Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
It's a mana cheaper, and I run a cube with a focus on three-color shards. White is paired with black and red. This is a great signaling tool, a great reward for going Mardu, and still playable in non-Mardu white decks.
Sets [IKO] Ikoria: Lair of Behemoths
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It's a mana cheaper, and I run a cube with a focus on three-color shards. White is paired with black and red. This is a great signaling tool, a great reward for going Mardu, and still playable in non-Mardu white decks.
Really liking the cards that don't mention "mutate" anywhere in the rules text!
Can't wait to give a pinger deathtouch with call of the death-dweller. Very cool artwork on that one, too.
Can't wait to give a pinger deathtouch with call of the death-dweller. Very cool artwork on that one, too.
It looks like there is a Naturalize with cycling for two generic mana.
Should be same cost, same text and still instant.
Should be same cost, same text and still instant.
That's why I was withholding my (final) judgment
Take a guess now. Live a little
I think mutate will be a succes in limited but almost useless for most Riptide cubes because it is semi-parasitic. I am now on 7/10
This card is very strong. Yes, I think I will sacrifice my Gravecrawler to grab a Dark Confidant out of my deck on t3. Or perhaps I'll wait until turn 4 to grab an Ophiomancer variant for infinite fuel for this. In addition, it helps set up creature based combos for things like the Persist deck. This thing grows based on the number of creature cards in your graveyard, so it could also just serve as a 5/5 for two sometimes.
Basically, it looks like Dredge got a new toy.
Cancel with cycling. I think there may be a place for this in my list, but I'm not sure yet. I really like my Dissolve variants, but that doesn't quite mean that this will play similarly or better. You only get to look at more cards with this if you cycle, so it is just cancel when you use it as a counter spell. The jury is out on this one.
Holy shit, this is the perfect BW Humans card. 3/3 on curve, pumps the board, serves as incidental graveyard hate when necessary, AND it has a weird removal mode. Pumping up Champion of the Parish by two, sacking Bloodsoaked Champion and another piece of fodder to shoot down big boys, and giving me an anthem on a body. Good thing this is a 3/3 and not a 3/4, it's already pretty absurd as is. This is the first slam dunk for me.
Yeah I'm really loving the return to the innstrad theme of humans Vs monsters!
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
I just cut the Humans tribe from
, dammit!Edit: Oh, I just noticed the
2-drop only makes human legendaries indestructible. Well, that makes it slightly less useful then, though it's still well-statted, incidental graveyard hate, and I do run a number of human legendaries in those colors still. It's kinda cool with Braids Alright check this out:
Valiant Rescuer is a strange mix of Shepherd of the Flock and Drake Haven. Don't let the fact that this guy can only make tokens off of true cycling triggers dissuade you- it's still a Blade of the Sixth Pride with Cycling. Although I wish this card had the cleaner "Whenever you cycle or discard a card" templating, it doesn't necessarily ruin the card for me- it's very good.
Plus, Ikoria has a much higher power level than any previous set with cycling, there's already at least 4 or 5 cubable options from this set. We might just have the perfect density to make the cycle-specific cards work after the set releases. They've already previewed 18 new cyclers and at least 4 (including this) can make it, not counting the "sideboard cards."
Valiant Rescuer is a strange mix of Shepherd of the Flock and Drake Haven. Don't let the fact that this guy can only make tokens off of true cycling triggers dissuade you- it's still a Blade of the Sixth Pride with Cycling. Although I wish this card had the cleaner "Whenever you cycle or discard a card" templating, it doesn't necessarily ruin the card for me- it's very good.
Plus, Ikoria has a much higher power level than any previous set with cycling, there's already at least 4 or 5 cubable options from this set. We might just have the perfect density to make the cycle-specific cards work after the set releases. They've already previewed 18 new cyclers and at least 4 (including this) can make it, not counting the "sideboard cards."
Or the even cleaner “Whenever you discard a card.” templating
Very sexy spoilers! Can't express my joy!
Now I'm going to drink lots of beer.
Srsly freaking HOT spoilers!
Now I'm going to drink lots of beer.
Srsly freaking HOT spoilers!
That red Mythos ist also AMAZING
I ain't missing out on rules clarifications and
(I know that's a lot of rules baggage, but my players love Grusilda, Monster Masher so we'll probably be fine)
And yes all of these keyword token cards are probably going straight into any cube I make.
Sharknado.
This card is very good and I shouldn't have to explain why.
Just like the movie.
Mythos of Brokkos
2GG
Sorcery
If UB was used to cast this spell, search your library for a card and put it into your graveyard, then shuffle your library.
Return up to two permanent cards from your graveyard to your hand.
Anyone here like Gifts Ungiven? Significantly different, really, but it's giving me some Gifts vibes. Brokkos, welcome to The Black Cube.
Dom Harvey
Contributor
I've been building entire red sections around Faithless Looting and friends for the past year and this is completely unbelievable with all of those. Or how about:
I'm a bit sad how many cards already got strictly outclassed in this spoiler season:
And while those are all spells, the creatures shout "power creep" even louder at me.
You see, I would agree with you (and I actually do agree with you about the creatures), but almost all of these cards have been outclassed by previous cards. Like, Smelt is a mana cheaper than shatter, Bident of Thassa was a strictly better Costal Piracy back in 2013, Circuitous Route is Explosive Vegetation that lets you get dual lands, the list just kind of goes on and on.
These classic cards have been outclassed for years, and were not being played in constructed because they just didn't do enough to justify a slot. Now that WOTC is pushing best of one matches on Arena, people need mainboardable removal for niche cards. Naturalize is a good rate for killing artifacts, but it's not useful in every matchup. Cycling can help reduce the risk involved in playing a narrow card in the mainboard. However, and expensive card like Break Asunder wouldn't cut it today, as it's too slow and clunky. Making a cycling naturalize is the simplest answer to a complex problem.
Pyrohemia? No, no, we're gonna go a little bigger.