Sets Amonkhet (AKH) Spoilers

[Fulcrum]

Drake Haven's BFF

 

[Aston]

 

[ahadabans]

Drake Haven might be the Astral Slide I was looking for. Definitely ordering a copy of that.

 

[sigh]

Drake Haven seems ready-made for my section, tbh. Really goes hand in hand with a Draw-discard suite, and with looters. Love it
careful study
Merfolk looter
Thirst for knowledge
Compulsive research
Careful consideration

 

[Fulcrum]

Using Trade Routes to pick up and cycle one of the bicycle lands all while triggering Drake Haven is the kind of nonsense I can get behind.

 

[GiftsForgiven]

I understand what you're saying, but devoted druid just doesn't swing for 3

It does with enough +1/+1 counters on it

 

[psly4mne]

It's a weird interaction that doesn't come up a lot; might come up more in a cube that supports +1+1 counter themes. Personally I can't think of many in my cube, maybe some weird stuff with Skin Render + Kitchen Finks + 3 mana Nissa or something.

An interaction that has definitely come up in my cube is Skinrender killing Hangarback Walker and still making Thopters.

 

[japahn]

It's ridiculous with Frantic Search too. to draw 2 card, and cast 2 cards from your hand as Wind Drakes.

I love it.

Noose Constrictor and now this. UG Madness?

 

[Chris Taylor]

It does with enough +1/+1 counters on it

So does squire!

 

[Velrun]

 

[ahadabans]

This set seems super sweet. I don't know how much of this I end up running, but man I love the flavor and some of what they are trying to do here.

 

[Aston]

Using Trade Routes to pick up and cycle one of the bicycle lands all while triggering Drake Haven is the kind of nonsense I can get behind.

With Trade Routes in play every land is a cycling land!

 

[CML]

I ran Lightning Rift with the "or discard a card" text for a while as an "always wheels" incentive for red based control, but the support was iffy and it was usually just 15th pick trash. That said, its easier to support this effect in blue and the cumulative effect on this makes it a legit single card wincon. This is probably very good especially if you ULD cycling lands.

 

[CML]

I've always thought of Drake as 15th pick garbage tbh

 

[Diakonov]

I'm probably overvaluing embalm, but I can see packing a lot of these creatures into my new, lower-powered list. This is definitely not the strongest thing in the world - and probably shouldn't make the final cut - but it's so darn cute, and multiple bodies can be valuable in so many ways. I'm pretty intrigued!

 

[Chris Taylor]

This got a lot better for me once I realized it was Oblivion Ring and not Journey to Nowhere
Still not sure when you'd cycling something as good as ORing, but the option's there

 

[Meltyman]

This got a lot better for me once I realized it was Oblivion Ring and not Journey to Nowhere
Still not sure when you'd cycling something as good as ORing, but the option's there

Replenish, Auramancer *cough* Cantivore *cough*

 

[Onderzeeboot]

:eek:

 

[CML]

god that comic is embarrassing. i'm gonna smoke a joint and ponder further

 

[Onderzeeboot]

They're changing how split cards work starting with Amonkhet: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/amonkhet-split-card-rules-changes-2017-04-04

This right out kills some modern decks like Expertise + Beck/Call.

 

[Salmo2]

dumb, super strong

 

[whobetta]

the small discussion on the -1/-1 counters vs undying, almost made me think about quitting magic. For whatever reason this bothers me deeply to the core that the undying creature will die because the state based 0/negative 0 toughness check simultaneously rolls up all other things and declares the creature dead having a +1/+1 counter on it...

I am very irked by this even though it is a very small nuanced part... my group has probably played this wrong in the past and I don't mind that we did.

 

[Chris Taylor]

Replenish, Auramancer *cough* Cantivore *cough*

Oh man Cantivore, that takes me back

 

[Salmo2]

the small discussion on the -1/-1 counters vs undying, almost made me think about quitting magic. For whatever reason this bothers me deeply to the core that the undying creature will die because the state based 0/negative 0 toughness check simultaneously rolls up all other things and declares the creature dead having a +1/+1 counter on it...

I am very irked by this even though it is a very small nuanced part... my group has probably played this wrong in the past and I don't mind that we did.

Magic is a complex game.

 

[Aston]

dumb, super strong

I guess one way to reduce Gideon, Ally of Zendikar's standard dominance is to add another Gideon that competes with him? Although it's not clear whether this just makes AoZ even better.