MTG Salvation

Thanks to both of you, I understand cards like clone etc. but this one gave me some problems.
Drifting Skies you're right, the wording would have to be like you wrote for it to be another size^^.

Sorry guys I'm just unsure how this will end:

If I have a Demon token from Promise of Power and then I populate it with something like Eyes in the Skies how big is the new token?

I assume as bis as my hand when Eyes in the Skies resolves
Of course could also be excactly the size of the old one...

Thanks in advance

All in all I don't really like the set, probably because of the slivers that feel reprinted and not really any cards with completly new interesting effects.
As someone wrote before me it really looks cool for people that start with this set but for a veteran, meh.
Also really uneccessary reprints like traumatize, silence, bramblecrush, elvish mystic (nice try wizards I now this card costs a "new printed" slot) or domestication. The cards I like the most are some of the new commons:
-Illusionary Armor (very interesting to see this effect on non-creatures, I like it)
-Trained Condor (powerful effect with the right colorcombination but fragile enough to be able to deal with it)
-Sporemound (Landfall, yeay)

I guess we have to wait how it will play out but the format seems pretty bomb heavy without a lot of aggressive creatures a lot of terrible rares and then unbeatable planeswalkers, Archangels, Colossal Whales and Dragons.
Limited that is of course.
Green and Blue seem the strongest (but when you ask me Blue always seems the strongest so there's that ;))

Only magic of great power? What, like two generic mana? I like the card but the flavor text and especially the art are really stupid. I actually think the art has to be one of the worst.
I mean that it's a giant tuning fork on an island not that it would be painted badly or something like that.

I'm going to draft it anyways and probably even participate in a sealed or two but M14 seems to become one of the most boring set in quiet a while.
Slivers are already very boring and the reprints are unexciting as well, if the fiend hunter 2.0 and those rares are as good as it gets I'm really sad.
At least the Necromancer is pretty flavorful.

Really nice excecution, congrats.

Latest commission:

(Also I did overpaint the origanal artist's name and added mine after this photo.)

Source:
http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/File:Protoman7.jpg

I love the Aragorn and pretty much everything from Ondal the Fool^^

Yurius, that Volcanic Island is freaking amazing! Not only is the picture very cool but you did it all very clean and got the colors right as well. Someone is going to be very happy about it.

I am pretty sure they think about what the cards should do and then decide what manacosts are appropriate.

Quote from jj54321

where have you done the sealed?

http://zfire.dk/mtg/?format=sealed&guild=izzet

I hope this can help you get a feeling for the sealed^^
Above the cards you can change the guild.


Edit: I also wanted to comment on the article of PV on channelfireball. I think it showed what I was too lazy to do so far-> go trough all the colors by rares, uncommons and commons and compare them. If you read the whole article you'll see that he ranks the guilds but with the promo cards all the guilds seem pretty balanced.
Go Izzet!

Okay, I think that covers pretty much most interactions I imagine atm.
I'll come back if something new I can't figure out should appear^^.

Thanks!

Quote from Rootbreaker

From the FAQ:

If you control more than one Palisade Giant, you choose which redirection effect to apply. You can't divide damage dealt by one source. For example, if an attacking creature would deal 8 damage to you and you control two Palisade Giants, you may have that damage dealt to either of the Palisade Giants. You can't have 4 damage dealt to each Giant or choose to have the 8 damage dealt to you.

I don't think you get to double dip on Gisela's ability with the giants, but I'm not as sure about that.

Thanks, that's already something. Although I'm not sure how it works with Gisela yet it just came to my mind that if damage (let's say 12) would be dealt to me and I have a Giant and the Angel do I have to decide if I want the Ginat to take the damage OR take 6 myself?
The Giant would then also just take 6 because Gisela also "uses" her ability on my permanents?

Quote from Kahedron

Yes you may. When First strike/ Double strike is involved there is separate combat damage step, you may cast spells/activate abilities in this step and they will resolve before normal combat damage.

Note it won't destroy Avacyn though as with out help damage does not reduce toughness it is only marked against the creature until the end on the current turn. Avacyn will end up being an indestructible 4/4 with 4 damage marked on her so will still be around during the normal combat damage step.

Just to avoid any confusion here Avacyn will be a 12/4 with 4 damage on her... Auger Spree gives +4/-4.

What happens if I control two Palisade Giants? Can I divide the damage from each source individually or does one Giant take it all?

I guess since both are replacement effects and I am the controller of both I decide for each source of damage?

Also, what happens if Gisela, Blade of Goldnight is out? I imagine it is not possible for the two Giants to push the damage from one to another while reducing it with Gisela? But what would the explanation be for that?

I'd love me a cool Izzet-themed standard deck but I am not so sure that the decks that want to play sorceries like Divination/ or Mizzium Mortars also want that dragon as a finisher. You need to ask yourself what's the big upside of playing those at end of turn instead of your main phase. leaving counterspells open?... well I don't like counterspells in this upcoming standard environment (normally I love them of course ;)).