Kaladesh -or- When Kiran met Pia

[Darkenslight]

Dubious Challenge



Can someone explain this? Something doesn't seem right.

Look at the top 10 cards of your library and exile up to 2 creature cards.

Opponent gets 1 of the exiled cards

Your get the rest of the exiled cards...which is going to be 1 or 0. and the one you get is always going to be worse since opponent gets first pick...

OR

Your opponent gets 1 of the exiled creatures and you get the rest of the creatures in the top 10?

This is one of those cards where I want to wait for the actual FAQ to come out for, before I judge it. The key is in that final clause. Does it apply to the whole thing, or just the exiled cards? Also, I kind of wish this wasn't optional for the opponent.

[Echelon]

Step 1: Look at the top 10 cards of your library. Those cards aren't going anywhere, you're just looking at them.

Step 2: Exile 0, 1 or 2 creature cards from those 10 cards. The other cards you looked at but didn't exile are still on the top of your library.

Step 3: Shuffle your library. The cards you didn't exile are now shuffled into your library.

Step 4: An opponent picks 0 or 1 of those exiled cards and puts it on the battlefield under his/her control.

Step 5: You get whatever you exiled that your opponent did not pick, i.e. the other 0, 1 or 2 creature cards.

Do we really need a FAQ for this? A RTFC should suffice. Let it sink in for a moment, chop it up into smaller chunks, let it sink in again.

[Poron]

If it was not the first 10 cards but the whole deck it could have been a good combo with Boseiju, Emrakul Terastodon and Homeward Path, Crop Rotation, Loam, Gamble

It would have been just lands + that card perfect for a combo land shell

[HdH_Cthulhu]

If it was not the first 10 cards but the whole deck it could have been a good combo with Boseiju, Emrakul Terastodon and Homeward Path, Crop Rotation, Loam, Gamble

It would have been just lands + that card perfect for a combo land shell

I dont get it.

[Cire]

Basically a 3/2 for W?

[HdH_Cthulhu]

Basically a 3/2 for W?

Its about time!

[rufus]

It does seem like they're throttling back on the superfluous ability words this set, which is an improvement IMO. They could easily have hung a lampshade on a large part of the artifacts matter theme by calling all the abilities out with a label like 'metalcount'.

[Sylphnir]

The last one:


Combustible Gearhulk
Artifact Creature - Construct (Mythic Rare)
First Strike
When Cumbustible Gearhulk enters the battlefield, target opponent may have you draw 3 cards.
If the player doesn't, put the top three cards of your library unto your graveyard,
then Combustible Gearhulk deals damage to that player equal to the total converted mana cost of those cards.
6/6

[Lemnear]

Basically a 3/2 for W?

3/2 if you control Aether Vial and if you find shit like Sword of Fire & Ice or Jitte in addition, he even gets FirstStrike. WotC, please....

[bruizar]

3/2 if you control Aether Vial and if you find shit like Sword of Fire & Ice or Jitte in addition, he even gets FirstStrike. WotC, please....

UWR delver in 3, 2, 1..

[Cire]

UWR delver in 3, 2, 1..

Man. . . what would be the requirements of that build to have at least 1 artifact by turn 2, maybe 3 artifacts by turn 3-4 and still have enough spells to flip delver consistently

[Lemnear]

Man. . . what would be the requirements of that build to have at least 1 artifact by turn 2, maybe 3 artifacts by turn 3-4 and still have enough spells to flip delver consistently

If any deck would want to run this its D+T, Affinity or Vintage Mentor

[Ace/Homebrew]

Hmmmm... Kaladesh Inventions



I guess 'flavor-wise' these are the inventions appearing at the fair...

[CptHaddock]

Looks like expeditions are going to start becoming a consistent thing in future sets.

[H]

If any deck would want to run this its D+T, Affinity or Vintage Mentor

I could see D&T, maybe, but certainly not Delver, way too much tension between enough Artifacts and enough Instants/Sorceries. I don't think Mentor would want this in Vintage, even at it's best a 3/2 First Strike isn't really all that great...

Thinking more on it though, I don't see how you fit it in to D&T without cutting a 2 drop and those are the bread and butter of the deck.

[Davran]

Looks like expeditions are going to start becoming a consistent thing in future sets.

Let me be the first to say ugh. Neat idea for people who are into that sort of thing, but it ultimately feels like a blatant cash grab that still does actual nothing for eternal formats.

[MaximumC]

Looks like expeditions are going to start becoming a consistent thing in future sets.

WIzard is finally tapping the full art alter market.

I know it's a cash grab, but that art is SUPERB. These artifacts are gorgeous. Kudos to Wizards!

[bruizar]

Let me be the first to say ugh. Neat idea for people who are into that sort of thing, but it ultimately feels like a blatant cash grab that still does actual nothing for eternal formats.

I already love them. 54 to collect.

[supremePINEAPPLE]

Can't wait to see what the coppery foiling process looks like in person. It'll be nice to have a constant stream of powerful cards in blocks even if they are at super-mythic rarity. Things like port, liliana, and jace are all great options to have and not being redeemable is good for MTGO, bfz expeditions aren't much more expensive than the cheap versions online.

[H]

Free value propositions are free value propositions.

Dat Mana Crypt doe, I don't want to like it but I like it...