Magic: The Gathering C/D

like that's a pretty great format for the mechanic

dash is kind of a throwback to http://magiccards.info/vi/en/100.html which saw some standard play back in the 90s. i'm a fan

oh yeah that card was sweet

yeah I thought of the Viashinos as well, I think this goes more with R&D's recent tendency to make cards that won't just sit in your hand for whatever reason

hooo boy @ this new preview card

like I'm guessing it's not all that great, you need to delve 6 to be on par with Time Walk and even with 8 I feel its like a slightly better Cryptic Command, but still I love that they're just going for it with these blue delve cards

the time walk effect is not that powerful a. if it takes a ton of time/energy to set up b. if you're a monoblue draw-go deck where it's just gonna be explore

so they've done a good job making sure that all the time walk cards fulfill both those criteria

Love the subtle art changes for the reprinted lifelands. That's a cool trick they've never gotten to do before, because they've never reprinted a cycle in back-to-back sets.

I suppose some are not that subtle

they did it with the guildgates already

there was a legacy turboland deck a few years ago that could cast walk the aeons every turn but other than that none of the many time walk variants have been more abusable than plain old 3UU time warp. temporal mastery was exciting but only ended up in fringe decks in the end

this one has the problem of just being outclassed by treasure cruise in any deck that would want it

there's still a goofy modern time walk-howling mine deck. my friend played it for a while. it's solidly t2.5 but it's actually pretty playable.

the fact that temporal mastery is better and still doesn't even see play in like, legacy miracles, seems pretty telling

yeah and not just outclassed but also competing for the same delve-bait

Well yeah, like I mentioned Cryptic Command is probably the best Time Walk we've gotten though it's not a Time Walk proper. but it's basically just as good.

I doubt anything but a goofy combo deck is going to want this, I just love extra-turn effects. I still love Temporal Mastery even though I was desperate to sell as many of 'em as I could at $10-15 before they crashed

time walk was a broken card because of recursion, not because taking an extra turn is inherently busted. this and temporal mastery have the safety clause on them so there's not much you can do with them

I feel like the safety clause is actually pretty unnecessary since the delve cost already is a pretty good safety clause

not to mention the 3 blue mana which should deter any sort of goofball Dredge thing in Modern

anyway, enough about that thing, how cool is the Jeskai Infiltrator

http://media.wizards.com/2014/ujehvsbfrf153/en_lw5yaa6hq8.png

cool card garbage art

yeah I reallly dislike the cgi art that's been showing up lately, this one's even worse:

http://mythicspoiler.com/frf/cards/sageeyeavengers.jpg

the look they developed for the djinn is so horrible

that Soulfire Grand Master looks a nice upgrade to Seeker of the Way in Jeskai decks

Hmmm how did I forget the Guildgates

did i ever comment about how the Crackling Doom art looks like it was borrowed from a neo-prog album cover

I always kinda liked this dude's CGI-art

http://magiccards.info/ptc/en/15.html

but yes some of these more recent ones are terrible. so is the one I posted too but I like that 90's movie-CGI style.
That said, plenty of great art in Khans thus far

Soulfire seems like fun with Blasphemous Act, at least :)

Jeskai ascendancy is a straight up superhero team comic book cover. Cute, but weird for mtg.

this new uncommon cycle looks really strong. also the green siege seems better than the others so far.

iatee u r famous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iukVnoydb4&list=PL04lbfeNAaS8BbABBy0KmtKoAd4h9tM-G

oh whoa i did not know ilx embedded youtubes now. round 2.

haha yeah I saw that / kinda figured it was being recorded while I was playing. the end of g2 is a pretty dumb punt, I was annoyed at myself for not having sided out academy for an island and when I finally could play elendra I was like "okay now he just needs to not have upheaval for exactly one turn". I was also annoyed at him for cutting all the storm cards cause that's what I was trying to force p1.

http://cdn.magicspoiler.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/en_ayf3tb0eak.png

http://cdn.magicspoiler.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/en_cpyhzk81s2.png

Arcbond looks like it could potentially lead to some big blowouts, but requires a very specific boardstate to work properly. Warden requires you to jump through a whole lot of hoops to be exciting.

I'm a fan of Wild Slash and the white dragon. Tasigur, the Golden Fang is pretty cool too, although perhaps not deserving of Legendary status.

Arcbond is gonna be sweet in Limited, at least. Seems like a total reset button in a losing situation, or perhaps a win con for an aggro deck once your grip starts to slip a little. Its tough to evaluate, I don't think we've ever had a card like it. Warden seems worse than Figure though I struggle to figure out why, maybe cuz Figure filled a bigger hole in Red whereas G/W has stuff like Fleecemane Lion

arcbond is a v cool card but i wonder if it is just too variable to be reliably good in any environment. it would be a real nice card to bring in vs a token deck.

I don't like arcbond, I'm guessing it will be bad. that effect is too chaotic / generally bad if you're ahead + red doesn't usually want to wipe its own board in limited.

seems pretty edh'y to me

yeah arcbond def not a constructed card in 99% of environments

the warden is obviously a riff on figure of destiny which was an allstar in past standard but this one asks a lot more of your manabase. enables an even lower curve GB or GW deck than we already have. idk if it's a staple but the stats are good enough.

i feel like t1 warden t2 activate and attack as 3/3 is better in abzan aggro than heir of the wilds right? that seems like a straight 1-for-1 upgrade in that deck.

don't they generally play fleecemane and deathdealer?

full sets of all 3 from what i have seen recently

the issue is you have a lot of etb tapped lands in that deck, warden is really awkward if you don't have a llanowar wastes turn 1

Reality Shift may be the missing card my Temur deck has been looking for, amazing Abzan hoser

Obviously it's not quite as good as Swords/Path but it's really not too far off is it?

with an opponent's courser in play, I'll be able to see exactly what they'll manifest, but really there are very few cards that I would feel bad about them manifesting, forcing manifest on any of the nightmare ETB creatures in Abzan and whip decks is perfectly acceptable.

its a slight downgrade from rapid hybridization imo, but that card saw some standard play

http://mythicspoiler.com/frf/cards/ghastlyconscription.jpg

FUN CARD

surely not at all constructed playable but a fun draft challenge, a finisher for that rakshasa's secret control archetype that ppl are trying to make be a thing