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I don’t play WU but Commutation doesn’t sound terrible broken if you added something like ‘Return target spell, nonland permanent, or exiled card to its owners’ hand. Cards of the same name(as the returned card) cannot be cast this turn.’
Siren’s song – Make it X-1 and I don’t see it being busted
Creekbend guide – very well balanced and would definitely go in every Explore deck(maybe even raise it a tier?)
Bloodline Ability – Maybe a bit more balanced if you could only exile so much like Bloodline 2 you can exile up to 2 creatures
Card idea. Enchantment that says opponents can’t look at your hand would be nice vs thought erasure and duress. Just an idea
That Rakdos 4-drop is actually bonkers if you can sacrifice it while the reanimation ability is on the stack, because then the “when it dies” clause can’t take any effect (because it is already dead before the reanimated creature you would have to sac is even there). Definetly needs to be worded differently.
Iv always wanted to see an ability that lets you siphon mana from your opponent, i.e. a sorcery that lets you use up their untapped mana to cast it.
UUUWW : Exile target spell.
Bring back Teferi, for 3, at instant speed. Please god no.
Although my favorite guild is Orzhov there is enough good Orzhov cards for me to build decks around. The guild i’m hoping the best for is the Rakdos. They went from being useless in Dissension to most improved guild in the second Rav block. Crazy cards like Sire of Insanity and Havoc Festival. I wonder if they could go for a super hellbent mechanic with a name like Hell For Leather – Like you could have a basic damage spell for 2 mana 2 damage. Then it gets better for 4 damage when you have no cards in hand. But then it deals 6 damage if both you and an opponent have no cards in hand.
Exile should never be messed around with. If exile becomes a second graveyard magic turns into Yugioh….
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1 and blue. Reset target plainswalker to it’s original loyalty count.
Metabolize is op. i think its already strong If it gain you 1 life.
Commutation goes off pretty hard with flashback card’s.
Siren’s song is amazing. Pretty cool design, and is not op in sealed or draft. Amazing
I like creekbend guide too, but its busted. It should be a 1/2 for me
Manamorphose reprint for Gruul please!
That t-shirt is awesome!
Welcome back head ninja
1st off i agree with you on the exile zone. Having a few more cards that interact with that would be awesome. Your card for it is a little cheap. Even as a 4 cost i still say that is cheap. But with how aggressive the format is right now 4 may just be right. Sirens song is way to busted! Talk about mill taking over, OMG! Cool idea thou.
The rogue refiner look a like as you call to me is more like the elf from gatecrash that triggered card draw off of evole trigger. Either way i think that would be a good card 4 standard. It would be to hard to work with the steamkin (red). It could make mentor crazy thou lol.
Re-forming so so so busted and would take over formats small and large.
Getting perfect mana in every game would just not make magic fun any more. To me any ways. Thank you 4 the great vid
0 mana instant: search your opponent’s library for any number of cards named history of benalia and exile them forever
I am still waiting for a mechanic that can remove emblems. There really should be some form of interaction with them.
Reterraforming is a really neat idea, but is unfortunately more shuffling than Wizards wants in standard. The XXYY costed Simic is really on theme for Simic and totally seems possible. Stats look a bit high for such a strong ability though. Simic definitely seems like one of the harder guilds to design for. But so is Dimir, and they did great with that one in GRN. Orzhov is my favorite guild, and as fun as it would be, Bloodline would be way too strong, mostly on Sanctuary Creeper, which you acknowledged
Hey man I love your videos, I was super excited for this one. I’m looking for info on what the next set could bring so is there anyway you could maybe do a video on like what reprints to expect? And a history on these guilds and what cards made them relevant in the past so people can have some context for pre releases and what guilds to choose. Just looking for more info haven’t been able to find what I’m looking for anywhere. Thank you
a lot of nice cards. I think Ornery would never make it as a keyword, since it confuses new players too much. And wizards wants those new players
Commutation would let one Jump-Start card be cast 4 times in one game.
NO.
I want a new Krenko in either Allegience or the set after.
Really just hoping for a decent legendary creature for commander that doesn’t have to be completely built around. Like the legendaries were for Guilds of Ravnica
No more counters on simic PLEASEEeEee but yeah you want simic to be good? Just ramp and draw, something like a 5cmc ramp 2 basic and draw 2 cards or something like that. Kinda of like tatyova.
We already have Domri and Kaya “confirmed”, I heavily believe the next pw will be azorius (Dovin Baan maybe?)
The mechanics could be broken if you could give them to other creatures somehow. Simic enchantment however seems nice
You could change Rakdos soulbrokker too, BBRR 2/3 Return target creature from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. when Rakdos Soulbroker dies, exile that creature, that change would allmost balance the card
Bloodline is very good with surveil
Enjoyed this, thanks Dev
Lukata is actually too good for the first ability: it protect herself in 2 different ways and she cost 3 mana, 4 If you want a force spike.i could see her as an acceptable walkers If the tokens were only artifacts, like clues, i know artifacts are not the most simic things, but noncreature token could be not only good but super cool.
I think they should add an overpowered planeswalker that everyone hates called tefewi
Q: Why can’t vampires be spirits?
A: Bloodghast.
No. Exile should not be touched, otherwise it’s a second graveyard. And it never ends.
Communtation would be a mythic rare. A card that allows you to retrieve “jump start” and other cards that go into exile would HAVE to be mythic.
Ima x Soulflayer
Alright, right from the start, Ornery would confuse new players, so not surprise is not printed 🙂 But cool ideia.
This is amazing
Lukata seems extremely broken to me. I would make her 4 mana, the ability to bounce a creature when it comes in and stay alive is super powerful, and it can also create tokens that protect her. She would be really powerful
The soulbroker is super insane. (In a good way) I would say make it a 3/1
you over stat things way too much man
Make “Reterraforming” basic land instead of any land, and I’d be down with it. The ability to tutor any land every turn is too good.
Sanctuary Creeper + Desecrated Tomb as well. 😉
Commutation is a cool idea but I dont think its as busted as you think, we have pull from eternity and its not very useful outside very fringe scenarios. I honestly think that with this added flexibility, commutation would be a cool addition to the modern card pool
Reterraformation would likely destroy eternal formats
They might also bring back ferocious or something like that for gruul
How do you tell which creatures attacked and wich ativated abilities only with obery?
On simic i woukd love more polymorph spells that turn inanimate obects into creatures.
Why almost every card you propose is broken?
Creekbend Guide: “…ANY number of counter” maybe it should be changed to “ONE or more counters”, cause if think 0 enters that value XD. Anyway i got the idea i guess, and i like it. Reterraforming would be like the ultimate combo with sassaya, nice. that sanctuary creeper in a selfmill deck wat lol. That vengeance mechanic, again, in a self mill/dregde deck, turns everything into burn. Wanna exile my graveyard? dead. U a madman i love it. I’m still wanting to see a planeswalker with the +ability to +1 up to 2 target creatures you control explore.
Dev you don’t want more to be done with the exile zone. Stuff like that happens in other games and it just makes it totally pointless
I would like to see a “(X)slayer” mechanic put into place.
For example:
Goblinslayer – This creature deals double the damage dealt to Goblins.
Or for shapeshifters:
Kinslayer – This creature deals double the damage dealt to creatures that share the same creature type as this card.
I want that merfolk planeswalker 😀