It's 3.
General (BRO) The Brother's War Spoilers
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K. That's what I thought based off of the wording, but that's a kind of new thing? Usually it's the top right corner no matter what you paid.
3 is better for the idea I have.
How about for you? Can you run a card if only one of the two costs is 2/3/7?
This one is a nod to the original Dragon Engine with the 1/3 stats and the expensive firebreathing ability. In the story they are now found in flying versions.
You can always trust your pal Velrun... bla bla bla
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/card-preview/the-tokens-of-the-brothers-war
https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/card-preview/the-tokens-of-the-brothers-war
Thanks Velrun, but you’re burying the lead!
Is Teferi dead? Or is he just astral projecting himself into the past...
This is used in the commander card Farid, Enterprising Salvager, and I like it from both a mechanical and flavour perspective. Farid is not so useful in a standard 1-vs-1 cube, but the both red and black have a history of recycling artifacts, and the opportunity to have tokens that are nothing more than a resource. I want to build metalwork colossus (in a cave. With a box) of scrap.
Is Teferi dead? Or is he just astral projecting himself into the past...
This is used in the commander card Farid, Enterprising Salvager, and I like it from both a mechanical and flavour perspective. Farid is not so useful in a standard 1-vs-1 cube, but the both red and black have a history of recycling artifacts, and the opportunity to have tokens that are nothing more than a resource. I want to build metalwork colossus (in a cave. With a box) of scrap.
I'm going to imagine he's dead because that brings me great pleasure.
Traveled up to the Bay Area to visit some friends and see one of my favorite bands play a gig, stopped by for pre-release at the old CFB game shop. Went 2-0-1 at the FNM prerelease and split the final round for prize packs while playing for fun (won 2-1). I opened a very solid pool that was headlined with 5 rares and mythics in B/W and gave me enough playables in those two colors to make it work. Pretty much pointed me in the direction I'd have to go and I went with it. Took a little time assembling the final 40, wasn't quite sure how to evaluate the speed of this format, but this sealed was slow and grindy enough to let me get there with some clever sequencing letting me win G3 in each round:
This deck was all about grinding value and sequencing my ways into setting up decent board-states to stall time until I could draw into my big bombs. All-Star of the night was Razorlash Transmogrant being able to recur and come back later in the game once I made some trades and/or put myself in a position from where I could chip in for 6+ damage and put the opponent on the backfoot. Being able to recur it at instant speed was so huge as this prerelease had many times where both sides would exhaust resources and spend some time late in the game playing some draw-go. It's a card I had on my maybe list for includes, but realizing how recursion at
in my cube wouldn't be a pipe dream AND the fact that it's a zombie for Gravecrawler makes this one that I'm definitely trying out. Traded for a prerelease copy from my friend and looking forward to seeing it in action.
When my two mythics in Phyrexian Fleshgorger and Platoon Dispenser were allowed to stick around they did work, but they were most often kill on sight (except Gorger, which I sometimes just didn't deploy until my opponent had already used up removal and was in danger range off a Ward 7 damage). However, I did manage some games where I was able to leverage pressure from other creatures (like Trench Stalker or the Razorlash) to force removal and then deploy them to stabilize. Gorger is a dumb card to face down, but usually just got to trade for multiple bodies and pad my life total. Dispenser is one that I had underrated heavily but it plays very well as that 4/6 body is awkward to deal with on board and the passive card draw becomes massive if left unchecked. It was easier than expected to get it going with how stalled some games can get. Unearth can lead to big swings for stabilization as well. I won a game that went to turns on the final turn because I was able to sink enough mana into making enough 1/1s to go wide enough to swing for lethal. All the while drawing a card each of my end steps.
Unearth gave my deck a LOT of play by allowing me to string together boardstates that could hold the fort until I could deploy something more relevant. It also led to some sweet sequences late game where I could Unearth a guy and then use Fateful Handoff to value off by drawing 4 cards off a Scrapwork Rager or Scrapwork Cohort before they got exiled. Another card that surprised me in this set was Union of the Third Path which would often gain me 4-6 life and allow me to stabilize and give me more time to draw into relevant cards. It was so good that I went up to the 2nd copy after my first game in round 1 and it came up huge when I went up against a R/W deck with the Unearth Juggernaut. I just traded on each actual exchange and then used Union to get me back up to a healthy life total with a full grip in hand. Star and Bauble also helped me with triggering the Stalker for big 4 point lifegain swings and also allowed me to smooth out my draws all throughout the night. I'm real curious to see the effect that these retro and schematic artifacts have in this set. In the 2nd round I faced a U/W deck that had Teferi and a Psychosis Crawler and that was definitely not something I thought I'd have to navigate through (tough, but barely pulled it out).
Had a lot of fun with this set, looking forward to drafting it after not touching Limited since Kamigawa. Aside from the few times I was flooded for a while, it felt like I had a ton of different actions I could take to advance on any given turn whether it was curving out, Unearthing creatures, or just firing off a Union to get closer to a bomb.
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This deck was all about grinding value and sequencing my ways into setting up decent board-states to stall time until I could draw into my big bombs. All-Star of the night was Razorlash Transmogrant being able to recur and come back later in the game once I made some trades and/or put myself in a position from where I could chip in for 6+ damage and put the opponent on the backfoot. Being able to recur it at instant speed was so huge as this prerelease had many times where both sides would exhaust resources and spend some time late in the game playing some draw-go. It's a card I had on my maybe list for includes, but realizing how recursion at
in my cube wouldn't be a pipe dream AND the fact that it's a zombie for Gravecrawler makes this one that I'm definitely trying out. Traded for a prerelease copy from my friend and looking forward to seeing it in action.When my two mythics in Phyrexian Fleshgorger and Platoon Dispenser were allowed to stick around they did work, but they were most often kill on sight (except Gorger, which I sometimes just didn't deploy until my opponent had already used up removal and was in danger range off a Ward 7 damage). However, I did manage some games where I was able to leverage pressure from other creatures (like Trench Stalker or the Razorlash) to force removal and then deploy them to stabilize. Gorger is a dumb card to face down, but usually just got to trade for multiple bodies and pad my life total. Dispenser is one that I had underrated heavily but it plays very well as that 4/6 body is awkward to deal with on board and the passive card draw becomes massive if left unchecked. It was easier than expected to get it going with how stalled some games can get. Unearth can lead to big swings for stabilization as well. I won a game that went to turns on the final turn because I was able to sink enough mana into making enough 1/1s to go wide enough to swing for lethal. All the while drawing a card each of my end steps.
Unearth gave my deck a LOT of play by allowing me to string together boardstates that could hold the fort until I could deploy something more relevant. It also led to some sweet sequences late game where I could Unearth a guy and then use Fateful Handoff to value off by drawing 4 cards off a Scrapwork Rager or Scrapwork Cohort before they got exiled. Another card that surprised me in this set was Union of the Third Path which would often gain me 4-6 life and allow me to stabilize and give me more time to draw into relevant cards. It was so good that I went up to the 2nd copy after my first game in round 1 and it came up huge when I went up against a R/W deck with the Unearth Juggernaut. I just traded on each actual exchange and then used Union to get me back up to a healthy life total with a full grip in hand. Star and Bauble also helped me with triggering the Stalker for big 4 point lifegain swings and also allowed me to smooth out my draws all throughout the night. I'm real curious to see the effect that these retro and schematic artifacts have in this set. In the 2nd round I faced a U/W deck that had Teferi and a Psychosis Crawler and that was definitely not something I thought I'd have to navigate through (tough, but barely pulled it out).
Had a lot of fun with this set, looking forward to drafting it after not touching Limited since Kamigawa. Aside from the few times I was flooded for a while, it felt like I had a ton of different actions I could take to advance on any given turn whether it was curving out, Unearthing creatures, or just firing off a Union to get closer to a bomb.
10/10 deckBW Draw a Bomb
He's using the Temporal Anchor to project himself into the past.
I gotta say, I love prototype in drafting on aren. You always feel well set wenn your 6-drop is also a good 2-drop or your 4-drop can be cast for seven. BUT I can't seem to get this mechanic into my cube. Most of these are too generic to kick out something. Also, I am still doubtful if this mechanic will feel as smooth in paper gameplay, where you always have to just tell how big the guy is.
Is it that hard? Just use two coins or something like that to hide the upper right mana cost and the lower right p/t.
Do not use the same items to denote +1/+1 or something else
The more I think about that big ass lifelinking wurm, the less I want him in my cube. We've seen a frustrating # of times where incidental lifegain just makes things insurmountable and it's a non-game.
This guy (as 7/7) isn't really "incidental". Was planning on swapping my last V.Nighthawk type card for this guy (such upside!) but really second-guessing that now. Don't think I want him in mine at all and Wurmcoil is probably also on the chopping block soon!
This guy (as 7/7) isn't really "incidental". Was planning on swapping my last V.Nighthawk type card for this guy (such upside!) but really second-guessing that now. Don't think I want him in mine at all and Wurmcoil is probably also on the chopping block soon!
Phyrexian Fleshgorger is basically just a fixed Wurmcoil Engine, so I can definitely see it being a little too good if we're talking about a Cube that is a bit on the lower power side of things.
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I'm on the fence about "fixed", definitely less vulnerable to Path to Exile. More vulnerable to Wrath of God.
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To my astonishment, I won our local prerelease (that got postponed by a week), going 4-0-1!
I saw a few bombs, but my removal suite was very good and able to deal with most threats. The solid curve did the rest. Prototype played really, really well, but I also had a moment where I cast the Clearcutter for 6, and my opponent missed that and thought I had prototyped it. I don't think that I want to add them to my cube, simply because of the confusion factor.
Sideboard Rares:
Yes. I showed infinite restraint, not playing all those super cool greedy cards in my sideboard XD
Edit: Another thing that I noticed that several people were trying to cast nonartifact spells off of Powerstones. Not entirely grokkable it seems, that token.
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I saw a few bombs, but my removal suite was very good and able to deal with most threats. The solid curve did the rest. Prototype played really, really well, but I also had a moment where I cast the Clearcutter for 6, and my opponent missed that and thought I had prototyped it. I don't think that I want to add them to my cube, simply because of the confusion factor.
Sideboard Rares:
Yes. I showed infinite restraint, not playing all those super cool greedy cards in my sideboard XD
Edit: Another thing that I noticed that several people were trying to cast nonartifact spells off of Powerstones. Not entirely grokkable it seems, that token.
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