Magic Origins

[Lemnear]

They could do spell master thoughtseize or counterspell. On the other hand, if Firey Impulse is the target power level, it'll probably be Darkblast and Unsummon.

I want a spell mastered Duress with a minor buff like Scry 1 or returning the black mana invested to the manapool. Thanks.

Opt itself is already officially marked as "too powerful in standard" by WOTC staff.

So a weakened Serum vision/Opt is the best you could expect.

And ritual effect has "permanently" moved to Red from Black.

No, 1cc cantrips are bad ideas at this point as they get adopted by Legacy. Stuff like Telling Time, Impulse and Co see no play in Legacy or Vintage and seem bearable for Modern as well. WotC just needs to fill the gap between 1cc cantrips and 3+cc cardadvanatage spells in their arsenal of potential prints.

Don't talk about effects/colorpie. WotC fucked this up back then, never stuck to the changes they promoted and never fixed them either. The last playable mana-acceleration printed in red is from July 2006 and the last time they used the black ability to use lifepoints to balance out low mana costs was with Dismember. Greens supposed to deliver land based acceleration but what it really is about we can see looking at Magic: Origins Nissa. WotC destroyed all color-identity and the result for example is that black is solely about discard, destroy non-black creatures and overcosted 5/5 demons with drawbacks

[Barook]

Relic Hunter*
Creature - Human Soldier
Fame 1 (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, if this creature is not famous, put a +1/+1 counter on it becomes famous)
When Relic Hunter* becomes famous, you may search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
2/2

Although probably not powerful enough for Legacy, it might have uses as additional equipment fetchers past the 4 copies of SFM. Aether Vial @2 and Mother of Runes should definitely help to get hits in.

[iamajellydonut]

if this creature is not famous

Fucking seriously?

[Barook]

Fucking seriously?

Wording still might change since it's only a translation. But after Megamorph, I wouldn't put it past Wizards. Think Monstrous templating.

It's also a Human Soldier, which might matter for Cavern of Souls and Soldier Stompy.

[Cire]

Relic Hunter*
Creature - Human Soldier
Fame 1 (Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, if this creature is not famous, put a +1/+1 counter on it becomes famous)
When Relic Hunter* becomes famous, you may search your library for an Equipment card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.
2/2

Although probably not powerful enough for Legacy, it might have uses as additional equipment fetchers past the 4 copies of SFM. Aether Vial @2 and Mother of Runes should definitely help to get hits in.

I'm sad. . . To get his flavor right, he should have searched their library for an equipment card, exiled it and allowed you to cast it for as long as it remained exiled.

Anyway - not good enough for legacy since it doesn't actually get your equipment into play for 1W and instant speed. This will just be fetching jitte and we already have enlightened tutor.

[Redkid43]

This set is pretty shitty.

[Barook]

I'm sad. . . To get his flavor right, he should have searched their library for an equipment card, exiled it and allowed you to cast it for as long as it remained exiled.

Anyway - not good enough for legacy since it doesn't actually get your equipment into play for 1W and instant speed. This will just be fetching jitte and we already have enlightened tutor.

E-Tutor is card disadvantge while this provides CA if it connects + a 3/3 body.

It still might be too many hoops to through for the effect when SFM already exists.

[Lemnear]

E-Tutor is card disadvantge while this provides CA if it connects + a 3/3 body.

It still might be too many hoops to through for the effect when SFM already exists.

That's imo looking at it from the wrong side. If it's not for cheating Batterskull costs, the 1W ability of SFM isn't THAT relevant. It's a 3/3 beater compared to the 1/2 SFM creating additional redundancy for the equipment plan. I could see this replacing the topend beaters like Mirran Crusader or Serra Avenger in favor of more redundancy and cardadvantage for D&T

[rufus]

E-Tutor is card disadvantge while this provides CA if it connects + a 3/3 body.

It still might be too many hoops to through for the effect when SFM already exists.

If you just want to find equipment, you could play Gift of the Steelshaper.

This guy *might* work OK if you're looking for SFM 5-8 in some kind of Puresteel Paladin/Sunforger deck or something similar.

[Barook]

That's imo looking at it from the wrong side. If it's not for cheating Batterskull costs, the 1W ability of SFM isn't THAT relevant. It's a 3/3 beater compared to the 1/2 SFM creating additional redundancy for the equipment plan. I could see this replacing the topend beaters like Mirran Crusader or Serra Avenger in favor of more redundancy and cardadvantage for D&T

It's not a 3/3 before it can connect. Beater slots are also premium and both Avenger and Crusader bring different advantages to the table (evasion + a big butt; double protection and double strike).

Equipment being uncounterable with SFM is still a nice asset, though. T2 SFM into T3 Batterskull aside, D&T can't get any equipment online and ready before T4 anyway. It's hard to estimate how well it fits into the shell since there are various cards that have synergy with it.

[Bobmans]

I looks as if the card is designed as a replacement for SFM in Modern.

[Cire]

Fucking seriously?

Apparently that's a poor translation. In English its "renown" and "becomes renowned"

[iamajellydonut]

Apparently that's a poor translation. In English its "renown" and "becomes renowned"

jelly breathes a sigh of relief.

Edit: I just looked at the spoilers and I have to say that both effect and flavor wise, I'm actually pretty happy with all the cards that were spoiled today except for the demon.

[rufus]

Apparently that's a poor translation. In English its "renown" and "becomes renowned"

Is that really any better?

[Lemnear]

Is that really any better?

No, I hope to not see the german term "renommiert" on a card

[rufus]

No, I hope to not see the german term "renommiert" on a card

Yeah, that's a bit painful. Especially considering the archaic definition as used in "Die Sache mit den Klößen."

Edit: This seems even more apropos. (German language link) http://www.wilhelm-busch-seiten.de/g.../schein54.html

[iamajellydonut]

Is that really any better?

It may be yet another boring and uninspired ability that will constantly get confused with Bloodlust and the rest of its cousins and will subsequently be forgotten, but "renowned" is sooo much more respectable than "famous".

[Valtrix]

If you just want to find equipment, you could play Gift of the Steelshaper.

This guy *might* work OK if you're looking for SFM 5-8 in some kind of Puresteel Paladin/Sunforger deck or something similar.

Paying one more colorless for a 2/2 body (that can become a 3/3) is significantly better than Steelshaper's Gift (which I've actually used in Modern). I don't think the two are even comparable. I see this guy maybe going into collected company decks, as equipment becomes a lot more enticing when you can use your company to find equipment. Those decks are generally pretty hard up for space in their lists though. I have a silly little aggro deck (12 mana dorks 18 land) which I want to try this guy out in though.

[MGB]

Fucking seriously?

Another in a long line of recent gems - "famous" is almost as bad as this guy's flavor text:

[TsumiBand]

I hate that 4-mana Wraths are virtually never good in Legacy, because Languish is a pretty okay Mutilate variant that can be splashed without going and getting Urborg first and gets rid of any X/4 indestructible or otherwise difficult-to-reach dude.

In Standard, Siege Donkey just happens to live through it... hmmm