Onderzeeboot
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That’s the old Doctor Who
Sets (MoM) April of the Machines Previews
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Am I too late?
Chris Taylor
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That thing has 270 hp
My favorite team-up is Mega Lopunny & Jigglypuff.
MaRo Teaser? MaRo Teaser.
A couple notes:
MaRo said:
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A little obvious but great to see, especially since we just had "50 Shades of Phyrexians: The Set!"Maro said:
The other is probably Knights. One of the Commander Decks is literally called "Cavalry Charge"Maro said:
Wrenn is probably partnering with either the Kaldheim World Tree or the Phyrexian Invasion Tree. The latter seems more likely, given today's story.Maro said:
This is probably related to battles.Maro said:
U/B SwordMaro said:
Looks like Gods may play a bigger role in this set than we had initially anticipated. I think the Theros-y nature of this text excludes Yawgmoth's Return as a Phyrexian God, but maybe we will see a god team-up. I would love to see Kruphix and Hazoret, although some other combination seems more likely.Maro said:
Cool, maybe a Werewolf token?Maro said:
Kroxa and Kunoros.Maro said:
Kogla and Yidaro.Maro said:
This is probably Borborygmos and Fblthp, although it could theoretically be Zndrsplt and Okaun. I think the former is more likely because these team-ups are supposed to be "unlikely pairs," but Zndrsplt and Okaun are already partners.Maro said:
I just hope this isn't Siege Rhino.Maro said:
Chris Taylor
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Oh no, what if I have to care about the difference between Blade Splicer golems and Precursor Golem tokens?
As a thank you for doing this teaser presentation you also have my hope that it isn’t your favorite pet, for your sake.
Custom cards are a fantastic answer to this problem.
Wait, they changed them so they are no more the same? This seems really strange since in the original block they were the same token, and I thought they decided to not do "mechanical erratas" anymore
Creature-type updates have been happening since Lorwyn block. They decided that every time they make a new creature type, they're going to add the new type to every pre-existing creature that is obviously that type. This is why Imposing Sovereign, Falkenrath Aristocrat, Brago, King Eternal are now Nobles while Electryte is a Trilobite.
Because Phyrexian was made a Creature Type in Kaldheim, almost 250 cards and tokens were updated to become Phyrexians. Turns out, that had implications for sets where there are both Phyrexian flavored and non-Phyrexian flavored versions of the "same" token.
Two notes
1. It is not super obvious that they are not the same tokens. It doesn’t say on the card and one was errata’ed to get closer to Phyrexia.
2. Now it suddenly makes sense why they decided that Kaldheim was the set that should give the Phyrexians their official creature type. The start of the current Phyrexia storyline.
1. It is not super obvious that they are not the same tokens. It doesn’t say on the card and one was errata’ed to get closer to Phyrexia.
2. Now it suddenly makes sense why they decided that Kaldheim was the set that should give the Phyrexians their official creature type. The start of the current Phyrexia storyline.
Onderzeeboot
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Yeah, it's the set with the first Phyrexian in that storyline (Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider).
Well, it's when Phyrexia showed up in the current storyline. I think the story actually started when Elspeth Conquered Death back in Theros: Beyond Death.
Fun fact: Sheoldred was originally going to be the big villain of Throne of Eldraine instead of Oko, but they decided to push back the first Phyrexian showing up a little bit because War of the Spark had just happened.
Yes exactly what I said boys
“The start of the current Phyrexia storyline”
You probably remember all the talk there were about why Phyrexia as a creature type was suddenly errata’ed on all old Magic cards in Kaldheim of all sets. Now we know why. Because this is where the current storyline began with Vorinclex.
“The start of the current Phyrexia storyline”
You probably remember all the talk there were about why Phyrexia as a creature type was suddenly errata’ed on all old Magic cards in Kaldheim of all sets. Now we know why. Because this is where the current storyline began with Vorinclex.
This is nothing new. I remember that people used to joke that the Magic writing team couldn't visit a plane without hitting it with an apocalypse or some other major world-shattering event, with some planes getting two or more. I think Arcavios and Eldraine are the only planes we've visited so far that didn't end up with everything changing forever, if you don't count "non-story" planes like Shandalar or Valor's Reach, and I think that has a lot to do with the kinds of stories they wanted to tell with the Wonder Twins (which were definitely more personal/YA-novel-y in nature).
Multiverse-level apocalypses are new though.
Mommy? Sorry. Mommy? Sorry.
Onderzeeboot
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It's not that every plane is always undergoing an apocalypse all of the time, it's just that WotC chooses to visit those planes that are currently undergoing one
Create a 1/1 white Mommy's Little Boy creature token with lifelink
Mommy? Sorry. Mommy? Sorry.
I think this is how they handle effects like that in sets without keyword counters. Kenku Artificer comes to mind as an example of this being done in the past.
Looking at Kenku, I think it's because both cards are defining the card as something else (Angel, Homunculus) so they add the flying to that.
I was sort of under the impression that ability counters were evergreen now, but maybe I notice them disproportionately because I'm not a fan of them.
I think it's especially bad when you're going to have different variations of the same object that all need to be interpreted differently. Like if you have a Luminarch Aspirant out that puts counters on a creature alongside this new Elspeth you could have a board with a normal token off the +1, a token with counters that can fly, and another token with counters that CANNOT fly. Oh and they all have lifelink. This is very different to me than something like the Figure of Destiny variants we get where they are unique cards that gain abilities and keep them.
Memory issues bother me, but I also really dislike keyword counters in paper Magic so it's mostly a wash for this card I suppose. It won't be replacing Elspeth Knight-Errant for me anytime soon; cleanly templated cards that are simple for players to utilize but retain depth are invaluable in cube design.