Magic: The Gathering C/D

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.

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

idk about 'totally broken' but that seems like the most easily doable alternate win in limited since Azor's Elocutors

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.

you can just remove the servo its on though, plenty of 'counterplay'

no talk about black lighting bolt? will it revolutionize modern / see some play / basically change nothing?

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

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.

in the current race-to-the-bottom modern metagame it's really close to a path to exile without the downside

2 more days worth of previews and they're still all great wtf is going on

wow @ Gifted Aetherborn, that's a pretty powerful uncommon

the cards seem strong in general and also kind of all over the place. lots going on

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

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

dunno if it's in the same league as Copter but Aethersphere Harvester seems really good

I could see that Expertise being pretty sweet in my Panharmonicon deck

yeah harvester is quite good

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

i think about half of the currently previewed cards ought to see standard play, which is an incredible rate.

severely disappointed in them reprinting Atog but not calling it Atog

on the other hand, a legendary pirate that produces a monkey token

geist of saint traft has fallen on hard times

that whole legendary creature cycle is going straight into my cube, they're all fantastic

anyone else gonna be at gp louisville?

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)

full set is up: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/card-image-gallery/aether-revolt

man, that was fast

"Caught in the Brights", looooool

http://media.wizards.com/2016/c1lRLirbrl_AER/en_50506d5iUZ.png
this guy can one-shot people if you have a wandering fumarole

whoa, that is a strange ability to put on a card

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

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.

oh lol. i knew something didn't add up. that would be ridiculous.

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.

omg @ saheeli rai + felidar guardian

standard splinter twin is back baby

lol amazing

that is a legitimately good combo for standard, theres tutors for both halves and she even helps find the felidar

haha i got as far as felidar guardian in the card image gallery and was like ....

its also on-color with reflector mage which gets re-triggered by both halves of the combo to buy you forever time

i like how it's doable in limited this time too

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

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.

you can make the 1 mana 7/11 vehicle into a 10/11 first strike on turn 3 with the red aura. seems pretty janky outside of limited though

revolt seems kinda tricky to turn on in standard, like that G deathtouch guy is pretty strictly a plant for modern zoo type decks

Greenwheel Liberator seems like it could see Modern play too. it's better than Goyf in the early turns

I thought I'd spec on Saheeli but I'm too late. it's already up to around 8 tix

yeah way too late, it's spiked pretty hard. i'm trying to identify other new interactions that could be good in standard but there's nothing anywhere near as in-your-face as that one

So...

Announcement Date: January 9, 2017

Effective Date: January 20, 2017

Magic Online Effective Date: January 11, 2017

Standard:

Emrakul, the Promised End is banned.

Smuggler's Copter is banned.

Reflector Mage is banned.

Modern:

Gitaxian Probe is banned.

Golgari Grave-Troll is banned.

Definitely have mixed feelings about these. Emrakul was a pain to play against, and I'm glad I sold every copy I opened. Still think Marvel would have made more sense to ban instead. I'm bummed about Copter as I've played a bunch of different decks since Kaladesh and all of them had Copter. Of course, that's probably exactly why it got banned. Don't really know why they banned Mage, except there may be some new combo that they are preemptively stopping. Not really sure that banning Gitaxian Probe will make a huge difference. I get Golgari Grave-Troll, Dredge is pretty ridiculous right now.

ok so I have like 6 Copters on MTGO and don't play constructed...should I sell ASAP while they're still legal for a bit or are they worth somehow holding on to? sucks that the one money rare (non-mythic) got nerfed.

They're already pretty much worthless since it goes into effect in 2 days on mtgo, take your ticket each or whatever if you can get it