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time for 4x mana bloooooom
God, the spec on that card is crazy. Its terrrrrriiiiibbbbbblllllleeee, and yet is going to be a 15 dollar card 3 years from now because of random drunken buyouts
yep, watch people lose their shit and spec some more because of kruphix's insight or whatever else will be revealed, funny stuff
Bu-but it combos with the new enchantress super well!
Pillow Fort making it's triumphant return?
ThLunarian
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Isn't there a thing in Ravnica block that says "Creatures can't attack you or your planeswalkers unless their controller pays X, where X is the number of enchantments you control"? That would be good in this type of deck
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Yeah, Kruphix would make a neat interaction with Sphinx's Rev, but I just feel like they belong in different deck styles.
It still might be good in a deck like the one I'm running where it would interact pretty nicely with Prognostic Sphinx.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I can envision this list combined with Sphere of Safety making me want to rage.
keeblerdrow
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I like the idea of a shell of colored artifacts and enchantments in a deck with planes walkers and gods of the corresponding colors. Esper with elspeth, jace, ashiok, heliod, thasa, ephara, erebos, and the BW god. Snowing the opponent til they hit the board and keeping them creatures with permanents verdict and black removal can't touch. I'm hoping journey to my has some things to enable this. There are already many useful enchantments out there. And then bestow creatures working in there too, maybe.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I had forgotten all about this card:
In Roman mythology, lemures were shades or spirits of the restless or malignant dead. What is that on this card? That is a lemur.
In Roman mythology, lemures were shades or spirits of the restless or malignant dead. What is that on this card? That is a lemur.
ThLunarian
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I read some article a long time ago which explained that the artist thought the e at the end was a typo or something
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
dat flavor text
I play a pillow-forty Orzhov bleed deck that's benefited from this block.
The problem with this deck is that it does nothing against R/W Burn. Or a U/W/X deck trying to kill you with Aetherling
ThLunarian
Member
R/W burn is probably a problem - though Blind Obedience fits into this deck like a glove, and could be an important source of life gain.
Aetherling, though? If you can land a Sphere of Safety or two with a bunch of enchantments out, and they're having to pay ~10 mana just to attack you once, that's not the worst position to be in.
dat flavor text
norin is my favorite card, his flavor texts are always great
Frankie Williamson
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I had forgotten all about this card:
In Roman mythology, lemures were shades or spirits of the restless or malignant dead. What is that on this card? That is a lemur.
Mark Rosewater on his podcast called that card out specifically when talking about funny mistakes that made it through in the older days.
Old Magic art is peculiar. I remembered Mothership once said that this card was commissioned as "Dwarf Scouts".
It clearly didn't show dwarfs, but the then-art director said that those were "the artist's depiction of dwarfs". They ended up having to change the card's name. Flavour text makes sense in that context.
It clearly didn't show dwarfs, but the then-art director said that those were "the artist's depiction of dwarfs". They ended up having to change the card's name. Flavour text makes sense in that context.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Apparently, the wings were added on by someone at Wizards internal department after the fact because it didn't even have those when it was sent in.
divisionbyzorro
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divisionbyzorro
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Also:
Worst Fears 7B (Mythic) Sorcery
You control target player during that player's next turn. Exile Worst Fears.
Fixed City of Brass
That's an awesome one, nice to see a simplified City of Brass. Should make a big splash in Standard too, which is really good.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
So like Word of Command except bad.
divisionbyzorro
Member
Well this card is disappointing:
divisionbyzorro
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Another cute way in which Mana Confluence is better than City of Brass: it's not locked out by City in a Bottle.
I wonder if Confluence replaces City or Gemstone Mine (or some combination thereof) in those kinds of Legacy/Vintage decks.
I wonder if Confluence replaces City or Gemstone Mine (or some combination thereof) in those kinds of Legacy/Vintage decks.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I remember someone trying to explain to me that because of City in a Bottle, the Arabian Nights Mountain was strictly worse than all other mountains. :lol (the Oracle text makes that not true, though).
Mana Confluence is going to be like a $15 card immediately.
divisionbyzorro
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That's actually a relatively recent change. City in a Bottle used to actually care about the expansion symbol until sometime last year. They switched it around because it just doesn't make any sense (why should a Modern Masters City of Brass be strictly better than Arabian Nights one?).
If you are at 1 life, you can tap city of brass and cast an instant (such as a lethal lighting bolt) in response to the damage trigger. You can't do that with this one.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Also, you can die to Mana Confluence, but not City of Brass while you have Ali from Cairo in play. =V
divisionbyzorro
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And you can't tap it for mana if you have a Platinum Emperion in play. All sorts of things.
Not being Port-able for value is going to be huge though, in formats where City of Brass is legal and sees play.
Fixed City of Brass
Chromanticore lets goooooooooooooooo!!!
So if I'm understanding this correct, the tokens will at least stay on the battlefield after attacking?
Also:
Worst Fears 7B (Mythic) Sorcery
You control target player during that player's next turn. Exile Worst Fears.
Why is this throwing me off? "You control enchanted creature." Does that mean I can enchant opponents creature and control it?
Yes.
~Ritual of the Returned 3B
Instant (Uncommon)
Exile target creature card from your graveyard. Put a black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield with power equal to the exiled card's power and toughness equals to the exiled card's toughness.
narcosis219
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Those tokens will come in and stay.
Remember that you can equip and enchant any creature on the board including your opponent's. This is how Mind Control works. This is the same thing plus flying and +1/+1.
divisionbyzorro
Member
Yep. It's basically this:
Albeit with +1/+1 and slight upside as a dorky flier in a pinch.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
City of Brass 2.0 is SWEEEET. I got a Standard boner just seeing that thing.
~Ritual of the Returned 3B
Instant (Uncommon)
Exile target creature card from your graveyard. Put a black Zombie creature token onto the battlefield with power equal to the exiled card's power and toughness equals to the exiled card's toughness.
acheron_xl
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Some of these cards are really giving me the sense that they're setting up for Eldrazi in the next block.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
How so?
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