We need more power! I guess this is how characters like Yawgmoth get started, huh? Your standard drain package? Sure, these first four cards are in basically every mono-black deck that sacrifices anything, but when was the last time you thought about Deathgreeter?
Black Market and Liliana, Dreadhorde General are back! If you find yourself sacrificing a lot of nontoken creatures, Grim Haruspex and Harvester of Souls could be good additions.
I love how Modern Horizons has brought characters like Urza and Yawgmoth back into Magic as cards, even if Urza is a little bit of a blunt instrument for my tastes. Very flavorful, though! Skip to content. Buy This List. Share this: Twitter Facebook. About The Author. He's been writing about Commander since and enjoys building casual, fun decks to play with friends after long days at tournaments.
There are no comments yet for this card. Incredible ability tied to a drawback that makes you think twice before putting it in a deck. This is the blackest card in the set. Report Abuse. Seems like it could be fun in multiplayer games, where you provide a gift for one of the players who didn't kill it.
Or stick it on a Soul Foundry. Treacherous Pit-Dweller tokens won't come back to haunt you. When it comes back, morph Chromeshell Crab. It allows us to create the game in a way that one single visionary never could, but it does mean there are cards like this that make me personally twitch a little. My mantra for this card is "At least it's not Hornet Sting. So Avacyn Restored needed basic land. Every large set has basic land.
This was a large set, though, that would restart the draft environment, so we wanted new art for them. The problem, though, was that although the tone of the set has changed radically from the two other sets in the block, the actual geography had not. The solution was an elegant one. Let the artists of the Avacyn Restored basic lands go back and show the same scenes from the Innistrad basic land but now with a lighter, less ominous feel. How do we show the change on Innistrad?
Through the contrast of the basic lands. If you want to see more of this, check out this Magic Arcana. This card solved an interesting design problem. We wanted the flavor of the humans driving out the monsters. The problem, though, was that Avacyn Restored was being drafted by itself and the change in the tone of the set meant there were a lot fewer monster cards in the set.
By letting the card name a creature type, it had the flavor we wanted and allowed players in Constructed to use this card as an answer to tribal-themed monster decks. In Limited though, you can use it however you need to, meaning you can name things like Angels and Humans.
The fact that you name it allows needed functionality while keeping the flavor. Here's a common problem we have in design. You have some neat iconic part of the set that you want to make super splashy and cool.
This tends to lead you to design one or more mythic rare cards, but I keep talking about how we want your themes brought down to common so we make sure all the players actually see them. Case in point for this set: Avacyn and Griselbrand.
Clearly, these legendary creatures wanted to be mythic rares, but how do we make sure the guy who buys ten packs has a chance of ever hearing of them? Okay, in Avacyn's case we went the distance and put her in the name of the set. Hopefully, that gets the job done for her, but what about Griselbrand? The trick to solving this problem is to create things associated with the legendary creatures in question.
Sometimes these cards can be spells, and sometimes they are creatures or enchantments or lands. Often, they're artifacts, as flavor loves concrete items. The scrolls were designed for multiple reasons. One was to show contrast between the forces of good and the forces of evil. Note that the mechanics mirror each other to create this sense of conflict. Another important reason to do them is because we want to create associations with our main characters.
We want to get their names on common cards and we want to help associate a feel with each character. Avacyn likes angels and wants to help you. Griselbrand likes demons and likes hurting people—in this case, your opponent.
These cards might seem very innocuous but they are doing very important work communicating the major themes of the set.
The number one comment with Tamiyo I've received is, "She doesn't feel like she belongs in this block. That's the point. It's very easy to gloss over what a Planeswalker is because we don't play up their Planeswalkerness as much as we could.
Mostly you just see the Planeswalkers on the cards. They're just here—wherever here may be. What gets forgotten is how they got here.
It's very easy to think of Planeswalkers as just a fancy way to say wizards or mages but it misses a key defining point. What exactly is a Planeswalker in the world of Magic?
The answer is that Planeswalkers all share but one trait. A Planeswalker has the ability to walk between planes. This might sound silly, but the concept is very important. Almost everyone who lives in the Multiverse has no idea of its existence. They live on a plane and for all they know that is what exists. Planeswalkers, though, have a special ability what we call "a spark" that allows them to travel between these planes.
That sole ability is what defines Planeswalkers. They are a special lot because they have learned a major fact about the Multiverse no one else knows. I bring this up because one of the things we don't do that often is play up the fact that Planeswalkers normally aren't from the plane we see them in. The question to me isn't "Why does Tamiyo seem out of place?
For example, there are many more worlds we've visited than ones we can return to, so using Planeswalkers as a means to tip our hat to them might be something we want to do more. A lot of that, though, is going to depend on how Tamiyo is received. If players like having a Planeswalker clearly from a plane of Magic 's past, perhaps we'll do more. I know I'd like to see more Planeswalkers who feel like they come from somewhere else.
I've done a lot of interviews for Avacyn Restored. In just about all of them I'm asked what my favorite card is from the set. In each one, I say Thatcher Revolt. Why , you might ask? The card is not at all splashy and doesn't even seem on the surface like it has much to do with Avacyn Restored. This is the Angel set.
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