Planar Bridge seems like it would fit in Tron pretty well.
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 December 2016 15:03 (seven years ago) link
does replacing 1 or more of your threats with a card that lets you find specific threats really improve the deck? You still have to find your Planar Bridge to make this work. Does Tron even really care which threat you have, pretty much any big card ends the game quickly. Planar Bridge takes 2 turns to be effective, 1 to cast and 1 to activate. I'd rather just have my Karn or Ugin in hand.
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Thursday, 29 December 2016 15:08 (seven years ago) link
that planar bridge can find and dump a new threat every turn is the thing that makes it interesting. maybe overkill but an interesting wrinkle all the same.
the fact that paradox engine untaps everything but lands is surely going to give it way more application/potential then jeskai ascendancy.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 29 December 2016 15:39 (seven years ago) link
5 mana is a lot for a combo card
planar bridge is at the very least *playable* in tron, though I think what the deck plays as finishers doesn't 'really matter'
― iatee, Thursday, 29 December 2016 16:34 (seven years ago) link
also - I hate tron so much
fetch Omniscience, go to town
― frogbs, Thursday, 29 December 2016 16:47 (seven years ago) link
really happy with AER previews so far, looks like an impactful set for constructed
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 13:11 (seven years ago) link
New mechanics seem like they'll make the Puzzleknots a lot better in Limited, at least
Inspirational Monuments seems potentially broken, considering it functions as a mana rock itself it seems better than it looks. Guessing they won't let themselves get burned like they did with Affinity but at least we got Ornothopter!
― frogbs, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 14:42 (seven years ago) link
ooh I like this card a lot
http://mythicspoiler.com/aer/cards/rishkarsexpertise.html
Mechanized Production seems really cool - I missed at first that the "8 copies" condition could apply to any artifact, not just the one enchanted. So it could be Servos or Clues or Eldrazi Spawn or whatever.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 19:58 (seven years ago) link
seems totally broken w/ servos. i guess blue not a servo colour and card is not really a splash.
spawn/scions are not artifacts tho
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 20:02 (seven years ago) link
idk about 'totally broken' but that seems like the most easily doable alternate win in limited since Azor's Elocutors
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 20:04 (seven years ago) link
well i was initially just surprised that they would put it in a set with servos but on the one hand it's blue like i said and on the other it actually isn't really in a super heavy servo set because AER looks to have far fewer kicking about. in triple KLD tho it would be p trivial to build around this to get 8 servos in play.
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 20:17 (seven years ago) link
you can just remove the servo its on though, plenty of 'counterplay'
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 20:18 (seven years ago) link
no talk about black lighting bolt? will it revolutionize modern / see some play / basically change nothing?
― iatee, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 20:50 (seven years ago) link
1 mana instant kill for goyf thru tks seems like it will have some application?
for this limited otoh it could really be a common
― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 20:56 (seven years ago) link
xp if you mean fatal push, then yeah it's clearly a constructed staple in all formats. seems like it has the biggest potential impact on modern.
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 21:11 (seven years ago) link
in the current race-to-the-bottom modern metagame it's really close to a path to exile without the downside
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 3 January 2017 21:22 (seven years ago) link
2 more days worth of previews and they're still all great wtf is going on
― ciderpress, Thursday, 5 January 2017 14:45 (seven years ago) link
wow @ Gifted Aetherborn, that's a pretty powerful uncommon
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 January 2017 14:48 (seven years ago) link
the cards seem strong in general and also kind of all over the place. lots going on
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 5 January 2017 14:59 (seven years ago) link
yeah the part i like is they're all narrow effects, theres no smugglers copter here that's obviously going to step on the toes of everything else
― ciderpress, Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:20 (seven years ago) link
the blue Expertise is worrying though, that's the sort of card that could invalidate a lot of stuff if it ends up being good in standard
― ciderpress, Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:21 (seven years ago) link
dunno if it's in the same league as Copter but Aethersphere Harvester seems really good
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:24 (seven years ago) link
I could see that Expertise being pretty sweet in my Panharmonicon deck
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:27 (seven years ago) link
yeah harvester is quite good
― ciderpress, Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:29 (seven years ago) link
I dig the "you may play a card costing X or less from your hand" mechanic a lot, seems like a fixed version of the Urza's Saga "free" spells
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:31 (seven years ago) link
i think about half of the currently previewed cards ought to see standard play, which is an incredible rate.
― ciderpress, Thursday, 5 January 2017 15:32 (seven years ago) link
severely disappointed in them reprinting Atog but not calling it Atog
― frogbs, Thursday, 5 January 2017 20:18 (seven years ago) link
on the other hand, a legendary pirate that produces a monkey token
― frogbs, Friday, 6 January 2017 01:25 (seven years ago) link
geist of saint traft has fallen on hard times
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 6 January 2017 02:27 (seven years ago) link
that whole legendary creature cycle is going straight into my cube, they're all fantastic
― ciderpress, Friday, 6 January 2017 02:33 (seven years ago) link
anyone else gonna be at gp louisville?
― iatee, Friday, 6 January 2017 02:40 (seven years ago) link
Man I love that 3/4 green elephant for G. I get nostalgic for Rogue Elephant every time they print a 3 power creature for G, but this one actually seems good. I love that you can beat down or do some energy shenanigans, with some restrictions (I know you can't go above 2 energy with it)
― Vinnie, Friday, 6 January 2017 07:01 (seven years ago) link
full set is up: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/aether-revolt
― ciderpress, Friday, 6 January 2017 15:55 (seven years ago) link
man, that was fast
― frogbs, Friday, 6 January 2017 15:57 (seven years ago) link
"Caught in the Brights", looooool
― frogbs, Friday, 6 January 2017 15:58 (seven years ago) link
http://media.wizards.com/2016/c1lRLirbrl_AER/en_50506d5iUZ.pngthis guy can one-shot people if you have a wandering fumarole
― ciderpress, Friday, 6 January 2017 17:23 (seven years ago) link
whoa, that is a strange ability to put on a card
― frogbs, Friday, 6 January 2017 17:24 (seven years ago) link
interesting! am i crazy to think this is one of the best build arounds we have seen for a while:http://media.wizards.com/2016/c1lRLirbrl_AER/en_T6xS2dXGa4.png
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 6 January 2017 17:37 (seven years ago) link
did you miss the part where you sac it? i wouldn't call it a build-around, it's more of a niche tool for black energy & revolt decks.
― ciderpress, Friday, 6 January 2017 17:43 (seven years ago) link
oh lol. i knew something didn't add up. that would be ridiculous.
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 6 January 2017 17:53 (seven years ago) link
red and black look like the best colors to me on first pass. the red common 2-drop is insane and could end up being a higher pick than the (quite good) removal spells since it's the only one and thus an important bottleneck.
― ciderpress, Friday, 6 January 2017 17:57 (seven years ago) link
omg @ saheeli rai + felidar guardian
standard splinter twin is back baby
― ciderpress, Friday, 6 January 2017 18:08 (seven years ago) link
lol amazing
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 6 January 2017 18:11 (seven years ago) link
that is a legitimately good combo for standard, theres tutors for both halves and she even helps find the felidar
― ciderpress, Friday, 6 January 2017 18:18 (seven years ago) link
haha i got as far as felidar guardian in the card image gallery and was like ....
― ( ^_^) (Lamp), Friday, 6 January 2017 18:19 (seven years ago) link
its also on-color with reflector mage which gets re-triggered by both halves of the combo to buy you forever time
― ciderpress, Friday, 6 January 2017 18:25 (seven years ago) link
i like how it's doable in limited this time too
― ciderpress, Friday, 6 January 2017 18:31 (seven years ago) link
yeah. will probably work on this for standard & see if i can make it competitive. surprised by the # of strong non-creature effects in aether revolt. was already obv excited to test for prague/dublin but am really hopefully this limited/std ends up being interesting
― ( ^_^) (Lamp), Friday, 6 January 2017 18:34 (seven years ago) link
looks like some strong cards for green aggro in constructed. no idea how easy it will be to get revolt early in standard, presumably not that trivial?
was confused at first by the junky looking do-nothing uncommon artifact that brings along a servo for 2 generic but i guess it's there for turbo improvise. still, essentially strictly worse than the white puzzleknot. improvise makes servo expedition seem less lame too i guess.
a few ways to make vehicles creatures outside of crewing. most pretty ropey admittedly but might force reevaluation of some of the huge garbage vehicles out of KLD.
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 6 January 2017 18:38 (seven years ago) link