Sets [THB] Theros Beyond Death *SPOILER*
- Thread starter Mondschwein
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Brad Pitt made it into the set.
So...
The First Iroan Games
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)
I — Create a 1/1 white Human Soldier token.
II — Put three +1/+1 counters on target creature you control.
III — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw two cards.
IV — Create a Gold token.
This is a card! You can play this on turn 2 off of a Llanowar Elves, make a 4/4 that can immediately attack on turn three, and draw cards! There's even some cute flavor text about gold tokens! Actually, that line is more important than you might think, because it allows the games to stick around an extra turn to get blinked by a Flickerwisp or friend. This card is great- add it to your cube and never let it go!
The First Iroan Games
(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)
I — Create a 1/1 white Human Soldier token.
II — Put three +1/+1 counters on target creature you control.
III — If you control a creature with power 4 or greater, draw two cards.
IV — Create a Gold token.
This is a card! You can play this on turn 2 off of a Llanowar Elves, make a 4/4 that can immediately attack on turn three, and draw cards! There's even some cute flavor text about gold tokens! Actually, that line is more important than you might think, because it allows the games to stick around an extra turn to get blinked by a Flickerwisp or friend. This card is great- add it to your cube and never let it go!
What is the difference between gold and treasures?
Is there a functional difference or reason to have both?
I'm just baffled to have both "gold" and "treasures" if they are both identical gameplay-wise, specially when Ixalan was just two sets ago!
I just wait for Theros to be fully spoilered, then I'm going to redesign my cube. Lots of spoilers look very good to me, I love sagas and I think I'm going to add lots of enchantments to my cube (I just don't like most artifacts; if they're strong, they're picks too easy).
I'm really excited right now.
I'm really excited right now.
Chris Taylor
Contributor
Improvise is the one difference where it comes up:
And why they made the move to treasure over gold. But hey, flavor.
You win a gold medal!
Note the "after you're done activating abilities" in the reminder text. The change doesn't make the interaction with Improvise work differently, it just makes it more clear.
I remember they wanted the token to tap and sacrifice instead of just sacrifice. Gold token had a flaw according to Wizards. So they made Treasure tokens. However now they are back on Theros and kind of have to go back to Gold tokens for this one set since original Theros had Gold tokens.
With Treasure tokens your tokens can improvise and help pay for one mana. Then they are done.
With Gold tokens your tokens can improvise and help pay for one mana. Then they can also be sacrificed to add one mana that you can spend on casting a second spell.
Is this a stonk? It's kind of like a Blaze that can also just be used for creature/planeswalker removal.
We're (finally) starting to see some more Constellation cards! This guy is not very good- he's too slow for what he does and his body does not make up for his cost. Unfortunately, this card's cubability has been ruined by retail-limited needing to not have something broken.
That said, this does make me hopeful that we might get some good constellation guys in blue. It's certainly possible!
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Wish the front side was a tiny bit better though. I mean, four mana for a Spark Elemental isn't exactly the pinnacle of efficiency.
I think the removal spell is the main mode here- the creature is only first on the rules text because it doesn't double X. The creature might not be as good as Spark Elemental, but the overall card is way more flexible and probably much better.
Purphoros's Intervention is seriously pushed. 1R = 2 damage, 2R = 4 damage, 3R = 6 damage. I don't think we're seen the last rate in a burn spell in the past. The flexibility is great and something that is consistently undervalued when looking at new cards. I actually don't intend to run it because of how flexible it is - basically you can't go wrong with using it at any point. Plus, it's so inelegant.
Glad to see constellation making a comeback and the flash theme.
Glad to see constellation making a comeback and the flash theme.
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
There is a limit to how much flexibility is healthy for a given format, but in principle flexibility is good! Honestly, I think I will at least need to test it out, given that I even run an elemental theme in Temur colors.
Haven't been here for a while, so thanks for leaving me this one. Seems really sweet for me and might even be too good, as I can easily see this quickly becoming a 2/5+ while having a significantly impactful activated ability.
Overall, the devotion stuff is exciting for The Black Cube and the enchantment stuff is exciting for my -1 cube idea. Cool set for me so far.
