I know the Sphinx token, snake token, spider token, and Minotaur token are all new. I'm sure the others are as well, I just don't recall the cards they are on.
My favorite part about this cards is you get to see the opponents hand and library. That's a pretty sweet effect in white. Tack that on to hitting enchants some creatures that will continue to see play and all their gods. Also it gets rid of o-rings and detention spheres which could be huge value. I'm a huge fan of this card
Please fix the the black span so that it accurately reflects the numbers of Dictate of Erebos, Doomwake Giant, and Extinguish All Hope. It has been pointed out by AwakeningAutumn and myself that these three cards are in the wrong number positions in the list.
That's if they're unattached to a creature, not if they're destroyed themselves (in which case, they might be unattached, but that doesn't change the fact that they're destroyed and sent to the graveyard). Probably the most important part of that text is that it remains on the battlefield, rather than going to some zone where it would be protected from destruction effects.
Examples!
Say a Grizzly Bears is enchanted by Hopeful Eidolon.
If it gets Wrath of God-ed: The bear is destroyed, the eidolon is unattached and remains on the battlefield as a creature.
If it gets Hushed: The bear remains, the eidolon is destroyed and sent to the graveyard.
If it gets hit by Bearer of the Heavens's death trigger: The bear is destroyed, the eidolon is destroyed, both go to the graveyard.
Bestow creatures (they survive Bearer wipe when bestowed)
Nope. Bestowed creatures are still permanents. They're dead too.
I'm not too sure about that. I believe the rules text say that if they become unattached from the bestowed creature they enter the field as a creature themselves. This would happen after Bearer's ability resolves, giving you creatures that were bestowed auras prior to Bearer going boom.
Edit: Using the Gatherer looking up a bestow creature: "Unlike other Auras, an Aura with bestow isn't put into its owner’s graveyard if it becomes unattached. Rather, the effect making it an Aura ends, it loses enchant creature, and it remains on the battlefield as an enchantment creature. It can attack (and its {T} abilities can be activated, if it has any) on the turn it becomes unattached if it’s been under your control continuously, even as an Aura, since your most recent turn began." Taking this into account the bestowed aura would remain on the field after Bearer destroys everything as the act of destroying everything would constitute the aura becoming unattached from the creature after the destruction resolves. If a judge could confirm or deny this it would be greatly appreciated.
I did not see a thread about this card started yet.
Overall, I like this card. Having flash makes for some interesting combat tricks. This will go into my Kresh EDH deck along side Grave Pact to get a lot more bang for my sacrificed creatures.
I have counted 33 rares in the set. White will get one more (the other colors have 6 where white has 5: Aegis, Decide, Dictate, Dawnbringer, Launch the Fleet). The other rare will more than likely be an artifact.
I like the art, but why not just re-print O-ring. It's the same card. I guess it's good for commander though.
O-ring can hit any non-land permanent, including yours. Banishing Light only hits non-land permanents an enemy controls. That is main difference between the cards.
White is gaining so many fun looking cards in this set that I will probably go white. The promo is awesome and the support for white over the block has been strong, at least for limited.
I believe it was mentioned somewhere, but I am not sure. While it is on curve, you would have to play three color for it and that makes it a lot harder to have both Atheros and Sparky out on turns three and four respectively.
If we are looking at the seeded packs, each seeded has the potential to contain one god. A different thread ventured that white has a chance for Atheros, Black: Pharika, Green: Kruphix, Blue: Keranos, and Red: Iroas. If that is the distribution white is definitely the color to go with, with black being second in my opinion.
I'll likely be on both for a time, determining which would be better suit me. That said, I'd likely go to Nexus in the end to reduce the likelihood of this happening to me again
Countermand just because I like counter spells that do other fun things
Sigiled Starfish for the scry ability
Cruel Feeding because wide-scale lifelink is nice to have
Market Festival from a ramp perspective
You only get to look if you target a God.
Thank you for clarifying that.
I'm not too sure about that. I believe the rules text say that if they become unattached from the bestowed creature they enter the field as a creature themselves. This would happen after Bearer's ability resolves, giving you creatures that were bestowed auras prior to Bearer going boom.
Edit: Using the Gatherer looking up a bestow creature: "Unlike other Auras, an Aura with bestow isn't put into its owner’s graveyard if it becomes unattached. Rather, the effect making it an Aura ends, it loses enchant creature, and it remains on the battlefield as an enchantment creature. It can attack (and its {T} abilities can be activated, if it has any) on the turn it becomes unattached if it’s been under your control continuously, even as an Aura, since your most recent turn began." Taking this into account the bestowed aura would remain on the field after Bearer destroys everything as the act of destroying everything would constitute the aura becoming unattached from the creature after the destruction resolves. If a judge could confirm or deny this it would be greatly appreciated.
I did not see a thread about this card started yet.
Overall, I like this card. Having flash makes for some interesting combat tricks. This will go into my Kresh EDH deck along side Grave Pact to get a lot more bang for my sacrificed creatures.
O-ring can hit any non-land permanent, including yours. Banishing Light only hits non-land permanents an enemy controls. That is main difference between the cards.