Chris Taylor
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General [STX] Strixhaven Spoilers
- Thread starter Jason Waddell
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Liliana as a wizard professor has broken my mind
Kasmina is a 1UG mythic, so she's probably better than she looks.
Glow up of the century.
I don’t understand the ‘glow up’ comment. Can anyon explain?
The visual cards are not in order of appearence/release and there are several Lilianas that are left out.
Here they all are in order:
Liliana Vess
Liliana of the Veil
Liliana of the Dark Realms
Liliana, Heretical Healer
Liliana, the Last Hope
Liliana, Death’s Majesty
Liliana, Death Wielder
Liliana, Untouched by Death
Liliana, the Necromancer
Liliana, Dreadhorde General
Liliana, Waker of the Dead
Liliana, Death Mage
Professor Onyx
https://scryfall.com/search?as=grid&order=name&q=(type:planeswalker+type:liliana)
The visual cards are not in order of appearence/release and there are several Lilianas that are left out.
Here they all are in order:
Liliana Vess
Liliana of the Veil
Liliana of the Dark Realms
Liliana, Heretical Healer
Liliana, the Last Hope
Liliana, Death’s Majesty
Liliana, Death Wielder
Liliana, Untouched by Death
Liliana, the Necromancer
Liliana, Dreadhorde General
Liliana, Waker of the Dead
Liliana, Death Mage
Professor Onyx
https://scryfall.com/search?as=grid&order=name&q=(type:planeswalker+type:liliana)
Onderzeeboot
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https://voxatl.org/the-art-of-glowi...nce, individual style, overall attractiveness
I think Train was mostly commenting on Liliana's art, specifically her choice of attire, or lack thereof. He could have linked to Steve Argyle's alternate art for Liliana of the Veil (yes, he did paint that himself) and keep Lili of the Veil in first spot.
Magecraft gets me hyped, looks way more interesting than Prowess, especially since my cube doesn't really care about artifacts/enchantments.
Liliana also looks super sickly in those first three cards, whereas Professor Onyx looks like she's eating three meals a day, bathing regularly, getting time to relax, not being tormented by demons, free of ancient cursed artifacts, etc.
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That is some heinous alternate art. Actually, on most of her cards I feel like Lili is drawn horribly. Onyx and Liliana, Waker of the Dead are hopefully an indication that they're moving in a more human direction on her depictions.
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That is some heinous alternate art. Actually, on most of her cards I feel like Lili is drawn horribly. Onyx and Liliana, Waker of the Dead are hopefully an indication that they're moving in a more human direction on her depictions.
Can we get a similar ranking for Gideon?
Onderzeeboot
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Hi Liliana Professor Onyx, have you met...
Onderzeeboot
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Yes. Well, not instant, it's going to take a few copies, but it's a two card combo. I really don't know why they felt the need to include "or copy" there. It makes the mechanic more clunky. But I'm guessing we'll see something like replicate in the set or something.
I actually looked up cards with replicate on scryfall on sunday, because I want to include Stream of Thought to my cube and dislike having keywords only once in it. 
EDIT: which is why I'm really looking forward to the spoilers of this set! might actually get better than I thought.
EDIT: which is why I'm really looking forward to the spoilers of this set! might actually get better than I thought.
Gideon is a little harder since he doesn't change his outfit like... ever. But there is enough to do something with!
Of course, my favorite Planeswalker glow-up (pre-Professor Onyx) is that of the Hero of Dominaria himself: Teferi!
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I changed it! I thought this one wasn't on MythicSpoiler (where I took the images from) anymore, apparently it still is despite them not having a Secret Lair specific page.
I find it interesting that magecraft implies that we'll be copying spells on the regular in that set?
Onderzeeboot
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Hence my guess that we might see something like replicate in the set. That or storm, but the storm scale is named like that for a good reason...
Ah, that's probably because the distinction between casting a spell card from exile vs copying a spell card in exile and casting the copy vs copying a spell in the stack is so confusing that it's easier to say "whenever you do one of those spell casty-things". I wouldn't take it as a sign of incoming replicate or storm.
They don't use that 'or copy' vernacular on the myriad other cards that reference instants or sorceries, so I'm not so sure it's just for rules confusion. It could be a new mechanic that involves copying of a spell in a less direct way than replicate or storm, but see no reason why it can't be replicate. It's at 5 on the storm scale, which implies it's decently open for reuse.
