Rivals of Ixalan Spoilers
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Posted on Oct. 30, 2017, 12:46 p.m. by LittleBlueHero
Early Spoilers are in!
Discuss!
At pre-release I think I'm going to try and build a very controlling deck, its how I nearly won my last pre-release. Boros control, I pulled lots of burn
January 13, 2018 12:02 p.m.
Went 3-1 with RB pirates, with only 2 non pirates creatures, one of which was Tetzimoc, Primal Death, that won me every single game in which I found it. Promo Angrath, the Flame-Chained helped too
January 13, 2018 4:26 p.m.
Suns_Champion says... #4
I amazingly got a pool that leaned vampires so I once again went B/W! Didn't do as well as last time, though wasn't expecting too. 1-3 but 5-6 over all. Good times.
January 14, 2018 12:54 a.m.
Hopeless pool for me to work from today.
Best I could build was Tribe-less with a splash of , so I could play my only bomb - a 6/6 with Trample.
Lost three matches and only won the first due to the fact that my Opponent also had bad pulls.
Got so tired of playing weak shit that I ended up buying Intro decks to play with my friend, who had a bye for his last round.
Now THOSE were fun.
Two decent Planeswalkers and Lords that built your Tribe up, were a blast.
Angrath, Minotaur Pirate's ultimate is as powerful as I thought it would be. Won me a game where I had been on 1 life, and my Opponent had been on 21.
January 14, 2018 4 a.m. Edited.
Hi_diddly_ho_neighbor says... #6
Pulled a Trapjaw Tyrant and Zacama, Primal Calamity yesterday and went 3-2 with a R/W aggro + Zacama build. Zacama won me games I had no business winning and is quite fun to resolve.
Some other cards I was seriously impressed with after playing with, against, or watching be played:
Tendershoot Dryad - Probably the best card in limited.
Azor's Gateway - The loot effect is insane value (don't flip it!)
Admiral's Order - I think people are really underestimating this card
Buccaneer's Bravado - Pretty much is the new Temur Battle Rage in limited
Hardy Veteran - Getting the +0/+2 really messed with combat math early on in the game and forced opponents to answer the card on their turn instead of at instant speed.
Also, Ascend went off just about every game in which it was relevant. Draft is likely to be much faster than sealed, but I think ascend decks can function and perform well.
January 14, 2018 11:29 a.m.
Hi_diddly_ho_neighbor says... #7
Actually Ravenous Chupacabra is probably the best card in limited, but I would put the Dryads as a close second.
January 14, 2018 11:30 a.m.
Suns_Champion says... #8
We had 8 people at my prerelease. Argy called it: R/G dinos went 4-0, four people went B/W vamps with some success, and there was a R/U pirate, U/G merfolk, and a B/g something deck that all did 2-2 or less.
Nobody pulled a Ravenous Chupacabra. Tendershoot Dryad was powerful.
Ascend was much more relevant than I thought it'd be.
Tetzimoc, Primal Death was a lot better than I thought. Killed 3 creatures twice!
January 14, 2018 12:19 p.m.
OneItsStarted says... #9
Top seat at my LGS won from 1 life through repeatedly using the absolute bomb that is Profane Procession into a Ghalta, Primal Hunger.
January 14, 2018 5:45 p.m.
Took 6th out of 15 ppl at the midnight release, then my fiancee and I took 2nd out of four teams in 2HG.
did very well for me at the XLN midnight; but couldn't quite hold on for RIX in the same colors (u/b pirates). Went 2-0, 2-0, 0-2, 0-2 and yea took 6th
In 2hg she played flyers and I went good stuff. We had tons of flying between the two of us and lots of control. A playset of Bombard, 3x Sun-Collared Raptor, 5x Sailor of Means, Ravenous Chupacabra, and holy crap Gruesome Fate is unfair in 2hg. Won both our games with that card as the finishing touch before the final blow with flyers (2-1 for 2hg)
Opened seven prerelease packs total between my five and Shannon's two. Highlights were two promo Storm the Vault
s, Ripjaw Raptor, two Warkite Marauders, Azor, the Lawbringer, four of the five mono color Dino legends, etc
Can't wait for the next prerelease weekend, in what, four months ?!
January 14, 2018 6:44 p.m.
Pulled absolute jank and went 2-2, my friend lucked out and kicked my ass my last game, fml!
January 14, 2018 6:54 p.m.
LittleBlueHero says... #12
Just got back from my pre-release. Went 3-1 losing only my last round in a vampire mirror match. In my 4 rounds I played vamps twice and me and my buddy were also playing it so there was a lot of it to go around.
I lost the last round to Profane Procession both times. I had the games well in hand before it came down, or seemed too and in black white I couldn't play around it late in the game where I'm all but top decking. Card is absurd.
Radiant Destiny was an all star for me. Like others have said ascend was more relevant and easier to get than expected.
I only lost 3 games the whole time, 2 were to profane and one to tetzimoc. Black has a absolutely insane amount of removal in this format...
January 14, 2018 7:57 p.m.
DemonDragonJ says... #13
In several of my EDH decks, I have Skull Rend, but I noticed that Angrath's first ability is very similar to that spell, for the same mana cost. While Angrath's ability makes each opponent discard only one card, and not at random, the fact that it is repeatable, and also includes two other abilities, likely makes it a better choice. What does everyone else say about that?
January 14, 2018 9:12 p.m.
OneItsStarted says... #14
User:DemonDragonJ Angrath is far worse than Skull Rend unless you have a reliable way to make sure he sticks around for multiple turns. The ability to "randomly" discard is far better than the ability to just discard as in any given game there are bound to be a couple of extra lands or high costed cards opponents have no regret getting discarded and easily toss away with no benefit to you. Worst of all, if you are playing straightforward discard against a graveyard based deck, you are actively helping them with your cards. This can only be avoided by making opponents discard randomly or discard close to their entire hand.
January 15, 2018 12:54 a.m.
I got to play Sunday in the prerelease. Opened a sweet foil Deeproot Elite, but only 3 other merfolk. So I went Grixis pirates and I got the nuttiest pool ever.
1 Ravenous Chupacabra, 1 Dire Fleet Ravager, 1 Dire Fleet Poisoner, 1 Captain Lannery Storm, 1 Warkite Marauder were my rares and mythics.
Everything in the deck besides Chupacabra and Raveger and 1 Impale was 3 or less mana.
I got to tempo out people hard. T5-6 kills were plenty. T2 Wanted Scoundrels into t3 Fathom Fleet Boarder into turn 4 Dire Fleet Poisoner + Buccaneer's Bravado left the opponent at 1 life.
Went 3-1 with the deck, losing only to mono-bombs that went t5 Trapjaw Tyrant 2 games and the third went Sunbird's Invocation into next turn Form of the Dragon that fetched and playeda Tyrant for free.
January 15, 2018 3:11 a.m.
AgentGreen says... #16
Profane Procession is an absolute killer. I stared down that card 3 times yesterday and lost every time it went down.
I can see it being Standard playable
January 15, 2018 9:11 a.m.
Hi_diddly_ho_neighbor says... #17
OneItsStarted (and DemonDragonJ): I disagree, I feel the repeatability of the first ability outweighs the negative effects vs. Skull Rend. Yes giving the choice to the player running a graveyard deck is a significant downside, but most EDH decks these days should be packing some form of graveyard hate. One-off discard effects in commander are pretty ineffective (outside of wheel effects) in my experience. Repeatable discard effects however are quite backbreaking. Plus his other abilities are relevant. To me his floor (5 mana drain two and discard a card before he immediately dies) is near enough to the power level of Skull Rend, but his ceiling is much much higher.
I went to a second pre-release yesterday and played Grixis good-stuff to a 3-1 record. My deck won off of the back of Tetzimoc, Primal Death, Charging Tuskodon, 3 Spire Winders, and a Rampaging Ferocidon (who single handedly held down a B/W vamp deck in one game). Forerunner of the Empire was clutch in finding my Tetzimoc just about every game. I only lost to extremely aggressive dino deck that pretty much ran only 4/4's. I likely would have gotten their had I gone a more conservative route in game 1, but my greedy play burned me.
In game 2 of my last match of the day I was facing down Elenda, the Dusk Rose, Legion Lieutenant, Twilight Prophet, and a Dusk Legion Zealot against my one Ascended Spire Winder. I threw my Spire Winder in front of his attacking Twilight Prophet and then Fiery Cannonaded away his board. Next turn he dropped a Vona, Butcher of Magan which was promptly met with Vraska's Contempt and Rampaging Ferocidon. He just conceded the match right there.
January 15, 2018 11:28 a.m.
I'm probably going to the midnight release at my LGS to get some Rivals product.
AgentGreen says... #1
I haven't got to a pre-release yet; the weather today has (literally) iced my plans to go. (2+ hours of freezing rain)
January 13, 2018 11:57 a.m.