I’ve got a feeling all of the new Gods will be more Commander cards than Standard ones. They may see some play, particularly the UB one if UB Zombies takes off but I don’t see them becoming staples.
This is fucking good. Like on par and MAYBE better than V.Clique. Why in the world did they make this a 3/1? Aven and Hushwing are 2/1. I get they are continuous and you now have to choose from the 3/1 or cycle but still this seems like a 100% surefire Legacy/Modern playable card.
Situational obviously but would be useful in certain matches for sure. Not totally certain about what in Modern. Solidarity is the better Modern hoser in this set.
Lol turn 3 fuck your expensive fetchland manabase and I’ll draw a card too, sounds decent.
Long time ago I ran 3 stifles maindeck. They were “situational”.
You’d be surprised how often triggers and activated abilities come up. They happen so often that you take them for granted. That is, until you have a chance to blow them up.
Hitting a fetchland is obviously great but much better if you’re on the play because if they hit 3 mana before you hit 3 mana odds are they probably won’t fetch with their 4th land drop or really care if you do counter it when they do. Most decks have pretty low curves.
Normally not a fan of “oppenent chooses” card effects, but this seems reasonably costed and both modes are solid in grindy control build.
Seems playable Ribu.
I threw this together,
Mono-White God Worship (Modern)
Spoiler
4 Path to Exile
4 Journey to Nowhere
4 Leyline of Sanctity
4 Worship
4 Auriok Champion
4 Knight of the White Orchid
4 Spectral Procession
4 Kitchen Finks
2 Oketra The True
2 Heliod, God of the Sun
4 Nykthos, Shrine To Nyx
20 Plains
The gist of it is that Champion, Finks and Gods are hard to remove letting you grind them down abusing Worship. Being Mono-White Nykthos gives you free ramp. Leylines help you compete against a lot of combos and handhate white giving you free devotion.
Opening hand you have 2 x Dark Ritual and 1 of these…
Opponent loses 9 life or discards 1 card/loses 6 life or discards 2 cards/loses 3 life or discards 3 cards. That’s a killer for your opponent in turn 1
Nah. It’s basically bolting your opponent three times, perhaps less if he has some really shitty cards in hand.
(The Mono-White God Worship idea looks interesting, FrostyAU, especially since I’ve basically seen every other mono-color of Nykthos deck used but for some reason no White.)
Torment of Hailfire has the potential to be quite a good card, but that wording could be better. At present, it would seem a lot of people are confused as to whether or not casting it for BB where X is 0 would result in giving you one trigger or none at all. To me, it seemed obvious that paying 0 for X gave you nothing, but now I’m not entirely sure; I’m still pretty sure though.
Regardless, I’m sure that there will be some ruling on this when the set is officially released, but, yeah, seems like they could perhaps worded it more clearly, especially since all of the other cards thus far released with the word “repeat” on it both have that instruction after the initial action and aren’t X cost cards.
Oh well. It’s not like anything’s foolproof given how foolish people can be. At least the artwork is also nice if nothing else; here’s a more wallpaper-size version of the artwork if anyone cares.
That monoblack card reminds me of cruel ultimatum, only you get to win the game. You could actually build an entire deck around this card imo.
But what do I know, I’m on a possible eternal hiatus from MTG.
The only commonly played Modern spell that kills Auriok Champion is Path. Finks die twice, Souls take 3 bolts to kill, God’s don’t die to much. The idea is basically that you get a Worship down and they can’t clear your boardstate. Nykthos is free Ramp with a Leyline and T2 Champion. That’s possibly a turn 3 Lock if they have no way to remove Champion or Worship which as a 4cmc White Enchantment isn’t actually commonly removable on Modern sideboards.
So, Torment of Hailfire is actually this, right?
Pay BB deals 3 damage.
Pay BB and 1 mana of any color would deal 6 damage, right???
Tourment of Hailfire will do nothing if X=0…
Torment of Hailfire should do nothing if x=0 but this is WoCT here with their split cards which defied all common sense for so damn long, it wouldn’t surprise me too much if it was ruled that it did it once with x as 0 simply because that’s how dumb and counter-intuative their ruleings can be.
Thank fuck for that.
I thought Wizards were past these stupid wording issues
