I don't like vorinclex at all. A lot of decks use counters, and it's not in wizards's best interests to completely shut down so many other cards and decks that currently exist. But they didn't give us a lot of ways to deal with planeswalkers in ravnica block 3, and they don't do playtesting anymore, so it's possible. But i would've liked to see kaldheim as its own world first, without phyrexians moving in immediately
Wizards does seem to be steering away from a balanced strategic game and towards powerful cards that need to get banned and decks that build themselves
Normally, when an expansion comes out, we have a certain amount of time to play with it, up to two years. But because of the pandemic, all public places to play are closed. So far, we lost about 7 months, and 3 standard expansions were released within that time, never having been used except in limited circumstances. I have two little i can play with, which is still very rare. My proposal is to let pandemic expansions remain rotated in for an additional year, so that we get a chance to play with our cards. Otherwise, what's the point of even buying cards?
Thrummingbird is a horror, so it's resistant to thing in the ice. The counters interaction also helps. But grateful apparition is a spirit, so that's also useful.
Focusing specifically on Delver flipping, Serum "digs" a hypothetical 4 cards deep (1 draw, 2 possible bottom scrys 1 unknown random card), where Preordain can only "dig" 3 (2 known scrys, 1 unknown draw). While both give 3 possible opportunities to flip (2 known 1 unknown), the card in-hand can give a small (but measurable) addition in information about the unknown card (which could influence fetching/shuffling). So with that in mind, Serum is better at specifically making Delver flip.
Why did you add an unknown random card to the effect of serum visions but not to preordain? If you scry two and draw, or if you draw and scry 2, you end up with an unknown card on top of the library either way.
I heard a rumor about a new format which is similar to modern, but we only use the black bottomed cards starting from m15/tarkir. Does anybody know anything about this?
Do the mantle wolves get the life gain and fight ability from tolsimir?
Why did you add an unknown random card to the effect of serum visions but not to preordain? If you scry two and draw, or if you draw and scry 2, you end up with an unknown card on top of the library either way.
Creature - giant
As an additional cost, sacrifice an enchantment
When this enters the battlefield, destroy target enchantment
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Artifact
t: Target player discards a random card, loses 2 life,