MTG Salvation

The front is full of great abilities, and I like that the back is a pseudo-Brimaz. Def a lot to like and work with for 3 mana value.

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Wait a sec, does she count herself? Cantripping draw engines are pretty dang strong

If she were Green, then yes lol, but she’s a White card, so no. At least we are seeing some of that White limited card draw that MaRo’s earlier color pie article discussed. I was afraid it’d be farther down the pipeline of sets.

I bet WotC was high fiving themselves thinking “Look at all the potential card advantage we just gave Boros! Great job everyone!”


Like, how does Odric not have at least one keyword so you’d get a Blood token when you cast him on an empty board?

I was finalizing sea monster choices for Runo Stromkirk when this got spoiled, and wow, I think this just replaces Brinelin, the Moon Kraken as this is a mana cheaper, has another point of power, is modal, and has no restriction on the cast trigger lol. I like this a lot and look forward to using it in Runo and Orvar, the All-Form as well

So I like this, just wish the White and Red Cemetery cards had two triggers as well, or maybe at least the White one bc the Red one's damage would def stack up faster lol.

Similar to Tovolar and Runo, it makes sense that Edgar is just Orzhov bc WotC already stated they weren't doing three color cards for Innistrad. This was more expected when Maro went over how Tovolar was Jund in testing, but ultimately was just Gruul for the arbitrary reason of not wanting three color cards for the two sets. So when the Kraken Horror legend was hinted, while a Sultai would have been nice, it was going to be either Simic or Dimir. So the same with Edgar, while it'd be nice to have him Mardu like he should be, this iteration had to be either Orzhov or Boros, likely the former to make a Mardu "pair" along with Olivia's Rakdos colors.

Do we think that even though LoadingReadRun is listed first, they'll pull another stunt like with their Strixhaven Commander preview and arbitrarily hold it until the end of one of their regular videos late into the evening?

[Mainly just joking about it, no offense intended toward them or their content, just joking about their previous situation]

So Wizard's has just sidestepped the "Should Modern be extended to include 7th, Odyssey, and Onslaught?" by just reprinting the cards players wanted from them, and with great art and watermarks! These are cool and glad Wake got a new reprint! Can't wait to see which older cards get spoiled next!

Be still my Phyrexian heart, they not only did artifact lands again, but they are duals and indestructible too! And each art is amazing too!!! I think my Breya deck fainted in shock lol!

Asmor looks fun, and while I hope they print more Food support in Red (currently 0 cards), I wouldn't mind trying her out as a Commander or in Chainer.

Really happy to see Coffers back and with that gorgeous alt art, and the Torment set symbol watermark for the regular version is a nice touch. That said, the Mythic rarity reeks of "Oh we don't look at the secondary market *Agatha wink*"

I was just thinking of updating my Queen Marchesa deck to have more political stuff, and a lot of these will slot in nicely. I enjoy Cunning Rhetoric and Inkshield a lot, and Nils and Promise of Loyalty are cool designs. The reprints, though, are def a little meh, with Selfless Squire, Duelist's Heritage, and Mikokoro being the standouts for me.

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When it was teased that there would be a new creature caring about sea monsters i got excited. Spawning Kraken is so boring.

you can't be serious sea monster tribal players will go bonkers for this especially when tiro of meletis sees it.

It's not that it's a bad card design, it's just that I feel we were expecting either a legendary or something a bit more impactful than a token without evasion. Getting an untapped creature to help deter a crackback is nice, but you already need to work to get your big monsters through since so few have natural evasion. Or rely on the one copy of Serpent of Yawing Depths to be found on time and survive. This ability on a commander would at least have been a build around and give a bit of consistency.

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Image dump incoming for those who can't watch a 1-hour video. Starting with Zaffai's friends.

Decklist is here. Do not go check the Mothership link, it's a mess right now.

I love Octavia soooo much, the art is great, the abilities are fun, and they're an Elemental Octopus! Plus, there are 8 8's on the card, the last one is tucked into the set count of 081. If the Ward reminder text was on the card, that'd feel more legit, but I'll take it.

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A color that's typically behind in terms of raw card advantage or resources should have significantly better drops on-curve, but for some reason that's usually green's shtick - a color that also happens to get both card advantage and resources.

White gets the most efficient removal, the best 1 and 2 drops, and goes back and forth with green for efficiently costed keyword soup creatures, like Baneslayer Angel

Divine Gambit and Reduce to Memory are the two examples of why White does not get the best removal now-a-days. Blue got Ravenform and now Resculpt and Green tends to get the better creatures that out scale Whites curve. Black continues to also get better removal at all rarities as well.

Wizards/Creative will always bend the Pie for set themes and world building. The biggest example would be New Phyrexia where all the colors got mean and felt tainted by Black. White had more life drain and negative rules agains the opponent. Blue got Vapor Snag, which Blue getting noncombat damage lifeless was big. So non Blue and Red colors caring about instants and sorceries is fine bc the whole set/plane cares about them, and Creative did do well to show the differences in *how* the colors care. Sure the Witherbloom Apprentice feels WB, but we've already seen BG get this effect in Poison-Tip Archer, we just now see it triggering off Magecraft. It's kind of nice seeing BG not care as much about the graveyard since we get than nearly every set these days.
And as for Boros getting graveyard matters abilities, that's def not a bad thing. Boros has been forced into the redzone for far too long and it's great that they expand flavorfully into new design space. Boros just feels like the archeology colors, we've seen this trope with the WR cards in Zendikar: caring about exploring, excavating, finding artifacts, etc. It will feel weird since Boros has largely been one note, but these new designs fit within the scope of the colors and the flavor of the world.
Overall, I think it's good that Creative went with different strategies that still fit within each color pair with this set than just say WR attacks, BG graveyard, WB lifedrain, UG gets everything (jkjkjk), and UR is the only one to care about spells in a magical school world.

[Edits for spelling and clearing up points]