LOTR Tales from Middle Earth: Our Burden To Bear Is a Purple Gandalf the Gray

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Call of the Ring
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At the beginning of your upkeep, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.


The Ring Tempts You:
As the Ring tempts you, you get an emblem named The Ring if you don't have one. Then your emblem gains its next ability and you choose a creature you control to become or remain your Ring-bearer.

The Ring

1. Your Ring-bearer is legendary and can't be blocked by creatures with greater power.
2. Whenever your Ringbearer attacks, draw a card, then discard a card.
3. Whenever your Ringbearer becomes blocked by a creature, that creature's controller sacrifices it at end of combat.
4. Whenever your Ringbearer deals combat damage to a player, each opponet loses 3 life.

NOTE:

• The Ring can tempt you even if you don't control a creature.
• The Ring gains its abilities in order from top to bottom. Once it gains an ability it has that ability for the rest of the game.
• Each time the Ring tempts you, you must choose a creature if you control one.
• Each player can have only one emblem named The Ring and only one Ring-bearer at a time.

The ring is alll upside, baybe.

But thankfully doesn't auto advance like Initiative and just moves around as a trigger.

Also Sauron is here
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FvY3UEea...jpg&name=small

Hooray for perpetual spoiler season.

Can't wait for the ring to be the next initiative.

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Originally Posted by Zoid

Hooray for perpetual spoiler season.

Can't wait for the ring to be the next initiative.

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Spoiler season tempts everyone you.

The spoiler tempts you
You buy a card and lose five dollars.

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Originally Posted by FourDogsinaHorseSuit

The spoiler tempts you
You buy a card and lose five dollars.

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Seems too good, five dollars is rather cheap for a spoiled card.

"Black isn't just the color of evil!"

Sauron, an explicitly fire and metallurgy themed character driven by a desire to create a world of perfect order free from entropy and decay:

Delighted Halfling
G
1/2
Creature- Halfling Citizen
T: Add C
T: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell, and that spell can’t be countered

Well this card is going to be really fucking dumb

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Originally Posted by TheInfamousBearAssassin

Delighted Halfling
G
1/2
Creature- Halfling Citizen
T: Add C
T: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell, and that spell can’t be countered

Well this card is going to be really fucking dumb

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What's the worst thing you can do with it? Casting uncounterable Uros or Planeswalkers?

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Originally Posted by Barook

What's the worst thing you can do with it? Casting uncounterable Uros or Planeswalkers?

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T2 teferi?

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Originally Posted by FourDogsinaHorseSuit

T2 teferi?

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Narset/Uro/Teferi into Omnath

4 Delighted Halfling
4 Minsc and Boo
4 Uro
4 Dress Down
4 Dreadnought
+ Xerox Shell

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Originally Posted by Captain Hammer

4 Delighted Halfling
...
+ Xerox Shell

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Ubiquitous legacy deck building.

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Originally Posted by Captain Hammer

4 Delighted Halfling
4 Minsc and Boo
4 Uro
4 Dress Down
4 Dreadnought
+ Xerox Shell

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Don't dox me

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Originally Posted by TheInfamousBearAssassin

"Black isn't just the color of evil!"

Sauron, an explicitly fire and metallurgy themed character driven by a desire to create a world of perfect order free from entropy and decay:

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Black isn’t the color of evil! It’s just the color of having no regard for community or others’ well-being while using death and slavery as primary means of gratifying its own self-interest and increasing its power. Big difference.

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Originally Posted by BirdsOfParadise

Black isn’t the color of evil! It’s just the color of having no regard for community or others’ well-being while using death and slavery as primary means of gratifying its own self-interest and increasing its power. Big difference.

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I swear in one of those old color pie articles Maro said something like, "Black isn't just the color of evil- it's also the color of capitalism" completely unironically

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Originally Posted by Barook

http://mythicspoiler.com/ltr/cards/reprieve.jpg

Better, white Remand. Yep.

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10 FUCKING YEARS LATE, they finally print the card WGR Astral Drift truly needs to take over after they killed damage on the stack.

off the top of my head:

Creatures: 8
2x Eternal Dragon
2x Eternal Witness
4x Drannith Stinger

Sorceries: 10
4x Edge of Autumn
4x Sweltering Suns
2x Life from The Loam

Instants: 10
4x Reprieve
3x Wilt
2x Radiant's Judgment
3x Zenith Flare

Enchantments: 8
4x Astral Drift
4x Lightning Rift

Lands: 24
2x Emeria, the Sky Ruin
4x Jetmir's Garden
4x Flagstones of Trokair
1x Heliod's Hall of Generosity
3x Savannah
3x Plateau
2x Plains
1x Forest
1x Mountain
3x Wasteland

I mean, there's an absolute ton of other directions you can go here and I'd honestly prefer a colorshifted Memory Lapse (for 2 mana, not 3 which is unplayable) over Reprieve, but I'll take what I can get. Getting a playable counter in white is just such a huge upgrade for any white/not blue controllish deck. WGB, WRB, WGR, all just got dramatically stronger here.

Damage on the stack was dumb and I'm glad it's dead.

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Originally Posted by FourDogsinaHorseSuit

Damage on the stack was dumb and I'm glad it's dead.

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Agreed, but it was one of the big things Slide had going for it, letting stuff like Eternal Witness trade favorably.