[Gatecrash] Firemane Avenger

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[Gatecrash] Firemane Avenger

Postby The Dark Guardian » Wed Dec 26, 2012 7:12 am

http://forums.mtgsalvation.com/attachme ... 1356498102 (if someone could tell me how you link them, I normally don't bother fighting rumor mill zombies for the card race).

Firemane Avenger 2WR

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Battalion: Whenever ~ and two or more creatures attack, ~ deals 3 damage to target creature or player and you gain 3 life.



This feels like a complete swing and a miss for aggro. Even with a mana base where the symbols don't matter on cards, a four drop without haste and three toughness will likely not make the cut. Battalion also feels like another bad mechanic, that caters to that whole "balls to the wall" strategy.

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Postby Thrillho » Wed Dec 26, 2012 7:38 am

Hellrider called. It says hi and that it is still a better card than this.

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Postby Kaitscralt » Wed Dec 26, 2012 8:25 am

I see a potentially very powerful ability on a clearly poor example for Constructed. If they cost this ability aggressively on 1-3 drops in Boros then things will be interesting.

This card seems lame.
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Postby Pendulum » Wed Dec 26, 2012 9:02 am

It seem prudent at this point to prognosticate that there will be a sorcery that puts 2 guys with haste into play, probably goblins and probably at the 1R slot.
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Postby Kaitscralt » Wed Dec 26, 2012 9:05 am

Or some sort of Geist of St. Traft'er's
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Postby Yannaria » Wed Dec 26, 2012 1:03 pm

if only it had haste...

hellrider is much better at four mana.

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Postby iamabadman » Wed Dec 26, 2012 2:24 pm

there's a pattern on how they are revealing cards, guild color wise.

monday - simic - u/g

tuesday - gruul - g/r

wednesday - boros - r/w

tomorrow is going to be orzhov and then friday is dimir.

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Postby Second Harkius » Wed Dec 26, 2012 5:42 pm

vindicate reprint

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Postby poggydude » Wed Dec 26, 2012 10:16 pm

they are clearly spoiling the guild mechanics, if we get a vindicate reprint itll be spoiled later

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Postby Second Harkius » Wed Dec 26, 2012 10:51 pm

we wont but a man can dream

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Postby Thrillho » Thu Dec 27, 2012 3:56 am

I see a potentially very powerful ability on a clearly poor example for Constructed. If they cost this ability aggressively on 1-3 drops in Boros then things will be interesting.

This card seems lame.
If the ability is the same on all cards with it, a 1-3 drop in this brave new world of token-based decks would be rather insane.

Maybe the damage/life output is based on the CMC of the card? Or is everything ever lightning helix with this? NEED MORE INFORMATION MAN.

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Postby Checkbox » Thu Dec 27, 2012 6:17 pm

It's going to be just like Radiance - the trigger is always the same, the effect is different.
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Postby Shalako » Thu Dec 27, 2012 8:46 pm

Battalion isn't going to be 3 attackers and 3 damage always?
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Postby iamabadman » Sat Dec 29, 2012 12:34 am

there's a pattern on how they are revealing cards, guild color wise.

monday - simic - u/g

tuesday - gruul - g/r

wednesday - boros - r/w

tomorrow is going to be orzhov and then friday is dimir.

called it.

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Postby Checkbox » Sun Dec 30, 2012 8:41 pm

Battalion isn't going to be 3 attackers and 3 damage always?
3 attackers... how is that hard to figure out?
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Postby Kaitscralt » Mon Dec 31, 2012 3:38 pm

there's a pattern on how they are revealing cards, guild color wise.

monday - simic - u/g

tuesday - gruul - g/r

wednesday - boros - r/w

tomorrow is going to be orzhov and then friday is dimir.

called it.

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