I'm not sure if this "obviously weaker". Lifelink is back breaking in some match ups, this gets the counter even if its blocked and human is the better subtype imo.
Why on earth is a candy house a forest ? ******* awful flavor.
The gingerbread house is from Hansel and Gretel.
The whole story is about kids getting abandoned then lost within a forest. Their stepmother decides to take them out in the forest and then leave them there, but Hansel, the brother, initially leaves a trail of white pebbles he'd collected after overhearing the parents agree to abandon the children the previous night, the father reluctantly pushed into it by the stepmother so they don't have to pay to feed them anymore, the family is so poor.
The kids come back, and their stepmother locks them up so they can't collect more pebbles, but Hansel instead leaves a trail of breadcrumbs from the meager bread meal they had and he saved when their stepmom does the same thing to them. Birds, however, had eaten the breadcrumbs so they are lost deep in the woods.
They wander for DAYS, starving. Eventually, they happen upon a house made of gingerbread and candy within the forest, which they start to eat ravenously, then the whole witch thing happens, yadda yadda, cannibal, oven, kill the witch, escape, etc.
The story has always been about a gingerbread house quite specifically hidden deep within a FOREST. It's kind of the entire reason the kids get lost and stumble on it to begin with, because if it weren't a dense forest, they would have made their way home pretty easily.
Therefore, having the gingerbread house tied to a forest fits the flavor of the fairy tale it's highlighting perfectly. Just perfectly. It's a hugely important part of the story.
Well I know the house is in a forest. The house being "tied" to a forest would be it producing green mana or it being a green artifact instead.
The house has the subtype forest. Which should mean it *IS* a forest. The same way shortsword is a equipment or goblin king is a goblin.
This is slopy flavor. Only way this would remotely work is the house being not a real place but an illusion or trap created by the forest, whos the real entity here.
Not too fond of this in mono green or gruul. Best possible case this will cost 4 mana which is a good rate but compromised by the ackward play pattern threat > ramp.
Given that this dispute slots with Nissa plus the very real risk of beign stuck on yout hand means its unlikely to see play. Only chance truly is Rotting Regisaur in some BG, creature intensive build.
All in all this cycle is obviously not intended to be chase cards for standard. More like cool cards you are happy to play around in junky brews.
Too bad most of the card draw spoiled so far is over costed. I'd have a better opinion of this "2nd card drawn" theme if they printed something like Merfolk looter. I'm afraid though that these days something that "powerful" would have to be printed at rare
Letting you get your pay off every turn for no cost like that makes for terribly boring limited. Like Raid in Ixalan block where it was overly supported by evasive creatures and totally lost its meaning.
Card is bad. Having a wrath adventure mode is excellent but the creature is unplayable level bad. Do people just run this for the wrath and not cast the creature unless desperate?
Not even close to unplayable this will be spotted in edh decks for sure
Not even giant tribal as the focus
No doubt. EDH would be a good format for this. I tend to evaluate with a focus on standard and cube as these are the formats I play most. The adventure mechanic effectively makes every card with it 2 cards within 1. Generally if the spell half of that is a reasonably costed wrath as this is, the creature half doesn't need to be that impressive for the card to be good...but a vigilance 7/7 for 5WW isn't impressive at all. No evasion, no resilience, nothing a control finisher wants. Does it make the card unplayable? No. As I said, the creature is what is unplayable unless it is the only play you have.
A bad free card is a great card.
Noone wants to play 2W 1/1 lifelink creature but Legion's Landing was a staple during all of its tenure. 1U draw a card is beyond unplayable but Radical Idea saw its share of play. 3GG 4/4 is very underwhelming but growth chamber guardian is quite good. There is a bunch of other examples.
Imo this card is only marginaly playable because the wrath is slightly on the bad side (5 mana + minor downside). But anyway, its a wrath outside of BW and plays very well with threeferi. I think this is a great card for WU control.
And Garruk is also back. Damn, all the cool people are back.
RWB Knights. Perfect match.
WUB "Artichantments". The theme exists in ELD but has no direct black support.
GWU ETB. Does not exist in ELD.
BRG Aristocrats. Have some overlap with BG food stuff but not really.
So I think you are probably right in 1-2 of your predictions. The other two decks are gonna be odd balls like some random UB Mill or GWR counters.
I'm not sure if this "obviously weaker". Lifelink is back breaking in some match ups, this gets the counter even if its blocked and human is the better subtype imo.
Well I know the house is in a forest. The house being "tied" to a forest would be it producing green mana or it being a green artifact instead.
The house has the subtype forest. Which should mean it *IS* a forest. The same way shortsword is a equipment or goblin king is a goblin.
This is slopy flavor. Only way this would remotely work is the house being not a real place but an illusion or trap created by the forest, whos the real entity here.
Yes, you need crack to swallow this one.
Given that this dispute slots with Nissa plus the very real risk of beign stuck on yout hand means its unlikely to see play. Only chance truly is Rotting Regisaur in some BG, creature intensive build.
All in all this cycle is obviously not intended to be chase cards for standard. More like cool cards you are happy to play around in junky brews.
Letting you get your pay off every turn for no cost like that makes for terribly boring limited. Like Raid in Ixalan block where it was overly supported by evasive creatures and totally lost its meaning.
But yeah the whole Warlock type felt totally unnecessary... I guess its ok for as long as they keep mixing up types like black shamans and wizards.
I hated when they started to make every red mage a shaman even when there was nothing shamanistic about the creature.
A bad free card is a great card.
Noone wants to play 2W 1/1 lifelink creature but Legion's Landing was a staple during all of its tenure. 1U draw a card is beyond unplayable but Radical Idea saw its share of play. 3GG 4/4 is very underwhelming but growth chamber guardian is quite good. There is a bunch of other examples.
Imo this card is only marginaly playable because the wrath is slightly on the bad side (5 mana + minor downside). But anyway, its a wrath outside of BW and plays very well with threeferi. I think this is a great card for WU control.