General (SNC) Streets of New Capenna Previews
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If you want to cast the card, you have to do it immediately. It’s a timing restriction.
What a weird card. What a weird, weird card.
This is terrible. Like realistically this is usually going to get a 3 drop saccing a 2 color creature, rarely a 4 drop saccing a tri-color creature. This is mostly a brick unless you've somehow assembled 5 color stuff and even then how many silver bullet type cards do you have for this? Worst of all I've got to then PAY for that exiled card after the fact. So I'm basically doing a shitty Birthing Pod with more restrictions, paying more mana overall, AND opening up more possible points of interaction.
If this isn't an 8 cent rare I'll be shocked.
The creature you get is color count restricted, not mana restricted. So it could be a 10 drop from a 2 drop. Still have to pay for it, so yeah not great, but
The fact that it's color and not cost is why you have to pay. Otherwise you could slap out turn 4 or less Inkwell Leviathans or Worldspine Wurms off of a random eldrazi spawn or something (0 -> 1 color)
The fact that it's color and not cost is why you have to pay. Otherwise you could slap out turn 4 or less Inkwell Leviathans or Worldspine Wurms off of a random eldrazi spawn or something (0 -> 1 color)
Evolving Door does fit in a green artifact deck, as most cube creatures you will want to get are monocoloured, and it is an artifact itself.
I still think it’s pretty bad, though
I still think it’s pretty bad, though
Mmm, I think comparing it to Pod is the wrong way to go about this. Instead, think of it as a Worldly Tutor once a turn every turn if you can set up a way to get free tokens, which isn't an impossible ask. That seems pretty good to me.
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The creature you get is color count restricted, not mana restricted. So it could be a 10 drop from a 2 drop. Still have to pay for it, so yeah not great, but
The fact that it's color and not cost is why you have to pay. Otherwise you could slap out turn 4 or less Inkwell Leviathans or Worldspine Wurms off of a random eldrazi spawn or something (0 -> 1 color)
Wait, you're right. I misread it completely. I still don't think it's great because that's a strange condition but I guess it's not the worst. More cute than good. Having to still pay for the initial creature, 1 to sac, and then pay again to actually cast the new creature makes this a mostly crappy tutor with extra steps.
I mean, a card is just a card. The color of the symbol has no impact on gameplay. Rarity is just some thing contrived to sell packs. It has some relevance in the context of retail limited or defining format legality for something like Pauper, but outside of that it's pretty irrelevant.
i don’t even put set symbols on my customs and proxies anymore, so none of them even HAVE rarities
It’s the “once per turn” that kills it for me.
Pyromancer of the Flaming Mallet -
Creature - Viashino Shaman
, : Pyromancer of the Flaming Mallet deals X damage to any target, where X is the number of permanents you've sacrificed this turn.2/2
Why are we wasting our time discussing the clearly inferior sacrifice payoff when we have this guy?
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these feesh are so cool
Broadly speaking I agree with what you're saying here. Rarity is supposedly meant to have something to do with card complexity, but that has gotten somewhat muddled in recent years as complexity has increased across the board. Likewise, the focus of low-rarity cards has shifted from being simple for new players to be almost entirely focused on limited balance.
I don't think rarity is meaningless but I think what should or should not be considered a certain rarity depends on what the card "feels" like it should be.
What a weird card. What a weird, weird card.
Uh. Gang? What the heck?
As my guess is that this is going to do stone-cold nothing without a Planeswalker, the question is how many you'd need to make this a reasonable candidate. I'd guess four to make this card not dead and maybe seven before it gets good? I don't think it's worth it unless you want a superfriends control deck, bit it sure is wild.
True but it is defintely important in drafting and other limited formats.
Tell me how you really feel.