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  • I’m not sure I agree with their assessment of Standard, but I think what bothers me the most about it is the explosive powercreep in it over the past few years. Current day standard feels a lot like old (pre-MH1) modern, and I guess that was a fun format as well, but it’s so high power compared to what standard used to be. There are some cards that contribute a lot to the explosiveness (Monsterous Rage for example), but every card that sees play these days does so many things that it’s not even comparable to old standard anymore.

    I guess I just wish we could have a lower power format again. It’s wild to think today that Divide by Zero got banned in standard just a few years ago.





  • TehPers@beehaw.orgtoSpoilers[TDM] Jeskai Revelation
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    It’s a shame they didn’t add more targets to this spell for Hinata, but 5 mana for all of this is still a pretty good deal. Outside of commander formats though, this feels like maybe a limited bomb, but way too expensive for lots of random things in standard.

    I hope it ends up being a new Magma Opus though and sees a little play. Magma Opus did have the discard for a treasure ability though, and it could tap lands.


  • TehPers@beehaw.orgtoSpoilers[TDC] Reunion of the House
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    Another card that combos with Scourge of the Skyclaves? Sounds interesting.

    (Negative power creatures have a fun property of, well, being negative power when calculating total power. Having a high life total means you can bring back your whole GY as long as you bring back the scourge too.)


  • TehPers@beehaw.orgtoSpoilers[TDM] Call the Spirit Dragons
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    1 month ago

    At first, I misread this thinking a single 5c dragon was enough to win the game with this. Needing 5 dragons is a lot though (especially with the color restrictions).

    The other effects are nice, but this enchantment is just too expensive imo. Indestructible doesn’t do much when exile-based removal is so common, and the +1/+1 counters are too slow to come out and not worth the mana.

    Maybe some deck finds a way to combo with this, but needing to untap with 5 dragons and not already be winning the game is going to be tough.


  • TehPers@beehaw.orgtoSpoilers[TDC] Infantry Shield
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    I don’t believe the CR has been updated yet for mobilize, but if it works similar to the reminder text and just adds that triggered ability, then I believe yes you could stack the triggers so the Cactuar grows first and then you create 10k attacking creatures (even if the Cactuar dies before mobilize resolves but after it grows due to last known info).