Nothing to see here
A conditional tapper. Not too exciting. Best ‘trick’ is to play a Beckon Apparition on your opponent’s Beginning of Combat step to tap down one of his dudes.
Yawn!
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Gatecrash Preview: Corpse Blockade
Zombies blocking your way? Sucks to be you!
The quote is kinda funny. Another sacrifice outlet, but more for limited. A great way to hinder Boros decks and force them to play a removal on this wall or waste one of their guys on it. It can also allow you to make use of a creature that is already on its way to the graveyard by giving this deathtouch and daring your opponent to expend a creature.
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Gatecrash Preview: Contaminated Ground
I feel icky just touching the card
Yes, it’s bad. I would not consider packing it in my 40-card deck, even as a 22-23d card. If I got stuck with some multiples I MIGHT consider siding them in versus opponents that seem to get color/mana screwed. That’s a stretch even at that. if your opponent is playing black, you might end up helping them.
Ew!
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Gatecrash Preview: Coerced Confession
Cute, but inefficient
Flavour is there. Lazav approves. I just don’t like it. You’re paying 5 for something that should have Cipher, but doesn’t.
Some grindy casual low budget mill decks will run it and have fun though.
I would hesitate to play it even in Draft and 100% not playing it in Sealed.
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Gatecrash Preview: Cloudfin Raptor
Having a bad ‘Birds’ flashback!
If there is one ‘Evolve’ creature that is expected to see Constructed play, this is it. It gets dropped on turn 1 and continues to deliver the beatdown as long as you can curve out. Dropping a second one on turn 2 followed by a 1 power creature like Delver of Secrets (for example) can be big. Next turn, flip Delver, play a 2 power guy and attack for 7 in the air!
Standard Delver ressurgence? Maybe …
I know it sounds a little sketchy, but trust me. You will see this across from you in a Standard event. Maybe even something like Red/Blue Weenie burn. Who knows?
Just like a Sweepstakes: many will enter, few will win.
Now go evolve your new Standard decks with Gatecrash!
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Gatecrash Preview: Clinging Anemones
Nice! Two abilities!
Yes, that was sarcasm! Obviously being a defender hurts it a lot and even if it wasn’t, it would never see constructed play. Ever!
Er…I mean : Get your playset today!
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Gatecrash Preview: Cinder Elemental
We’ve met before, no?
Yeah, I remember now …
Just kidding! It’s not exactly creature you would remember much unless you did some Mercadian Masques block limited events. It was even better back then since combat damage went on the stack and stuff.
You 100% want this in any red draft/sealed deck as it splashes well and doubles as a removal/potential win condition. If you are playing Red/White/Black, attack with Treasury Thrull and get this guy back to keep Blazing your opponent or his creatures. Not ‘blazingly fast’ though, more like ‘blazingly slow’ but it’s fine, we’re in a limited format.
He can obviously just chump a creature then tap, shoot and kill another one. Not bad at all for a little uncommon!
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Gatecrash Preview: Cartel Aristocrat
Not quite Falkenrath Aristocrat eh?
Nice something that looks like a vampire but isn’t. It’s definitely a great sacrifice outlet that can potentially become unblockable or dodge a removal by pushing someone in the way of it. (Love the quote) Stats are fine for the cost too. You can sacrifice a ‘enters’ the battlefield creature to it and use Treasury Thrull to get it back and repeat.
It does have a slim chance of seeing Standard play. I was thinking that since it’s a human it can fit into a deck featuring Ravenous Demon. Once you have nothing substantial to sacrifice to the demon, you can cast this guy and sac the demon and not fall victim to its disgusting drawback. Ouch!
Stranger things HAVE happened!
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Gatecrash Preview: Burning-Tree Emissary
Combo?
Quite an interesting creature in aggressive decks as it can be a free 2/2 creature. Sometimes you can chain one into another into another. It’s more probable in Limited due to the 40 card deck size versus 60 in constructed.
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Combo!
I’m not convinced this thing will be good enough in Constructed but people will try, that’s for sure! I like it personally because in older formats you can play it on turn to into something like Umezawa’s Jitte which is great.
If you bring a bunch back from your graveyard via something like Living Death you get a mana refund which is kinda cool.
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Gatecrash Preview: Boros Keyrune
Cute, but good enough?
Ah! another keyrune. While a little more costly than the original Ravnica Signets, they do give mana on their own and also animate into creatures when needed.
This one basically becomes a Boros Swiftblade. Sure it’s cool and all, but how often do you see this being good? if you do have an equipment to slap onto this, keep in mind it will cost you 2 to ‘creaturize’ this and 2 or more to equip. Not very efficient methinks.
Alternatively….
Cipher? of course!
From the Gatecrash FAQ:
“702.97c The card with cipher remains encoded on the chosen creature as long as the card with cipher remains exiled and the creature remains on the battlefield. The card remains encoded on that object even if it changes controller or stops being a creature, as long as it remains on the battlefield.”
Nice! So we can Cipher things onto it. What would the advantage be? Well, over the other keyrunes, I’d say that this one woudl cause Ciphere to trigger twice. That’s double peanut butter and chocolate awesome!
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Double Yummy!
The color combination might be off though, since it might be 4 color. But if we go with blue/white/red we have a few ciphers to work with:
Which seems cooler to you?
Obviously Stolen Identit right?
Did you catch it?
That’s right! you’re not only cloning a creature, you’re cloning Mana! That’s some kind of weird ramp, no? I think it’s rather funny. An ‘Explosive Vegetation‘ each time you double strike. Of course you can just copy a better creature but this gets you infinite more style points.
The other 2 are fine as well. One is like a ‘double Frost Titan‘ and the other a better Thieving Magpie. Either way, it’s probably something to think about. Otherwise, you are just looking at hitting for two damage on an post-Supreme Verdict battlefield.
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