Magic Foundations Set Review: Black | Magic: the Gathering
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Foundations' full card gallery is out! That means it's time to start my set review, with a look at the set's multicolored and colorless cards.
What my grades mean:
I use a letter grade system, and my grades usually fall into a bell curve (Very few A’s and F’s, lots of C’s.)
A - Bombs that are always your first pick, they completely warp the game in your favor, and they easily pull you into their color(s). You always first pick these. These are cards you are ecstatic to have in your deck. Most sets have 15-20 of these. Tend to mostly be Mythics or Rares, though sometimes an Uncommon gets there.
(Overlord of the Mistmoors, Unholy Annex / Ritual Chamber,
B - Premium removal spells and highly efficient creatures, often worth first picking. Still strong enough to pull you into their colors, but not quite as game or draft warping as A’s are. These are cards you feel good about having in your deck, and you would play several copies of most of them. Mostly Uncommons and higher, but there are usually 10-15 commons that get there too.
(Trapped in the Screen, Fear of Isolation, Osseous Sticktwister)
C - Filler. These are cards you neither feel good or bad about having in your deck. You play them if you’re in their colors, but they don’t tempt you to go into their color at all. Usually includes reasonably efficient creatures, good combat tricks, and removal spells. These appear at all rarities, but are most frequently Common. (Cynical Loner, Hand That Feeds, Conductive Machete)
D - Playable in an emergency. These are cards that you don’t feel so good about playing, but in a pinch, sometimes you just have to play them. These are often inefficient vanilla creatures or overly narrow cards. These appear at all rarities. (Appendage Amalgam, Infernal Phantom, Rampaging Soulrager)
F - Unplayable. These are cards that you should never play. There are very few of these in modern Limited formats, but they do appear at all rarities, with the most usually appearing at Rare and Common. These are cards whose effects are pretty much useless or overly narrow. (Leyline of Resonance, Walk-In Closet / Forgotten Cellar, Unwanted Remake)
There are two categories of cards that I give two grades to: Build Arounds and Sideboard Cards.
Build Around: These are cards that need special synergy to be at their best - synergy that won’t just come naturally. For these cards, I give one grade indicating how I think the card will perform in a typical deck of that color, and another grade if you manage to get there on synergy. (Valgavoth Terror Eater, Smoky Lounge/Misty Salon, Cursed Recording)
Sideboard Cards: These are generally cards that are Ds or Fs in your mainboard, but can perform much better out of the sideboard - at least as a C or higher. We see less of these today than we used to, since so many cards are modal.
(Pyroclasm)
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creativecommons...
I read Midnight Snack incorrectly -- it can only hit players. I think it's actually just an F.
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Its pretty wild that they printed multiple 2 card combos in what is essentially a core set. Seeing if anyone can pull one off at prerelease will be fun.
pulled one off, felt great!
I think you're wrong about gutless plunderer! Maybe it'll shake out this way if the format is fast or is chock o block full of efficient removal, but a 3 mana trades for anything creature seems like a decent floor, and in the right situation that graveyard-based pseudo-Ponder could set up a black deck to get threshold or put a reanimation target in the yard while adding a body to the board that will be relevant all game long thanks to deathtouch.
The fact it doesn't draw on raid makes it not close to ponder imo, if it looked at the top three and put one in hane it would be great
Drafted a playset of Stromkirk Bloodthieves and they smashed face when you almost always have one to play on turn 3.. Very often your opponent will let a 1 or 2 drop through and then you play a bloodthief second main phase. They especially go off with sanguine syphoner. Syphoner into bloodthief is brutal. You trigger the blood thief even if the syphoner gets blocked and the blood thief can grow the syphoner. The syphoned can keep attacking because its toughness is now big enough that it can still survive.
Revenge of Rats is a card I am silly amounts of excited for, considering it's just... solid, lol. But look at all the babies!
Zul Ashur is one of my top cards for this set. She's giving undead main character energy.
Rise of the Dark Realms is a bomb! It requires no setup, and getting to 9 mana in this format has been easy. I've lost several games to it already.
9:30 Midnight Snack doesn't target creatures.
Wow, yeah. It's just an F.
Interesting that Wizards added the words “of their choice” to “each player sacrifices X creatures” effects, like Liliana Dreadhorde General and Blasphemous Edict. It used to be templated as just “each player sacrifices X creatures.”
It's very weird, they're trying to reduce words as much as possible and then added these useless ones
Because it's confusing? I mean, not for veteran players, because we know that if we could chose them, the card says that thing (the "Mardu" (the Mythos) boardwipe in Ikoria allows you to choose what they get if you play black and red)
@stefanoderosa9506 this is supposed to be a low complexity set aimed at beginners.
I think it's better to template it that way, as new players often don't understand that the opponent chooses on symmetrical sacrifice.
They did the same thing with the blue Time Ebb effect, where now it makes it clear the controller of the creature chooses top or bottom, not the caster.
@@NizzahonMagic In that case it could've been reminder text. As it is, it's a bad decision, because new players will think other cards work differently, and they'd have a point even if they're wrong, because this is exactly the kind of thing that normally is reminder text.
Great review! Do More Pauper Content!!! love me some powerful commons
Ramping into an early Painful Quandary with Llanowar Elves and the other common green ramp spells in this set could possibly work. t1: forest, Llanowar Elves, t2: swamp, any cmc 3 or less ramp spell, Grow from the Ashes, Springbloom Druid, Llanowar Elves, etc., t3: swamp, Painful Quandary.
Just playing a 5 drop creature is far more likely to win you the game.
Woot woot!!🎉
Zul Ashur is how I wish Ward was, instead of just making removal more expensive.
❤ thanks a lot!
I have no idea how this limited set will play out. It could be great playing with some older cards, but it could feel like an absolute slog fest, especially compared to duskmorne.
Also avatar of woe is my favorite card, I got so excited when I heard the second card.
10:05 I don’t think Nizza usually overrate card especially by this much but I think the cat is a stone cold F. It’s not comparable to 9 1/1s, the closer comparison is more like 1/10 defender. There is not enough sac synergy in this set and a chomper for 9 turns is just not playable. I admit the art is cute af so that may have clouded Nizza’s judgement 😅
if rakdos was sacrifice instead of raid, maybe it would be better
Don't think it a F, as a blocker it still does some work and there are enough sacing, and death/life triggers to make it go further.
13:42 am I the only one to just notice that tiny bones isnt made of... well... bones? I always thought he was just a lil' skeleton buddy, don't know how to feel about him just having a human body though.
They're just kind of inconsistent about it; compare his art in the new card here; Tinybone Joins Up; and Tinybones, the Pickpocket (those two in the same set!). Those are just three different characters.
It's a Benjamin Button thing lol
his original art from jumpstart had flesh. he was only a full skeleton in OTJ (he should’ve packed lotion)
Baby Skeletor?
Two new demons, a way to play Josu from the graveyard, and a second Exquisite Blood so happy with the set. 8 out of 10
Black cards got the short end of the stick in Foundations.
What makes you think that (a d what format if not limited)?
As far as i can see, the colors seem fairly balanced even if the "multiple creature archetype" situation is throwing me off a bit.
Crypt Feaster is Darth Sidious
It would be nice if you could equip the 9 life familiar with luxior...
I agree with all but Tragic Banshee. There have creatures in the past that could destroy creatures that have been dealth damage in the past. they have not been great to say the least. and this one seems too similar for me to praise it with anything but slightly above the rate of the creature itself. I would say a C.
4:35, Wait, are you required to both have 13 creatures on field to cast this?
If you want to cast it for a single black mana there needs to be 13 creatures on the board
If there are less you can still play it for the normal mana cost
Pay 5 to cast, or one of all creatures on board is 13 or more, a combined total, not each. But then the sac is each player
The "each player sacrifices 13" isn't a cost so you don't need to be able to meet it. You can cast this while controlling no creatures and sac nothing; since it's not a cost how it works in practice is "each player sacrifices as many creatures as they can, up to 13"
Nice
Tiny bones better than a C
It might have buildaround B potential.
Arbiter of woe doesn't seem that good. At 6 mana, there's little guarantee that the opponent will have any cards in hand to discard.
Yeah, and if you need something to stick on board before casting it it's basically a dead draw from behind.
There is no way quandary is an F
It definitely is. We have the data to back that up too. It's a reprint. An F isn't speculation, it's fact. Although I did give it an F in that review too.
i dont think painful quandry has been good in any format, but it's especially bad in limited
12:30 giving this a d+ is nothing but respect
Completely gave up on mtg. The are is bad, the balance is wack, the company is controversial.
Has reassembling skeleton as uncommon yet you think morbid is unachievable normally? Nizzahon you sending mixed messages l
It isn't unachievable, just not something you should expect on every turn.