Yes, but at least it will help make the game a bit longer and give a shot for the mid tier decks to catch up and shine a bit. They are slowing down the format, and I think we should all be glad. This card + Torpor makes for headaches, but nothing people can't work around. Instead of 3-5 turn games we're looking at 4-7.
This also gives an incentive to run 3-4 naturalize in side board for pod to hate against this card.
silence of stone will likely not be in main board as it is a dead card against quite a few decks that will likely be coming around so this card will definitly be hated against for game 2.
My guess is that rather than aiming specifically at Pod, this card was meant to broadly attack and weaken decks based primarily on SoM-block cards. This would make sense if Innistrad is, as many believe, a deliberately "powered down" set -- if R&D believes that Innistrad is generally weaker than Scars, they might worry about Standard being dominated by Scars-heavy decks and Innistrad having no chance to shine. Thus, cards that make artifact strategies riskier and give an incentive to experiment with new decks.
it pretty much tells equipment no you can not attach to other creatures in addition to nulling pod.
I could see this as a great sideboard card as pod would have to cast acidic slime to get rid of enchantment or likely have already sided in natrualize to hate against the white sideboard.
While this card certainly isn't STELLAR, we have to remember--Lightning Bolt is rotating out of standard. We can't hold burn spells up to the same level of power as we have been, lately. Currently, the closest thing we have to this card is Incinerate, and adding 1 mana for the chance to deal 2 more damage is just fine. It could see play, along with the various red cards that tend to cause their own deaths, like Furnace Scamp and his friends.
creatures also die often through battle and kill spells so morbid is much easier to get then people think and at instant speed makes it all the more easier.
Hm, Brimstone Volley is pretty nice, don't think it's a 4 of, but I'd definitely start testing it at 3 copies in goblins if it's a deck after rotation (losing bushwacker and guide is rough).
Mebbe R/u Goblins then
Brimstone Volley will likely be played in any deck that runs red. period.
This card is very disgusting for a 1 mana more incincerate. Creatures die very often so ignore the 3 damage part. It will almost always be cast for 5 damage in mid and late game and can easily end a game. run 4.
Hmmm. . . Cellar Door + Condemn? Not good enough =\
I like Brimstone, It could be very useful in many red decks. Perhaps Kuldotha Red? Goblin Grenade a Token, then This (4 mana 10 damage?)? Being a flat 3 damage either way is really good. I'd maybe get 3 of out of it. . . Many thoughts.
This happened at my local FnM last friday. Player 1 has Mimic Vat and Stonehorn Dignatary on the field. Player 2 plays a phyrexian metamorph copying Player 1's Mimc Vat. Player 2 then destroys stonehorn via some removal spell. The question was who gets the stonehorn on their Mimic Vat. Unfortunantly we don't have any Judges at our place of play, but we have a few Guru's who know much about the rules, and are aspiring Judges. They said that Player 2 would get the Stonehorn. They explained, since player 1 is active player his Vat ability goes on the stack first, and player 2's goes second. Thus player 2's resolves first imprinting stonehorn and basically stealing it from player 1 because it has to be exiled and can is no longer a legal target for player 1's Mimic Vat. Was this a correct call?
Who turn was it? If he removed the creature on his opponents turn his mimic vat would go on the stack last and resolve first. If he used removal on his own turn then his opponents copied mimic vat would go on stack last and resolve first.
They should unban jace and stoneforge in standard for the last 2 weeks it would be legal.
but seriously i see some people say to ban mental misstep in legacy. If you wanna ban mental misstep then you better ban another certain U cost instant. yes I'm saying brainstorm should be banned in legacy.
Am I the only one who notices that endless ranks of the dead can get disgusting fast if you can't deal with the first few waves of zombies. Also cemetery reaper making more zombies just makes it even better.
Yeah, but Combust is way more narrow and doesn't even kill Titans. It hits hawks with SOFAF and a few other things, but that's really it. Celestial Purge hits Inferno/Grave Titan, black and red manlands, Koth, all of Vampires, etc, etc, etc. Even though black and red have both become sub-par in the current meta, Purge is still a much better choice. I guess if you really want to remove the Exarch instead of the Splinter Twin, it's worth it, but I'd always run Purge first.
It would require leaving 3 mana up in order to go with purge over the combust which is probably asking for a lot and two of those lands likely have to be plains you leave untapped.
I found dismember working out well as I can leave any mana source untapped and still respond to the deceiver exarch tap ability as it enters the battlefield which is likely at the end of your turn.
Although generally I would agree that celestial purge is better then combust, it requires more mana to leave up vs splinter twin combo.
This also gives an incentive to run 3-4 naturalize in side board for pod to hate against this card.
silence of stone will likely not be in main board as it is a dead card against quite a few decks that will likely be coming around so this card will definitly be hated against for game 2.
it pretty much tells equipment no you can not attach to other creatures in addition to nulling pod.
I could see this as a great sideboard card as pod would have to cast acidic slime to get rid of enchantment or likely have already sided in natrualize to hate against the white sideboard.
just make sure you get it out before they equip the sword or its to late.
Its a 4 drop
creatures also die often through battle and kill spells so morbid is much easier to get then people think and at instant speed makes it all the more easier.
Brimstone Volley will likely be played in any deck that runs red. period.
This card is very disgusting for a 1 mana more incincerate. Creatures die very often so ignore the 3 damage part. It will almost always be cast for 5 damage in mid and late game and can easily end a game. run 4.
To bad condemn is rotating out
Who turn was it? If he removed the creature on his opponents turn his mimic vat would go on the stack last and resolve first. If he used removal on his own turn then his opponents copied mimic vat would go on stack last and resolve first.
but seriously i see some people say to ban mental misstep in legacy. If you wanna ban mental misstep then you better ban another certain U cost instant. yes I'm saying brainstorm should be banned in legacy.
your gonna quit if a VAMPIRE in red gets lifelink? really?
I find these slight changes to the color pie very interesting and exciting.
I did find that dismember and mental misstep took the color pie and laughed at it while it took a huge.... well dont need to get into that now.
The horror thing that 12 is an unlucky number but also it is maro 13th set he has worked on.
Pyroclasm is rotating out though. There will be Slagstorm
It would require leaving 3 mana up in order to go with purge over the combust which is probably asking for a lot and two of those lands likely have to be plains you leave untapped.
I found dismember working out well as I can leave any mana source untapped and still respond to the deceiver exarch tap ability as it enters the battlefield which is likely at the end of your turn.
Although generally I would agree that celestial purge is better then combust, it requires more mana to leave up vs splinter twin combo.