Do it.
If I remember correctly, you regularly cube with newbies. I've seen many beginners say 'I play a morph' with a smirky face. They love the mystery. And so do I.
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Do it.
If I remember correctly, you regularly cube with newbies. I've seen many beginners say 'I play a morph' with a smirky face. They love the mystery. And so do I.
Chris Taylor
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I mean, I was there back in the day, blocking a battering craghorn thinking it was a skirk commando
Both commons in the same set!
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Both commons in the same set!
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That's an example why morphs are fun and could be not fun at the same time. It becomes a gamble, which could lead to feels bad moments. (Humans are notoriously bad at handling odds and their outcomes).
I'm not the biggest fan in the world of ETB tapped lands, but I'd prefer the surveil to the cycling of the Amonkhet duals or the Tango half-cycle. Will probably test out the Dimir and Golgari ones at the very least!
Basic Lands! Looks like one from each guild. I'm a big fan of the Selesnya Plains, the Golgari Swamp, and the Selesnya (?) Forest. Actually, it seems like Orzhov doesn't get a basic land, and Selesnya gets two, so maybe I'm confusing the top Plains.
The Affinity for Planeswalkers is just cute flavor text (he loves Ral!) and the bottom paragraph is written in a needlessly complex way for 1v1 Magic. And yet, I'm intrigued. This signals a defensive BW deck that essentially forces your opponents into single combat, giving you opportunities to out grind them down. A 2/4 flyer with vigilance is under-rate but not wholly embarrassing, and it thankfully avoids Bolts.
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This randomly hits some nice notes for me. Sacrificing artifacts, producing tokens, loading on +1/+1 counters and the tap ability (Jeskai Ascendancy + Paradox Engine).
The floor is also really good and in case of a board stall it can sit back and grow past blockers.
This made me think of Ravnic's request in another thread for a Red token payoff. It's Boros but so perfect. I will be playing this in my MP cube for sure.
How are we feeling about Disguise? I'm happy to see another morph variant, although it's kind of a shame that these won't play well with old morph cards because you'll have to specify that it's a disguise creature and not a morph creature, so you can't really have one pretending to be another. I could also see ward on a facedown card being kind of a gotcha for players who aren't familiar with it, seems easy to forget about and walk right into.
There's also "cloak" which is more like manifest I guess? I find this thing they've been doing with this set and LCI where there's two similar but slightly different mechanics in the same set to be pretty odd.
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Whaat this is sick ! I honestly like the prospect of dual lands with surveil. RIP all my temples
Chris Taylor
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If you keep the curve of your cube super low, prepare for this to just have hexproof some of the time
There is also the moose, who despite being a dfc has less text overall then a lot of one sided cards.
This card is a lot more blockable, but also trades up into sheoldred/siege rhino, etc. Interesting option
have we learned nothing from up the beanstalk
This templating annoys me so much. I'm assuming this is from the main set and not even a commander set? If the wording has to be like this for it to work in multiplayer, they need to redesign the card rather than print this. "Whenever an opponent attacks with creatures, ..." is nonsense in a game where the only things you can attack with are creatures.
I don't mind this so much, they had manifest co-existing with morph and megamorph in Khans block and it worked fine. They might also limit cloaking to creatures with disguise to avoid the slightly awkward rules of flipping manifests for their mana cost.
I find the flavour of "collect evidence" on a beast very funny. Gotta build an air-tight case against this guy, his lawyers are top notch.
Chris Taylor
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What is it with elephants and great little art puns
this is excellent
This is a perfect example of a card that would theoretically be far simpler if they reused an old keyword:
Sharp-Eyed Rookie -
Creature - Human Detective
Vigilance
Evolve
Whenever ~ evolves, investigate.
2/2
And yet they didn't, probably because then they'd need to put in the reminder text for Evolve (which would be just as wordy...)
This guy probably isn't going into the Capitalism Cube if I ever go back to that kind of design, because dear lord it'd be ridiculous in that context. Even outside of it, this thing is a beast if your format has a bunch of trinket-y artifacts to crack.
This, on the other hand, is a pretty sweet card that seems like it'd have quite a bit of play. It is, however, hilariously power-creeped over something like Zoetic Cavern.
@ravnic
I mean, you could just sharpie out Disguise and replace it with Morph? All of the designs we've seen so far would still function cleanly if they morphed instead of disguising.
Also, hey, we've gotten some examples of the new enchantment type (ignore that it looks a lot like Classes):
That last one is...
Case of the Medusa's Kiss -
Enchantment - Case
When ~ enters the battlefield, destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.
To solve - if three or more creatures have been put into a graveyard from anywhere this turn.
Solved - ~ becomes a 4/4 Medusa creature with deathtouch and lifelink in addition to its other types and abilities.
Color me intrigued... but part of me is a little frustrated that this is another enchantment subtype that we'll probably never see again? And it's a shame, because "enchantment that upgrades if you meet a specific condition" seems like pretty fertile design space...
(Am I still a tiny bit salty that they did so little with the Cartouches? Yes, yes I am.)
That last one is...
Case of the Medusa's Kiss -
Enchantment - Case
When ~ enters the battlefield, destroy target creature that was dealt damage this turn.
To solve - if three or more creatures have been put into a graveyard from anywhere this turn.
Solved - ~ becomes a 4/4 Medusa creature with deathtouch and lifelink in addition to its other types and abilities.
Color me intrigued... but part of me is a little frustrated that this is another enchantment subtype that we'll probably never see again? And it's a shame, because "enchantment that upgrades if you meet a specific condition" seems like pretty fertile design space...
(Am I still a tiny bit salty that they did so little with the Cartouches? Yes, yes I am.)
I might make versions of them that use morph instead if there are enough designs I like. But I would have to make them actual customs with different names so people don't think their thing would be a disguise card they know from retail?
I don't know. This feels, once again, like an anti-cube-policy. Doing such a minor change to mechanic that was already difficult to support in cube. If they at least would've made the change really matter, like making them 2/3s or something, I would've understand it, but Ward 2? If your environment was so powerful that your three-drop dying to removal without generating value was a bad outcome, it was an environment too powerful for morphs anyway. That doesn't change that imo.
Yeah sure. More like it's time to introduce custom designs, old man.
Onderzeeboot
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I would go ahead and replace every instance of morph with disguise instead
Or you know, they could have named it morph and just change the rule that morph has ward 2...I would go ahead and replace every instance of morph with disguise instead
They have changes rules before, which made cards play differently.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
You can make old border customs, but I get it
Real Bitter Triumph vibes for the flavour text on this one.
Detective Experiment One? :0
