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Nov 20, 2017BlazingRagnarok posted a message on Jaya Ballard ReturnsMairsil's reappearance in card form absolutely can be a coincidence because Commander products are a dumping ground for neglected legendary figures, the vast majority of whom are irrelevant to contemporary sets.Posted in: Articles
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Apr 4, 2016BlazingRagnarok posted a message on The Magic Market Index: Set Review of Shadows Over InnistradWhile its value probably won't spike, I disagree with your assessment of Bygone Bishop. It has applications outside of clue-based decks; for example, it makes every creature that Collected Company decks hardcast replace themselves. If any sort of white weenie crops up (human or spirit tribal?), Bishop would give the deck crucial staying power in the mid and late games.Posted in: Articles
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She'd still die to Dismember, though. Even if Gisela was pretty chunky, there's still no reason for Tooth and Nail decks to run these girls over Emrakul 1.0 and Xenagod.
Small sets don't typically add more than one new mechanic anyways if they keep all of the previous set's mechanics, and it's obvious that Emerge is that mechanic, even if we only have 1 Emerge card to 6 meld cards spoiled so far.
Nope. Barring a rules change, the front side of a given card is the only side that exists when a card is not on the battlefield and transformed. The only exception is that, if the color of the back is different from the front, all of the colors count toward color identity when used to determine EDH deckbuilding. Otherwise, the rules treat the back of DFCs as if they don't exist.
It's certainly possible, but I don't think Modular lines up with the artifact flavor of Kaladesh. In the original Mirrodin block, modular represented the idea of combining robots that can assemble and reassemble themselves at will. Most of the Kaladesh cards from Origins focused more on the artificers than the artifacts, which isn't very compatible with a mechanic that represents artifacts that build themselves.
Yeah, but Ruric Thar, the Unbowed is a huge nonbo with Moonmist and the Full Moon's Rise+Blasphemous Act combo.
When it comes to gauging this guy as a commander, I think we're missing the forest for the trees. We're fixating so much on what a poor werewolf tribal commander that we're missing how good of a Fight Club commander he is. Ulrich is the only legendary creature with a fight ability, so just throw him in a deck with tons of deathtouch. Slap a Basilisk Collar and a Darksteel Plate on him and watch the table run scared. It even fits in well with preexisting wolf tribal cards such as Master of the Wild Hunt and Wren's Run Packmaster. Run tons of fight spells alongside Silverfur Partisan and Wild Defiance. You don't even need to abandon your werewolf theme. I'd like to see Ruric try to head up than kind of deck better than Ulrich.
I think at least one standard deck will find a slot for it. If Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger can see play, then the mana cost is certainly not an issue, and since there are situations where Emmy is better (vs. aristocrats, for one), it would see sideboard or mainboard play for sure.
From Gatherer:
6/1/2011 If Phyrexian Metamorph somehow enters the battlefield at the same time as another permanent (due to Mass Polymorph or Liliana Vess’s third ability, for example), Phyrexian Metamorph can’t become a copy of that permanent. You may only choose a permanent that’s already on the battlefield.
The new squid-shaped Back Face indicator is also interesting. The past three Innistrad sets with DFCs used Sun and Moon symbols to indicate the front and back faces respectively, and Ulrich still has them.
Since the back face is fairly strong (swinging in for 13 power of course), the front must either be expensive or have some hoops to jump through. On top of that, the fact that it has haste means it does not have an upkeep/end step transformation trigger a la Avacyn and Werewolves, which means that the ability must either flip it the turn it is played (like with Westvale Abbey) or have the card enter the battlefield transformed. I'm leaning toward the latter, due to Hanweir being a sentient location.
Of course, most of my predictions have been wrong so far, including the vague ones.
To play devil's advocate:
Well, there are a number of answers to it in standard. Stasis Snare and Hidden Dragonslayer can take it out the turn it comes in, while it's still vulnerable to counters and discard effects. This new Emrakul is also harder to bring in than Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger against an empty board, since Emmy needs to have targets to point removal at in the first place. Not every deck is equally vulnerable to mindslaver. Removal-light decks that go wide tend to be more resilient to these kinds of effects.