What does emerge do?
Sets [EMN] Eldritch Moon Spoilers Thread
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Thing is, it's both in one. Two for one deals always increase the value of a thing. It may not do any one thing particularly "well", but it can do multiple things.
This particular combination also keeps the spell relevant throughout the game: Remand effect early, unsummon later. Generally speaking, no one bounce or conditional counter can say this.
Also shout out to #elegance. I think I will cube this spell for a long time to come. Any one spell that can fill multiple roles with so few words, freeing up my design space a little = awesome
Would you pick that card over Remand? I wouldnt. Would you pick that over Into the Roil ? I wouldn't.
Probably not, but now I have a nicely redundant effect that is more flexible than either, and I don't need to devote two more slots to, say, vapor snag and memory lapse to get that redundany, I've got it in one.
In the UR decks in my cube, you want to be getting blockers out the way, setting your opponent behind, triggering prowess, and developing your board. I think I would take this new thingy over Into the Roil. The flexibility is awesome, and mana's tight enough that I wouldn't want to kick it all that often anyway.
Woooah awesome small natural order for every color, and not as busted? Sign me up!
Grillo_Parlante
Contributor
unsubstantiate is great. Its a tempo card that lets you push an assault on whatever angle it needs to be pushed on: remove a blocker for a turn, hold back a critical spell, or force the opponent to delay their deployment by wasting mana regardless of what they do.
This isn't even really a utility card: it fills a unique niche and it does so im a very efficient manner. It feels much more like a blue lightning bolt than the modal cards we've seen lately.
This isn't even really a utility card: it fills a unique niche and it does so im a very efficient manner. It feels much more like a blue lightning bolt than the modal cards we've seen lately.
Kinda wish it was +3,
Woooah awesome small natural order for every color, and not as busted? Sign me up!
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Never mind that super cool Birthing Pod++ one shot, they're printing a proper replacement for the only shadow creature everyone here is running!
Eldritch Evolution I think might suffer the same fate as "fair tinker". You are 2 for 1'ing yourself. In order for that to be worth it, you have to get something really valuable. Is +2 CMC creature tutor worth the price of admission? Maybe and maybe not.
Tinkering into Steel Hellkite wasn't quite good enough most of the time in my meta, so I don't see how this card will be playable in moderately powerful cubes, but I'll be happy if I'm proven wrong because I love Natural Order. ETB, undying, etc all would combo with it much like Pod, but single use is why I don't think you can compare this card to Pod. IMO, the true power of Pod is about setting up chains and you lose that with evolution.
Wharf seems really good. I think I still prefer the simplicity of Looter Il-kor though. That said, I might try and run both if I find room.
Tinkering into Steel Hellkite wasn't quite good enough most of the time in my meta, so I don't see how this card will be playable in moderately powerful cubes, but I'll be happy if I'm proven wrong because I love Natural Order. ETB, undying, etc all would combo with it much like Pod, but single use is why I don't think you can compare this card to Pod. IMO, the true power of Pod is about setting up chains and you lose that with evolution.
Wharf seems really good. I think I still prefer the simplicity of Looter Il-kor though. That said, I might try and run both if I find room.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
I would not have mind a straight up hommage with skulk replacing shadow, no frills attached. I'll take the extra ability though, it's nice gravy
NICE! Jeskai Elder was cool and all but never quiiiite cut it.
Honestly the ability to turn dead faties in your hand into gas looks INSANE to me. Only got 3 lands and a hand full of four and five drops? Not a problem! Army of horrors.
Eternal Scourge
You may cast ~ from exile.
When ~ becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, exile it.
Meh.
GUNDAM WOLF ahahaha what am I looking at?
Scary with turn 1 elf/bird
I think it's closer to order because it's much more flexible. "X+2 or less" is way different than "X +1 exactly." Clearly downgrading/staying at the same CMC won't be the typical play, but it can be the right one.
I'm kinda down on the wharf- any saboteur that can't attack into a 1/1 token is pretty miserable imo. It turns into this weird minigame of "do I trade my elf or let them loot?" but since the 3/2 ability is pretty powerful you probably just always block.
WEREWOLF IN POWERARMOR!?
Neat enabler- instant certainly helps.
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Chris Taylor
Contributor
Certainly better in our cubes with the relative abundance of fetches. People who tried corpse churn: how bad was it?
Isn't this the monocolor grisly salvage we've been looking for? And forget Corpse Churn, right now I'm torn over
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They've both got upsides, and I am very torn
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They've both got upsides, and I am very torn
Grapple seems more interesting to me, but I don't know what your green section needs. Life gain with card-parity is super useful.