Mana Confluence is a GARBAGE name for an awesome card
Oh and head's up people, tomorrow is the Magic Pax Panel. Expect info on the fall expansion and maybe more Journey into Nix, Conspiracy and/or M15 spoilers
No, I care about modern and booster draft as well. I've tried to get into commander, but it's just never clicked for me- probably because I despise multiplayer games. I enjoyed cube the first 10 times or so I've tried it, but i'm kind of tired of it at this point- there are only so many times you can do something cool before it gets old. The appeal of a booster draft is that you never know what is actually going to be opened- something that cube lacks. There is never going to be the guy who got 5 copies of a card in cube, for example
Pretty much no Cube is the same and they get updated every single set. That plus the singleton nature of the format and the constantly new interactions that pop up as cards from dissipate blocks and sets interact with each other makes a good Cube way more variable than any draft set. That plus you never have to play with shitty cards. I can't say I understand your perspective very much :/
Sure, but you are paying a full 2 extra mana to get that card- which is about what a cantrip should cost anyway. And this one lacks the ability to end games like Kor Spiritdancer, or unkilability like Argothian. It's significantly better than Verduran, because it has power, but without enchatress 5-8 in the format, the deck isn't remotely playable
Too many 2/2s for 4 mana have been constructed playable in too many formats for me to dismiss the card outright. I'm curious to see what happens over the course of the next year.
I don't care if it's playable, its existence shows me that WOTC still hasn't learned that Hexproof is the most dangerous mechanic to the health of the game since Affinity for Artifacts. It does nothing but create games that when you loose, the only things you want to do is punch the other player and quit Magic forever. I was disgusted by the reprint of Gladecover Scout in M14, and take each Hexproof card as an attack on the health of Magic.
If the card isn't playable then it can't be a threat to the health of the game now can it? There was no mass exodus from the game when Invisible Stalker was around and there certainly isn't going to be one around when we have shittier hexproof cards around. I can understand if you don't like the mechanic but your reaction is hyperbolic.
The whole point of previews is to hype you for the new set! And none of the cards on the mothership even attempted to do so. The 2 in this post, which I had to find on other websites, would have been much more interesting previews- a God that while likely unplayable does something cool, and a sweet 1 drop looter variant that is pretty unique, and I can't wait to play with, weather it's in limited or constructed!
My point was that is was DAY ONE of previews. Not every single day of previews for any set is going to have cards that any singular person likes especially since cards are often made to appease specific demographics. As for the source of previews, its not like WOTC has ever cared whether the "best" (which is often subjective) previews are on their site or not as long as news spreads (which it does).
