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Posted on Nov. 22, 2022, 11:58 a.m. by Coward_Token

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• Don't like most of the Japanese art, looks like cheap screencap alters. Mind you, I like anime.
• Runadi should really be titled Hydra Caller
• Creeping Bloodsucker is a fine addition to Belbe, Corrupted Observer, even if it doesn't curve. Three life a turn isn't bad either.
• Chevill is getting support at a glacial pace
• I'd rather have another Plague Spitter reprint than Festering Evil
• Towering Gibbon looks so cute, haha. I kinda wish it looked at all your permanents though, mostly feels like a more boring green Clone
• I've definently never seen Kibo before. Anyway, are primates only getting two new cards? Because I feel gruul doesn't have very exciting support for EDH. At least Scrounging Bandar works.
• Pirated Copy: So this isn't quite Clone + Tandem Lookout. For one, it's drawing you on combat damage only, so no shenanigans with Lightning-Rig Crew. However, it also lets you copy other people's stuff, which means that their combat can benefit you. I think, but am not sure, that copying a token will make the drawing ability work with all tokens with the same type that aren't otherwise named. Because go-wide decks needed to be put down more in EDH. Not really into this with Admiral Beckett Brass TBH, too high MV. (What I really want is for Protean Raider to get the preserved tribal part of the ability.)
• Don't like white getting copies trough Preston the Vanisher, even if they're weak. Illusions in particular don't feel right for a truth-oriented philosophy, although I suppose light can blind and not just reveal. Surprised it didn't have a blue mana pip somewhere.
• Ashcoat curves nicely enough into Marrow-Gnawer, regardless which one is your commander. Attack with Ashcoat to give your Rats extra power, sacrifice one of them with Gnawer for extra tokens (and even more attack power next turn), then recur the saced rat with Ashcoat. Getting to recur not just one put two cards a turn is quite generous too.

Dead_Blue_ says... #2

Balan, Wandering Knight seems bonkers

November 22, 2022 2:50 p.m.

Dead_Blue_ says... #3

Loving the animeish art

November 22, 2022 3:32 p.m.

Coward_Token says... #4

Planar Atlas: Sigh. For mono-color commanders, especially MV 4 ones, it would have been nice if this came in untapped.

Zask: obviously mills for random token Insects too

Auntie Blyte: How is there no black or rakdos hybrid pip for the identity? And How is she not just an imp? Guess they went for the "Devil on your shoulder" pun. (IDK if self-life loss in general would have been too much for the trigger.)

Agus Kos, Eternal Soldier: With Brother's War in mind I was thrown off by this not being a tribal card. And then I was thrown off again by it saying ability, not spell. Anway, probably some fun to be had here; how about Gideon, Battle-Forged? Or Mirrorpool?

Daring Piracy: I would have prefered Cloud Pirates as menace isn't super reliable, but Admiral Beckett Brass is nonetheless happy to have a reliable source of tribal combat damage.

Tragic Slip: Sigh. At least there's not a panty shot.

November 22, 2022 3:39 p.m.

Gleeock says... #5

Rudolf Duskbringer - quite good. Though that CMC :) blending of GY to field & lifegain.

Primevil herald - seems a bit bonkers. Basically a mini-titan that brings out basics.

Giant ladybug - Just plain cute. One of my favorite insects.

November 26, 2022 12:18 p.m.

MrTitanic says... #6

When are J22 cards being added?

November 26, 2022 3:04 p.m.

Coward_Token says... #7

So this EDHREC article calls Planar Atlas "the best two-mana rock since Arcane Signet, full stop." I'm still pretty down on it, so I'm curious about how the rest of you think about it.

November 28, 2022 4:37 p.m.

legendofa says... #8

Checking out Planar Atlas, I'm not sure it's better than the Signets or Talismans. It's slower and doesn't really provide independent mana fixing. I'd put it at a solid "decent" in a vacuum and "good to very good" in an artifact deck or something where land sequencing matters.

November 28, 2022 5:28 p.m.