Assassins Creed MTG Spoilers | Tax Collector and the Rest of the Set
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
- We've reached the end of Universes Beyond Assassins Creed spoilers! Today we got a look at Tax Collector, perhaps the best Modern card in the set, some interesting reprints and a bunch more! Let's discuss!
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0:00 Start
0:50 Tax Collector
2:27 Aveline de Grandpre
4:02 Staff of Eden, Vault's Key
6:40 Excalibur, Sword of Eden
10:26 Loyal Inventor
12:22 Brotherhood Regalia
13:35 Overpowering Assault
15:55 Desynchronization
19:15 What Must Be Done
22:09 Starter Deck Cards
23:00 Spell Equipment
25:40 Sagas
29:17 Jank
30:08 Escape Detection
30:42 Reprints 
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Can we all agree the best part of this set and reveals is Seth’s struggling to pronounce real names, myths and historical places from around the world
Finally something every single culture has in common
So true😂
😂😂😂😂
The biggest troll Seth could pull now is secretly practicing from now until the set release to say Ezio Auditore Di Firenze” in a perfect Italian accent.
It’s not his fault he’s American.
The main power of tax collector is that it's ability is not given to the creature, meaning that if you can bounce collector multiple times on a turn you can keep choosing the cost increase mode and make your opponents spells cost 2,3,4 more mana.
10:52 thanks for the shout out!
😂😂😂
Towering viewpoint is 100% an in game fun thing.
On the subject of towering viewpoint, not every card is about being good. Sometimes they are about the story the card tells or the moments it represents. in this case, "oh its like a tower in the video game where I can look around and then jump off." These are probably going to be especially common in universes beyond sets where wizards is trying to hit every iconic bit of the game. Which this does. After all, I never played AC but even I know about the leaps of faith from them and so when I saw it, i was like "HA! I see what you did there."
I would counterpoint that pretty much every card in the set achieves what you are describing, but that it is pretty easy to also make that card playable in some sense. Afterall, there is much more value in seeing that iconic card from the game and getting to run it in your deck without feeling like you are playing extremely bad cards. They don’t need to be crazy playable, but magic is so vast that you could easily find a niche way to give it some credibility in this type of product. It could say, “0: Target Assassin Gains flying until end of turn”, making it stronger in an assassin deck and even more flavorful.
Climbing the towers was really important in the game because that was how you charted your map, which was critical cuz the cities in the game were really sprawling. The first game was particular about this because it had a severely minimal HUD layout (not even subtitles to read "you have to go south of the north-western portion of the market district"), and you had to pay attention to basically everything.
All in all I think the card is very flavorful 😊
@@Bubblenuts13 then it would read, "all assassins gain flying." Which wouldn't seem read the same. Having an actually mana cost represents the Assassin is putting effort into going to the top of the tower to jump off. If its zero than as soon as it hits the battlefield a bunch of assassins effortlessly takes to the skies.
Also it let's an assassin do damage which CAN be fatal with certain assassin abilities.
Arcades, the Strategist
The flavor on Brotherhood Regalia is hilarious. Not being seen is great, so put on our super identifiable uniform on.
Not sure how its in newer games but in the originall ones it looks verry simmiliar to priest robes and there are always wandering groups of priests around to hide in.
@@Shimatzu95newer games largely dropped that unfortunately
@@Quarrenn17I know origins he was just wearing the uniform of the Medjah, a role that evolved into the beginnings of the creed
Me: Falia? Oh, he must mean Thalia.
Seth: Falia.
Me: Phelia?
Seth: Falia.
Me: AHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Chiss-Goria and Ghalta with Excalibur is a funny tech, and a funny mental image.
These big reptiles are now King of the Britons.
Ghalta desperately trying to reach Excalibur with his little arms while Emry holds it out to him.
I find it so funny that ludonarratively, Towering Viewpoint allows you Creatures to jump off the tower to gain flying but you can also put the effect on the Towering Viewpoint itself for some bizzare reason.
I know it already has reach, but the idea of a tower doing a backflip or hovering out of the ground is so funny to me.
Ah yes, the crime of Arresting
EDIT: And it's confirmed: taxing is not a crime xD
Staff of Eden is great in any deck where you play opponents cards, like Laughing Jasper Flint. While 6 mana if played mid game you probably will hit 4 + cards the turn you play it, but reanimate something.
Is this set coming to arena? I could see it in Grenzo or Nicol Bolas too.
Towering Viewpoint is a nice flavorful card and imo, can be used in politics in Commander. Giving anything flying can really turn the tide.
I was thinking of putting Excalibur in my Ovika deck , it's an artifact deck with mostly artifact ramp so it might be a free cast at times and score me 12 gobbos
Escape detection is broken in Zethi/Chun-Li
Im happy about the new players product from Assasin Creed. I have a friend that wants a Dr Who deck but doesnt knows about magic and tried learning commander but failed. I was just thinking about how I miss playing kitchen table magic with core set cards.
"Brotherhood Regalia" will also be slightly better in "Yidris" than whisper silk. Because You can finally cascade into unlockable before turn 4, with the Likes of "Violent Outburst" , "Shardless Agent", and "Passionate Archeologist." On turn 4 you're typically tapping out for Yidris, and haste doesn't matter if you can't use his effect MP2. Which means turn 5, instead of having to cast setup to swing, and only getting mana-rocks for it. You can equip "Regalia" for (1) start going big! Yidris is also a deck where you can take advantage of BOTH counter balance and Power Balance. Because you can calculate how many times you're going to cascade post combat and respond to counter magic with them, for double digging and double value.
A deck I have been trying to figure out is a Talion deck. Where the genetal idea would be to keep sending things back to hand to force opponents to recast, and I have good etb effects on mine. Desensynchonization could fit in that. I just need to figure out the mana problem.
It's kind of funny how most of the cards I'll be buying from this set are from the starter decks. They're not even completely awful. Could see Battlefield Improvisation in a Pauper deck, Bureau Headmaster is just generically good in equipment commander decks, and the cheap, evasive Assassins from the Dimir deck are getting slotted into Etrata as we speak.
I was not very high on this Set because of the IP and that we just get another set so soon after mh3 but i kind of like the card design
Same here. I am really enjoying how flavorful each card it. So far, theres nothing broken, just really cool design.
Excalibur and Brotherhood Regalia and Desynchronization both very interesting for Commander to add to Lara Croft Arsenal, having a 13/4 with initiative, vigilance and reach is nuts, just need trample and double strike and you gonna treaten lethal pretty quickly, can also double power with ixalan dino legendary artefact just in case. The multi bounce is insane it would even be more absurd if it includes land permanents but i am for sure gonna take a 4 mana instant that removes everything except my board and artefact legendary creatures.
finally, we have good and accurate representation of my people, the british, in magic
Well with "Desync" as you gave in the example. "Witch" can run pest control, and culling Ritual. So you can essentially rock-wrath your opponents if you're behind on tempo. Use culling to play a legend and your rocks as they start coming in. that's gonna further your game. And then "Desync" essentially to save your board state and reset everyone else who no longer has rocks. Then you take over because you do. This is really just a Christmas land scenario though. I guess if you're against etali, Dino, or zur dragon bouncing. While being the only one with rocks also puts you ahead. It was also bounce tokens, so you fizzle the go-wide player.
Shoot I remember about a decade or so ago when my friends group and I had a whispersilk cloak as a staple in nearly every commander deck. That and lightning greeves. You'd have some 2/2 mono blue commander swinging in for lethal commander damage over many turns
Was messing around with Alexios in commander and killed a player turn two. Don't sleep on it lol
Bureau Headmaster seems solid for a vultron type deck with lots of equipment, assuming a cheaper option and is an assassin if that is your jam.
Maybe the tower useful with training grounds or forensic gadgeteer, you can make that cost for flying more manageable. Maybe even my artifact deck that creates x power artifacts, and powerstones.
I just got out of the psych ward and this set makes me want to go back
Tax Collector can be a good substitute to Thalia in a Phelia and Ephemarate shell. Since it do not die to orcish bowmasters and can tax the free elementals, seems like an almost perfect substitute to me.
Not even orcs are a match for the IRS
30:52 Actually, Reconnaissance is better than that. Since after a creature deals damage, it's still considered an attacking creature in combat, so you could use it as a form of pseudo Vigilance
And if one of your creatures has First or Double Strike, you can have your creature deal its damage, then use Reconnaissance to remove it from Combat so it doesn't get damaged by the blocking creature
Or use it to get a, 'when this creature attacks' trigger or something
29:45 tbf there is ALWAYS a limited enviroment. Nothing can stop you from drafting the 7 card packs lol ( beside horrendous balancing )
If historic only checked for non token permanents, Desynchronization would be a lot better. Imo that's how the keyword should work in the first place flavor wise. Same with the old legend rule, though I totally get why mechanically they changed that.
Lol the aesir and high cmc cards xD.
Double strike, exile excaliber, swing for 24 xD.
Towering viewpoint should've created a Haystack Token that does exactly what Haystack does but is a one use thing. Would of made way more flavorful.
Brotherhood Patriarch: “It’s-a me, Mario!“
I MUST HAVE THAT CARD!!!
Voja is going to love footblade
Starting to think this was a commander set that they tried to pass as modern. GIMME MY PRECONS
What about the new White spree wrath? Isnt that top tier for commander?
I kinda hate the idea of Desynchronization, cause every year as commander and magic in general grows, mana fixing and legendaries will get better. The better interaction should punish nonbasics and legendaries, and cost double pips so its harder to splash.
staff of eden, moritte, and disciple of the vault is a win
man they really didn't give black flag as many cards :(
Not hitting the multitude of Legendaries is why I don't think Urza's Ruinous blast is playable anymore.
Nick valentine and Curie care about towering viewpoint. Any voltron deck really because evasion
You can def do better than Towering Viewpoint for Voltron. Best I can think is possibly Arcades since it doesn't need to tap to grant flying unlike Suspicious Bookcase with unblockable.
I don't know what to think of the set. Lots of neat cards, but I pretty much only play commander, so singles is probably best? Either way, my offer to be a pronunciation researcher still stands. 😂😂
Blame Game - Goad Axios, pass Axios, Axios buffs and attacks opponents, Use the enchantment that says that all goaded creatures cannot block…..Axios could win you the game….right?
We better get the kenways and Shay
We have Edward, Nathan, and Shay, yes. :)
Wait, starter decks are a new product?
What?
Excalibur in a karn deck
Man, I am still enjoying the new MH3 newcommera and WoTC is already shilling a new set -.-
When I hear Excalibur I think of Sabre from Fate/stay Night.
Not just you
Why is this set modern legal?
Seth, I think you mispronounced "modern playable card" with "good in soul sisters". 😂
If we were to get truly accurate Assassin's Creed cards nearly half the cards would need to be misprints and/or contain rules text that is non-functional.
Also i can't believe they actually used that line as the flavor text on Brotherhood Patriarch... XD
Inb4 here is some kind of hidden crap in the actual printed version of the cards, and there's a hidden way to get Clay Kazmerek.
Seth, can we get you to braid your beard?
Why Ondu's Inversion instead of Planar Cleansing? Planar Cleansing is only 6 mana, although it has 3 white.
I guess you have the option to play it as land.
Also, can someone explain to me why Damnation is not on Arena?
No… no I don’t know the logic of towering viewpoint either. Leap of faith is just you leaping from a high spot into a cart full of soft hay or something similar. Jumping and killing a target is a thing but usually you’re not THAT high up because you’d just be killing yourself from the fall damage outside of like weird glitchy senarios.
Vantage points or as they’ve been meme into being known as “Ubisoft towers” are normally more about being that landmark you need to find and climb up so you can both look around your surroundings in game and reveal blank spots on your map so you can navigate around better and actually see objectives you need to go to.
So really, this card should either be giving you information on your opponents or your own deck or at the very least, offer some kinda protection effect for your creature. I guess flying makes the most sense for granting a creature combat evasion rather than haste or menace but it still feels very awkward.
MH4?
MH5. Lord of the Rings was MH3
it just doesnt make any sense to my why this couldnt have just been a commander product. all of the cards are obviously commander-oriented, and it's not like modern players are begging for assassins creed in the format. absolutely baffling product.
It really is a terrible product, being forcefed as modern-viable.
They’re worried about commander only supplemental sets nowadays
Excalibur can ONLY be equipped to a Legendary Creature, right? That pretty much makes it a Commander only card.
Yes, although you can use creatures like Puresteel Paladin to give it an equip ability 0, or something like Ardenn that attaches equipments without using an equip.
Phew, so it's a set modern players can confidently skip. I think tax collector is potentially the only modern playable card in the entire set. And that's a good thing.
There's a couple of other cards I think have potential but it looks like we dodged a One Ring disaster.
I would hold off on the celebration till the set is released and people have had a chance to play with the cards physically and online. People didn't think The One Ring was strong till they started playing with it.
He11, that might be one of Saffron Olive's greatest punts because if I remember correctly. He thought the card was gonna be bad in both Modern and Commander.
sadly, no Karl Marx 😔
Day 529482 of waiting for Wizards to make auras a playable card type in eternal formats.
Ignoring it and getting a couple black Market Connections
Azorius Ghost vs Mono BLUE Mill
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I hate how close the names Phelia and Thalia sound.
How do you just skim over Excalibur so casually? That card is insane! In artifact, voltron, and legends decks, its literally 0 mana to cast 2 to equip and pump something by 10 and vigilance. For commander it's one of the most broken equipments I've ever seen. It genuinely could come down like turn 4-5 and turn your not that scary commander or tertiary legend in the deck into a must kill threat.
It's really a "win more" situation if you already have 12 mana value of historic permanents on the board that you're able to attack with.
@@jeffe2267 a 4 mana commander, 2 2 mana mana rocks and another four drop creature by turn 5 is not “winning” thats just standard rate tbh. And even casting this for 1-4 is still unbelievably reasonable.
is the art getting worse guys or is it the cut of the card?
This set is hot ass
Oh you think you won this match just because some watery tart lobbed a scimitar at you?!
I hate universes beyond.... so mutch. Why do you hate your own setting magic
Why does making cards from other IP's mean that they hate Magic? Am I declaring that I hate apples when I eat oranges?
@@RasmusVJS
Yes. Stop eating oranges.
@@TheAverageGuyTAG Sorry, #NeverAgain
What a boring set 😢
17:00 ^&%%% Desynchronization. I am not looking forward to playing against this in commander. There are some decks this just shuts down, and some it doesn't do something against. But when it shuts me down, I'm out of the game. I'd say someone needs to be fired over this card, but frankly I'm pretty sure I'd fire anyone even remotely associated with this modern legal miniset abomination.
Lord of the Creed.. *shitty music starts playing*
MH3 just released and we are already getting spoilers for a new set...?
It’s kind of annoying how much of this set cares about legendary stuff
Plz make the product vomit stop... I can't even enjoy this game anymore cause the metas are just getting flooded
Mtggoldfish does not have any say in the making of product.
@@ich3730 ........ lol thanks bro
omg twitter was right.
you are not good at pronunciation
Man, I get that you must have an obligation to reveal these cards. However people don’t care about this set. It makes no sense and I can speak for a majority of people when I say that we don’t care to see these cards being tried and used in against the odds, or much abrew. Leave these money grab cards alone and play with cards that are relevant
I mean I'm excited for this set but you do you I guess 🤷
Matthias, you cannot, in fact, speak for a majority of people.