Huh. It's not a bad pick, I dunno why I hadn't considered it. I'll pick up a copy for testing, thank you!
Maybe?
Sets (WOE) Wilds of Eldraine Testing/Includes Thread
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In my experience 3-color cards have to be really powerful to be considered. Otherwise players will only play the cards (and pick the cards during drafting) if they already are in the 3 colors which doesn’t happen very often. Furthermore a 3-color card is also difficult to cast during the games because mana bases tend to not be @blacksmithy mana bases when playing cube. Due to singleton and other factors.
Brokers Ascendancy is really strong.
Card was great and drew you into the heavy black deck, just that was a trap because Quag Sickness was the only common payoff (also Corrupt at uncommon but then you don't need to be tempted...)Like I don't remember this making any waves in its limited format:
Ogre Chitterlord is one of the "Jumpstart-only" (read: set/collector booster-only because they rightfully cancelled the set-specific Jumpstart sets) cards that I somehow completely overlooked before. This is a perfect card for my reject/championship league cube's power-level, a Grave Titan that has the excitement and high impact of the original titan cycle without feeling nearly as hopeless as Grave or Inferno Titan.
The menace is much stronger than any of the static abilities on the original titan cycle, so I understand if others don't feel similarly about it being appropriate for medium power levels, but it has been over a decade since they were printed.
Does red need high-value cards like this? Absolutely: even 1-2 in smaller cubes gives the color more range than being just the burn/aggro slice of the pie. This following a tried-and-tested formula makes it easier to grok for players as well, helping increase accessibility and allowing less enfranchised players to engage at a more competitive level.
Anyways, I like this card, and I hope you do too. I wish the standard version didn't cut off 30% of the artwork and negatively impact the composition, but that's my issue with all these silly extended-border cards.
The fact that the rats aren't blockers is a huge step towards making it less frustrating to face down compared to Grave Titan, since villain isn't generating two potential blockers every time they sneeze. It also helps that the Rat Pump is specifically designed to seal the deal when it's obvious that the Rats can't be dealt with.
Chris Taylor
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Yeah grave titan missing "vigilance" helps a lot on the feelbads
Wow, I've just seen Up the Beanstalk appearing in modern and even legacy lists. I was just wondering why this very recent draft build-around-me-uncommon was ~3€ already. Guess I should sell my copy soon lol. That was a card I didn't anticipate spiking.
what printing a bunch of 5-mv spells that are actually just free does to a mf
haha thats amazing, love to see legacy-level support for Scornful Egotist tribal
the card is so funny....goes off with Force of Will, Gush, Fury, Scion of Draco, affinity cards, delve, adds a fourth card to your Lorien Revealed because hey why not, justifies playing Misdirection in Vintage again...so much of the past decade of Magic design has led to Beanstalk actually being nutso in practice
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
I love how your examples are, like, almost 50% older stuff, if not for the fact that KtK barely sneaks into the past decade XD
Onderzeeboot
Ecstatic Orb
Also, it replaces itself, so one “5” mana spell already makes it better than Divination, and it’s trivial to make it better than Treasure Cruise if you build your deck around it XD
I'm strongly considering adding a Bargain package after drafting this set a bunch. A lot of the pieces from outside WOE seem self-explanatory, like Demonic Pact.
However, I found this card:
With the explosion of trinket tokens, I think it's a lot more viable than it was the last time it was printed and/or discussed on this forum. I'm not sure it quite gets there, but if anyone else is considering adding a lot of Bargain cards I'd suggest taking another look at this one as this can hang with most of the "real" Bargain cards on power level.
However, I found this card:
With the explosion of trinket tokens, I think it's a lot more viable than it was the last time it was printed and/or discussed on this forum. I'm not sure it quite gets there, but if anyone else is considering adding a lot of Bargain cards I'd suggest taking another look at this one as this can hang with most of the "real" Bargain cards on power level.
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