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Magic: The Gathering |OT| Throne of Eldraine - Will and Rowan's Excellent Adventure
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This is interesting in Standard. It's either insane or awful. Not having the exile clause the Izzet spells did means it doesn't work with Ashiok and I assume there are ways your opponent can control how vulnerable they are to it. Need to look at the rest of the spoilers to see how many playable enablers there are without going stupidly deep into making an actual mill deck, which I'm not interested in.
This seems really good.
There's no enablers fast enough to use it on curve so really how good is it...
It's strong I think but not being able to reliably use it early makes it a liability and who wants that in their deck?
Drown in the Loch really isn't all that good since it's reliant on your opponent having cards in their graveyard. I don't think you can count on that in Standard.
In Modern it's far more interesting.
In Modern it's far more interesting.
Syr Alin, the Lion's Claw; Blacklance Paragon
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Forever Young; The Cauldron of Eternity; Cauldron's Gift
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We've seen this effect at 3 mana as an instant, but at two mana, it suddenly looks pretty good.
The Holy Grail equivalent. That's one hell of a delta between its default cost and its possible lowest cost.
I don't think we've seen enough cards in UB yet to judge. It only takes a couple of playables with incidentally mill 2 to make it reliably good. Unfortunately they've already spoiled Opt so Thought Scour is out.
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Overwhelmed Apprentice
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The blue/black limited archetype needs mill quite a lot to work in this set, so this will be pretty important there.
Sorcerer's Broom
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They also said not 5cc so even taking it literally Tarkir is out.
Dragons had plenty of two color dragons including colors that do not get dragons. Not sure what the heck you're going on about.
CC means converted mana cost. Let me replay arthis conversation for you
Firemind: I want cool, non-Jund dragons that aren't 5cc
You: Tarkir
Me: Joke about Tarkir dragons not being cool
Sigmasonic: Wordplay with a literally cold dragon from Tarkir
Me: Still doesn't count, 5cc
You: <Honesly I don't know what you're objecting to here>
Food to brooms
WotC isn't helping themselves with the criticism that they're pulling too much from Disney when they straight up put the Sorcerer's Apprentice in Eldraine, lol.
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Rampart Smasher
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"Wallbreaker Giant"
Creature - Giant
Wallbreaker Giant can't be blocked by Walls and Knights.
The black rare land has also been revealed, but the translation on Mythic Spoiler is apparently inaccurate, so I won't post it yet.
Castle Locthwain
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Got a translation
"Castle of Locthwain"
Land
~ enters tapped unless you control a Swamp
T: Add B
1BB, T: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Doesn't have to sacrifice. Seems pretty good, especially in hellbent black.
"Castle of Locthwain"
Land
~ enters tapped unless you control a Swamp
T: Add B
1BB, T: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Doesn't have to sacrifice. Seems pretty good, especially in hellbent black.
"When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. And that one sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, son, the strongest castle in all of England."Got a translation
"Castle of Locthwain"
Land
~ enters tapped unless you control a Swamp
T: Add B
1BB, T: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Doesn't have to sacrifice. Seems pretty good, especially in hellbent black.
Got a translation
"Castle of Locthwain"
Land
~ enters tapped unless you control a Swamp
T: Add B
1BB, T: Draw a card, then you lose life equal to the number of cards in your hand.
Doesn't have to sacrifice. Seems pretty good, especially in hellbent black.
Nice with Vilis, Broker of Blood and the new Greven too.
Castle Vantress
4RR, tap: Create two red 3/1 Elemental creature tokens with trample, haste and "At the beginning of the next end step, exile this creature". Play this ability only on an opponent's turn during the combat step after attackers have been declared.
These are both amazing lol
Do you know how fucking busted that red one is? That's literally twice as good as Ramunap Ruins and you don't need to sac it. And ANY TARGET?
The red one should be 3RR, T: Switch the power and toughness of target non-human creature until end of turn.
Acclaimed Contender; Escape to the Wilds
3/3 for 3 that tutors seems decent if Mardu Knights ends up being a thing.
The last part seems like a bit of a weird addition to justify the green mana cost but I suppose the idea is to help ramp up for the next turn where you hope to get as much value out of the exiled cards while you can.
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Castle Embereth
Castle Garenbrig
So it functionally is a Temple of the False God that filters all your mana to green but isn't useless early. Seems nice but not earthshaking.
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