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[divisionbyzorro]

I guess it is kind of awesome if you hit all lands off it.

And really awkward if, say, you're running three Evolving Wilds and it picks up your last one.

I guess this maybe fits in the deck that wants to have Misthollow Griffin?

 

[The Technomancer]

Search the City is....weird. Very very weird.

 

[bigkrev]

Holy Hell the end of that Patrick Sullivan-Ross Merriman game! Such a clinic and a showpiece of how complicated playing a Burn deck is

 

[OnPoint]

Holy Hell the end of that Patrick Sullivan-Ross Merriman game! Such a clinic and a showpiece of how complicated playing a Burn deck is

Yeah. Holy hell

 

[OnPoint]

Poor Search the City, you're super duper extra unplayable in EDH.

Relentless Rats deck lol

 

[Yeef]

You could probably do some sort of Janky Search the City shenanigans with stuff like Buried Alive/Jarad's Orders and something like Gravepurge.

Much like Battle of Wits and Door to Nothingness, it's the sort of card that you want to puzzle over. It's not really competitive, even in casual games, but it's still an interesting challenge to try and manage to get it to go off.

 

[The Technomancer]

Haha, the column Search the City was previewed in points out how well it combos with Misthollow Griffin

 

[zethren]

Call of the Conclave....


....YES.

 

[The Technomancer]

Selesnya is looking better and better for the pre-release. Depending on the number of populate effects at common and uncommon I'm probably going to go with them.

 

[zethren]

Well hopefully the guildmage uses Populate, or brings some kind of token down with her.

 

[Kurtofan]

 

[Kurtofan]

Tokens:

White:

 

[Kurtofan]

Blue:

Black:

 

[Kurtofan]

Red:

Green:

 

[zoukka]

Friend of mine was 20th in the Moscow GP last weekend so good. One game from top 8. I remember when me and him pretty started the mtg scene in our town back in the days...

 

[Kurtofan]

Not a lot of people seems to care about the entire set being spoiled

 

[The Technomancer]

What bizarre wording on Rest in Peace. Since when do tokens go to the graveyard?

 

[divisionbyzorro]

No Birds!!?

What bizarre wording on Rest in Peace. Since when do tokens go to the graveyard?

Since always.

 

[Kurtofan]

What bizarre wording on Rest in Peace. Since when do tokens go to the graveyard?

Triggers.

Tokens go the graveyard, triggering effects and then disappear.

 

[divisionbyzorro]

So that's clearly not the whole set.

Still hoping for birds.

Also, the land enchantment cycle is interesting. I like the idea of stacking the "untap this land at each upkeep" enchantment on the "draw a card" enchantment. I also like that they make those stupid overpriced land destruction cards somewhat useful in limited.

 

[Kurtofan]

So that's clearly not the whole set.

Still hoping for birds.

No Birds, that's all the mono green cards.

The guy who is spoiling it only misses a few cards (one blue, one red, two artifacts , three multicolors and an hybrid.

He's going to upload the multicolor cards soon.

 

[zoukka]

Seeing the cards laid out like that makes me sad because of the ever more generic style that magic is going after. Everything is high contrast, monocoloured and heavily shadowed. I miss the good old days of illustrative fantasy art.

 

[WanderingWind]

No Birds and no elves in green standard fucking sucks.

 

[divisionbyzorro]

No Birds, that's all the mono green cards.

Well, that's not all the mono black cards, because the black land enchantment isn't in there. And there's the same amount of green cards.

Let me hope!

 

[Kurtofan]

Well, that's not all the mono black cards, because the black land enchantment isn't in there. And there's the same amount of green cards.

Let me hope!

The Enchant Land is Underworld Connections, we got it spoiled a while ago.

Here's the Number Crunch, to destroy your last hope! http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=443511

 

[The Technomancer]

The Enchant Land is Underworld Connections, we got it spoiled a while ago.

Here's the Number Crunch, to destroy your last hope! http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/showthread.php?t=443511

Right, his point is that assuming there are the same number of cards in each color there's a green card missing.

 

[Kurtofan]

Multicolor:

Izzet:

Azorius:

Rakdos:

Golgari:

Selesnya:

 

[Kurtofan]

Right, his point is that assuming there are the same number of cards in each color there's a green card missing.

The numbers don't allow this though.

 

[The Technomancer]

Set looks kinda boring now. I don't know what I expected, but it's lacking something. Maybe it's because the mechanics are rather boring and not used in creative ways.

This feels like a very bottom-up set. They haven't really done that since Zendikar, so I'm excited to see how it feels

EDIT: Non-linear might be a better word to use

 

[kirblar]

Set looks kinda boring now. I don't know what I expected, but it's lacking something. Maybe it's because the mechanics are rather boring and not used in creative ways.

The unc/rare/mythic stuff we're missing is likely relevant. This isn't the whole set, but it does appear to be most of the limited fodder with a few relevant cards thrown in.

 

[Kurtofan]

Hybrid:

Artifacts:

Lands

 

[Totakeke]

I want to see a control deck based around safety sphere.

 

[divisionbyzorro]

Rogue's Passage looks like a juicy Limited pick. Yes, I want to be able to break board stalls using a land slot, thank you very much.

 

[The Technomancer]

Rogue's Passage looks like a juicy Limited pick. Yes, I want to be able to break board stalls using a land slot, thank you very much.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[ultron87]

Yay, Giant Growth!

 

[Totakeke]

Mana Bloom could be really interesting.

Edit: Oh, once per turn. Nevermind.

 

[siddx]

Rootborn defenses was one of the first cards revealed and it's still one of my favorite commons in regards to limited. I have won so many matches with similar cards.

 

[Venfayth]

I love the gate art :O

 

[y2dvd]

Rest in Peace and Soul Tithe sounds like some really annoying cards to deal with.

 

[f0rk]

A lot of good limited enchantments it seems.

 

[Kurtofan]

Yay, Giant Growth!

Love the flavor text!

I feel like the flavor text is better than in the original ravnica.

 

[tch]

Looks like we're getting a cycle of one-drop hybrids at rare as well. The bg one is nuts... So much utility

 

[Guesong]

Rakdos, Lord of Riots

I want it in my veins.

 

[ultron87]

Is there just no ramp in this set or something? Besides Mana Bloom, I guess, which is actually a cool idea.

 

[Negator]

The guy that spoiled all those cards did not get a Golgari Charm

AFkskljds;afjdkls;fjds

 

[tch]

The guy that spoiled all those cards did not get a Golgari Charm

AFkskljds;afjdkls;fjds

Seriously... That's the one I went to look for straight away...

 

[kirblar]

Is there just no ramp in this set or something? Besides Mana Bloom, I guess, which is actually a cool idea.

Keep in mind that GTC is also a 249 card large set, and that if you wanted to juice a set w/ reprints, that would be the one to do it in, since the 3rd set has approximately zero room.

 

[tch]

From what I've seen in the spoilers there is some fixing but very little ramp outside Axebane Guardian (the defender who taps for X.)

 

[zoukka]

Yeah as of now the set feels too straightforward. I mean your kavus' die and then you just pump your living kavus' with your dead ones. You then follow up by making and populating kavu tokens and detaining your opponents kavus. Finish this meatfest with overload spells that require no thought whatsoever.

We'll see once I get to draft that shit.

 

[Keru_Shiri]

Yeah as of now the set feels too straightforward. I mean your kavus' die and then you just pump your living kavus' with your dead ones. You then follow up by making and populating kavu tokens and detaining your opponents kavus. Finish this meatfest with overload spells that require no thought whatsoever.

We'll see once I get to draft that shit.

They should bring back Kavus.