I fear the Izzet one could be the best possible charm we get from the set because other combinations like UB, UW, GB have possibilities to push the acceptable power levels so they could end up with rather clunky designs. On the other hand I might just be talking out of my ass.
Edit: Btw Izzet is a teribble name for a fictitious fantasy world guild (I know, I am several years late for this comment) because it is a real world name. A friend of mine has a boyfriend named Izzet.
The better question is: What are good tokens to copy in the first place? Aside from angel tokens generated by Geist.
The charm design seems interesting. I would love see decent Rakdos and Gruul charms since the power level of and especially multicolor cards is so goddamn shitty.
I would be quite excited for a instant that didn't just read "Terminate" for once. Anything that would give Red more flexibility in all honestly. That color needs some actual identity aside from direct damage.
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I'm currently working on URg control, can I have his card right now? Kthx. I think the charm is going to see at least fringe play in some form.
It looks like the pattern for charms is "something color A can do, something color B can do, something both colors can do." Since Izzet Charm has direct damage to a creature, I suspect the red charm is going to either damage players or be some form of combat trick (power pumping, Falter/target can't block, intimidate). I don't suspect the Rakdos one will be as good, though if the joint mode is a better version of Fall (from Rise//Fall) it might be worth testing.
EDIT: I wonder how tight this cycle will be for mana costs. The Izzet one is clearly pushed for Constructed and will see play in this format in at least a few decks, possibly even some sort of midrange RUG deck. The others...Azorius might find a home in Stoneblade if it has two or more relevant modes, and the same for the green one in Maverick or Bant, but the other two aren't in good color combinations (BG, RB).
Destroy target non-black, non artifact creature or
Return target artifact from your graveyard to your hand or
Each player loses one life for each non-basic land he controls or
A little critter kill, a little burn and some random red artifact utility
Eh ... this still isn't quite good enough.
An x/1 EtB populate would have a lot of solutions to it in Standard right now, especially considering it doesn't have haste. Outside of Standard, regular Twin is probably better.
EDIT: Off the top of my head, in Standard:
Rain of Blades
Cower in Fear
Mutilate
Rolling Temblor
Bonfire of the Damned
Terminus
And a bunch of targeted removal:
Unsummon
Searing Spear
Murder
Geistflame
Death Wind
Prey Upon
I was thinking more in terms of quantity than quality..there are some potentially interesting cards.
Devastating Summons
Kutholda Rebirth
Lingering Souls
Firecat Blitz
Saproling Burst
Reap the Seagraf
Empty the Warrens
Zektar Shrine Expedition
Or Dance of Many, or Heat Shimmer...All I want is a 2/2 with CMC 2 and ETB Populate. But I'm guessing they don't want Splinter Twin 2.0 with Cackling Counterpart.
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Realistic + useful:
Choose one- Destroy target artifact; or destroy target creature that dealt or was dealt damage this turn; or exile all cards in target player's graveyard.
For my confessions, they burned me with fire/
And found I was for endurance made
Knowing WotC it will be
RB - Dung Charm
Deal 2 damage to target non-flying blue creature OR
Draw a card then discard 3 cards at random and smash your ball sack with a mallet OR
Target Vampire you control looks really goth cool until end of turn, you gain cred with the emotional kids at your junior high
The Azorius might contain a blink effect - blink is white while slightly bleeding into blue from time to time (e.g. Momentary Blink).
No idea about the other two - probably something with tapping?
You know, I think Izzet Charm, and any other Charms in this set, may be worth dusting off Ishochron Scepter for Modern.
deadeye navigator, Nephalia Smuggler and ghostly flicker seem more than slightly bleeding. It doesn't surprise me in the least they just decided to give blue yet another ability from another colour, any of those cards could have been white easily, but no blue has to do freaking everything so lets just take one of whites few interesting abilities and just shove it into blue.
Agreed though, i could see an azorious charm being something like 1. Bounce a non land non creature 2. blink something 3. tap something.
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