I love that dragon!!! It is going to really help me deal with mean artifacts in my EDH group because then I will have all the artifacts. I can't wait! I am already excited about Gate Crash. Good job, Wizards!
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I love that dragon!!! It is going to really help me deal with mean artifacts in my EDH group because then I will have all the artifacts. I can't wait! I am already excited about Gate Crash. Good job, Wizards!
Indeed- it makes for a rather hilarious "upgrade" from Vandalblast
I already have a proxy of this guy in my Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind deck,
and he's won me a couple of games,
causing some in my playgroup to question whether I should be allowed to run it
Domri Rade also works really, really well in my Sliver Overlord deck.
Reliable draw, an army of Lifelinking, Deathtouching fighters, and an insta-win Emblem?
Don't mind if I do...
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Art for Aurelia has gone up on the mothership. I believe this has never been shown before (but correct me if I'm wrong), and if this is the case then these cards are 100% confirmed.
Forgive me if this has been reported, but a taipow.com article has a user posting something saying that the perpetrator who stole these cards has been arrested, and the printing facility is fearful of losing their contract with WotC. It's an anonymous poster, so take that with a grain of salt.
One thing I find weird about the story is that Wizards of the Coast uses a company in Texas to print cards, which is nowhere near South Dakota. Here is link to info http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/146 from there google the company's name and it tells you that they only have one printing facility in U.S. My question is how did this guy get the cards if he lives nowhere near the printing facility?
One thing I find weird about the story is that Wizards of the Coast uses a company in Texas to print cards, which is nowhere near South Dakota. Here is link to info http://www.wizards.com/magic/magazine/article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/146 from there google the company's name and it tells you that they only have one printing facility in U.S. My question is how did this guy get the cards if he lives nowhere near the printing facility?
It's not uncommon for game companies to use multiple printers, esp if that printer deals with other game companies. These places have tight schedules that are booked months in advance, which is why they can't just drop everything to run a rush job. Calibrating the machines alone can take days.
Also, if something happens at one plant, like a fire, it wouldn't derail the Magic train completely.
"But while Razia was more of a figurehead, aloof and untouchable, Aurelia is an active, forceful leader who is directly involved with her underlings."
This sentence is from the planeswalkers guide to gatecrash and its surprsingly similar to the spoiled Aurelias flavortext. That can't possibly be a coincidence.
I'm SO SICK of the "too strong for Standard" argument. It's the new "Dies to removal". We can have a two mana 4/4 with a zillion abilities, but we can't just have Accumulated Knowledge. Makes sense.
"But while Razia was more of a figurehead, aloof and untouchable, Aurelia is an active, forceful leader who is directly involved with her underlings."
This sentence is from the planeswalkers guide to gatecrash and its surprsingly similar to the spoiled Aurelias flavortext. That can't possibly be a coincidence.
I do believe these cards are real but didn't the Planeswalker guides to Gatecrash get spoiled a long time ago?
I'm SO SICK of the "too strong for Standard" argument. It's the new "Dies to removal". We can have a two mana 4/4 with a zillion abilities, but we can't just have Accumulated Knowledge. Makes sense.
"But while Razia was more of a figurehead, aloof and untouchable, Aurelia is an active, forceful leader who is directly involved with her underlings."
This sentence is from the planeswalkers guide to gatecrash and its surprsingly similar to the spoiled Aurelias flavortext. That can't possibly be a coincidence.
I'm SO SICK of the "too strong for Standard" argument. It's the new "Dies to removal". We can have a two mana 4/4 with a zillion abilities, but we can't just have Accumulated Knowledge. Makes sense.
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the ultimate seems great, but the +1 is really underpowered, -2 is just ok. I can't really see anything outside a Jund mid range running this
Enter the infinite seems like it would be killer in an epic experiment build
The +1 is better than you think. It is comparable or better than the +1 of other relevant 3cmc planeswalkers. Jace drew cards for both players, Lilliana discards for both, and the new Ajani gives one +1/+1 counter. Domri is going to give you about 45-50% chance of drawing a creature. Yes, it can and will miss. Is half a creature better than one counter? Overall, I say yes. Those walkers had downsides, and so does this one. If it only had the +1 it would be a bad Phyrexian Arena. But you have to take the -2 into account, consider the versatility and judge it with both.
Also, JUND would be a bad deck to use the planeswalker. It simply does not run enough creatures, nor does it need the removal that this brings with it.
On the other hand NAYA could use something like this. Since, it already is creature heavy it has synergy with both abilities.
I hope you weren't expecting a blue eyes white dragon. These are absolutely real.
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The only card I find "terrible" is Borborymos. You have to stretch too much to think of any use for him. It is a neat ability to try to build on, but simply costs too much to have any good interaction. Reanimator would even have to stretch to get good use out of him. If it had cost 6 with smaller P/T it would have at least been an interesting win condition in some kind of R/G ramp deck.
The dragon, the angel, and the draw spell are all at least interesting. The angel in my opinion is on the borderline of being playable, possibly in a sideboard. It at least has the potential to blow out games that you'd never win otherwise.
The dragon is a cool casual card, and if some weird thing happens with artifacts it might pop up in a sideboard somewhere. At the very least it is a fun card that people might attempt to play around with because that happens to basically all alternate win-condition cards.
The draw spell is a combo piece. It definitely isn't "good", at least in standard, but people will attempt to make decks around it. It might have some potential to do something in the older formats that can cheat things into play. I realize it is horribad in limited, but at least it is an interesting card that people might try to break that we haven't seen before.
Domri, in my opinion is the most playable of these cards. I can see a slot or two for it in Naya in the future.
Nothing here is broken, and it seems like people don't get excited unless the cards spoiled are overpowered.
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Nicol Bolas is so awesome! And so is Kokusho!
Bolas x Kokusho 4eva!!! <3
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Indeed- it makes for a rather hilarious "upgrade" from Vandalblast
I already have a proxy of this guy in my Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind deck,
and he's won me a couple of games,
causing some in my playgroup to question whether I should be allowed to run it
Domri Rade also works really, really well in my Sliver Overlord deck.
Reliable draw, an army of Lifelinking, Deathtouching fighters, and an insta-win Emblem?
Don't mind if I do...
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Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
some amazing artwork from gatecrash on this
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It's not uncommon for game companies to use multiple printers, esp if that printer deals with other game companies. These places have tight schedules that are booked months in advance, which is why they can't just drop everything to run a rush job. Calibrating the machines alone can take days.
Also, if something happens at one plant, like a fire, it wouldn't derail the Magic train completely.
This sentence is from the planeswalkers guide to gatecrash and its surprsingly similar to the spoiled Aurelias flavortext. That can't possibly be a coincidence.
I do believe these cards are real but didn't the Planeswalker guides to Gatecrash get spoiled a long time ago?
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/224
It says 5th december for me, wouldnt call that long unless its been posted elsewhere before.
I think he was talking about this. It's not the Planeswalker's Guide, but the sections about Aurelia are almost the same in both articles.
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That exact same line also appeared in this http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/210a many months ago.
my bad, sry for this beeing old news. Nobody brought it up afaik, so seeing the similarities baffled me.
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Even if Gruul doesn't have any, green already has plenty of ramp. farseek, ranger's path, borderland ranger, boundless realms.
the ultimate seems great, but the +1 is really underpowered, -2 is just ok. I can't really see anything outside a Jund mid range running this
Enter the infinite seems like it would be killer in an epic experiment build
The +1 is better than you think. It is comparable or better than the +1 of other relevant 3cmc planeswalkers. Jace drew cards for both players, Lilliana discards for both, and the new Ajani gives one +1/+1 counter. Domri is going to give you about 45-50% chance of drawing a creature. Yes, it can and will miss. Is half a creature better than one counter? Overall, I say yes. Those walkers had downsides, and so does this one. If it only had the +1 it would be a bad Phyrexian Arena. But you have to take the -2 into account, consider the versatility and judge it with both.
Also, JUND would be a bad deck to use the planeswalker. It simply does not run enough creatures, nor does it need the removal that this brings with it.
On the other hand NAYA could use something like this. Since, it already is creature heavy it has synergy with both abilities.
I hope you weren't expecting a blue eyes white dragon. These are absolutely real.
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The only card I find "terrible" is Borborymos. You have to stretch too much to think of any use for him. It is a neat ability to try to build on, but simply costs too much to have any good interaction. Reanimator would even have to stretch to get good use out of him. If it had cost 6 with smaller P/T it would have at least been an interesting win condition in some kind of R/G ramp deck.
The dragon, the angel, and the draw spell are all at least interesting. The angel in my opinion is on the borderline of being playable, possibly in a sideboard. It at least has the potential to blow out games that you'd never win otherwise.
The dragon is a cool casual card, and if some weird thing happens with artifacts it might pop up in a sideboard somewhere. At the very least it is a fun card that people might attempt to play around with because that happens to basically all alternate win-condition cards.
The draw spell is a combo piece. It definitely isn't "good", at least in standard, but people will attempt to make decks around it. It might have some potential to do something in the older formats that can cheat things into play. I realize it is horribad in limited, but at least it is an interesting card that people might try to break that we haven't seen before.
Domri, in my opinion is the most playable of these cards. I can see a slot or two for it in Naya in the future.
Nothing here is broken, and it seems like people don't get excited unless the cards spoiled are overpowered.
You forgot Caravan Vigil. I see your point but I guess I just miss Rampant Growth
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Farseek is pretty close to strictly better than Rampant Growth in this Standard.
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Farseek is much better. 99 times out of 100 you're gonna want a shock over a basic
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