Sets (TDM) Tarkir: Dragonstorm Previews!
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Yeah, the card is pretty bonkers. All that you said plus the mana value is the second easiest for creature recursion
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Sunpearl Kirin
1W
Creature - Kirin
Flash
Flying
When this enters, return up to one other nonland permanent you control to its owners hand. If that permanent was a token, draw a card.
2/1I like that this can do the Kellan, Inquisitive Prodigy trick of blowing up your own clue to get the card "for free", or turn a Food or Treasure into a de facto Clue. Obviously white 2 is a tight spot, but it's single-pip, it's a flash 2/1 flier, it's got the stats to at least interest me. I don't think it's where I specifically want to be... but I could be wrong, which is more than I usually say about white two-drops. This set's got some interesting monocolored creatures, which is not really what I was expecting from a tricolor set! (that said, KTK had Monastery Swiftspear, so it's not like it never happens)
Get it, it's not Snapcaster Mage, dohoho
Get it, it's not Chord of Calling (honestly expected a similarly referential name when I saw these back to back)
...we are coming closer and closer to obsoleting Actual Murder with 2B rather than with Hero's Downfall, aren't we?
This is nice as a Reyhan, Last of the Abzan without Commander trinket text.
Name is a little too referential to an existing iconic game piece for my liking, but at the same I think a creature granting Harmonize is coolio mechanically?
It can tap itself to reduce the cost of the spell it's harmonizing by 3 if I am understanding correctly, and if so has cute interactions with stuff like Anthems, Ardoz, and Ogre Battledriver.
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I do have a blog I don't use much ( I write too much to say too little, get anxiety when editing and delete my posts lol).
I have a lot of thoughts about Dragonstorm and probably overly focus on the Dragon designs that don't work with it lol. I'll try to write a blog post about it sometime and will tag you if so.
I look forward to the tag @EzPzJapanezy
In terms of being a build around I would say the red one does the job the best, as long as it lets you repeatedly hit expensive dragons, which omens make a bit easier to alleviate in deckbuilding, letting you theoretically cast nothing but it over and over. Overall I like the grixis ones.
I’m a bit disappointed with how this cycle ended up shaking out. I feel like the Blue one is far and away the most interesting as a build-around, while the rest are a bit more middling.
I wonder what a deck would need for Encroaching Dragonstorm to be the play… I think it’s an interesting riff on Explosive Vegetation, which was historically used for the purposes of casting Dragonlord Atarka in Standard!
The green one is probably the most cohesive towards a dragon gameplan, but is probably better geared towards edh. I kind of wish it was a rampant growth and the white one was a single 2/2 for 1W, dragons are already quite expensive.
This is the kind of card that makes me lament feeling like I'm being left behind in the power level. I don't think it's unreasonable in my cube or anything, but I think I would enjoy the card more if it didn't give both trample and haste, it doesn't need to threaten being an un-chumpable Storm Entity while it sits in play. It's a sequencing-centric card that can be fetched with stoneforge mystic though, so I will cube it.It's a bit less impressive than the Rotten Chonker, but
This seems sweet.
god I can't stand multicolored-focused sets, I want to cube this effect
Just Cube it, there's a certain point where three color cards become strong enough to usually justify the cost, and I think this one fits the bill, especially if you're not power-prioritizing.
This one's at least interesting, even if I think XBB -X/-X isn't a good enough rate without a lot more going on
Yeah but I want players to flashback No One Left Behind and Secure the Wastes, or rebuy it with Unearth and Ephemerate. It's not like I don't tempt my players to railroad their drafts by adding extra colors, I have several converge and domain cards, but three-color cards are way too prescriptive for me. A player should look at this card and think "This is a snapcaster mages that encourages me to run high-power creatures", not "This is a snapcaster mage I have to be in temur to play". Not that I think you'll really even need much more than a discount of 3 most of the time, but the point is more so that I think colors are more interesting as emergent restrictions than explicit ones.
Well, as always, modality is huge. Being able to turn your wrath into an efficient flier that threatens to either kill them/their planeswalkers or give you a 2-for-1 is a pretty big upside if you're not treating it entirely as a sideboard option.
Chris Taylor
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This one's at least interesting, even if I think XBB -X/-X isn't a good enough rate without a lot more going on
I would happily Cube this if it were an adventure. I like 4MV dragons, they make for seriously under appreciated threats, even in modern-era Magic.
As a split card, I just don't really want either side enough, but they would be more than the sum of their parts of I could have both. Like I've said before, I would be willing to do Omen if there's 4-5+ cards in the style, but I'd still prefer not to. Shame.
We've got a lot of versions of this, but this one is pretty good, I think.
Silly idea - have some kind of sticker that signals to drafters that there are a bunch of ways to not pay
for this guy.EDIT:
Oh, yeah, before I forget to mention this:
If the second spell you would cast would be exiled on resolution (like, say, if you flash it back or harmonized it), you can use Taigam's flurry trigger to suspend it instead.
Bit of a Thrumming Stone momentCan I interest you in hitting this off Collected company? (So long as you have a
(Jaws of Defeat)
Sometimes I feel like the people writing Flavor Text are just trying to make me upset on purpose (and by golly its working)
There are a lot of big numbers on this card. I mean, I'm a sucker for Aftermath Analyst, so I'm sure I could find a home for this, but it's not really... interesting?
Fucking straight up anti-Eldrazi propaganda.
That’s so funny haha
On a more serious note they probably refer to Ugin here.
There are a lot of big numbers on this card. I mean, I'm a sucker for Aftermath Analyst, so I'm sure I could find a home for this, but it's not really... interesting?
I wish this was only a 4/4. As it is, I think this would be an upgrade over Deadbridge Goliath, which is already overperforming in my environment.
Man, I hope we get a nice uncommon in green with a similar design with a renew effect cheaper than it's casting cost.
well, it can take the initiative (by attacking once it's in play)
but presumably Zurgo, who used to be a coward, values this ogre's predilection for kill-stealing