#29 - Modern Horizons 3 Cube Set Review: Part One

Part One of our cube review for Modern Horizons 3, in this episode we cover White and Blue.

00:04:48 - White
00:44:37 - Blue

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• 4:48 White
• 44:37 Blue

Transcript

00:00:02:19 - 00:00:23:09
Unknown
Hello, everyone, and welcome back to a powerful nothing where we talk. Q Another magical goodness. I'm your host Dan Burton on these letters to tweet MTG. And as always, I'm joined by my co-host, James Holmes. Going to do it. Are you prepped and ready for today? I am not as far as I need to be verified. So many magic cards in this very, very cubical.

00:00:23:11 - 00:00:39:13
Unknown
No, definitely. Well, today is our first installment of our Cube review for Modern Horizons. Three. I say the word installment because as you just mentioned, there's a lot of cards for us to get to. The way we're going to be doing this is and in this episode, we're going to be talking about the blue and the white cards.

00:00:39:15 - 00:00:57:04
Unknown
The next episode will be going over black and red. Then we'll look at green and multicolored. Then in episode four, we do colors and lands. And finally, we'll wrap things up with our fifth part, where we talk about the commander cards and give our thoughts on the set. Overall, we're doing it this way. One, because my computer can't handle two eight hour raw web files.

00:00:57:06 - 00:01:15:13
Unknown
And two, because neither can my voice. We'll be recording these as quickly as possible. And I need to get these out to everyone as soon as possible. But honestly, there's just so many cool cards in the set. We wanted to make sure that we did it justice. I think from a raw numbers point of view, this is double what a previous set that we've spoken about is.

00:01:15:13 - 00:01:32:09
Unknown
And the thing with these modern horizon systems in the past, they have just been so impactful to so many formats like especially in Cube, like I was looking at like around 7% of the vintage Cube is made up of cards from modern ryzens of one and two, which is ridiculous and probably more than like Alpha just in terms of like impact.

00:01:32:11 - 00:02:06:13
Unknown
James, what are your thoughts on modern horizon? So far I've been trying to solve multiple issues to discuss with the whole modern horizons thing. There's the impact on modern, which I think you could say in a lot of ways has been positive. I think the gameplay is maybe better even than it has been in the past, certainly more interactive, but also the format very much feels like Horizons block constructed and we're about to get to a rotation and that is not really what modern is meant to be.

00:02:06:15 - 00:02:35:03
Unknown
It is meant to be a place you can go and play all standard cards. And that that feels like it set me up in the case from Horizons was a thing outside of modern draft formats that tended to be really cool. Certainly the first month horizons one I think was great and it's some stuff that was awesome impacts on Cube four and we're really interested in Vale.

00:02:35:06 - 00:02:59:10
Unknown
Some real heavy hitters, certainly some power level outliers, but I think that's, you know, if you're building your cube to have the maximum power level, you've got to be okay with that. And if you're not, then you can just pick the cards you want. It doesn't mean that you have to put the ten most powerful cards we talk about in the set vs into your cube.

00:02:59:11 - 00:03:34:09
Unknown
You can you can pick and choose the cards that give you the game picks and who you want. And I think there are some really cool cards in this set. And specifically, one thing they seem to be doing is a lot of like interesting callbacks, which I think is quite cool, like Versailles, kind of fixed quote unquote, a low end as a fixed recurring nightmare because there's some cool lends based card to really interesting and like having a new variation on them, which isn't like strictly worse as well as I think very interesting.

00:03:34:11 - 00:03:54:21
Unknown
There's also three mock fanatics that duct taped together, which pretty much in a trenchcoat. Yes. No, exactly. I'm all for that. But that being said, worth mentioning that we are comparing in this review. We are comparing every card in the set to every card ever printed in the history of magic. We're also generally looking at the set from a more standard cube environment.

00:03:54:21 - 00:04:14:01
Unknown
So things like Pauper, peasant, unpowered powered and budget type gives not so much more initiative cubes. So we don't mention a card. That's not because it's bad. It's more we don't think it's going to see play in a wider range of cubes in the set as well. There are a lot of returning mechanics, specifically energy, I think is a great example of something that I did want to touch on at the moment.

00:04:14:01 - 00:04:35:23
Unknown
Even with this set. For example, energy isn't a fully established archetype in Cube. With the set review, what we're talking about the cards and how they work on their own. So if we talk about an energy card, we're talking about how it functions by itself, not so much in a full archetype supporting it. That's kind of how we'll be doing it with the majority of mechanics, because that's how they will actually see play in the largest variety of tubes.

00:04:35:24 - 00:04:51:06
Unknown
We already thinking of doing a episode on energy and those kind of mechanics later on, so make sure you follow the podcast so get notified when that comes out. James With all that out of the way, you want to take it away with our first card of the day? Sure. We have an absolute banger by out of the gate.

00:04:51:10 - 00:05:24:02
Unknown
First up we have a Johnny and the Castle player. This is one a white for a one to legendary feature cut warrior. When a Johnny in the Castle purveyor enters the battlefield, create a21 white cat warrior creature token. And whenever one or more of the cats you control die, you may exile a Johnny them return him to a battlefield transformed under his own as patrol, he returns transformed as a Johnny in the Castle Avenger.

00:05:24:03 - 00:05:52:23
Unknown
This is a plains walker and says we have three loyalty counters. Has plus two to put up, plus one plus one counter on each cat to control Tsavo to create a21 white category. A creature token. When you do a few control of that permanent of a van, a Johnny the Castle Avenger. It deals damage equal to the number of creatures you control to any target and minus four.

00:05:53:00 - 00:06:24:12
Unknown
Each opponent chooses an artifact, a creature, an encampment, and a plains walker from among the non land permanent spell control. Then sacrifices for best in terms of a ratio of wed similar cost. I feel like this must be an all time, but first words to add up to a hell of a lot of power in this case. So base level, you're paying two mana for a12 and a21.

00:06:24:14 - 00:06:46:00
Unknown
That's fine. That's not quite. But this the plains, what can we flip in two is very, very impactful here. And it's not hard to get the even if you don't have any of that permanence just zero to make a bunch of to make it to one every ten and then plus two to buff them all given how early you can get this flipped.

00:06:46:00 - 00:07:11:13
Unknown
That's a that's kind of been a way of some games. It's not hard to get four minus four, which is the solid cataclysm variant thing which is going to be situationally barely powerful. And this the flip condition is so easy. If you get your two one cat, you just you have to attack that chunk of it, whatever you need to do and you get your flames, well, you can get it so quickly.

00:07:11:13 - 00:07:39:19
Unknown
And there will be times when it is correct to just like bolt for Cat. And I'm as a proud cat dad. I'm like, yes, you need to kill that game. Sometimes you need skill. That was quite nice as well is if because going can be scared of your Johnny and they're not going to want to attack into a cat Nelson they'll point to and be able to spell it via Johnny a my nephew if you kill the cat in response then stealth results and you get your plain spoken.

00:07:39:21 - 00:07:58:11
Unknown
And I think the actual dream is you go like ten one Skull Clan tend to play this century. You plant the cats and gotten a Johnny and thought you can you can do it even before that does like with like a visceral sear or a carrion feed. There are plenty of single man like you have. And I want to draw my cards.

00:07:58:11 - 00:08:23:08
Unknown
Daniel. No, I know, I know, I know, But at a base level, this is one card for two bodies. But that two manner that makes me more so, like, look, look. It's like this does also fit in, like, an aristocratic style of shadow. And in those you could have an active plains walker on turn to you could clearly I think that is where it's at its best is in our scrapbooks that aristocrats will also fairly frequently be that so you get the damage off as ever, which a very big deal.

00:08:23:10 - 00:08:45:24
Unknown
It will generally be quite wide. So that damage will be quite a high number. Yeah, but and obviously you can proactively kill the cat and get slapped very quickly, which is probably the biggest thing. So if you have this in your that even if you're not a full on sacrifice stack, I think having one or two SAC outlets goes up in value, even even something like a stock outlet.

00:08:45:24 - 00:09:01:01
Unknown
But it's like known all his bow masters. You can paint your cats and it's very low costs. It's not like you're burning a hole card, just do it. But really, even if you don't do any work, I think this card is quite strong. Yeah. No, definitely. Yeah. I like I like both sides of the edge on the end.

00:09:01:03 - 00:09:18:19
Unknown
Know the thing I think might be worth mentioning is while I would not recommend like going like full cat type, all matters in your queue. Kind of like, like if you are running this, I personally can say that like if you're running something like an Adeline, like replace that with like the original brim as just so that there is like, like some cool energy that you can do with it.

00:09:18:19 - 00:09:33:24
Unknown
But yeah, it is because it flips whenever any cat dies, not just the one that you have made. So if you can replace a card you already have in your cube with a similar cat version, then maybe consider it just for some cool synergies for your cube. Yeah. Yeah. I from that like like you don't really need that much energy with this card.

00:09:33:24 - 00:09:56:13
Unknown
It just put it in with other creatures and spells and stuff and you will get a players will get pretty easily with this and Yeah. It'll be quite good. Yeah. For sure. Nice. Alright let's move on to our next what card. Next up we have charitable levy. It is a one that waits for enchantment. Non creature spells cost one generic multicast and whenever a player costs a non creature spell, put a collection counter on charitable levy, then if there are three or more collection counties on it, sacrifice it.

00:09:56:13 - 00:10:12:15
Unknown
If you do draw a card, then you make such a lively for a plain card, put it onto the battlefield, taps then shuffle. And also importantly, this is and this is an uncommon. So this does seem like a solid bit of value. So I don't think this is one for white aggro because it too, you kind of just want creatures.

00:10:12:21 - 00:10:29:22
Unknown
It's more of you're kind of supporting like a death and taxes style of thing and peasant. You want to slow your opponents down. The fact that you can't control when it sucks itself, it does it automatically. Once it's got the three counters on, it might actually be really annoying. Kind of like if this is stopping your opponent double spelling a number of turns in the game that that could be quite helpful.

00:10:29:23 - 00:10:57:09
Unknown
If you play this and you are able to slow down your opponent a couple of times and then you effectively get two cards of it, you get a card off of your library and you get a planes into play tapped. That's pretty good value for one card. You also don't get this effect often in peasants. So for those environments I think I would test this, but at a higher power level cube, I mean we have solid for a reason like it also attacks on blocks but like you don't get that as much at peasants.

00:10:57:09 - 00:11:27:14
Unknown
So it's kind of one of the reasons I thought this is worth talking about. Yeah, it's worth talk about for sure. But I think there is one thing of death and taxes does need for death. You do kind of need to be killing them a little bit even when like restricting them manner is good, but it's hard to tax their mana so much, but like you're not outpacing in the long term, you're not going to draw more taxation effects and they're going to draw landscape feel taxation effects.

00:11:27:14 - 00:11:59:05
Unknown
But I think that time the deck works well is when it's applying pressure at the same time and it can keep them off cat casting whatever they need to cast stabilize just long enough to get them dead. And that doesn't contribute towards them getting the swords, but getting them that side of it was, you know, something like folio, like linen, like water or whatever, disrupting that mana does you at baseball cards like that.

00:11:59:09 - 00:12:32:00
Unknown
The tutu body looks kind of mostly envelop quarter, but it is actually important. And yet I think most of these and I'm not quite seeing the home for this and yeah it is annoying but you know if you've to a match up where this is insane might play against dome or whatever and I have to play Solomon peasant they just need Casspi spells into it and then it goes away and that's kind of unfortunate point They've spent three extra mana you and then you get to I don't know like, like, Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:12:32:02 - 00:12:51:06
Unknown
I don't think it's fantastic. And yes I do agree. You do need to kill your opponents and I don't think this is a do nothing enchantment because at that minimum it all cycle that slowly but yeah yeah interesting one note thought it was worth mentioning. Yeah for sure. The next one is a part of a new cycle that I think could be quite impactful.

00:12:51:06 - 00:13:16:03
Unknown
John to take it away with our next white. James Yeah, for sure. Next up we have Slayer of Fortitude. This is two white, white. For an instant, however, you may sacrifice a non token white creature of other than pay. This spells mana costs. There's a whole cycle of these players and they all have that text Spencer do on that tax on tape with do feature etc. etc..

00:13:16:05 - 00:13:45:24
Unknown
This one is a non token white creature and it says until end of turn your life total can't change and permanent you control gain hex proof and indestructible and yeah this is this is very free spells a busted is the first thing and this is like very powerful protection and pretty I'm pretty flexible like listen this sort of card is always inherently situational.

00:13:46:05 - 00:14:08:17
Unknown
You can certainly play games of magic where don't know when. This isn't really totally good at any point in the game. Like you play against a combo deck, but it's just going over the top of you and telling you in some other way, even just reducing your life to zero like that, making you out, whatever. But yes, isn't really going to do anything in the majority of games.

00:14:08:17 - 00:14:33:22
Unknown
You will find a spot that this will be very good. You can counter a countering a sweeper with this is great. Countering of the movable spell with this can be good, but assuming you haven't left up your full manner, you're sacrificing a non token like creature. Non token means it's probably a fairly real creature. Like your best case is your sucking you know free and inspector.

00:14:33:22 - 00:14:54:15
Unknown
Awesome thing. Very cheap. It gave you value on the way in but you save a mid case is like you're sacrificing like an okay to drop. That means the creature you're saving has to be a has to be very good to have to be where you're okay to drop plus the card from your hand. But hopefully you do have good creatures in your attack.

00:14:54:15 - 00:15:30:05
Unknown
And protecting those can be strong. And then on top of that, you have this all kind of awesome fog mode. Like fog is not a card, but you should put in your decks. But that's because there are too many games where it's bad. But that doesn't mean there aren't a bunch of games where it's fantastic. Like, but you will just run into spots not that infrequently where you and your opponent both have a fairly big board may like kill one of your things, attack you if all that creatures you just cast this don't die and kill them crack back.

00:15:30:05 - 00:16:10:03
Unknown
That's not a particularly difficult situation to have happen. And these of all like these are all situational things that I'm describing. But I think it is because enough and covers enough of those cases that it is probably a card you should main. That would be my guess. A couple of things to just be aware of. They can kill your planes walkers with damage because if they attack your cranes, walkers, your planes, walkers have indestructible, but that doesn't stop them dying for not having any counters.

00:16:10:09 - 00:16:33:20
Unknown
Right. Okay. And counters can still be used by damage. That's kind of unfortunate. Just a thing you have to bear in mind. See if you have blockers up your block as often. This, folks. Thoughts about that? Okay. There's also stuff like one of the most commonly played sweepers in cube is toxic dilution. It's kind of annoying, but it doesn't work against fat C minus X minus X will beat indestructible.

00:16:33:22 - 00:17:02:13
Unknown
But we've as caveat c, I, I think the card is pretty good. At worst. It is an excellent, excellent side board card. I think my guess is you're meant to mean that that's most of the time. So this was with four caveats that you need to have a decent amount of cheap creatures in your deck. You can't be reliably leaving up for manifests and you certainly don't want to be sacrificing your hero blade hole to counter the test confirmed it'll spell That's not Fox bulk change match.

00:17:02:13 - 00:17:21:13
Unknown
You have a low curve of cheap features. Hopefully some of your forbidden specter type stuff that gave you value on the way. And I think this is going to be good. No fair for being honest. So I agree with everything you said about if this card is in your deck, it'll be good and how you play it in such.

00:17:21:14 - 00:17:48:02
Unknown
My issue is more specifically with this for Cube. I actually think this is the worst of the flare cycle bitterly for Cube, just because I don't think this is an effect that cubes necessarily wants. Like we've had like two various protection available to us for a number of years now and I've never heard anyone run it. The closest that I think we've run is like unbreakable formation that's two in a weight for an instant.

00:17:48:04 - 00:18:05:07
Unknown
Again, as quick as you can throw in straight to within a turn. But if you play it on your main phase, they also get plus one plus one and gain vigilance. So that's kind of does double duty. That's the protection spell. But it also can win you the game in the morning. I liked it. I can very much imagine that this like like there's a lot of times when this will be super impactful.

00:18:05:07 - 00:18:22:12
Unknown
But I, I just don't think I want to put this in a cube. I don't know if that's wrong, but I like I'm very open to being wrong with it, but kind of like as a slot in a cube, as a card type that I want to run in a queue that I want people to like. I like, like the when is it?

00:18:22:14 - 00:18:57:02
Unknown
It is if it gets in the deck, it'll be very good and I'm sure people will test it, and probably quite rightly so. But my over under on this card is that it will be it's not the type of card that you necessarily want, if that makes sense. So where you're coming from the best. But I also think it is kind of a fundamental leap, a different thing from two fairies protection and I'm thankful formation of a like and the reason is but this effects is there will often be a turn in the game where this fact will be really good, but you don't know in advance when that turn is going to be.

00:18:57:05 - 00:19:19:12
Unknown
And you probably haven't passed with feel free man of up field fairies protection. Right? You can't just keep doing that every turn. Yes. Being free is like if this is in your opening hands and you have a bunch of cheap creatures and they have a supreme verdict in voting on the bases, trading for that supreme bird, it's basically buy.

00:19:19:14 - 00:19:39:12
Unknown
But yeah, it's effectively kind of a counter spell for a board wipe or something. Yeah, but you don't have to like leave anything up on the right, turn right, you know, just not. That's true. Yeah. Like free spells like that's the thing, the, the last onerous and that really kind of hammered home. The free spells are kind of broken and the like the whole flare cycle is instant.

00:19:39:12 - 00:20:01:09
Unknown
Yeah. Yeah. I'm very open to being wrong on that. And I know, I know people will run it. And yet, to be fair, like it's a voluntary license type, maybe I, maybe I should just test it, but I'm not like supine. I'm not, I don't think it's like an auto include first. Keep that a thing. But I think like if it's in your cube and you're playing a low curve like creature that I'd, I'd probably put out my dog.

00:20:01:11 - 00:20:23:19
Unknown
I think I might be jumping ahead tearing these, but I think this might be my ever least favorite or second least favorite of the flat cycle. Okay. But we'll get to the more. Don't you worry. All right. Next up, we have Glimpse Elemental. It is one to wait for each item and creature elemental. It is a tutu, but it also has bestow for one white.

00:20:23:19 - 00:20:43:07
Unknown
So as a reminder, you can cast this card which bestow tossed. It becomes an aura spell with enchant creature. It becomes a creature again if it ever is not attached. So it's like which is attached to dies. At any point I'll just fall off and become a creature. Glyph Elemental also has landfall potatoes, a performance encounter onto the creature, and then when it's enchanted, it gives me tiny creature.

00:20:43:07 - 00:21:04:05
Unknown
Plus one was under each counter on the mantle. So landfall to put on a creature is pretty solid like especially in peasant. Obviously it's better in goose with fetch lands, which is unfortunate as you don't get as many in as a cube. But I've had a plenty. People break rarity or land in peasant cubes. If you're doing that that can definitely be a thing about to be happy with this.

00:21:04:05 - 00:21:20:19
Unknown
I think you want to put it on a creature with evasion already. Like if you put this on a Helios hawk, then you're kind of gaming. I think I feel like a pretty solid godlike as it gets better in cubes where you're doing enchantments and also plus one plus one counters. Those are things that you do see in peasant cubes.

00:21:20:20 - 00:21:41:19
Unknown
I've played in peasant cubes where there's kind of like a Landy style aggro deck. There's like boggles that kind of stuff, like this kind of it's a and also kind of like enchantress style stuff and blue y kind of like it. It just feels like it does enough. It gives you an, a flexibility that like this, I think people will definitely be testing this in peasant.

00:21:41:21 - 00:22:07:10
Unknown
Yeah. Now I can see. Yeah. Sticking this on the face of creature seems pretty good, especially as though and now more quote unquote fat chance available in person with like a they called hideout from the streets of New Japan to the ones where it's like this. And then you go and get one of the three types like opens out and whatnot.

00:22:07:12 - 00:22:31:03
Unknown
And it's actually another ten in this actually as well. So then obviously those let you double up on the landfall triggers. It's pretty nice as if that evolving well as now as well actually which I haven't got around to buying or putting one in my cube yet but that's just like yeah. And the other thing to mention just for people who haven't played to bestow much before, bestow is, is quite generous with the way it works.

00:22:31:03 - 00:22:52:08
Unknown
Fools for price. Yeah, it works exactly as you want it to. Yeah you don't get got the cap blown out really with so like by which I mean if you try and bestow some to your healers hock and they kill the healers hock in the thumb, this will just send to the battlefield as a creature. And it'll be a slightly worse than if it was on the Healers hog.

00:22:52:08 - 00:23:13:14
Unknown
But you're okay with that? Yeah. It's so powerful. No, definitely. And I, with this creature is just different. Just coming back to the fact that it will keep the counters kind of on. On the creature they're on, The enchantment is also quite nice. So if they do killed, if they do kill the creature, you'll still have all your hard work will still live up and get with it.

00:23:13:16 - 00:23:39:14
Unknown
Yeah. I quite like this card. Yeah, the show. All right, Energy is back, James. I'll take it away with our first energy card of the day show is next up, we have Guide of souls. This is a single white manor for a12 creature human cleric. It has whenever another creature enters the battlefield under your control, you gain one life and get an energy.

00:23:39:16 - 00:24:07:00
Unknown
And whenever you attack, you may pay three energy. If you do put two plus one plus one counters and a flying counter on target attacking creature, it becomes an angel in addition to its other types. And so this awesome upside for sure. And so let's say we're doing like base case you have like no real synergies of the you're playing lots of creatures.

00:24:07:02 - 00:24:28:23
Unknown
If you play this on turn one, it seems like it does quite a lot for you. Like because you're probably going to get if I don't kill at least one activation out of the you know, you're making some tokens, you're doing some good stuff, getting lots of triggers, happy with that. But it is very sort of feast or famine, right?

00:24:28:24 - 00:24:49:05
Unknown
Like if you basically don't have it all turn one, it feels like you might not find a good time to play it for a couple of friends. And then it's going to be doing very, very little for you. So don't love that. But it does. The Soul Sisters thing it gains or does it on a free transfers. That's good.

00:24:49:05 - 00:25:08:19
Unknown
We like that. There are cubes that want that effect and this does a bunch of extra stuff for you as well as it is a soul system that also helps you kill them. And that's pretty strong and that's ignoring the what if you're actually supporting energy in your cube? If you're actually supporting energy in your cube, there seems great.

00:25:08:19 - 00:25:30:09
Unknown
Like it's a it's a pretty good way to spend your energy and a fairly good way to make energy field stuff. Yeah, I'd say you like it. You need a reason to put it in your cube, but it doesn't provide is synergize is with a few different things pretty well like I think you can just be like I'm supporting life gain and I want this.

00:25:30:11 - 00:25:51:15
Unknown
You have to be about energy. No, definitely. Kind of like, like for me, this is definitely one of the cards like that that could say, like, get a divinity counter or a feather counter. And just the fact that this is like the best soul sister that they've ever printed means that it could just still see play like like, yeah, I think you hit the nail on the head, by the way, which just like it is a soul sister.

00:25:51:15 - 00:26:05:08
Unknown
But kind of the biggest issue with Celsius is, is that the single mana one ones that gain you some life and you need a whole you need to draft a whole other deck with them to make them work. Whereas like with this is like it has the issue of this whole set of like if you draw it like it's going to do anything.

00:26:05:08 - 00:26:22:07
Unknown
But like, I guess if you just draw this and nothing else and are going to synergize is with the end of the life game stuff, this kind of still making all these like push your game plan forward like, like, like this becoming a34. Okay, that's not like the best thing in the world, but it's better than just it being like a11 for the whole game.

00:26:22:07 - 00:26:40:13
Unknown
Like I Yeah. Personally I think this is like, this does make you kind of like, like some kind of life gains energies, which are like, like there's been so many sets where kind of like a black like this set is like game. I've never really tried to include, partly because the pieces you need to run for aren't fantastic, and those are like Soul sisters and this God.

00:26:40:15 - 00:27:04:06
Unknown
Yeah, I could see myself like at some point trying white black life guy and going to this would be a corner approach to it because yeah, it's the best that they've ever printed I think. I mean there is some upside in the original souls that like soul warden counts black creatures as best doesn't. So it's not like strictly backed up by the I think it is better because it's it gives you something else productive to do with that.

00:27:04:06 - 00:27:23:05
Unknown
If you don't have like stuff triggering, I'll feel life gain or whatever. I would say. For me, the biggest issue with Soul Sisters as for I only remember like 50% of the triggers on paper, but you know, that's a me problem. This one for Arena James. Don't worry about it. Yeah, for sure. All right, let's move on now.

00:27:23:10 - 00:27:40:08
Unknown
Next up, we have Ocelot Pride. This is a single white free one, one creature cat with first strike life link and ascend, which, if you remember, that, was that if you control ten or more permanents, you get the city's blessing for the rest of the game. Once you have it, you have just ascended. Don't worry about it at the beginning of your one step.

00:27:40:08 - 00:27:59:14
Unknown
If you gained life this turn create a11 white cat creature token. Then if you have the city's blessing for each token, you control that end of the battle. This time create a token that's a copy of it. So I guess this is another card for the new Ajani. I do like this card and I see a lot of upside for it, but there it does have issues.

00:27:59:16 - 00:28:24:01
Unknown
Firstly being this is a mythic and probably be really expensive. That's probably one of the main issues I need to see. The preorder price of this is $45. James I think it was spoiled like 3 hours ago at time of recording, but here we are and so hopefully that price will come down a bit. So I can say I like this card, but the issue is I'm comparing it to a card like Legion Landing, which I immediately think is better, but let's ignore that for the time being.

00:28:24:03 - 00:28:44:21
Unknown
So this like most metrics on this set, if it needs to be on, otherwise it will start snowballing at this. There's a chance this could be a little snow. Like math wise, you're just playing a creature journal, a land every time. You're not going to be doubling tokens until like turn four or five, because this does have to attack as well to treat the life things, that kind of stuff to gain you life, unless you have some kind of life, can trigger this.

00:28:44:21 - 00:29:07:22
Unknown
Are the rebel master or are the tokens makers get is where it gets a little bit scarier. You will be making so many bodies and bodies at that point that you could just get it, get the cities blessing the turn you play if you join late game, that's pretty good. So I think it to be good. You need to be supporting tokens in Boris and you also probably need other ways of gaining life or for this to reliably not die in combat.

00:29:07:22 - 00:29:32:19
Unknown
And it is just a11. So yeah, the fact that that this would be really expensive and Legion's landing and Usher and Usher the fallen might just be better magic cards might be the biggest issue with this but I like this card. It's cool. Again, nothing to do with being proud. Cat Father. What? What do you think? I want to let this go, James, But I might just be a little slow or.

00:29:32:19 - 00:30:14:09
Unknown
Or am I missing something with this? I think this is pretty powerful, actually. Good, good, good, good. You compatriots. Legion's landing. I think this is way better than lesions landing. I kind of think that cod sucks, actually, but I think this is a lot of completions landing because Legion's landing even when you get it flipped McFly is you to put into it get bodies and this just says and does it thing I do really want some life gain enablers of some salt like you're not reliably I think like you play this on the play on third one you probably like getting warm and fine but most of the time you're not reliably just going to

00:30:14:09 - 00:30:39:00
Unknown
be able to knock and feel like I'm on my finger. But it's not hard to have a little bit of life getting scattered around your back. And it's people just make tokens, you know, there's enough cards in magic that create tokens for you. I think for one mana, you're going to get your money's worth out of this card.

00:30:39:02 - 00:31:02:03
Unknown
I'm not necessarily putting it in like, you know, my cube says, like, not really any synergy for it, but if I was doing any sort of life gain stuff or it's very pushing tokens, I think this would be like a slam dunk. You know, I definitely there's things like, yeah, I guess argument is just one manner. It is very efficient.

00:31:02:03 - 00:31:23:12
Unknown
It's a lot of text for a one man card. Exactly. Exactly. You cannot it's also pretty good I if you can just Buffet's power I'll give it evasion in some way like it plays well the equipment also once you get it going and some skill something the tokens yeah my sense in any way it does have plenty of other creatures that like with life things I guess.

00:31:23:12 - 00:31:48:19
Unknown
So that might be another little way of. Yeah. Getting the counters on it or, or triggering that that of triggering that, that life game. So that's pretty good. Also incidentally ten one kind of souls tend vessels is going to be pretty nice which ones guided souls kind of souls we talked about it to literally the last car I got that cold yet I know the finishes James.

00:31:48:21 - 00:32:25:09
Unknown
Nice stuff. All right. Next up, we have Kelly exuberant Shepherd. This is one a white for a tutu legendary creature talk definite good boy. Yeah. This is not that far off. yeah. yeah. Not close. S slash. It's a surprising path, And whenever failure exuberant Shepard attacks exile up to one pocket non land pediment at the beginning of the next and step But turn that cards to a battlefield under its owner's control.

00:32:25:11 - 00:32:52:15
Unknown
If it entered your control under your control, put plus one phone counter on FLIR. this sounds pretty cool. I think that effect has quite a lot of different utility in different situations, I think. And it's a two to flash, so it's like, you know, you don't necessarily know it's coming. It's like the possible steps and yes, effects.

00:32:52:15 - 00:33:16:24
Unknown
I obviously thought the best case for thing you're planning to do if at probably most of the time is you blink out one of your permanent and V-TRIGGER and ETP. You'll get some value that way. But it's very nice as well. If and that is your FLIR so makes it easier for FLIR. It's about keep attacking, but it's quite nice as well.

00:33:16:24 - 00:33:44:11
Unknown
But if I say you have like three small creatures and they have one big creature blinking all you attacks, you can just flick of that out to keep putting, pushing damage fast, really nice. It also just kills their tokens that if they have somehow gained control of one of your permanent custard factory and your creature, you just flick of us out that through and it will return under your control in the next ten step.

00:33:44:13 - 00:34:06:21
Unknown
That's right. You can even do stuff like resetting planes, walkers that certainly have some utility that looks very nicely for one thing, and five, five, six you can activate your one thing and so it comes back in. You uncapped, you got enough of activation right away. That's kind of cool. I know, I know it's a good car, but I hate the Wandering Empire proponent.

00:34:06:21 - 00:34:38:07
Unknown
Seem to always have eight of the bloody wandering Emperor or the four manor exile or your creatures. It's like, Just let me show you. Yeah. We didn't want people attacking tomorrow. Yeah. For me, I think that adds up to being a pretty powerful card. The challenge here is you have to have ways to get stuff out of a way to get your toxin because you don't really want to be like every ten, just like a block of waves.

00:34:38:09 - 00:34:56:04
Unknown
And it is only a two to that's no sort of evasion. And on a built out board, it will they'll struggle to be able to get an attack in. But I think it is good to have some of the movable to go with it to clear blockers of way. But I think if this lives and get some attacks in, it's going to do some work.

00:34:56:06 - 00:35:16:23
Unknown
You know definitely just that's the but it's it's it's too minor it's really cheap. It seems really flexible and just happens with you. I'd be perfectly happy just flickering a three but in specter every time like yeah but like that's just great and like that's like the like the first cheapest creature I could come up with. But there's so many other good ETB effects in magic that you can just reiterate with this.

00:35:17:03 - 00:35:40:08
Unknown
And it also, because this is a modern horizon card, it keeps getting the counters. It's not like it'll only have to get one counter and stay that way. This can this could in theory, growing throughout the game like white Tomahawk James and that's probably be one in the set somewhere but but yeah yeah yeah failure Very good little doggie we love it right next up we have White orchid Phantom.

00:35:40:08 - 00:36:02:01
Unknown
It is white and a white free tutu creature spirit night it has flying first strike when enter the battlefield destroy up to one target non basic land is controller may search their library for a basic LAN card put it on to battle tap then shuffle So my devices are just getting more and more greedy and I've seen plenty of decks where splash colors aren't on basic lands.

00:36:02:01 - 00:36:23:20
Unknown
They're on like a couple of try homes that kind of thing. And on top of that we have the very broken order lands and a lot of that, a lot of tubes are running like utilitarian academies or cradles, etc.. But I think this could have a place that might look like like most cubes in terms of the land destruction, really only one things like drip mine and wasteland like that that aren't really too many ones that are consistently run on top of that.

00:36:23:23 - 00:36:46:00
Unknown
Like the fact that you get that flexibility on top of quite a good body like to do, right. Flying is just very solid and like get the double white is a slightly harder to cast, but I'm kind of fine with the aggro jack having to work a little bit for its mana base. And I really like this card like I, I, I'm not going to say staple because that's kind of hard to say with any card nowadays.

00:36:46:00 - 00:37:05:11
Unknown
There's always a new shiny toy, but I think this is actually pretty solid. Like, like, like, I think if you have this in your cube, mono white will love it and it will just be a good, annoying creature that can win you the game, basically. Like, like is this kind of the death and taxes, so-called you were talking about when I was trying to make you play a do nothing a gentleman James earlier.

00:37:05:13 - 00:37:29:23
Unknown
Yes. Yes, exactly. I see two power flanks strike like it? Yeah. No, for sure. I agree with all that. I think there's going to be a decent amount of match ups was like you just love that's five on ten water and I can be like I can't get all of my colors, like my everything. And I think it does enough coming along that very acceptable body.

00:37:30:00 - 00:37:53:11
Unknown
Also worth noting that in if the situation requires it, you can target your own land. So like, say you have like a plains and a producing non basic and you need to go and get you have a color, you can just blow up that not basic and can get you color about fine. That's also potential for some synergy fires effect.

00:37:53:11 - 00:38:19:12
Unknown
Specifically if you're running the cycle of indestructible artifact you land. If you blow up, if you target your indestructible land with this, the land won't die, but you will still get your event. Grace Which is kind of cute. Yeah, that's pretty hot steak. I like that. Yeah. Okay. Nice. Yeah. It doesn't say if a land is destroyed this way, you just target the land, the trigger results, right?

00:38:19:12 - 00:38:38:10
Unknown
It just doesn't actually kill the land. So, yeah, that's kind of got a similar deal with, like, feeling like, fuck sense of choke, but that's kind of a niche. Got to keep, I guess. Now, that's cool. Yeah. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. White Orchid Phantom seems like it just a sometimes cause don't have to be super fancy.

00:38:38:10 - 00:38:55:12
Unknown
Sometimes they can just be good and efficient. And that is one of the things that Golden Horizon's that we say. So awesome. Yes, for sure. More of those cards, please. We don't all need five paragraphs of text. All right, James, Want to take it away with our first mobile double place card of the day? I did go for Vantage.

00:38:55:14 - 00:39:23:24
Unknown
I saw James just get a go from. That's what he's involved. Let's move quickly. Next up, we have a witch and cancer, which in cancer is a full manner for a two creature human warlock cat uncommon. And when which encounter enters the battlefield, destroy target artifacts or enchantments and append controls. Why are we talking about this? For minor cod?

00:39:23:24 - 00:39:47:24
Unknown
For acute, you'll say because it's also a lamp. This is a MDF C you can play it on the back side as Witch Blessed Meadow, which is a land for tap to white manner. And as it enters the battlefield, you may pay free life. If you don't, it enters for battlefield taps and this is really solid MDF. These are great.

00:39:47:24 - 00:40:31:10
Unknown
They just let you they let you increase your land, count to your land, drops more consistently without getting flooded too much because this is no and to spell you would play in the attack. But it is a battle that will do stuff in most cubes of the first fact. So enchantments in your cubes I'm probably don't remember but a lot of cubes that this will be and relatively impactful thing you can do if feel of your land and your land in the late game having a couple of and the season you like it kind of works similarly to never ending if I have one less land but I have to confess that cannot find me

00:40:31:10 - 00:40:53:08
Unknown
lands all spells when I too often buy it just moves out for a little bit. You get flooded less, you get screwed less. Now. Definitely. And just the fact that kind of all of the monarch colored ones are uncommon in this set have the ability to come into play. Untapped is really big. Like when we first saw them in either one of the Zenda class sets or Cal time.

00:40:53:08 - 00:41:22:01
Unknown
I don't remember which one came first, but they all the uncommon ones, all, all came into play tapped, obviously, obviously with this modern horizons, let's push things a bit. But like the fact, yeah, it's just it's just so free to run. I kind of like this, like high powered level cubes want this kind of effect in them and like I know for mana is a lot, but the fact that it is effectively free to run in your deck because it's a land that can come and play on like I know free manner is a lot, but free life is quite like Yeah it's not, it's Yeah.

00:41:22:05 - 00:41:46:23
Unknown
Like I think it is. Yeah. I don't see cutting this for many white backs. I will say I think if you play against very aggressive bad aggro you should probably fight Wescott out and just fire flames unless you're just okay of it being a tap land because you don't have a ton of one man place, but you're not going to want to bear matchups where you don't want to bolt yourself.

00:41:46:23 - 00:42:11:08
Unknown
Right? And that is just something to be aware of. But yeah, that's good. I guess if you haven't seen a good target for it because like I just limited Cube still run. What's the double strike sword for example from that place I'm guessing. No. Emily I show but you know, I would like to reject running like on a fable or so if you're involved in something like this.

00:42:11:09 - 00:42:29:17
Unknown
True. But like. But like it's it's a rec sides is also a land in white like I think it's Yeah very solid card Yeah for sure right you have a common next next up we have wing it it has one the white for an instant target which gets to post two until end of turn and put a flying counter on it Sky one.

00:42:29:19 - 00:42:48:10
Unknown
So normally we don't we talk about just combat tricks and in Q because we have access to all the spells unless they're kind of super busted and can when you the game something like the big 12 one we don't talk about it but kind of like the permanent flying buff on this is really good actually. Like I am aiming like pauper and maybe Peasant at best.

00:42:48:14 - 00:43:09:12
Unknown
It's like, like there's no going into high power level kids and let's just just be doing something that's super cares about combat tours. It's kind of like the feather, the redeemed, that kind of stuff. But like, and just the fact that this if this can win you a combat or even better surprise blocker flying creature and then it's to set you up for the rest the game to make your best creature have flying the rest of game.

00:43:09:12 - 00:43:26:01
Unknown
And that's kind of how you win like like with most combat tricks, as I mentioned, it doesn't need to be in a cube where character metrics are good and that is tends to be either lower power level ones or one built more about combat. But as common combat tricks go, I think this is pretty good, actually. Yeah, that's in peace.

00:43:26:01 - 00:43:49:14
Unknown
Mighty Leap. You that's in beefy and power craft. Yeah. Though this is a two minute combat tricks. Go this is a good one. Also has the mode vi as you will customize so to speak, more than you will with most combat text because it has four motors. I have a55 on the ground. You have seven life and no fliers.

00:43:49:16 - 00:44:28:01
Unknown
You are not at that. And that's nice flexibility stuff. Yeah, it's it does what it does very well and if you want a like the thing is there is a big difference between one and two mana with combat tricks because the the one manner ones are very good at like the time combat fixed field. Great. Right. Is when you are like you know you play a free drop on sentry ten for you attack feel free top pay one minus when the combat play out of a free top and it's just hard or something like very very good multiple tons But the flying being permanent I think does kind of make up for that like that

00:44:28:03 - 00:45:08:02
Unknown
feels like you've properly upgraded your FETs CNN, I think the solid. right. Well, that will do it for white. Moving on to our first blue card of the day joke, it is actually blue. We have ember calls. Messenger is one that blue believe to one flying, but as has the void. So this card has no color. It also has whenever you draw your second card each ten create a01 fuzzy spawn creature token with sacrifice this creature to add a colorless manner.

00:45:08:04 - 00:45:34:14
Unknown
This is solid probably one 4% or just low power level cubes in general, but there's not a lot wrong with that. It said cheap evasive creature. And you don't have to try very hard simply to trigger this effects. You're going to just match the cards and they gives you even trump blockers of the ability to vamp and both of those things.

00:45:34:14 - 00:46:02:01
Unknown
It tends to be interesting. Then and it's nice combination. Mike coming up the ground and getting him for damage and Vav is a a tried and tested strategy. The only reason I say probably not one's higher power level. There's nothing wrong with the card, but just a bunch of options and no, is it better than Malcolm? Probably not set out of an that Nathan Steiner Invitational card, whatever that's called.

00:46:02:01 - 00:46:24:15
Unknown
Probably not. But yeah that's a wrong. This card very solid. It does a lot of things. Interesting. Yeah definitely. Yeah yeah, yeah. At Rare, we're at the point where we already have slightly too many to run in like large cubes and like, yeah, this is the only one for that that I think, but just they're printing more and more cards that, that reward you for drawing the second card each down.

00:46:24:17 - 00:46:44:04
Unknown
So it's Well what it's not like the thing that blue is doing. It's very easy to say well get on Twitter, you just have a number of cards that let you do that or reward you when you do that. And the fact that this effectively makes it an odd treasure token, it can help you cast the spells that you're drawing.

00:46:44:04 - 00:47:14:06
Unknown
So, yeah, yeah, very solid. Very cool. Try it out in your pleasant cubes. All right. I think we might be higher on the next one. Next up, we have flare of denial. This is one blue. Blue. For an instant, you may sacrifice a non token blue creature rather than pay this cosmetic cost counter target spell. So we have another free blue counter spell here, which at a baseline is also just a three minute hard counter and that is just barely good.

00:47:14:08 - 00:47:32:19
Unknown
I know a lot of blue decks aren't traditionally playing to the board as much, which means this could be one for more of like a tempo style deck than just your regular. Like hard controlled deck. Only really playing planes, walkers and like the only creature to run this like that is a land that becomes a creature or like a a best.

00:47:32:19 - 00:47:59:14
Unknown
The seagull, that kind of thing. Which probably means that this is closer to days than something like Force of Will. But I think that's fine we don't really run cancels empowered cube but a cancel that can be free is just really really good. Yeah there will be times where you paid where you pay three money for this and you will be countering more than 3 minutes worth of banner and you will just be fine doing that.

00:47:59:16 - 00:48:25:04
Unknown
But obviously it has the upside of just being able to free you pass with no manner come targets. So it's another one along the lines of days. Force of will force a negation that we have to now consider and you and players have to play around. Just having more of them makes them all the more scarier. So yeah, slam dunk in any that can run or afford it, I'm assuming.

00:48:25:06 - 00:48:53:04
Unknown
Yeah, I mean, it's certainly very powerful. I think of all the flares this has the effects, but blue is the worst color for the text. You may sacrifice a non token creature and it's not a cost right. The saving grace, as you say, is, but it it's pretty achievable to just customers. Like it's not like you wouldn't put it in your deck if you could then you cast it.

00:48:53:04 - 00:49:18:20
Unknown
But yeah you will do that I would say can imagine in a lot a lot of decks being close to like 5050 maybe even you have customer and that's maybe still okay. But yeah it is You won't put it in all of your blue decks. You need to have non token creatures, but you're okay to sacrifice and effect for all.

00:49:18:22 - 00:49:45:21
Unknown
This is a powerful effect, but it's you don't have to feel really bad if you sacrifice a quote unquote proper creature bite like, you know, we've been happily to flooding ourselves with false of well for many years it is okay. The downside, of course, is you're not just to wanting yourself in terms of cod advantage. You're also putting yourself behind the but we could see sacrificing a creature.

00:49:45:23 - 00:50:29:07
Unknown
But you know, especially high, high power level cubes like the spells you want to count. So if are so swingy like you know if you you tap out for that for your case mind sculptor and then counter for three five mins can do say just taking some kinetic high level for my plays that that when you've game and you'll be okay that you sacrifice your like Malcolm or whatever that you paid uncertainty but yeah I think it's I think it's good I don't think it's great just because I think fair enough you tax that don't want it and all where it will be kind of mediocre because there's just a lot of times you're not

00:50:29:07 - 00:50:56:14
Unknown
going to meet this. So if you have faffing of having a non token blue creature, if I'm looking at my cube and blue as the lowest creature count by a significant margin, it's like five less than black and half of what green is. Yeah, Yeah. That kind of sums about that issue I guess. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. 23 feet, simply 41 ingredients.

00:50:56:16 - 00:51:13:20
Unknown
And it's a big difference. But yeah, I think Yeah. We can't spell the bus that we Novus if you, if you do have a decent number of people, the creatures take first place, it would be great worth mentioning because I did too. I was googling this and while James was talking you can't do this with snap custom age.

00:51:13:20 - 00:51:39:04
Unknown
Unfortunately, it doesn't work. Yes. I mean, it is true that you can't place that custom Asian plushies back sacrificing custom age. That would have been cool, but too broken for modern. Yeah. And legacy and maybe even vintage at the same time. Snap customer is still a great creature to have in your back with witness because it is a cheap that gave you value already.

00:51:39:06 - 00:52:02:03
Unknown
Let's get. This is phenomenal. If you have a snap gas image lying around in play. Yeah, I guess it's kind of like a ATB effects of the best with this, but Lou doesn't have as many. Like belsey once you got your body out that if I'm not going I'm looking down my cube and it is spells. I think it's about custom made for ATB effects.

00:52:02:08 - 00:52:28:22
Unknown
That is Oracle Thieving skydiver Yeah, I get. Yeah, kind of a thing. But yes. You know, I'll say just worth noting with playing this with of cards in this set, you can't sacrifice devoid creatures to this. Yes. A fact. Yes, very true. Yes, that'll definitely happen about prerelease. I'm assuming. yeah. Right. Talking of devoid we have another ugly.

00:52:29:01 - 00:53:01:12
Unknown
Glad to talk about James won't take it away with our next elder Aussie. Yeah next up we have hope and colossal. This is two in a blue for a tutu creature Eldorado snake. It has a devoid flash and flying so a good spread of keywords. And when you cast a spell and no one enters vast buildings when you cast this spell, Kansas target spell and opponent controls and lest they pay one eye, I think you can do part of this.

00:53:01:13 - 00:53:26:21
Unknown
I don't know. I get four threats that get value a boy and the kit. But at times this works. It will be phenomenal. But the thing is it's a decent chunk of mana to live up and there's just a good amount of turns. They're not going to play into this. And it's a pretty unimpressive body if you play it without countering anything.

00:53:26:23 - 00:53:49:24
Unknown
Like I'm all saying, it's like unplayable in like low power level kids. But I don't see I don't see it in, like, super streamlined, powerful cubes. No, I think that's I don't know. This is another one very much for peasant, I think because like at peasant rate wise I'm looking, I have a peasant keep up now and the rate is three manor for a22 flier.

00:53:50:01 - 00:54:10:08
Unknown
I mean that's true. I guess you just see it as an upside. Right. And yeah. Because it is weird but it is also true for the actual counter. Not a peasant cube is phenomenal. Like over something. Chemicals. Pretty much. Everything okay? Yeah. Yeah. But yes, I guess is a fact. It is. Is a lot more legit than No, definitely.

00:54:10:10 - 00:54:38:23
Unknown
Yeah. Yeah. As a card. Yeah. Yeah. I don't do this for hyperbole because b I, I think in peasant I think this is actually pretty solid. I'm, I'm just going through I kind of rattle off some that kind of I've seen so like cross trickster that tap stuff down but is a it's a three minute to do flier we have like if he's been traveling back he but we can do better than fuss trickster just to get out of No no peasant James I like the peasant I think this is common say from now.

00:54:39:00 - 00:55:02:17
Unknown
Yeah. This is a monroe I like. Like. Like this is a like essentially this is like a like cloud Kid says like two feet on a chalkboard. Fire cloud can see as blue. It's like a five out of £2 five. It tells you that. No that's, Yeah, yeah. But this has, this has flesh and and actually toughness gender devoid James for not being able to pitch it to your force of will.

00:55:02:17 - 00:55:21:11
Unknown
I don't know it's guess selfie now and I think it's I think it is fine and pleasant keep Yeah no All right let's move on to another common now next up we have sink into stupor. This is one blue blue for an instant to return target spell or nonpermanent and opponent controls to its own its hand. But wait, there's more.

00:55:21:11 - 00:55:37:01
Unknown
It's a modal double face guard. It can also be played as a land. It can be played as sulfur springs. It ends the midfielder as ends of the battlefield. You may pay three life if you don't it enter the battlefield tapped and it taps for a blue, I think in cube and in a deck that wants to run.

00:55:37:01 - 00:55:56:18
Unknown
This is really solid. I think I feel this is a very good tempo play. It's a very good tempo because I don't think this is a control card. I think because it's not a hard counter spell, it's putting it back into the had. You're delaying them. The town is going to be at knife edge that you kind of you find yourself in tempo that kind of that kind of thing.

00:55:56:20 - 00:56:22:07
Unknown
But in those decks the fact that it can also be a landscape only comes into play untapped, I think is actually pretty good. So that will mean you will need to be sporting blue tempo in some way in your cube. Like I know ninjas was a thing for a while. Any kind of deck that like Loves Raymond and like attacking with some creatures like, like with the Malcolm's that I mentioned I think is pretty good and worth mentioning with these and the phases that they do go up in value a little bit.

00:56:22:09 - 00:56:38:02
Unknown
If you are running something like Field of the Dead in your Cube because you just need to land with different names and these this is a land with a different name when it comes to it. The other fun part is Goblin Cha Belcher. If you have that, then you kind of want to run as many of these many of these as possible.

00:56:38:02 - 00:56:53:20
Unknown
That is definitely a build around. I See, people do all like I think that was like a build around Arena Cube, but they had actually looked really, really fun. And if you don't have those, then you might the issue might just be similar to some of the cards we've set in the sector. I'm just finding a slot for this, but it's a very good card.

00:56:53:24 - 00:57:19:05
Unknown
As I mentioned, it's also an uncommon and in business you might also probably snap this up like peasants getting a lot from this set already, I think. Yeah, I mean, we say it like it's a tempo play and I agree that's how the spell reads, but I'm still not cutting this from the control that. So I think this I've heard of an island I think most of the time like even you know you can use this to keep your planes walk for life.

00:57:19:08 - 00:57:42:13
Unknown
You can use it to disrupt that combo. I don't know. I think it's pretty solid. Yeah. I'm not saying I agree. It's like that might be one that you just don't find a slot for that. But I think it's a pretty solid start. And I, you know, if I, I think they have like that relatively few blue decks why, if I had this in my pool, I wouldn't run it.

00:57:42:15 - 00:58:02:00
Unknown
I think that's reasonable. I think I think it shines a bit more in a demo tape. But yeah, you are right. If you if you have three man, and you need to dock something for it and you will, you will, you will use this to do it. So yeah, that does make sense. All right. Next up, we have Tom Yeo, inquisitive student.

00:58:02:02 - 00:58:38:24
Unknown
This is a single blue manner for a03 legendary creature moon folk wizard with flying. When Tamu inquisitive student attacks, you investigate. And whenever you draw your first card in a turn, exile Tamayo then return her to the battlefield transformed on the moon as control and it slips into TAMU seasoned scholar. This is a legendary plane, small cat's meow starts with just two loyalty, but you can plus to four until your next turn.

00:58:38:24 - 00:59:05:24
Unknown
Whenever a creature attacks you or a planes will kill you control it gets minus one minus until end of turn. So not super impactful. Plus that's a minus three. You can return target or sorcery card from your graveyards, your hands. It's a green card. You add one manner of any color and four minus seven. You draw cards equal to half the number of cards and you'll likely rounded up.

00:59:06:01 - 00:59:33:24
Unknown
Gets an emblem with you have no maximum hand sides. I'm this card has certainly very high upside I think compared to for example via Johnny we saw earlier. I think you have to do a little bit more work to enable this. Like if your fan is attacked with it three times, then take a turn off to crack three clues to please, I guess to this you've got your triceps.

00:59:33:24 - 00:59:56:19
Unknown
Well, I've even like cut too close to the flip this that that feels a little bit slow to me that's a really bad turn for Yeah yeah but but you can also just cash to brainstorm You know you can, you can and you know, you have to contribute has a chance of course. And this flips and then you have a plains.

00:59:56:19 - 01:00:24:04
Unknown
Walker is not one but one's way of a game super quickly. But if you get it flipped really early it's going to put in a lot of work for you and you invested just one manner and best cards, you know. And it's also just not the best thing to you know, you play this on third one and you just keep playing with that and gang and investigating like, you know, it's a no free fly over, not can be luck in killing it for a while.

01:00:24:06 - 01:00:43:14
Unknown
And you're just accumulating these artifacts, these clues maybe have some artifact synergies. You've got like an ozone academy or something or your plan is just I'm going to one for one phages, and then later on in the game, I'm going to have a bunch of clues sitting around which I can crack to draw cards. I'll just win the game.

01:00:43:14 - 01:01:09:11
Unknown
So I have this massive cost advantage, just a fun while man of investment and this even like a pretty possible buffer against soccer, You know, like, I mean, not great, but like, you know, blocks that fall Yeah that's, that's fine. And yeah if you do get it flipped early you know you can plus it a couple of times and try and get to that minus seven or you can just like get a V close space like every of the third.

01:01:09:11 - 01:01:32:02
Unknown
And I know it's this, it seems solid to me at I'm interested in trying this and that and I think so I'm actually furious at this card. James Go on, because I now can no longer justify running hard evidence in my cube because this is basically just hard evidence with flying like this. Is that often hard evidence? Yeah.

01:01:32:04 - 01:01:50:02
Unknown
That's a single blue for sorcery that makes an oath three crab. When you investigate, which I love as a card, it's very it just feels so many little holes. But like, so it's almost I'm not super fast by the back side of this card. I'm just thinking this I want to do. I'm just thinking of this is the best three bone inspector ever printed.

01:01:50:04 - 01:02:09:19
Unknown
It is a roadblock. It's a robot after the aggro decks and it gives you a bit of card advantage. It gives you that artifact, as you mentioned, to tinkerer way, that kind of thing. Like it's. Yeah, it's just going to be it's, it's one manner it's like so and I got a lot like if you're in a position later where you can flip it awesome you now have an active plains woke up.

01:02:09:19 - 01:02:27:24
Unknown
I think it's kind of very much like if I'm honest with you, like like, like, yeah, I think I'm putting this in as a direct replacement to hard evidence. Probably good enough at that role to just be fine. And then the backside is bonus basically. I mean, I guess I do think this is a lot better than hard evidence.

01:02:27:24 - 01:02:55:08
Unknown
I guess we would agree this is where I'm trying to stand up for. Crowd Have a real crap. I love the craft. Yeah, yeah. This doesn't trigger this doesn't trigger Healy doesn't trigger Swahili to be much better so you don't get Vic Clue. That's a new player. I'll say That's true. It's an attack. So, like, if it is like, you play it and then need to block that because they're beating you down so hard, then you don't get an when you don't.

01:02:55:10 - 01:03:27:02
Unknown
But yeah, it's one that you can probably find at least wanted to attack. Yeah. Now I get what you mean about as well. I like it is it basically doesn't do anything. The turn it comes down by you need to plus once before you get your vic both. But it seems like you know it's not every match up that being you down super hard and if you can just like flip it pretty early which seems kind of achievable and then it's just going to be like frantic.

01:03:27:05 - 01:03:48:00
Unknown
It can just set accumulate you a bunch more value, which is kind of nice. But yeah, now I'm kind of also just down for the make a bunch of clears mate. Yeah, yeah. It's, it's just so cheap. It's like it's one like it's so efficient. You're going to get your value out of this. Like, yeah, I spent too much time focusing on the back half of the start and just the front office.

01:03:48:00 - 01:04:12:12
Unknown
Good. Yeah, exactly. Awesome. All right, next up, we have another one drop. Next up, we have Triton wave breaker. This is a single blue for a one, one and charming creature. My effort was it. It has bestowed four one the blue. And as long as Triton Wade breaker is a creature, it has prowess, enchanted creature. So when you bestow onto something plus one plus one and also has prowess, this is also probably another one for peasant, if I'm honest with you.

01:04:12:15 - 01:04:34:04
Unknown
But I do like the idea of giving another creature prowess or even potentially a creature double prowess. So stick this on a monetary mentor on turn to when you just will kill people. Yeah. As I mentioned earlier, I think bubbles in cubes invest in cubes. And again they have built in protection that would this will just kill people.

01:04:34:06 - 01:04:50:22
Unknown
I do think you are trying to put this on a creature. You're not really running this out by itself. You are trying to buff up a creature, maybe with evasion, that kind of thing. But yeah, as you mentioned previously, of like if you had this on a creature, it means your opponent needs to remove all spells to get rid of this end effect.

01:04:50:22 - 01:05:19:14
Unknown
So yeah. To mana for that effect to bestow it. I think it's just very solid kids. I think it's fine. I think kind of the issue I have is just that I don't find the that cheap foul as creatures that comes together all that well in most cubes I think the issue I have is the fat blue red policy style of back to really work.

01:05:19:14 - 01:06:02:14
Unknown
What you need is a bunch of cheap counterfeits because if you're just playing like burn spells, you've been out of cuts very quickly. And the thing is, everyone else wants your contracts. It's not like you're just getting all the canned chips because you know, the blue that spells guy. The envy of a blue player also wants concepts. And I find it's kind of tough to get and enough of them for this style of deck to like what consistently because the fat suits tend to be like a little under underpowered when you're not really doing the thing and like when they just kill the creatures and that's, you know, that kind of doesn't do that much,

01:06:02:16 - 01:06:19:06
Unknown
which I guess this does kind of help with that. See if the so I guess I can be caught. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a remove it to remove spots and also at lower power level cubes there is less of a not penchant but there's less of a guarantee that you're going to have like three or four blue drafters people.

01:06:19:06 - 01:06:37:04
Unknown
But the lower power level you go the more kind of of my expense anyway, the more spread out and even the color pairs and like people in different archetypes tend to be you. You don't have like this density of just powerful cards in one color. So therefore everyone wants to be that color. If that makes sense. Yeah, that is true.

01:06:37:06 - 01:07:16:01
Unknown
That is true. Official Okay, next up, we have volatile, stolen, fake. This is one of blue for a three to creature break it has flying and hex tooth from activated and triggered abilities also has when volatile stolen Drake enters the battlefield exchange control of volatile stolen to make and target creature an opponent controls If you do you get for energy then sacrifice that creature unless you pay an amount of energy equal to its manner cost.

01:07:16:03 - 01:07:40:12
Unknown
And I love guilt a trick. It's like one of my favorite cuts in magic. It's so much fun. This is quite a lot worse. But also I looked it up and gelded. It costs like $300 and. Come on, come on. There's really no one on Guilded Drake. Gilda. Gilda Drake makes a whole box of my tree. Looks cheap at this.

01:07:40:14 - 01:08:04:18
Unknown
Yeah. So that's a pretty good reason to consider. But they have kind of made it less fun. Girls at Drake, you know, like, I mean, I. You like, you can't take the very big creature, and that's unfortunate but also for a hex piece from activated and figured let's see this thing does that mean you can't do like the flicker wisp stuff with it.

01:08:04:20 - 01:08:25:16
Unknown
Exactly. Exactly. And so that's the fun that, you know, like if every time that flub bounce, you know, Gilda Drake steal another one, I'd feel thing Parallax Wave out for guild strike it comes back get rid of a creature that came back in with wife. You know that those are the times when Drake feels like a very powerful cat.

01:08:25:18 - 01:09:04:04
Unknown
And this kind of takes away most of those possibilities. Like, yeah, you can spend like, a bounce spell from your hand. Still bounce. And that is good fight like brazen bow of this. You're feeling very good about it. But I think it just kind of moves the that the best parts of that cards and yeah I think it's still fine right like if you play this and steel they're like questing beast or whatever that is good for you and obviously it does get better if you have other energy stuff in your deck, both because you can potentially seal a bigger thing or if you feel smaller thing, maybe you can use the energy that's leftover.

01:09:04:04 - 01:09:28:00
Unknown
But like this really Silva issue of like, you know, free to Fly is a pretty legit creature. You're giving them like and the you get has to be a lot better because he's too card and too manner from mistakes. It's not like if I play this and they don't have any creatures I just got to keep it right so I don't know I'm looking at gilded Drake and it has this ability still resolves the the target becomes illegal.

01:09:28:02 - 01:09:51:02
Unknown
I don't know what that's like. Yes. Or Gilda Drake. If you play it on an empty board, it just dilutes, right? yeah. Yes, it has. sacrifice it. Yeah. So whereas you can just run this out on Saturday, if I don't have a creature I've seen, that's what makes it a decent amount better. Yeah. Yeah. Then you just have a two man flying hex proof from activation directive loses.

01:09:51:03 - 01:10:29:05
Unknown
That's pretty solid. Yeah. Don't write that. Does that mean it's a sideboard card for when they're on the play though. Yeah. I mean it's one of those but yeah. If you don't play it on a ten to you kind of. Yeah. It has a lot of different modes. This Card fight which is kind of interesting. I don't know if your, if you don't want to build a track and have YouTube because it's stupid they expensive and I'd be kind of interested to try it but it's it's definitely an interesting one like like I think the because they have taken away the really fun things that you can do with this.

01:10:29:05 - 01:10:54:01
Unknown
I think it probably means that it's probably not one for Cube but like good creatures are just getting cheaper like like yeah you mentioned questing bass. There's just so many actually good for drops nowadays that like maybe like maybe this doesn't get enough creatures like, like I'm just looking at my like green three. Isn't this so many performers in there now that like that is trading up like.

01:10:54:01 - 01:11:09:07
Unknown
Yes. Is it is it worth it for the manner in the card? That's something you need to consider that like my gut with this is you should if you want this kind of effect, if you want to do the cool thing with licorice, all the thing with like show and tell because that's also quite funny. You can show and tell and and you have a girl.

01:11:09:07 - 01:11:32:05
Unknown
That's right. You steal that thing, that kind of thing. Like if you want to do that stuff with Gilda Drake, just proxy Gilda Drake. Like, that's kind of where I am with this one. Like, like, like, like, like there's a lot of cards in this set which are kind of throwbacks or like effectively modern takes with energy of reserve list or a reserve list and powerful reserve list cards, some of them land.

01:11:32:11 - 01:11:59:15
Unknown
I think this one misses, if I'm honest with you. Yeah, I think that's fair. Just one of a no, I don't think changes a lot of that. But you can take something bigger than the amount of energy you're going to have and it will just be sacrifice, which obviously kind of sucks. But if you know, if you have a build, then you can use this as like a beast within type thing.

01:11:59:17 - 01:12:20:05
Unknown
You tell my crystal band that may have a 3 to 5, which is bad for you, but you know it's better than the others. But Yeah, yeah. That to be fair. And then you'll do that. Like, I don't think that's nothing, but I think the that would be like a cool back up if wanted to play. If I was excited to play about the card in the first place, if I'm honest with you.

01:12:20:07 - 01:12:37:14
Unknown
And because it doesn't let me do the cool thing that would make me feel smart with like a what's been saying the things you mentioned. I'm a bit like, okay, yeah, that is cool. And I think that's kind of actually will be useful in like commander and stuff, like either steal someone's command or just use it like formats where weapons within is really good then yeah, crack on.

01:12:37:22 - 01:12:55:11
Unknown
yeah, for sure. You know what we can do instead of including this card, right. We, we play Gilder Drake anyway and then we play the felly of a dog. But the like stuff it it out in the attack and like, know kills a drake if you just keep it about that. That's pretty good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:12:55:12 - 01:13:16:02
Unknown
You just about like Yeah that board every time. That's. Yeah, yeah. That's what I want to do. That is cool. Volatile storm Drake. Not so much exactly. This is like one of the worst cases of why wizards let me have fun. Yeah. Is this as bad as once a town? James? Where do we land on? It's up to It's not fair.

01:13:16:04 - 01:13:35:18
Unknown
Well, all right, well, that's where we're going to leave it for today. Do remember to follow the podcast and give us a five star review, because next time, when we're looking at black and red, James Thank you, as always. Always a pleasure. Novelist. If there's any cards in these colors that we've missed, let us know. Don't let us know on Twitter at Partial MTG or if you watch on YouTube, us know down in the comments section.

01:13:35:18 - 01:13:42:09
Unknown
Thank you all very much for listening. It's good bye from me is good bye from James Until next time, we'll see you soon. Goodbye.