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[Pundere]

The wizards deck is going to be FUN

This is going to be fucking miserable to play against. Like a free Cyclonic Rift every turn for the deck running counterspells.

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

destroy all creatures not of the chosen type

choose a type
1W put a divinity counter on a creature of the chosen type
creatures with divinity counters are indestructible

 

[Santiako]

Myojin tribal here we go.

 

[Ashodin]

And finally an interesting Mardu commander!

Ixalan plant alert

 

[GoutPatrol]

You know you're at the biggest MTG shop in Osaka when you see a human sized Tenga Cup across the street. Largest pornography store I've ever seen. I'll try to play Modern there tomorrow.

 

[Santiako]

I've been doing some ODYx3 drafts on mtgo yesterday and today. I love the format, even if blue is way too good.

 

[Santiako]

Awesome reprint, first time since Urza's Destiny

 

[Joe Molotov]

You know you're at the biggest MTG shop in Osaka when you see a human sized Tenga Cup across the street. Largest pornography store I've ever seen. I'll try to play Modern there tomorrow.

You gonna play Eggs? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

[Simply Sarah]

Awesome reprint, first time since Urza's Destiny

Yeah, that's a solid reprint and especially so with the main commander's Eminence ability.

 

[OnPoint]

The new art for Necromancer at least is much much better.

 

[Santiako]

The new art for Necromancer at least is much much better.

What? The Pete Venters original is miles better. The new one looks super generic.

 

[Santiako]

This is a weird one, Mairsil (one of the bad guys from The Dark) article with his background:

And I love this Lich:

 

[OnPoint]

Mairsil!

What? The Pete Venters original is miles better. The new one looks super generic.

As much as I loved Magic back then, I have such little nostalgia for the art from that period of the game. I think it's goofy looking.

 

[Simply Sarah]

The new art for Necromancer at least is much much better.

Eh. I'm always torn about modern Magic art because the sameyness of much of it along with the sorta semi-photo realistic angle, Older Magic art just had a character to it even if I'm not always the biggest fan of an individual piece.

This is a weird one:

And I love this Lich:

Yo, it's Mairsil! I'm not sure what I think of the card but it's a solid reference.

The Lich seems pretty neat, especially, again, with duping ability.

 

[Justin]

Mairsil seems really cool. Wizards is shaping up to be the most interesting set.

 

[OnPoint]

Oh god they were too smart for me.

Just noticed the 'activate only once a turn'

Was all ready to go ham with this haha

 

[bigkrev]

Marisil is a DEEP pull. I think he's mentioned on like 4 cards total?

 

[OnPoint]

Marisil is a DEEP pull. I think he's mentioned on like 4 cards total?

Someone here called for him in Grixis when we found out it was Grixis Wizards.

But yeah, it's a deep (and awesome) pull.

 

[bigkrev]

4 cards he's mentioned on:

Inferno
Fellwar Stone
Barl's Cage
Stone Calendar

Stone Calendar is on the RL, so i'd have probably bought a copy because RL cards spike for no descernable reason all the time (and having reference to a new cool commander would be more than enough to cause it to spike), but it looks like it Spiked 2 weeks ago from $3 to $18 lol

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

Oh god they were too smart for me.

Just noticed the 'activate only once a turn'

Was all ready to go ham with this haha

didn't realize the effect is cumulative at first. You really just want a bunch of super expensive cards with activated abilities then. Could be a sweet commander to be honest.

Oh my

 

[FreedomFrisbee]

Ya, we talked about Mairsil being a good choice for this. He was the villain for the whole Ice Age block. This card is depicting how he put Ith in a cage above a phyrexia hole and usurped his place. I'm surprised the card is so mechanically dead on. I hope they do his ring too, but I suppose they would have showed it with him.

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

This card is fantastic btw, he just wants to make you look up cards and brew.

ALso gives Kozilek new life

you can give this guy crew... to make him an artifact creature

He also makes complete trash playabe

 

[OnPoint]

Ya, we talked about Mairsil being a good choice for this. He was the villain for the whole Ice Age block. This card is depicting how he put Ith in a cage above a phyrexia hole and usurped his place. I'm surprised the card is so mechanically dead on. I hope they do his ring too, but I suppose they would have showed it with him.

Thought he was defeated in The Dark. Lim Dul was Ice Age, no?

 

[bigkrev]

Ya, we talked about Mairsil being a good choice for this. He was the villain for the whole Ice Age block. This card is depicting how he put Ith in a cage above a phyrexia hole and usurped his place. I'm surprised the card is so mechanically dead on. I hope they do his ring too, but I suppose they would have showed it with him.

Yeah, he doesn't appear in any flavor texts in Ice Age.
My knowledge of the Ice Age story comes from the Comic Book that was put out cocurrent with the set, but Tevesh Staz was the "real" villian in that story for Ice Age

 

[FreedomFrisbee]

Thought he was defeated in The Dark. Lim Dul was Ice Age, no?

Mairsil had a Lich thing going on, his ring was his phylactery. Lim Dul put his ring on. I don't actually think it was revealed until Alliances though? It might have been a tail end reveal in Ice Age, but in Alliances he possessed Jaya Ballard.

 

[SigmasonicX]

The preview article goes into his story. It also points out that he's wearing the ring he transfers his consciousness into in the art.

This is the first time in a while they've depicted a wizard using a wand, right?

 

[OnPoint]

Mairsil had a Lich thing going on, his ring was his phylactery. Lim Dul put his ring on. I don't actually think it was revealed until Alliances though? It might have been a tail end reveal in Ice Age, but in Alliances he possessed Jaya Ballard.

Huh. I should brush up on my old school Magic fiction haha

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

Hahaha make him voltron with this guy

Also amazing with most of the magi

 

[bigkrev]

The preview article goes into his story. It also points out that he's wearing the ring he transfers his consciousness into in the art.

This is the first time in a while they've depicted a wizard using a wand, right?

Off the top of my head, this is the only one, but I have some decent (2005-2010) holes in my knowledge

 

[Santiako]

Hahaha make him voltron with this guy


Also amazing with most of the magi

You can only activate the ability once though right?

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

You can only activate the ability once though right?

oh right. You can activate each ability once per turn. Still amazing and he's gonna get more powerful each time.

Just play Skithiryx so you can haste him up each time. I'm gushing so much right now, need a couple untap effects too.

then voltron with this guy

 

[Santiako]

oh right. You can activate each ability once per turn. Still amazing and he's gonna get more powerful each time.

Just play Skithiryx so you can haste him up each time. I'm gushing so much right now, need a couple untap effects too.

He's the most unique and breakable of the commanders revealed so far for sure, Deadeye Navigator inches closer to the ban with this guy.

He looks like this year's Breya.

 

[bigkrev]

Are there any artifacts or creatures that have activated abilitys that flicker? Would allow him to use the same ability multiple times a turn.

Most cards are either triggers or Deadeye Navigator (doesn't work from Exile)

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

can he use his abilities in the yard? Then you could just add some reassembling skeleton effects too.

 

[Santiako]

Are there any artifacts or creatures that have activated abilitys that flicker? Would allow him to use the same ability multiple times a turn.

Most cards are either triggers or Deadeye Navigator (doesn't work from Exile)

I meant pairing him with Deadeye so each time he flickers he can use all the abilites again.

 

[The Technomancer]

That is a cool design

 

[bigkrev]

Speaking of cool designs, look at this Mono-green devotion deck that went 6-1 in the last MTGO Modern Challenge, that Splashes Kiora and the Gifts/Unburial/Elesh Norn package https://www.mtggoldfish.com/deck/723020#paper

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

This is good 2 mana mill myself not sure if it's good enough

 

[Justin]

Is Inalla's eminence ability considered triggered? If you exile her using Mairsil can you use it from the command zone?

 

[bigkrev]

This is good 2 mana mill myself not sure if it's good enough

Does this work? The cards name is Marilsai, The Pretender, not Mirror-Mad Phantasam. It's not a copy of the card, it's the ability to use it's ability.

 

[Justin]

Final Wizard legendary is a reprint. Marchesa, The Black Rose.

 

[Yeef]

Is Inalla's eminence ability considered triggered? If you exile her using Mairsil can you use it from the command zone?

The eminence ability is a triggered ability. The other ability is an activated ability.

More importantly, if you send her to the command zone, Marsil won't have any of her abilities; he specifically looks at cards in exile.

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

Does this work? The cards name is Marilsai, The Pretender, not Mirror-Mad Phantasam. It's not a copy of the card, it's the ability to use it's ability.

that's why it works, when it refers to itself it knows it's mairsil not mirror mad phantasm and shuffles itself in but when you reveal the deck there is no card named mirror mad phatasm in the deck so you mill all of it.

 

[OnPoint]

Final Wizard legendary is a reprint. Marchesa, The Black Rose.

C'mon not really

 

[Justin]

The eminence ability is a triggered ability. The other ability is an activated ability.

More importantly, if you send her to the command zone, Marsil won't have any of her abilities; he specifically looks at cards in exile.

Oh thats right. I was wondering if you had Mairsil as your commander and exiled Inalla using his ability if you could use the eminence ability from the command zone but I guess it wouldn't work because Mairsil needs to be in play to use his ability.

 

[Crocodile]

An Apprentice Necromancer reprint is appreciated because the first version of the card didn't have the Zombie creature type on it. I hate using cards that have more creature types than are printed on the card - it just leads to a bad time.

 

[Justin]

C'mon not really

It's in there but there is a lot of people on twitter right now saying it isnt foil so maybe there is a 4th wizard legendary.

 

[Wichu]

It's in there but there is a lot of people on twitter right now saying it isnt foil so maybe there is a 4th wizard legendary.

There is a fourth one. The Dragon deck also has four commanders - the three new ones plus Scion of the Ur-Dragon.

 

[Crocodile]

I mean if y'all know the decklists or what not can y'all just share. Don't say "these people on twitter", actually link the tweets and twitter accounts!

 

[OnPoint]

It's in there but there is a lot of people on twitter right now saying it isnt foil so maybe there is a 4th wizard legendary.

I hope it's not. Friend just bought me a foil Marchesa as a present and I am in love with it.