Sets (ONE) Phyrexia: All Will Be One Previews
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I am still cubing Goblin Assault for Sacrifice/Wildfire, but it hasn't been something people want to pick. Maybe I'll try this obvious upgrade, if it doesn't prove too snowbally.
Fingers crossed for a showcase version, but it seems like only cards with the phyrexian creature type get it this time.
Wowzers, even if you target it you can hand a poison counter to an opponent!I see that sneaky "Sphere" subtype on The Mycosynth Gardens! You can't hide that from me, WotC! I wonder if that's going to have any rules meaning, or if it's just a flavor thing?
Ooh, I like it.
These cards look sweet, but I'm actively trying to reduce complexity in my cube and so probably am only interested in The Wanderer 3.0 thus far. Still, I'm hopeful for the rest of the set if this is anything to go by!
Urabrask's Forge also looks cool as someone who has always wanted to make Zektar Shrine Expedition work, but it's a fair bit more complex.
Urabrask's Forge also looks cool as someone who has always wanted to make Zektar Shrine Expedition work, but it's a fair bit more complex.
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Venerated Rotpriest looks great for Heroic subthemes, but I wish it did anything other than give poison counters.
landofMordor
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Hajar, Harbin, Evangel of Synthesis were all in BRO with insanely pushed stat lines at 2 mana. It’s also notable that Blue is getting “3/3”s for 2 mana for the first time with minimal drawback.
and that’s on top of Third Path Iconoclast, Balmor, Raff 2, and other recent 2-drops that are pushed but just don’t meet the 3/3 statline. So I said “renaissance” in the BRO LP set prospective, and that’s what TGT is referencing.
I'm liking the "For mirrodin!" mechanic. I like equipment with bodies and it seems fun to say for mirrodin when you play the cards.
The drawback is that it makes otherwise good cards look silly. Jadelight Ranger cries in a corner.
I dunno if they could have printed something so against my cube design preferences outside an Un-set but they've pulled it off. So much unnecessary complexity, everything wrong with current MTG design with overly wordy cards. Not being able to block as well as zero evasion just makes this real mediocre to me.
The zero evasion I do not mind. The zero this is what white does is irking me more. White does not pay life. Point. Even pherexia white. (White black okay but not single white).
In a vacuum I do not mind but coming from the wreckage of the blue insect I do mind
Onderzeeboot
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They did use a sort of similar perversion of white to show how Phyrexia corrupts everything before.
Dom Harvey
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I would also accept Shitterblossom
Chris Taylor
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And even then, these are white making an opponent lose life based on your creature plays.They did use a sort of similar perversion of white to show how Phyrexia corrupts everything before.
Onderzeeboot
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Actually, Suture Priest makes your opponents lose life based on their creature plays. These both feel like they are playing around in a very similar space to Skrelv's Hive, because all three pair a life loss mode with a life gain mode, albeit in different ways.
Even in your examples white does not pay life… there is a huge difference in making your opponent lose life and using your own life as a resource. Damage causes life loss so making an opponent lose life is not that much of a perversion of white in my bookThey did use a sort of similar perversion of white to show how Phyrexia corrupts everything before.
How about 25 years of history of White life payments?
White isn’t allowed to get life payments very often— the flavor is a little odd most of the time and it could be too powerful as White is the primary color of life gain. However, in sets where it makes sense and abilities where the cost is appropriately balanced, White life payments can and do exist. I feel like Phyrexia is the perfect place for this sort of ability— don’t you?
Team WhiteCanPayLifeBecauseIt'sCoolToSeeNewDepthsToColorsJustLikeWhenWhiteGotReanimatorInStrixhaven:SchoolOfMages'sLoreholdFaction
But Crovax doesn't count from the list above
Like all other planeshifted cards, they were allowed to specifically break the color pie for one set and are not reference points for future color pie evaluations.
But Crovax doesn't count from the list above
Like all other planeshifted cards, they were allowed to specifically break the color pie for one set and are not reference points for future color pie evaluations.Note that Crovax doesn't count because that version of him comes from Planar Chaos. I do think the ability to pay life like this doesn't feel very white, but it's true that it's not unheard of.
Also, Mana Tithe is white to me, so I might just be a hypocrite.
Also, Mana Tithe is white to me, so I might just be a hypocrite.
Onderzeeboot
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I've been waiting for more white counterspells for years. I think the flavor fits so well for the color.