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Heylel
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Convoke is a good mechanic. It's surprisingly balanced for a mana reducer, and plays straight into creature strategies. Could be super awesome with Ghalta til he rotates.
The ones I'm really worried about are Golgari, Dimir, and Rakdos. They're just terrible at making black guild mechanics that aren't either busted or stupid.
The ones I'm really worried about are Golgari, Dimir, and Rakdos. They're just terrible at making black guild mechanics that aren't either busted or stupid.
Derpa
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Kuro
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Guild Mechanics for GRN:
Boros (R/W)-Mentor: When this creature attack, give another target attacking creature a +1/+1 counter if it has lesser Power than this creature.
Dimir (B/U)-Surveil: Look at the top X cards of your library, then put any of those cards into the graveyard or on top of your library in any order.
Golgari (B/G)-Undergrowth: Not a full mechanic, just a keyword that denotes that the following ability scales based on the # of creatures in your graveyard.
Izzet (U/R)-Jump-Start: You may cast Jump-Start cards from your graveyard, with the additional cost of discarding a card. Exile the Jump-Start card.
Selesnya (G/W)-Convoke: Returning mechanic, tap creatures to help cast spells.
Jump-start is mildly interesting depending on how safe they play it. They can afford to not-over-cost Jump-Start cards the way they have to overcost Flashback cards, since the "recast" still costs a card and the full mana cost. Surveil's going to feel very familiar with Explore still being around.
They talked about taking a different approach to convoke this time by having cards that reward you for tapping creatures for non-combat things.
Boros (R/W)-Mentor: When this creature attack, give another target attacking creature a +1/+1 counter if it has lesser Power than this creature.
Dimir (B/U)-Surveil: Look at the top X cards of your library, then put any of those cards into the graveyard or on top of your library in any order.
Golgari (B/G)-Undergrowth: Not a full mechanic, just a keyword that denotes that the following ability scales based on the # of creatures in your graveyard.
Izzet (U/R)-Jump-Start: You may cast Jump-Start cards from your graveyard, with the additional cost of discarding a card. Exile the Jump-Start card.
Selesnya (G/W)-Convoke: Returning mechanic, tap creatures to help cast spells.
Jump-start is mildly interesting depending on how safe they play it. They can afford to not-over-cost Jump-Start cards the way they have to overcost Flashback cards, since the "recast" still costs a card and the full mana cost. Surveil's going to feel very familiar with Explore still being around.
They talked about taking a different approach to convoke this time by having cards that reward you for tapping creatures for non-combat things.
Sterling
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If it's just tacked on to cards that playable anyways or close to it, surveil will be real strong. If Surveil 1 is on some 4 mana shit that should be 2 mana without it, it's going to be shit. There's probably some of both and the same sort of thing is going to happen with the other mechanics.
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The slide with Tezz has the website for what I guess is Hasbro's official store HasbroToyShop.com? If you can just go and order these on their website at MSRP, even if that MSRP is very high, it'll be bonkers how much product they move.
edit - could indicate a new series of super premium products that are bought from Hasbro directly
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Kuro
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More SDCC style promos, yawn.
Good for the people who want em, couldn't care less as someone who doesn't.
Reddit is booty blasted that they're not actual masterpieces and making standard cards worthless.
Some neat previews, the counterspell+surveil 1 is definitely going to see play. Also, if the Clone spell is any indicator, the jump-start spells just might not be overcosted garbage (while that one is probably garbage due to its effect, that is the normal cost for that effect).
Good for the people who want em, couldn't care less as someone who doesn't.
Reddit is booty blasted that they're not actual masterpieces and making standard cards worthless.
Some neat previews, the counterspell+surveil 1 is definitely going to see play. Also, if the Clone spell is any indicator, the jump-start spells just might not be overcosted garbage (while that one is probably garbage due to its effect, that is the normal cost for that effect).
