Rakdos, the Showstopper
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Magic: the Gathering |OT| Ravnica Allegiance - These 5 Lands Will SHOCK You!
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Wilderness Reclamation
Ive never seen a teferi deck run green before
What if you could cast your threats AND have gas for counters?
But by god Im gonna see it now
Bolrac-Clan Crusher, Growth-Chamber Guardian, Depose // Deploy
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New Rakdos looks fun. Remember to either learn how to flip a coin or use an app.
Note the actual card isn't animated like that.
Interesting that our first +1/+1 counter removal card is Gruul. Growth-Chamber Guardian is an interesting design, though given you likely won't be able to fetch anything in Limited, probably not that great there.
Note the actual card isn't animated like that.
Interesting that our first +1/+1 counter removal card is Gruul. Growth-Chamber Guardian is an interesting design, though given you likely won't be able to fetch anything in Limited, probably not that great there.
Actually kind of excited to see the Arena animations for some of these mythics.
Please reprint Mystic Snake.
What if you could cast your threats AND have gas for counters?
No it's still very good in limited, like a B or so. You can have a 4/4 on Turn 3. Compare it to Devkarin Dissident.
The split card is a little weaker than I'd like but I won't underestimate a pair of instants that can protect Teferi in 1 card. First half works with untap and the second is sort of Timely Reinforcements if you squint a little and pretend it is.
The flexible, souped up Glimmer is what I'm looking for, it's not unusual to float a bunch of mana in UWx, I often main phase Chemister's just to get some value out of untapping. This is good stuff.
The flexible, souped up Glimmer is what I'm looking for, it's not unusual to float a bunch of mana in UWx, I often main phase Chemister's just to get some value out of untapping. This is good stuff.
I'll be honest- this feels more like a Commander/Conspiracy card than a Standard-legal expansion card
Oh, absolutely. I've tried making Demons Tribal before and always came up on: 1) Rakdos is the only two-color demon commander, and neither of his previous printings were spectacular for the job (Lord of Riots was okay), and 2) there aren't actually many good demons that play well with others in the slightest, so you end up wanting to somehow cheat in an Innistrad Devil or five.
Demons Tribal is still going to be god-awful bad, but hey, it's an option at least.
Pestilent Spirit
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End-Raze Forerunners
craterhoof boarhemoth
man pestilent spirit is a jerk, im sure im gonna get blown up by random cosmotronic waves in the future
man pestilent spirit is a jerk, im sure im gonna get blown up by random cosmotronic waves in the future
theres always malfegor, my wheel tribal/waste not combo commander
Prime Speaker Vannifar
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Birthing Pod as a commander. Ah, this must be the Ooze commander that MaRo has occasionally hinted at.
Opposite of Soulfire Grand Master
Turn red damage spells into wraths.
Electrickery reprint incoming.
does this make Birthing Pod decks just as playable in Modern as they used to be?
Maybe moreso, since it's easier to reuse creatures than it is to use artifacts and the mana cost is free?
I guess it would need to have Haste to be truly viable. Not sure how easy that is to accomplish in a Modern combo deck
Maybe moreso, since it's easier to reuse creatures than it is to use artifacts and the mana cost is free?
I guess it would need to have Haste to be truly viable. Not sure how easy that is to accomplish in a Modern combo deck
Carnival // Carnage
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CARDNAME deals 1 damage to target creature or planeswalker and 1 damage to the controller of that permanent.
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CARDNAME deals 3 damage to target opponent. That player discards two cards.
Name is possibly Carnival // Carnage
edit: i guess its not quite blightning
also i really like vannifar, gonna try some toolbox decks out
also i really like vannifar, gonna try some toolbox decks out
Teferi fog was played a bit, even after the rotation. It's super annoying. This will make it borderline broken lmao.
Being a turn slower, easier to remove, and not being castable using Phyrexian mana are big drawbacks compared to pod. Still, intriguing card.
What would fog be tapping out for that this would be worth running? It's mostly instants anyway and they don't run counters.
I guess you could actually play some counters then. absorb or some shit, to stall until you use your fogs even more.
Prime Speaker Vannipod is neat.
Obviously this doesn't make Pod playable again, but it's definitely neat.
Obviously this doesn't make Pod playable again, but it's definitely neat.
theres just so much incidental lifegain it feels like, without ferocidon we need something
also because if teferi fog ends up good im just going straight rage mode
also because if teferi fog ends up good im just going straight rage mode
That green "untap your lands every turn" card looks like it could be a sleeper. Back in the day, some old school Donais decks used to play Awakening almost exclusively so that they could Wrath the board, or draw a bunch of cards, and then be able to counterspell whatever came next.
I see that Gaea's Blessing is legal in Standard again.
Hmmm...
I see that Gaea's Blessing is legal in Standard again.
Hmmm...
High Alert, Consecrate // Consume, Cry of the Carnarium
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High Alert
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Each creature you control assigns combat damage equal to its toughness rather than its power.
Creatures you control can attack this turn as though they don't have defender.
2WU: Untap target creature.
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Exile target card from a graveyard.
Draw a card.
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Target player sacrifices a creature with the greatest power among creatures that player controls. Gain life equal to that creature's power.
"Call to the Slaughter"
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All creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn. Exile all creature cards in graveyards that were put there from the battlefield this turn. If a creature would die this turn, exile it instead.
The second sentence prevents your opponent from sacrificing, say, a phoenix in response to this spell to save it.
That first half is just not good enough. I think the name will be Consecrate // Consume, Carcomer isn't easily translated to english.
Teferi does both of those things in one card in the correct color combo
What if you could cast your threats AND have gas for counters?
It lets you make Birthing Pod your commander and lets you Pod for fucking Mystic Snake. Gross.
I don't think that's the way to look at split cards, it's either or and 2cmc cycle should have a little more upside while the 4cmc removal suffers from sorcery speed. I didn't say it was bad just pretty narrow. Edit: narrow upside read exile.
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"Draw a card" has been the least narrow phrase in the entire game since time began.
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