Sets (TDM) Tarkir: Dragonstorm Previews!

[Chris Taylor]

For all the talk of power creep, are they really into making 3/1s for R?
There's some asterisks on it, but a jackal pup with mobilize 1 is about a 3/1 for R

 

[TrainmasterGT]

For all the talk of power creep, are they really into making 3/1s for R?
There's some asterisks on it, but a jackal pup with mobilize 1 is about a 3/1 for R

I have no idea, to be honest. I don't think it would be any better than the Mice abominations that are currently everywhere in Standard, even if it would have a higher floor than Heartfire Hero.

Red just doesn't have a lot of interesting two-power one-drops, which is a bit of a disappointment if you like that statline.

 

[Mown]

I wish the Omens appealed more to me, it would be really cool to be able to use Oath of Nissa and Once Upon A Time to get instants and sorceries for green spell velocity decks. Unfortunately, the dragons just kind of disappoint me, and I'm not really sure what I would like them to be. They would appeal to me a lot more if they were smaller guys with funny effects, but design-wise it makes a lot more sense for them to be something expensive and scary. Big flying lategame beaters just aren't my thing though.



Got revealed a good while ago, and I feel like my blue is getting a bit compromised on just good foundational cards at the cost of neat build arounds, but I do think this is a pretty cool card to convert your cantrips into extra copies of Beast Attack, Inspired Tinkering and other fun things. Kind of wish it was red just because I don't think I have the space for it in blue.

 

[Nanonox]

Not going into my main cube, but this is pretty neat. Grab Bloodghast, Vengevine and Wonder for an aggressive pile. Or Dread Return, Golgari Grave-Troll and Laboratory Maniac for a combo finish. Raven’s Crime, Life from the Loam and Deep Analysis for some grindy value and so on. Fun puzzle to draft around and solve in real time.

 

[LadyMapi]

Is this pushed? It feels kinda pushed.

 

[Nanonox]

Feels quite pushed! Hasty 4/4, double ETBs and wrath protection is nice.

 

[StrionicAdventurer]

Lotuslight Dancers
Mardu Siegebreaker

These two cards are going to make me find space for some 3-color cards in my Welder cube. Just totally sweet effects.

Also:

Is this effect just completely outside the confines of the color pie? I feel like I'd believe this on almost any combination of colors except maybe Rakdos.

 

[Seeker]

Is this effect just completely outside the confines of the color pie? I feel like I'd believe this on almost any combination of colors except maybe Rakdos.

if the creature exiled from the bin it could be Rakdos for sure cause then it's just Alesha, Who Laughs at Fate but totally different

I'd be less inclined to call it green, honestly, regardless of zones it exiles from (but Bant wouldn't make me confused for instance)

 

[Seeker]

Eat it Glitterfang, Elemental is even a semi-relevant type! You can cast and/or activate it off Smokebraider!

 

[inscho]

Eat it Glitterfang, Elemental is even a semi-relevant type! You can cast and/or activate it off Smokebraider!

I don’t know if the pump puts this ahead of reinforced ronin being an artifact and cycling once irrelevant

 

[Brad]

Fucking great set.

 

[ravnic]

Tell me about it, there's a white prowess token in the set and white has one prowess card so far, I expected a bit more. At least I do like both Cori-Steel Cutter and Rally the Monastery.

Yeah, and that was it. Too bad, the two spells theme is just less interesting imo. When I started to promote prowess in my cube around a year ago, I was really counting on the upcoming tarkir set to help out white. Rally and Aligned Heart from Commander is all we got.

Here is a card from the full spoiler today that seems interesting:



A child of Night that renews a lifelink counter for 1B.

 

[Velrun]

Ravnic’s card from above

 

[TrainmasterGT]

I will get the testing thread up in a little bit, I have to finish some stuff for my Job before I can comb through the set one last time.