That is an awesome card! Hrm.. wondering how RBG is going to work now.. mana accel, card draw (from her) repeatable death, and cheap b/r blocker/sac targets… Okay now i have to plot MUAHAHHAHA

I’m kind of dissappointed in graft… but it might prove to be more useful the more we find out about other playable cretures that CITP with +1/+1 counters.  That card seems to be great with Vinelasher Kudzu thusfar, so not too bad.  I’m lovin the BR cards thusfar tho, I just hope I don’t like the guild too much…

P.S. Go Simic!

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Any guild that encourages its players to be in top-deck mode as often as possible is certainly okay with the Azorious (Wrath much?).  Golgari probably won’t complain, either ("Hey look, I’m boiling me some Plague over here!").  I expect that there will be a great many people avoiding Rakdos like crazy once Dissension releases.  If you want a fast beatdown deck you’ve got Gruul and Boros/WW, both of which have aggro builds which are very aggressive while still allowing you to hold cards in your hand for the turn after Wrath/Final Judgment/Savage Twister.  Rakdos definitely has some synergy with Mindslicer, and there are ways to get around its issues, but the mechanic seems pretty fragile.  Maybe it will be like Boros where the no card with the mechanic is EVER used but the other cards are playable.  I really wonder what their Guildmage will do.

Yeah, that’s what I’m afraid of… But, then again, Mindslicer(probably one of my favorite cards now… He’s SOOO good with Bob) works very well with Rysolda, mainly because it helps rid your opponent of said wrath effects.  Control players HATE playing off the top of their deck. Eh… I just hope the simic gives us some really nutty 5/5’s for 1UG(with trample, flying, and untargetability) and such. Hey, I can dream…

And by the way, Troll Ascetic 2.0 REALLY, REALLY, REALLY wants to be a printed in Dissension…

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The card that terry soh turned in will be in this as well I think. Something about a 2/2 for bb that reveals your hand, they choose a card and you discard. Then they reveal thier hand, and you do the same.

"Some have said there is no subtlety to destruction. You know what? They’re dead.” -Jaya Ballard, task mage

RagingAscetic - 06 April 2006 01:32 PM

And by the way, Troll Ascetic 2.0 REALLY, REALLY, REALLY wants to be a printed in Dissension…

Unfortunately, it looks as though Troll Ascetic 2.0 is called Silhana Ledgewalker.

Jin, Master of Disruption was the name of Terry’s card, though there are only six legends in the set (c.f. Orb of Insight), so it will wind up being non-legendary (like Bob).  It’s a pretty good card - it basically trades (what your opponent thinks is) the best card in your hand each turn for a Coercion.  Sign me up!

With all of Kevin’s talk, I’m going to have to break out my Mindslicers again and see if I can’t make them tick.  Mindslicer + Bob, eh?  Sounds like good times.

Yeah, I am afraid i’ll have to wait until next block for Troll Ascetic 2.0 to come out…

...And that invitational card seems awesome. I assume it’s a creature that reads something like this: “At the beginning of your upkeep, reveal your hand. Target opponent chooses a card. Discard that card. Then that player reveals his/her hand. Choose a card. That player discards that card.” Is that what it would look like? That would seem to work VERY well with Hellbent, as you would get a free cohersion every turn, while living off the top of your deck(as any true Rakdos player would).

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As Terry submitted it, it’s an activated ability.  Here’s his original submission:

Jin, Master of Disruption
BB
Creature ? Zombie Wizard
2/2
0: Reveal your hand. Target player chooses a card from it and you discard that card. If you do, that player reveals his or her hand. Choose a card from it. The player discards that card. Play this ability only any time you could play a sorcery and only once each turn.

I honestly don’t think it will wind up being printed like that, though; it’s too good IMO.  I think they might make it slightly more expensive, maybe like 2B or 3B, which might even bump up his stats a little and would encourage him as a splash.  I suppose it could be 2/1 for 1B, but we’ve already got Bob, so I doubt Jin will be the same cost and P/T.

Wow, that’s very nice… I also don’t think it’ll make it as BB for a 2/2… I think it could make BB as a 2/1 or even 1BB for a 3/2, but this guy seems to be very effective in the right deck. I hope it sees play.

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Avatar of Discord
(b/r) (b/r) (b/r)
Creature - Avatar

Flying
When this comes into play, sacrifice it unless you discard two cards.

5/3

Possible prerelease card.

"Some have said there is no subtlety to destruction. You know what? They’re dead.” -Jaya Ballard, task mage

Yep, it’s now confirmed… With scans of the Foils as well… it just gives Rakdos players another reason to absolutely HATE Lightning Helix.

By the way, did anyone else wet themselves when they saw this card(Christian, I KNOW you did ):

Windreaver 3WU
Creature - Elemental
Flying
W: Windreaver gains Vigilance until end of turn.
W: Windreaver gets +0/+1 until end of turn.
U: Switch Windreaver’s Power and Toughness until end of turn.
U: Return Windreaver to it’s owners hand.
1/3

...it seems that WotC is trying to make a new Morphling that has abilities that have the SAME effect, but yet aren’t quite as powerful. For example, switch P/T and pumping toughness instead of having the ability to give +1/-1 or -1/+1, returning it to owner’s hand instead of making it untargetable, and enabling it to have vigilance instead of being able to untap it. But, this version does already have flying, so it might be 50-60% of the power level of the original… It’s really hard to tell.

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the fact that you can make this guy a 5/1 or 6/1, stacck damage, then make him a 1/6… REALLY good.

Love,
Matt

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Yeah, the only problem with this guy might be the fact that to dodge removal you’d have to bounce it back to your hand… It could become very time/mana consuming… But, otherwards, I think it’s a GREAT finisher.  Heck, you can make it a 12/1 if you have the mana to do so…

Actually, something I didn’t think about before was that you can give it any P/T you want just by pumping in enough mana. Make it a 1/6, switch it’s P/T, then pump it’s toughness again to make it something like a 6/6… hmm, interesting… well, if you have 9 white mana at least

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Yeah, but that shouldnt be all that necessary, since you can switch to whatever you need. Of course if he has a damage counter on him for some reason he cant switch, but i guess you could do it in response and pump him then so he can switch safely later.

True… and something that might be better is that he can dodge mass removal AND targeted removal… and unlike morphling, it only coasts 1 white mana to boost it’s toughness(after you stack damage of course). For example, you make it a 7/1, after stacking damage, it only costs 1 W to make it a 1/7, instead of a BUNCH of colorless mana. Something to consider…

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