Dies to Removal

Oracle of the Bonessss

... is almost certainly bad.

Although my midnight card evaluations have definitely been wrong before.

Maybe he isn't terrible, but he'll be hard-pressed to find a home where the deck wouldn't be better without him.

The new tokens look pretty cool.

god i stayed up for this shit

The new tokens look pretty cool.

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Green CA...rather expensive and risky, but huge in Limited I would expect:



Regardless of card quality, I LOVE the art on both of these:





In fact, I just emailed Dan Scott to congratulate him on the Astronomer and to ask when I could get a print...it's going in the same room with Ponder and Evacuation.

I dunno if oracle of bones is good but i like the card

tribute is so shitty

oracle is deceiving in its lameness. red has so few powerful non-creature spells right now. free mortars or lightning strike? okay.

Oracle still keeps haste with tribute being paid for and if not let's you get a free burn in. Better in burn heavy list. Walter White and Boros Burn come to mind.

Blech. Those are some pretty mediocre spoilers. I kinda like the red one drop bestow guy but not all that much. Meh.

The eagle looks sick. The gold is interesting.

Free mortars like burning-tree didn't already do that. I get that it's a mintoar so theoretically it's a 4/2 haste for 3 in certain worlds...but that's just a minotaur skullcleaver.

This set is so bad, it makes dragons maze look acceptable.

This set is so bad, it makes dragons maze look acceptable.

this is true for no set

no set!

i forgot to mention my first tournament loves

ghost dad / hand in hand

and doran rock

ghost dad

It appears we have something in common.



Fuck.

First tourney love was actually rakdos agro.

Satanic Sligh featuring Dark Confidant and Genju of the Spires.

ghost council with damage on the stack... lol, fair stuff

I only started playing seriously in Zen

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Those look rather nice.

The new tokens might actually be the best part of the set.

Gold tokens?!!? Weird.

Oracle could be a 5/3 haste for 4 or a 3/1 haste and a free spell (assuming you have a spell). creates a little subgame with the opponent.

Tokens are making me wonder at what's to come...artifacts turning into colored mana?

I want a red enchantment that deals damage whenever a player scrys.

Alex just tagged this online (FB)...I can't get to the twitter feed, but the point makes itself:

Return to Kamigawa confirmed.

Alex just tagged this online (FB)...I can't get to the twitter feed, but the point makes itself:

Return to Kamigawa confirmed.

It was a joke.

Maro said they will NOT do another kamigawa set on his podcast.

First tournament love was the original boros deck wins with jittes

Thanks for the clarification, JS...it's a pain not being able to access stuff from here.

I feel you bro. I hate my work filter. It prevents me from actually doing work too.

Smart phone works for DTR, fb etc though.

Finally feeling standard burnout. Mostly cause I want to play UB control, but don't feel like switching decks seeing as RW devotion is the bread earner. Guess I'll practice modern instead since there's talk of multiple people I know flying to effing Richmond for the GP.

This batch of spoilers seems a bit nuts and bolts. Oracle seems intriguing, if not grand.

Greek mithology trope. King Midas was greedy as fuck, which is why he was cursed by gods with "everything you'll touch willl turn gold".
Yes, everything.

Most probably a creature with first strike and "when x deals combat damage to another creature, exile it and put a gold token under opponent's control".

I'm still holding out on a good 1 or 2 drop red creature this set.

We can sideline the artifact UB control for now. Just a bit too clunky against world class players (Isaac has a PT Top 8 and a GP win). After discussion, the deck is lacking early filtering to help assemble the pieces quickly enough; this is a fairly obvious oversight as previous versions of UB Control had Preordain / Spreading Seas or Ponder / Think Twice. There's no way to get that consistency early right now.

UW has Azorius Charm so I'm leaning that way right now; the deck doesn't seem to have got much from BNG (aside from an improved mana base, which is of course a big game) but I've played with it a bunch and like it.

Probably still leaning mono U at this point; though ill be doing the obligatory "brew every reasonable aggro deck I can think of" frenzy that I always enjoy.

Black aggro seems a little better than red aggro. Dos Rakis is interesting, but these aren't the days of Lavaclaw Reaches;
manlands are amazing but they're very demanding on an aggro deck's manabase.

If there's not a lot of aggro at any point in the season, black aggro with maindeck UC is a proven winner; I had huge success with that last year.

World of possibilities.

I'm still holding out on a good 1 or 2 drop red creature this set.

Firedrinker Satyr
Foundry Street Denizen
Legion Loyalist
Rakdos Cackler

The problem isn't our 1 drops, they're amazing. The problem is mono U maindecks 16 hate cards (Frostburn Weird, Master of Waves, Nightveil Spectre, Tidebinder Mage).

That's why black aggro is interesting; you sidestep most of thise issues.

Oracle of Bones just needed to be pushed a little more . . .

Always wondered about this - is greek mythology something taught in school in 'murica or in zem/mdu case Australia? Welp, I had to read the whole thing in Primary school.