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Magic: the Gathering |OT13| Ixalan - Port to Sideboard
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Imperfected
Member
That looks more like the sort of Rare card draw sorcery they'd dump into red to remind red players that they will never be loved.
SigmasonicX
Member
MaRo mentioned before that they're spreading punisher cards to black.
And yeah, Rigging Runner looks really good. 1 mana 1/1 first strike on turn one, then on later turns, it's likely a 1 mana 2/2 first strike.
charlequin
Banned
Right. WotC sees "Iconic" as a term of art, which is fine when they're talking only about the creature types but leads to awkward mismatches when they broaden the meaning like this.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
isn't there just a single sphinx in IMA?
Who cares shivan dragon isn't in the set. Could have easily been downgraded to uncommon too.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
That one drop reminds me of War-Name Aspirant, which was a great card.
okay there's 2 sphinxes and 3 hydras compared to a billion dragons, demons and angels. Which accurately reflects that the iconic races suck as a concept.
FoF Sphinx is also in at rare
Giant Panda
Member
That seems almost as good as ghost quarter and better than Tectonic Edge.
Poodlestrike
Banned
This + Ramunap Excavator is a pretty solid way to fuck with non-basic-dependent manabases.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
or just also play aven mindcensor.
They are really pushing a GW hatebears deck for the next standard.
Activation cost is a huge hurdle, even though you get a land from it. Ghost Quarter can even do some tricks like destroying your own land to get a mana from a certain colour without having other mana available. Still, this card is a fair replacement for Ghost Quarter in standard.
jesus this is awful
Even if your opponent's only choice was "reveal top 3, opponent picks 2 for you to keep and loses 3 life" this would be garbage.
Poodlestrike
Banned
That's worse, I think? This is a "Draw 3, less one for each 3 life your opponent gives up." So it's something between 3CMC Draw 3 to a 3CMC 9 damage card. That's... not bad. It's a sorcery, which apparently makes it bad for some reason I'm still trying to figure out, but the numbers are decent.
Nope, your opponent gets to choose which cards you keep.
Even if they didn't, this would still be bad.
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
The problem with it tho (IMO), is that your opponent gets to pick keep/throw on an individual basis, so they can let you keep the two lands and kill your bomb.
I mean, getting 3 cards for 3 (in black, and not blue, no less) isn't terrible, but it's not great, at all. Sorc speed makes it worse because it means you can't bluff/have options for using it at end of turn or what have you.
Poodlestrike
Banned
Yeah, but 3 life for the privilege of denying you each one of those cards is pretty steep. Like, I know life is a resource, but even if you draw 2 decent picks and one bad one, spending 6 life to make sure you only get the one thing isn't something to sneeze at in 20 life games.
That's still draw 2 with a ping on them for 3. If nothing else you've cleared those two lands off the top of the deck.
I get that sorcery is less flexible, which makes it worse, but a lot of the time I see spells basically tossed aside as irrelevant unless the effect is outrageously pushed, which I still don't get.
A Serious Man
Member
I might try it in a punisher brew if the cards weren't revealed.
Wow, that's really really good! I can see this being played over tec edge in UW control in modern.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
the flavour doesn't fit. Your opponents are paying life to take stuff not to keep it.
The problem is that you're always going to get the worst possible option with this card, and in the majority of situations, letting your opponent pay life to deny you specific cards is horrible.
If you're in topdeck mode and your opponent has a decent life buffer - the kind of situation where a draw spell will usually shine - it does nothing. Maybe draws you a land.
Let's say you're playing some R/B burn variant, and you run this out after emptying your hand. Your opponent will just let you keep all of your lands/creatures and exile all of your burn spells that can deal more than 3 damage.
Even in the perfect situation - one where your opponent's life total is low enough that they can't afford to deny you cards - this is just a Painful Truths that gives your opponent information instead of costing 3 life.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
They really are replacing murdering indigenous people with dinos.
The art direction in this set is top notch. I love the armor on these guys.
Holy shit that's a bad card.
punisher cards suck
You know what would have made it better? If you picked what cards you kept.
Simply Sarah
Member
Exactly. Base case is a 2B sorcery where you draw 3 and show your opponent. Is there a very very very very slight chance this could fit in a super aggro deck if other black card draw options aren't good (which, admittedly, they currently aren't)? Maybe. But Painful Truths hasn't seen play much lately and if you compare this to what will be around post-rotation it's the unplayed Live Fast where you get the worst 2 of your top 3, don't lose life, your opponent loses 3 life, and you don't get energy.
Yeah, if it was "pay 9 life or your opponent gets the best of these three cards" that could be decent.
Joe Molotov
Member
Just a reminder that Read the Bones was a common (and way better than this card).
Man I could go for some Read the Bones right about now
Ixalan tokens. Is there not a Jace token for his ultimate???
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/tokens-ixalan-2017-09-13
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/feature/tokens-ixalan-2017-09-13
MAGIC STORY: A QUESTION OF CONFIDENCE
I'll wait for Sigma's summary, but I saw a picture of Kaladesh there.
I'll wait for Sigma's summary, but I saw a picture of Kaladesh there.
And yet Egyptians got massacred en masse lol
No Checklist card(s)?
There is. It was shown in the mechanics video.
https://www.reddit.com/r/magicTCG/c..._like_these_vampires/?st=J7J5XVFB&sh=50bdbdcb
brb puking in my mouth
brb puking in my mouth
Joe Molotov
Member
Skulduggery is gonna be brutal in limited.
divisionbyzorro
Member
I'm not sure if I'd rather believe this guy is 4chan trolling or that he's dumb enough to believe what he said.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
"Explore" is going to be Rosewater's "our complexity is too high, in hindsight Explore wasn't needed" mechanic in State of Design next year isn't it?
I like the idea of the mechanic but from what has been shown so far it does feel like a throwaway in this set.
Seems like it's in there so people can cast expensive dinosaurs (and potentially durdle) in a limited format with tribal synergies that naturally reward aggression.
Both of the spoiled common explore cards are strong enough that they'll never be cut from an aggressive deck, but I'm guessing we'll see a bunch of 1/3s and 2/4s with explore by the time we get the full spoiler.
SigmasonicX
Member
More details later, but from the new story, Dread Pirate Angrath is a minotaur planeswalker with Ghost Rider searing chains that can heat up his own body. Minotaurs don't appear to be native to Ixalan the plane. Huatli sparks while fighting him and sees Kaladesh. She interprets this as a vision of the Golden City, and the emperor views this as a sign that she must go on a journey to find it.
10000000% percent. Probably with an explanation of "This was the last set to be designed in our old method, you shouldn't be seeing this in the future"
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
by inhuman foes.
"To remedy this, we've decided to abandon the top-down and bottom-up design methods. All set design will now be middle-out."