you too good for 1 mana helixes :tongue:
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Because you wont to find the Chain to combo and Bolt Forking your Swans helps in that task. In case you have no Swans, burn their face or their YP.
You simply go BoP, SGM, SoBA, Training Grounds, burn, buyback, draw much, burn a lot, frok the burn, draw a lot, gain life, Chain of Plasma, win. Easy.
Brace yourselves for a combo that defies all known levels of sex appeal...
Forbidden Orchard
Swan Song
Blasphemous Act
Add in the new mono-colored Tamanoa, and you have a life total they can't touch. Add in Swans of Bryn Argoll, and you have a Braingeyser from hell.
I'm kinda sad that manifest omits ETB effects of affected creatures.
That devaluates the usability of stuff like the Whisperwood Elemental as plain draw engine in creature heavy decks imo.
On the plus side: (ab)using Phyrexian Dreadnought is now easier than ever. Some people may love it more this way!
Morph cards are templated with "when ~ is turned face up" so you can manifest Fathom Seer for :1::u: and so on.
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Also, how does manifest interact with transform?
Quote:
711.5. A double-faced card enters the battlefield with its front face up unless a spell or ability puts it onto the battlefield “transformed,” in which case it enters the battlefield with its back face up.
I find this interesting, the card Illusionary Mask is on the Reserved list, they turned its ability, to cast face down creatures into a mechanic, although playing the real mask is still more efficient since you wouldn't have to pay the creature's full cost.
Except, manifest sucks since you would need library manipulation for it to work like Mask.
What happens when you manifest Delver of Secrets? I know the rules for Transform creatures says you cannot turn them face down (if an effect would turn a 2FC face down, nothing happens), but does it still try to enter the battlefield?
I think Tsumi just found the next MODO glitch.
what happens if you manifest a delver?
I suppose you have to youse the checkcards and use them as 2/2
but manifest is just to unintuitive. flicker spells, unmorph spells, boardstate when you cast morphs etc etc. its cheaters heaven
Not sure how they will address this in MODO but you can cover the insect part with this overlay card and turn it face up as Delver of Secrets for :u:.
http://media.wizards.com/2014/ujehvs...ibt6mxwxfd.png
And here's some confirmation on that:
http://tabakrules.tumblr.com/post/10...p-card-of-your
Ahh, it's a bit of a pivot then from previous notions that dual faced cards don't actually have a 'face down', just a front face up or back face up. Or maybe it's a clever side-step since cards in one's library tend to (not) have certain characteristics.
Front face down, back face up, that's the way we like to Manifest
This game's turning into a real mess...
eidt: into mess.
I hope that there will be no Legacy-playable manifest things, especially not ones that positively interact with flip/transform cards. We definitely don't need more Chaos Orbs.
Pfffff ... WotC keeps fucking with Layouts since the Timespiral colorshifted cards and the future border and mess with the basic rules since the two-faced cards. Morph and the 2FC are a Nightmare to Co-exist anyways and now we have morph with cardadvantage
Jeskai Infiltrator looks very much like a card with that kind of potential - it's got a cc that's well matched to trinisphere and the potential to take over games.
Isn't it kind of a shitty Goblin Lackey though? Like, it has Awesome and all, but... just being able to make a 2/2 every other turn or so (you have to pay its "not Morph cost" to reflip it) while operating under 3Sphere seems like a tough row to hoe. Even for Blue.
Like I'd almost rather see Goblins attempt the prison route, than see what happens with Jeskai Infiltrator in the same position. Meh I dunno.
Just when I thought they're done printing annoying creatures like Ninja of the Deep Hours.
How is this card good? 2U to deal 2 unblockable damage and then get two vanilla 2/2's one of which can, for 3 mana, make another 2/2 if unblocked, and the other could, with library manipulation, be a 12/12 for 1. Seems like a lot of work.