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if you have an ajani out, you can play a second ajani, sac your first one to the legend rule and flip the second one because your cat died, seems pretty deece

His ultimate will forever be, "Cat-aclysm"

Can’t wait for this to not be included in the $90 Eldrazi Precon

Definitive Name for the inevitable Modern Eldrazi-Food Deck: Spaghetti Monsters

Note that a Madness spell is cast from exile, with a "When" trigger that has to resolve first. So Drannith Magistrate can block your opponent from casting it. Also you can Stifle the Madness trigger and the card stays exiled with no cast trigger.

Emrakul also brings back the old legend rule, when she etbs after a cast you take theirs, sac one to legend rule, and then the death kills the other one

11:28 Emrakul's eternal nemesis, the gaggle of squirrels in a tree!

Flavor win: Ajani gets angry and becomes a badass. Flavor loss: cats flipping on their back is a sign of trust and willingness to let you pet their belly. Flavor win: don’t rub their belly, they will try to end you.

Seal of Doom seeing new Emrakul: "Finally, my time has come" (no not really lol). I'm actually excited to see the rest of the "Sac=free" spells in MH3. Normally free-spells worry me because they have some obvious OP-if-free effect, but at least with the green one, sacrificing a specific-color non-token creature is a real cost, and the card itself is just a common-tier effect if paid with mana.

"Emrakul's ability is basically uncounterable" Laughs in Whirlwind Denial.

Counter your own Emrakul. Bonus points if you counter with Remand or another 'return target spell' interaction.

Yeah, the new Emrakul is gonna warp some formats. You could almost say she's, y'know, remaking the world anew :P

random bulk uncommon that pile drives emrakul and also a pet card of mine, whirlwind denial. its a bit steep at 3cmc but man countering an emrakul and countering gaining control effects seems good

For the frog its also a reference to Shadowmage infiltrator right? The joke being that Atog was a great prox for the $10 chaces rare back in the day. But this Frog is both...lol

I really wanna know what they do with her story and why she decides to come back out now, as if she knew planeswalkers would be losing their sparks. Though I guess being an Eldrazi its feasible that she could sense the 'fabric' of the multiverse and the blind eternities being stretched thinner and thinner leading up to March of the Machine

"Ayers rock from Lion King". The most British sentence I've heard ❤

I built Laelia in commander 2 a long while ago and looked up how she interacts with cascade one day and my eyes blew up when I realized how wild she places with Wild-Magic Sorcerer.

Turns out the underworld cookbook has a recipe for spaghetti ...

10:44 Her. You got it right lol

Ajani's front half as a 1/2 that makes a 2/1 is already ridiculous. And they printed an entire backhalf. WTF?

04:32 Issue is that it's specifically Green creatures, so things like Sticher's Supplier won't work.

I'm curious to see if people might try and slot a copy or 2 of the flare into a titan shell. being able to turn 1 play land, arboreal grazer for 2nd land then sac the grazer for a 3rd land + a guaranteed land drop on turn 2 seems interesting.

Im like 99% sure the black card in the “flare of” cycle is going to be victimize. Flare of Victimization makes sense with the naming theme of the cycle. Mechanically, victimize also coincides with how the spells are cast for free.

That eldrazi....one more creature for my Henzie and Animar decks. The lands with the eldrazis in the far distance are amazing.

Flare of Cultivation might be playable in Nic Fit, where you can ramp 1 more land + guarantee next land drop off sacrificing Veteran Explorer T1 instead of using Cabal Therapy to sac it.

Ajani is gonna be kickin' it with with his boys, Mondrak and Ojer Tak in EDH decks... Actually, this package will slot into my Piru semi-Aristocrats deck quite nicely, come to think of it. *Laughs in Altar of the Brood/Syr Conrad engine...*

Time to dust off some leylines of sanctity

Interesting note about Emrakul: her Madness cost allowing for some weird timing stuff also allows you to steal an evoke elemental with the sacrifice trigger on the stack, which, if I am thinking correctly, could blank the sacrifice, allowing you to steal the body of an elemental that was evoked.

Ah, Spaghetti monsters are back

One thing about flare of cultivation is that you have to sac a green creature, so you cant sac something like stitcher supplier in a hollow vine deck for example.

I read Emrakul with "Evoke" first. My God, I wish my eyes were right. How awesome would that be: falling short on your tron draws, top deck this Emrakul when your opponent has a developed (Hexproof/Indestructible) board state, wipe the board for 6, and still have one mana left over for your Expedition Map. Kinda wishing this had Evoke over Madness.

The thing about flare of cultivation is that sloth thing in amulet Titian can be saced after it you get a second land. Also good news! Moon mommy isn’t as busted as you think, as They don’t gain haste so they can’t attack the turn it happens

Eldrazi are love eldrazi are life

The funny thing is that when Psychatog came out, it severely outclassed another 1UB creature that had just been printed in the exact same set, Shadowmage Infiltrator. And now here we have Psychic Frog, a card that costs 1 less than both of them and basically does both of their jobs at once.

So much for my theory that snow-covered wastes would debut in a set literally named "Eldrazi Winter"

It's worth noting that she has protection from spells, not just spells cast this turn, that clause only applies to permanents. The cases were this will come up are pretty close to non existent outside of commander but you do occasionally see narsets reversal.

Emrakul the Promised End has some amazing perspective art if you look at the whole piece. Kozilek, Butcher of Truth's original art also has some good perspective work.

I have a deck that summons a lot of Eldrazi scions. The Insidious roots effectively doubles their mana output.

I don’t think that Emrakul is going to be absolutely insane. I think that she’ll be a fine addition to Tron, but there aren’t any other shells in the format that can consistently both discard her and create 6 colorless pips without significantly downgrading their mana bases. It’s possible that a new form of a RB or RG Asmo shell gets made that does powerful things when Emrakul isn’t drawn AND can cast her consistently, but even in a 2 color setting, you are making your mana worse to accommodate a very heavy splash into a pseudo-third color.

Gotta love tron getting more unnecessary help

@4:30 You won't be able to sac those value creatures cause the card states it has to be a green creature. But this card belongs in ramp strategies that use Grazer or other 1 cmc dorks, just float the mana before you sac.

Get your containment priests now!

They missed the opportunity to call the frog "Psychafrog"

Finally an Emrakul that doesn't die to Big Game Hunter. At least one that was casted instead of being put onto the battlefield another way

I love top-down design, so I'm stoked for origins-style flip walkers coming back.

Totally putting this Ajani in my "Jetmir's Feral Cats" deck for sure!!!

That Green Sorcery is so broken. Like you can really Ramp it up. I'm getting a play set for my EDH decks.

I didn’t initially think the new emrakul was good but you convinced me. I do think you could make a broken or maybe just playable deck with Laila the blade reforged. If you can cascade or discover low enough to not hit anything you can swing for 50 or so on turn 4

I feel like I've subscribed to you 5 or 6 times over the years. And every once in a while I glance up and notice I'm not subbed anymore...this happened with the Professor too. I don't know if they are trying to remove bots from sub counts but I'm pretty sure I exist.

Honestly, countering your own copy of new Emrakul might be good, you get the trigger, but not the risk (unless she gets reanimated, but that's a different strategy)

Emrakul definitely nuts and may warp the meta around her if she becomes a big thing Of note, you can stifle her cast trigger and you can use things like replenish efffects to return o rings to play and target her or can use fork effects to copy a removal spell and aim the copy at her But definitely hoops to jump through just for her

Psychic frog is a mixture between psych atog and shadowmage infiltrator.

The callback to "Eldrazi Winter" has to be intentional with the snow-covered wastes. Let's just hope that the design team left the callback to that. Emrakul is shaking that hope.

Even though commander has dug its class into everything, I am getting a breath of fresh air feeling from this set. I like it!

yeah... emrakul is very strong against creature strategies and is huge regardless. need wipes to remove her or board effects which are likely on creatures which she probably took control of... lol gonna be interesting. cool card though since you CAN play around it. In commander she's going to be such a huge pain in the ass for a lot of decks. If she gets popular maybe it'll increase the amount of board wipes that get run.

ermakrul feels like a mindslaver replacement for tron decks in modern. it could be a fun sideboard card in specific decks in eternal formats. also, it can just be a cheaper eldrazi for legacy post decks

T1 Wooded Foothills Dryad Arbor Sac Dryad Arbor to Flare of Cultivation. I feel like this a play pattern we'll see regularly

Nothing says we've learned absolutely nothing like printing more free spells.

If you cascade with Lelia and dont have a card in your deck with the right cost, does she just become a decksize/decksize?

Flare of Cultivation would be nice with Khalni Garden if there's other synergy to justify that. That could help you hit the Mountain requirement for the land that can make a Dwarf, too.

I have a deck that runs a bunch of artifacts creating colorless mana. Since it also runs black, I could thoughtseize myself and cast for six colorless

Priest of Titania adds mana FOR EACH ELF on the battlefield, NOT each elf you control! Only issue I had!

You can Trickbind or Tishana’s Tidebender Emrakul’s cast trigger.

"When you cast" is a triggered ability on the card, so while no you can't use counter magic to stop Emrakul from snagging your board, you can use Stifle effects to stop it. Keep in mind that because you are countering a triggered ability on the stack before the creature is actually out, Tishana's Tidebinder will not remove Emrakul's other effects. You're likely better off with Nimble Obstructionist, Stifle, or Trickbind. That being said, I believe Madness is also a triggered ability, so if you're going to Stifle something, it may as well be that.

Does Ajani Pariah, as long as you controll a Cat, by Default, dodges boardwipes? I mean the moment he sees another Cat dying i can exile him and bring him back as Planeswalker.... So wouldnt Stuff like Supreme Verdict, Trigger his Ability, he gets Sacrificed, comes Back and isnt affected by Creature Destruction anymore? How is the Ruling here?

In light of Psychic frog i really hope they print circular logic into modern, wouldve been a sick archetype Tbh the eldrazi drone, i wish it was more aggresive, more pushed, making it reduce eldrazi spells 3 or greater would been such a hit for people who wanna play aggro eldrazi

Flair of cultivation seems pretty strong with undying

That email is gonna be great in beamtown bullies decks

Pretty sure the opponent doesn’t get their things back when Emrakul is dealt with. It doesn’t say until Emrakul leaves play or anything like that so it seems to be permanent.

If Emrakul becomes an issue it'll come down to them putting madness on her, very much feels like that's there to ensure it has a place outside of reanimator. You'd think the remainder of the text box would compensate for it being an occasionally hard-castable 12/12 beater that does enough on ETB to look like a potent reanimation target but no dice, it's just as game-ending as Aeons Torn. I suspect it won't quite cut it on the reanimator angle with how bloated the reanimation target suite has become in recent year but the fact it can double as a wincon from hand if you can manage the colorless requirements and from the yard is bananas. Less skeptical about the other cards shown so far, new take on psychatog is very much up my alley.

If there is a deck that can regularly, cast emrakul its gonna be nuts. Im definately gonna be trying

Flare of cultivation + arboreal grazer means your untapping turn 2 with 4 mana.

Flare of Cultivation + Veteran Explorer is dope

How do you go about getting one of those Sol Rings with a Coolstuffinc order? Is there a certain amount you have to spend?

Laelia already has a really stupid brawl deck that is her, discover and cascade cards, Etali's Favor and then 90+ lands.

Already built a deck around Emrakul :)

If that ajani was in standard he would single handedly dominate the format, that card is out of this world.

I really hope (but dont think its likely that we get) a two mana whirlwind denial type effect for Emrakul 3: Revenge of the Sith but with a lower tax on the counter trigger I just think Whirlwind Denial deserves more play and it really got kneecapped by being 3MV

arena already checks and marks card "played this turn" and im assuming they will use this to track it for arena (which is partially wrong but im sure they have a way to check cast cuz they already do for some other spells)

We can still stifle the big guy right?

I was reading down Emrakul going "Yeah, okay this is pretty strong but it's a lot of mana, for this amount you can get this level of power already" and then I hit that last line of text and literally choked on my own words, wow, that's a little crazy.

Inspiring Statuary makes that madness cost pretty easy to hit on Emrakul, assuming you can improvise a madness spell, which I'm pretty sure you can since you're still casting it just for an alternative cost

I think that emrakul will be used with urza’s saga in from so that it doesn’t require having extra colours and stuff like that

Is there room for colorless mana generation in reanimator? I know there are the painlands, but I think T6 is too slow to cast this where straight reanimation is better, but though if not hardcasting it seems a hard sell versus the Ghalta, Primal Stampede or Emrakul, the Promised End. Is protection from Oblivion Ring able to balance out sacrificing all your creatures if they do kill it?

I cannot wait to add New Emrakul to my Etali Primal Conqueror deck.

Why do they always gotta make Emrakul the best one? We need a busted version of Ulamog instabanned in EDH!

Turn one veteran explorer into flare of cultivation is going to be absolutely bonkers.

You could even discard the new Emrakul to the new pcyho frog. Combo wombo

Eldritch Moon was the most recent Eldrazi (featuring) set no? (Or did you mean Battle for Zen because the newer Eldrazi didn't do much (aside from Emrakul's ban))

Flare seems neat for Nic Fit and commander decks running a certain number of low drop creatures but not sure if this is good outside of that. Having a way to accelerate further with Vet Ex seems pretty good! Ajani seems quite good. Not busted by any means but good nonetheless. Immediately thought of Cat and Taxes when the card popped up lol. Emrakul is the one I'm torn on here. Like it looks extremely powerful if you can get it to stick but I think there's just too many different answers (from vial/hunter to sheoldreds edict) for it to work. Ephemerate/solutide does work BUT the solitude must already be in hand (as Eph only exiles stuff you CONTROL and Emra is a cast trigger) so you are quite possibly losing the Ephemerate for little value and setting youself back so far that your opponent can slam their next threat once your Solitude trigger does little to nothing (assuming empty boardstate ofc) Tho just saying "dies to removal" is not exactly the best argument, if it dies to the stuff played already or if there's stuff already waiting to be played idk if this does it... Wait and see I say...

I think I'd try Key to the City instead with Emrakul. Sure it costs one more but can make creatures unblockable and draw cards later in the game. Plus mostly I have fond memories of that card unlike the cookbook.

Laelia can be good with collet evidence and escape as well.

Flair of Cultivation is one of the best cards ever printed for Yasova, change my mind.

Maybe teferi's protection to phase out your board before they can take control of anything that maybe the only real play at hand

Flare of cultivation is going to be broken with grazer and khalni garden

****, I forgot new emmy had Madness now I have to cram Key To The City into my Eldrazi EDH!

Wizards will print anything to sell packs, I think the 2 mana eldrazi lord is trouble. Just going turn 2 lord turn 3 thought-knot is definetly good enough, but you can also just shit out any ammount of endless one's that you have, each of them would be a 2/2 provided you spend no mana and still have the lord. Also mimics for one are really good and having matter reshaper on 2 is just going to help with follow up play consistency. Esentially this is eye of ugin just slightly slower. There enough 2 mana clone affects and things that specifically find 2 mana creatures to where you can just make your own eye of ugin assuming they aren't legendary, but that's abosolutely not the selling point of this card. Its more than good enough if you only see one. Emrakul is nutty, it's really good as a stand alone reanimator target, there's few decks that can utilize it, but we can definitely see some new archetypes pop up. I'm trying to think of a way you can cleanly kill it and im not coming up with a whole lot of shit thats actually practical on my end. I think that Ajani is really pushed as well. It's just another legendary card with no downside for running 4 copies, which is the antithesis of why cards are even legendary to beging with. Like you can absolutely run 4 ragavans, 4 ajani, 3 or 4 intis and multiple of the gruul 3/3 that you can sac to pump your team and protect it and never have any issue with the legendary rule. We're quickly approaching a point where the best creature deck is just going to be Naya legends backed by a free mox, assuming cat domain zoo isn't the best. There's even a white kird ape that's a cat, I think it's called like loam lion or some shit like that.

The rakdos madness commander deck just got a new toy

7:07 Priestess is symmetrical. They really should have printed a new, asymmetrical one. 1/2 for 1G @ (U) seems fine; 0/2 @ (C) might be too good for pauper, "strictly worse" 1/1 asymmetrical one @ (C) might even be too good as it'd gives pauper 8 versions of the card for the most part.

Just started the video, but wanted to confirm: You are a beautiful bearded man and I do trust you.