MTG Salvation

In any other set Scatter Ray would be downright playable in limited, given that essence scatter is almost always a good “removal” spell and paying 4 isn’t much of a drawback for the added versatility of countering artifacts in an artifact centric set. However I think it’s going to be pretty bad in this set mainly because the abundance of power stone tokens is going to quickly turn all soft counters into dead cards.

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I don't think "killing someone who might affect product sales" is "good" writing.

Here's what I think affects this more than "product sales:" the phyrexian storyline is still not built up. We're clearly not getting a phyrexia set this year, and I wouldn't be shocked at the pace they're going with it that we don't see it until 2024. What we are getting is a kamigawa set, and we do have a prominent planeswalker from kamigawa. So to move the story forward and as they've been ramping up the involvement of phyrexia (from tezzeret doing some stuff on kaladesh to a bit of oil on ixalan to whatever was going on in kaldheim to now) on other plains she ended up as the first victim. There's no one else on kamigawa who has any kind of background and we're fresh off a set where the gatewatch were called in to go help fight some stuff.
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I agree, it seems like they are establishing a pattern with Vorinclex in Kaldheim and Jin-Gitaxias in Kamigawa where every winter/early spring set will have a surprise praetor or some other reference to New Phyrexia. Which probably means that the actual return to New Phyrexia (or new phyrexia doing a full-on invasion of a different plane) is a few years off.

If I had to guess, the upcoming Brothers’ War set is being done more or less because WotC wants to return to the first storyline where Phyrexia was introduced to introduce new players to the phyrexians and lay the groundwork for Phyrexia’s return as the game’s central villain.

A legendary character returns, but now as a Vampire


Emrakul, the vampire eldrazi.


(Felt like someone had to say it, even though it’s not going to happen)

A bard instrument should grant banding.



And since sarcasm seems to be a lost art these days I feel compelled to say, no, I’m not being serious.

Somewhat surprised that deflection, one of the spells Garth first casts in that novel, isn’t among the spells this card can cast.

I feel the need to add that arcane denial’s delayed draw trigger says “Its controller may draw up to two cards...” so while flashing in hullbreacher will prevent that draw, they can always choose not to draw those cards after hullbreacher enters and as a result deny you the treasure. Their choice on “yes I’m drawing” or “no I’m not drawing” happens on the resolution of arcane denial’s delayed trigger and therefore isn’t something you can respond to, you can only flash in hullbreacher when priority is passed to you after the trigger goes on the stack (which is before they have to make their choice to draw or not draw).

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If I mutate a Wildwood Scourge and then cast another copy of the Hydra, it would go infinite, right?

I was wondering this myself and I think that it will go infinite, since a mutated creature only has the creature types of the topmost card.


702.139e A mutated permanent has all abilities of each card and token that represents it. Its other characteristics are derived from the topmost card or token.


Edit- I just realized that mutating onto Wildwood Scourge and then casting another isn’t the same as casting it with Enduring Scalelord on the battlefield. Its triggered ability is missing the “may” that scalelord has. This means having a mutated scourge on the battlefield and then casting a 2nd scourge ends the game in a draw since the player cannot stop both cards from infinitely triggering eachother unless they have a removal spell, sac outlet or stifle effect.

An almost* strictly better prey upon I suppose, since you still get the fight effect even if x is 0.


*(“Almost” because x can be a downside in some fringe cases, for instance prey upon can still be cast with Gaddock Teeg on the battlefield.)

The emphasis on “Behemoth” and “Huge” in their descriptions makes me think it’ll be a selection of the largest creatures from Magic’s past (or maybe reprints of all the cards with the creature type of ”Giant” that are in standard).

I kinda like this, mainly as a way to get my friends who still seem overwhelmed when I’ve invited them to draft (or make a sealed deck) to get use to the idea of opening a pack and making a deck.

Basically they don’t have to do on the spot judgements on card quality or keep track of mana curve and creature/spell ratios. While to most people those things is what drafting is about, there is something to be said in getting new players use to playing limited decks with brand new cards without the complications of deck construction.

I’ve seen a lot of new players draft, then go 0-3 in matches and blame themselves for how they built their deck. While their deck construction ability is partially to blame a lot of their losses are also due to making bad decisions while they played. In essence I think there is a tendency for new players to learn less from their mistakes when playing after drafting if they decide to place all of the blame on their own deck construction rather than their gameplay.

Out of all the things I expected from a MTG article, getting Rickrolled and a reference to a Command & Conquer meme were not what I had in mind but I appreciate it nonetheless.

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Interesting that there are cards that are eternal legal that use stickers. Are the stickers removable? If not, is it legal to place the stickers over a card sleeve? I’m asking because presumably putting a sticker on a card and then shuffling up that card for another game would be considered playing with marked cards since the sticker would slightly increase the card’s thickness in that spot.

Stickers stay for as long as the card remains in a public zone. Putting a sticker on your Commander for example permanently adds that trait to the card as it dies and goes back to the command zone, but said sticker "falls off" the moment someone casts a Cyclonic Rift and you decide to return said Commander to the hand. WotC said that the stickers are very similar to Post-It Notes and thus should be easy to add and remove plus they should be fairly reusable.

Why yes, I would like to draw seven cards for six mana.

Crazy people trying to sell Garth for €65 upward on Cardmarket...

This might be a €10 Mythic on a good day...

Hes not that good. Some of you cant see past black lotus. A huge amount lotuses power comes from costing 0. Its also recurrable. You arent getting explosive starts here

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"we all should live together despite our differences"?

Wow, what a horrible thing to say right!? lol

And the ones she's defending are people who violently oppose that. You can't live together with people who want to kill you for your differences, no matter how accepting of them you are.

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If I mutate a Wildwood Scourge and then cast another copy of the Hydra, it would go infinite, right?

I was wondering this myself and I think that it will go infinite, since a mutated creature only has the creature types of the topmost card.


702.139e A mutated permanent has all abilities of each card and token that represents it. Its other characteristics are derived from the topmost card or token.

No, because Wildwood Scourge cares about "another non-hydra creature", so it can't trigger off itself, even if it's not a hydra anymore. If you have two of them, both mutated into non-hydras, and then put a +1/+1 counter on one, then they'd go infinite... but not in a good way. Since they don't have "May" in their card text, they'd lock the game in a draw after all that setup, unless you have something to sacrifice one at instant speed.

the non-hydra restriction is because it would otherwise loop with another copy of itself.

I may have been a buyer had they printed Relentless Rats over Rat Colony

Love the Achilles reference. That protection is dripping with flavor and makes for very interesting gameplay. I like that is isn't just protection from creatures with that converted mana cost. If you want to launch a kill spell at Haktos it also has to have the right converted mana cost.

Also, Give us "Patroclus" so we can send Kynaios, Tiro, Haktos and him to gay brunch at the Nyx Cafe. =P