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Magic: the Gathering |OT| Ravnica Allegiance - These 5 Lands Will SHOCK You!
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Creature — Salamander Drake
Flying 7U:Adapt 4.This ability costs 1 less to activate for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
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Holy shit, that's going straight into my Quasiduplicate Izzet Drakes instead of some murmuring mystics. That's pretty much what it needs the most: early aggro, especially against control decks to bait removal.
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Creature — Salamander Drake
Flying 7U:Adapt 4.This ability costs 1 less to activate for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
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Mono-Blue Tempo has a new toy :D
But what to replace it with? Can't think of a lot of cards that aren't kind of necessary in mono blue.
Thrash // Threat
Not 100% sold on the "pay to ping" effects to trigger Spectacle. So far almost all the Spectacle effect have been:
- Pay less to cast, negated by paying to trigger it in the first place.
- Pay more to cast, with a kicker effect, which could end up very mana expensive if you're paying to trigger.
RB is supposed to be agro, you're supposed to play a lot of 1/2 mana creatures and get early hits in
The pseudo kicker cards don't seem very interesting, but I think we've only seen a couple tops so far ?
I think you'd have to be quite economical. Clearly you wouldn't want to spend more mana triggering spectacle than you save on the spectacle casting cost. I assume you'd want to hold back enough spectacle-casted creatures to get maximum value out of a single trigger, am I getting that right?
Casting the mythic demon on turn 3 rather than 4 is better than just saving 1 mana.
Casting the mythic demon on turn 3 rather than 4 is better than just saving 1 mana.
Oh, when I was talking about spectacle triggers I was talking more about the activated abilities on the likes of Theater of Horrors (3R for 1 damage to player/PW) . I think I probably imagined more cards with the same expensive ping ability (Carnival//Carnage and Cult Guildmage are cheap enough to trigger spectacle so no problems there). Maybe I've unknowingly exaggerated this in my own head.
Certainly Fanatical Firebrand is a shoe-in for triggering spectacle effects. I'd already planned on throwing in a bunch if I still intend on playing Rakdos.
Yeah the activated abilities on the enchantments are just there for the cards to be playable in limited I assume
Not sure how many are still floating around but I'm sure there will be some extra sealed codes floating around the thread after pre release next weekend assuming they give them out again.
Yeah I asked a friend to grab me one if he gets the chance next week, I won't be able to attend unfortunately :(
Well, if someone still has a preconstructed code, I'd love to grab it if possible :) thanks!
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Benthic Biomancer; Awaken the Erstwhile
Underwhelmed by most of the spoilers - not really on power level as much as "yep, these are what Ravnica cards look like" - but Biomancer looks fun.
Angel of Grace
Sure, but in limited it's a terrible bear that loots once
Give it up for the janky "can't lose this turn" mythic angel
In limited it's a great card if there's any level of "counters matter" or "move counters" synergy. By turn 2 you have a counter on it, and you can move counters off or on it to get repeated triggers cheaply. Even without synergies it'll play out as "1u, 2/2, loot" more often than not (since you wouldn't be playing anything on turn 1 anyway) which is still a clear positive card.
Windstorm Drake; Revival // Revenge
Banefire am cry
Flying. Other creatures you control with flying get +1/+0.
Very solid drake for limited if there are enough thopter makers.
Flying. Other creatures you control with flying get +1/+0.
Very solid drake for limited if there are enough thopter makers.
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Yeah a 2-mana flexible cost revive sorcery that goes straight to the battlefield seems good enough to me. Add on the option of revenge in a control deck for 10 vs. 40 HP...
Arrester's Admonition; Azorius Skyguard
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Revenge is more limited in use than many of you seem to think, but that's why it's a split card.
Are any of the monoblue addendum cards not going to draw cards?
Are any of the monoblue addendum cards not going to draw cards?
I almost always kicked Blink of an Eye and I'd pay one less mana for sorcery speed, not sure how Arrester's is bad?
Plus it looks like there are some bigger tokens in this set, like 4/4's. Maybe you won't have anything as satisfying as blinking the token from a Chainer's Torment but hitting that Azorious token that does a Serra Angel impression is still nice.
Plus it looks like there are some bigger tokens in this set, like 4/4's. Maybe you won't have anything as satisfying as blinking the token from a Chainer's Torment but hitting that Azorious token that does a Serra Angel impression is still nice.
I guess this is bad rare day
Just you wait til I draw Crafty Cutpurse and have 9 mana free. Then you'll be sorry you ever messed with me and my 4 (maybe 5) zombie tokens.
It's probably fine in modernity. Would probably be bumped up to Uncommon for Limited.
Ethereal Absolution
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Kaya: You know, Teysa? We really are Ravnica Allegiance.
In the story, this corresponds to Kaya forgiving all debts due to Orzhov. And yeah, despite the glowing eyes in her art, it doesn't really seem like Bolas is directly mind controlling her.
Recoil is a card I think is straight up too powerful for today's Standard.
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