This card still doesn't stop Sea -> DRS -> inevitable turn 2 Hymn. In general this Amulet of Safekeeping also does nothing to dissuade modern from being discard: the gathering. A rare that doesn't need to exist, and ruins a draft format (though I don't have any idea whether or not core sets are ever drafted). Next time stay closer to Watchdog R&D....I guess. Unsure what the point of reprinting mildly different Damping Sphere is...
Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma 3G
Legendary Creature — Bear (Rare)
Creature spells you cast with power 4 or greater cost 2 less to cast.
Whenever Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma attacks, each creature you control with power 4 or greater gets +1/+1 and gains trample until end of turn.
You don't want to know how she got that name.
4/3
2 mana Flametongue Kavus here we come!!
If they actually wanted the Amulet to hose storm, it would cost (0) and have Hexproof and Flash. But it doesn't, so it's more useless than Thalia or your other average hatebear since it will still get bounced before they go off and doesn't attack.
Trash card is trash. Maybe they think it will work vs. Modern Storm? Because Abrade doesn't exist. Lol.
I could imagine a world where Amulet sees some play in Sneak and Show sideboards. Some people play Leyline of Sanctity and this does a somewhat reasonable approximation of what Leyline does for SnS. Storm still cant win without bouncing it so it's about the same there. It's not as good in effect against discard heavy decks like Pile obviously but making discard spells cost one more and slowing the deck down by a turn isn't nothing, plus this card can actually be cast out of the hand unlike Leyline. Plus it would open up some SB slots because SnS basically has to play 4 Leylines to maximize the chances of it being in the opening hand. I dunno, it may not be good enough but that's as likely of a home as I can think of in legacy.
Modern will be Discard: the Gathering as long as it does have combo and doesn't have counterspells worth a damn.
It’s worse than W hate bears, but interestingly in BUG it stops Tendrils of Agony in a match up where Storm normally doesn’t SB in bounce and it stops Empty the Warrens in a match up where Storm wants to SB in as many copies of the card as possible. But it just sounds like a shitty Stifle, so meh.
I'm not sure what you really mean. Why would wizards want a hoser of storm that storm can't beat even with sideboard cards!? That's totally uninteractive.
Canonist with mother protection is pretty hard for storm to beat, but at least there's a deck building cost to it. That a card "dies to removal" doesnt make it trash. It makes it balanced.
This effect looks "interesting", at the very least:
Runic Armasaur 1GG
Creature - Dinosaur
Whenever an opponent activates an ability of a creature or land, if it isn't a mana ability, you may draw a card.
2/5
There are a couple of untap abilities like Arbor Elf and Quirion Ranger, the draw ability of Horizon Canopy, and Knight of the Reliquary. There are a bunch more in modern.
fetches are pretty big. deathrite is the obvious one. i think it's more about what matchups it's useful. seems great vs elves if nothing else. could be okay vs miracles too since they run so many fetches (and actually get to use a lot of them.)
seems cool with doran if that's ever a thing.
-rob
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