You have to be mindful when playing bunch of high mana cost cards. What happens when they kill your general or hinder him and you're stuck with a hand full of 7cmc spells.
then just play them? Presumably, if you build a deck around a bunch of high cost creatures, you plan on being able to cast them. Cheating them into play is a nice bonus unless you like playing wrong, methinks. Besides, Kaalia is a base 4 CMC and is in black. That's pretty resistant to repeated killings as well as being Hinder'd.
It's actually surprising how many quality demons there are out there. They kind of get shafted compared to Angels and Dragons, seemingly, but there's enough of them to not be a joke tribe.
Also, not actually a demon, dragon, or angel, but Erratic Portal will let you bounce your creatures in order to reuse them. This is actually really good, because it means you can Kaalia out Reiver Demon and Dread Cacodemon, and then get them back in hand to boardsweep with.
Has there been any announcement as to whether these cards are legal in Vintage and Legacy? From what's been spoiled, I think Flusterstorm seems really good in both formats as a Spell Pierce that's almost always better.
They're legal in Legacy and Vintage. Nowhere else (except for EDH, of course).
Am I the only one who thinks if the discard was random it would be way more fun? If they get to choose then your opponents will just discard lands. It would be nice to get someone to flip a kozilek or something off a random discard and get 10 damage to the face.
Thing is though, big fat creatures are a dime a dozen. Cheap utility spells are incredibly valuable, and you don't want to lose them from your hand, thus it provides a dilemma for the discardee-lose a big expensive creature and take a bunch of life, or lose less life but lose an incredibly valuable spell.
I'd personally just use him to grab all the unexciting lands in your deck....no need to pitch a Maze of Ith to him. Even if you only grabbed twelve lands, he'd still be an 18/18 trampler for eight in blue, while not setting yourself up for disaster in case he dies.
Okay I guess I don't understand what political means magic wise. Could someone help?
Political in Magic multiplayer is getting other people to do what you want, whether it's attacking someone, leaving you alone, or both. In this case, Vow of Wilderness lets you say to an opponent "Hey, if you don't attack me, I make your awesome thingy even more awesome."
So Sol Ring is in every deck? So there goes the value of my beta version. I agree that its gonna be in every commander deck that comes out, cheap fast mana is always fun, but I think this hurts the collectors value of the card
You knew this could happen. Sol Ring's not on the Reserved List. You knew it could be reprinted at any time, and here you go. That's all there is to it.
Considering Hypergenesis was BANNED in old Extended because you can end up Dropping a Progen or (Now in Modern Magic) Emrakul on Turn 0, yeah, it makes sense to have it when it isn't banned.
(For those who don't know: On the draw, begin the game with a Gemstone Caverns on t3h Battlefield, when your opponent passes in their upkeep, Exile two Simian Spirit Guides from your hand, tap the Caverns for G, cast Violent Outburst , flip your deck till you hit a Hypergenesis (by not having any CMC 1 and 2 Spells ofc!) and Throw down an Emrakul, the Aeons Torn or Progenitus from your hand, then attack for the winlar. Yes it needs a perfect 6 card hand, but still, this isn't meant to be Vintage. (`0`) You can also do it a bit slower on Turn 1 with Chancellor of the Tangle I suppose.)
Except Hypergenesis was never banned in the old Extended. It was banned in the new extended for the first months of its lifetime for the stated reason they wanted people to innovate for the upcoming Pro Tour (or was it a GP? doesn't really matter), not because of any inherent brokenness.
Yeah, you're right. I realised my response was a bit of a knee-jerk one when the Rav lands are there, as is Bob, Goyf and a bunch of other powerful stuff. Just kinda annoyed at a format where Wizards say "you can do cool stuff, but not the same cool stuff as before".
Well, if they didn't have that attitude, they wouldn't be able to encourage people to come up with new decks and new ideas in sets that otherwise have been played out completely.
How so? The work was on the set, not the hype. The set will still be released. Like any other set, it will mainly succeed or fail based on the cards, not how they are spoiled. [Chase rare of your choice] isn't any worse because we know about it in advance.
A lot of people like it better this way. We get to discuss cards with the proper perspective, instead from the distorted perspective of someone who knows only a fraction of the set. Perhaps they'll look at what happened and decide to do future set releases this way.
There's a lot of people who spend a lot of time and money on how precisely to best hype the set in the weeks leading up to the release.
then just play them? Presumably, if you build a deck around a bunch of high cost creatures, you plan on being able to cast them. Cheating them into play is a nice bonus unless you like playing wrong, methinks. Besides, Kaalia is a base 4 CMC and is in black. That's pretty resistant to repeated killings as well as being Hinder'd.
Also, not actually a demon, dragon, or angel, but Erratic Portal will let you bounce your creatures in order to reuse them. This is actually really good, because it means you can Kaalia out Reiver Demon and Dread Cacodemon, and then get them back in hand to boardsweep with.
They're legal in Legacy and Vintage. Nowhere else (except for EDH, of course).
Thing is though, big fat creatures are a dime a dozen. Cheap utility spells are incredibly valuable, and you don't want to lose them from your hand, thus it provides a dilemma for the discardee-lose a big expensive creature and take a bunch of life, or lose less life but lose an incredibly valuable spell.
They said that they didn't expect most cards to see play in Eternal, but there were a few that they had their eye on.
Political in Magic multiplayer is getting other people to do what you want, whether it's attacking someone, leaving you alone, or both. In this case, Vow of Wilderness lets you say to an opponent "Hey, if you don't attack me, I make your awesome thingy even more awesome."
You knew this could happen. Sol Ring's not on the Reserved List. You knew it could be reprinted at any time, and here you go. That's all there is to it.
Except Hypergenesis was never banned in the old Extended. It was banned in the new extended for the first months of its lifetime for the stated reason they wanted people to innovate for the upcoming Pro Tour (or was it a GP? doesn't really matter), not because of any inherent brokenness.
Well, if they didn't have that attitude, they wouldn't be able to encourage people to come up with new decks and new ideas in sets that otherwise have been played out completely.
There's a lot of people who spend a lot of time and money on how precisely to best hype the set in the weeks leading up to the release.