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Seems like the person who cast this would just get hit by it a lot.
Hmm. Could fit in the burn deck. It could possibly replace Ash Zealot. Sure, it lacks haste and first strike, but the 2 dmg you're most likely guaranteed to do should make up for it.
Oh crap, it's not just opponents but any player. Nevermind, I'm not sure where this card would fit in.
I'll hide behind fuse spells all day long.
Is Eidolon of the Great Revel good enough to warrant a deck with Mindstatic to protect it?
Probably not. It would still be fun to try.
Purphorus, Keranos, Young Pyromancer and throw some Burning Earths in the sideboard and you have some fun jank for FNM.
Could someone explain to me why mindstatic exists? Its effect is strictly worse than cancel in all but the most specific of situations (opponent has 6 mana open, desperately needs to play this card, but you're not afraid of that card, just their open mana) AND it costs more. The only benefit is splashibility, but I think most would rather splash negate or essence scatter.
Limited.
The Eidolon is yet another red card I probably won't be considering for my mostly red-based izzet deck. I guess it could work in eternal formats, but in Standard it feels like it'd probably end up hurting the deck that casts it a lot, while being ridiculously easy to remove due to being an enchantment creature and having subpar abilities in combat.
Abusing the symmetrical effect by building a deck around it could be an option, but I think building anything around a 2/2 with no combat abilities is a bad idea. I also think it wouldn't even work in an all-out burn deck, since having a conditional trigger that depends on your opponent's deck doesn't seem all that efficient if you're getting two damage out of it.
Strive is interesting in that it works nicely for heroic enablers, but that ability isn't even viable in constructed to begin with, and strive itself will probably only show up on cards that help your creatures while amassing multiple heroic triggers with a single spell.
For a second, when I heard people talking about strive and mentioning replicate, I thought they meant something along the lines of a mechanic that worked like replicate, but for creatures.
Abusing the symmetrical effect by building a deck around it could be an option, but I think building anything around a 2/2 with no combat abilities is a bad idea. I also think it wouldn't even work in an all-out burn deck, since having a conditional trigger that depends on your opponent's deck doesn't seem all that efficient if you're getting two damage out of it.
Strive is interesting in that it works nicely for heroic enablers, but that ability isn't even viable in constructed to begin with, and strive itself will probably only show up on cards that help your creatures while amassing multiple heroic triggers with a single spell.
For a second, when I heard people talking about strive and mentioning replicate, I thought they meant something along the lines of a mechanic that worked like replicate, but for creatures.
In limited RtR I'd rather get an essence scatter or cancel though.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
You know what Ajani's ultimate would combo with? Core set Ajani's ultimate. Too bad you can't have them out at the same time, because putting ~100 tokens on the field would be pretty amusing.
keeblerdrow
Member
I had this happen to me at FNM this past Friday. I Hero's Downfall'd it at the end of his turn, then untapped and swept away his mystics and the tokens with a Verdict. He scooped when I dropped Elspeth 2 turns later at he was still at 3 mana.
#esperisdegenerate
When designing for limited, Wizards likes to have a certain number of A's, B's and C's.
A's are cards that are obvious, auto-picks.
B's are cards that are okay, possibly great in the right deck. Middle-of-the-road.
C's are cards that are near-universally bad.
C's are cards like Mind Static and Primal Visitation.
The theory is that, by widening the gap between the best cards and the worst cards, it adds an extra dimension of skill-testing to drafting. A bad and/or new player may take cards like Mind Static for several reasons. It's the only card in their colors, they love counterspells, they don't understand tempo, etc. The idea is that, when these players take the cards and try playing with them and see how bad the card really is, they'll have that "aha!" moment and become a better player for it.
Nah I've piloted the burn deck for a good while now and it would definitely hurt yourself more than the opponent. Everything except Warleader Helix is 3cmc or less. Other decks play bigger spells that would make the trigger whiff. I usually find myself barely winning by a few life, and that's what makes the deck thrilling to play lol, but I need to retain as much life as possible.
Apparently casual players got really confused in OG Rav block when they had 35-40 playables and didn't know what to cut.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I somehow managed to Abrupt Decay a D-Sphere on MTGO such that my Underworld Connections never came back, but I couldn't figure out exactly how I did it.
Heh, his jaw probably hit the table.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I think that's what I did. I guess I never really thought about it that way.
EsotericManiac
Banned
yea, it will resolve the triggers in reverse order
return to play (nothing removed)
then leaves play
you could bounce your own like this to get the benefit if you had a way to do so
return to play (nothing removed)
then leaves play
you could bounce your own like this to get the benefit if you had a way to do so
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I, uhm, want this
EsotericManiac
Banned
appears it stays around forever, just loses it's color. bank mana, profit, etc
EDH will love it
EDH will love it
ThLunarian
Member
Blue/green god is very disappointing. I can't even see how this would be good in Commander. I mean unless you have something like Seedborn Muse or a Prophet of Kruphix, but if you have those then you're winning anyway. Seems like a waste
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Nah its a great Commander card, I'm looking forward to it. Not like the G/W God, who is by far the lamest so far
Primarily. It might also find a place in Bant control. Kruphix allows you to cast huge Sphinx's Revelation's and keep all the cards.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Uh... what? So it stays in your pool as colourless, am I reading that right?
EDIT:
Okay, my understanding is that the mana will never empty from your mana pool because the replacement effect of Kruphix causes it to simply stay there as colorless. Its definitely going in my BUG deck when I can get it though, at the very least in the side board with Mistcutter Hydra's against Esper or U/W. Of course, any control deck that decides to stick it in themselves is going to make me want to concede immediately.
divisionbyzorro
Member
That card is a mirror breaker in Sphinx's Revelation mirrors.
Tonight I learned that Thrun is a legend, so dont enchant it with Splinter Twin, even though half a dozen people that are watching your game (including the two players) wont realize that this doesn't work like you want it to.
Kruphix looks neat, I like the flavor of it.
Nice, probably the first spoiler I really like. I always loved Pillar.
Kruphix looks neat, I like the flavor of it.
Seems like the person who cast this would just get hit by it a lot.
Nice, probably the first spoiler I really like. I always loved Pillar.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Silence the Believers is serious shit. Definitely at least a sideboard card in anything that's dipping black. Black exile is weird, though. It's got some seriously serious art too, for fuck's sake.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Maybe this means we could see these?
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Kruphix bores me and I love EDH. It's Omnath stapled onto Reliquary Tower with protection from removal: Boring good stuff for Blue/Green boring good stuff decks.
Love this card so much. Pyrostatic Pillar is one of those abilities that has both huge benefits and drawbacks to being on a creature, and the symmetrical effect that's still very advantageous is awesome.The anti white
acheron_xl
Member
Agree entirely, and EDH is almost all I play.
acheron_xl
Member
But he interlocks so tightly with his Prophet!
This trailer for Duels 2015 makes me think we're going to be seeing a mono-black Garruk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-M0Z8hwwqk&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-M0Z8hwwqk&feature=youtu.be
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
Also evidently not coming to PS3 or PS4 which is interesting.
The good thing about Kruphix is you don't really have to splash white for Sphinx Rev. I played against a few Zegana decks and they can draw just as many if not more than Sphinx Rev can. Not only that, you want permanents on the board anyways to try and activate Kruphix as a creature.
This would've easily been a one-of in control if it was an instant, replacing Opportunity.
Graki: Yeah standards. I wouldn't have mentioned Warleader Helix in any other formats otherwise lol.
This would've easily been a one-of in control if it was an instant, replacing Opportunity.
Graki: Yeah standards. I wouldn't have mentioned Warleader Helix in any other formats otherwise lol.
talking about standard right?
If you can get to 20ish enchantments, this card is basically a bigger Mulch. Getting to 20 is going to be the real had part unless we are getting Enchantment mana rocks though.
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