MTG Salvation

Mind Rake is weird, to say the least. It's a pretty decent madness enabler, I guess.

Smiting Helix is awesome design.

Frostwalla is awesome and I think it could be a Pauper all-star. I don't play paper Magic anymore but if paper Pauper were to become a thing, I might be interested in brewing a Gruul Skred deck...

The art on Everdream is some of Nils Hamm's best.

Watcher for Tomorrow is...hard to evaluate, honestly...

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"[MH1] - Mirrodin Besieged"

H-how are they putting the whole set of MBS into MH1?

They could've done a modal spell with 155 different modes.

Yes, it can. Vesperlark's ability works similarly to Reveillark's - by the time the leaves-the-battlefield ability goes on the stack, it sees that Wall of Omens is in your graveyard, so you'll be able to return it to the battlefield.

“You can’t spend mana to cast this spell.”



Source: MaRo on Twitter

Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis 5(B/G)(B/G)
Legendary Creature - Avatar (Rare)
You can't spend mana to cast this spell.
Convoke, delve (Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays for 1 or one mana of that creature's color. Each card you exile from your graveyard pays for 1.)
You may cast Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis from your graveyard.
Trample
8/8

This could be extremely useful for Burn...pitch lands for extra gas.

Source: DailyMTG

All we need now is a functional reprint of Aladdin's Lamp that costs 55 mana and we're set.

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So... he's way more handsome than i thought

Yeah. Not sure how to feel about thinking that about the most evil being in MTG lore

It’s actually part of the flavor. Yawgmoth was a very charming person and used that to try to seduce Rebbec and infiltrate the Thran leadership through her.

Paying a spell's costs using delve isn't actually impacted by Trinisphere. Under old rules, delve reduced the cost of the spell for each card you exiled from your graveyard, so you'd exile some number of cards, then Trinisphere's effect would apply and force you to pay three mana for the spell, regardless of how many cards you exiled. This is no longer the case - exiling cards due to the delve ability actually pays for 1 of the spell's mana cost. Therefore, since Trinisphere's effect applies before costs are paid, it doesn't actually do anything anymore.

In the case of Treasure Cruise, it goes like this:

1) You announce that you're casting Treasure Cruise.
2) The cost is calculated by applying any cost reducers or increasers - this is where the old delve rules applied and you'd exile cards to reduce Treasure Cruise's cost.
3) Trinisphere's effect is applied - if the cost of the spell is less than 3 mana, it becomes 3 mana (specifically, 2U).
4) You pay Treasure Cruise's costs, including exiling any cards to the delve ability.

Since Trinisphere's effect is applied before costs are paid, you can end up paying less than three actual mana for Treasure Cruise, but as far as the game is concerned, you paid the full 7U cost. The game doesn't go back to apply Trinisphere's effect, so it doesn't actually affect casting the spell.

There's a MTG Judge blog entry about this interaction.

"Double the value of X"

*spits out drink*

Sweet Jesus this is crazy.

https://mobile.twitter.com/LiquidSjow/status/1140636504630472704



2U t draw two cards then discard a card

And when Atemsis, all-seeing deals damage to player you may reveal your hand and if there’s 6 different mana costs in the hand that player loses the game

Dang dog could this be bannable in edh since it’s cake walk of getting different cost cards in your hand?

EDIT: WAIT A MINUTE IT DOESN’T SAY COMBAT DAMAGE! Thornbite Staff makes it broken ladies and gentlemen

Great favor, a sphinx who breaks minds with knowledge.

Opponent double loses the game if you reveal a straight flush (:D) - which, with this sphinx as your commander, shouldn't be very hard.

Yarok? Bala Ged? New black aligned planeswalker from Zendikar, or possibly a legendary creature? Color me interested. Also, seems like a very solid card, both in limited and commander, so I like.

Welp, we're like 10 cards in and I already decided this is one of my favorite cards in the set. Exile is good, "each opponent" is great, lategame relevance via pumping is fantastic and BB for that sweet sweet Devotion just seals the deal. Couple it with a fantastic art and flavor and I'm 100% sold on this. No idea who or what Yarok is, but kudos to the guy/gal/whatever.

Dread Presence 3B
Creature-Nightmare
Whenever a swamp enters the battlefield under your control choose one-

• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• Dread Presence deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.

It beckons silently, waiting in the darkness.
3/3


Source: https://twitter.com/crokeyz/status/1140605527648624640

Excuse me, I believe the plural is "Chandrae".

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Yeah, that's not Ugin. Plus Chandra fighting Ugin wouldn't make any sense anyway.

It would also lead to a very dead Chandra. At the end of the day, she is still human, and Ugin is a ten millenia plus old dragon that belongs to the first generation of Dominarian dragons.

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People liked the evil Legion of Dusk? Better New Phyrexia that plane!
Thanks WotC.

Not New Phyrexia, more like Beverly Hillbillies. It's plain ol' oil, as stated in Alison Luhrs' tweet linked above.

So instead of compleation, we can look forward to massive deforestation and smog-filled skies. And factories as far as the eye can see!