MTG Salvation

After watch the video, looks like the oracle text is something like "enchanted creature gets +1/+0 and has lifelink and "whenever this creature deals damage to a player, draw a card".

Looks like a good aura!

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Here is an extra card that was hiding in the devotion video

There is also another card but we only know that:
Its name is "Staggering Insight".
Costs WU.
Its an enchantment aura.
Its uncommon.
Gives +?/+?.
also has a quote box for the aura as it grants them some ability when they do something.


EDIT: Also we got the art for the new god.

Sorry, but what do you mean as "quote box"? The video about devotion isn't on line anymore =(

When you say "gives +?/+?" you mean "gives +X/+X" or you mean that it wasn't possible to identify the information in the video?

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We've seen a two drop Defender Hexproof 0/3 in Sylvan Caryatid, a two drop semi-Hexproof 2/1 with Paradise Druid, I've been really wishing for a one drop weak (like 0/3) Hexproof with either a mild ETB ability or even Paradise Druid's semi-Hexproof status (which is fine once you make it vigilance). I can get that a one drop 1/1 Hexproof isn't what they want anymore, so is it possible to imagine what a 0/3 without being a mana dork at one drop would have to have to make it printable?

Great question! I’ll try to reach Mark Rosewater and ask it in Tumblr

Once it's uncommon, I'm hoping Sterling Grove will be reprinted

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So it's Academy Ruins for enchantments, thoughts?

Not fun to see in your opening hand, but maybe it has a place in the SB?

I’ve been testing 2x Noxious Revival in SB and I can tell you it was great in many matches. This land can make exactly the same effect and can’t be countered... will be probably very useful in a future metagame where opponents can destroy our auras at instant speed without paying any mana.

What a waste of space... Diabolic Edict will never see play again after Lilianas Triumph

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Yeah, the Modern playables from WAR haven't been very kind to us. If you're running into multiple decks running Blast Zone, I think it'd be appropriate to pack some interventions in the SB; like you mention, it has enough versatility that you can justify the spots. Another option might be Solemnity depending on which one covers more bases for your particular meta. Swapping out a SPiritdancer for a Silhana Ledgewalker, playing full sets of both umbras, & 2+ Mantles might also be something to consider. Certainly not ideal, but may help lessen the damage from both Blast Zone and Chalice on 1.

Holy mother of God! I totally forgot about Solemnity! I'll try it. Thanks a lot!

Blast Zone is really pissing me off. Is it finally time to play Heroic Intervention in the sideboard?

We can stop Explosives with Gaddock or Stony Silence... but this new land is tough. Suppression Field helps, but doesn't stop it. Heroic intervention would be useful for many other purposes too.

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Absolutely. Canopies are excellent. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed that Horizons will bestow upon us Sylvan Library.

I'm crossing my fingers for Sterling Grove. This card is amazing and would become a great tool box for Bogles.

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Sorry, guys, but I’m still confused here. I searched and searched but found no rules that say it’s possible to retain priority.

if I assume it’s possible to cast many spells while holding priority... they all resolve at once or they will resolve one after another?

Sorry, but the legality of this isn’t clear for me at all :\

To help clarify, here is a detailed explanation below. The tl;dr version is that yes, your opponent is doing something legal, and yes, you can respond and disrupt the shortcut being used here, at which point the game would rewind to the point at which you want to interrupt.

• Opponent casts Mutagenic Growth, Giant Growth, and Unnatural Predation in rapid succession.
• There is a shortcut that is being employed here, specifically, that if a player casts multiple spells in a row, it is assumed that the player casts a spell and it fully resolves with no responses from any other player before the next spell is cast. This shortcut is perfectly legal, but can be disrupted if other players do in fact have some response.
• Therefore, in this specific example, as per Comp Rule 116.3c ["If a player has priority when they cast a spell, activate an ability, or take a special action, that player receives priority afterward."], when your opponent casts Mutagenic Growth, once the spell goes on the stack, s/he received priority again. The shortcut described above presumes that your opponent is passing priority, that you are passing priority, and that the spell resolves, after which your opponent casts Giant Growth... the same happens again, and your opponent casts Unnatural Predation.
• To NOT use this shortcut, your opponent would specifically have to say "I am holding priority between each spell." What this effectively means is that when Mutagenic Growth goes on the stack, when your opponent receives priority, instead of passing priority to you, s/he is casting another spell, that is, Giant Growth. And then again, once Giant Growth goes on the stack and s/he receives priority, instead of passing priority to you, s/he is casting another spell, that is, Unnatural Predation. This leads to the stack looking like this: [TOP OF STACK] Unnatural Predation, Giant Growth, Mutagenic Growth [BOTTOM OF STACK]. This leads to all three spells being on the stack, as opposed to each spell going on the stack and resolving individually.
• It is fairly uncommon for players to take this approach, as if you had a removal spell (e.g. Lightning Bolt), you could respond to all three spells, kill the creature, and your opponent loses all three spells PLUS their creature. This is why the shortcut exists and is presumed to be the normal state of gameplay unless your opponent specifically says otherwise.
• A good example of an opponent who might not use this shortcut is a Storm player. Sometimes, Storm players will Remand their own spell to increase their Storm count. To do this, they have to specify that they are retaining priority, as otherwise, their spell will resolve as part of the shortcut and they don't get to Remand it!
• Going back to the shortcut scenario, if your opponent casts all three spells in rapid succession without specifying that they are retaining priority, you can absolutely interrupt the shortcut. That would look like this:
• Opponent casts Mutagenic Growth, Giant Growth, and Unnatural Predation in rapid succession, proposing a shortcut to cast and resolve each spell individually in the order listed.
• You have a Sudden Shock in hand. If you let Mutagenic Growth resolve, you can no longer kill their creature. Therefore, you say, I have a response to Mutagenic Growth.
• The game will rewind to before your opponent cast Giant Growth and Unnatural Predation. Both cards will go back into your opponent's hand and their mana sources will unwind as well (i.e. untap their forests, but would also untap a mana creature like Noble Hierarch).
• You will get to cast your spell, in this case, Sudden Shock and it will go on the stack and resolve assuming no responses (which would be highly unlikely for a split second spell...).
• The end state, assuming you kill their creature, is that your opponent does not have a Glistener Elf, you still have your creature, Mutagenic Growth is countered due to not having a legal target, and your opponent still has Giant Growth and Unnatural Predation in hand.
• Alternatively, if you had a different spell like Lightning Bolt, you could respond to Giant Growth but after Mutagenic Growth resolves. In this instance, the game rewinds to before Unnatural Predation was cast, with Mutagenic Growth resolved and Giant Growth on the stack. Your opponent can then respond to Lightning Bolt with Unnatural Predation, and maybe you have another removal in hand (e.g. another Lightning Bolt) that you can cast in response to Unnatural Predation.

I hope this explanation makes sense and helps clarify.

Holy mother... this is what I call a lesson about Magic: The Gathering. Thanks a lot for your patience and effort, my friend! Now I completely understand the difference between the shortcut and the retaining priority thing.

Thanks to all the other great answers above too! This forum is really, really great. Everyday a new lesson

Although Prison Term's last ability doesn't target anything, Prison Term can't be attached to something that it can't enchant (e.g., a creature with protection from white) (C.R. 115.1d, 701.3a, 702.16c, 303.4j). Note that a creature with protection from white not only can't be targeted by abilities from white sources (C.R. 702.16b), but also, among other things, can't be enchanted by white Auras (C.R. 702.16c).

EDIT: Add rule citation after comment 5 was posted.
EDIT (Jan. 29): One rule was renumbered in the meantime.

An ability of the form "T, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice [this land]: Search your library for [a certain kind of card], put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle" (as found in Bloodstained Mire, for example) is not a mana ability, since it doesn't produce mana when it resolves (C.R. 605.1a). (Thus, the answer to your first two questions is: no and yes.)

Because of this, an ability with that form goes on the stack when it's activated, like nearly all other activated abilities (C.R. 602.2a; compare with C.R. 605.3b). And for that reason, that ability can be the target of other spells and abilities, such as Stifle or Spellskite's ability (C.R. 113.1c).

The reminder text on the Stifle card as printed in Scourge says that mana abilities can't be countered for the reasons that—

• mana abilities don't use the stack, "so [they] can't be targeted, countered, or otherwise responded to" (C.R. 605.3b, 605.4a),
• what Stifle means by an "activated or triggered ability" is an activated or triggered ability object on the stack (C.R. 113.1c),
• spells can target only objects or players, not characteristics on a permanent (C.R. 113.1c, 109.1a; review C.R. 113.1a), and
• Stifle can't counter something it doesn't target (see also C.R. 608.2b).

EDIT (Mar. 31): Add rule citation.
EDIT (Jan. 5): Edited, including because some rules were renumbered with Core Set 2020.
EDIT (Jun. 7, 2021): Edited to conform to recent Oracle text changes.

When the storm trigger resolves, you put all of the storm copies on the stack. Each copy will trigger the Leyline (because each copy is its own spell), but those triggers can't go on the stack until after you're done resolving the storm trigger. So all 19 of the storm copies will go on the stack, then all 19 of the Leyline triggers will go on the stack, and the 19 Leyline triggers will resolve first, before any of the storm copies resolve.

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Forgotten Cave should not be considered as a land, but as a spell. It could take the place of an enabler, not a land. I see it as a better Dakmor Salvage.

I've gotten Modern Dredge games under my belt since Prized Amalgam got released, and I'll tell you that Forgotten Cave does a terrible job of imitating Dakmor Salvage. Dakmor Salvage makes 1-land hands more keepable just by being in your deck, is one of the easy cards to Dredge when you need to reanimate Bloodghasts, is a fine card to emergency Dredge when none of your other Dredgers get binned, and taps for black mana to mana fix our sideboard cards.

(I personally still splash/main blue for Tome Scour because it's virtually Dredge 5 on Turn 1 and is a significantly better Shriekhorn, and I love how 2-3 Dakmor Salvage helps me cut lands, go for only 1-mana enablers (so I play full playsets of both Tome Scour and Shriekhorn--I generally find that Cathartic Reunion ends up in 1-land hands too often), and lets me skew the Golgari Thug-Life From the Loam counts in favour of Thug.)

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I will update the op with the rest of the cards. They will all be visible in the Card image Gallery on the mothership as well

Someone told me that the cards not spoiled will be available tomorrow, 05/31, is it true? Thanks for your hard work!

That was likely me. Yes, all of the cards will be posted on the mothership tomorrow morning

Quote from Sephon19 »

Uh, why are people not happy about this. Just play snow lands and it's a better Chained to the Rocks. Was it because of this stance:

First of all, even if it is better that Chained to the Rocks, that's a pretty low hurdle for a card seeing no competitive play. There are reasons why CttR isn't used. It's sorcery speed. It's got two points of weakness to removal (enchantment and land). If it does get removes at instant speed it results in the creature being a surprise blocker or retriggering ETB effects.


But it's even in question whether it even *is* better. In modern, everyone plays fetches and shocks. Getting a Sacred Foundry... is trivial. People run basics too, but usually don't want to pop their fetch to fetch a basic when they could be fetching support for their breadth of colors instead. But shocks aren't snow-covered. So for this to be 'better' you'd have to suggest players would be happy to pop the shock to fetch a basic snow land (to be an eligible target for this), than to get their choice of shock that provides mana in two colors. That's a mighty inconvenient constraint.

Sure, I'll grant that using shocks for CttR is more fragile because Field of Ruin (and other nonbasic hate like Fulminator Mage). But they're both equally vulnerable to Ghost Quarter, and any sort of enchantment removal.

Is it better than Chained to the Rocks? It's debatable. But even if you come out on the "Yeah, it's a little better than Chained to the Rocks" side of the debate... is 'a little better' enough to turn Chained from unplayed to staple? With all its known deficiencies? I think nay.

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It's not great, but it is better than Chained to the Rocks because the land that enables it can produce the mana required to cast it.

Sacred Foundry says hi.

Sure thing, brotha. Hope one of them end up working out for ya; also hope Horizons gives us a playable tutor that could find a Solemnity lol.

Yeah, the Modern playables from WAR haven't been very kind to us. If you're running into multiple decks running Blast Zone, I think it'd be appropriate to pack some interventions in the SB; like you mention, it has enough versatility that you can justify the spots. Another option might be Solemnity depending on which one covers more bases for your particular meta. Swapping out a SPiritdancer for a Silhana Ledgewalker, playing full sets of both umbras, & 2+ Mantles might also be something to consider. Certainly not ideal, but may help lessen the damage from both Blast Zone and Chalice on 1.

It's better than oath of nissa as it can grab any permanent and gives you 3 life. Grabbing artifacts is very relevant in making the card better and grabbing an enchantment is a bonus that can come up when searching for an early Rest in Peace. Ancient stirring is heavily played in colorless decks. People would complain that blue can't get preordain yet green would get this.

I can think of a few matchups where I'd might want to side him in; at least worth testing seeing he's uncommon and won't break the bank. My first thought went to how he could help us vs Phoenix decks via taxing their spells and buying some time to find a Path before TiTi flips. The PW ability specifying damage dealt by any permanent seems like it could lead to some shenanigans. I definitely think it'd be fun to jam him in the SB for a few games and play around with him, but I ultimately feel like he's just too awkward between needing 3 mana to cast, requiring we be in a situation where it'd be the right call to pause our gameplan to play him, the inherit awkward hands you'd encounter if running more than a singleton, etc. Regardless, I'm kinda looking forward to giving him a whirl and seeing how it goes, especially if there's a non-zero chance he could be useful in the Phoenix/TiTi matchup. Because my Mirror Entity experiment hasn't been going as well as I had hoped lol.