Unreleased and New Card Discussion

[Serenade]

Just realized the extended art cards have flavor text, so that's nice.

[Serenade]

The Restless land cycle is cool (from across WOE and LCI). I probably will not use any of them in decks ever, but I do like them all.

[PrimevalCommander]

I like Get Lost, but I am not sure I like it more than Excise the Imperfect. And I like Excise better than Generous Gift in many instances as well. Excise the imperfect hits any non-land with Exile permanence and hits Gods and other indestructible things. Also doesn't get blanked by Flawless Maneuver, Boros Charm, Hammer of Nazahn, Mithril Coat and others. Now this has a more noticeable downside than Gift, since a 5/5 or 6/6 ground beater is relevant damage, but I will pay the price for Exile in this day and age where instant indestructible is easier to acquire.

Get Lost and Fateful Absence are even for me. Get Lost provides an extra artifact/permanent/token, extra sacrifice trigger, beefs up a creature, fills the GY, or draws a card. A clue does some of these things too, so I'm expecting the downside is largely equivalent in casual settings. I will pick up a couple Get Lost if they are cheap. We have gotten pretty flush with high quality removal in white this past year. Really impressive how many options we have now.

I wouldn't mind a couple multi-color options with less downside for some decks. Maybe a good , , or removal with the "non-land permanent" but an upside, since making it 2 color generally offsets some of the downside by being "harder" to cast. Having white can keep the color pie bending from getting too bad. I mean green never counters spells, and red seldom does, but put on it and now you can splash any color on it for "Counter Target Spell" with upside. Why are removal spells different? When is the last time we saw a removal spell that wasn't Disenchant+? : destroy target Artifact, Enchantment, or Creature, create a food token. anyone?

[duducrash]

Restless Anchorage is a good sweet card for 60 card formats! specially pioneer. I run Celestial Colonnade in one deck and I think this is a bit better for my case too.

The gods have been pretty strong, giving rebound to every instant you cast is pretty sweet imho

[CommanderMaster999]

I wonder what the fastest way to get 1000 time counters on the calendar is?

Ps I felt minor dumb when I saw the card I was wondering what the teaser was of 1000 life loss then I realized. "uh crud I forgot about the 2012 theory from the Aztec calendar."

[PrimevalCommander]

Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch goes right into Kalamax, the Stormsire, with Kalamax getting some new art too. Merry Christmas to me

[folding_music]

a lot of this cards have unslammable names
like
*slams card onto the table* ENTERPRISING SCALLYWAG!
the rule of cool has not been heeded

edit: it sounds like I'm talking about Ixalan but I actually mean the last ten years of the game in general >:)

[CommanderMaster999]

Earthshaker Dreadmaw lookmat that are boy has grown up quite a bit to be eligible for a Gishath, Sun's Avatar /Pantlaza, Sun-Favored decks

[darrenhabib]

If the only thing you did all game was play The Millennium Calendar Turn 1 and play lands for the game then you'd have 1258 by Turn 10.
It doesn't really matter what turn you play it and number of permanents you are untapping, naturally its going to be 8 turns of using it will get you over 1000.
So anything that untaps it is going to half that time. For example a Voltaic Key is going to mean only 4 turns of use.

Dowsing Device (at uncommon) is a sweet piece of land ramp for some decks. Just like Mox Opal, it needs to be in a deck that can support it, but the fact that its a land means that its much less susceptible to removal.
Don't overlook this card for your deck builds, even if the haste element isn't that useful.

Sunbird Standard in a 5 color (or 4 color) deck is pretty great as it can Craft with instants and sorcery which you are far more likely to get into your graveyard early and because you get haste with Sunbird Effigy you can get back the 5 you invested into Craft that turn. Itself provides a mana so you only need 4 more for the Craft.
I could even see a 3 color deck being able to use it if you have plenty of early turn instant/sorcery spread across the colors. For example Turn one cantrip (say Ponder), next turn land ramp (say Rampant Growth), Turn 3 cast Sunbird Standard and tap for another colored spell (say Swords to Plowshares).
That means that on Turn 4 you can Craft and because you can tap for wug that means it sort of only costs you 2 to Craft.

[Serenade]

I am excited to pair Dowsing Device with Marionette Master in my Jan Jansen, Chaos Crafter deck.

[DirkGently]

@darrenhabib I don't expect calendar to be anything but a meme (or possibly some shenanigans like All Will Be One that just care about large numbers of counters). Being an artifact makes it way too unlikely to actually happen before it gets blown up.

Mox opal costs 0. 2 mana rocks are guaranteed mana when played. Plus they still count as artifacts, which you probably want if you're playing an artifact deck. Sure, they get wrecked by Vandalblast but your artifact deck already loses if vandalblast resolves so who cares. Dowsing Device probably isn't worth it unless you care a lot about the buff.

Sunbird standard in 3c is basically a Gilded Lotus for 8 even ignoring the setup cost. And I think most 5c decks will have a hard time getting all 5 colors in a timely fashion. Plus it's very weak to removal compared to gilded lotus etc. Maybe not totally unplayable but it's much weaker than Timeless Lotus and Prismatic Geoscope imo.

[Dunadain]

Why do a number of cards in this set, when referencing themselves, put their name in quotation marks? Is this a new thing? It would make sense if this is the new standard going forwards, but plenty of cards also don't do it in the set.

[5colorsrainbow]

Why do a number of cards in this set, when referencing themselves, put their name in quotation marks? Is this a new thing? It would make sense if this is the new standard going forwards, but plenty of cards also don't do it in the set.

Are you looking at scryfall translations?

[Dunadain]

Why do a number of cards in this set, when referencing themselves, put their name in quotation marks? Is this a new thing? It would make sense if this is the new standard going forwards, but plenty of cards also don't do it in the set.

Are you looking at scryfall translations?

Nah, just looking at the spoilers on the main page of mtgnexus.

[Serenade]

Those names also are just MTG Nexus translations/not confirmed English names yet.

[Dunadain]

Huh, why haven't I noticed that in other sets? Lol, am dumb.

[darrenhabib]

The Millennium Calendar + Basalt Monolith = Win.

It says "during your untap step" not just what you untap at beginning.

[Dunadain]

The Millennium Calendar + Basalt Monolith = Win.

It says "during your untap step" not just what you untap at beginning.

Players never gain priority during the untap step, so you can't activate basalt monolith at all.

[Serenade]

Nicanzil, Current Conductor points another GU merfolk legend toward explore/ramp/counters, which I hope means the Commander deck will have a nonfoil version of the Guild Kit art Zegana, Utopian Speaker. Very specific hope.

[duducrash]

Nicanzil, Current Conductor points another GU merfolk legend toward explore/ramp/counters, which I hope means the Commander deck will have a nonfoil version of the Guild Kit art Zegana, Utopian Speaker. Very specific hope.

I hope we get another extra lands merfolk. It could even be at 5cmc. I know id build heavy in explore and with so many lands

[cheonice]

The Millennium Calendar + Basalt Monolith = Win.

It says "during your untap step" not just what you untap at beginning.

Players never gain priority during the untap step, so you can't activate basalt monolith at all.

But you can respond to the trigger of the calendar, can't you?

[DirkGently]

The Millennium Calendar + Basalt Monolith = Win.

It says "during your untap step" not just what you untap at beginning.

Players never gain priority during the untap step, so you can't activate basalt monolith at all.

But you can respond to the trigger of the calendar, can't you?

During your upkeep? Go nuts but nothing happens. The trigger isn't put on the stack until upkeep despite happening in untap.

[cheonice]

Players never gain priority during the untap step, so you can't activate basalt monolith at all.

But you can respond to the trigger of the calendar, can't you?

During your upkeep? Go nuts but nothing happens. The trigger isn't put on the stack until upkeep despite happening in untap.

Oh, interesting. Didn't know that.

[DirkGently]

But you can respond to the trigger of the calendar, can't you?

During your upkeep? Go nuts but nothing happens. The trigger isn't put on the stack until upkeep despite happening in untap.

Oh, interesting. Didn't know that.

Yeah, Untap triggers are weird.

[DirkGently]

Okay, there is a way to do infinite untaps during your untap step but it's very complicated and revolves around our good friend Panglacial Wurm.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BadMtgCombos/s/I6X83pu56I