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More glue for the enchantment theme. I am officially declaring this "The Best Set Since Time Spiral." If mine doesn't come with this flavor text, I'm writing it on myself.

I know he doesn't actually say the word heroic on the card, but he's the red heroic card I've been waiting for. Love this set. EDIT: Holy shit! Green Black Devotion fucking rules AND we get a playable night soil variant? This isn't going to be a <$100 set is it?

All of the stupid enchantment synergy in the world probably isn't getting this in. If it was 2 damage and didn't trigger itself, it might be there, but 1 just seems low impact when compared to similar cards.

I really want to like this card. It does have the most dreaded of casting costs, though. We'll see if it can happen.

Red/Blue is usually the generic control deck. I mean, its a slow deck, if the game goes long its generally winning anyway. Red/Blue Delver has become a reasonable approach too and that deck definitely doesn't want a 5 mana card.

I do the same thing, except instead of taking hours to be sure the card isn't too far off, I instead take a few seconds to compare to playable benchmarks.

I find it hard to kind Keranos very interesting. Basically he reads "If you can force a long game, you win." Obviously there is play to the card, but its just not an effect that I think I'm looking for.

The price for collectibles is determined solely by the price people are willing to pay for them. A foil offers no "added value" to a non-foil card, so any price from one penny more to 1000x more then the non-foil card is equally unwarranted as far as I'm concerned.

I gotta catch up. Born of the Gods needs its article too! I guess I'll bundle it with the Theros one.

Well, it is a punisher mechanic. The misconception is that a card with the punisher mechanic is intrinsically unplayable. Giving the opponent the choice is a downside, not a death sentence. Particularly since with this card, the effect is cumulative. Something like Breaking Point just...

God damnit the more I think about it, the better this card seems! How many dudes actually have to die for this to be a strong effect? How useful is this with sac outlets? How easy is it to make this a creature? How stupid is this with shreikmaw and bone shredder? The Blood Artist comparison...

Time is another fundamental resource in Magic. If you've got a lot of it, Garruk, Primal Hunter dominates the game. If you don't, he's an overcosted hill giant that wishes he was something that helps now. As you seem to like the slower paced, mid-range-focus its clear that Planeswalkers might be...

Well, considering his ability helps you get more creatures into your hand, I think being a creature is a real and relevant part of the card. Similar to Ephara for keeping devotion(who kicks ass), though they can bolt themselves to stop you. Seems fair for a drop to 3 mana. Definitely an...

The terminology has changed a ton. I remember in old Dojo articles (circa: 1998 maybe?) they would refer to deck archetypes differently. Control differentiated between two types of deck: pure control, which referred specifically to blue based decks that countered your spells and board control...

I meant that other red spell with the word Vengeance in the name the makes tokens with haste. Tempt with Vengeance.

To the person who laughed at me when I claimed Tempt with Vengeance should have been a white card because "Lol white haste?" I accept your apology.

The red dude can do three things that the guides can't: 1) Have an effect on an empty board 2) Be a bear 3) Force an opponent's creature to attack (probably will only come up 1:100+ games) While also 4) Being a bad version of elephant/griffin guide 5) That still gets the "token" if...

The blue one seems like it could be a massive beating or a complete crap. If they are using typical 1:1 removal or sweepers, the drawback is nothing special, but if they have something like fireslinger out its useless in both modes. You can even kill it by bestowing your own dude on it, then get...

I'm not sure they could have designed a card that I am less interested in if they actually tried to. There may be a point to this card, but its above my head. It gets both the high end of the mana cost spectrum AND the worst power for any of the gods for the least useful effect amongst them...

I like your math. He's less then a mana better then Elspeth but she was probably worth more then she was printed at, so he's cool. Again, I think Ajani here is a matter a preference mostly. He seems to pretty clearly fall into the range of what we expect a 5 mana card to do in modern Magic...