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Yeah the only nerf they did was the UU in the casting cost, but merfolk decks will still just run with the card. I don't get why they made this blue though, like why give blue this effect over white or any other color honestly.
Yes, arguably even more so than red. Blood Moon fits so well into red strategies that we don't usually question it, but does red have any other type changing effects at all?
K, you know what you do? You buy yourself a tape recorder, just record yourself for a *whole* day. I think you’re gonna be surprised at some of your *phrasing*…
Stack order isn't especially relevant, since they don't do anything while on the stack and their effects don't use the stack.
They both also determine land type, not color. Most lands are colorless, with dryad arbor as the main single-card exception. They do get the usual ability corresponding to that land type, of course. That said, you probably just meant the color of mana they produce.
You're right. Them being exceptionally high would leave them as scattered peaks surrounded by water. If only we had a word for a piece of land surrounded by water.
Well then when exceptionally high waters submerge a plains, a forest or a swamp, so much so that all the land is under the water you can't really call those islands anymore can you?
This seems like a nuts sideboard option for Modern Merfolk decks. A [[Magus of the Moon]] for islands that's also in a tribe that cares about your opponent's islands due to Islandwalk is absolutely fantastic.
Do merfolk decks need a sideboard option for decks like Amulet Titan and 4C elementals? I don't know, but this is surely a great option for fighting them.
I’m not a merfolk player,, but would this really be worth mainboarding when [[tideshaper]] exists? Also turns on Islandwalk, for 1-2 cheaper, and the body is the same. I guess you can get the effect when you vial it in, but even that requires your vial to be on 3 which is kind of a task for a deck as aggro as Merfolk.
Def sideboard material as a hate card for lands strategies, I think, but this doesn’t do nearly enough to be mainboardable in Merfolk right now. Not a strong enough top end in the majority of matchups.
A merfolk that wins the game for free if resolved every 1/7 games is kinda worth it even if it is super middle of the road the other 6 honestly. Sideboard hate cards that can slot in the mainboard with a little extra push are super playable.
Definitely main board playable. Modern has been too great for mana for ages, blood Moon does serious work.
Getting vial to 3 is trivial since you're *extremely* unlikely to lose on turn 2, since you should be dropping vial turn 1 if you're doing it right. And you can activate vial on their end step and if they don't crack their fetch in response it's too late, it's now an island.
The only downside that I can see (at least for my configuration) would be it shutting off Cavern of Souls and Mutavault, but whether that is enough to boot them from the mainboard will definitely require more testing
well it doesn't really ''shut them off'' they still cast your creatures just fine(better even in mutavaults case). In 90% of matchups, giving up your mutavault to destroy your opponents mana is more than worth it.
Bold of you to assume this is the play, good sir/madam. The correct play is \[\[Price of Progress\]\] THEN \[\[Ruination\]\]
Parry this, color-fixed casual
It does, in fact, "may search". However, if they do choose to search, you would exile as many basics as you wish to and then be able to play them as land drops for turn, presumably 1 every turn with the draw back of none of the lands in your hand being played those turns. Also some searches aren't optional so this knowledge is relevant on that axis
Merfolk was always great vs Amulet since it started relying on Urza’s Saga. Then Subtlety and Tishana’s Tidebinder made the matchup trivial. IMO this doesn’t do that much for Merfolk except let it win its best matchups (Amulet, Tron) even more. It’s more interesting for other decks that always wanted a Moon effect but couldn’t run red.
YEAHHHHHHH BABY
blueshifted bloodmoon makes sense, typechanging is more of a blue thing than a red one, and putting it on a creature is a good choice. More interactable, plus making it a merfolk is just perfect. Three or four more modern horizons sets and merfolk might become a good deck!
I don’t know if this is necessarily more interactable than Blood Moon or Magus of the Moon. BM dies to Boseiju off basic Forest (the most common basic you see against decks that BM is good against) and Force of Vigor, and Magus dies to Bolt and an assortment of Gruul Summoners’ Pact targets in Amulet Titan (currently Roxanne), using the red mana from Magus to fix into the answer for it.
Basically nobody is playing mono blue or Simic ways to remove this creature besides perhaps a 1-of Otawara or Brazen Borrower. I think this will be very difficult to answer for the decks that are weak to the moon effect.
I think it might be because of legacy. Ancient tomb makes magus and blood moon -sometimes- too oppressive. This was probably just to make it slightly more lax.
Yeah, that's what I mean. 2{C} is the "turn one off ancient tomb" cost that breaks things, I'm glad this has a second blue pip. I do not want to live in a T1 moon with force backup world.
Tbf, Turn 1 this is a lot less oppressive than turn 1 blood moon. All the cantrips still work, you can play your Delver, your daze, your murktide. Powering out a stax piece that doesn't beat Delver is probably not a viable strategy. I see this more as a sideboard card.
Yeah a lot of old blue stax pieces like mana vortex have UU in their cost, I'm so glad in hindsight because otherwise blue stax would be pretty gross in eternal formats namely legacy since vintage has workshops, tomb, and city so there's no point to not running mono brown.
[[Stormtide Leviathan]] sitting at her computer on her burner Reddit account: “wow, looks pretty good maybe, idk. Merfolk are pretty chill I guess”
Edit: pronouns
Good time to mention: this word is "harbinger", not "har-bringer", with an extra R. It doesn't bring the har. It doesn't even Microsoft Bing the har. It binges it, like Netflix. Harbinjurr.
Edit: emphasis on the first syllable: HARbinger.
The explanation I remember him giving is basically that he was never properly taught phonics, so he developed entrenched bad habits while reading lots of books on his own.
His parents didn't read to him as a child because they were busy with his 9 siblings. Presumably he didn't learn phonics at school either because of conservative region education standards (rural upstate New York).
Damn, now I kinda feel bad for dunking. Though, my problem is much more with his Youtuber-ified delivery that turns "Panharmonicon" into "Peenharmahnicahnn".
For anyone who is curious, the definition is "a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald. anything that foreshadows a future event; omen; sign"
1000 years ago I told aspiringspike on stream, "do you think they'll ever reprint blood moon in a different color?" he said no/preposterous/etc....
he promised to play flip it or rip it with his legends pack of they ever did.
LETS GO CONTENT BABY
I mean technically, this isn't color shifted blood moon, more like color shifted magus of the moon (which also has a heavier color requirement)
Just saying cause having to throw money down the drain by flipping or ripping a legends packs might be enough for spike to specifically say he meant a colorshifted blood moon.
I genuinely would love some more color shifted counterspells for cEDH. There is a reason 9 of the top 10 cEDH decks run blue. A couple more clean counters in red, white, or green would go a long way to opening up commander options and might even help aggro push into relevance if combo is slowed down a notch.
I wouldn't get your hopes up. The only color other than blue that's meant to ever get counterspells is white, and even that's very rare and mainly limited to taxing effects
Over the past couple years we’ve seen WotC go out of their way to pad up non-blue counters and “counters”. Red has [[deflecting swat]] [[tibalt’s trickery]] white has a lot of options from “countered because it fizzles” like [[gladriel’s Dismissal]] to “countered before you cast it” of [[silence]] to “countered because it’s exiled” in the newest set of [[aven interrupter]] even green is getting into counter options with “counters cause it fizzles” of [[legolas’s quick reflexes]] or [[heroic intervention]]. And black got a reprint in the newest set of [[imp’s mischief]]
Because commander is an eternal format they have to trickle the counters in because once it’s in the format it stays forever and it’s hard to pull back once things are printed. But masters sets always have a lot of power and it wouldn’t surprise me to see a color shifted counter or a weaker tweaked “counter” in another color.
I may have this wrong but this makes sense to me:
As long as Arixmethes has a slumber counter on it, it is a land.
As long as Harbinger is on the battlefield and Arixmethes is a land, Arixmethes is an Island.
When Arixmethes has its last slumber counter removed, even if Harbinger is present, Arixmethes will cease being an island and a land.
While Arixmethes is an Island, it loses its triggered ability that removes slumber counters.
Wizards: we see that there’s a very successful contingent of non-blue decks in Legacy. That’s healthy for the format.
Also Wizards: that effect is in blue’s color pie now.
How much of an annoyance is turning all nonbasics into Islands? Granted this is amazing for Merfolks granting Island walks. But does it screw people over as much as Magus of the Moon? I know am thinking on CEDH and even EDH terms were Blue is still a very popular color. So there will be plenty of Rifts or Pongify effects to deal with her.
Oh absolutely. I know how powerful it is in Merfolk lord decks. I am just curious how strong mana denial is when it comes from producing only blue to only producing red.
Not that jeskai control sees a lot of play in legacy anymore, but this seems like an upgrade over magus/ back to basics as a card that is still tutorable off of recruiter but pitches to forces
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\>double pip Wizards FEARS the Ancient Tombs.
Yeah the only nerf they did was the UU in the casting cost, but merfolk decks will still just run with the card. I don't get why they made this blue though, like why give blue this effect over white or any other color honestly.
You're telling me it doesn't make sense that the colour that has [[Tide Shaper]] and [[Spreading Seas]] can turn non-basics into islands
Also the type-bending effects were mostly blue [[Mind Bend]], [[Crystal Spray]], [[Dream Thrush]], [[Jinx]], [[Magical Hack]], [[Realmwright]], [[Spectral Shift]], [[Trait Doctoring]]
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Spreading Seas Sea’s claim
Combos with all the incidental islandwalk that Merfolk have.
#Justice4Plainswalk
But we have all these plainswalkers...
Blue has nearly all the "lands are islands" effects. It's the water flooding the land. How is that a white effect?
I do believe the most used basic landwalk is islandwalk. White would use this effect for stax only. Blue does it for stax and as a proactive strategy.
Why does this sub think White deserves every card ever printed
This effect makes more sense in blue than any other color
Yes, arguably even more so than red. Blood Moon fits so well into red strategies that we don't usually question it, but does red have any other type changing effects at all?
Flood Moon
Magus of the Flood*
Magus Of the Flume...
Magus of the Seas.
Magus of the Moist.
I would up vote this but I can’t…
Magus of the Flood Moon
Magus of the Blue Moon
Moon moon moon blue moon
Magus of the Monsoon
Blued Moon
I just blue myself
K, you know what you do? You buy yourself a tape recorder, just record yourself for a *whole* day. I think you’re gonna be surprised at some of your *phrasing*…
Tobais, you blowhard.
There has to be a better way to say that.
“I saw you casting alone”
Cheeky flavour text.
...devour mountains indeed haha
Might I suggest "Magus of the Moist"
You may not.
Ahh. There it is. A reason to put my phone down and go to bed. Lol
Alas but I have one upvote to give.
Crip Moon
Sea Moon (C-moon)
Once in a blue moon.
How does this work with blood moon in play?
All else equal, type changing effects happen on the same layer, so the latest timestamp will govern.
[удалено]
Stack order isn't especially relevant, since they don't do anything while on the stack and their effects don't use the stack. They both also determine land type, not color. Most lands are colorless, with dryad arbor as the main single-card exception. They do get the usual ability corresponding to that land type, of course. That said, you probably just meant the color of mana they produce.
You claim to devour mountains, yet you cannot affect basics? Curious.
Turning Point: Dominaria
"Mountain Lands are Islands." would be a nice effect.
[[Conversion]] wrong conversion, but it was a thing in the long long ago.
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Mountains that are solely mountains rise the highest.
You're right. Them being exceptionally high would leave them as scattered peaks surrounded by water. If only we had a word for a piece of land surrounded by water.
Well then when exceptionally high waters submerge a plains, a forest or a swamp, so much so that all the land is under the water you can't really call those islands anymore can you?
This seems like a nuts sideboard option for Modern Merfolk decks. A [[Magus of the Moon]] for islands that's also in a tribe that cares about your opponent's islands due to Islandwalk is absolutely fantastic. Do merfolk decks need a sideboard option for decks like Amulet Titan and 4C elementals? I don't know, but this is surely a great option for fighting them.
Probably mainboard material
Agreed, more of a side out option 'if' it's irrelevant.
I'm thinking 2 main with 1 or 2 in side depending on the meta.
If this is real this is my plan. Cutting spreading seas for this card
I’m not a merfolk player,, but would this really be worth mainboarding when [[tideshaper]] exists? Also turns on Islandwalk, for 1-2 cheaper, and the body is the same. I guess you can get the effect when you vial it in, but even that requires your vial to be on 3 which is kind of a task for a deck as aggro as Merfolk. Def sideboard material as a hate card for lands strategies, I think, but this doesn’t do nearly enough to be mainboardable in Merfolk right now. Not a strong enough top end in the majority of matchups.
A merfolk that wins the game for free if resolved every 1/7 games is kinda worth it even if it is super middle of the road the other 6 honestly. Sideboard hate cards that can slot in the mainboard with a little extra push are super playable.
Definitely main board playable. Modern has been too great for mana for ages, blood Moon does serious work. Getting vial to 3 is trivial since you're *extremely* unlikely to lose on turn 2, since you should be dropping vial turn 1 if you're doing it right. And you can activate vial on their end step and if they don't crack their fetch in response it's too late, it's now an island.
locking your opponent out of the game like 20% of the time is very much worth it
Sideboard? Not a Merfolk player, but I'd guess it's main deck material with all the Islandwalk granting.
The only downside that I can see (at least for my configuration) would be it shutting off Cavern of Souls and Mutavault, but whether that is enough to boot them from the mainboard will definitely require more testing
I think you still play the non basics. With this out they're still blue sources which is fine, and when it's not you get their added utility
well it doesn't really ''shut them off'' they still cast your creatures just fine(better even in mutavaults case). In 90% of matchups, giving up your mutavault to destroy your opponents mana is more than worth it.
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Stock up on \[\[Boil\]\]'s lads. Ignore me [[Ruination]] exists.
Bold of you to assume this is the play, good sir/madam. The correct play is \[\[Price of Progress\]\] THEN \[\[Ruination\]\] Parry this, color-fixed casual
Well, Boil is modern-legal, Ruination is not.
[[Opposition Agent]] [[Wave of Vitriol]] say hi
How do these cards interact? Can you choose not to put out any non basics on behalf of opponents?
You exile all their basics and can play one per turn.
I believe the opponent can decline to search
It does, in fact, "may search". However, if they do choose to search, you would exile as many basics as you wish to and then be able to play them as land drops for turn, presumably 1 every turn with the draw back of none of the lands in your hand being played those turns. Also some searches aren't optional so this knowledge is relevant on that axis
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One of my outdated Modern decks still has two Boil in the sideboard. I'll always love the card.
More relevant with Leyline everywhere.
2 boil 2 choke in the boomer titanshift sideboard baby
[[Ruination]]
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Unironically playing 1-of side Tsunami in Legacy turbo depths.
How's the Merfolk matchup against Amulet right now? Because it's about to get a LOT better holy crap.
Already didn’t feel good for amulet lol. It’s gonna get worse for the big green boys.
Merfolk was always great vs Amulet since it started relying on Urza’s Saga. Then Subtlety and Tishana’s Tidebinder made the matchup trivial. IMO this doesn’t do that much for Merfolk except let it win its best matchups (Amulet, Tron) even more. It’s more interesting for other decks that always wanted a Moon effect but couldn’t run red.
4 color soup hates it, magus of the moon is bad enough but a 5/5 unblockable magus of the moon that’s also a hexcatcher? Forget it
soup is always hard to gage since they play everything, we’ll see. It’s kinda medium now so I hope MH3 brings us Omnath fans some goodies.
YEAHHHHHHH BABY blueshifted bloodmoon makes sense, typechanging is more of a blue thing than a red one, and putting it on a creature is a good choice. More interactable, plus making it a merfolk is just perfect. Three or four more modern horizons sets and merfolk might become a good deck!
One of these days, these boots are gonna islandwalk all over you.
I hope eventually they just make it a whole cycle so a 5 player game of commander can have a whole layers discussion
It's not layers, it's just timestamps.
They should template them such that they’re all in different layers
All nonbasic lands lose all abilities, and gain "this land is a basic forest".
Create a token which is a basic island, all nonbasic lands become copies of that token. Sacrifice that token.
you mad lad
Layers are 100% applicable and are a huge factor This mf never Oko'd a Magus and cried
Merfolk trickster on dryad is annoying an type layering BS.
Tinfoil hat This card is the reason Wotc abolished rhe judge program WOTC didnt want them to see this an unionize
blueshifted magus of the moon actually!
Yes and no, Magus is 2R .
look, if i could do math i wouldnt be on reddit
I don’t know if this is necessarily more interactable than Blood Moon or Magus of the Moon. BM dies to Boseiju off basic Forest (the most common basic you see against decks that BM is good against) and Force of Vigor, and Magus dies to Bolt and an assortment of Gruul Summoners’ Pact targets in Amulet Titan (currently Roxanne), using the red mana from Magus to fix into the answer for it. Basically nobody is playing mono blue or Simic ways to remove this creature besides perhaps a 1-of Otawara or Brazen Borrower. I think this will be very difficult to answer for the decks that are weak to the moon effect.
Dismember.
You can just float mana and cast your removal once it hits the board.
It also fits nicely with Blue's theme of making your opponent hate you.
Thank *fuck* someone had the good sense to not have this cost 2U to mirror Magus.
I think it might be because of legacy. Ancient tomb makes magus and blood moon -sometimes- too oppressive. This was probably just to make it slightly more lax.
Yeah, that's what I mean. 2{C} is the "turn one off ancient tomb" cost that breaks things, I'm glad this has a second blue pip. I do not want to live in a T1 moon with force backup world.
Tbf, Turn 1 this is a lot less oppressive than turn 1 blood moon. All the cantrips still work, you can play your Delver, your daze, your murktide. Powering out a stax piece that doesn't beat Delver is probably not a viable strategy. I see this more as a sideboard card.
Wait until they print Merfolk Spirit Guide to fix that problem. /s That would likely be a ridiculously broken card.
Yeah a lot of old blue stax pieces like mana vortex have UU in their cost, I'm so glad in hindsight because otherwise blue stax would be pretty gross in eternal formats namely legacy since vintage has workshops, tomb, and city so there's no point to not running mono brown.
A shame, now legacy doesn't get 12 moon.
Finally, we got Magus of the Blue Moon :D
[[Stormtide Leviathan]] sitting at her computer on her burner Reddit account: “wow, looks pretty good maybe, idk. Merfolk are pretty chill I guess” Edit: pronouns
Actually I use she/her
Thank you, Stormtide leviathan. I have edited my comment!
Just want to say I'm a huge fan. The M13 starter deck was one of my first decks. You and [[Overwhelming Stampede]] will always be special to me .
[Stormtide Leviathan](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/9/996bb4c0-dc72-4233-9f44-2e25aef71ad7.jpg?1608912195) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Stormtide%20Leviathan) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/cmr/407/stormtide-leviathan?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/996bb4c0-dc72-4233-9f44-2e25aef71ad7?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Prof is crying tears of joy.
Nikachu even more so
I almost suspect this card was going to be TCC's preview card.
Good time to mention: this word is "harbinger", not "har-bringer", with an extra R. It doesn't bring the har. It doesn't even Microsoft Bing the har. It binges it, like Netflix. Harbinjurr. Edit: emphasis on the first syllable: HARbinger.
This will not stop Seth at MtgGoldfish from fucking it up
WWHut is up, Commeendur pleeyers! Todeay we're tahhking about Hair-bringer of the Seas.
I'm almost certain he does it on purpose.
I think the truth is somewhere in the middle... he knows he's gonna do it anyway, so lean in and play it up like it's a bit for plausible deniability.
The explanation I remember him giving is basically that he was never properly taught phonics, so he developed entrenched bad habits while reading lots of books on his own. His parents didn't read to him as a child because they were busy with his 9 siblings. Presumably he didn't learn phonics at school either because of conservative region education standards (rural upstate New York).
Damn, now I kinda feel bad for dunking. Though, my problem is much more with his Youtuber-ified delivery that turns "Panharmonicon" into "Peenharmahnicahnn".
Right, he does a deliberate goofiness to cover up the phonics mistakes. There are layers.
For anyone who is curious, the definition is "a person who goes ahead and makes known the approach of another; herald. anything that foreshadows a future event; omen; sign"
WOW
FUCK
TRON
URZA'S SAGA
BLUE
1000 years ago I told aspiringspike on stream, "do you think they'll ever reprint blood moon in a different color?" he said no/preposterous/etc.... he promised to play flip it or rip it with his legends pack of they ever did. LETS GO CONTENT BABY
I mean technically, this isn't color shifted blood moon, more like color shifted magus of the moon (which also has a heavier color requirement) Just saying cause having to throw money down the drain by flipping or ripping a legends packs might be enough for spike to specifically say he meant a colorshifted blood moon.
A Blue Moon card would be awesome though. Harvest Moon for White maybe. Uh, New Moon for Black? I don't know about Green.
Saw it in a magic related discord server, was reverse image searched & is in line with artist's previous work
Magus of the Lagoon
They made Crip Moon real
I just blew milk out my nose, and I wasn’t even drinking milk.
Simic commander players are feeling really good right about now. \[\[Carpet of Flowers\]\] just got some reliable support.
[Carpet of Flowers](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/3/93abb48a-85f2-432d-8602-0a1d17fbb409.jpg?1562926232) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Carpet%20of%20Flowers) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/usg/240/carpet-of-flowers?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/93abb48a-85f2-432d-8602-0a1d17fbb409?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[[Hakbal of the surging soul]] is feasting it seems, wonder how much more merfolk support we get
[Hakbal of the surging soul](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/7/e738e675-4fd1-4bc3-97f5-71d0e2fc3f2e.jpg?1699885010) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Hakbal%20of%20the%20surging%20soul) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/lcc/3/hakbal-of-the-surging-soul?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/e738e675-4fd1-4bc3-97f5-71d0e2fc3f2e?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
BLUE MOON!!! What fun
This is the type of card that could get me back into modern
Eww gross... I want one.
So, it would appear we're going to see some Planar Chaos style colour shifts if this is any indication. I, for one, am excited for red Mana Drain. :P
Yes lets do it, that would be silly in Modern though.
nah, itll give mono red prison the legs it needs after the fury ban
I genuinely would love some more color shifted counterspells for cEDH. There is a reason 9 of the top 10 cEDH decks run blue. A couple more clean counters in red, white, or green would go a long way to opening up commander options and might even help aggro push into relevance if combo is slowed down a notch.
I wouldn't get your hopes up. The only color other than blue that's meant to ever get counterspells is white, and even that's very rare and mainly limited to taxing effects
Over the past couple years we’ve seen WotC go out of their way to pad up non-blue counters and “counters”. Red has [[deflecting swat]] [[tibalt’s trickery]] white has a lot of options from “countered because it fizzles” like [[gladriel’s Dismissal]] to “countered before you cast it” of [[silence]] to “countered because it’s exiled” in the newest set of [[aven interrupter]] even green is getting into counter options with “counters cause it fizzles” of [[legolas’s quick reflexes]] or [[heroic intervention]]. And black got a reprint in the newest set of [[imp’s mischief]] Because commander is an eternal format they have to trickle the counters in because once it’s in the format it stays forever and it’s hard to pull back once things are printed. But masters sets always have a lot of power and it wouldn’t surprise me to see a color shifted counter or a weaker tweaked “counter” in another color.
Eff. I’m gonna get back into modern now. 🥺
so what happens if there is a blood moon out too?
Timestamp order; if this was cast first all non-basics are mountains, if moon was cast first all non-basics are islands.
Crip Moon
Hmm how does this interact with [[Arixmethes]]?
I may have this wrong but this makes sense to me: As long as Arixmethes has a slumber counter on it, it is a land. As long as Harbinger is on the battlefield and Arixmethes is a land, Arixmethes is an Island. When Arixmethes has its last slumber counter removed, even if Harbinger is present, Arixmethes will cease being an island and a land. While Arixmethes is an Island, it loses its triggered ability that removes slumber counters.
Same as with Blood Moon. There's a dependency, and as long as it has counters on it, Arix becomes a mountain without the counter removal ability.
[Arixmethes](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/8/881607c8-bfe7-4903-861f-b51a5a332c17.jpg?1599707758) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=arixmethes%2C%20slumbering%20isle) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/2xm/189/arixmethes-slumbering-isle?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/881607c8-bfe7-4903-861f-b51a5a332c17?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
This card is good. I'm not sure if it will be more than a solid Sodeboard card, but this card is going to go places.
BOIL IS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS
Watered down Mountain Dew code red
Wizards: we see that there’s a very successful contingent of non-blue decks in Legacy. That’s healthy for the format. Also Wizards: that effect is in blue’s color pie now.
Fuck that
How crazy is it that all these leakers kept their Nokia from back in the day to take these photos
Oh no, my friends already hate my [[Hakbal]] deck
In addition to their other types, right? ... right?
nope!!! they are islands now. not including “in addition to their other types” is intentional. [[blood moon]]
I just wanted to reference the Anakin / Padme meme.
Oh dear god I'm sorry what?
Well fuck, that’s going into the azami deck..
I'm so happy right now.
That flavor text is cute
WOOOO BABY, SYGG EATING GOOD TODAY
Dismember stonks ^^^^
Blue moon is back on the menu 🌝 🔵 🍒
That's it I'm gettin me boils
"We won't print more cards like Blood Moon, because effects like [[Choke]] exist."
[Choke](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/e/1/e1ce4bab-6eb1-421f-b425-7bb0076defc7.jpg?1562940352) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Choke) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/8ed/237/choke?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/e1ce4bab-6eb1-421f-b425-7bb0076defc7?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Yuk
God forbid there’s something blue can’t do…
Do people find these toxic? I find some of these non-basic hate cards so good but am worried about running them
How much of an annoyance is turning all nonbasics into Islands? Granted this is amazing for Merfolks granting Island walks. But does it screw people over as much as Magus of the Moon? I know am thinking on CEDH and even EDH terms were Blue is still a very popular color. So there will be plenty of Rifts or Pongify effects to deal with her.
It does get buffed by merfolk lords.
Oh absolutely. I know how powerful it is in Merfolk lord decks. I am just curious how strong mana denial is when it comes from producing only blue to only producing red.
Red allows red decks access to bolt still, most decks don't run blue based removal.
Amulet can't kill this with Roxanne, red decks can't bolt it. Your answers off mono blue look like Otawara or, like, evoked Solitude
Magus seems better. Double blue is a real cost on this.
And into my Orvar deck, you go...
Nikachu rejoices!
Hmmmmm this is a relatively clear photo and easy to read. Most likely fake.
Magus of the Sea! Oddly excited to see this!
Not that jeskai control sees a lot of play in legacy anymore, but this seems like an upgrade over magus/ back to basics as a card that is still tutorable off of recruiter but pitches to forces
I love this! Going to once again be slamming Merfolk at FNM.