The Best White Ramp Ever? ⚪⚫ Party Time ⚪⚫ Commander Legends: Baldur's Gate Precon MTG Spoilers 

Black Market Connections looks like another New Capenna art that didn't make it in that set again 😔

It’s almost been a decade

I started in khans lol

I feel Seth SO HARD here lmao 👴

@@PhetaFox I started in Nyx, but Khans was my first ever Midnight Pre-Release, and will forever hold a special place in my heart for that :)

@@TheDylls the game store I went to for the khans prerelease is closed now. Got replaced by a dollar tree.

Idk why the hard push for commander only stuff.

Agreed, party in standard felt like it was super hesitant to have much/any power

@@dylanmiller9162 I still really want to make a good party deck before ZNR rotates out but it still doesn’t work all too well

yeah, because then it's essentially already a Farseek effect, but on a body. and let's be honest, you will at least get one activation off of it easily, because it also (for some reason) has flash! oh boi, WotC is really pushing white ramp, aren't they?

Why not Path to Exile? deny the drawback, or see if they'll give you a land too.

You can add in the Haunted one background and the orc will give all your creatures undying too!

OMG, I love the card. But I can not believe Path to Exile (not the game, the card) has not been mentioned. Either the opponent refuses the tutor drawback (it says "may"), or you get a land too.

Hope to also see more cleric support one day.

My thoughts exactly

True. Maybe he meant this is the first one that let's you cast it normally.

It's the combo, treasure, 4 types and card draw (with extra drain life bonus)

As I understand it, that's exactly how all new sets/mechanics SHOULD feel. Revolutionary.

Here's how Unearth works. You activate the Unearth ability which returns the creature to the battlefield under your control with Haste, a delayed triggered ability that activates at the next end step to exile it, and a replacement ability is set up for when it would be put anywhere but exile to exile it instead. The delayed triggered ability only gets put on the stack once, at the beginning of the next end step, and if you prevent that ability from resolving, such as by ending your turn with it on the stack, then it is done and never comes back to try again. If you skip your end step before it has a chance to be put on the stack (ending the turn during combat for example), then it will still be waiting for the next end step to be put on the stack, like you were describing. The replacement ability only lasts until the creature leaves the battlefield (where it becomes a new object), and will only apply if the creature isn't being placed into exile. Flickering exiles the creature, dodging the replacement effect while also making it a new creature that wasn't unearthed.

@@connorhamilton5707 It says that it exiles the creature if it "leaves the battlefield". Flickering a creature will cause it to leave the battlefield. Unearth sees that an effect will cause that creature to leave the battlefield and exile it through its own effect. Your flicker will never have a chance to tack on the return clause. Unless the comprehensive rules state that exiling doesn't count, there's no reason to believe that it doesn't.

@@jdonvance If you want an example explicitly stating that, then look at the Gatherer page for the card Archfiend of Sorrows from Modern Horizons 2. It says: "If a creature returned to the battlefield by the unearth ability would leave it for any reason, it's exiled instead-unless the spell or ability that's causing the creature to leave the battlefield is actually trying to exile it. In that case, the spell or ability succeeds at exiling the creature. If the spell or ability later returns the creature card to the battlefield (as Ephemerate might, for example), the creature card will return as a new object with no relation to its previous existence. The unearth effect will no longer apply to it." This is a well known behavior, and works because the replacement effect doesn't apply if it is already getting exiled. Relevant words bolded. 702.84a Unearth is an activated ability that functions while the card with unearth is in a graveyard. “Unearth [cost]” means “[Cost]: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield. It gains haste. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step. If it would leave the battlefield, exile it instead of putting it *anywhere* *else* . Activate only as a sorcery.” Edit: couldn't get bold to work right at first, and accidentally put Shadows instead of Sorrows.

There is also some up front costs to consider. Burakos+background is 6 mana. Probably spend over 2 turns of set up. While Nalia is 3 mana and you're done. Also, maybe its my meta, but attack with a 2/4 commander when you are at 5 mana.. means your commander dies by blockers. So I don't see that ramp part coming up very often without buffing them up a bit. Now at the same time, I don't expect to see Nalia go off very often. Having 4 creatures on the board is already hard, and now they each have to be a specific type.. It's good that the pre-con also has some reanimation and protection, otherwise you'd get nowhere

@@maxvanhooren8606 Yeah a lot of people are overvaluing Burakos but he really needs to attack, and being a 2/4 that can attack turn 5 without aramp is rally bad.

Because he has wings? There's a variant rule in dnd where you can play a winged tiefling in exchange for giving up some innate magic.

I don't think so, as you also do not need a full party for other effects that care about party. Like the ones "for each creature in your party" will also work if your party only consists of a single creature.

You will need 4 creatures, that could be 4 changelings since they are every creature type.

The wording is one each of clerics, warriors, rogues, and wizards. I wish it could get by passed with one changeling but flavor-wise one dude in a dungeon by himself seems funny

Also with the black Commander

They don't generally put tutors in precons, that's why.

Phasing an unearthed creature will save it from the delayed triggered ability to be exiled, but it will still have the issue of being exiled when placed anywhere but exile. Edit: small clarification, the replacement ability doesn't care about phasing out itself, the creature will phase out and phase in just fine, but if it dies later it will be exiled instead of being put into the graveyard.

Scorched ruins and azors gateway are pretty okay too.

that stasis lock is insane in tymna stax

And isnt it the wrong colors too?

@@diobrando5896 party is 5 colors but I think the best stuff for it are in white but yeah should be at least 3 colors

@@MidgarMerc i remember bant party deck was a thing for i don't remember good black cards.

@@diobrando5896 the one that drains was pretty good if you could keep having it etb but overall the mechanic was very undersupported

The ""nice"" things about this is that it was never good either in limited 😅