MTG Salvation

I hate her ultimate because it feels so underwhelming if you don't already have a commanding board presence. Not what makes a Planeswalker ultimate awesome, IMO. I'm really surprised to see her at 3 mana though. I was sure she would be 4. I do like her + ability. Her - ability doesn't really excite me. I love her Oath and it's flavor text, though.

This set turned me into an Eldrazi hater.

Gross. The trend of terrible Eldrazi werewolves continues. No surprise. :/

At least the front side has nice art...I guess... Can't believe they felt the need to give this card Defender.

I love how he's just casually drowning some guy in the giant goblet.

This guy wishes he were Craterhoof Behemoth.

Man, I want this guy to be a legendary creature now! Maybe he's actually Norin the Wary!

I also read this title as "Elder Deep-Fried Sam" and I was like "what the hell am I looking at?"

Neat card for flash deck, though.

All of these transform cards and not a werewolf in sight. And if I do get one it's probably going to be a stupid Eldrazi Werewolf.

Wish the Alphas card was more interesting or actually did something for wolf/werewolf tribal.

Nice! I was wondering if they would ever make a cantripless Remand. I didn't expect it would also be able to bounce a creature.

Ugh, I don't like this. Seems like the set will be littered with a bunch of cards that really do nothing without their counterpart. Cards that could have otherwise been interesting stand-alone cards.

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I can't get my head around the *****ing.

Werewolves are big stupid beatsticks that don't do anything interesting except flip back and forth.

People must be into that because they've been griping for years about not having a legendary werewolf for their commander decks.

Then WotC prints a bigger, stupider legendary beatstick that does a couple kind-of-interesting things when he flips back and forth.

And every single person who says they were looking forward to getting a legendary werewolf starts *****ing that he's a boring beatstick that is only sort-of interesting when he flips back and forth.

Because we want TRIBAL synergy, not a dumb beatstick. What's the point of playing tribal if your General doesn't give a crap about whether you're playing RG Werewolves or RG goats or RG goodstuff? The problem is this general does NOTHING for Werewolf synergy. He doesn't tutor for werewolves, he doesn't pump werewolves, he doesn't transform werewolves. All he does is flip back and forth (in the general restrictive werewolf fashion) into a mediocre beater that gets chump blocked all day by tokens and then gets completely outclassed by the real bomb threats that people play in EDH. What werewolves need, as I said earlier, is a card, preferably the Commander so you always have access to it, that lets you transform werewolves. Most werewolves are completely below the curve in human form and turn into vanilla beaters or slightly above curve creatures once you jump through the hoops of transforming them. This may be passable in constructed (barely), but it just doesn't fly in a multiplayer game like Commander where people can tutor up and drop cards like Consecrated Sphinx, Blightsteel Colossus or Elesh Norn by like turn 4.

General Tazri is a perfect example of a highly-requested commander done right. She lets you tutor for an Ally to keep the ally ETB abilities flowing and she acts as a mass pump for your inevitable ally army. Ulrich does nothing to support werewolves other than be an on-color general who will sometimes benefit from one or two cards in your 99 card deck. And what sucks is that Werewolves are such a special case due to being flip cards, it'll probably be another five years before we get another shot at an alternate werewolf commander if there's not another in Eldrich Moon (and I doubt there is).

Alot of stinkers in the comon and uncomon slots....

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So Vraska improved her ability and can now turn people into gold and jewels instead of just stone!

That, or she's got a lucrative business going of selling hyper-realistic, life-size sculptures.

Feel like they dropped the ball on the commons. Do we really need so much stuff from RTR-KTK blocks? Couldn't we get a bunch of great CHEAP commons/uncommons that you can't get non-foil in non-toilet paper condition anymore like Diabolic Edict, Forbid, Capsize, Withering Boon, Skyshroud Claim, Vitalize, Wild Growth, etc.?

The lack of Doubling Season worries me, though. How many rares are we up to?

Also, does the inclusion of Lightning Helix make Lightning Bolt (and Lava Spike) unlikely now?

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Mythic slots are bad. Praetors that are worth nothing, except for Elesh.

Vorinclex, Shoeldred, and Elesh Norn are all ~$25 and Jin is ~&18, what are you even on about dog?

Oh yes, they will certainly be worh your 10 dollar booster. Especially after their price drop due to increased supply. Even elesh is cheaper than I thought, forgot she got reprinted on modern masters.

Fine, I'll ask the question since I'm starting to get worried...

Where the **** is Uncle Istvan

From the cards we've seen so far, I would say:

Mythic slots are bad. Praetors that are worth nothing, except for Elesh. Cards like Channel, who literally, LITERALLY, don't see play in ANY FORMAT (except for... vintage cube? lol).

Rare slots are mixed. Some amazing cards like Cryptic Command and visions and some terrible like Malfegor and sphinx of uthunn.

Uncommon slots. Most seem terrible. Yes, we have bauble. Then we also have Topan Freeblade (oh yeah, the iconic Topan Freeblade, practically the face of MTG), Palladium Myr, Guttersnipe, Sandstone Oracle.

The commons seem mostly terrible too. Aside from wall of roots, you have what? Festering newt? Overgrown battlements? Blergh.

It seems like the rare slot is the only relevant slot in this product, and even this one is a coinflip. Yeah, thanks, but no thanks.

So no Demonic Tutor? ;(

Want to know more of the golden uncomons and comons.