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Magic: the Gathering |OT| Core Set 2019 - In the midnight hour, she yelled "Core! Core! Core!"
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It's new art for 1.0 to be clear. There was also new art for Aurelia.
They come from the Guild Kits, which are not the prerelease packs but rather Duel Decks like products that reprint cards from the previous two Ravnicas.
gemcuttlefish asked: I've got a sneaking suspicion izzet started with flashback in early design, but it was too powerful in conjunction with surveil so the discard clause was added. Accurate at all?
Nope. Izzet has a wackier mechanic that didn't work out.
August 30, 2018
Looks like not!flashback was a late replacement for another mechanic, which explains why they went so safe with its concept.
Yeah, I'm just assuming another Niv-Mizzet will show up for no particular reason. I don't know if he's even still alive in the story to be honest.
I thought the Guild Kits would be released with the release of Guilds to Ravnica, I didn't realize it would be out in November.
Also this tweet answers some of my questions:
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serialrobinson asked:
Was a variation on Splice ever considered for the Izzet? It seems like that would fit the theme of creating wild and new spells pretty well.
My design preview articles will cover this, but yes we tried Splice.
20 notes Aug 31st, 2018
Was a variation on Splice ever considered for the Izzet? It seems like that would fit the theme of creating wild and new spells pretty well.
My design preview articles will cover this, but yes we tried Splice.
20 notes Aug 31st, 2018
It'd be fun if the card you discarded to jumpstart actually affected the spell.
Lightning Spell 1R
Jump Start
Deal 2 damage to any target. If this spell was jumpstarted, deal X damage instead, where X is the converted mana cost of the discarded card.
Lightning Spell 1R
Jump Start
Deal 2 damage to any target. If this spell was jumpstarted, deal X damage instead, where X is the converted mana cost of the discarded card.
The effect should obviously be, "Whenever you jump-start a spell, put all permanents from your Dredge deck's library, hand, and graveyard onto the battlefield tapped and attacking."
We got the promos in the usual blurry ass pic:
Text taken from reddit:
~ GW Creature (Emmara)
When this becomes tapped, create a 1/1 white creature token with lifelink
2/2
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~ 3W
Enchantment
Convoke
When ~ ETB, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until ~ leaves the battlefield
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~ 1UU
Instant
Counter target spell
Surveil 1
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~ UB
Sorcery
Target opponent reveals their hand, you choose a nonland card and they discard it
Surveil 1
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~ RW
Creature
Mentor
2RW: ~ gets +1/+1 until EOT
2/3
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~ B
Instant
Undergrowth - Target creature gets -x/-x until EOT, where x is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. If it would die this turn, exile it
Text taken from reddit:
~ GW Creature (Emmara)
When this becomes tapped, create a 1/1 white creature token with lifelink
2/2
——————-
~ 3W
Enchantment
Convoke
When ~ ETB, exile target nonland permanent an opponent controls until ~ leaves the battlefield
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~ 1UU
Instant
Counter target spell
Surveil 1
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~ UB
Sorcery
Target opponent reveals their hand, you choose a nonland card and they discard it
Surveil 1
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~ RW
Creature
Mentor
2RW: ~ gets +1/+1 until EOT
2/3
—————
~ B
Instant
Undergrowth - Target creature gets -x/-x until EOT, where x is the number of creature cards in your graveyard. If it would die this turn, exile it
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From the chat:
Firemind's Research UR
Enchantment
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a charge counter on Firemind's Research.
1U, Remove a charge counter from Firemind's Research: Draw a card.
1R, Remove a charge counter from Firemind's Research: Firemind's Research deals ? (2?) damage to any target.
Numbers might be off
I don't have much to say about the cards.
Firemind's Research UR
Enchantment
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a charge counter on Firemind's Research.
1U, Remove a charge counter from Firemind's Research: Draw a card.
1R, Remove a charge counter from Firemind's Research: Firemind's Research deals ? (2?) damage to any target.
Numbers might be off
I don't have much to say about the cards.
We basically have a better Dissolve back in Standard. History has shown that to be a very good card.
Dissolve that helps you flip Search for Azcanta. Absolutely nuts, assuming we're not reading the mana cost incorrectly.
like, wasn't there a whole bunch of discourse about Dissolve being too strong for standard? weird as hell to see this printed.
I honestly expected that Surveil counter. Felt like low hanging fruit.
I want to see non-blurry verions (I guess later tonight) but a positive first impression so far. Hoping hybrid cards are back.
Dissolve was *fine* not overpowered. Let's not exaggerate :P
I want to see non-blurry verions (I guess later tonight) but a positive first impression so far. Hoping hybrid cards are back.
Dissolve was *fine* not overpowered. Let's not exaggerate :P
What is the Blue/White Control shell actually losing that isn't relatively generic and likely to be replaced easily? Just Torrential Gearhulk?
gearhulk is a big deal
also the deck is just inconsistent trash without cycling cards imo
also the deck is just inconsistent trash without cycling cards imo
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I feel like as a Control player you're probably proper chuffed to trade Gearhulk and a couple of generic cards with block mechanics stapled on in exchange for Mono Red getting completely eviscerated.
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Wizards will be showing off cards at PAX West in a bit less than an hour. But because budget I guess, they aren't streaming it, and will instead live tweet it. Look, I get that the Kaladesh display was pretty over the top, but surely there's a middle ground.
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Oh hold on,
They won't be tweeting information from the PAX panel until two hours from now.
... How does this make any sense at all?
EDIT: Gerry Thompson has us covered.
They won't be tweeting information from the PAX panel until two hours from now.
... How does this make any sense at all?
EDIT: Gerry Thompson has us covered.
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We did a predictions thing at our LGS and me and 1 other guy out about 40 predicted Shock Lands are coming back. I thought it was obvious (as will the next 5 be in the next set) but people are stuck in their (THEY ARE TOO OP IN STANDARD) ways even though they are far from OP.
Doing Shock/Check manabases again is a bit of a surprise given how oppressive Farseek+ Checks/Shocks was last time.
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The final set of the block will have a novel that you have to pay for again. They stopped doing this before because people just didn't pay attention to the story, but I suppose they figure they have enough investment in the story to try the paid model again.
EDIT: Wait, it just hit me. The author is Greg Weisman. As in Gargoyles / Spectacular Spider-Man / Young Justice Greg Weisman!
This is looking better than the Dominaria pre-release hype train. Thank fuck I didn't buy Steam vents last week I was banking on shock lands reprints, I don't think it will go down much as it's in Standard.
Legion Warboss is a fantastic addition to Modern Goblins. It also synergize well with Legion Loyalist.
Legion Warboss is a fantastic addition to Modern Goblins. It also synergize well with Legion Loyalist.
I literally had another playset of 4 each sitting in my cart earlier today since i am currently using all my current ones in my EDH decks and need more for some i am working on now.
How does that card compare to Goblin Rabblemaster? They feel pretty similar, but my instinct says Rabblemaster is better.
You want more Goblins on field (even if they are 1/1s) out of Warboss so then you can use 8 Wacks better and for the Legion Loyalist trigger.
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From what I can tell from the panel information, Dimir will actually be "good guys", in that they're opposed to Bolas's interloping.
My evaluation is that Rabblemaster is better for raw damage (and thus overall given the types of decks it sees play in) but Warboss is less risky since its not going to force as many goblins to suicide at a potentially inopportune time. Of course, only the later will be in Standard :P
That lich is pretty spicy and I'm totally going to use him to mill myself into oblivion in a Gitrog deck or something.
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