Saheeli Rai Ideas and Discussion

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Posted on May 17, 2016, 9:33 p.m. by TheFoilAjani

So yeah, y'all may have noticed that a load of sets were dropped yesterday. So I wanted to speculate on the new Planeswalker, Saheeli Rai! If you want the picture

So yeah, there seem to be two to three possibilities for color- W/U, U/R or mono-U (Based on art and planar theme). These are my ideas:

Saheeli Rai, Thopter Lady

+1: ~ deals 1 damage to target creature or player. Put a 1/1 Thopter token with flying onto the battlefield.

-3: Draw a card for each artifact creature you control, then sacrifice them.

-6: Gain control of all artifacts. ~ deals damage to each opponent equal to the amount of artifacts you control, then draw that many cards.

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Saheeli Rai, Aetherlady

+2: Tap target creature an opponent controls and target creature you control. They dont untap during their controllers untap step.

-X: Return each non-land permanent you dont control with converted mana cost X to their owners hand.

-10: You get an emblem with, ""Whenever you cast a spell, return target permanent to its owners hand."

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Saheeli Rai, Literal Tezzeret

+1: Return target artifact to its owners hand. Search your library for an artifact card with the same converted mana cost, reveal it and put it into your hand.

-5: You may put an artifact card from your hand onto the battlefield. Draw a card.

-8: Search your library for 8 artifacts cards, reveal them and put into your hand. Then put up to 8 artifact cards from your hand onto the battlefield.

So that's my idea. What do y'all think Saheeli Rai will be like? What are your ideas for her? Please post your ideas here!

capriom85 says... #2

Your UR idea seems more likely given that she is likely an artificer. I'm not sure you need to sacrifice the artifacts for the -3. The +1 get a thopter seems legit. The ultimate seems to conditional but I'm not sure what else I would do. If it's an artifacts matter set, I could see making all artifacts creatures with power/toughness equal to cmc maybe. I don't really know enough about the set yet to predicts beyond pretty stock artifact interaction. She can definitely work well with "clues" given some of the ideas here that the creature idea instantly kills them.

This seems like an appropriate place to also note my angst toward the fact that Hangarback Walker will rotate out when a set that could very well make it unstoppable rotates in. Grr

May 17, 2016 9:59 p.m.