Magic: The Gathering C/D

that Soulfire Grand Master looks a nice upgrade to Seeker of the Way in Jeskai decks

Hmmm how did I forget the Guildgates

did i ever comment about how the Crackling Doom art looks like it was borrowed from a neo-prog album cover

I always kinda liked this dude's CGI-art

http://magiccards.info/ptc/en/15.html

but yes some of these more recent ones are terrible. so is the one I posted too but I like that 90's movie-CGI style.
That said, plenty of great art in Khans thus far

Soulfire seems like fun with Blasphemous Act, at least :)

Jeskai ascendancy is a straight up superhero team comic book cover. Cute, but weird for mtg.

this new uncommon cycle looks really strong. also the green siege seems better than the others so far.

iatee u r famous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iukVnoydb4&list=PL04lbfeNAaS8BbABBy0KmtKoAd4h9tM-G

oh whoa i did not know ilx embedded youtubes now. round 2.

haha yeah I saw that / kinda figured it was being recorded while I was playing. the end of g2 is a pretty dumb punt, I was annoyed at myself for not having sided out academy for an island and when I finally could play elendra I was like "okay now he just needs to not have upheaval for exactly one turn". I was also annoyed at him for cutting all the storm cards cause that's what I was trying to force p1.

http://cdn.magicspoiler.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/en_ayf3tb0eak.png

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Arcbond looks like it could potentially lead to some big blowouts, but requires a very specific boardstate to work properly. Warden requires you to jump through a whole lot of hoops to be exciting.

I'm a fan of Wild Slash and the white dragon. Tasigur, the Golden Fang is pretty cool too, although perhaps not deserving of Legendary status.

Arcbond is gonna be sweet in Limited, at least. Seems like a total reset button in a losing situation, or perhaps a win con for an aggro deck once your grip starts to slip a little. Its tough to evaluate, I don't think we've ever had a card like it. Warden seems worse than Figure though I struggle to figure out why, maybe cuz Figure filled a bigger hole in Red whereas G/W has stuff like Fleecemane Lion

arcbond is a v cool card but i wonder if it is just too variable to be reliably good in any environment. it would be a real nice card to bring in vs a token deck.

I don't like arcbond, I'm guessing it will be bad. that effect is too chaotic / generally bad if you're ahead + red doesn't usually want to wipe its own board in limited.

seems pretty edh'y to me

yeah arcbond def not a constructed card in 99% of environments

the warden is obviously a riff on figure of destiny which was an allstar in past standard but this one asks a lot more of your manabase. enables an even lower curve GB or GW deck than we already have. idk if it's a staple but the stats are good enough.

i feel like t1 warden t2 activate and attack as 3/3 is better in abzan aggro than heir of the wilds right? that seems like a straight 1-for-1 upgrade in that deck.

don't they generally play fleecemane and deathdealer?

full sets of all 3 from what i have seen recently

the issue is you have a lot of etb tapped lands in that deck, warden is really awkward if you don't have a llanowar wastes turn 1

Reality Shift may be the missing card my Temur deck has been looking for, amazing Abzan hoser

Obviously it's not quite as good as Swords/Path but it's really not too far off is it?

with an opponent's courser in play, I'll be able to see exactly what they'll manifest, but really there are very few cards that I would feel bad about them manifesting, forcing manifest on any of the nightmare ETB creatures in Abzan and whip decks is perfectly acceptable.

its a slight downgrade from rapid hybridization imo, but that card saw some standard play

http://mythicspoiler.com/frf/cards/ghastlyconscription.jpg

FUN CARD

surely not at all constructed playable but a fun draft challenge, a finisher for that rakshasa's secret control archetype that ppl are trying to make be a thing

i cast rise of the dark realms a few times in m14 limited, this one's cheaper by 2 so sure

just to be clear, this doesn't allow you to exile your opponent's graveyard and then get an army of 2/2s under your control, right? The phrase "then manifest those cards" means "then target player manifests those cards".

if target player manifested the cards i think it would explicitly say that? 'manifest' means you put on the battlefield as a facedown 2/2

http://mythicspoiler.com/frf/cards/marduscout.html

has red ever gotten a no-drawback 3-power creature for two mana?

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ok, then that's stronger than I thought on first look, not bad!

of course it will be extra amusing when your opponent casts Dig Through Time in response...

xp i don't think so, but it's gotten lots of ones with minor drawbacks or preconditions

mardu scout art on some poochie shit

lol so otm

& the ghastly conscription art looks like grimdark mario galaxy

lol lamp

the green dark confidant dude @ uncommon seems kinda insane in limited

full set is up on the wotc site

no october surprises this time really

had a quick scan thru at lunch, seemed like slight improvement in removal? more warriors, less reasons to care about warriors. and surely the worst delve card to date - peel from reality except 4U delve instead of 1U!

this one does any nonland permanent, if that matters

I think that ones better than the 4uu frost breath

And yeah its non delve version actually costs 2u (aether tradewinds iirc) so it's one of the smallest delve penalties

pretty okay w/ pod being banned, it's either than or it stays the best deck indefinitely

cruise maybe less shocking tho I really didn't feel like it was broken in modern, people were playing thought scours just to turn it on, it's not like legacy where your graveyard just magically ends up w/ 10 cards in it. dig seemed scarier long-term.

I might play storm again in modern, it just lost two of its terrible matchups

either that*

i am giving up on modern.

Bleh, there goes all the effort I sunk into Pod. I get the rationale and even agree with it, but it's annoying to have spent all that time and money. At least I still have Affinity

i don't mind modern as banlist-curated format though it does suck when your deck is the one that gets hit. this felt like a long time coming though, imo melira pod was the best deck in the format for the full 3 years since the punishing fire ban

i would expect GBx midrange decks to be the most popular choice again going forward. i think these decks mostly suck without bloodbraid elf and you should pick up one of the ramp decks if you want a lot of free wins (valakut, tron, amulet)

anyone have prerelease tales to share?

i had 3 of the rare dragons in my pool so i played them all and crushed people

despite the format being really heavy on the small set (i think it was like 4.5 packs of the new set and 1.5 of khans?) it seemed to play well