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[Gatecrash] All the spoilers posted on 1/16
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 4:46 pm
by Thrillho
AEtherize 3U
Instant
Return all attacking creatures to their owners hands.
Molten Primordial 5RR
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Haste
For each player, gain control of up to one target creature that player controls. Untap it. It gains haste until end of turn.
6/4
Orzhov Charm WB
Instant
Choose one -- return target creature you control and all Auras attached to it you control to their owners' hands; destroy target creature and you lose life equal to its toughness; return target creature with a converted mana cost of 1 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 4:54 pm
by Thrillho
Orzhov Charm is a doozy; may be my favorite charm overall, but I also thought Devour in Shadow was going to make it to the big stage.
Spotlight isn't the Hexproof answer we need, it's the hexproof answer we deserve. I feel like this card is probably going to have crazy preorder hype and wind up in the same kind of Pithing Needle void. The anti-hexproof enabler probably needs legs to make it big.
AEtherize is really spicy. I legitimately hold that it will see Constructed play in Block, if not Standard. It seems like the sideboard card U-based control has wanted against decks like Mono-Red that have singular expensive haste threats and otherwise not very trying smaller threats. Also, it's a Token Wrath.
Thespian's Stage is a card you will probably want foil copies of for EDH, but also it can function as your 16th 'Post. I'm probably overselling it for that use, since getting it to clone a land requires two turns and
mana investment, but it's still a non-zero capability of the card.
Merciless Eviction is definitely a card they printed. The Enchantment and Artifact modes as separate functions probably hurts it a lot more than adding another color and giving it the ability to kill Planeswalkers helps it. Not that adding another casting cost restriction would help it.
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 5:02 pm
by Kaitscralt
I think Orzhoz Charm is good but getting a bit overhyped. The best Charms will remain the knew that can do stuff when you don't want to hold them. Selesnya, Azorius, and probably Boros. Orzhov prolly the best Charm in Modern by far.
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 5:25 pm
by Thrillho
IMHO Dimir charm fits in that criteria you set above. Draw fixing for either player is a neutral and potentially powerful third mode for Dimir Charm.
Devour in Shadow isn't actually all that good, and that's the backbone of the card, so I don't think anyone's hype can justify it as being the best. It is an instant-speed answer to Orzabababababababa albeit at a 9-life swing.
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 6:30 pm
by Second Harkius
Orzhov Charm seems like the best charm in the set, though Selesnya is my favorite overall from the block.
Forced Eviction should have read 'choose two' considering it costs the same as Austere Command.
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:47 pm
by Yannaria
ORzhov Charm is fun stuff.
I love Thespian Stage for EDH. It will eat a waste land a lot, but if it doesn't, you get to take the best land at the table.
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:45 pm
by Thrillho
Orzhov Charm seems like the best charm in the set, though Selesnya is my favorite overall from the block.
Forced Eviction should have read 'choose two' considering it costs the same as Austere Command.
I thought as much as well; costing 6 mana of two colors and having two modes for a Purify effect is maddening.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 6:48 pm
by Tom Servo
That spotlight is going to be insane. The first ability hardly even matters compared to the second.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 7:08 pm
by Kaitscralt
It does when you consider both Standard and Modern have Hexproof decks surprising top tables.
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 7:32 pm
by Tom Servo
I don't know much about Modern, but I have a feeling this is going to me used more in Standard for its second ability than its first.