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[ultron87]

Maybe we'll get it as a Game Day promo with no rules text, just like Utter End.

Good call! From here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhwXh4srQ8w, screen cap off Reddit.

 

[Angry Grimace]

Should've just had no flavor text. The art and rules text get the point across quite well.

?

Beaten

 

[OnPoint]

Dat gameday promo though. Gorgeous. I think I need that.

 

[Firemind]

that's amazing art even though parts of it look cg

 

[Ooccoo]

Because Vindicate was too good. Hate how land destruction is a no go below 4CMC in modern Magic.

 

[kirblar]

Regular version has the better art.....but promo version gets rid of the stupid flavor text....

 

[Yeef]

Because Vindicate was too good. Hate how land destruction is a no go below 4CMC in modern Magic.

Cheap land destruction constricts the design space a lot and leads to miserable gameplay.

 

[Remembrance]

I like how this is Unmake, with more anguish.

 

[A Serious Man]

I'll take four of the promo version, thank you.

 

[Firemind]

Cheap land destruction constricts the design space a lot and leads to miserable gameplay.

i don't know if everything being midrange nowadays because the mana is too good is less miserable or not

 

[MjFrancis]

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/chasing-shadows-part-1-2016-03-14

 

[OnPoint]

Re: Startled Awake

That's a lot of mana for those effects. Screams 'Control finisher' to me, but as such, screams 'Unplayable' as well.

I like the idea of the card though. It's very cool conceptually and design-wise.

 

[MjFrancis]

Buy-a-Box Promo:

Intro Pack Rares:

Launch Promo:

Game Day Participation Promo:

 

[Santiako]

That's a really neat design, but it seems quite underpowered.
(Talking about the blue card).

The angel sweeper could be pretty good.

 

[DrArchon]

Re: Startled Awake: Wow. Limited nightmare (heh) right there. Seriously, that's gonna be awful to play against on gameday. Lose 13 cards every, what is it, 3 turns? Yikes.

Very clever design too.

Re: Descend upon the Sinful: Reminds me of Kirtar's Wrath, which is never a bad thing. 6 mana sucks, but exiling is great. Should be an EDH workhorse.

 

[Firemind]

blue mythic seems unplayable even in limited.

does everything have to exile these days? rip ulamog

 

[zethren]

I love that Blue mythic flavor wise, so I want to find a way to make it work. But it's janky fun, and that's all it really needs to be. It's what mythics should be.

 

[red13th]

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/chasing-shadows-part-1-2016-03-14

god I love the art. not excited about the card.

 

[OnPoint]

Sinister Concoction cracks me up.

 

[Nikodemos]

Guys I'm not sure Avacyn's gonna make it through this one.

 

[ultron87]

Really cool design and art, but 9 mana to recast that mill spell has got to be too much.

 

[noquarter]

Really like Startled Awake. It probably will never be playable, but I really like the design of the card all around.

Gameday Promo looks good too. Might actually try to make a standard deck and see if I can get one. Rotation might help on that.

 

[Angry Grimace]

Re: Startled Awake

That's a lot of mana for those effects. Screams 'Control finisher' to me, but as such, screams 'Unplayable' as well.

I like the idea of the card though. It's very cool conceptually and design-wise.

It's not a control finisher, its a silly flavor card they designed to prove they could design it. You see these every once in a while - they get in their head they need to design a quirky flavor card as a design exercise and then make it mythic. You'll be receiving these very late in draft, just like Ugin's Nexus.

 

[ultron87]

Ooh, this is a Game Day Mat I'd want to win.

 

[A Serious Man]

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/chasing-shadows-part-1-2016-03-14

I want to like this but it seems way too slow to me. Spending 4 to 5 mana every turn isn't something control decks want to be doing either.

 

[WanderingWind]

Anybody that can get an extra

Let me know, I'll trade/buy it off ya. Super sick art.

 

[divisionbyzorro]

Sinister Concoction is hilarious

Spoiler

ly terrible

.

 

[Firemind]

Really cool design and art, but 9 mana to recast that mill spell has got to be too much.

it has to connect too. can't even attack through a wall lol

 

[ultron87]

Sinister Concoction is hilarious

Spoiler

ly terrible

.

It is a cute way to go a long way to turning on Delirium. And if you discard a Fiery Temper you've got yourself a stew going.

 

[jph139]

Love Startled Awake. WAY too expensive for anything outside of EDH (and even then it's a lot), but it's a super cool design.

 

[DrArchon]

Sinister Concoction is hilarious

Spoiler

ly terrible

.

If they got rid of the B in the activation cost, it would be a really good limited kill spell. Cheaper than Seal of Doom, turns on Madness, helps with Delirium, all pretty good for the right deck. But thanks to that one B, you can never tap out with that on the board.

Very disappointing.

 

[Angry Grimace]

Ooh, this is a Game Day Mat I'd want to win.

The "Cool Guys Don't Look at Angels Disintegrating" playmat

 

[WanderingWind]

Anguished Unmaking seems to be the first no-crap, definitely going to get played card spoiled, right? Thing in the Ice is a brew around card in modern, but it's not a for sure thing. Anything else I'm missing that will for sure see constructed play?

 

[divisionbyzorro]

It is a cute way to go a long way to turning on Delirium. And if you discard a Fiery Temper you've got yourself a stew going.

If it ends up being playable in draft, this set is great. If it ends up being first pickable, this is the best set ever.

 

[Angry Grimace]

Anguished Unmaking seems to be the first no-crap, definitely going to get played card spoiled, right? Thing in the Ice is a brew around card in modern, but it's not a for sure thing. Anything else I'm missing that will for sure see constructed play?

I will be exceptionally surprised if Avacyn doesn't see play in Standard.

Startled Awake is a card that you probably think "hey that's a neat design" until you realize you will never cast it ever and then look sad when you see it in your prerelease box.

 

[kirblar]

Anguished Unmaking seems to be the first no-crap, definitely going to get played card spoiled, right? Thing in the Ice is a brew around card in modern, but it's not a for sure thing. Anything else I'm missing that will for sure see constructed play?

Avacyn says hi.

Sinister concoction is a double madness/delirium enabler, which is cute.

Nahiri: http://www.gatheringmagic.com/jarvisyu-031416-nahiri-for-standard/

 

[WanderingWind]

Oh, right, Avacyn 3.

And:

 

[Exokell]

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/making-magic/chasing-shadows-part-1-2016-03-14

This card is an absolute headache in limited.

 

[Santiako]

Talk about tailor made for my deck. Love it.

 

[Firemind]

why tapped artifact?

first impression is... it's a bad ajani vengeant.

 

[Santiako]

So we're getting 4 planeswalkers. Neat.

 

[WanderingWind]

R/W repeatable card draw is swell. She doesn't have a way of protecting herself though. Like, at all. That's worrisome.

 

[GregLombardi]

On first pass, Nahiri seems horrible to me.

I could be wrong.

 

[El Topo]

Search your library for a creature card doesn't seem very white or red. Card seems pretty bad at first glance though.

 

[kirblar]

So we're getting 4 planeswalkers. Neat.

3. Sorin/Jace/Nahiri.

Tamiyo only comes in at the end of the story.

 

[OnPoint]

Nahiri is... I'm not sure.

I like that she enables madness. But I'm not too sure.

It's not a control finisher, its a silly flavor card they designed to prove they could design it. You see these every once in a while - they get in their head they need to design a quirky flavor card as a design exercise and then make it mythic. You'll be receiving these very late in draft, just like Ugin's Nexus.

Anything blue, slow, and mana intensive always feels like a control finisher to me, whether it actually is or isn't haha

 

[Santiako]

3. Sorin/Jace/Nahiri.

Tamiyo only comes in at the end of the story.

Isn't Arlinn previewing this week too?

 

[kirblar]

Isn't Arlinn previewing this week too?

Oh, I forgot about her, lol. Yeah, so 4.

 

[divisionbyzorro]

Interesting. Nahiri is just a Dack Fayden, but worse.

 

[bigkrev]

"Exile target Enchantment" seems strange on a card with red mana symbols

This looks more like a 3 mana walker than a 4 mana walker. Her protection is limited (only killing s tapped creature), her ultimate is really week unless Emrakul has an Annilator trigger, but she does come down with a ton of loyalty.