Exciting Cards in M19
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Posted on June 25, 2018, 12:56 p.m. by abby315
The first core set since Magic Origins! Making this forum post for cards everyone's excited about from the upcoming Magic 2019, whether it's a new Commander, eternal-playable, a needed reprint, or pauper upgrade. I believe the whole set is out now!
Me? I'm ALL ABOUT THAT Resplendent Angel, even though I don't like lifegain decks. I love the new token-generating lifegain cards like that and Crested Sunmare, plus I'm a sucker for one-card value engines. And she makes Serra Angels! The FLAVOR!
Sarkhan, Fireblood has Very Cool Art.
AND NEW ELVES!! Thorn Lieutenant and Elvish Clancaller might bring elves back to standard, which might bring ME back to standard...
What are you all excited for?
Can I get a uh...BONELESS Flip Ravager?
In all seriousness, I love the card. When he enters, arguably the worst case scenario is that he eats two cards, which still isn't terrible. One is the discard and the other often is a single-target removal spell (granted, this is still likely the most common scenario whenever you play against anyone who knows what the card does).
That said, God help the poor unfortunate soul who has to play against the valuemongering side of this card because they can't get rid of it.
No matter if it's because you're not letting them (in which case the repeatable +2 is going to make that slope even steeper every turn by potentially refilling pesky counterspells and ways to protect it), because they're out of answers (which means that you can draw and play your other cards relatively unopposed anyway and their first removal will always have to drop onto your dragon friend), or because they've already scooped to it (in which case you print a Defeat card, write a Magic Story finale chapter for them, and then move on to someone else). I don't need to explain why they lose if it's as simple as not having any answers to the card to begin with.
Even if getting the card to stick on the board is difficult because no one wants to see a 4/4 flying Ravenous Rats barreling at their face and/or eventually ruining them with insane value, that just makes the reward of flipping him so much sweeter when it finally happens someday.
Welcome to MTG, Nicol Bolas, the Ravager Flip. I hope you flip a lot of tables both now and forever.
August 12, 2018 12:43 a.m.
I was doing a m19 deck build out of packs and a drew a foil resplendant angle, but didn't realize it for 2 weeks
August 12, 2018 11:05 a.m.
Agent_Fire says... #5
I really think that Sarkhan's Unsealing is a big sleeper card from Core 19. It is really good.
August 12, 2018 11:43 a.m.
Just catching up on this thread. The lords for less-utilized tribes mentioned earlier are interesting, but as a Skeleton tribal devotee, it annoys me that Death Baron's reprint means that Skeletons getting a lord that's actually a Skeleton is looking less likely. Do I betray my values and accede to the overprinted, oversupported, and overdeveloped Zombies, or do I keep my skels below their full potential? Either way, Skeleton Archer and Bone Dragon are both welcome.
Outside of griping about tribal, Runic Armasaur is an interesting contribution to control, and would be pretty entertaining alongside Burning-Tree Shaman. Crucible of Worlds and Scapeshift have been mentioned enough already, so my last thought for now is the newest addition to the Pongify-Rapid Hybridization-Turn to Frog deck, with Transmogrifying Wand. Let the Pillarfield Ox enter your life!
August 12, 2018 4:03 p.m.
Sarkhan, Fireblood is aeons ahead of Tibalt, the Fiend-Blooded. It has a good-to great +1 (it can be used to enable stuff like Goryo's Vengeance + Griselbrand), and the floor is Tormenting Voice. And it has a game winning ultimate - which is a better Marit lage (due to evasion and multiple bodies).
Its likely gonna be a staple in free win red variants, and gonna pop up time to time in decks like skred, or ponza, that would love card filtering but have little to no access to it. (And the latter two decks may be able to use the second +1 to power out early dragon)
(While tibalt has 3 useless abilities)
User:DemonDragonJ
Bone Dragon easily could have been fixed Skaab Ruinator, is the ability would not include a mana cost. As it is its complete garbage in constructed. Just compare it to cards that we have since eaons like Demigod of Revenge, and that is only marginally played.
August 13, 2018 5:35 a.m.
A card i did not think I would be excited about has turned out to be Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma. The cost reduction ability is insane with cards like Myr Superion and its application for a budget modern deck. Hence:
FSims81 says... #1
The get-around for coming into play tapped with Bone Dragon is you pay the cost and exile at your opponent's end step before play passes. He slides in tapped, it becomes your turn, untap, swing for 5 flying. Great late game finisher. Sure it can be had cheaper with Macabre Waltz but then you're waiting for summoning sickness.
August 6, 2018 8:27 a.m.