General [M19] Magic 2019

[Alfonzo Bonzo]

Time to ask the same question again but with a new card

Would Open the Graves be useful in Aristocrats?

Yes, but I'm finding the five drop section stacked.

Do we think cavalry drillmaster might be good? I'm building a white bounce theme and it seems a good target. Also ties in with all the mini reanimators in white. I think I like it.

 

[Rasmus Källqvist]

Yes, but I'm finding the five drop section stacked.

Do we think cavalry drillmaster might be good? I'm building a white bounce theme and it seems a good target. Also ties in with all the mini reanimators in white. I think I like it.

Speaking of white mini reanimator, what more are there than these two?

 

[Heymaker]

 

[Alfonzo Bonzo]

New ajani, return to the ranks.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

That's a pretty amazing lord, in case you run some goblin synergies in your cube.

 

[Rasmus Källqvist]

Honestly this set kicks ass. So much fun clean design

 

[inscho]

This is shaping up to be a pretty wonderful looking set.

 

[sigh]

This is a pretty neat simic card. Interesting direction for a color pair that can be mono-drawing-cards. The fact that it leaps the creature it gives a counter to is strong.

 

[Rasmus Källqvist]

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This is a pretty neat simic card. Interesting direction for a color pair that can be mono-drawing-cards. The fact that it leaps the creature it gives a counter to is strong.

And honestly I love the UG idea of "flying fatties"

 

[Peter LaCara]

Huh. I've been moving away from heavy tribal stuff, preferring cards that have tribal stuff more as gravy on cards that work well on their own. But there's a lot of cool stuff you can do with this.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Now that's a Hero of Bladehold variant I might actually be interested in! Not a human, but looks a lot more manageable.

Also, this is great flavor

 

[sigh]

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Huh... Better Tome. This is much more tempting than tome for a middling-low cube power level... And my non UGB edh decks will love this!

 

[Chris Taylor]

Neat!

this is a hell of a lord. Not sure spirits specifically but a 1/3 anthemn is nutty

Looter + removal spell + half decent body? I'm interested

0: draw a card. Bruh.

 

[Wumpa]

No love for Blood Artist 4.0?

 

[Onderzeeboot]

0: draw a card. Bruh.

0: draw two cards. Bruh!

Honestly, this seems too much for my cube. Holy cow is that a value engine. It creates a token as a +1, which is always annoying, and potentially drawing two cards a turn? Jeez!

 

[Rasmus Källqvist]

Super clean version of Sphinx's Tutelage. Even if it is a little weaker I like this way better.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Look's like a more playable version of Jace's Erasure. That two cards per turn make a whole lot of difference.

 

[Onderzeeboot]

Also, apparently the taplands (Foul Orchard and friends) are going to occasionally replace a basic land in boosters. I'm so proud of them, they finally figured out fixing is important in limited, even in sets that don't have multicolor as a theme!

 

[Wumpa]

0: draw a card. Bruh.

I'll be putting him in my cube because I always wanted a playable Iron Maiden album cover. If he turns out to be a nutty draw engine and artifact anchor then that's just gravy.

 

[Chris Taylor]

No love for Blood Artist 4.0?

Added him in on Wed, didn't have the fixing to play him in an otherwise insane Aristocrats deck.

Not gaining life is big, and I think on the whole this is worse than falkenrath noble, but maybe that's what I'm after

 

[Peter LaCara]

...huh. 1/4 for 2 is a hell of a statline. That is an ass for sure. It's a hate-...turtle? Hate Frostburn Weird? Anyway. Shuts down energy hard, which I'm not super interested in. Keeps Meren in line. Cleanly deals with Hangarback Walker.

That's a self mill graveyard enabler if I ever saw one. Not sure it's worth a card, but it's neat. It's a zombie too!

Love me some Aristocrats support. Flying is huge on this.

Another lifegain trigger that also likes tokens. You know who else likes tokens? Soul Warden. The payoff cards for this are starting to come together too.

 

[Wumpa]

Added him in on Wed, didn't have the fixing to play him in an otherwise insane Aristocrats deck.

Not gaining life is big, and I think on the whole this is worse than falkenrath noble, but maybe that's what I'm after

Interesting, I figured that the extra toughness and powerful defensive abilities would make it less anemic than Falkenrath Noble when you're looking to stall and grind for value. But I can see the lack of evasion to dome for 2 and lifegain stabilization being real losses. If I'm not in the market for the Noble then I probably have no business running this guy either :/

 

[Velrun]

Full spoiler is up:

https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/core-set-2019-2018-06-22?

 

[ravnic]

That's a pretty amazing lord, in case you run some goblin synergies in your cube.

I might try goblin tribal with this guy, because he is still a find sideboard option without tribal support.

 

[Tzenmoroth]

Dumping my thoughts about the set here

I'm having trouble evaluating this. Fun graveyard and double strike synergy or too good.

I like that its fair but useable in aggro and useful in a loot of other decks. Its like a fair version of Jace, VP that I won't have to cut for being too first pickable.

I don't like End Hostilities as much now that I've cut swords. I thought about Fumigate or Austere Command but gaining life on a sweeper too good and 6 cmc sweeper too bad. I think this might be what I've been wanting.

I like exiling graveyards as a one-shot effect on an already decent card. Scavenging Ooze was too much graveyard hate. This should be fine.

Not sure if good. Maybe garbage, but sac outlet that draws cards on a decent body seems sweet. Always looking for more sac outlets.