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    Seems good
     
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    I like that these titans bring back the M11 titan format, with triggers on ETB and attack.

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    Seems good. It doesn't ping players so opponents can block it at 2 life.
     
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    Aether Hub, the site that revealed this, chose to slowly reveal it word by word over a period of 12 hours. People are pretty angry about that.

    Still a fine Limited card.

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    Leaked before, still good
     
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    "Daddy of Runes" - W
    Enchantment Creature - Nymph
    Lifelink
    (1), Sacrifice this: Target creature or enchantment you control gets protection from the color of your choice until the end of turn.
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    And there's the last planeswalker of the set. Interesting that the -3 requires an enchantment or enchantment creature in play to actually work. Seems like he needs a bit of setup to defend himself and he doesn't really impact the board much at first.

    At least he doesn't dodge Fry.
     
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    Labyrinth of Skophos's Guardian 3R
    Creature - Minotaur Warrior U
    1: ~ gets +1/-1 until the end of turn.
    Whenever another creature becomes the target of a land you control called Labyrinth of Skophos, you may have this fight that creature.
    3/4

    From leaks, Labyrith of Skophos is a rare land, so this is more or less trinket text, but it could be fun for a casual deck.

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    On the weak end, but nice to see them finally play in this area. To be clear, this means that in addition to adding or removing loyalty counters, opponents also have to pay one mana.
     
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    They noticed how wordy rares were getting and had to address it in THB. Notably, Calix originally had a static ability that they straight up lopped off, then recosted his other abilities, which could explain why he feels weak. At least it's before they usually would have gotten feedback on Questing Beast. That said, here's the wordiest card of the set.

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    Lagonna Clan Storyteller - 3W
    Creature - Centaur Advisor
    When it etbs you may put an enchantment from your graveyard on top of your library, when you do, you gain life equal to the cmc of that enchantment.
    3/4

    Christian god centaur
    Seems good for Limited
     
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    Weaver of Destiny - 1G
    Enchantment Creature - Human
    Creature and enchantment spells you control can't be countered.

    3G: Target land you control becomes an X/X Elemental until the end of turn with haste and trample, where X is the number of enchantments you control. It's still a land.
    2/3

    In comparison
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    (Rough translation, please correct me as necessary)

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    "Nightmare Shepherd"?

    2BB
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    Enchantment Creature - Demon
    4/4

    Flying
    When another non-token creature you control dies, you may exile it. If you do, create a token that is a copy of that creature except it has 1/1 and is a Nightmare in addition to its other creature types.
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    If I've got that right, this feels like my kind of card. I like that the creatures still keep their abilities.

    As an aside, do token copies share the mana cost of the creatures they copy? This might be nice for mono-black devotion.
     
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    • Hero of the Pride; Heroes of the Revel; Loathsome Chimera; Favored of Iroas; Thassa's Intervention; Omen of the Dead; Shadowspear
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    Two unlabeled heroic creatures

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    Loathsome Chimera - 2G
    Creature - Chimera
    Escape—4G, Exile 3 cards
    Escapes with a +1/+1 counter.
    4/1

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    Meant to be used with Auras, I imagine

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    Seems good

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    Leaked before

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    Seems good. Even without a creature to equip, it still removes hexproof and indestructible. Not protection, though
     
    • Tokens; Promos; Shatter the Sky; "Acolyte of Affliction" (?); Hero of the Games; "Mischievous Chimera" (?); "Many-Faced Thaumaturgus" (?); Labyrinth of Skophos; "Slaughter-Priest of Mogis" (?); Nessian Wanderer; Unknown Shores; Return to Nature
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    Tokens


    Promos. Ones we haven't seen.

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    Heavenly Landslide 2WW
    Sorcery (Rare)

    Each player controlling a creature with power 4 or greater draws a card, then destroy all creatures.

    4-mana wrath. Interesting that we only just started getting "each player draws" in white and we already have a conditional variant where maybe only you draw. I much prefer variants like that.

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    Acolyte of Affliction 2BG
    Creature - Human Cleric (Uncommon)

    When Acolyte of Affliction enters the battlefield, put the top two cards of your library into your graveyard, then return up to one permanent card from your graveyard to your hand.

    2/3

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    Hero of the Games - 2R
    Creature - Human Soldier
    Whenever you cast a spell that targets Hero of the Games, creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.
    3/2

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    Mischievous Chimera - UR
    Enchantment Creature - Chimera
    Flying
    Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, Mischievous Chimera deals 1 damage to each opponent. Scry 1.
    2/2

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    Many-Faced Thaumaturgus - 1U
    Creature - Human Wizard (R)
    Constellation - whenever an enchantment enters the battlefield under your control you may have Many-Faced Thaumaturgus become a copy of another target creature except it has this ability.
    1/1

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    Labyrinth of Skophos
    Land
    T: Add ◊.
    4, T: Remove target attacking or blocking creature from combat.

    Leaked before

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    Slaughter-Priest of Mogis - BR
    Creature - Minotaur Shaman
    Each time you sacrifice a permanent, Slaughter-Priest of Mogis gets +2/+0 until the end of turn.
    (2), Sacrifice a creature or enchantment: Slaughter-Priest of Mogis gains first strike until end of turn.
    "Mogis is pleased with this offering."
    2/2

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    The destruction part seems good, but lol at the life gain

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    Looks like at the end of the story, Heliod is forced to hold up the living realm from the underworld.

    Note that this also makes the creature lose all other abilities, including static abilities.
     
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    Bad-Breath Catoblepas
    Creature - Beast
    When CARDNAME enters the battlefield, target creature an opponent controls gets -X/-X until end of turn, where X is your devotion to black.
    3/2

    Solid common
     
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    Here we go, first black enchantment removal in a Standard set! Seems good.

    There are some crazy commons in general in this set.


    Story summary.
    It... exists. Sure would have been nice to see a lot of this on cards.
    If you're wondering,
    * Klothys willingly stayed in the underworld to keep the titans locked up.
    * Ashiok torments Elspeth with nightmares for a bit, sees Phyrexians in her nightmares, goes, "Screw this place, I'm going where those are!" and peaces out of Theros. Ashiok doesn't appear at all during the main chunk of the story.
    * During one of these nightmares, Elspeth extracted her dark spear.
    * Heliod just one day decides he doesn't want the other gods around and resurrects Daxos to go around and destroy the other temples. This pisses off the other gods and they create their own demigods.
    * Erebos is so pissed off by this that he accidentally opens rifts to the underworld.
    * Klothys is trying to stop people from escaping the underworld herself, since Erebos isn't doing anything about it.
    * She creates Calix specifically to stop Elspeth, knowing she's more powerful.
    * Calix and Elspeth fight many times, with her winning every time, but he's getting more powerful. Eventually, Elspeth beats him one final time.
    * Heliod waits at Elspeth's exit from the underworld. Thanks to the renown and devotion Elspeth has gained, Elspeth one-shots him, and Erebos gladly places Heliod under a huge boulder.
    * Elspeth briefly reunites with Daxos, then planeswalks away.
    * Having lost his purpose, Calix is in despair, until he sparks and planeswalks after Elspeth to continue his hunt.
     
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