MTG Salvation

I just think Idina Menzel should've had someone other than John Travolta hire her bodyguard.

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If these duals are legit, another set of lands that are only going to be played in Standard. If you're running a two color deck in older formats, you'll probably want these as well, but in hindsight, your deck is probably outdated and has low archetype win percentages.

I think these are good enough for new or budget legacy decks. Heck, with wasteland in the format as well as blood moon, running basics is never bad

Same in modern with magus and blood moon but seem some guy don't realize. I hope they reprint price of progress

Indeed, especially with burn, I thought people would be happy to try building a shockless modern mana base. Especially since you can run 1 or 2 shocks or duals for the emergency - I need to hit an untapped land turn 2

Here's the problem: Shocklands already have the option of coming into play tapped, and most decks can't function with basics, because their needs for colored mana are too strong. Everyone saying "but they're good against burn!", but the shocklands function very similarly if you want them to, or you're already fetching your basics against burn. It's not a big upside to maybe come into play untapped on turns 3+, when they can't come in untapped on turn 1 or 2.

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Monstrosity always did the same thing: made the creature monstrous and put X counters on it. This ability is keyworded as is. If they were going to have Ingest X, this would have Ingest 1. See Fleecemane Lion

Ah I'm a moron, it was their static ability that changed what monstrosity did. Had it in my mind a different way. Attention to detail I suppose. Thanks lol.

You're no moron, it's a very subtle difference. I just wanted to point out the difference in templating and rules.

Monstrosity always did the same thing: made the creature monstrous and put X counters on it. This ability is keyworded as is. If they were going to have Ingest X, this would have Ingest 1. See Fleecemane Lion

I predict we will see a land this block with the following ability:

T: Add one mana of any color to your mana pool. Use this mana only to cast colorless spells, or activate abilities of colorless cards.

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Wizards clearly states that all of the creatures are legendary in the cube. No Death Rite Shaman.

Ti also clearly state that the cards in the prize booster are not from the cube itself

Incorrect.

"you’ll also be rewarded with Legendary Cube Prize Packs that contains six cards from a selection of 150 Legendary Cube cards."

Then further descriptions of what sets the cards may come from do not mean that the cards might not be in the cube, they mean that those are the cards in the cube that might be in the prize packs.

15 new cards in each precon, 55 total, means that there are a total of 20 overlaps. Overlaps have to either be mono-color or lands.

I kind of want Firemane Angel in this set. I played with her in standard back in the day.

Time ebb + seems to be the pick to me. Especially with people talking up high cost creatures, this seems fantastic.

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My guesses :

WB Manland:
2BW : becomes 2/4 lifelink

You were pretty close. 1BW for a 2/3 lifelink seems much better, though the name "Shambling Vents" feels black but not very white

You will draw the card regardless of if anything actually attempts to damage the creature or player. It doesn't say "If you do, draw a card," or anything like that. (See Test of Faith for an example of something that requires damage to be prevented to happen.)

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I wonder if Brutal Expulsion can be bounce itself back to hand, in which case you have an buyback per se, I lke from beyond, but I hope theres a card that helps support the processors, they still need stronger support.

Spells can't target themselves.

I just read LSV article, and I couldn't help noticing that his decklist contains a slew of M15 and Theros cards... there is no way brutal expulsion can live with these. Oh well. I guess Wizards editors didn't notice.

Brutal Expulsion is... Brutal. If it cost 3, it would have been the next Kommand in Modern, but 4 cmc might be a little much. An answer for anything is a big deal and if Grixis Control becomes the thing I am expecting, this will be a big part of it.

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Someone on reddit was saying that if you look above "... for a land card ..." there's three pixels were it looks like someone painted over the text box and missed some spots.

the text looks like it's been jpegged and stuck on top of a less lossy image tbh. you can see the difference in texture from the text box merging into the text itself.

the little black spots also show exactly what tehnightmare suggested. not a particularly good job of faking a card. i'm surprised more people can't see it.

also, on another note, the artwork has been 'zoomed in' to an amount that doesn't really fit with Wizards' usual art department style.

game, set, match. fake. (haha. seriously though it's not even a good one)

[edit: it's probably in the set. just saying that this image is clearly a haphazard mockup and not an actual scan]

I'd say this accurately sums up how I feel about Munda's design lacking card advantage, pertaining to his usage as a commander.

Another thing I don't like about this card is that by relying on it you have to kind of ignore non-ally cards. Let's say I want to draw a burn spell or gideon or something. If I trigger rally and see a non-ally card I want, then I have to put him on the bottom? Seems kinda bogus.