Eldritch Moon spoilers inbound

[Koby]

There is so much effort in this set to "Meld" the design, but it only shows up on 3 rares, a mythic, and 2 black commons?
Color me jaded, but what's the fucking point of this design space if they literally burned it on hype?

This game is looking everyday more like YuGiOh.

[HdH_Cthulhu]

Seems fun with Isochron scepter! But yah like 100 other cards...
Maybe a card for storm vs heatbears?

[Megadeus]

Seems fun with Isochron scepter! But yah like 100 other cards...
Maybe a card for storm vs heatbears?

That is an interesting application. Flexible bounce for bears or counter for some reason to win a counter war. Maybe high tide plays it as a 1-2 of?

[TsumiBand]

I just want a deck full of heatbears now

"Crank the AC assholes, I'm playing mono-Bant Heatbears"

[joven]

Meld seems bad. Turning 2 cards in their sleeves and then trying to keep them together as one creature when tapping it and stuff. Also, that the Meld-creature is bigger than your other creatures looks weird.
And it's too much Yu-gi-oh (or something) and not MtG.

So, we have multi-cards from Duel Masters, a reworked offering mechanic from Betrayers of Kamigawa, and renamed Entwine.

yaaaay.

true

Counterspell and creature bounce in one? Also has corner-case applications with Cast and Storm triggers.

Spell-Bounce is not a counterspell. And this is not a Remand either.
Still, some combo-deck might find it useful.

[Fox]

It's a cool card, but I don't think it's beating out Submerge given the ability to shuffle away a Goyf. Reasonable card in a Snapcaster deck I guess.

Uncounterable spells it can hit which matter are Decay, your own Flusterstorm, potentially some eldrazi cast off a Cavern of Souls. I'm sure I've missed some, but the real tragedy is that it doesn't really stop [old] Emrakul.

[PirateKing]

Kind of neat on an Isochron Scepter since it can protect itself from Abrupt Decay, one of the primary weaknesses of the combo.
If counterbalance ever gets the ax, it'd be neat to see some no-stick build emerge.

[Sidneyious]

Kind of neat on an Isochron Scepter since it can protect itself from Abrupt Decay, one of the primary weaknesses of the combo.
If counterbalance ever gets the ax, it'd be neat to see some no-stick build emerge.

I'm surprised there isn't!

With my first literation of high tide the first night I tried it ibhad an opponent with a silence on a stick. It was tough but I powered through and beat him.

I tapped out his lands at end of turn because he was using the silencestick during my upkeep.

He had a counterspell he never used for some unknown reason but I had an answer to it.

I went off the next turn ftw.
Still no idea why he never used the counterspell.

[rufus]

FWIW, this page has some info regarding the new versions of kicker.

http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles...ics-2016-06-27

[bruizar]

Brisela sure looks like a great reanimate / SNT target

[Lemnear]

Brisela sure looks like a great reanimate / SNT target

Except it doesn't work

[Darkenslight]

Two new spoilers:

Emrakul's Influence (name unconfirmed)
Enchantment (u)
Whenever you cast an Eldrazi creature spell with CMC 7 or greater, draw two cards.


Docent of Perfection
Creature - Insect Horror (r)
Flying
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a 1/1 blue Human Wizard token onto the battlefield. Then, if you control three or more Wizards, transform ~.
5/4
////////
Final Iteration
Creature - Eldrazi Insect
Flying
Wizards you control get +2/+1 and have flying.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a 1/1 blue Human Wizard creature token onto the battlefield.
6/5

I don't think either of them is really playable in Legacy, due to cost, but I could see both of them as possibles elsewhere.

EDIT: I a word on the green card. Fixed now.

[Barook]

So Docent of Perfection is basically SSJ3 Delver that shits out further Delvers. Kinda cool in terms in flavor.

A shame the flavor text on the front side isn't "And this is going even further beyond!"

[kirkusjones]

That name is horrible. All I can picture is an insect leading children and seniors through a museum. "Buzzbuzz and here we have a skeleton of the once thought to be extinct kavu. A very rare specimen donated by our wealthy Tolarian benefactor, one Mr. Urza. Excuse me, Squee, is it? The museum has a strict no touching policy. And we're walking, buzzbuzz."

[Echelon]

So Docent of Perfection is basically SSJ3 Delver that shits out further Delvers. Kinda cool in terms in flavor.

A shame the flavor text on the front side isn't "And this is going even further beyond!"

Flavor text on the back as semi-spoiler for future sets: "I still have two more transformations left!"

[Darkenslight]

That name is horrible. All I can picture is an insect leading children and seniors through a museum. "Buzzbuzz and here we have a skeleton of the once thought to be extinct kavu. A very rare specimen donated by our wealthy Tolarian benefactor, one Mr. Urza. Excuse me, Squee, is it? The museum has a strict no touching policy. And we're walking, buzzbuzz."

I'm altering this to be Rick when I get one (from Rick and Morty) and altering the back side to have all of the Mortys on it. Because that sounds about as perfect a fit as you can get.

[TsumiBand]

Docent of Perfection
Creature - Insect Horror (r)
Flying
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a 1/1 blue Human Wizard token onto the battlefield. Then, if you control three or more Wizards, transform ~.
5/4
////////
Final Iteration
Creature - Eldrazi Insect
Flying
Wizards you control get +2/+1 and have flying.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, put a 1/1 blue Human Wizard creature token onto the battlefield.
6/5

I don't think either of them is really playable in Legacy, due to cost, but I could see both of them as possibles elsewhere.

EDIT: I a word on the green card. Fixed now.

Shoulda called it Final Sequence :(

[Echelon]

Another possible flavor text for the transformed side - "STOP BUGGING ME!".

[rufus]

Flavor text on the back as semi-spoiler for future sets: "I still have two more transformations left!"

Or "Now, to work out these contraptions..."

Making the "insectile aberration" into an eldrazi seems pretty poor from a flavor perspective.

FWIW, the back side is called "Closing Experiment" in German, so unless that translation is official the English name could still change.

[kirkusjones]

I'm altering this to be Rick when I get one (from Rick and Morty) and altering the back side to have all of the Mortys on it. Because that sounds about as perfect a fit as you can get.

Yessssss.