Mirage Xel: We've seen spirits caring about humans in
Dearly Departed, so everything cool. Five mana looks a bit expensive comparing it to creatures that set their power and toughness counting the cards in your graveyard, and the same goes for the human-only
Judith, the Scourge Diva trigger, but this is not a card that intends to be flexible. This wants to be in a mardu humans deck, packing some punch off your early trades and turning blocking your little dudes into a problem. The flavor is nice, the idea of a haunted hamlet is written in the mechanics. I would have costed this as a
1wrb as it won't get any of the Human bonuses bound to be in a Humans deck and because it is also unlikely to be much big when cast on curve.
marioguy: At first I misread this thinking it rwduced the costs of your spells. This effec balances the mana priduction and the copying, as 1 spell will.not be affected by the tax. Shroud makes it harder to interact but I guess it is meant yo keep it safe with untapping shenanigans. Still, this looks quite powerful. The tax makes this focus towards nore dtamatic effects rather than slinging out opts and such or holding counters. Some catds, like
Boomerang, do get dramatically better with tjis.
monoredmage; Well, monoremage, that's a lot of red mana symbols there. First thing I have to say is that I would stay off reducing colored mana on instants and sorceries for safety reasons. I'm not saying this is busted, I'm not that sure. At 4 mana, it might be a bit unreliable for storm and burn, but that's an ability that spring the alarm. On the rest of the card, I think that this is good as an aggressive creature and dropping seven mana to double your damage seems really fair utility. I like that you can use it on your opponent's turn in commander to punish someone or to take advantage from a combat situation.
RaikouRaider: When I look at this I see an awesome splice commander. I really like this and I figure it should be a face commander for a deck introducing a couple of powerful multicolored splices. I run a splice deck in pauper and it can be quite amazing when it goes off. This catd gets limited by the ammount of splice spells available, but free
Blessed Breath ,
psychic puppetry and
Spiritual Visit on each instant or sorcery can be pretty powerful, and
Evermind plus
Desperate Ritual sounds like a damn good engine. And this is just off splice. The spirit/arcane triggers can also be put to very good use
kwanyegir: This is really powerful. It looks like a quite unbeatable control.finisher. The fact that it has hexproof and can result on a 10 damage hit on its first attack makes it a bit too punishing for Azorius, As a note,
Geist of Saint Traft and
Invocation of Saint Traft both set the token at 4/4, so that body would benefit the flavor.
Pygzy: This looks lovely. 1/3, that mana cost, the permanents and the life loss looking very good. I really like cards that kind of include a minigame.in themselves, and maybe tjis.might not be a very reliable.path to victoey, but lots of players would have fun with this should it get printed.
Soujourner Dusk: A cat lord. I'm.not entirely sure blac is the appropriate cjoice for a third color in cats, as I can't really think of many black cats outside Mirri and some of the recent ones. The blink effect can pair nicely with CIP cats like
Seht's Tiger or
Regal Caracal. Altjought there are not as many I can' think of but the protection can be very useful.
Lots of.good stuff
1. Raikouraider
2.Pygzy
3. Mirage Xel
HM: Monoredmage