I think we may be missing the more practical use of these. The "God Draw" does not have all three in hand but none of them. It has Days, Gideons, Tezz, and such in the hand, and then draw them later as win conditions. The soldiers are blockers, the crown steals creatures, and the scepter is the win condition, with the soldiers and the stolen creatures as support. I'm seeing U/W/b control with these.
I agree with this, these cards aren't the bombs that Titans or Baneslayer are, but rather they're the parts of a control deck that can sit there and wait for a little bit before attempting the win. Of course this plan is hampered by how fast aggro can be these days, but post rotation it shouldn't be quite as bad.
I mean really now, back when Destructive Force was a deck, how many of the decks that ran it wanted to have it and a Titan in their opening hand instead of simply drawing into it later?
If the throne is good then I don't see why you'd need to run it with Architects and what not instead of in some kind of Tezz-Control build that doesn't run creatures and just wipes the board over and over. I guess Architect could be run in there but I miss creatureless decks :/.
Oh good golly.. lol Yep, you're going to give everyone nightmares. =P Before you know it they will be spoiling some hidden arts on the card before ever showing their connection. May or may not find out before the set is actually released.
MaRo should really higher me to be the Catbert of Wizards, I could give the Magic community nightmares for the rest of their lives... This is almost as good as the time I speculated that the new Phyrexian leader of Mirrodin would be Squee who was possessed by Yawgmoth after he was made immortal in Planeshift.
The idea that they might "Voltron" into more powerful effects is cool and really hasn't been seen for a while unless you count the Herald cycle in alara.
I kind of like the art as it reminds me of old school Magic and those text based adventure games on computers, but so far the set seems pretty "meh" in terms of what it does for its mana cost.
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I agree with this, these cards aren't the bombs that Titans or Baneslayer are, but rather they're the parts of a control deck that can sit there and wait for a little bit before attempting the win. Of course this plan is hampered by how fast aggro can be these days, but post rotation it shouldn't be quite as bad.
I mean really now, back when Destructive Force was a deck, how many of the decks that ran it wanted to have it and a Titan in their opening hand instead of simply drawing into it later?
You mean Tuesday, Monday is a holiday xP.
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MaRo should really higher me to be the Catbert of Wizards, I could give the Magic community nightmares for the rest of their lives... This is almost as good as the time I speculated that the new Phyrexian leader of Mirrodin would be Squee who was possessed by Yawgmoth after he was made immortal in Planeshift.
Nah, Monday is when they spoil set numbers or something equally silly.
I think the Throne isn't terrible and I'd be ok with getting it in limited as it can produce a healthy amount of creatures as needed.
Shards of Alara had a cycle of 5 Voltrons D:
Edit: Oh wow, I can't read...