instead of actual reprints.
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