if you have an ajani out, you can play a second ajani, sac your first one to the legend rule and flip the second one because your cat died, seems pretty deece

@thejackscraft3472

2 ай бұрын

you'd even still have 2 cat tokens to pump with the +2.

@durza7173

2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately the legend rule just puts permanents directly into the graveyard, bypassing the death trigger

@thejackscraft3472

2 ай бұрын

@@durza7173 nope, still works. "Dies" is a shorthand for "Is put into the graveyard from the battlefield", so the legend rule putting one into the graveyard still counts as it "Dying".

@Zaalbarjedi

2 ай бұрын

@@durza7173Unfortunately, you'd better read the rules first before answering rules question.

@Morkins324

2 ай бұрын

@@durza7173 False. It's not a replacement effect. It is a State Based Effect that checks permanents in play and then moves one from the Battlefield to the Graveyard. The definition of "Dies" within the game is when a permanent "is put into a graveyard from the battlefield". For it to be a permanent and have the State Based Effect occur, it MUST be on the battlefield. Therefore, the creature "dies" due to the Legend rule. Notably, it isn't "destroyed" or "sacrificed" for any triggers that care about those things and, since it happens as a State Based Effect, no players can respond to it (you can't Swords to Plowshares one of them in response to the legend rule, though you could Swords to Plowshares the one already on the battlefield before the new one resolves but lets assume it is somehow protected by Hexproof or Protection from White or something else so you can't do that. You cannot respond to 2 Ajani's being in play). But it DOES die.

His ultimate will forever be, "Cat-aclysm"

@masonsovamusic196

2 ай бұрын

Yep. I’m immediately adopting this into my mtg vocab

@bradcallahan3546

2 ай бұрын

Stupid cringe

Definitive Name for the inevitable Modern Eldrazi-Food Deck: Spaghetti Monsters

@Cephalopopo

2 ай бұрын

great idea however decks this days seem to be disallowed to bear creative names thats why it will just be something boring like emrakul tokens.

@NStripleseven

2 ай бұрын

Nah I’m calling it spaghetti monster you can’t stop me

@Reversespacehippie

2 ай бұрын

I was thinking Alphabet Soup but, yours is better

@BrootalMetalBanjo

2 ай бұрын

May you be touched by his noodley appendage

@andrewamann2821

2 ай бұрын

Run it with the panharmonicon/torpor orb Elesh Norn in it, and you could just call it "Mom's Spaghetti."

Can’t wait for this to not be included in the $90 Eldrazi Precon

@Theoszombie

2 ай бұрын

Can't wait to proxy it just like every card from now on. WotC has already shown us that proxies are a-ok, right? 👍

@gwenyurick9663

2 ай бұрын

​@Theoszombie idk why people think this is some kind of gotcha, they've openly been ok with proxies (not counterfeits) as long as you aren't playing in asanctioned event

@alexanderyoungert1969

2 ай бұрын

​@@Theoszombieare you talking about commander then because who cares it's casual

@Theoszombie

2 ай бұрын

@@gwenyurick9663 well then there's no problem with my choice. Who said it was a gotcha?

@Theoszombie

2 ай бұрын

@@alexanderyoungert1969 whatever format I decide to play. Commander variants are my preferred game types, but I dabble in a lot of things.

Emrakul also brings back the old legend rule, when she etbs after a cast you take theirs, sac one to legend rule, and then the death kills the other one

@ShinkuDragon

2 ай бұрын

not quite, you steal first, and then she enters and instantly sacs.

@irou95

2 ай бұрын

Legend rule isn't sacrifice, relevant for cards like mayhem devil

@lonsmithicus

2 ай бұрын

There's 4 old legend rules.

Note that a Madness spell is cast from exile, with a "When" trigger that has to resolve first. So Drannith Magistrate can block your opponent from casting it. Also you can Stifle the Madness trigger and the card stays exiled with no cast trigger.

@jonlangthorne7924

2 ай бұрын

As another commenter has said whirlwind denial is an excellent counter spell to use

@DankAudioStash24

2 ай бұрын

Stifling the madness trigger sounds brutal.

@williamdrum9899

2 ай бұрын

@@DankAudioStash24 Not as brutal as Vendilion Clique ripping a Terminus out of your opponents hand in response to the miracle trigger

@DankAudioStash24

2 ай бұрын

@@williamdrum9899 Pretty random comparison. I was rather comparing it to whirlwind denial which costs three times as much.

@williamdrum9899

2 ай бұрын

@@DankAudioStash24 More brutal from a rules lawyering perspective

Flavor win: Ajani gets angry and becomes a badass. Flavor loss: cats flipping on their back is a sign of trust and willingness to let you pet their belly. Flavor win: don’t rub their belly, they will try to end you.

11:28 Emrakul's eternal nemesis, the gaggle of squirrels in a tree!

"Emrakul's ability is basically uncounterable" Laughs in Whirlwind Denial.

@dyne313

2 ай бұрын

“No, no, and … no.”

@jonlangthorne7924

2 ай бұрын

Best counterspell ever printed, nobody will change my mind on it

Counter your own Emrakul. Bonus points if you counter with Remand or another 'return target spell' interaction.

@L4g__

2 ай бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking, tho i didn't know if that was just my edh brain not considering the viability in other formats

@williamdrum9899

2 ай бұрын

Where are you gonna get six colorless and 1(W/U), and a discard outlet

@joshrivet4011

2 ай бұрын

@@williamdrum9899 It's a lot easier than you think. I don't play competitive magic (prize supported games), so I couldn't tell you the exact cards, but blue and/or white tron with Underworld Cookbook is an option.

@SalazarDaraster

2 ай бұрын

"Return target spell to hand" effects like Divide by Zero if you want to recast it later :v

@joshrivet4011

2 ай бұрын

@@SalazarDaraster Good thinking. Like Remand.

random bulk uncommon that pile drives emrakul and also a pet card of mine, whirlwind denial. its a bit steep at 3cmc but man countering an emrakul and countering gaining control effects seems good

Seal of Doom seeing new Emrakul: "Finally, my time has come" (no not really lol). I'm actually excited to see the rest of the "Sac=free" spells in MH3. Normally free-spells worry me because they have some obvious OP-if-free effect, but at least with the green one, sacrificing a specific-color non-token creature is a real cost, and the card itself is just a common-tier effect if paid with mana.

@faerie7dragon

2 ай бұрын

Soul Snare's time to shine.

@Justadeathgod

2 ай бұрын

@@faerie7dragonor making yourself hexproof also does the job. The sac=free spells are very interesting with all the colored 0 mana creatures,,, such as the kobolds and the rootwallas

@keatonkuuuun

2 ай бұрын

As long as Veteran Explorer isn't in this set, I don't see this green one being horribly busted yet. Curious to see if any decks do play it

@killuahsmathetricks389

2 ай бұрын

@@keatonkuuuunWith veteran explorer it would give your opponents the lands as well. So you still would only have a 1 land advantage. (Which for free is still good, dont get me wrong). What got me worried much much more is Aboreal Grazer. Cause the green free to cast spell gives you the fodder for the next grazer as well. So I could see, that this will at least have some impact. But you are definately right concerning the powerlevel not being that busted as the incarnations.

@user-bk4yz3jk8g

2 ай бұрын

Don't forget Dryad Arbor is a fetchable land that counts as a creature. Won't be hard to cast it for free

I really wanna know what they do with her story and why she decides to come back out now, as if she knew planeswalkers would be losing their sparks. Though I guess being an Eldrazi its feasible that she could sense the 'fabric' of the multiverse and the blind eternities being stretched thinner and thinner leading up to March of the Machine

@coreyodell6220

2 ай бұрын

I don't think the modern series plays into the main storyline though, right? Though I deffo want the eldrazi to come back as big baddies. Never too many eldrazi cards

Yeah, the new Emrakul is gonna warp some formats. You could almost say she's, y'know, remaking the world anew :P

For the frog its also a reference to Shadowmage infiltrator right? The joke being that Atog was a great prox for the $10 chaces rare back in the day. But this Frog is both...lol

@PleasantKenobi

2 ай бұрын

I've never heard this joke before. Interesting haha.

@natahliazaring5291

2 ай бұрын

I mean it just seems like it's calling back to both shadowmage and Psychatog at the same time to give the good nostalgia feels. Cause those of us who are fond of one are probably fond of the other as well haha

@chibichanga1849

2 ай бұрын

@@natahliazaring5291 I think OP is actually right about the lore, that supposedly people who were play testing a blue/black control deck were using psychatog as a proxy for shadowmage infiltrator, since the latter was relatively expensive and psychatog was not, and during the testing they noticed how often they would have preferred for the creature in play to actually be psychatog rather than shadowmage infiltrator.

@natahliazaring5291

2 ай бұрын

@@chibichanga1849 oh that is definitely a story that gets told (basically impossible to say for sure if it's actually true, but it's at least a myth that get passed around if not), but it feels like a jump to say that that *specifically* is the inspiration for the card, compared to just "it is referencing both Psychatog and shadowmage," important UB creatures that will resonate with the same folks from back then. That's all I'm saying. It can just be simpler than the OP was saying, especially bc the simpler read is pretty obvious to folks who weren't around back then, while I don't know if anyone has passed around that story about mixing them for a long long time.

@JustRightPinedo

2 ай бұрын

That’s a pretty specific legend, is the story that R&D was play testing the proxies?

04:32 Issue is that it's specifically Green creatures, so things like Sticher's Supplier won't work.

@DaBoyChinWonder

2 ай бұрын

Yes but it will be able to be sacrificed for whatever the black one is.

@PWNTGUY

2 ай бұрын

@@DaBoyChinWonder Ahh I see the point he was making, yeah make sense.

@JustRightPinedo

2 ай бұрын

Could sac dryad arbor though?😊

@PWNTGUY

Ай бұрын

@@JustRightPinedo Yeah you could, Dryad Arbor has a color indicator of Green even if it doesnt have a casting cost. Would still have summoning sickness though.

I built Laelia in commander 2 a long while ago and looked up how she interacts with cascade one day and my eyes blew up when I realized how wild she places with Wild-Magic Sorcerer.

10:44 Her. You got it right lol

"Ayers rock from Lion King". The most British sentence I've heard ❤

I'm curious to see if people might try and slot a copy or 2 of the flare into a titan shell. being able to turn 1 play land, arboreal grazer for 2nd land then sac the grazer for a 3rd land + a guaranteed land drop on turn 2 seems interesting.

@MrPiotrV

2 ай бұрын

no, it's not good in titan. what you described is literally the only use case. what % of starting hands will have both a grazer and a flare? ;)

Ajani's front half as a 1/2 that makes a 2/1 is already ridiculous. And they printed an entire backhalf. WTF?

@timiturret148

2 ай бұрын

Welcome to Yu-Gi-Oh mate.

@williamsimkulet7832

2 ай бұрын

Yugioh doesn't have double sided cards.@@timiturret148

@yoeriization

2 ай бұрын

Wouldn't really call it ridiculous since it is printed for a format where 1 and 2 mana creatures that are wayyyy bigger than a 3/3 are the norm.

@williamsimkulet7832

2 ай бұрын

Nonsense; two 1/1s for 1C has been the standard for years and sees play in multiple formats. What they've done here is decided "This card needs to see play" and printed stats to make it happen and obsoleted so much else. It's shameful and bad design.@@yoeriization

@yoeriization

2 ай бұрын

@@williamsimkulet7832 Except you are talking about instants that make 1/1's which is something different entirely. Yes, orcish bowmasters technically isn't an instant, but you know what I mean.

Flare of Cultivation might be playable in Nic Fit, where you can ramp 1 more land + guarantee next land drop off sacrificing Veteran Explorer T1 instead of using Cabal Therapy to sac it.

Im like 99% sure the black card in the “flare of” cycle is going to be victimize. Flare of Victimization makes sense with the naming theme of the cycle. Mechanically, victimize also coincides with how the spells are cast for free.

@B1gLupu

2 ай бұрын

Unlikely. Victimize is 2B because you need to sac a dude, so even a Victimize for 1 creature for 0 mana would be too good.

@guisseppimelon8224

2 ай бұрын

@@B1gLupu my thoughts on this are essentially that the base mode would be regular victimize and the free mode would require you to sac a black nontoken creature and any other creature. Considering that Flare of cultivation is a tapped mox plus an extra card on its free mode, I don’t think that a free victimize is off the table. (Also, from a marketing standpoint, it would sell more packs of mh3 and lotr if they gave you another way to abuse orcish bowmasters)

@Nanook128

2 ай бұрын

​@@B1gLupuyou still have to sacrifice a second dude if your casting a free victimize. Sucking a black non token creature plus sacrificing another creature on top of that to resurrect two cards for zero mana seems like a lot of hoops to jump through but still viable.

@jonathanforsum5357

2 ай бұрын

@@guisseppimelon8224I feel like that’s way too strong still. With something like a stitcher’s supplier and an ornithopter and a grief or something you could reanimate atraxa and double grief the opponent t1. With really efficent landcyclers and the pitch elementals, you get increadibly far ahead with this, and you just need 2 creatures to sacc, one of which can be a token or 0-mana artifact? That’s way too strong, and even if it somehow doesn’t break the format it will in the future. The naming fits really nicely, but it’s just way too strong.

@guisseppimelon8224

Ай бұрын

Im giving it some thought after the blue one leaked today. I was thinking too big, they’re definitely basing them off of commons that are like base effects. It’s not going to victimize, it’s going to be flare of murder.

Turns out the underworld cookbook has a recipe for spaghetti ...

That eldrazi....one more creature for my Henzie and Animar decks. The lands with the eldrazis in the far distance are amazing.

Interesting note about Emrakul: her Madness cost allowing for some weird timing stuff also allows you to steal an evoke elemental with the sacrifice trigger on the stack, which, if I am thinking correctly, could blank the sacrifice, allowing you to steal the body of an elemental that was evoked.

@Ahayzo

2 ай бұрын

You are correct, you cannot sacrifice a creature you don't control. Hadn't thought about that, that will be a fun interaction.

@NeverDauntedRadioNetwork

2 ай бұрын

If a creature spell cast with evoke changes controllers before it enters the battlefield, it will still be sacrificed when it enters the battlefield. Similarly, if a creature cast with evoke changes controllers after it enters the battlefield but before its sacrifice ability resolves, it will still be sacrificed.

@sadrobot5501

2 ай бұрын

​​@@NeverDauntedRadioNetworkI don't know the exact rulings, but what I do know is that an Evoked creature DOES INDEED enter the battlefield (if not countered of course), therefore, Emrakul can steal it before the sacrifice trigger resolves. Now, does it get sacrificed if stolen? I don't know, but it can be stolen.

@Ahayzo

2 ай бұрын

@@sadrobot5501 I looked it up, NeverDaunted is actually correct. The rules text of evoke doesn't tell you to sacrifice it, it specifically says that the creature's controller sacrifices it. You will not save it with Emrakul, sad.

@NeverDauntedRadioNetwork

2 ай бұрын

@@Ahayzo in fact, because there are two triggers, the original controller chooses how they sit on the stack, so it’s either the evoke etb effect or the evoke sacrifice. In either case, Emrakul stealing will only end in sacrifice.

Time to dust off some leylines of sanctity

One thing about flare of cultivation is that you have to sac a green creature, so you cant sac something like stitcher supplier in a hollow vine deck for example.

Ajani is gonna be kickin' it with with his boys, Mondrak and Ojer Tak in EDH decks... Actually, this package will slot into my Piru semi-Aristocrats deck quite nicely, come to think of it. *Laughs in Altar of the Brood/Syr Conrad engine...*

I read Emrakul with "Evoke" first. My God, I wish my eyes were right. How awesome would that be: falling short on your tron draws, top deck this Emrakul when your opponent has a developed (Hexproof/Indestructible) board state, wipe the board for 6, and still have one mana left over for your Expedition Map. Kinda wishing this had Evoke over Madness.

I have a deck that summons a lot of Eldrazi scions. The Insidious roots effectively doubles their mana output.

Emrakul the Promised End has some amazing perspective art if you look at the whole piece. Kozilek, Butcher of Truth's original art also has some good perspective work.

You can Trickbind or Tishana’s Tidebender Emrakul’s cast trigger.

I love top-down design, so I'm stoked for origins-style flip walkers coming back.

It's worth noting that she has protection from spells, not just spells cast this turn, that clause only applies to permanents. The cases were this will come up are pretty close to non existent outside of commander but you do occasionally see narsets reversal.

@4:30 You won't be able to sac those value creatures cause the card states it has to be a green creature. But this card belongs in ramp strategies that use Grazer or other 1 cmc dorks, just float the mana before you sac.

Totally putting this Ajani in my "Jetmir's Feral Cats" deck for sure!!!

Ah, Spaghetti monsters are back

@MsMiDC

2 ай бұрын

R'amen.

How do you go about getting one of those Sol Rings with a Coolstuffinc order? Is there a certain amount you have to spend?

@PleasantKenobi

2 ай бұрын

It's a free foil with every single order. Lucky individuals can get special promos including the cat ring. Check the website for more details.

Psychic frog is a mixture between psych atog and shadowmage infiltrator.

arena already checks and marks card "played this turn" and im assuming they will use this to track it for arena (which is partially wrong but im sure they have a way to check cast cuz they already do for some other spells)

I didn’t initially think the new emrakul was good but you convinced me. I do think you could make a broken or maybe just playable deck with Laila the blade reforged. If you can cascade or discover low enough to not hit anything you can swing for 50 or so on turn 4

The thing about flare of cultivation is that sloth thing in amulet Titian can be saced after it you get a second land. Also good news! Moon mommy isn’t as busted as you think, as They don’t gain haste so they can’t attack the turn it happens

@PleasantKenobi

2 ай бұрын

It doesn't need haste. They can cut it in your turn lmao

Finally an Emrakul that doesn't die to Big Game Hunter. At least one that was casted instead of being put onto the battlefield another way

ermakrul feels like a mindslaver replacement for tron decks in modern. it could be a fun sideboard card in specific decks in eternal formats. also, it can just be a cheaper eldrazi for legacy post decks

So much for my theory that snow-covered wastes would debut in a set literally named "Eldrazi Winter"

Get your containment priests now!

That Green Sorcery is so broken. Like you can really Ramp it up. I'm getting a play set for my EDH decks.

Flare seems neat for Nic Fit and commander decks running a certain number of low drop creatures but not sure if this is good outside of that. Having a way to accelerate further with Vet Ex seems pretty good! Ajani seems quite good. Not busted by any means but good nonetheless. Immediately thought of Cat and Taxes when the card popped up lol. Emrakul is the one I'm torn on here. Like it looks extremely powerful if you can get it to stick but I think there's just too many different answers (from vial/hunter to sheoldreds edict) for it to work. Ephemerate/solutide does work BUT the solitude must already be in hand (as Eph only exiles stuff you CONTROL and Emra is a cast trigger) so you are quite possibly losing the Ephemerate for little value and setting youself back so far that your opponent can slam their next threat once your Solitude trigger does little to nothing (assuming empty boardstate ofc) Tho just saying "dies to removal" is not exactly the best argument, if it dies to the stuff played already or if there's stuff already waiting to be played idk if this does it... Wait and see I say...

Emrakul definitely nuts and may warp the meta around her if she becomes a big thing Of note, you can stifle her cast trigger and you can use things like replenish efffects to return o rings to play and target her or can use fork effects to copy a removal spell and aim the copy at her But definitely hoops to jump through just for her

yeah... emrakul is very strong against creature strategies and is huge regardless. need wipes to remove her or board effects which are likely on creatures which she probably took control of... lol gonna be interesting. cool card though since you CAN play around it. In commander she's going to be such a huge pain in the ass for a lot of decks. If she gets popular maybe it'll increase the amount of board wipes that get run.

Eldrazi are love eldrazi are life

Does Ajani Pariah, as long as you controll a Cat, by Default, dodges boardwipes? I mean the moment he sees another Cat dying i can exile him and bring him back as Planeswalker.... So wouldnt Stuff like Supreme Verdict, Trigger his Ability, he gets Sacrificed, comes Back and isnt affected by Creature Destruction anymore? How is the Ruling here?

I have a deck that runs a bunch of artifacts creating colorless mana. Since it also runs black, I could thoughtseize myself and cast for six colorless

Flare of Cultivation + Veteran Explorer is dope

Is there room for colorless mana generation in reanimator? I know there are the painlands, but I think T6 is too slow to cast this where straight reanimation is better, but though if not hardcasting it seems a hard sell versus the Ghalta, Primal Stampede or Emrakul, the Promised End. Is protection from Oblivion Ring able to balance out sacrificing all your creatures if they do kill it?

Flair of cultivation seems pretty strong with undying

T1 Wooded Foothills Dryad Arbor Sac Dryad Arbor to Flare of Cultivation. I feel like this a play pattern we'll see regularly

I don’t think that Emrakul is going to be absolutely insane. I think that she’ll be a fine addition to Tron, but there aren’t any other shells in the format that can consistently both discard her and create 6 colorless pips without significantly downgrading their mana bases. It’s possible that a new form of a RB or RG Asmo shell gets made that does powerful things when Emrakul isn’t drawn AND can cast her consistently, but even in a 2 color setting, you are making your mana worse to accommodate a very heavy splash into a pseudo-third color.

The funny thing is that when Psychatog came out, it severely outclassed another 1UB creature that had just been printed in the exact same set, Shadowmage Infiltrator. And now here we have Psychic Frog, a card that costs 1 less than both of them and basically does both of their jobs at once.

Eldritch Moon was the most recent Eldrazi (featuring) set no? (Or did you mean Battle for Zen because the newer Eldrazi didn't do much (aside from Emrakul's ban))

@jacobisbell9388

2 ай бұрын

Commander Masters technically

Tishana's Tidebinder would be able to stop the taking control of all creatures trigger on Emrakul, correct?

@thejackscraft3472

2 ай бұрын

yep, it's a triggered ability off of casting her, so tidebinder should work just fine.

The callback to "Eldrazi Winter" has to be intentional with the snow-covered wastes. Let's just hope that the design team left the callback to that. Emrakul is shaking that hope.

Even though commander has dug its class into everything, I am getting a breath of fresh air feeling from this set. I like it!

I think that emrakul will be used with urza’s saga in from so that it doesn’t require having extra colours and stuff like that

@PleasantKenobi

2 ай бұрын

What?

Already built a deck around Emrakul :)

i like the idea of the origin pw. i would love a tezereth on that style

Flare of cultivation + arboreal grazer means your untapping turn 2 with 4 mana.

Flare of Cultivation would be nice with Khalni Garden if there's other synergy to justify that. That could help you hit the Mountain requirement for the land that can make a Dwarf, too.

@giovannivergeat5895

2 ай бұрын

non token creatures

@ZovcDrafts

2 ай бұрын

@@giovannivergeat5895 rip me

is green sun's for dryad arbor into flare of cultivation anything in legacy? i haven't played magic since they started really ramping up the release schedule in the last few years

@tonysmith9905

2 ай бұрын

Why though? You're giving up one of those lands to end with the same lands on field. You'd be better off with Arboreal grazer into flare.

@herfriendscallherdez

2 ай бұрын

@@tonysmith9905 yeah, seems to me like it kind of just.... does stuff, just curious if anyone better versed in the format knew somewhere to take it

Priest of Titania adds mana FOR EACH ELF on the battlefield, NOT each elf you control! Only issue I had!

I feel like I've subscribed to you 5 or 6 times over the years. And every once in a while I glance up and notice I'm not subbed anymore...this happened with the Professor too. I don't know if they are trying to remove bots from sub counts but I'm pretty sure I exist.

If you cascade with Lelia and dont have a card in your deck with the right cost, does she just become a decksize/decksize?

@wscw966

2 ай бұрын

yes

That email is gonna be great in beamtown bullies decks

Pretty sure the opponent doesn’t get their things back when Emrakul is dealt with. It doesn’t say until Emrakul leaves play or anything like that so it seems to be permanent.

I cannot wait to add New Emrakul to my Etali Primal Conqueror deck.

I really hope (but dont think its likely that we get) a two mana whirlwind denial type effect for Emrakul 3: Revenge of the Sith but with a lower tax on the counter trigger I just think Whirlwind Denial deserves more play and it really got kneecapped by being 3MV

Gotta love tron getting more unnecessary help

I'm jsut looking at emrakul and thinking about returning to mono blue tron. I can run a saga package for cookbook and thirst for knowledge as a second discard outlet.

@khub5660

2 ай бұрын

Collector Ouphe goes brr

@StEvEn420BrUlE

2 ай бұрын

Stop trying to make mono blue tron work. It will never work

They missed the opportunity to call the frog "Psychafrog"

@SANT14GO

2 ай бұрын

They clearly meant to but not making it THAT obvious

The rakdos madness commander deck just got a new toy

Ok, so I'm still learning how to interpret all the edge cases and weirdness of timing and triggers in magic, but what I'm hearing is that you would have to counter the on cast ability of this new Emrakul using something like a "Mirrorshell Crab" if you want to avoid the theft, right?

@williamdrum9899

2 ай бұрын

If you can counter her cast trigger you can just counter the Madness trigger to prevent the cast in the first place

@woodroeparadee8374

2 ай бұрын

@@williamdrum9899 that is an excellent point

Nothing says we've learned absolutely nothing like printing more free spells.

Laelia can be good with collet evidence and escape as well.

I was reading down Emrakul going "Yeah, okay this is pretty strong but it's a lot of mana, for this amount you can get this level of power already" and then I hit that last line of text and literally choked on my own words, wow, that's a little crazy.

****, I forgot new emmy had Madness now I have to cram Key To The City into my Eldrazi EDH!

@jacobisbell9388

2 ай бұрын

Now you just need your opponent to play a 12 mana spell so kozilek can discard Emrakul to counter it

If Emrakul becomes an issue it'll come down to them putting madness on her, very much feels like that's there to ensure it has a place outside of reanimator. You'd think the remainder of the text box would compensate for it being an occasionally hard-castable 12/12 beater that does enough on ETB to look like a potent reanimation target but no dice, it's just as game-ending as Aeons Torn. I suspect it won't quite cut it on the reanimator angle with how bloated the reanimation target suite has become in recent year but the fact it can double as a wincon from hand if you can manage the colorless requirements and from the yard is bananas. Less skeptical about the other cards shown so far, new take on psychatog is very much up my alley.

@thejackscraft3472

2 ай бұрын

she's definitely not good enough as a reanimator target, without the cast trigger she'd be on the high end of mid I think, good protection and flying are nice, but that leaves the battlefield trigger is rough. there are a lot of really good reanimator targets, like Aeons Torn, I would be honestly shocked if this made it even close to the cut, I don't think dropping better reanimator targets to add the backup of hard-casting her is a good idea.

If there is a deck that can regularly, cast emrakul its gonna be nuts. Im definately gonna be trying

Stoked to pre order some mh3 products

Maybe teferi's protection to phase out your board before they can take control of anything that maybe the only real play at hand

@jacobisbell9388

2 ай бұрын

Technically when you teferi's protection the ability no longer has a legal target, not that it matters much if you don't have creatures to steal

Laelia already has a really stupid brawl deck that is her, discover and cascade cards, Etali's Favor and then 90+ lands.

@PleasantKenobi

2 ай бұрын

Yeah. I dont know why people play it. Is it fun?

@tonysmith9905

2 ай бұрын

@@PleasantKenobi Doesn't seem like it. Most games are likely mull mull mull play Laelia she gets blown up once gg.

@MrMartinSchou

2 ай бұрын

@@PleasantKenobi The fun part is mostly seeing how few decks are capable of dealing with it. I've logged 40 matches in MTGA Assistant, and that's with a 60% win rate. There IS also a bit of fun in seeing someone go "GG" on turn three (they were on the play) followed up by three or four turns of land destruction and no ability to deal much damage, and then just attacking with a 90+/90+ trample creature that they can't deal with. Like - if you're going to play a "salty" deck, you should probably not just rope when you're about to die.

Honestly, countering your own copy of new Emrakul might be good, you get the trigger, but not the risk (unless she gets reanimated, but that's a different strategy)

@denshitenshi

2 ай бұрын

Especially a counterspell with reward like Tibalt's trickery

@SalazarDaraster

2 ай бұрын

@@denshitenshi Or a "return target spell to hand" like Divide by Zero

In light of Psychic frog i really hope they print circular logic into modern, wouldve been a sick archetype Tbh the eldrazi drone, i wish it was more aggresive, more pushed, making it reduce eldrazi spells 3 or greater would been such a hit for people who wanna play aggro eldrazi

I think I'd try Key to the City instead with Emrakul. Sure it costs one more but can make creatures unblockable and draw cards later in the game. Plus mostly I have fond memories of that card unlike the cookbook.

We can still stifle the big guy right?

You could even discard the new Emrakul to the new pcyho frog. Combo wombo

Turn one veteran explorer into flare of cultivation is going to be absolutely bonkers.

Flare of cultivation is going to be broken with grazer and khalni garden

Honestly excited to play Tron.

Wizards will print anything to sell packs, I think the 2 mana eldrazi lord is trouble. Just going turn 2 lord turn 3 thought-knot is definetly good enough, but you can also just shit out any ammount of endless one's that you have, each of them would be a 2/2 provided you spend no mana and still have the lord. Also mimics for one are really good and having matter reshaper on 2 is just going to help with follow up play consistency. Esentially this is eye of ugin just slightly slower. There enough 2 mana clone affects and things that specifically find 2 mana creatures to where you can just make your own eye of ugin assuming they aren't legendary, but that's abosolutely not the selling point of this card. Its more than good enough if you only see one. Emrakul is nutty, it's really good as a stand alone reanimator target, there's few decks that can utilize it, but we can definitely see some new archetypes pop up. I'm trying to think of a way you can cleanly kill it and im not coming up with a whole lot of shit thats actually practical on my end. I think that Ajani is really pushed as well. It's just another legendary card with no downside for running 4 copies, which is the antithesis of why cards are even legendary to beging with. Like you can absolutely run 4 ragavans, 4 ajani, 3 or 4 intis and multiple of the gruul 3/3 that you can sac to pump your team and protect it and never have any issue with the legendary rule. We're quickly approaching a point where the best creature deck is just going to be Naya legends backed by a free mox, assuming cat domain zoo isn't the best. There's even a white kird ape that's a cat, I think it's called like loam lion or some shit like that.