The difference between this and Chained to the Rocks is that it's a snow permanent for enabling snow cards. If a snow deck that runs white is good, this is also good.
Snow is 'in' every color, but it's only a draft archetype for UG. It has occasional touches, typically at rare, in other colors.
Ok, but my point was that the constructed playable snow cards are pretty widely dispersed across colors. This, the black wipe, Skred (Which isn't in this set but *is* the most played historical snow card), all are cards outside UG. Really, the only constructed playable UG snow cards are Ice-Fang Coatl and possibly Glacial Revelation? For snow to spawn a competitive archetype, with the cards we've seen so far, we need something like a 5c snow land. The new card that searches for any basic and Arcum's Astrolabe only do so much.
Snow being in every color is weird, unless we get some kind of 5c snow land. If we do, that alongside the new "Fetch any basic" card and the color fixing artifact could *maybe* make 5c snow work?
Valiant Changeling seems like it could be good. It benefits from literally any Lord, and is easy enough to make cost just WW (And doing so involves using other creatures that benefit from your lords). T1 Changeling Outcast, t2 this guy, t3 literally any lord, swing for big damage?
I mean, if they printed 3/3 Double Strike for CMC2 on a Merfolk, I'm pretty sure Merfolk would be running that, right?
I immediately smiled on seeing this card. When it's not hosing graveyard decks or hexproof creatures, a 1/1 flier and 4 life is still pretty great at instant speed.
We'll probably get some more legendaries in Modern Horizons 2, which is implied to be coming due to this set being called MH1. For now, I'm pretty happy with *This* one, as repeatable removal/draw on a free sac engine seems pretty damn good, even with him being as expensive as he is.
I'm very optimistic about a number of cards in this set. I'm not sure how anyone isn't, unless they were expecting a bunch of things to slot directly into Phoenix or Dredge or Jund.
We need a gargandon 2.0 for the restore balance deck
I mean, you're joking, but if the mono-black mythic were some kind of big scary demon with Suspend B and Gargadon's sac effect, I'd really love it for my goofy Gravecrawler/Sac Engine/Undead Augur build I'm working on.
Black/Red sword seems a lot better than Blue/White sword. If swords in general are ever good enough again (And that new goblin seems kind of specifically designed for them?), this is a great SB card.
Without Stoneforge, they will continue to be as unplayable as they've always been. Feast/Famine is absolutely nuts good, Light/Shadow is a great engine for creatures, Fire/Ice is an excellent value engine and clock.
And none of them see play.
These new ones will be great for Commander and Legacy. They will be ultimately meaningless in Modern.
I'm cautiously optimistic about some kind of Goblin Engineer sword deck managing to be something other than complete trash.
Ok, but my point was that the constructed playable snow cards are pretty widely dispersed across colors. This, the black wipe, Skred (Which isn't in this set but *is* the most played historical snow card), all are cards outside UG. Really, the only constructed playable UG snow cards are Ice-Fang Coatl and possibly Glacial Revelation? For snow to spawn a competitive archetype, with the cards we've seen so far, we need something like a 5c snow land. The new card that searches for any basic and Arcum's Astrolabe only do so much.
Maybe a snow Birds of Paradise could work, too?
I mean, if they printed 3/3 Double Strike for CMC2 on a Merfolk, I'm pretty sure Merfolk would be running that, right?
I mean, you're joking, but if the mono-black mythic were some kind of big scary demon with Suspend B and Gargadon's sac effect, I'd really love it for my goofy Gravecrawler/Sac Engine/Undead Augur build I'm working on.
I'm cautiously optimistic about some kind of Goblin Engineer sword deck managing to be something other than complete trash.