Very enjoyable article, well put arguments. Here's a scryfall link for anyone curious about what 3 cmc 3/2s have been printed throughout magic history:
https://scryfall.com/search?q=power%3D3+toughness%3D2+cmc%3D3&order=color
Rhythm of the wild
After having played against Rhythm of the wild on the MTG Arena sealed event I can tell you that card is real. It works perfectly in a more aggresive midrange deck, like gruul! The flexibility of making your early game creatures more beefy and your mid- to lategame threats...
I'm pretty sure this is unchanged, but it used to be that rares and mythics got fairy dusted into vault progress earlier. Now it seems like they're making the rewards for getting all rares/mythics better.
Someone sell me on Triskelion! I'm in the market for some more robots in my big cube update, and Triskelion seems popular around here. Is it the modal spell of killing a bunch of little guys or getting a 3/3 into play? It just seems so expensive!
Wow!! A fun rakdos gold card that isn't just a pure aggro card. This seems like it would fit great in those removal dense bolt/doomblade midrange decks. Trade some of their guys, then reanimate the best one.
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Creature - Salamander Drake
Flying
7U: Adapt 4. This ability costs 1 less for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
Now this is a blue one drop I can run! In a tempo deck it doesn't seem that far fetched to get a good chunk of instant and sorceries into your graveyard pretty quickly.
That's a very lovely and eloquent post about the subject! Really like the term "tempo-phase" and "reach-phase". I'll keep those in the back of my head :)
This certainly is a pile of words. I sort of agree with some of the comments over at mythicspoilers, does this really feel like a mythic? (Also is the angel pregnant, is that why we get two spirits?)
It was a fun cool deck but also kind of bad :p. He really would've needed 2-3 more discard outlets and some way of interacting with his opponent. Might've been a bit greedy with the colours, too.
Really liked how pattern of rebirth played though!