Note on the Blue Sun's Twilight: Token copies also have the same CMC as the original version. So you typically cannot steal token copies of things with X = 0.
@@jamesgreenwood1703 Well I learned an important difference today. So if you Populate the clone token you create off of this, that token will also be a clone with the same mana value?
Synthesis Pod works with Tasha, the Witch Queen. You cast one of their already exiled spells with her -3, trigger her demon ability, use the Pod to exile their spell (that you control) and dig for something else from their deck, and trigger the demon ability again. And you can get a permanent spell off of the pod instead of just instants and sorceries.
Commenting even further in the future, seems like a slam dunk in Saruman of Many Colors too. You cast your spell, activate the pod, getting a higher cmc card and triggering his "2nd spell" clause, potentially casting a third spell from a graveyard for just 1 more mana and 2 life!
The gaining life on White Sun's Twilight seems pretty relevant to me. If you do it for more than 5, especially 10+, you've you just board wiped, put down creatures that can be lethal on a player and the life gain swing are all things that when come together become a lot stronger.
I would love to see you talk about some worthy commons or uncommons, which might get overseen in this series, because everyone knows the mythics and a lot of the rares but commons and uncommons often get overlooked i think
Synthesis Pod is actually interesting for counter spell protection. You don't always have a counter spell in hand but this artifact can sit on the table, and then later if someone is countering your spell, you use this on your own spell, get something, and then their counter spell fizzles because it's target is gone.
I feel like I see so many people missing what I *think* is the best use-case of Synthesis pod. It's a great counter to counter-spell. If you intend for a spell to go off, and it gets countered or will fizzle, you can add this to the top of the stack for 1 and a tap and still get value out from under your opponents ~counterspell.
I think The Eternal Wanderer is absolutely insane. For six mana if it just gets to -4 that's already incredible, but then it just gets to stick around and pump out 2/2 doublestrikers or blink/remove blockers! It is going to be very hard to get rid of because you keep your strongest thing and everyone else gets something that almost certainly won't attack through your creature. I expect that card to skyrocket in price shortly after release.
Mite producing cards really need a second piece on the board to be worth it. Something to take the crappy token and make it more threatening. Like a way to double your tokens, give haste, evasion, Divine visitation. Even the new Mite Overseer just to make them into something
I just want to slide the Ichormoon Gauntlet onto Elminster and go NUTS! He casts so many spells on the cheap and you can put so many counters on him (which you are doing anyway!) He needed a broken ultimate and this definitely helps get him there.
I might try Blue Sun’s Twilight in my Lucea Kane deck. I learned from playing Yarok that when you can double up your stealing effects (especially ones that aren’t removable once they resolve), they get pretty good. Lucea ramps hard, and getting four bodies while removing two looks like a deal to me. Even stealing a commander while also getting its ETB/LTB as one of your options can really disrupt someone.
I would play synthesis pod in any deck that really wanted spell protection. It's a great anti-counter ability. The opponent will have to waste a counter to prevent your spell, but then you exile it in response and get whatever off the opponents deck. I think it's insane protection.
White Sun's Twilight gave me feelings. Martial Coup is the best board wipe in my Jinnie Fay deck. I call it her board wipe, because she sees the tokens get made before blowing up. So all the tokens become hasty Cats. I'm thinking the life gain will be nice.
Eternal wanderer is phenomenal in Planeswalker super friends deck. Ichormoon gauntlet too. The proliferate also bumps counters +1/+1 counters. Vraska and all will be one as well. Lots of support for planebow decks
@Rachel: I've been recently tinkering with my Dihada deck, which already took a huge inspiration from your Game Knights-version, so I'm very intrigued to see how you fit in the new Kaya and update the deck in general.
I honestly think Fire and Ice is in a tier below Hearth and Home and Forge and Frontier at this point. People remember when it was really really good but I don't think it holds up as much anymore. It sort of acts as the gatekeeper sword where a new sword has to be better than Fire and Ice to be able to hang with Forge and Frontier or Hearth and Home, but it itself is not in the same tier as those.
For the synthesis pod, you can use it for protection from counters from your. Play synthesis pod cast a spell opponent goes to counter it then you can Excel your own spell to get something of value from their deck
You finally hit on it; scry effects let you break GST. It was also unbelievablely powerful in my prerelease sealed. Dropping a 6-7mv creature and a land was so sweet.
I believe with synthesis pod, one way to use it is when a spell you play is about to be countered, when the counter is on the stack, you synthesis pod your spell so that instead of the wasting X mana, you waste your opponent’s counter and get something from their deck instead. Just what came to mind when I saw this card.
i would argue 4 ways: 1) the static 2) the plus kills tokens + gives pseudo-vigilance to your creatures 3) creates a token 4) board wipes; the card is amazing
Thief of Blood sounds pretty good for All Will Be One-you can load your permanents with counters while waiting to draw AWBO, then Thief of Blood hoovers them all up (and your opponents') and whacks someone for a ton, then leaves you with an enormous flyer. (Also auto-triggers Dark Depths if that's out...)
Keiga, the Tide Star is the best thing to play Blade of Shared Souls on. Steal the biggest threat and then when another big threat enters, even if you don't have another chump to equip it to you can equip it to the thing you stole it blows up and you get the biggest threat again. It's repeatable steal target creature for 2.
You play Keiga for 6 nobody wants to kill it cause you'll steal their creatures. You untap next turn play a land play the Blade and you can hit all 3 of your oppents for their commanders and keep the best one.
@@famousstranger8468 life gain can be incredibly important when relating to triggers though, so your right gaining five life might not be a huge deal but what that causes could be
@@famousstranger8468 My Oloro deck like to disagree. A board wipe, that lets me gain X life, maybe twice or fourth X lives, and maybe also deal that amount to one of my opponents, potentially knocking them out? On top of filling my side of the board with mites i can use to swing at open enemies? Count me in! Theres definetely worse/more expensive X-Lifegain spells
@@iSupportDaThingI don’t think they were even talking about it in cedh terms. It may not be bonkers in cedh but I think it’s absolutely amazing in casual to high power casual games. To each their own though I love it but it’s clear you don’t.
Conduit of worlds went straight in my gishath deck, being able to recast him without commander tax is absolutely huge, plus being able to play lands from the grave makes the deck more consistent. Usually Gishath is the only spell you'll cast in a turn anyway
I had The Eternal Wanderer show up, slaughter most of my enemies creatures, then start blinking a Thunderhawk Gunship with Anointed Procession in the board, that game didn't last much longer after that... So yes! Josh is right on the money, when you don't have many important Creatures, TEW is an amazing tool to have around, since most decks care about ETBs nowadays and the Samurais can be quite deadly with any type of pump or equipment thansk to Double Strike.
Thing I didn't notice for a while, staff of completion destroys thing you own not control. I play in a pod with a n'gathrod player. Being able to destroy whatever he steals from me for 1 life is super useful.
I could see running Synthesis Pod in Mishra. If you hit an artifact in their deck that you also have in yours you get both! Probably not good but maybe not bad.
commenting on the white suns twilight, if you had tons of ramp, then you can pump it for 14 mana much sooner. For example, a Sword Of The Anamist in an Ishin deck ( you get two lands instead of one ).
Use Synthesis Pod in a spell slinger deck that makes copies of spells you cast and exile the copy. i.e if you cast a flusterstorm and have more copies than necessary to counter their spell, exile a copy and steal something from them for two mana
Vraska is another pseudo-game ending planeswalker in my Atraxa Superfriends deck and my Atraxa infect deck. Yes...I now have two Atraxa decks and yes I do have friends. They've recently gotten pretty oily and I can't understand them anymore, but I think they still like me!
I slotted Conduit of Worlds into my Gitrog Monster deck. Its pretty neat since most of the combos dont necessarily require casting a ton of spells every turn, its all about lands and mill and dredge and such. I can see it getting play in like Lord Windgrace or other land decks.
2:14:20 The way I think about it is Eruth Tormented Prophet. She's a pretty popular commander (one of my favorites but I'm a big spellslinger) that makes your draw into two impulsive draws. The biggest downside to her is that you don't have a choice. In general with these swords, I think having two impulsive draws is better than just one card, because you see your sword, you know what you're trying to do. Besides, the additional land is just inherently better than the two damage.
Ichormoon Gauntlet: I feel everyone was looking at it wrong. If you are running a planeswalker deck, it can be good to get another card up to where they can use a much needed minus ability. It is also useful with Oil and Lore counters. I can see this card being very useful in a Saga deck to go through the Sagas faster when you need one to go off.
Capricious Hellraiser and Displacer Kitten sounds like a fun way of casting 1/3 of your graveyard. Thinking of trying Capricious Hellraiser in the 99 of my Neera, Wild Mage polymorph-esque deck. I tend to only play a small handful of creatures here anyways with several other non creature haymakers like Shark Typhoon, Metallurgic Summonings, One With the Multiverse, Mind’s Dilation.
The one thing to say about sword of forge and frontier is the turn it comes out it won’t be that good because you’ll have used all your mana but after that it’ll be great because you’ll be able to keep your many untapped to cast your spells
Green sun's twilight will be amazing in raggadragga. Cast it for at least 7 and use the trigger on a dork like marwyn, who taps = her power, you get a land a creature, plus can keep going with marwyn untapped. Eternal wanderer can do work in brago, for both the exile and the boardwipe
white sun's twilight also gives you life. also there are enchantments that ping for 1 for every 1/1 that attacks, so with 5 or even 10 mites, you can still deal damage.
The first thing I thought when I saw clever concealment was, hm, ill save just my nevinyrrals disk, then blow everything up. Perilous vault/pernicious deed. Or any spell based wipe since you can play concealment for zero. Its so mean. I love it.
I got so many cards I needed from this set, like the sword of forge and frontier, skrelv,tyrranax Rex, Mondrak, the vindicator and obliterater, some planes walkers… but no elesh Norn or vorinclex… but I pulled a blight steel colossus and sword of feast and famine! Insane! A friend and I then split a set booster box, and he opened a fat pack as well. He got a blight steel colossus from his fat pack and from one of the set booster packs! All in all, that set booster box had 7 mythics. Blight steel, showcase Vraska, showcase obliterater, sword of feast and famine, mondrak, tyrranax, and one more I can’t remember. Insane value. I wish I hadn’t split this box with him haha. This set has some insane value
I think they might be undervalueing Venerated Rotpriest just a tad. I think it's a great include in dedicated poison decks because while it doesn't protect your creatures it makes targeting them scarier. 1 poison counter for every bit of targeted removal they want to play is a legitimate step closer to your victory. Imagine if it said "Deals 4 damage to target opponent" instead.
@@jeffreylong1478 I just added it. I have only played it once, but it was fantastic. I have a lot of untap effects in my deck. When I played it, I had untapped Kane 4 times earlier in the turn, so I got 5 copies. I took control of 4 commanders (one partner pair), and stole one more thing from my opponents. My copies were kept, and I let their commanders die to legendary rule just to tax them. Though in hindsight, I would just keep them and force them to kill them if they wanted them back. If they had played non-legendaries, it would have been an even bigger blowout. I love the card so far.
@@jeffreylong1478 Also, it's a lot better than mass manip. half as many blue pips in the mana cost. and it's only X, not XX. Yeah, you can't steal planeswalkers, but if you steal everything else, you can attack and kill the planeswalker since you steal the blockers, or you just take their creatures and attack face. Player removal is best removal.
I like Monumental Corruption for Prosper. You can impulse draw all day, but it’s nice to have a good reservoir of cards in your hand in case things go sour. Seems good with Jan Jansen also.
I run Martial Coup in my Jinnie Fay deck, where it immediately becomes one of the best token producers AND board wipes ever. Making 10 2/2s with haste and wiping everything off the board makes for a quick game, so WST might have to come in as well
WotC new what they were doing with Skrelv’s Hive. They put the most important part at the bottom, as the lifelink definitely helps me swing games in my infect deck just by gaining enough life.
I think Green Sun’s in a Magus deck is powerful. Tap One Green and 3 other mana, then tap Magus for two more. That 4 mana from lands = draw 6 select creature & land and put in hand or battlefield then draw another 6 and put creature & land on battlefield or hand. Most likely you will ramp 2 and get two good creatures from only 4 lands.
Synthesis pod is useful in, say a Mizzix deck. Where your spells are cheap and you know your opponent's combo pieces. You can cast your X spell, then use that to take their combo piece out of their deck and use it against them.
Verinclex + Vraska = Instantkill: Vraska enters with 12 Loyalty Counters, immediatly ultimates, then puts 18 not 9 Posion counter on a player to kill them. If you now in a Deck with at least Black and Green can blink booth at the same time, you can take out all 3 players in 1 shot.
You can easily help your mites get in for toxic damage if you run Sidar Kondo, behind the scenes, or champion of lambholt. Easy solution for poison decks
I could see putting Capricious Hellraiser into my Jaya (creature not planeswalker) deck. Good targets would be wheels, etc. to get extra value while putting a 4/4 flyer for 3 red down as that deck always has a full GY. I use Invoke Calamity and similar effects due to Jaya’s discard requirement and this feels like another flavor of those effects on a creature. The right discards could make this like a mulldrifter.
I think synthesis pod would be a goofy but interesting card when combined with something that has storm. You'll already get lots of copys of the spell ,so using one of them to get something different could be interesting.
I've tested synthesis pod in my narset deck, I used it about 3 times in the 2 times I've played it, once on a signet late game, got 2 triggers from shark typhoon with it don't remember what spell I stole, but the other time I exiled citywide bust, my narset had batterskull on it, so I exiled citywide bust, and got reconnaissance
I'm really short on card draw in my brion stoutarm deck, so the Pay 4 life: draw a card ability in staff of compleation sounds great for some consistent card draw that can be buffered with even the attack of brion, in case i have nothing to fling
I definitely think Venerated Rotpriest has a place in infect decks--I play an Ezuri, Claw of Progress infect deck that runs it and it loves effects like Open Into Wonder, Thrive, Silkguard, etc. It really helps with stacking poison counters and I'm never unhappy to draw it at any point in the game. Very flexible both as a wincon or as a way to just get the poison counters started so you can proliferate them, similar to a T1 Glistener Elf. At worst it gets me an experience counter and one poison counter on someone, at best it wins the game.
I will be putting Conduit of worlds and All Will Be One into my Lord Windgrace deck, where I am already doing Dark Depths shenanigans. Conduit will get my vampire hexmage out of my graveyard over and over again while Wingrace or Conduit brings back Dark Depths time after time to always keep a Marit Lage on the battlefield while also perhaps dinging opponents for 10 damage every time Depths hits the field. I am salivating right now.
Already made two decks with this, upgraded the Corrupting Influence precon, upgraded a Breed Leathality deck and still have one more getting upgraded. Very happy with this set though very disappointed in Wizards- going to take new management before I buy anything other than proxies and third market singles
I think im trying synthesis pod in my pako and haldan deck. I sometimes have cards in my hand, that are simply dead in some situations, since i focuse on playing my opponents cards anyways. And for obvious reasons have a lot of ways to play with the top cards revealed and top card manipulation in there anyways... so yeah... might be okay... but still a lot of mana/life and setup... But can be crazy good if you know your opponents decks to an extent: If they have an Avacyn somewhere in there, and it's their only 8 cost for example.... youcan go for it.
I agree that the mites from white suns twilight loose points for not being able to block. But in my unlockable token decks, it's another wincon if not dealt with. The decks main focus is to get combat damage triggers, so I'm replacing it with martial coup which was in the deck. The life gain is extra gravy for me, I'm using lifelink as a main combat damage theme anyway.
with Venerated Rotpriest and Djinn Illuminatus on the battlefield, cast Slaughter Pact for 0 targeting Venerated Rotpriest and then replicate it enough times equal to the required amount of poison counters needed to win, and boom game over and you don't have to worry about the upkeep cost.
Cant wait to see you at philly! I love building wolf themed decks and really hope you guys and gal can sign my Hollowhenge Overlord to complete my fully foiled tolsimir friend to wolves deck!
Dont underestinate that conduit of worlds can get you around commander tax, besides that it may just happen that the best thing to play at a given time is in your gy.
I'm running White Sun's Twilight in my Dad Bod Urza as a 6 mana plus 4 plus 4 for my Constructs or an occasional Board wipe. We'll see how it works. Not enough time with it yet.
you can double you mite creation with mondrak so long as you have an indestructible token on him, so x = 6+ is going to give you 12+ mites and a clear board. pretty decent play with White Sun's Twilight
Rotpriest can also give psuedo protection as targeted removal could cost you the game. So it is good in infect because removing the better infect creature or the rotpriest.
I run white suns twilight in my Vishgraz deck. My solution to the free blocks your opponents get from the mites is I run, ohran Frostfang, Saryth vipers Fang and bow of Nylea. So now the choice for my opponents becomes Get poison Counters or lose your creatures
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Note on the Blue Sun's Twilight: Token copies also have the same CMC as the original version. So you typically cannot steal token copies of things with X = 0.
Really? I thought all tokens were considered 0 mana value.
Its clones that are copies and have the same cmc.
@@hiddenleaf414 creating tokens like a mite or thopters for example don’t have cmc but a copy does
It’s weird that they missed that for that card considering the mentioned that tokens keep the mana value later
@@hiddenleaf414yes they do
@@jamesgreenwood1703 Well I learned an important difference today. So if you Populate the clone token you create off of this, that token will also be a clone with the same mana value?
Red Sun's Twilight in Hinata... lets you board wipe opponent's artifacts for RR AND get whatever mana boost from their rocks.... just plain insane.
Is that how that works?
@@kraxosOBK Yes. You do decide your targets first, then you calculate what to pay.
Love Hinata. So much fun.
Just mountain-mountain insane!
One of my friends recommended that combo with mycrosyth lattice, sorry if I misspelled, we had to kick him out of the group :( 😂
Synthesis Pod works with Tasha, the Witch Queen. You cast one of their already exiled spells with her -3, trigger her demon ability, use the Pod to exile their spell (that you control) and dig for something else from their deck, and trigger the demon ability again. And you can get a permanent spell off of the pod instead of just instants and sorceries.
Commenting even further in the future, seems like a slam dunk in Saruman of Many Colors too. You cast your spell, activate the pod, getting a higher cmc card and triggering his "2nd spell" clause, potentially casting a third spell from a graveyard for just 1 more mana and 2 life!
The gaining life on White Sun's Twilight seems pretty relevant to me. If you do it for more than 5, especially 10+, you've you just board wiped, put down creatures that can be lethal on a player and the life gain swing are all things that when come together become a lot stronger.
I play martial coup in a few decks. Selesnya tokens deck. My vehicle deck. Because i can crew after a boardwhipe and in my soldier deck.
Firesong and Sunspeaker-> Arcane Bombardment-> White Suns Twilight
I would love to see you talk about some worthy commons or uncommons, which might get overseen in this series, because everyone knows the mythics and a lot of the rares but commons and uncommons often get overlooked i think
Synthesis Pod is actually interesting for counter spell protection. You don't always have a counter spell in hand but this artifact can sit on the table, and then later if someone is countering your spell, you use this on your own spell, get something, and then their counter spell fizzles because it's target is gone.
Yeah I think this is going to be the best use for it. It's a fun effect on its own, but getting some form of guranteed value is nifty.
I feel like I see so many people missing what I *think* is the best use-case of Synthesis pod. It's a great counter to counter-spell. If you intend for a spell to go off, and it gets countered or will fizzle, you can add this to the top of the stack for 1 and a tap and still get value out from under your opponents ~counterspell.
Came here to say this
I think The Eternal Wanderer is absolutely insane. For six mana if it just gets to -4 that's already incredible, but then it just gets to stick around and pump out 2/2 doublestrikers or blink/remove blockers! It is going to be very hard to get rid of because you keep your strongest thing and everyone else gets something that almost certainly won't attack through your creature. I expect that card to skyrocket in price shortly after release.
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I am going to magic con Philly and my main goal is to have Josh sign my chromatic lantern
We will watch your career with great interest...
Good luck....legend has it he HATES that card. I'm pretty sure he's just as likely to light it on fire as to sign it.
I may go. If I do I'm going to try and get him to sign a Blood Moon. With an Exacto knife.
When i first read Cankerbloom I knew right away that it had such great synergy and usability I needed them in every deck. Rec Sage, move aside!
Meren decks audibly moaned when it was spoiled.
Mite producing cards really need a second piece on the board to be worth it. Something to take the crappy token and make it more threatening. Like a way to double your tokens, give haste, evasion, Divine visitation. Even the new Mite Overseer just to make them into something
Conduit of Worlds is already in my Windgrace and I can't wait to get that card in play 😁
Its the perfect card for Windgrace. His ability also bypasses the no casting spellpart.
Same here!
Cool interaction with Staff of Completion’s first ability, if a creature you control gets stolen, you can destroy it, since it’s permanents you *own*
I just want to slide the Ichormoon Gauntlet onto Elminster and go NUTS! He casts so many spells on the cheap and you can put so many counters on him (which you are doing anyway!) He needed a broken ultimate and this definitely helps get him there.
I might try Blue Sun’s Twilight in my Lucea Kane deck. I learned from playing Yarok that when you can double up your stealing effects (especially ones that aren’t removable once they resolve), they get pretty good. Lucea ramps hard, and getting four bodies while removing two looks like a deal to me. Even stealing a commander while also getting its ETB/LTB as one of your options can really disrupt someone.
I would play synthesis pod in any deck that really wanted spell protection. It's a great anti-counter ability. The opponent will have to waste a counter to prevent your spell, but then you exile it in response and get whatever off the opponents deck. I think it's insane protection.
White Sun's Twilight gave me feelings. Martial Coup is the best board wipe in my Jinnie Fay deck. I call it her board wipe, because she sees the tokens get made before blowing up. So all the tokens become hasty Cats. I'm thinking the life gain will be nice.
Thanks for letting me know which cards I should proxy!
Eternal wanderer is phenomenal in Planeswalker super friends deck. Ichormoon gauntlet too. The proliferate also bumps counters +1/+1 counters. Vraska and all will be one as well. Lots of support for planebow decks
@Rachel: I've been recently tinkering with my Dihada deck, which already took a huge inspiration from your Game Knights-version, so I'm very intrigued to see how you fit in the new Kaya and update the deck in general.
I honestly think Fire and Ice is in a tier below Hearth and Home and Forge and Frontier at this point. People remember when it was really really good but I don't think it holds up as much anymore. It sort of acts as the gatekeeper sword where a new sword has to be better than Fire and Ice to be able to hang with Forge and Frontier or Hearth and Home, but it itself is not in the same tier as those.
For the synthesis pod, you can use it for protection from counters from your. Play synthesis pod cast a spell opponent goes to counter it then you can Excel your own spell to get something of value from their deck
You finally hit on it; scry effects let you break GST. It was also unbelievablely powerful in my prerelease sealed. Dropping a 6-7mv creature and a land was so sweet.
I believe with synthesis pod, one way to use it is when a spell you play is about to be countered, when the counter is on the stack, you synthesis pod your spell so that instead of the wasting X mana, you waste your opponent’s counter and get something from their deck instead. Just what came to mind when I saw this card.
Ichormoon Gauntlet seems perfect in Ezuri, Claw of Progress or Mizzix if you're just trying to get value out of the second ability
It’s unbelievable that The Eternal Wanderer is just a rare. Protects herself 3 ways, creates an ETB value and is also a boardwipe in your favour.
i would argue 4 ways: 1) the static 2) the plus kills tokens + gives pseudo-vigilance to your creatures 3) creates a token 4) board wipes; the card is amazing
@@savinobalducci6148 you’re right. I never thought about the pseudo vigilance.
Thief of Blood sounds pretty good for All Will Be One-you can load your permanents with counters while waiting to draw AWBO, then Thief of Blood hoovers them all up (and your opponents') and whacks someone for a ton, then leaves you with an enormous flyer. (Also auto-triggers Dark Depths if that's out...)
I feel like the lifelink on Skrelvs Hive is worth a mention in poison decks
Keiga, the Tide Star is the best thing to play Blade of Shared Souls on. Steal the biggest threat and then when another big threat enters, even if you don't have another chump to equip it to you can equip it to the thing you stole it blows up and you get the biggest threat again. It's repeatable steal target creature for 2.
You play Keiga for 6 nobody wants to kill it cause you'll steal their creatures. You untap next turn play a land play the Blade and you can hit all 3 of your oppents for their commanders and keep the best one.
White Sun also gives you life, not just tokens like Martial Coup
Underrated comment and a part of the card that gets missed by almost everyone
Life is not important in commander the game mode where your total life is 20
@@famousstranger8468 life gain can be incredibly important when relating to triggers though, so your right gaining five life might not be a huge deal but what that causes could be
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My Oloro deck like to disagree.
A board wipe, that lets me gain X life, maybe twice or fourth X lives, and maybe also deal that amount to one of my opponents, potentially knocking them out?
On top of filling my side of the board with mites i can use to swing at open enemies? Count me in!
Theres definetely worse/more expensive X-Lifegain spells
Mites are artifacts which has a bunch of uses, skrelvs hive gives lifelink, relevant if you already have 3 poison. You are severely underrating it.
I've just played all will be one in my Kresh the bloodbraided deck last night - this card is such a house!!!
The Eternal Wanderer is my favourite card from the set
Why ? Nothing crazy...
@@iSupportDaThing besides the boardwipe that gets around hexproof and indestructible and leaves your best thing alive?
@@raypowers781 i guess it's ok for casual games. But it looks bad for cedh tbh.
@@iSupportDaThingI don’t think they were even talking about it in cedh terms. It may not be bonkers in cedh but I think it’s absolutely amazing in casual to high power casual games. To each their own though I love it but it’s clear you don’t.
Conduit of worlds went straight in my gishath deck, being able to recast him without commander tax is absolutely huge, plus being able to play lands from the grave makes the deck more consistent.
Usually Gishath is the only spell you'll cast in a turn anyway
I had The Eternal Wanderer show up, slaughter most of my enemies creatures, then start blinking a Thunderhawk Gunship with Anointed Procession in the board, that game didn't last much longer after that... So yes! Josh is right on the money, when you don't have many important Creatures, TEW is an amazing tool to have around, since most decks care about ETBs nowadays and the Samurais can be quite deadly with any type of pump or equipment thansk to Double Strike.
Thing I didn't notice for a while, staff of completion destroys thing you own not control. I play in a pod with a n'gathrod player. Being able to destroy whatever he steals from me for 1 life is super useful.
I could see running Synthesis Pod in Mishra. If you hit an artifact in their deck that you also have in yours you get both! Probably not good but maybe not bad.
commenting on the white suns twilight, if you had tons of ramp, then you can pump it for 14 mana much sooner. For example, a Sword Of The Anamist in an Ishin deck ( you get two lands instead of one ).
Use Synthesis Pod in a spell slinger deck that makes copies of spells you cast and exile the copy. i.e if you cast a flusterstorm and have more copies than necessary to counter their spell, exile a copy and steal something from them for two mana
Vraska is another pseudo-game ending planeswalker in my Atraxa Superfriends deck and my Atraxa infect deck. Yes...I now have two Atraxa decks and yes I do have friends. They've recently gotten pretty oily and I can't understand them anymore, but I think they still like me!
Bought my first ever booster pack today and got Sword of Forge and Frontier!!
I slotted Conduit of Worlds into my Gitrog Monster deck. Its pretty neat since most of the combos dont necessarily require casting a ton of spells every turn, its all about lands and mill and dredge and such. I can see it getting play in like Lord Windgrace or other land decks.
1:48:08 i already had Conduit of worlds in play in my Landfall deck. It really performed well. Love it.
2:14:20 The way I think about it is Eruth Tormented Prophet. She's a pretty popular commander (one of my favorites but I'm a big spellslinger) that makes your draw into two impulsive draws. The biggest downside to her is that you don't have a choice. In general with these swords, I think having two impulsive draws is better than just one card, because you see your sword, you know what you're trying to do. Besides, the additional land is just inherently better than the two damage.
Ichormoon Gauntlet: I feel everyone was looking at it wrong. If you are running a planeswalker deck, it can be good to get another card up to where they can use a much needed minus ability. It is also useful with Oil and Lore counters.
I can see this card being very useful in a Saga deck to go through the Sagas faster when you need one to go off.
Capricious Hellraiser and Displacer Kitten sounds like a fun way of casting 1/3 of your graveyard.
Thinking of trying Capricious Hellraiser in the 99 of my Neera, Wild Mage polymorph-esque deck. I tend to only play a small handful of creatures here anyways with several other non creature haymakers like Shark Typhoon, Metallurgic Summonings, One With the Multiverse, Mind’s Dilation.
I think you should see Venerated Rot Priest NOT as an aggressive card, but rather as a card that gives your cards "Ward - get a poison counter".
The one thing to say about sword of forge and frontier is the turn it comes out it won’t be that good because you’ll have used all your mana but after that it’ll be great because you’ll be able to keep your many untapped to cast your spells
Green sun's twilight will be amazing in raggadragga. Cast it for at least 7 and use the trigger on a dork like marwyn, who taps = her power, you get a land a creature, plus can keep going with marwyn untapped.
Eternal wanderer can do work in brago, for both the exile and the boardwipe
white sun's twilight also gives you life. also there are enchantments that ping for 1 for every 1/1 that attacks, so with 5 or even 10 mites, you can still deal damage.
Pod as counterspell protection. Cast your thing, if they try to counter you, turn your spell into something else. Not "great" but potentially fun.
1:39:00 dragon's approach was my first thought. if you have a lot in your graveyard, it can bolt and fetch another dragon out
I like Martial Coup and White Sun’s Twighlight in aggressive decks. It really helps if you’ve been flooding.
The first thing I thought when I saw clever concealment was, hm, ill save just my nevinyrrals disk, then blow everything up. Perilous vault/pernicious deed. Or any spell based wipe since you can play concealment for zero. Its so mean. I love it.
White Sun's twilight also gains you life which martial coup, blot and finale don't do so that's a nice bonus
I got so many cards I needed from this set, like the sword of forge and frontier, skrelv,tyrranax Rex, Mondrak, the vindicator and obliterater, some planes walkers… but no elesh Norn or vorinclex… but I pulled a blight steel colossus and sword of feast and famine! Insane!
A friend and I then split a set booster box, and he opened a fat pack as well. He got a blight steel colossus from his fat pack and from one of the set booster packs! All in all, that set booster box had 7 mythics. Blight steel, showcase Vraska, showcase obliterater, sword of feast and famine, mondrak, tyrranax, and one more I can’t remember. Insane value. I wish I hadn’t split this box with him haha.
This set has some insane value
I think they might be undervalueing Venerated Rotpriest just a tad. I think it's a great include in dedicated poison decks because while it doesn't protect your creatures it makes targeting them scarier. 1 poison counter for every bit of targeted removal they want to play is a legitimate step closer to your victory. Imagine if it said "Deals 4 damage to target opponent" instead.
Magus Lucia Kane loves the Blue Sun's Twilight.
Do you think it’s as good as mass manipulation? I run mass manipulation but I might switch.
@@jeffreylong1478 I just added it. I have only played it once, but it was fantastic. I have a lot of untap effects in my deck. When I played it, I had untapped Kane 4 times earlier in the turn, so I got 5 copies. I took control of 4 commanders (one partner pair), and stole one more thing from my opponents. My copies were kept, and I let their commanders die to legendary rule just to tax them. Though in hindsight, I would just keep them and force them to kill them if they wanted them back. If they had played non-legendaries, it would have been an even bigger blowout. I love the card so far.
@@jeffreylong1478 Also, it's a lot better than mass manip. half as many blue pips in the mana cost. and it's only X, not XX. Yeah, you can't steal planeswalkers, but if you steal everything else, you can attack and kill the planeswalker since you steal the blockers, or you just take their creatures and attack face. Player removal is best removal.
I like Monumental Corruption for Prosper. You can impulse draw all day, but it’s nice to have a good reservoir of cards in your hand in case things go sour. Seems good with Jan Jansen also.
It would be totally cool to see a commander game with everyone bringing their own version of a Tevesh Szat deck!
Red Sun's Twilight is hilarious in Hinata decks. Wipe all the artifacts, get ALL of them for a turn.
I run Martial Coup in my Jinnie Fay deck, where it immediately becomes one of the best token producers AND board wipes ever. Making 10 2/2s with haste and wiping everything off the board makes for a quick game, so WST might have to come in as well
I love ichormoon gauntlet in the urza planeswalker deck i have, very easy to get the extra turn if you somehow resolve all of it lmao
WotC new what they were doing with Skrelv’s Hive. They put the most important part at the bottom, as the lifelink definitely helps me swing games in my infect deck just by gaining enough life.
I think Green Sun’s in a Magus deck is powerful. Tap One Green and 3 other mana, then tap Magus for two more. That 4 mana from lands = draw 6 select creature & land and put in hand or battlefield then draw another 6 and put creature & land on battlefield or hand. Most likely you will ramp 2 and get two good creatures from only 4 lands.
Skrelve's Hive late game when I had Vishgraz that was a 16/16 and then gave it lifelink and also had 5 mites and Braids was a great boardstate!
I agree with how they said Blade of Shared Souls works at 46 minutes, on Arena tho it copies as soon as it hits the board
Synthesis pod is useful in, say a Mizzix deck. Where your spells are cheap and you know your opponent's combo pieces. You can cast your X spell, then use that to take their combo piece out of their deck and use it against them.
Good gravy, Rachel's attitude and laugh are too infectious... she's adorable.
10/10 poison counters, would die to infect again.
The new Tyvar with Hermit Druid in particular is in my opinion a really really strong interaction. My favorite card from this set.
Verinclex + Vraska = Instantkill: Vraska enters with 12 Loyalty Counters, immediatly ultimates, then puts 18 not 9 Posion counter on a player to kill them. If you now in a Deck with at least Black and Green can blink booth at the same time, you can take out all 3 players in 1 shot.
You can easily help your mites get in for toxic damage if you run Sidar Kondo, behind the scenes, or champion of lambholt. Easy solution for poison decks
Conduct of Worlds have "activite only as a sorcery." 1:47:10
I could see putting Capricious Hellraiser into my Jaya (creature not planeswalker) deck. Good targets would be wheels, etc. to get extra value while putting a 4/4 flyer for 3 red down as that deck always has a full GY. I use Invoke Calamity and similar effects due to Jaya’s discard requirement and this feels like another flavor of those effects on a creature. The right discards could make this like a mulldrifter.
I think synthesis pod would be a goofy but interesting card when combined with something that has storm. You'll already get lots of copys of the spell ,so using one of them to get something different could be interesting.
I've tested synthesis pod in my narset deck, I used it about 3 times in the 2 times I've played it, once on a signet late game, got 2 triggers from shark typhoon with it don't remember what spell I stole, but the other time I exiled citywide bust, my narset had batterskull on it, so I exiled citywide bust, and got reconnaissance
I run the three creatures I can cast from exile, misthollow griffin, squee, and the eldrazi, in that deck also
I'm really short on card draw in my brion stoutarm deck, so the Pay 4 life: draw a card ability in staff of compleation sounds great for some consistent card draw that can be buffered with even the attack of brion, in case i have nothing to fling
I definitely think Venerated Rotpriest has a place in infect decks--I play an Ezuri, Claw of Progress infect deck that runs it and it loves effects like Open Into Wonder, Thrive, Silkguard, etc. It really helps with stacking poison counters and I'm never unhappy to draw it at any point in the game. Very flexible both as a wincon or as a way to just get the poison counters started so you can proliferate them, similar to a T1 Glistener Elf. At worst it gets me an experience counter and one poison counter on someone, at best it wins the game.
I will be putting Conduit of worlds and All Will Be One into my Lord Windgrace deck, where I am already doing Dark Depths shenanigans. Conduit will get my vampire hexmage out of my graveyard over and over again while Wingrace or Conduit brings back Dark Depths time after time to always keep a Marit Lage on the battlefield while also perhaps dinging opponents for 10 damage every time Depths hits the field. I am salivating right now.
Already made two decks with this, upgraded the Corrupting Influence precon, upgraded a Breed Leathality deck and still have one more getting upgraded. Very happy with this set though very disappointed in Wizards- going to take new management before I buy anything other than proxies and third market singles
I think im trying synthesis pod in my pako and haldan deck.
I sometimes have cards in my hand, that are simply dead in some situations, since i focuse on playing my opponents cards anyways.
And for obvious reasons have a lot of ways to play with the top cards revealed and top card manipulation in there anyways...
so yeah... might be okay... but still a lot of mana/life and setup...
But can be crazy good if you know your opponents decks to an extent: If they have an Avacyn somewhere in there, and it's their only 8 cost for example.... youcan go for it.
I agree that the mites from white suns twilight loose points for not being able to block. But in my unlockable token decks, it's another wincon if not dealt with. The decks main focus is to get combat damage triggers, so I'm replacing it with martial coup which was in the deck. The life gain is extra gravy for me, I'm using lifelink as a main combat damage theme anyway.
I immediately slotted Venerated Rotpriest into my Blanka (Howling Abomination) deck. I'm excited to see if it does anything.
Blue sun's twilight is terrifying in my brudiclad deck. I used it to make a copy of my own combat celebrant to steal a game.
with Venerated Rotpriest and Djinn Illuminatus on the battlefield, cast Slaughter Pact for 0 targeting Venerated Rotpriest and then replicate it enough times equal to the required amount of poison counters needed to win, and boom game over and you don't have to worry about the upkeep cost.
Red Sun's Twilight with an end the turn effect could be hilarious.
Heh, replied too soon, naturally they caught that with Sundial and Obeka.
@@jamesgasik3424 doesn’t work next end step not your next end step
@@johnbarnes5203 Ah, too bad.
But synthesis pod is a counterspell backup other than just the value
They really didn't go into the lifelink Skrelv's HIve gives to toxic creatures, super underrated in a poison deck
Cant wait to see you at philly! I love building wolf themed decks and really hope you guys and gal can sign my Hollowhenge Overlord to complete my fully foiled tolsimir friend to wolves deck!
Dont underestinate that conduit of worlds can get you around commander tax, besides that it may just happen that the best thing to play at a given time is in your gy.
I'm running White Sun's Twilight in my Dad Bod Urza as a 6 mana plus 4 plus 4 for my Constructs or an occasional Board wipe. We'll see how it works. Not enough time with it yet.
I’m doing the same! I’m so curious as to how it performs!
I will run Ichormoon Gauntlet in my Arcum Dagson / Darksteel Reactor deck. Just one new way of adding the counters mroe quickly :)
you can double you mite creation with mondrak so long as you have an indestructible token on him, so x = 6+ is going to give you 12+ mites and a clear board. pretty decent play with White Sun's Twilight
Rotpriest can also give psuedo protection as targeted removal could cost you the game. So it is good in infect because removing the better infect creature or the rotpriest.
All Will Be One combos extremely well with the hydras Kalonian and Primordial respectively.
Conduit of worlds doesn't work with instant speed things on other people's turns, it can only activate at sorcery speed, also only hits permanents
Forgotten Ancient's flavor text should be "An oldie but a goodie."
I run white suns twilight in my Vishgraz deck. My solution to the free blocks your opponents get from the mites is I run, ohran Frostfang, Saryth vipers Fang and bow of Nylea. So now the choice for my opponents becomes
Get poison Counters or lose your creatures