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Wow @ searching for up to three Land cards without basic/type restriction. Almost makes her a pawn of Urza.

Urza-pawn for Urzatron?

Looks like a cycle of 10 (rare?) colored vehicles is possibly shaping up along with Mizzium Tank. Or just vehicles in red and white because those colors care about vehicles most? However, Boros and Izzet have vehicles now. So you'd think they'd want the complete cycle - a vehicle for each of the guilds - while we're wrapping up the Ravnican uber-block?

Aggressively costed evasive incremental card advantage engine. Gotta have a "no maximum hand size" ability on board to fully abuse her power.

Also, niche corner play - you can Lightning Strike your previously undamaged Feather in response to an opponent's discard spell so you can hide that particular card from them until EOT. So pseudo-discard evasion effect.

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Minor nitpick incoming: I don't like how the eternals are handled in this set artwise. I mean, they were created from the cream of the crop of Amonkhet, from a culture entirely devoted to perfecting various martial arts and combat styles. And they get consistently owned in art by run of the mill Boros legionnaires, wurms, trolls and even vines? What the...

Perhaps the best of the best on Amonkhet are mediocre on Ravnica? Along the lines of, "You think life's tough on Amonkhet? Let's see how you fare against Ravnica's 10 trials. We call our trials 'Guilds'."

In addition to your Amassed zombie token, and your normal every day 2/2 black zombie tokens, this also protects all tokens from Amonkhet set created by Embalm and Eternalize.

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What happen if the opponent doesn't have creatures?

The defending player takes 3 damage and, sadly, Etrata's owner shuffles her back into their library.

Since it's a targeted triggered ability and since it's all one block of text, if there's no legal targets doesn't the whole combat ability get countered (by the rules)? So she doesn't shuffle herself into the deck?

It's an interesting tradeoff. Because where Ninjutsu typically has been a surprise tactic, unless Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow is in your 99, everyone knows you're playing her as your general. Every single creature you play will have a target on its head to either be blocked or killed upon attack (and before the Ninjutsu trigger can go off on an unblocked creature), especially if you happen to have an innocent-looking UB open.

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5 for a 3/5 who casts odd CMC cards for free or draws 1 card. 3 relevant combat abilities, and only even-ness can stop her because she must be blocked by at least 2 creatures. EVERY WORD in her name and her flavor text has an odd number of letters.

Gorgeous.

Ooooh, so that's why her flavor text uses "talks" instead of the more elegant "speaks"...

This is exactly what caught my attention to count the letters. Normally WOTC is super grammar-conscious, which is why the "talks" stuck out to me and to you as well. Here we can see they're still super grammar-conscious, bending a grammatical rule like the artists they are.

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Now that's interesting, and quite powerful.

That setting also doesn't look a bit like Lorwyn.... I wonder if Evoke is being used as a guild mechanic? Rakdos, maybe..?

I think Evoke may fit well on Innistrad or Amonkhet as well! With this picture just being a staircase in a corner, really this could belong on any of several planes. I can definitely see Rakdos evoking elementals as part of their self-sacrificing showmanship though.

5 for a 3/5 who casts odd CMC cards for free or draws 1 card. 3 relevant combat abilities, and only even-ness can stop her because she must be blocked by at least 2 creatures. EVERY WORD in her name and her flavor text has an odd number of letters.

Gorgeous.

Name yourself and an opponent and proceed to activate effects that damage yourself. Either makes or breaks symmetry with things like pain lands, Anthem of Rakdos, Banshee, and Infected Vermin or Pestilence effects.

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How does this function with a card like "Hunger the Howlpack"? Does it auto trigger the morbid?

Yes, Hunger of the Howlpack targets Agent of the Fates. AofF triggers and your opponent sacs a creature. HotH resolves with its Morbid side = 3 +1/+1 counters.

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Prepare yourselves, winter Izzet Blitz is coming.

Almost like a...Blizzet

Chimera will see play in rogue decks I think. Young Pyromancer rogue for sure at least. Lots of abilities packed onto an uncommon though; evasion + pump + trample. On par with Unflinching Courage for the same CMC

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No, the ability would then change to say "when you target Storm Crow".

...basically just pretend any instance of a card's name on itself says "this".

I guess what I'm trying to say is that the templating doesn't match between Legendary and non-Legendary creatures, which obviously is there for the Legend rule. The conflict with this is, if you're thinking like a computer (which I believe processing Magic, the stack, and name referencing, is firmly based around the way a computer processes information), the name reference has to be consistent otherwise your programs won't find the right item because the name is switched on you. There isn't a "this" clause to go by except that we naturally pretend that it happens in our minds (which is a good thing and it works). Like I said I'm probably over thinking this

References: Sakashima, the Imposter; Lazav, Dimir Mastermind; Cemetery Puca

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No. It already pretty much works that way. Whenever something is cloned you replace all instances of "card name" in the rules text with the name of the card.

I guess this is true. Cemetary Puca functions the same way but there's no Oracle ruling on the name reference changing. Perhaps it is referring to the card's printed name since we don't see the name physically change on the card? (This may be wrong for MTGO but I don't play MTGO.) For example, if I have two Artisan of Form cards and I copy Storm Crow. On my opponent's turn my opponent casts Sever the Bloodline on my unchanged Artisan. The Storm Crow Artisan is unaffected because its name is Storm Crow, but its text box still says, "when you target Artisan of Forms..." instead of "When you target Storm Crow..." (referring to itself). I'm probably just over thinking this haha.