Mardu's mechanic: Raid

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Posted on Aug. 14, 2014, 10:59 a.m. by MagicalHacker

It's sort of like Bloodthirst, this is the mechanic:

Raid -- When ~ enters the battlefield, if you attacked with a creature this turn, ...

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Nigeltastic says... #2

How legit that? Do we know for sure? It looks pretty sweet.

August 14, 2014 11:39 a.m.

MagicalHacker says... #3

Yeah, I trust mythic spoiler, plus it Shows the reference on the site.

August 14, 2014 11:43 a.m.

Gidgetimer says... #4

Mythic spoiler has never shown an incorrect spoiler before in my experience. They will sometimes mock up an English version of a foreign language card and get exact wording or exact name wrong. However; I have never seen a card that was all out fake or the gist of the card was incorrect. With the poor quality of that card image I am going to wager that is a photo not a mock so it should be exact.

August 14, 2014 11:53 a.m.

TexasDice says... #5

I hope it doesn't play out as RtR Limited. Almost all mechanics were designed for the combat step, SOOOO boring.

unleash -> attack, you can't block

bloodrush -> attack, discard your hand

detain -> attack safely/that can't attack

evolve -> attack, your guys are bigger now

Scavenge -> your guys are bigger now, attack

Cipher -> attack for triggers

Populate -> more guys to attack with with

Battalion -> attack with a bunch guys for triggers

August 14, 2014 12:03 p.m.

MagicalHacker says... #6

I knew there was a reason I liked extort and overload the best!

August 14, 2014 12:07 p.m.

derKochXXL says... #7

This is from a spoiler they showed at gamescom in germany today. They also showed a morph creature. As TexasDice I hope they put in more diversity with what the mechanics affect.

August 14, 2014 12:13 p.m.

Arithan says... #8

My guess is that Morph is back to help Blue and Green. Maybe Root Elemental reprint?Anyway, I wouldn't bet too much on not having attack-oriented mechanics. M15 kinda killed all hopes of that.

August 14, 2014 1:19 p.m.

MagicalHacker says... #9

How so?

August 14, 2014 1:36 p.m.

TexasDice says... #10

Pobably because of the new "good removal must be white or too expensive" policy wizards tries to push through.

August 14, 2014 1:40 p.m.

Ohthenoises says... #11

I'm just hoping for Willbender . He will be freaking hilarious against spot removal.

August 14, 2014 1:53 p.m.

Nigeltastic says... #12

I like the idea of someone Thoughtseize ing themself

August 14, 2014 2:25 p.m.

TexasDice says... #13

That's nasty.

August 14, 2014 2:36 p.m.

julianjmoss says... #14

I think raid does a really good job of fitting the aggressive flavor of the tribe and I doubt that the abilities will be like rtr. Remember that this set was designed for gameplay first and that each tribe has a unique play style given to them, from control to graveyard shenanigans to aggro

August 14, 2014 2:50 p.m.

turtur says... #15

i would like to add that mark rosewater confirmed the new raid card the morph card and the new commander geralf card today on his tumblr

August 14, 2014 9:31 p.m.

TheGamer says... #16

Omg... Imagine that Nigeltastic...

"I will Thoughtseize targeting you"

"How about target yourself?" flips morph creature up

"Oh..."

August 14, 2014 9:47 p.m.

Nigeltastic says... #17

Or also hilarious: "I bestow Chromanticore targetting so and so" "How about you put that bad mama jama on my guy instead, thanks.

August 14, 2014 10:57 p.m.

Ohthenoises says... #18

Put it on the Willbender of course! lol.

August 14, 2014 11:01 p.m.

TheRedDude says... #19

even funnier...

Him: T5 Brimaz, King of Oreskos ? Dissolve

You: Willbender (evil smile) Dissolve your Dissolve with your Dissolve

Would that work?

August 16, 2014 9:41 a.m.

MagicalHacker says... #20

Yeah it would. (as long as you have five or more lands lol)

August 16, 2014 9:58 a.m.

TexasDice says... #21

I don't think you can redirect a counterspell to itself, you can only redirect it to the redirect.

But since Willbenders ability isn't a spell on the stack, that doesn't work.

August 16, 2014 10:15 a.m.

MagicalHacker says... #22

Well, to change its target, you have to choose a spell on the stack. Since Redirect has resolved by that point, you can't choose redirect. But I've never heard of a rule saying "Counter spells cant counter themselves", it's just that you have to choose a target before you put it on the stack, and the target has to be on the stack, so the only way it could counter itself is if it gets redirected.

August 16, 2014 10:53 a.m.

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