Yeah, this ability made sense in MH1 with cycling... outside of Opt I've yet to see a single card that would make this "second card" mechanic viable in limited in any way.
I love Mantle of Tides. Good 1 drop, remembers me of Delver of Secrets
I like they are pushing the limited second card draw matters archetypes. But in MH1 it was one of the worst archetypes, the only really good payoff was the Djinn card, the commons were mediocre. This set has more "second draw" cards, but it has less card draw options to activate the effects (MH1 had cycling, fact or fiction, a bunch of stuff). It will probably end up as another failed attempt I think.
The caudron is bad. At best is 5 mana (and pay 2 life) to reanimate a creature (IF you have 5 creatures in the grave).
In standard we already have a 5 mana reanimator card that gives the creature haste.
First Dragon Storm-Grab Lathliss, Dragon Queen
Second Dragon Storm-Grab Scourge of Valkas, both Scourge and lathliss Trigger, put lathliss trigger second. 3 dmg from scouge.
Third Dragon Storm- Grab Scourge, token enters first again, 2 scourge triggers 5 dmg each. Total 17 damage so far.
This version needs more than 3 storm counters to win.
Scourge + Scourge + Bogardan Hellkite is 21 damage with 3 storm (without combat phase).
Bogardan Hellkite+ Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund is 17 dmg with 2 storm (and with 3 storm is gg).
Also Rite of Flame and Gitaxian probe are banned in modern and probe is banned in Legacy and even restricted in Vintage.
If you don't care about what format this deck is legal to play with, you can add 4 Lotus Petal for extra speed.
Boring modern sideboard card. Not a fan, we already have a ton of effects like that in white. Being 1cmc is a bit annoying for storm players i guess, but Storm players deal with this kind of card all the time.
Well. The knights are mardu colors. Maybe we get green and blue legends that are not knights?
Claim the firstborn is pretty powerfull, maybe it's modern playable idk. Act of Treason is one of my favourite red cards and and the super evil flavor of this card makes me happy.
How this card works?
You choose any number of one mode? Or you can just choose 1 of each?
If you can choose the same mode multiple times, the card is really good. 3/3 flying haste for 4 is already great (haste is the ability you want in cards when the meta is full of planeswalkers), if it hits the opponent you can wrath the field, empty both hands, or draw a zillion cards (hello narset). Actually if the opponent has less life than you they are just dead (activate the lose 1 life multiple times and gg), so I guess you can just use one of each.
I agree that regular tron and eldrazi tron will be the most powerful decks, but the 'wasteland' part of argument makes no sense imo. What makes you think that only 3 decks can stand a chance?
Also, most modern combo decks dont play looting anyways: saheeli, vizier, thopter urza, neobrand, amulet titan, scapeshift, storm, ad nauseum, taking turns.
Looting was banned cuz the graveyard stuff was too controvertial I think; Dredge was already super annoying before the Gak came around. I think it's a wrong decision tho, the format doesn't have many 1 mana cantrip/enabler cards (serum visions i kinda bad, opt is horrible, the astrolabe is ok i guess, only ancient stirrings is actually really good) and i'll miss izzet phoenix.
In common so far we have Tome Raider, Witching Well (the best ones imo), Merchant of the Vale, Opt and Golden Egg
I like they are pushing the limited second card draw matters archetypes. But in MH1 it was one of the worst archetypes, the only really good payoff was the Djinn card, the commons were mediocre. This set has more "second draw" cards, but it has less card draw options to activate the effects (MH1 had cycling, fact or fiction, a bunch of stuff). It will probably end up as another failed attempt I think.
In standard we already have a 5 mana reanimator card that gives the creature haste.
If you want a repeatable reanimator card for EDH you can already use Whip of Erebos, Recurring Nightmare ,Dread Return, Mimic Vat etc.
Also the wheel of sun and moon effect is pretty awkward.
Rules Lawyer + True-Name Nemesis can be a good substitute.
First Dragon Storm-Grab Lathliss, Dragon Queen
Second Dragon Storm-Grab Scourge of Valkas, both Scourge and lathliss Trigger, put lathliss trigger second. 3 dmg from scouge.
Third Dragon Storm- Grab Scourge, token enters first again, 2 scourge triggers 5 dmg each. Total 17 damage so far.
This version needs more than 3 storm counters to win.
Scourge + Scourge + Bogardan Hellkite is 21 damage with 3 storm (without combat phase).
Bogardan Hellkite+ Karrthus, Tyrant of Jund is 17 dmg with 2 storm (and with 3 storm is gg).
Also Rite of Flame and Gitaxian probe are banned in modern and probe is banned in Legacy and even restricted in Vintage.
If you don't care about what format this deck is legal to play with, you can add 4 Lotus Petal for extra speed.
Claim the firstborn is pretty powerfull, maybe it's modern playable idk. Act of Treason is one of my favourite red cards and and the super evil flavor of this card makes me happy.
You choose any number of one mode? Or you can just choose 1 of each?
If you can choose the same mode multiple times, the card is really good. 3/3 flying haste for 4 is already great (haste is the ability you want in cards when the meta is full of planeswalkers), if it hits the opponent you can wrath the field, empty both hands, or draw a zillion cards (hello narset). Actually if the opponent has less life than you they are just dead (activate the lose 1 life multiple times and gg), so I guess you can just use one of each.
Also, most modern combo decks dont play looting anyways: saheeli, vizier, thopter urza, neobrand, amulet titan, scapeshift, storm, ad nauseum, taking turns.
Looting was banned cuz the graveyard stuff was too controvertial I think; Dredge was already super annoying before the Gak came around. I think it's a wrong decision tho, the format doesn't have many 1 mana cantrip/enabler cards (serum visions i kinda bad, opt is horrible, the astrolabe is ok i guess, only ancient stirrings is actually really good) and i'll miss izzet phoenix.