Sets [OGW] Oath of the Gatewatch Spoiler Thread
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That glare art is ballin'.
Eldrazi Mimic
Whenever a colorless creature ETBs under your control, you may have ~'s base power and toughness become the base power and toughness of that creature until end of turn.
It is consistently inconsistent.
Besides cute flavor text (and being a 2/1 I guess) this just feels less fun than renegade doppelganger.
Eldrazi Mimic
Whenever a colorless creature ETBs under your control, you may have ~'s base power and toughness become the base power and toughness of that creature until end of turn.
It is consistently inconsistent.
Besides cute flavor text (and being a 2/1 I guess) this just feels less fun than renegade doppelganger.
That glare art is ballin'.
Eldrazi Mimic
Whenever a colorless creature ETBs under your control, you may have ~'s base power and toughness become the base power and toughness of that creature until end of turn.
It is consistently inconsistent.
Besides cute flavor text (and being a 2/1 I guess) this just feels less fun than renegade doppelganger.
Rawr.
E-Domain inclusion?
Eldrazi mimic only copying colorless dudes is pretty narrow I think, but renegade can do a lot of fun stuff- first deck I ever brewed (with friends) in magic was a self-milling vengevine/extractor demon deck with the renegade.
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Well I appreciate the 2/1 fail case. Renegade Doppleganger isn't a creature, it's essentially Flameshadow Conjuring, but with a pile of restrictions.
Oh, missed that it can only copy colorless. Whooopsie.
Are we ready for this?
no
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Show of hands, who thought Kill Shot was just one mana too expensive to be considered for your cube?
me. Awesome art aside, I like this card a lot in the context of that "cards better for control", but requires a tad more investment than oust/condemn.
Also something about how clean and simple it is....
I have traditionally been a fan of handful of narrow cards that are good in control or whatever (Condemn for example) to sort of throw a bone for certain decks, but with each set I feel more and more squeezed for space so narrow cards look less and less good to me when I have several viable choices. I love the art on this, just not sure the card itself brings enough of what I need to supplant other options.
The text isn't centered though 
The text isn't centered though
They don't do this often enough- for how much time they have before cards actually get printed this is a bit embarrassing IMO. Serum Visions FNM promo was a huge punt.
Did a bit of reading- apparently 'The Gatewatch" is the multiverse Avengers going forward, and I'm not really sure how I feel about that.
A new card they've likely had backlogged for... ever... so I guess they decided this is as close to "planeswalkers matter" as they're getting, and with it being the advent of their new story device, I agree.
I have a huge soft spot for conditional tutors. That said, as a sorcery, I'm very doubtful that it's cubeable for me at 3 mana, especially since I've also been on the PW purge kick. Maybe I'm getting old and jaded but I feel like so many cards from BFZ and OTG are strictly there as "this is tolerable in standard and the EDH kids will go crazy for it!"
I don't really want a PW tutorial, regardless of cost.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Yeah, Reflector Mage is an awesome design!
Never thought I'd see a bear+unsummon for 3 in standard again, gold or not, and they one-upped it! Awesome card for sure. Linvala is a fine card but a little boring- both of these being ETBs and not cast triggers is great though.
I don't hate this card. I mean it's not amazing but it pleases me.
I don't hate this card. I mean it's not amazing but it pleases me.
Dude she's riding an elemental!
I'm pretty excited for Jori. It's an Edric, Spymaster of Trest for Izzet. Edric I think is the better card - comes online faster, is potentially more broken since it can trigger multiple times. But edric can blank occasionally depending on the board state and sometimes you risk a bad attack because you want (need) the triggers and he dies during combat to a removal spell and the game is just over. Jori is slower but the CA is more guaranteed. And that color combination can play a few different flavors of tempo because of what each brings, making this an interesting card in several builds. Just like surge, I think the two spells a turn trigger is fairly easy to meet too (especially if doing so is drawing you into more gas). Great design even if it's not breaking into the higher power lists. I think it's going to work in mine.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Yeah, Herald of Kozilek has been very underwhelming so far, so I was still looking for a replacement. Looks like this will do fine!
As an aside: is it just me or do the new legends in Commander 2015 just suck. Quite a shame they squandered that opportunity.
As an aside: is it just me or do the new
legends in Commander 2015 just suck. Quite a shame they squandered that opportunity.
Reflector Mage is awesome, I'll definitely give that a go. New Linvala is pretty boring to me, don't think I'll be giving it a run. Beautiful art but it's just a catch-up card. I really wish it were a 5 drop so that I could Bring to Light for it though, that would have been so much fun.
Chris Taylor
Contributor
I think the mark of a good multicolor card is one that I wouldn't run a weaker version of given it was mono-color.
So supreme verdict, no. Just add another wrath.
Sphinx's Rev? Well, it's an improvement on stroke of genius.
This... well it's cool, but is it cool enough to be a better idea than just adding another man o war?
So supreme verdict, no. Just add another wrath.
Sphinx's Rev? Well, it's an improvement on stroke of genius.
This... well it's cool, but is it cool enough to be a better idea than just adding another man o war?