Something I noticed about mechtitan core: in a pinch it’s boardwipe protection for an artifact creature deck. It’s not the most efficient but the ability to save your best 4 artifact creatures could be helpful.
couple of other aspects that's interestink, is a) you can do the exile effect at any point in time, it doesn't say use only as sorcery. b) if you can turn other creatures into artifacts, they can become part of it. Something I DO have to wonder though, if another player puts a removal spell on any of the 4 artifacts onto the stack, does that cause the mech titan core effect to fizzle?
@@AC3handle Since the exile part is before the semi colon, it's part of the cost. Paying a cost does not allow anyone to actually respond. So no, there is nothing you opponent can do to prevent you from exiling your artifacts. ;)
Hidetsugu doesn't say combat damage. If you could turn it into a prodigal sorcerer and you have a way of untapping it you can very quickly kill somebody in two turns.
So I am going to argue that white is THE best at MASS removal. In terms of whipes there is no equal. However I don't want to run 7 whipes, in most decks I'm happy with 2. But still good on Wizards for printing good white cards even an actual mono white piece of ramp!
Returning Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire to the battlefield with the second chapter of The Restoration of Eiganjo is going to be the most satisfying thing to do in my mono white Kamigawa themed deck!
Let’s give it up for White for having two cards in the top five! A wonderful saga that helps ramp then becomes a creature that helps build your army, and a crazy board wipe!
yep that saga chapter 2 is actually even better than that it said permanent 2 or less what was not mention is you can just get a fetchland ready to go to get the correct dual land or Triome in the situation of your hand. and with Amulet of vigor it will come in untapped whatever it is.
Just like the modal lands from zendikar, the Channel are so good because in the late game they are spells when you topdeck them. It is very often a mistake in the early turns to hold onto them as opposed to using them as a way to drop
always love seeing your stuff, your lists always have a bunch of whacko stuff on them, same with deck techs, a format where you can play and see a bunch of cards you'd never see is the format I was pitched.
Personally, I love the whole ascetic of this set. From the nods at nostalgia references to the wonderful art, it has to be one of my favorite sets to date.
I love March of the Swirling Mist ✨✨✨ Phases to protect your team, or prevent being killed by unblockable chaps. Its in most of my blue decks. The other 2 cards i love are Tamiyo giving a mini heroic intervention is amazing to protect your commander and The Restoration of Eiganjo (amazing in Kykar and my Alela deck)
I think no one is talking about Invoke Calamity or Discover the Impossible is a bit of a shame. They are great for any instants matter strategy/storm decks. The recursion and card selection is pretty impressive from those two and work perfectly in Izzet decks.
Seems like Eater of Virtue would be an incredibly fun build around for a commander deck. You could play Rograkh and just let him stay in exile, and have Akiri, Line-Slinger or Ardenn, Intrepid Archeologist. Now you have access to tons of artifact tutors and recursion. It'd be awesome.
really excited about this set. However not looking forward to replacing cards in decks I currently have lol I'm pretty bad at assessing what is better haha
Eater of Virtue is like the perfect card for a Kathril/Soulflayer deck. Although you'd probably want to make it WUBRG for Chromanticore, Sphinx of the Steel Wind and Odric, Lunarch Marshal. Invigorating Hot Spring is insane with Rhythm of the Wild.
Love your work and have been following you for a while now! I don't agree with Gravelighter being as good as you say. If you badly want the sacrifice effect, I think it could be easily negated if someone decides to negate it by sacrificing a small creature in response (even in non-sac decks that run the occasional High Market or Phyrexian Tower). Sure you draw a card as a result, but it might be not worth the trade-off of not being able to get rid of a key creature. I ranked it as a card that usually would just miss being part of the 99 - simply because other cards fill a similar role more consistently. Other than that - I do agree with how you judged the cards, especially for playgroups that might be more combat focused! I'm surprised that I didn't see a couple of other cards like Kodama of the West Tree - that has a good floor and an insane ceiling that fits in multiple decks!
Mechtitan Core inside Satoru ETB ninjutsu is absolutely awesome. They can kill it, exile, or you can ninjutsu back to hand next turn. Doesn’t matter, those big baddies used to build him are coming straight back to the field for some ETB insanity.
you definitely missed the biggest thing about Spirit-Sister's Call and thats Flicker effects. because you can flicker the thing you just brought out of the yard and it will come back into play and not be permanently exiled and comes in as a new object so it forgets about that clause of this card. Bonus is a few Flicker spells do infact target anything So in these colors its just too perfect for Aminatou, the Fateshifter because she flickers any type of permanent also the funniest thing you can use farewell for is you can just select everything then just Teferi's protection since your in white.
I want to see that Eater of Virtue on a golem token deck. Sounds weird, but they went through that one phase where they had golem generators that gave all golems a keyword. Could be pretty fun
that Thundering Raiju is going to do a Lot of Job With Marchesa the Black Rose, All your attacking creature are Modified and keep getting back on the battlefield. You can blast all your opponent at 7 damage each turn, then deal damage again with your attacking creature.
Gravelighter, unlike Fleshbag, is recurrable via Alesha. think about that - turn 5 play it, sac it to itself. Combat attack with Alesha, revive it for card draw. excellent sac target next turn
So about "Farewell"(and thanks for all the fish), white's also good at giving indestructible (especially the one you're thinking right now), so be mindfull that it exiles and doesn't destroy, avoid putting it in Avacyn(the one you were thinking right?)
@@edhdeckbuilding fair enough :P I have 1 blue deck and it has both xD they deal with so many commanders that have etbs or combat/upkeep triggered abilities, they really should be in more blue decks. thank you for the comment though, it helped my brain understand better :)
Re: boseiju price. Preorder prices of singles are always way inflated. Wait until release weekend to buy singles. People are going to open a lot of NEO.
@@edhdeckbuilding That is rad. Cheers to you sir. Love the channel and love all the metal posters on your wall. I can’t even count how many times I’ve seen the black dahlia murder 🤘🏻 you have a good night
Cast scion of the ur dragon make it indestructible with that which was taken by giving it a divinity counter then cast artificial evolution on it making it a hydra avatar then copy progenitus from your library making it an indestructible copy of progenitus while sending progenitus back to your library.
Eater of virtue doesnt work with your commander. If your commander goes to the command zone, then it's no longer exiled by Eater of Virtue. It still could be really good in voltron, but it doesn't work the way you said, I dont think. It's like exiling a commander with Karn liberated then restarting the game. It goes to the command zone, and it was technically exiled by karn, but you dont get control of it at the start of the game because it wasn't still "exiled by karn". It was in the command zone. All the same, I'm putting that in Kaalia. Basically everything in a Kaalia deck has a good modifier like that. Kaalia isn't exactly voltron, but it would be nice.
I'm quite sad they decided to do the weird multicolored "neon ink treatment" with Hidetsugu instead of with the perfect fits of Mechtitan Core and Kappa Tech-Wrecker. Imagine TMNT alt colored Kappa Tech-Wreckers, or Voltron alt colored Mechtitan Core and its token. Gravelighter is so exciting for me as an Alesha player. Fleshbag Marauder effects are _always_ on power 3 creatures, so _finally_ we have one on a power 2 creature. The most important part of Vessel of the All-Consuming is that it *_DOES NOT_* say "combat". As long as it is the source of *_ANY_* damage, it kills people.
I am a big fan of the Invoke cycle. I think most magic cards are too lax on their mana requirements. Decks wouldnt be trending toward 5c goodstuff if every card was costed to not be splash -able like this
Gravelighter is definitely not a strict upgrade to fleshbag, and I'd say its a considerably less playable card. First off, the obvious reason, if you play mass recursion effects, or have recursion that requires creature sacrifice, this creature is going to frequently draw you a card rather than kill stuff you need dead. Second, it gives your opponents a much larger window to interact with it to save their own stuff. With merciless, once it hits the table, everyone has to sac. With this, your opponent can remove this creature in response to its trigger, giving you the card draw effect. In a case where you needed this to kill a voltron commander (one of the best use cases for merciless) its going to get you killed on the crackback. When you play removal in your commander deck, you need it to reliably remove things. Taking away that reliability makes it a downgrade imo.
I was worried about this set being too futuristic and having cheesy, trashy steampunk nonsense. However this actually turned out to be 1 of my favorite sets & they included just enough mech stuff to make NEO seem unique but not out of place in the MtGverse. Also the power level is really high for a standard set. The art is probably the best in a long time too
Am I the only one who think most of the art seems kind of lackluster compared to the uniqueness of the old kamigawa? Even so, I do enjoy the set, and I think this was a great list, really highligted a few uncommons that I hadn't quite given the time of day. :)
I really do not like this set. I know I am a few on this opinion but I do not like what they did to Kamigawa. It feels like a marketing thing. "Hey you guys like cyberpunk 2077? Well mtg has it's first cyberpunk set! And of course it has to be in our Japanese plane because cyberpunk = Japan" Cyberpunk shouldn't be in mtg imo. Still going to get the staples because I feel like I have to.
I'm not sure eater of virtue would work for kathril because he puts counters on creatures and they fall off once they die. So the card in exile wont have any of those abilities, unless I'm wrong?
An added bonus on Boseiju when destroying a Rhystic Study, your opponent can't ask you if "you pay the one":)
Legend says that Kiki-jiki goes infinite with a ham sandwich
Big fan of you and your work. Stoked for this set!
Something I noticed about mechtitan core: in a pinch it’s boardwipe protection for an artifact creature deck. It’s not the most efficient but the ability to save your best 4 artifact creatures could be helpful.
couple of other aspects that's interestink, is a) you can do the exile effect at any point in time, it doesn't say use only as sorcery.
b) if you can turn other creatures into artifacts, they can become part of it.
Something I DO have to wonder though, if another player puts a removal spell on any of the 4 artifacts onto the stack,
does that cause the mech titan core effect to fizzle?
@@AC3handle Since the exile part is before the semi colon, it's part of the cost.
Paying a cost does not allow anyone to actually respond.
So no, there is nothing you opponent can do to prevent you from exiling your artifacts. ;)
Hidetsugu doesn't say combat damage. If you could turn it into a prodigal sorcerer and you have a way of untapping it you can very quickly kill somebody in two turns.
I put invoked despair in my prosper & Liesa shroud of dusk deck 👌🏾
Invoke justice is definitely going in my Heliod, sun-crowned deck. "get back out here Walking ballista!"
So I am going to argue that white is THE best at MASS removal. In terms of whipes there is no equal. However I don't want to run 7 whipes, in most decks I'm happy with 2. But still good on Wizards for printing good white cards even an actual mono white piece of ramp!
It triggers me that you’re spelling it “Whipes”
I love the art in this set. I know alot of people were disapointed with the sudo-scifi. But I adore it.
Returning Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire to the battlefield with the second chapter of The Restoration of Eiganjo is going to be the most satisfying thing to do in my mono white Kamigawa themed deck!
Let’s give it up for White for having two cards in the top five! A wonderful saga that helps ramp then becomes a creature that helps build your army, and a crazy board wipe!
yep that saga chapter 2 is actually even better than that it said permanent 2 or less what was not mention is you can just get a fetchland ready to go to get the correct dual land or Triome in the situation of your hand. and with Amulet of vigor it will come in untapped whatever it is.
march of swirling mist can also get rid of attackers so opponents cant swing for the kill or to temporarily get a bad effect off the board
I don't even play commander but hell, might just get into it through your videos. So much fun unused cards to do stuff with!
Eater of Virtue is going in my Otrimi deck. I love the idea of exiling my mutate bases to give their abilities to other creatures I mutate onto.
Just like the modal lands from zendikar, the Channel are so good because in the late game they are spells when you topdeck them. It is very often a mistake in the early turns to hold onto them as opposed to using them as a way to drop
always love seeing your stuff, your lists always have a bunch of whacko stuff on them, same with deck techs, a format where you can play and see a bunch of cards you'd never see is the format I was pitched.
Please do a Deck tech on Kaima the fractured calm
I add so many of your 10 cards lists to my decks, love it! (And my friends hate it😂)
i know i added snake pit to a token deck it was working beautifully against the dimir rogues and nobody was bothering with it.
Personally, I love the whole ascetic of this set. From the nods at nostalgia references to the wonderful art, it has to be one of my favorite sets to date.
I was still playing yfire of yamivaya, let's say hot spring is a straight upgrade.
My Sydri, Galvanic Genius deck, or as i call it vehicular manslaughter, is going to love this set
I love March of the Swirling Mist ✨✨✨
Phases to protect your team, or prevent being killed by unblockable chaps. Its in most of my blue decks. The other 2 cards i love are Tamiyo giving a mini heroic intervention is amazing to protect your commander and The Restoration of Eiganjo (amazing in Kykar and my Alela deck)
I think no one is talking about Invoke Calamity or Discover the Impossible is a bit of a shame. They are great for any instants matter strategy/storm decks. The recursion and card selection is pretty impressive from those two and work perfectly in Izzet decks.
Seems like Eater of Virtue would be an incredibly fun build around for a commander deck. You could play Rograkh and just let him stay in exile, and have Akiri, Line-Slinger or Ardenn, Intrepid Archeologist. Now you have access to tons of artifact tutors and recursion. It'd be awesome.
really excited about this set. However not looking forward to replacing cards in decks I currently have lol I'm pretty bad at assessing what is better haha
I could see Eater of Virtue being fantastic in a theft deck. Even if the creature doesn't have keywords, it isn't going back it's owner.
Eater of Virtue is like the perfect card for a Kathril/Soulflayer deck. Although you'd probably want to make it WUBRG for Chromanticore, Sphinx of the Steel Wind and Odric, Lunarch Marshal.
Invigorating Hot Spring is insane with Rhythm of the Wild.
March of swirling mist and hinata are an insane combo, I usually combine them with day of judgement or another card that destroys all creatures.
What's your opinion on Swift Reconfiguration? Definitely one of my top picks from the set
Very nice content, most of the cards you said spiked alot!
Love your work and have been following you for a while now!
I don't agree with Gravelighter being as good as you say. If you badly want the sacrifice effect, I think it could be easily negated if someone decides to negate it by sacrificing a small creature in response (even in non-sac decks that run the occasional High Market or Phyrexian Tower). Sure you draw a card as a result, but it might be not worth the trade-off of not being able to get rid of a key creature. I ranked it as a card that usually would just miss being part of the 99 - simply because other cards fill a similar role more consistently.
Other than that - I do agree with how you judged the cards, especially for playgroups that might be more combat focused! I'm surprised that I didn't see a couple of other cards like Kodama of the West Tree - that has a good floor and an insane ceiling that fits in multiple decks!
You're saying the opponent could avoid Gravelighter's sacrifice effect by sacrificing a creature?
Mechtitan Core inside Satoru ETB ninjutsu is absolutely awesome. They can kill it, exile, or you can ninjutsu back to hand next turn. Doesn’t matter, those big baddies used to build him are coming straight back to the field for some ETB insanity.
Can't Channel be countered with counterspells like Tales End, Overcharged Amalgam, etc...?
stifle effects yes. it's an activated ability.
Spirit Sisters Call seems really good with the new Shrine commander. You can sac a shine/enchantment token to get an actual card from the grave yard.
you definitely missed the biggest thing about Spirit-Sister's Call
and thats Flicker effects. because you can flicker the thing you just brought out of the yard and it will come back into play and not be permanently exiled and comes in as a new object so it forgets about that clause of this card. Bonus is a few Flicker spells do infact target anything
So in these colors its just too perfect for Aminatou, the Fateshifter because she flickers any type of permanent
also the funniest thing you can use farewell for is you can just select everything then just Teferi's protection since your in white.
Be aware that Teferi's Protection doesn't protect your graveyard, or your library or hand.
I want to see that Eater of Virtue on a golem token deck. Sounds weird, but they went through that one phase where they had golem generators that gave all golems a keyword. Could be pretty fun
I used invigorating hot springs yesterday, and it reminds me a lot of rhythm of the wild
Great to have a much larger top of the set because there is more than 10 good cards for our format.
that Thundering Raiju is going to do a Lot of Job With Marchesa the Black Rose, All your attacking creature are Modified and keep getting back on the battlefield. You can blast all your opponent at 7 damage each turn, then deal damage again with your attacking creature.
The lands are good if you have a bounce land to pair with them. You may need it? Well play the bounce land and bring it back to the hand.
Gravelighter, unlike Fleshbag, is recurrable via Alesha. think about that - turn 5 play it, sac it to itself. Combat attack with Alesha, revive it for card draw. excellent sac target next turn
Does eater of virtue work with mechtitan?
Ecologist Terrarium is handy in a Marchesa the Black Rose deck
Alternate art Boseiju was sitting at $80+ when I pulled mine out of a set booster box.
So about "Farewell"(and thanks for all the fish), white's also good at giving indestructible (especially the one you're thinking right now), so be mindfull that it exiles and doesn't destroy, avoid putting it in Avacyn(the one you were thinking right?)
The "exile it instead" replacement ability on spirit-sisters call can be removed by blinking the permanent
5:49 Someone doesn't play with people who run "Disallow," "Nimble Obstructionist," and "Stifle," and it shows.
or Tale's End
Helm of the host and spark double state that their copy is non legendary so you can copy your command with them then have the copy crew mindlink mech
March of swirling mist can lockout a player out until its next turn by facing out all of its creatures in its combat or end step. a nasty card
Number one is fair, probably the best way to look at it.
Colossal Skyturle also does your coffee
wait, Channel gets around Stifle and trickbind?
no. but those cards aren't used much in commander.
@@edhdeckbuilding fair enough :P
I have 1 blue deck and it has both xD they deal with so many commanders that have etbs or combat/upkeep triggered abilities, they really should be in more blue decks.
thank you for the comment though, it helped my brain understand better :)
Re: boseiju price. Preorder prices of singles are always way inflated. Wait until release weekend to buy singles. People are going to open a lot of NEO.
All the new legend lands, are going strait into every Omnath deck, for the channel ability, due to lands recursion.
Can anyone tell me with spirit sisters call can I sacrifice an enchantment creature to bring back an enchantment?
indeed it can. as long as it shares a card type.
@@edhdeckbuilding That is rad. Cheers to you sir. Love the channel and love all the metal posters on your wall. I can’t even count how many times I’ve seen the black dahlia murder 🤘🏻 you have a good night
Invigorating Hot Spring is really good.
Cast scion of the ur dragon make it indestructible with that which was taken by giving it a divinity counter then cast artificial evolution on it making it a hydra avatar then copy progenitus from your library making it an indestructible copy of progenitus while sending progenitus back to your library.
You can use mirror box to gain advantage by cloning your dragon a few times and repeating the processs
I can't believe Replication Specialist is only uncommon. Any artifact?
Eater of virtue doesnt work with your commander. If your commander goes to the command zone, then it's no longer exiled by Eater of Virtue. It still could be really good in voltron, but it doesn't work the way you said, I dont think.
It's like exiling a commander with Karn liberated then restarting the game. It goes to the command zone, and it was technically exiled by karn, but you dont get control of it at the start of the game because it wasn't still "exiled by karn". It was in the command zone.
All the same, I'm putting that in Kaalia. Basically everything in a Kaalia deck has a good modifier like that. Kaalia isn't exactly voltron, but it would be nice.
i said this exact thing in the video: 11:03
oh, my mistake for missing that. I liked the rest of your video.
I'm quite sad they decided to do the weird multicolored "neon ink treatment" with Hidetsugu instead of with the perfect fits of Mechtitan Core and Kappa Tech-Wrecker.
Imagine TMNT alt colored Kappa Tech-Wreckers, or Voltron alt colored Mechtitan Core and its token.
Gravelighter is so exciting for me as an Alesha player. Fleshbag Marauder effects are _always_ on power 3 creatures, so _finally_ we have one on a power 2 creature.
The most important part of Vessel of the All-Consuming is that it *_DOES NOT_* say "combat". As long as it is the source of *_ANY_* damage, it kills people.
Ruthless Technomancer and Dockside Extortionist are best friends!
Replication specialist wow, get 2 smothering tides etc
Kappa tech wrecker better have four colored versions of it. Those neon art whatchamacallics....
I am a big fan of the Invoke cycle. I think most magic cards are too lax on their mana requirements. Decks wouldnt be trending toward 5c goodstuff if every card was costed to not be splash -able like this
Gravelighter is definitely not a strict upgrade to fleshbag, and I'd say its a considerably less playable card. First off, the obvious reason, if you play mass recursion effects, or have recursion that requires creature sacrifice, this creature is going to frequently draw you a card rather than kill stuff you need dead. Second, it gives your opponents a much larger window to interact with it to save their own stuff. With merciless, once it hits the table, everyone has to sac. With this, your opponent can remove this creature in response to its trigger, giving you the card draw effect. In a case where you needed this to kill a voltron commander (one of the best use cases for merciless) its going to get you killed on the crackback. When you play removal in your commander deck, you need it to reliably remove things. Taking away that reliability makes it a downgrade imo.
I was worried about this set being too futuristic and having cheesy, trashy steampunk nonsense. However this actually turned out to be 1 of my favorite sets & they included just enough mech stuff to make NEO seem unique but not out of place in the MtGverse. Also the power level is really high for a standard set. The art is probably the best in a long time too
Ruthless Technomancer will be great in chatterfang
Your videos have made me want to build a super political deck. Making deals that are ok for my opponents and great for me.
On today's episode of cards to buy instead of a booster box vol. 113
The best part of Invigorating Hot Spring is monke
Can’t wait to add mechtitan to brudiclad
No Jin? That card is brutal.
commander ranking coming up. i like to do the commanders seperate.
@@edhdeckbuilding i can appreciate that but they go in the 99 too, right?
But if they made kiki-jiki like this, we would never have twinless decks in modern 😡😡😡
Good grief there are some wordy cards...
i find that most cards these days are really wordy.
Am I the only one who think most of the art seems kind of lackluster compared to the uniqueness of the old kamigawa?
Even so, I do enjoy the set, and I think this was a great list, really highligted a few uncommons that I hadn't quite given the time of day. :)
No love for my boy jin
Voltron more like Golion
I really do not like this set. I know I am a few on this opinion but I do not like what they did to Kamigawa. It feels like a marketing thing. "Hey you guys like cyberpunk 2077? Well mtg has it's first cyberpunk set! And of course it has to be in our Japanese plane because cyberpunk = Japan" Cyberpunk shouldn't be in mtg imo. Still going to get the staples because I feel like I have to.
I'm not sure eater of virtue would work for kathril because he puts counters on creatures and they fall off once they die. So the card in exile wont have any of those abilities, unless I'm wrong?