Hour of Devastation [HOU]

[Gheizen64]

Nic Fit Alert!



Worse innocent blood!

[Aggro_zombies]

I don't like this invocation frame much, but I legitimately like the way this card looks:

[Claymore]

Damnation got an invocation too.

[Dice_Box]

That art... makes me more unhappy that the border is shit.

[rufus]

That art... makes me more unhappy that the border is shit.

Makes me wonder if that's the entire payoff for the 'moving sun' thing.

[Aggro_zombies]

That art... makes me more unhappy that the border is shit.

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.

[Barook]

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.

[MorphBerlin]

I really liek the flavour texts of the defeats. Makes me like the Bolas even more

[bruizar]

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.

Noble Hierarch, Riding the Dilu Horse :) Built in Menace is sweet. Unstable Mutation also does the trick. Or planeswalkers / Kessig Wolf Run type cards if allergic to one off effects and enchantments...

[bruizar]

Composition + art direction fail

I don't like this invocation frame much, but I legitimately like the way this card looks:

[Darkenslight]

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've actually warmed on the foiling for the Amonkhet Invocations, for the most part. But that's mostly because they're often cheaper than their original versions. :D

That said, I'm expecting the Blood Moon to really be the onyl one sought after.

[Dice_Box]

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.

Bloodmoon. I like the biblical touch of the river running red as the the Red moon rises, looking almost like an evening sunset. The art is fantastic. I don't like the boarder.

[Barook]

Bloodmoon. I like the biblical touch of the river running red as the the Red moon rises, looking almost like an evening sunset. The art is fantastic. I don't like the boarder.

You got it all wrong. The red river thing isn't Blood Moon, it's Choke:



But then again, quite a bit of art feels like it was meant for another card, but recycled for the hell of it, just like Opposition:

[Dice_Box]

You got it all wrong. The red river thing isn't Blood Moon, it's Choke:

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.

[rufus]

...
I do wonder if there are good ways to abuse this since a well-placed pump can nuke an entire hand.

Alas, it seems like winning with infect is just better.

[morgan_coke]

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.

[Gheizen64]

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.

Coercive portal need 4 to draw infinite cards. This need 4 to draw 1. It's a really good drawing artifact, but coercive portal is still leagues ahead.

[Dice_Box]

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.

[Barook]

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.

[Aggro_zombies]

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.