Nic Fit Alert!
Worse innocent blood!
I don't like this invocation frame much, but I legitimately like the way this card looks:
Which, Damnation's or Blood Moon's? I actually think the border works on the Blood Moon. It's got the right color palette, the gold on the bottom is a nice contrast with the washed-out colors on the rest of the card, and a bunch of crimson and stone makes sense on a card that turns all nonbasics into Mountains.
Now, whether it looks good in foil will be another issue entirely. I actually kinda liked the invocation Spell Pierce until I saw it in person.
I do wonder if there are good ways to abuse this since a well-placed pump can nuke an entire hand.
Story-wise, Eternalized creatures are Bolas' Magical Terminator Zombie army.
I really liek the flavour texts of the defeats. Makes me like the Bolas even more
Of course the river isn't the moon, but look at the art for Bloodmoon as a Catholic: the moon hanging low, the setting of Egyptian imagery and then the horns of a false idol over a blood red river. The whole image is extremely biblical, it's something I could see used in Sunday school when talking about the book of Exodus and the Plagues of Egypt.
That imagery and symbolism is not reproduced in Choke.
Sunset Pyramid 2
Artifact
Enters the battlefield with 3 brick counters
2, T: remove a brick, draw a card
2, T: Scry 1
It's basically a Jayemdae Tome with the mana costs halved and an extra ability tacked onto it.
That almost seems semi-playable in Legacy? Maybe? Stax/Eldrazi/Tomb/Chalice decks? Might be the best colorless card draw we've ever seen.
I wouldn't put it in Stax not because it's not a fine card, but because I just don't need it. Not since Fair was printed. Rather more lock to go with my tutors over less lock and draw.
Sweet art, but they're really running out of iconic cards to reprint.
I do wonder how much more it costs to do Masterpiece art compared to normal art. They obviously put way more effort into Masterpiece art looking really good.
I could see running the Pyramid in Commander, where it's a little hard to control your Coercive Portals, but in Legacy I think Portal is just better. Chalice decks with Tombs don't usually care that much about up-front investment costs, but not having to spend mana every turn can actually be relevant, especially if it saves you from having to tap a Tomb to be able to cast the spell you drew.
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