The biggest troll Seth could pull now is secretly practicing from now until the set release to say Ezio Auditore Di Firenze” in a perfect Italian accent.
On the subject of towering viewpoint, not every card is about being good. Sometimes they are about the story the card tells or the moments it represents. in this case, "oh its like a tower in the video game where I can look around and then jump off." These are probably going to be especially common in universes beyond sets where wizards is trying to hit every iconic bit of the game. Which this does. After all, I never played AC but even I know about the leaps of faith from them and so when I saw it, i was like "HA! I see what you did there."
I would counterpoint that pretty much every card in the set achieves what you are describing, but that it is pretty easy to also make that card playable in some sense. Afterall, there is much more value in seeing that iconic card from the game and getting to run it in your deck without feeling like you are playing extremely bad cards. They don’t need to be crazy playable, but magic is so vast that you could easily find a niche way to give it some credibility in this type of product. It could say, “0: Target Assassin Gains flying until end of turn”, making it stronger in an assassin deck and even more flavorful.
Climbing the towers was really important in the game because that was how you charted your map, which was critical cuz the cities in the game were really sprawling. The first game was particular about this because it had a severely minimal HUD layout (not even subtitles to read "you have to go south of the north-western portion of the market district"), and you had to pay attention to basically everything. All in all I think the card is very flavorful 😊
@@Bubblenuts13 then it would read, "all assassins gain flying." Which wouldn't seem read the same. Having an actually mana cost represents the Assassin is putting effort into going to the top of the tower to jump off. If its zero than as soon as it hits the battlefield a bunch of assassins effortlessly takes to the skies.
Im happy about the new players product from Assasin Creed. I have a friend that wants a Dr Who deck but doesnt knows about magic and tried learning commander but failed. I was just thinking about how I miss playing kitchen table magic with core set cards.
"Brotherhood Regalia" will also be slightly better in "Yidris" than whisper silk. Because You can finally cascade into unlockable before turn 4, with the Likes of "Violent Outburst" , "Shardless Agent", and "Passionate Archeologist." On turn 4 you're typically tapping out for Yidris, and haste doesn't matter if you can't use his effect MP2. Which means turn 5, instead of having to cast setup to swing, and only getting mana-rocks for it. You can equip "Regalia" for (1) start going big! Yidris is also a deck where you can take advantage of BOTH counter balance and Power Balance. Because you can calculate how many times you're going to cascade post combat and respond to counter magic with them, for double digging and double value.
Well with "Desync" as you gave in the example. "Witch" can run pest control, and culling Ritual. So you can essentially rock-wrath your opponents if you're behind on tempo. Use culling to play a legend and your rocks as they start coming in. that's gonna further your game. And then "Desync" essentially to save your board state and reset everyone else who no longer has rocks. Then you take over because you do. This is really just a Christmas land scenario though. I guess if you're against etali, Dino, or zur dragon bouncing. While being the only one with rocks also puts you ahead. It was also bounce tokens, so you fizzle the go-wide player.
If historic only checked for non token permanents, Desynchronization would be a lot better. Imo that's how the keyword should work in the first place flavor wise. Same with the old legend rule, though I totally get why mechanically they changed that.
Maybe the tower useful with training grounds or forensic gadgeteer, you can make that cost for flying more manageable. Maybe even my artifact deck that creates x power artifacts, and powerstones.
30:52 Actually, Reconnaissance is better than that. Since after a creature deals damage, it's still considered an attacking creature in combat, so you could use it as a form of pseudo Vigilance And if one of your creatures has First or Double Strike, you can have your creature deal its damage, then use Reconnaissance to remove it from Combat so it doesn't get damaged by the blocking creature Or use it to get a, 'when this creature attacks' trigger or something
You can def do better than Towering Viewpoint for Voltron. Best I can think is possibly Arcades since it doesn't need to tap to grant flying unlike Suspicious Bookcase with unblockable.
No… no I don’t know the logic of towering viewpoint either. Leap of faith is just you leaping from a high spot into a cart full of soft hay or something similar. Jumping and killing a target is a thing but usually you’re not THAT high up because you’d just be killing yourself from the fall damage outside of like weird glitchy senarios. Vantage points or as they’ve been meme into being known as “Ubisoft towers” are normally more about being that landmark you need to find and climb up so you can both look around your surroundings in game and reveal blank spots on your map so you can navigate around better and actually see objectives you need to go to. So really, this card should either be giving you information on your opponents or your own deck or at the very least, offer some kinda protection effect for your creature. I guess flying makes the most sense for granting a creature combat evasion rather than haste or menace but it still feels very awkward.
17:00 ^&%%% Desynchronization. I am not looking forward to playing against this in commander. There are some decks this just shuts down, and some it doesn't do something against. But when it shuts me down, I'm out of the game. I'd say someone needs to be fired over this card, but frankly I'm pretty sure I'd fire anyone even remotely associated with this modern legal miniset abomination.
The main power of tax collector is that it's ability is not given to the creature, meaning that if you can bounce collector multiple times on a turn you can keep choosing the cost increase mode and make your opponents spells cost 2,3,4 more mana.
Not sure how its in newer games but in the originall ones it looks verry simmiliar to priest robes and there are always wandering groups of priests around to hide in.
I find it so funny that ludonarratively, Towering Viewpoint allows you Creatures to jump off the tower to gain flying but you can also put the effect on the Towering Viewpoint itself for some bizzare reason. I know it already has reach, but the idea of a tower doing a backflip or hovering out of the ground is so funny to me.
Staff of Eden is great in any deck where you play opponents cards, like Laughing Jasper Flint. While 6 mana if played mid game you probably will hit 4 + cards the turn you play it, but reanimate something.
I was thinking of putting Excalibur in my Ovika deck , it's an artifact deck with mostly artifact ramp so it might be a free cast at times and score me 12 gobbos
It's kind of funny how most of the cards I'll be buying from this set are from the starter decks. They're not even completely awful. Could see Battlefield Improvisation in a Pauper deck, Bureau Headmaster is just generically good in equipment commander decks, and the cheap, evasive Assassins from the Dimir deck are getting slotted into Etrata as we speak.
it just doesnt make any sense to my why this couldnt have just been a commander product. all of the cards are obviously commander-oriented, and it's not like modern players are begging for assassins creed in the format. absolutely baffling product.
Excalibur and Brotherhood Regalia and Desynchronization both very interesting for Commander to add to Lara Croft Arsenal, having a 13/4 with initiative, vigilance and reach is nuts, just need trample and double strike and you gonna treaten lethal pretty quickly, can also double power with ixalan dino legendary artefact just in case. The multi bounce is insane it would even be more absurd if it includes land permanents but i am for sure gonna take a 4 mana instant that removes everything except my board and artefact legendary creatures.
I don't know what to think of the set. Lots of neat cards, but I pretty much only play commander, so singles is probably best? Either way, my offer to be a pronunciation researcher still stands. 😂😂
I kinda hate the idea of Desynchronization, cause every year as commander and magic in general grows, mana fixing and legendaries will get better. The better interaction should punish nonbasics and legendaries, and cost double pips so its harder to splash.
Tax Collector can be a good substitute to Thalia in a Phelia and Ephemarate shell. Since it do not die to orcish bowmasters and can tax the free elementals, seems like an almost perfect substitute to me.
Blame Game - Goad Axios, pass Axios, Axios buffs and attacks opponents, Use the enchantment that says that all goaded creatures cannot block…..Axios could win you the game….right?
Shoot I remember about a decade or so ago when my friends group and I had a whispersilk cloak as a staple in nearly every commander deck. That and lightning greeves. You'd have some 2/2 mono blue commander swinging in for lethal commander damage over many turns
A deck I have been trying to figure out is a Talion deck. Where the genetal idea would be to keep sending things back to hand to force opponents to recast, and I have good etb effects on mine. Desensynchonization could fit in that. I just need to figure out the mana problem.
If we were to get truly accurate Assassin's Creed cards nearly half the cards would need to be misprints and/or contain rules text that is non-functional. Also i can't believe they actually used that line as the flavor text on Brotherhood Patriarch... XD
Phew, so it's a set modern players can confidently skip. I think tax collector is potentially the only modern playable card in the entire set. And that's a good thing. There's a couple of other cards I think have potential but it looks like we dodged a One Ring disaster.
I would hold off on the celebration till the set is released and people have had a chance to play with the cards physically and online. People didn't think The One Ring was strong till they started playing with it. He11, that might be one of Saffron Olive's greatest punts because if I remember correctly. He thought the card was gonna be bad in both Modern and Commander.
Why Ondu's Inversion instead of Planar Cleansing? Planar Cleansing is only 6 mana, although it has 3 white. I guess you have the option to play it as land. Also, can someone explain to me why Damnation is not on Arena?
Yes, although you can use creatures like Puresteel Paladin to give it an equip ability 0, or something like Ardenn that attaches equipments without using an equip.
How do you just skim over Excalibur so casually? That card is insane! In artifact, voltron, and legends decks, its literally 0 mana to cast 2 to equip and pump something by 10 and vigilance. For commander it's one of the most broken equipments I've ever seen. It genuinely could come down like turn 4-5 and turn your not that scary commander or tertiary legend in the deck into a must kill threat.
@@jeffe2267 a 4 mana commander, 2 2 mana mana rocks and another four drop creature by turn 5 is not “winning” thats just standard rate tbh. And even casting this for 1-4 is still unbelievably reasonable.
Man, I get that you must have an obligation to reveal these cards. However people don’t care about this set. It makes no sense and I can speak for a majority of people when I say that we don’t care to see these cards being tried and used in against the odds, or much abrew. Leave these money grab cards alone and play with cards that are relevant
