Sets (AFR) Adventures in the Forgotten Realms Previews- Dripping with Flavor, and Excess Words!
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Also known as "commander".
I see this (ingenious smith) much more as a payoff than an enabler. it requires me to have lots of artifacts in my deck, and it does not produce any artifacts on its own. additionally i think it requires quite a density as top 4 cards is easy to whiff
The enabler in it is made much more solid by the payoff part also being there
This is probably one of the better cards in the set. It starts as an on-curve creature, becomes a mini Luminarch Aspirant that isn't susceptible to removal, and finally turns into a Vizier of the Menagerie.
Ranger class is pretty good, and can make it into all but the fastest of Cubes for designers who wish to utilize it.
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Classes solidify my interpretation that between these and Ornithopter of Paradise I feel like there's a job listing on WotC's website right now for "Card Namer" and they're just desperately struggling until they find someone
Interesting though. They've spoiled allied, enemy and monocolor classes as of right now:
And yes this is baseless speculation that will likely be moot by end of day, but I like this kind of theorycrafting
W: Cleric
U: Wizard
B: Warlock
R: Barbarian
G: Ranger
UW: Artificer?
UB: Rogue
RB: Blood Hunter?
RG: Bard
GW: Paladin?
WB: Paladin?!?!
GB:
UG: Druid(?)
UR: Sorcerer
WR: Fighter
After some quick googling, there's 14 classes in 5e if you count the Artificer and Blood Hunter (Both not in the player's handbook)
Paladin and Monk are also missing.
I wonder if this is how they announce a new class? Or maybe just borrow something from like 3.5
Interesting though. They've spoiled allied, enemy and monocolor classes as of right now:
And yes this is baseless speculation that will likely be moot by end of day, but I like this kind of theorycrafting
W: Cleric
U: Wizard
B: Warlock
R: Barbarian
G: Ranger
UW: Artificer?
UB: Rogue
RB: Blood Hunter?
RG: Bard
GW: Paladin?
WB: Paladin?!?!
GB:
UG: Druid(?)
UR: Sorcerer
WR: Fighter
After some quick googling, there's 14 classes in 5e if you count the Artificer and Blood Hunter (Both not in the player's handbook)
Paladin and Monk are also missing.
I wonder if this is how they announce a new class? Or maybe just borrow something from like 3.5
Ojutai at home. Hexproof becomes Ward
and Anticipate becomes a flat Draw with a Pokémon TCG-esque draw up effect. It is a bit odd that the Blue dragon is the one that lives in the Desert, but I think that has something to do with D&D lore that I am not aware of at this time.I might end up playing this card as an extra copy of Dragonlord Ojutai for my Esper Dragons archetype. Ward
is significantly worse than Hexproof, but my cube is fast enough to where that shouldn't be an issue outside of extremely long games. Either way, it should be a pretty cool finisher.I liked that one
But you're right. A lot of cards this set are "Adjective Noun" or "You Verb the Noun." Most of the more interesting names are drawn directly from D&D, I suspect.
Fifty Feet of Rope
Wight
[Color] Dragon
Wish
Dragon Turtle (Creature -- Dragon Turtle)
Zombie Ogre (Creature -- Zombie Ogre)
+2 Mace
There's got to be some basic cards in a set and my understanding is that D&D does lend itself to this kind of thing, but they really, really leaned into it. A child could have named about 2/3 of the cards this set after seeing the art.
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The ward ability is much fairer than Ojutai, which I like. The draw ability feels a lot stronger. Potentially a lot stronger. Like Impulse versus Ancestral Recall stronger.
Ojutai at home. Hexproof becomes Ward
I might end up playing this card as an extra copy of Dragonlord Ojutai for my Esper Dragons archetype. Ward
And it's like 3x more red-proof
that thing is gonna get swatted with a doom blade the instant it declares an attack
Ward 4 is a lot worse, but it remains very strong while giving more opportunity for interaction. That's potentially more interesting, anyways. Being monocolored is also a big buff. Definitely a strong way to spend 5 mana.DRAGON.jpg
Ojutai at home. Hexproof becomes Ward
I might end up playing this card as an extra copy of Dragonlord Ojutai for my Esper Dragons archetype. Ward
Solid artifact for my low power boiz
The Druid class is Communism.
What? The effect doesn't even mention the proletariat. How is that-- OH! Look at that art!
I Googled it and apparently that's a normal symbol, at least. I thought for a second that Art Guy got his ideas from Card Namer Guy.
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Oh okay. I guess just going with what makes sense for classes and not making even cycles of 5 cards is an option I hadn't considered they'd do
The Druid class is Communism.
Guys they printed a Death and Taxes enchantment!
This looks like a worse Mirror Entity.
Classes are further proof than Sagas are a better design template than Planeswalkers. In fact, they are even closer to the original idea for the card than Sagas. They seem an inevitable addition to the game and I welcome them.
They seem a bit below my power level (that's good for the game) but I like Paladin and Ranger. Still, they seem more designed for limited than constructed
This looks good for moving artifacts into white. It looks similar to Elvish Visionary, though the draw may fizzle and the body is actually meaningful.
Blue dragons live in deserts and breath lightning, green dragons live in forests and breath forests, black dragons live in swamps and breath acid, red dragons live in volcanoes and breath fire, and white dragons live in the frozen tundras and suck.
No, seriously, white dragons are the weakest true dragons.
I don't really know anything about this, I just like it when other people have opinions.
To those of you who run life gain in white
I think you should include Snow-Covered Plains in your cube in order to run this combo.
Don’t tell your drafters about the combo. Just include it and let them find it themselves.
I think you should include Snow-Covered Plains in your cube in order to run this combo.
Don’t tell your drafters about the combo. Just include it and let them find it themselves.
To those of you who run life gain in white
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I think you should include Snow-Covered Plains in your cube in order to run this combo.
Don’t tell your drafters about the combo. Just include it and let them find it themselves.
I'm not sold on needing 1WWW (including a colorless land) in order to try this "combo." It seems very janky except for the 1% of the time it actually works, in which case it's just annoying. This exceeds Chain of Smog levels of gimmicky.
Are you not a fan of the dream?