MTG Salvation

Early pick in draft.

IF I read this right, it is a very bad card. You get the worse of the two cards you exile and your opponent gets the better one. You spend a card, you pay the mana and you get the worse of two creatures. Please explain why anyone would cast this? I guess it combos with Phage the Untouchable. Find Phage and fail to find a second creature but that is it. Maybe there is a functional reprint of Phage coming? Well I guess there there things like brand but that still isn't great two cards for two creatures and you have to combo out for them. Not a good card.

I have often been critical of new sets. I fact I refuse to by any Eldritch Moon packs or draft that crap. And guess what I am excited as hell for Kaladesh. The new energy resource especially. It looks very flexible and it is rare we get an honest new resource to care about. Their last attempt, processors, was under powered and completely parasitic and had repetitively few cards in only one set. This looks like it will be given enough support to matter. Plus there isn't a lame eldrazi anywhere to be found. I can take or leave the other mechanics but when I seen energy part of me jumped for joy. I am extremely excited about this set.

So with Hanweir being spoiled and the flip mechanic turning out to be Eldrazi based now, at least for some cards, let me just say I'm out. I'm not buying into this set. Literally. I'll still follow along, but the only thing WotC cares about is money, and I'm not giving them mine.

They learned nothing - literally nothing from Zendikar. People don't want an Eldrazi takeover of their favorite planes if that means we give up what makes those planes unique. It's not just that we have more Eldrazi shoved down our throats right after the abomination that was the zendikar return, it's that they're slapping lipstick on a pig and trying to call it something else. Adding a creature type and transform mechanic to Eldrazi dosent make them "unique." It doesn't make this any less of yet another Eldrazi set, or change the fact that horror world is now eldrazi world. And guess what the broken cards in the set will be? Probably not wolves or vampires or spirits or angels, the hallmarks of Innistrad, but the Eldrazi, because we just have to see how "cool" and "powerful" they are. Congrats if you're an Eldrazi fan; the fatigued among us just lost. If it were maybe a dozen among 200+ cards, I'd be fine. But clearly it's not. It's a whole portion of the set.

I came into the game literally 2 weeks before Avacyn Restored released. It's my nostalgia set. I get my own bias. But you know what offsets shadowy, transylvanian horror world? Angels, light, hope. Shadows need light, and light needs shadow. Avacyn Restored got that. Avacyn was the focus, but Griselbrand was there and more powerful in card form in terms of most competitive play. For all of the bright angelic cards, there was still dark elements of horror to offset that. Where has that been at all this block? It's just more and more horror shoved down our throats.

We cared about Innistrad because we felt some love for the horror elements, but also a connection to the people light of the world. You can't tell me that all of the angel fans in the game didn't love the church and angelic overseers of the plane. Or that people didn't find characters to love among the tribe's and monstera of the world. Look at the laments throughout these forums over Avacyn's death and the desecration of Gisela and Bruna. We cared about the light as well as the Darkness and horror. We've only gotten death and corruption this trip. That isn't and never was Innistrad, no matter how much WotC sells the lie.

Emrakul is fine. A lazy cop-out that was better saved like a fine dessert for later, but fine as a villain. But turning Innistrad into Eldrazi world by adding "cosmic" in front of "horror world" doesn't make it any less of Eldrazi world now. And that sucks. There's no angel to save the world. No light against the dark. We have Liliana, maybe, to fight the greatest threat in the multiverse after the stupid Gatewatch shows up and Arlinn and Sorin are cast aside before they get a chance to do anything of value to the plot. The problem with Planeswalker heroics amidst planar devastation? Who do we hope to see when we return? Avacyn is gone, the church is ruined, any remaining angels outside of Sigarda are mad or corrupted, and any tribal legend we might grow attached to will either be Eldrazified, killed or shoved into a dark story corner and ignored.

This isn't good storytelling. This isn't Innistrad. This isn't any different than Zendikar except for a new coat of paint slapped on it. My angel is dead. My best friend, who already lost Elspeth just lost his two Commanders for shock value. All I have is Arlinn and Avacyn knows she'll get like 1 story while The Gatewatch struggle for no real reason for 5 chapters. I'm done. Enjoy the block. This message will be lost among these forums, an echo with no ears to hear it. But I'm out. Creative killed any love and excitement for the game I had left.

But didn't people just whine about Eldrazi being OP in Modern not too long ago?

Quote from Dom4419 »

I hope it won't be filled woth eldrazi.

And it really pisses me off what they did to bruna and gisela. First they kill off avacyn and now they turn those two into that horrid creature

Bothers me too what has happened to the Angels. I didn't expect Innistrad to turn out a way I want, but this is shaping up to be one of the blocks I'll wind up disliking the most. But for others this is what they want, so I get why it's happening.

I don't really care about the card's power level right now. I'm more concerned about the now lackluster eldrazi making yet another appearance. BFZ block made them boring and uninteresting, yet here we are getting more of them. Simply put, the eldrazi are not compelling villains, and I was sick of them during BFZ spoiler season.