Sets (RNA) Ravnica Allegiance Spoilers
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It's a grindy control finisher. It's one of those cards that fits more into a style of deck than a specific archetype.
As long as the board is locked down some how, either due to a board stall or you having blown upp all credible threats; Ill-gotten gains will keep ticking away while villain looks for answers. It'll also undo the race so far! After a little while you might be back at 20 and villain and like 9, so you finish them with one hit from a flyer and then pop the Ill-gotten gains for 4 in the face.
I do think the ill-gotten gains does have an advantage in just more clearly communicating to a player that they can build a pillowforty deck, Palace Siege requires the player to be just slightly more clever.
Seems like a higher power option, even at one more mana (T5, for example, = the turn after Wrath). The second choice of a Disentomb every upkeep is very solid.
I forgot this card existed. I kinda want to try it now. Do you think it's more or less powerful than Whip of Erebos?
Onderzeeboot
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Probably infinitely less troublesome, because team-wide lifelink is a baaaaaad idea in my experience. That said, both sides of this card are very strong. I run Ravos Soultender in my cube, and getting a free Disentomb each turn is very good from experience. I imagine a 4 point life swing each turn is similarly powerful.
I'm very interested in this one. Is there anyone who had a positive experience with it? What kind of deck it was and does Priest require a lot of creatures for work?
I found it to be pretty clunky in testing. There's a Standard deck that plays this and some number of
I'm very interested in this one. Is there anyone who had a positive experience with it? What kind of deck it was and does Priest require a lot of creatures for work?
and then other sacrifice fodder stuff. the mana from Priest of Forgotten Gods goes straight into a Gutterbones trigger - in Cube, this could easily be Gravecrawler or Bloodsoaked Champion recursion. It's cute but I think doesn't do enough (the right?) interesting things to help either sacrifice combo decks or value-sac decks, which is a real bummer but there ya go
"two other creatures" is just a real beating imo