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General Magic / Elesh Norn - What's the last new Praetor gonna look like?

« on: August 01, 2022, 05:06:51 pm »

Hey Everyone,

I'm a really big fan of how Wizards is forshadowing the next big events in Magics storyline. Okay, the last few years were not a highlight in terms of lore and story, but War of the Spark had a nice climax and brought years of ingame-history to an end. That was cool, i would love more of that.

So what are the Praetors up to? I think it's brilliant that Wizards is spreading some of the most iconic and infamous creatures ever printed all around different planes, probably connecting their plans in future sets.

So far we've got a new Vorinclex, a new Jin-Gitaxias and a new Urabrask – all recalling to their original printings and serving some sweet symmetrical effects.

Vorinclex, Voice of Hunger // Vorinclex, Monstrous Raider
Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur // Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
Urabrask the Hidden // Urabrask, Heretic Praetor

As some recent leaks suppose, Sheoldred will be featured in the upcoming Dominaria United. This is not confirmed yet and the leak could as well be a fake.

Sheoldred, Whispering One // Sheoldred, Insidious Conqueror (3BB, 4/5)

Ward – Discard two cards
Whenever a non-token creature you control dies, draw a card. This ability only triggers once per turn.
Whenever a non-token creature an opponent controls dies or an opponent discards a creature card, put that card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. This ability only triggers once per turn

The last missing Praetor is Elesh Norn, Grand Cenobite. I always felt like she was the most powerful of the pack, with the most rememberable art and one of the most unique effects ever printed on a creature. According to the Wizards road map, the last set of the year will be "The Brothers War". Players will stay on the lore-filled plane of Dominaria to experience the fight between Urza and Mishra that could impact the plane and the entire multiverse.
So, long story short: What could the new Elesh Norn look like? Will she appear in The Brothers War or on a different plane? Feel free to share your thoughts and ideas. I'll go ahead with a little example:

Elesh Norn, Highest Dread (4WWW, 7/7)
Vigilance
Elesh Norn, Highest Dread enters the Battlefield with a shield counter.
Other Creatures you control get +1/+1 for each creature you control.
For each Opponent, creatures they control get -1/-1 for each creature they control.

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Deck Comments / Re: Golgari Control - Comments

« on: October 12, 2018, 09:10:00 am »

You will have a bad time against go-wide token decks, control matchups, hexproof creatures, burn and storm

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General Magic / Re: Accumulating Damage

« on: April 04, 2018, 01:57:08 pm »

I didn't actually think of Reckoner targeting itself - this seems like a sweet Idea! Would fit into a kind of controlish w/r shell. As for what Firegriff said, I wouldn't mind killing the Reckoner if it wins me the game. If Boros Reckoner gains indestructible somehow, a ping of 1 damage would also be enough to kill the opponent, wich is nice.

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General Magic / Accumulating Damage

« on: April 03, 2018, 03:49:44 pm »

Hey Guys!

So I was brewing with some older and newer cards and ended up experimenting with Boros Reckoner (again). I always wanted to make it's abilty kill my opponent on the spot, but besides the infamous Volcano Hellion "combo", if you want to call it like that, there really wasn't anything special to do with Reckoner.
I then stumbled upon doubling effects. Effects like Insult // Injury or Furnace of Rath that just straight away can do unbelievable things if you're attacking with an Inferno Titan for example. But here's what came to mind:

One could use Boros Reckoner as some sort of Bridge between damage spells and the opponent. Let's make up a possible scenario:
We've got both Boros Reckoner and Furnace of Rath out on the battlefield and cast a Lightning Bolt targeting Boros Reckoner. Now it's receiving 6 points of damage, passing them on to the opponent, who now takes 12. Imagine two Boros Reckoner on the battlefield, passing the damage from 6 to 12 to 24. 24 for 1 red is like a lot, but the whole setup seems a bit clunky.
Are there similar cards that could be used bridgewise to pass the damage further? Could this setup be playable in something like Modern? 

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Deck Reviews / Abzan Plow Tyrant (Modern)

« on: December 30, 2017, 06:05:03 pm »

Happy Hollidays, everyone!

I built a deck thats both kind of controlish / midrangeish and that works quite well against almost anything in my "modern" playgroup. Just give me a few thoughts or some ideas for the sideboard. Hope you like it.

https://deckstats.net/decks/25183/881350-abzan-plow-tyrant?lng=de

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Deck Reviews / Making Brisela Work (at least a little)

« on: November 28, 2017, 03:36:19 pm »

Hey, what are your thoughts about this BW Brisela attempt in a control shell?

https://deckstats.net/decks/25183/862752-assembling-brisela-bw-control-/de

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Deck Comments / Re: Nice Deck, Love to Play It - Comments

« on: August 01, 2017, 02:10:36 pm »

I think you don't need those basic islands, since you only use them for villainous wealth - which you only intend to play with lots of mana for X, speak: mid or lategame. Axebane Guardian and Sylvan Caryatid should provide you with enough blue mana late game, whereas those islands could be dead draws early game.

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Deck Comments / Re: Isochron Lockdown - Comments

« on: April 14, 2017, 01:49:27 pm »

You can just take every point of damage to the face until you can imprint Silence on your Isochron Scepter and hit the board with the Grand Abolisher. Your life fills up with Lightning Helix again and the Boros Charm keeps your permanents alive and shoots 4 at opponents and/or planeswalkers as well.

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General Magic / Re: Amonkhet Spoilers

« on: April 01, 2017, 09:32:46 am »

I am really excited about those new lands. Okay, they're no tap- pain- or manlands, but cycling seems pretty useful. What really gets my attention is, that this new land cycle features double-basics. I am pretty sure we will see something like Wild Nacatl or Kird Ape in this set.

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Deck Comments / Re: Mono Black - Comments

« on: March 31, 2017, 05:00:39 pm »

"Here we've got the most powerful black cards. I'll shove them all into one decklist."

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Deck Comments / Re: Second Breakfast - Stanislav Cifka - Comments

« on: March 30, 2017, 03:34:56 pm »

Gitaxian Probe is not Modern legal anymore. And maybe I just don't get it, but how does this win?

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General Magic / Re: Amonkhet Spoilers

« on: March 29, 2017, 03:50:14 pm »

Too bad, i just got into standard with Kaladesh... Well, at least exert sounds like an ability that could come back in later expansions, but embalm just feels not really like mtg and could be stupidly strong. We have to wait, i'll guess. Btw, the revolt ability wasn't great fun either.

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General Magic / Re: Amonkhet Spoilers

« on: March 28, 2017, 10:11:45 am »

Okay, first things first: The new split cards look terrible. I mean, we've had some split cards before, they were okay. What is this abomination of a 90 degree turn of a card?!

Furthermore: The new Embalm ability exiles the original creature from a graveyard and gives you a token with the same name/abilities/stats etc. but is a Zombie in addition to its other types. Embalm is going to be "mainly a white" activated ability.

White. Zombies. 

By the way, Trueheart Duelist will be blocking the shit out of your opponent.

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Deck Reviews / BR Discard Control

« on: February 02, 2017, 04:28:23 pm »

So, I got into control decks recently and i always wanted to make some use auf RB cards. Will this do its job or is my discard engine way too slow?

https://deckstats.net/decks/25183/661110-br-discard-control

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[de] Deck-Bewertungen / Re: [Casual] Nooby Goblin Deck

« on: February 02, 2017, 04:25:21 pm »

Mit Goblins macht man Anfangs nicht viel falsch, die kleinen Racker neigen dazu, sich gegenseitig ziemlich zu pushen, ähnlich wie Zombies oder Elfen. Da Du ein paar Karten von anderen Farben in deinem deck hast (man nennt sowas splashen, im Sinne von "ein paar Farbkleckse hinzufügen") hast du ja schon ein paar Sümpfe hinzugefügt. Oft hat man aber nicht gerade das passende Mana, wenn man eine gesplashte Karte zieht. Oder die Sümpfe verstopfen dir zu Spielbeginn die Hand. Hier helfen Dual-Lands, also zweifarbige Länger. Dragonskull Summit wäre hier zu empfehlen, es gibt aber noch dutzende andere Länder.
Auch hast du kaum Removal in deinem Deck. Karten wie Lightning Bolt oder Go for the Throat machen dir das Leben gegen sehr starke Monster hier einfacher und lassen dich sogar einen Gegner mit wenig Lebenspunkten instant besiegen.
Falls dein Gegner Artefakte oder Verzauberungen spielt, ist es hilfreich, auch dafür Removal dabei zu haben. Shattering Spree oder Rakdos Charm helfen dir hier aus der Patsche.

Tendenziell sind Tribal-Decks, also Decks die sich auf einen besonderen Kreaturentyp spezialisieren, sehr Anfällig für bestimmte Spells, die mehrere gleiche Typen ausschalten. Auch gibt es Karten wie den Lightning Bolt, die einfach ziemlich stark sind und deshalb Platz in fast jedem Deck finden. Hier gilt es, nicht zugunsten deines Tribals wichtige Utilitykarten zu vernachlässigen.

Ansonsten - viel Spaß mit deinen Goblins