Set look neat, Mono colored partners are a nice experiment since they, by definition, are not going to be better than the 4c monstrosities decks. And Gavin is saying "Let's not make more Thrassios or Vial Smashers". Now, I'm very skeptical of WOTC's design skills, but can see if they prove me wrong. And I'm all over Battlebond lands since cheap duals that don't enter the battlefield tapped are actually pretty great.
On Bane of Progress, cards like it and Dockside Extorsionist and even Hellkite Tyrant is WOTC saying that they recognize that artifact fast mana is a thing, so some form of counterplay when your oponent draws all their rocks and you don't is cool to have.
A new draft format is coming to Magic Online this Wednesday, Supreme Draft. The core concept is that you draft from 18 packs as a single person, rather than waiting for a queue to fill up.
Here's how the Magic Online Supreme Draft experience works:
You'll join the Draft league, same as you would any other.
When you join the Draft queue, it will launch immediately because you're drafting solo.
You'll be presented with a full pack of cards. Just like a Double Masters Draft, you'll pick two cards and then submit your picks.
You'll then get another full pack of cards. Pick two of these, then submit. Repeat this process until you've drafted 36 cards from 18 packs.
Once you have your picks, you'll build a 40-card deck with the cards you drafted plus as many basic lands as you want.
After completing your deck, you'll play in the Draft League just as you would any other.
To start, the format will use "single set" and "small cluster" booster pack pools, but next year expect full chaos drafts where your 18 packs could all come from different expansions. The first "small cluster" event features: Ravnica: City of Guilds, Guildpact, Dissension, Return to Ravnica, Gatecrash, Dragon's Maze, Guilds of Ravnica, and Ravnica Allegiance.
Edit: should also note these are phantom events only (at least for now), and after the Ravnica event ends the next set will be Modern Horizons.
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Sideboard could be mucked around with a bit, specifically the elderspell, which I don't think I actually cast a single time to mythic. Really happy with the deck though, as it is fun, has some interesting decision making to pilot correctly, and is reasonably fast to play. Also, all the spells mainboard except Gadwick are instant speed which is I love
Oh yeah, that was a leak from weeks ago. Pretty neat, though I am not sure how much more play it gets than the generally beefier manland from Ravnica.
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it's a pretty nice mana sink for longer games; the fact that you can build it up without exposing it to creature-removal (particularly boardwipes) is handy. The activation cost is too clunky to use it as an incidental creature for blocking or pressuring planeswalkers, like a Mutavault; 4 mana per turn feels a lot pricier once you're using it to attack rather than just soaking up leftover mana. Still, it grows each time.
I don't think it's worth mutating onto outside of an emergency situation; you have to activate it first, then pay the mutate cost, and then the mutate creature falls off at the end of turn. You do get the mutate effect and one beefy attack (assuming you don't tap it to pay the mana costs).
I don't think the mutate creature would fall off, it's not an aura. In fact, it'd remain a creature with an activated pump ability afterwards (just remember to never make it a 0/0)
I don't think the mutate creature would fall off, it's not an aura. In fact, it'd remain a creature with an activated pump ability afterwards (just remember to never make it a 0/0)
I don't think it would remain a creature if you put it on top though?
As far as I could see, you could make it just a land with the mutated abilities still on it (with some +1/1 counters on it).
Which might be unwieldy for hiding your mutated doomstack, but it would be fun to stick a porcuparrot offboard and just tap to hit things (I'm not sure 'this creature' wording is different to 'this object' mechanically though)
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ok here's the rule - looks like you could do the porcuparrot-land trick, any ability that refers to the object itself will still refer to it.
If a mutating creature spell merges with a creature that's only temporarily a creature, it will remain a merged permanent when the effect making it a creature expires. It still has all of the characteristics of the topmost object, which may cause it to be a creature or to not be a creature, and it has all of the abilities of its other cards.
ok here's the rule - looks like you could do the porcuparrot-land trick, any ability that refers to the object itself will still refer to it.
If a mutating creature spell merges with a creature that's only temporarily a creature, it will remain a merged permanent when the effect making it a creature expires. It still has all of the characteristics of the topmost object, which may cause it to be a creature or to not be a creature, and it has all of the abilities of its other cards.
The problem is the porcuparrot wording that says 'this creature deals damage', which I'm not sure maintains validity if the object is no longer a creature.
ok here's the rule - looks like you could do the porcuparrot-land trick, any ability that refers to the object itself will still refer to it.
If a mutating creature spell merges with a creature that's only temporarily a creature, it will remain a merged permanent when the effect making it a creature expires. It still has all of the characteristics of the topmost object, which may cause it to be a creature or to not be a creature, and it has all of the abilities of its other cards.
The problem is the porcuparrot wording that says 'this creature deals damage', which I'm not sure maintains validity if the object is no longer a creature.
Just tested this in Arena with Mobilized District, and it totally works. Pinging with non-aninated land is a go.
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Excellent... now to figure out how to give a land deathtouch
wait, how about a Vraska, Swarm's Eminence token, mutated with Porcuparrot, and enchanted with One With the Stars. An enchantment that taps to destroy target creature or planeswalker!
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I mean, it was 50:50 on someone cool or someone terrible, and having that context in the original post would have prevented the misunderstanding.
but hey enough about kaladesh am I right
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On Bane of Progress, cards like it and Dockside Extorsionist and even Hellkite Tyrant is WOTC saying that they recognize that artifact fast mana is a thing, so some form of counterplay when your oponent draws all their rocks and you don't is cool to have.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/august-24-2020-banned-and-restricted-announcement
Pity, it didn't feel That oppressive vs my heavy black decks, I'll keep Hungry Wurm in my sideboard for elf ball and goblins.
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A new draft format is coming to Magic Online this Wednesday, Supreme Draft. The core concept is that you draft from 18 packs as a single person, rather than waiting for a queue to fill up.
To start, the format will use "single set" and "small cluster" booster pack pools, but next year expect full chaos drafts where your 18 packs could all come from different expansions. The first "small cluster" event features: Ravnica: City of Guilds, Guildpact, Dissension, Return to Ravnica, Gatecrash, Dragon's Maze, Guilds of Ravnica, and Ravnica Allegiance.
Edit: should also note these are phantom events only (at least for now), and after the Ravnica event ends the next set will be Modern Horizons.
How soon we forget Ikoria.
it had Godzilla all other things were irrelevent
I still like a lot of Ikoria cards though.
Awesome! What deck you using
3 Spectral Sailor (M20) 76
6 Swamp (ANA) 58
2 Disfigure (M20) 95
7 Island (ANA) 57
4 Thieves' Guild Enforcer (M21) 125
4 Blacklance Paragon (ELD) 79
2 Heartless Act (IKO) 91
2 Drown in the Loch (ELD) 188
4 Brazen Borrower (ELD) 39
2 Whisper Agent (GRN) 220
1 Castle Vantress (ELD) 242
1 Castle Locthwain (ELD) 241
4 Temple of Deceit (THB) 245
4 Watery Grave (GRN) 259
1 Fabled Passage (ELD) 244
4 Brineborn Cutthroat (M20) 50
4 Slitherwisp (IKO) 208
3 Gadwick, the Wizened (ELD) 48
2 Cunning Nightbonder (IKO) 219
Sideboard
1 Grafdigger's Cage (M20) 227
1 Extinction Event (IKO) 88
1 Unmoored Ego (GRN) 212
1 Ashiok's Erasure (THB) 43
3 Mystical Dispute (ELD) 58
4 Aether Gust (M20) 42
2 Quench (RNA) 48
2 The Elderspell (WAR) 89
Sideboard could be mucked around with a bit, specifically the elderspell, which I don't think I actually cast a single time to mythic. Really happy with the deck though, as it is fun, has some interesting decision making to pilot correctly, and is reasonably fast to play. Also, all the spells mainboard except Gadwick are instant speed which is I love
Feels spicy
I don't think it's worth mutating onto outside of an emergency situation; you have to activate it first, then pay the mutate cost, and then the mutate creature falls off at the end of turn. You do get the mutate effect and one beefy attack (assuming you don't tap it to pay the mana costs).
Speculations that it's part of a six-card cycle mentioned previously by Maro, with the sixth probably involving a Wastes on one side.
Still calling my shot that the sixth is
I don't think it would remain a creature if you put it on top though?
As far as I could see, you could make it just a land with the mutated abilities still on it (with some +1/1 counters on it).
Which might be unwieldy for hiding your mutated doomstack, but it would be fun to stick a porcuparrot offboard and just tap to hit things (I'm not sure 'this creature' wording is different to 'this object' mechanically though)
The problem is the porcuparrot wording that says 'this creature deals damage', which I'm not sure maintains validity if the object is no longer a creature.
Just tested this in Arena with Mobilized District, and it totally works. Pinging with non-aninated land is a go.
wait, how about a Vraska, Swarm's Eminence token, mutated with Porcuparrot, and enchanted with One With the Stars. An enchantment that taps to destroy target creature or planeswalker!
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