General [MSH] Marvel Super Heroes

[ravnic]

They tricked me. I was going to skip this set as I really dislike Marvel. But they promised white prowess and I got too excited. And now the only cheap white prowess creature is this:



Strictly worse Seeker of the Way! Just give it any minor upside like etb scry 2 or something and I could've gotten over the art and flavor here.

But hey, they fulfilled a very specific desire for my CCC, a hybrid prowess guy:



Oh, wow, thanks, this SUCKS. Not only is it bad, it also signals equipment more than spellslinging and it is called PATRIOT. I'm not an us-american and far too left to be comfortable playing a card called Patriot that actually refers to a real world nation that is currently embracing FACISM. (Not all of you, I know.)

Fuck Marvel and of course
FUCK TRUMP
I'm out

 

[alvoi]

Fuck Marvel and of course
FUCK TRUMP
I'm out

My main feeling this spoiler season

 

[Mown]

this also draws cards off of asinine things like equipping creatures

He actually only draws off those asinine things, he doesn't trigger off spells.

 

[StrionicAdventurer]

This one gave me a sensible chuckle.

 

[The_Steve_Man]

Iron Man Armor is sweet alongside the many Karnstructs I run. Giving a creature +2/+1 and flying for 3 is not so far off from totally-reasonable-Cube-card Maul of the Skyclaves, but that's the worst case scenario here given you have any board, and I'm not devastated about getting in for a chunk of damage. The true floor here is that it does literally nothing because you have no board, but I don't imagine this card will be in that scenario all that often, and if it is, I imagine it's because you have a ton of dudes and are happy running a worse second copy of Nettlecyst to benefit from your trinkets. I like how many decks will be happy with this, I'm very in.

I wouldn't call Iron Man Armor a "worse second copy of Nettlecyst" considering it has / grants flying. Card is much better than Nettlecyst overall IMO since this is generally a better Maul of the Skyclaves that just so happens to have a flying Nettlecyst mode. IMO the best card in the main set by quite a bit. I think it's best equipment not named Skullclamp in a high powered vintage cube.

 

[MilesOfficial]

I'm calling it a "worse Nettlecyst" in the context where you don't have a board. I think it's much better in the average deck since it doesn't require you to have the artifact deck to be sweet, and it's about even-to-better in the artifact deck, which tends to not have too many creatures but also is less annoyed at having to pay 2 every time you want to attack or block with it.

But yeah, it's super sweet. It's one of the three cards I currently have as "High" confidence on my spoiler season swaps Google sheet:




So yeah, folks, here are my favorite cards of Marvel / Marvel Jumpstart / the first of four Commander decks (and with none of the scene cards, which I've been pretty hot on lately):

Super Super Heroes


"Worthy" Heroes and Villains


West Coast and Great Lakes Avengers Tier


My watchlist:


Too Good for my Cube

 

[Zoss]

Sweet shitting crap on a cracker there are 569 cards in this set & associated products that aren't reprints. That's so many cards.

Ultimate Alliance seems to be flying under the radar as a really okay W removal spell without precedent.


Speaking of fliers! There seem to be rather a lot of them. A wise(ass) person once said that

[Velomachus Lorehold; here, any sufficiently bulky flier] suffers from what I call Swole Lad Syndrome in that the 5/5 flying haste body is often far more relevant than anything else he brings to the table.

and I wonder if that problem is going to show up in spades in this format, where many games devolve to, well, super hero fights in the sky being the deciding factor. A quick scryfall search suggests that 1 in 6 cards in the format refer to flying in some capacity, which might mean that flying just isn't so super anymore??



Incidentally, Aerial Doombot is actually a really neat Flying Man.