Tamiyo + ramp, copy effects, and extra turns. Essentially tamiyo, growth spiral 1, growth spiral 2 by using her -3 and getting 2 to 3growth spiral to 4(return + g mana) to growth spiral again, leave 1 open mana. Then extra turns seems like her goal. She lets you have infinite of the same card in your deck if you use her -3 and you can have her front side and back side out at the same time, and just threaten to -3, kill flip, and be able to -3 next turn again. Its essentially a card that can loop 1 card (such as memory lapse) over and over and over. I see tamiyo as modern counter spells. And commander extra turns.
Ulamog off of creativity style effects lets it see itself for its etb. Its weird as hell but it works as its a replacement effect. 17/17 annihilator 10. Could be good, could be flat worse than archon.
Coming from Yugioh where foiling is just standard for the most part I gotta hard disagree. Foils are great and having more of an opportunity to get em is great.
Ral might be a great midrange value card on top of the storm gimmick. If you can reliably flip it and -2 that's a huge amount of value right there. DRC already wants you to cast a bunch of spells, so maybe there's something there.
The only time I chased foils was Core sets because of the black border. Then the card quality became so bad you get damaged cards straight out of a pack. I have Urza's block cards and 7th edition cards that to this day never curled. 20 years later do not curl. They have been ripping you off for decades with foils.
Necrodominance also shuts off Aristocrat strategies as well. I have a Yagmowth deck that runs OG Necro and thought I needed this too but it shuts down my loops with death triggers
My worry about harbringer is that you turn on all the counter magic in the game. I rather take my chances with bolt. Also this doesnt stop show and tell like a blood moon could potentially do
I don't think you grasped how Ral will likely play out. Either you have him on the board before storming off. In that case he'll flip with (more or less) your second spell. You still want the discount so you +1 him and continue as if you hadn't just flipped a PW. Or you don't have him on board when you start storming. In that case you'll draw him, play him with storm count 4 or more (now with him 5) and hope with your next spell you flip him for the ult. And those are the relatively good case scenarios. So I think he might see play there if storm comes back.
Tamiyo and Bauble Turn 1. Crack bauble in opponents turn. Untapped, draw for bauble, draw for turn, attack with tamiyo. Play second land and Crack the clue, flip Tamiyo. Seems pretty reasonable to flip in modern as well
Shifting Woodlands will be great because whatever combo gets created using it, you will be able to tutor said combo up with Traverse the Uvenwald for just one extra green mana. Consistency woooooooooo.
Richard Laughs, but Boros Soul Sisters is actually a legit deck, because you get to run Chained to the Rocks, Norin the Weary and potentially Purphoros.
The interesting thing about new necro, is that since the paying of life and card draw happens in the same line of text the opp cant flash in a bowmaster in response to the card draw to "get" you. Also another small but key detail where its different than you guys mentioned from og necro is that you have to choose how many cards to draw then immediately draw, you cant choose to later pay life in response to something and then draw at the end of next turn.
I'm putting birthing ritual into Henzie. I run ~26 creature's that I'd call unambiguously good hits off of sacrificing a 4MV creature to birthing ritual, which puts me at around 85-90% odds of getting a good hit from it off a 4-drop blitzer, and over 50% chance that I'll get a choice. It's also easy to cast in the early midgame (t4 ish) alongside a blitzer in the same turn. I quite like it over eldritch evolution in EDH for value in my particular build since its repeatable and going into a casual deck that doesn't run combo lines. (I also play pod in that deck too, making room for both) It's probably unplayable trash in 60 card formats.
What about birthing ritual as a information effect? Just being able to peek 7 deep is worth something. Just by having ways to shuffle like fetches makes this information super valuable, can you imagine every turn knowing what your next 7 cards will be and being able to plan ahead with that information?
Ugin's labrinth is a soul land that has Imprint 7+mana creature from your hand. That counts as in exile for Ulamog, Defiler so you'll have at least a 14/14 annihilator 7 creature when its reanimated. I think its got a very different use than the other Ulamog where its exile cast matters more.
Idk ab some people but im very glad wotc saw how badly modern horizons 1 and 2 power crept the format and decided to tone it down for 3 these cards are by no means stupidly broken like fury or ragavan but they are powerful fun cards and thats cool!
We cannot know whether a card is good, as in playable or not, until players actually start playing with those cards! How about we wait until AFTER the cards are released and players start building decks with these new cards.
