MTG Salvation

Quote from darcanegel

eww, I hope gwafa isn't in political puppets. He's not even political, he's closer to anti-political. He's just terrible in every way.

How about Grand Arbiter Augustin IV then?

Gwafa Hazid, Profiteer, seems like a great card for political puppets, and agent of masks could fit in one of the BW decks. Would we be upset if breath of malfegor was in Heavenly inferno? I think these sets will have plenty of "each opponent" cards that we used to think were garbage because of how much 1 V 1 we play otherwise. I'm not saying these decks should not work in 1 V 1 though.

These new cards seem to be introducing some quirky and good abilities to the game. Our new lovely angel friend says that spells cannot be played during combat. I've never seen that before. Likewise, the other commanders will have some "new" abilities. Imagine if our lovely mountain/elemental friend had pro everything and said: Players cannot play spells that affect ALL creatures. Haha. Would shut down wrath effects, which would be really cool, but it's unlikely. Besides, that ability would backhand the frustrating board sweepers that are so important to EDH.

Quote from KingChewie

From MaRo yesterday : "Join me next week when I get carded."

Does it mean he will have a card preview?

Oh I sure hope so, but it would be a bit early. We may see some new cards over the next few weeks, but the decklists may be 2 or as late as 1 week from release. No problem though. They could punish us innocent little players for glimpsing the unthinkable new set early, and wait forever. Oh well. I want to see the new commanders' full cards soon though.

Whoa. has anyone mentioned Decimate? That card is an EDH superstar. It doesn't hit anyone too hard if you don't want it to, and you can even target something on your own side, making the table less likely to revenge smash you on their next turns. Talk about a political card. New frame on this would be nice. It's not reserved is it -.-?

These are 30$ products, and I think Wizards understands that this is a bigger price tag than their usual products. They will step up and give us value and fun. There will be some filler, stuff to replace, but Wizards will be smart. I'm thinking of archenemy- Assemble the doomsday machine had a Memnarch, a Sundering Titan, a Duplicant, and lightning greaves, wow. We'll see staples, we'll see bombs, we'll see card advantage, and utility, and mana fixing, and new cards, and some pleasant surprises. Cheers. See Taurean Mauler or Vulturous Zombie. These cards are ok in 1 vs 1, but are devastating in multiplayer. Expect cards that are better in multiplayer than they otherwise would be.

Quote from flaming infinity

We have 18+ rare slots in each deck. I think we can spare one for something like Gilded Lotus. That's 90+ rares, counting the new "rares," which is about half a block worth.

Oh how nice it will be to bask in so many rares. I hope we really do get 18+ per box, and that the source of this info was not bs. I don't care if a bunch of the rares are big silly things like archangel of strife because the rares will have rare, bomby power. Besides, if each pack gets 15 new cards, 2 will be mythic commanders, 1 will be an enemy legendary, and 2-3 more will be stuff like archangel. This would mean that there are around 12 other classic rares. Sounds good to me.

"Add one mana of any color to your mana pool" Why would these words appear on any cards in these boxes? We don't need one mana of any color for these decks. We need one of 3 colors. A big part of these decks is introducing new players to commander. One of the rules to the format is that you can only produce mana in your general's color, so I don't expect there to be any mana resources in the decks that do anything other than fix for the three colors in each respective deck. This is why I expect 3 color taplands, and probably terramorphic expanse type cards. Reflecting Pool makes a lot of sense here, as it focuses on the specific colors that the decks can make. Yeah, one mana of any color cards are great and I want them, but they are wonky in a product so focused on specific colors.

Oh lawd, we get 18 rares/mythics?!! I was expecting 10-12 at most! I would expect that there will at least be 2 rare lands per box. Also, on the more pessimistic side of this jubilation, I would reckon that a few of these rares are from the 51 new card stock. That's cool with me though. The mythics are almost certainly just the commanders on the front of the box. I am so excite.

Quote from Sanity"s_Eclipse

All I want to know is if the hidden card on HI is an angel, and what that DfP middle chick actually does. Other than that, I might avoid spoilers as well.

I would shed tears of happiness if the middle card on HI was a demon-angel. Everyone would buy HI for that. I mean, we had malfegor, so it's not impossible to get wacky/awesome type combos.

I just realized that I really want to play with a lightning angel. I'd be bummed if it was not in Political Puppets. It's a solid card that would seriously make me excited for the product. I think these boxes are a good place to print fun, exciting cards that will make people say "awesome, I get an old ____, I love this card!"

In counterpunch or devour for power: Wouldn't it be awesome to see a skullmulcher or a mycoloth. These are the kinds of cards that sell multiplayer products.

Just had a cool thought: Mirror mastery makes me think that there will be reverberate, pyromancer's ascension stuff going on. So the general "guy" of two reflections gives me an idea. If he basically reverberated all of your instants and sorceries (which would be a cool general), then why is he of TWO reflections? I'd be really happy if he tripled all of your instants and/or sorceries. That would own, and make burn a better strategy in EDH. Could this be possible? Haha it would be so powerful.

@ unfamiliar: What is that rad Elesh Norn art in your icon? Is that official art from something?

I wonder if these will have any New Phyrexia cards in them. I mean, New Phyrexia will be out by the time these are technically on the market. It would be a nice touch, but it will be okay if they are not included. I don't expect decklists until late may. aw.