MTG Salvation

Awesome reprint. Awesome art.

Try it in modern, sure why not, should be fun. Definitely want the new art in Meren EDH because, dayum, looking good : )

Cool for draft also. Nice include
(Ps yall, stop getting pissed that not every rare slots into your preferred modern deck. Thats never what this set was goingto be.)

Pig smashes so hard it distracts your opponent and lets you sneak attack them with another buddy. Seems legit.

Hopefully we see more old gods of Ravnica someday. Seems more likely than ever because people seem to love mr.oinky over here.

My first post after many long years of lurking around, just to say this:

Bolas, you better kill that slab of beef you son of a B****. If you get smacked down by some idiot running hog wild with the Blackblade, boy, you better mot Bolas. Be better than that, Nicky. Cmon man

I wish this was even marginally different from atog, and not just a new name and typeline.

I love the card, and I like grems, but it kinda feels like a betrayal somehow..

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VAMPIRE SLIGHTHAWK...? no thats lame. apologize

The judges would have also accepted Vampire Lighthawk...

This card is great! As a primarily black and/or blue mage this set just keeps getting better.

I think thats what LSV was calling that flying dwarf in Kaladesh, aerial responder.

Still, these are all gold imo :):)

I especially like Nightpenguin. cuz...cuz it doesnt fly :):)

VAMPIRE SLIGHTHAWK...? no thats lame. apologize

Weird mix of masticore and hangarback walker.

I like it! Any x dudes I can find with Trinket mage are ok in my book

EDIT: forgot about triskelion somehow. I figured there was something close to this effect already

Fills alot of roles in different decks. sometimes, its just another artifact body for your artifact synergies. Other times, you care more about reusing etb effects. Maybe both in WB decks.

"Attack with Copter."

"Block with Thopter."

"Your a big Flopter."

"...What?"

Not that many people care, but note he is a druid! Yknow, for all your gilt-leaf archdruid decks!

I think he slots poorly into Grixis Control, because Grixis Control slots poorly into the current modern metagame.

- Currently, the dominant decks in Modern include Tron, Izzet Phoenix, Grixis Shadow, Humans, and Dredge; current Grixis removal options (such as Terminate, Anger of the Gods, Damnation, Dismember, and Fatal Push) match up extremely poorly against the primary threats of all of those decks except Humans which is why Azorius and Jeskai decks (with get to run Path to Exile and Terminus) are effectively the only traditional control decks that have a share of the metagame today.

- As a result, Grixis control decks that do exist currently more "splash" Black so that they can emphasize running counterspells (namely a full four Cryptic Commands with Tasigur and Snapcaster to buy them back) to have more successful answers to those threats. A BBB card is a real strain to those deck's mana base.

- No Grixis deck currently runs planeswalkers even though Jace, the Mind Sculptor is a legal card in the format due to the emphasis on instant-speed control. This is key because Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God would really like to partner with some friendly 'walkers. Yes, he copies all abilities of ALL planeswalkers, but I think it will rarely be correct to keep an opponent's Teferi, Hero of Dominaria around to get that sweet draw + untap when Bolas can just -3 to kill Teferi instead. However, paying five mana to destroy an opposing Teferi (assuming you even get to resolve this Hot God through an enemy's Dovin's Veto) is simply too slow and vulnerable a play.

I do think a Superfriends deck is going to emerge in Modern, but I suspect that Dragon-God will be a fringe player in that deck. Standard is a more spicy format for him.

I don't get what the art is representing
Also shouldn't his triumph be him scoring with vraska?
Maybe liliana could join too. Man, that would be a real triumph.

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Another stupid question. What’s the elder spell?

Bolas's endgame. A spell using the harvested PW sparks to make him a true god. The real plan all along.

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Thalia laughs at all the cute little Felidar Guardian tokens which enter the battlefield tapped.

2x Felidar Guardian + Panharmonicon = blink all your lands back onto the bf untapped for infinite mana. Now all we need is a way to draw a card when a creature enters the battlefield to draw the entire deck and present the win condition on that turn. I am still cataloging the new cards; will look for that in a little bit.

Do-do-do-do-doot Inspector Thraben!

The funny part is:

Set is revealed.
Internet breaks set in 60mins.

R&D can't keep up

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I find it funny that the solvent works on lands. Like, if you spill it, does the entire city block just explode?

Nah, it just eats through the ground, forming a sinkhole.

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I don't think it makes all that much sense that Universal Solvent can get rid of enchantments.

It can dissolve anything, even abstract concepts.

Had it been a goblin, it would have been named Masterpiece Guard or something

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White one makes 3 dudes for 4 mana and still gives you a free spell, black one is effectively a wrath with a free spell, and the green one will draw on average 2-4 cards fueling the 2nd ability. Sure this is a big tempo swing, but it's sorcery speed, and 5 mana.

It's potentially the biggest tempo swing of all the expertise cycle. Dropping a planeswalker like Gideon or Chandra with your opponent's board being empty is ridiculous. Dropping a planeswalker like Tamiyo with an opponent's empty board and one or more creatures of your own is even better. And this card can target artifacts, so it can wreck vehicle decks, too.

But anyway this is so abusable it's not funny

Because I can point out trading post immediately

This and Solemn Simulacrum and trading post and paradox engine

You can get your whole library, all basic lands, and get every single 3 cost or lower permanent on the field.