Aether Revolt -or- Kaladesh 2: Ghirapur Drift

[Barook]

Heart of Kiran looks good, although I'm not too sure which deck could get the most use out of it.

He's in the perfect position to have someone alter the art to have him holding an electric guitar though, which would make the card infinitely more awesome.

Apparently, Mishra's Photoshop on Twitter was already on it:

[Megadeus]

Remove a counter from my garruk to crew the new thing, flip Gary!

[Meekrab]

Chandra +2, shock you, fly Daddy's airship, fly Daddy's airship again to block, lather, rinse, repeat.

Probably awful everywhere but Standard but the flavor works.

[Ace/Homebrew]

Probably awful everywhere but Standard but the flavor works.

Chandra doesn't have a +2.
But you do bring up a point I didn't realize at first. The crew ability doesn't have a timing restriction like using a planeswalker's loyalty ability does!

So is this card better at protecting planeswalkers than tradional creatures? It is certainly more efficient than pretty much any creature. And it is removal resistant...

[rufus]

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But you do bring up a point I didn't realize at first. The crew ability doesn't have a timing restriction like using a planeswalker's loyalty ability does!
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Yep, you can use Heart of Kiran plus Catch // Release to kill opposing planeswalkers.

[Dice_Box]

Voidslime printed at 1uu.

Edit.
Improvise, new keyword. Convoke but for Artifacts. Cool.

[rufus]

Hmm...

Pia's Revelation

Whenever a nontoken artifact is put into your graveyard from the battlefield, return that card to your hand unless target opponent has Pia's Revolution deal 3 damage to him or her.

Pity there's no easy way to give the opponent hexproof or protection from red. Even so, this seems like it could work well with trinkets and the recently spoiled scrap trawler in an egg deck of sorts.

[Aggro_zombies]

Voidslime printed at 1uu.

Edit.
Improvise, new keyword. Convoke but for Artifacts. Cool.

And after I just picked up a foil Voidslime for EDH...oh well.

Convoke for artifacts isn't the worst. In a lot of ways, it's better for Legacy than actual convoke.

[HdH_Cthulhu]

Cost reducers with artefacts; inb4 broken draw spell! But yah its just worse affinity!?

[Dice_Box]

Cost reducers with artefacts; inb4 broken draw spell! But yah its just worse affinity!?

Not totally. Affinity can't be used to cast a spell. So if this is printed on a card that fits into a Stax shell, you could use Improvise to pay for Spheres and Thorns.

[Darkenslight]

Unlikely to see play in anything outside of Standard and Coimmander, but there's also this:

Dark Intimations -

Sorcery (Rare)

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker, then discards a card. You return a creature or planeswalker card from your graveyard to your hand, then draw a card.

When you cast a Bolas planeswalker spell, exile Dark Intimations from your graveyard. That planeswalker enters the battlefield with an additional loyalty counter on it.

[Lemnear]

Not totally. Affinity can't be used to cast a spell. So if this is printed on a card that fits into a Stax shell, you could use Improvise to pay for Spheres and Thorns.

Thats what we needed. Cost cheating abilities for decks running Thorn & Chalice *eyesroll*

This is a worse version of Affinity in my books, as its only useable with non-mana artifacts. One might say, that this makes it safe in an environment with Moxen, Petals & LEDs, but it also plays along the named permanent hate, which might be critical given the current position of Eldrazi

[rufus]

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This is a worse version of Affinity in my books
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Probably comparable with convoke. I wonder if they'll print a blue artifact version of Chord of Calling.

[Lemnear]

Probably comparable with convoke. I wonder if they'll print a blue artifact version of Chord of Calling.

Uh...uh....dont gimme ideas. Unless it costs at least XXUU its broken

[MaximumC]

Uh...uh....dont gimme ideas. Unless it costs at least XXUU its broken

I don't see why. We have Transmute Artifact and Reshape in Legacy and they hardly see any play. What is your planned application for an artifact Chord?

[Dice_Box]

Go and get Lotus Bloom.

[Turboninja]

Say it would cost XXU, for U you get a LED. Storm wouldn't mind.

The point is that artifacts can cost 0, which would clearly be abused. Imagine the toolbox of Needle, Tormod's Crypt, Graftdigger's Cage, etc.

Painter's would be awesome.

It would need to cost at least XXUU to NOT be broken.

[Julian23]

Hmm...

Pia's Revelation


Pity there's no easy way to give the opponent hexproof or protection from red. Even so, this seems like it could work well with trinkets and the recently spoiled scrap trawler in an egg deck of sorts.

If the opponent had hexproof or protection from red, Pia's Revelation's ability would be countered since it had no legal target.

[MaximumC]

Go and get Lotus Bloom.

But you can do that now. Play an artifact land, sac it to Transmute Artifact or Reshape, boom, there ya go.

[Lemnear]

But you can do that now. Play an artifact land, sac it to Transmute Artifact or Reshape, boom, there ya go.

You have to sac an artifact and it costs UU. Worlds apart