Sets (TDM) Tarkir: Dragonstorm Previews!
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I feel like they would be pretty similar in power level. Flying is usually stronger than Prowess outside of dedicated Prowess decks. If the base creature had Prowess, it would be a stronger Constructed card, but I think they would be somewhat comparable in limited.
We just got this, which feels like it's generally stronger than the ~12 year old Doomed Traveler because it can (eventually) attack for more and plays into common artifact synergies:
This design space seems under-explored for how much WotC loves tokens and hyping up 1-drops these days.
But if you, like me, do not want to wait for your 1-drops to die to get tokens (I know it's not quite the point), you can play my longstanding Cube staple:
landofMordor
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where are the dragons, and why are there six pages of posts that have nothing to do with dragons
WOTC keeps previewing stuff that is tangentially related to Dragons, but aren't actually Dragons themselves. They're telling us to Behold a Dragon without giving us any Dragons to behold!
Oh well, at least there's always Rith, the Awakener.
I wonder if they will reprint Form of the Dragon?
Just going to put this out there, I think this card may be nutty. The 'static' makes this way better than the loyalty abilities would suggest.
Finally, an Elspeth card that lives up to the Sun's Champion!
I think it's funny this one also dunks on her format's Siege Rhino equivalent!
It looks like WOTC was inspired by my customs!
Cool to see a version of Genome on a real card!
(Thanks @Onderzeeboot for pointing this out!)
Cool to see a version of Genome on a real card!
(Thanks @Onderzeeboot for pointing this out!)
This seems insane at 7 mana. I don't know how many colorless spells your typical cube deck is running, but even just getting the cast trigger and then +2 gives you a stabilizing draw engine.
Mobilize is pretty neat for sacrifice decks, which are, fittingly, mardu in my cube. But it's also a new token to add, dunno.
Renew is pretty cool, but I like it less than scavenge - and there is one card already that has effectively scavenge with another name.
I don't love endure. I guess it'll play fine, but different numbers creating differently sized, non-flying spirits is a bit akward.
Flurry is imo just less cool than prowess, as it doesn't make you draft much different.
And Harmonize is just flashback with extra steps.
Omens are just Adventures, but with shuffling and without card advantage.
I am still hyped, but a lot of new mechanics feel just like more convoluted versions of old mechanics. I personally wouldn't be less hyped if the clan mechanics were just flashback, prowess, scavenge and such.
Renew is pretty cool, but I like it less than scavenge - and there is one card already that has effectively scavenge with another name.
I don't love endure. I guess it'll play fine, but different numbers creating differently sized, non-flying spirits is a bit akward.
Flurry is imo just less cool than prowess, as it doesn't make you draft much different.
And Harmonize is just flashback with extra steps.
Omens are just Adventures, but with shuffling and without card advantage.
I am still hyped, but a lot of new mechanics feel just like more convoluted versions of old mechanics. I personally wouldn't be less hyped if the clan mechanics were just flashback, prowess, scavenge and such.
Honestly, endure should have been "a 0/0 spirit with X counters on it", like Amass - they've done it before and then either way the endure card plays well with Hardened Scales style effects or whatever. (I bet they didn't do that for power level reasons though.)
Harmonize is flashback with extra steps but rewards you for playing creatures in your flashback decks, which I think is at least somewhat neat!
Flurry is just a generic "oh good they keyworded two spells" moment, I hope they also keyword "two draws" and then keep using them as keywords since they come up so often but I bet they won't because it took them how long to figure out that Taigam's Scheming was just surveil?
Harmonize is flashback with extra steps but rewards you for playing creatures in your flashback decks, which I think is at least somewhat neat!
Flurry is just a generic "oh good they keyworded two spells" moment, I hope they also keyword "two draws" and then keep using them as keywords since they come up so often but I bet they won't because it took them how long to figure out that Taigam's Scheming was just surveil?
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Oh my god, they found the same trick I did!2brid's back baby awoooooooo
https://riptidelab.com/forum/threads/custom-cards-the-lab.403/page-213#post-131458
lmao it's gonna be a whole cycle of cards that make no sense whatsoever I'm SO here for it
the thing about harmonize that interests me is actually this random draft common cute cat:
like this thing's built for harmonize in two distinct ways and I could see that shaping card decisions in an environment. also works well with the returning vestiges of Temur's "4 power matters" theme:
and the "upside" of these adventures shuffling in is that they can push the power level of the creatures:
treating them as split cards that are nerfed (can't reanimate the body, can't delve the spell) is how I'm shorthanding it so far - kind of like cycling, except totally different even if some of them are, well, just cycling:
See, that's where I'm at and I need people to take sense into me. I've got artifacts as a major theme, and using this, then 0 for either a rock or a trinket artifact to immediately exile your opponents best stuff seems great. Needs to be built in the right deck, but I like encouraging build-arounds over generic good stuff anyway.
for your Varmint tribal archetype.A lot of the commons that we saw today are really decent. Set looks cool. Tempting 3c cards.
A lot of the commons that we saw today are really decent. Set looks cool. Tempting 3c cards
Ah! completely missed that printing. Varmint vs Art