MysticKetchup
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I’m surprised, I didn’t think we’d ever see a new pox given how much they avoid resource denial these days. I guess they’re okay with it at 5 (heavily restricted) mana
Dang, was hoping for repeatable land ramp or maybe some big 3/3 or 4/4 tokens. Wish this had at least given trample until end of turn
RIP Blex, gone but not forgotten
Entering can grab any creature card in a graveyard and gives haste, which is a significant upgrade.
But in recent years they’ve been shortcutting “Look at the top X for something, and put the rest in your graveyard” into just “Mill X and put something among them into your hand/field”
Mark Rosewater noted it as a positive for Draft in his State of Design article, but that may have been only for less-experienced drafters. Was it disliked among more competitive drafters?
I dislike using them inside my decks because of how often they curl. However for my Commander I will often try to spend the extra money for an extra shiny card since they almost never get shuffled into the deck
However I am a little disappointed how often the foiling is just not that impressive. Coming from playing Yu-Gi-Oh as a kid I do miss their more bombastic foil cards
Quandrix has been my favorite of the Strixhaven colleges and it continues for this set. I’m already interested in a deck with the new Primo.
We also got Follow the Bodies from MKM Commander!
The potential to live the dream with Channel in draft is there
Somehow missed that this was from the Commander set when I originally posted it given that Commander previews usually come all at once. Also it feels like it could be printed into Standard and not really do anything
Edit: and then mistakenly changed it to SOA instead of SOC, dangnabbit
It’s nutty if you untap with it, but I think Commander is fast enough these days that a seven mana Commander needs to do a lot in order to be worthwhile. And since this doesn’t have any effect on ETB you really need to have extra mana/free counterpells up to protect it if you want to Storm off before it gets removed
The card isn’t “Prepared” while it’s in your hand, so yeah you gotta cast the creature first. I think it’s an interesting way to add more Instants/Sorceries and a fun way to bring back old spells (especially broken ones)
I missed that on first read. I’m glad they finally fixed the mechanic, it was cool but the downside completely ruined it
I think it’s good as a repeatable source of recursion (at a high life cost) in Commander, but too slow and easily disruptable for 1v1
I’m guessing it’s a limited card, but it feels like fixing will have to be very good because this is probably not worth 5 mana if it’s doing less than 4 damage
Urzatron decks in Pauper often ran lots of Fogs and life gain so they could survive into the late game. They had lots of excess mana and Bonder’s Ornament was by far the most efficient draw engine. They made several hits to the deck due to its dominance but it hasn’t been as good in recent years so it might be able to come off now
Yes, all regular boosters contain 1 Instant or Sorcery card from the Mystical Archive, at the above pull rates. If you check the Spoilers community you can see the current revealed cards under [SOA] (whereas the main set is [SOS])