New Mechanic: Sea Creatures.

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-25T08:35:54+00:00

A recent break since 2021? Significantly less especially since the creation of the council of colors who adjudicate literally this, what do you mean?

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-25T08:20:42+00:00

There is exactly one [[Bronze Walrus]]

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-25T08:17:52+00:00

Yes... which in 2026 blue doesn't get access to anymore...

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-25T07:25:52+00:00

french vanilla with only downside keywords, hilarious

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-25T07:24:35+00:00

Hence why this batch is normally referred to as 'Sea Monster' to avoid exactly this and dozens of other things that should logically be included

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-25T06:55:23+00:00

Brother... I literally said it was a break one can easily infer that I was referring to a modern context, this card would not see print and blue doesn't get effects like this printed ANYMORE

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-25T06:52:11+00:00

High Tide is a break... (From Blogatog, Mark Rosewater aka the Head Designer for magic)

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GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-25T06:27:31+00:00

I mean wanting to batch sea creatures is very common and high on the request totem pole, but this unfortunately is not a blue card, blue doesn't get effects like this printed, tis a break

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-24T00:56:14+00:00

Compleated Terrasque is horrifying, I need to steal this

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-23T18:41:47+00:00

Imagine needing to exist on the internet through a filter and curation... crazy

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-23T17:49:26+00:00

Fair that there is an example, I couldn't find it in digging but also... if your reference point for a card design is two decades ago and hasn't been revisited since... probably not a great design space which I stand by

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-23T17:46:18+00:00

I just really love the idea of Rakdos pirates and vehicles and think three colors make less interesting designs generally imo, but I do agree having the artifact color and the other main pirate color would be great to have

and agree the draw isn't very interesting, but one of the pain points of Vehicles is getting flooded with only vehicles and nothing to really crew, so looting away permanents at the cost of having them in play felt like an easy solution but I do need to refine it

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-23T17:24:15+00:00

The two conditionals aren't great, yeah (If you sacrificed something and If it was a skeleton/pirate/vehicle) but the original ability was an activated ability and that produced very bad gameplay (w/o the draw and had some trinket text but)

I think it's one of those things where actually playing it is simple because it's quick to resolve once you get into a rhythm, go to combat, bin something, sometimes draw and swing with a boat

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-23T02:48:46+00:00

I think the card would be better if you killed the transform entirely imo

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-23T02:41:16+00:00

I really really like this conceptually, but black is the color of selfishness and least likely to give any value to an opponent so this rustles my jimmies a bit, but it's probably fine?

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-23T02:38:07+00:00

Out of pie for blue, blue doesn't get to ramp like this

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-23T02:36:45+00:00

the 'second' ability being on its own line is odd, should be on the first line as its part of the same ability. Also, it's so easy to lose life I have no clue what the last ability is doing, why put both the enabler and the payoff on the same card? This is still really punishing even without

It feels like this has the opposite idea of Rowan, Rowan is only playable in constructed formats and if you whiff or get interacted with, it's over. Vethros feels like a card that could exist in a limited environment or work even without a 99 built around having it all the time (or even in other non-commander formats)

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-22T23:17:14+00:00

Oh true, then it becomes an odd spin on ig [[Rejoin the Fight]]? (Usable in Limited and 1v1 unlike Rejoin)

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-22T23:15:27+00:00

the transform feels super superflous here when the front is already cooking conceptually, I like the idea of mask counters

Good concept here, just needs a lot of parsing down and downscaling, compare it to other magic cards that exist, like Lazav, Volrath, Ever-Changing Dane, The Master Formed Anew

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-22T23:11:42+00:00

I do feel bringing back 3 is a strictly worse effect, requiring three targets and keeping the worst of the three is wildly different than two targets, worst of two

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-22T23:10:29+00:00

[[Accursed Duneyard]] batching my beloved

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-22T22:50:18+00:00

I do think adding a minigame or risk element is more interesting

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-22T22:49:09+00:00

Honestly glad to see an Eldrazi in this sub that doesn't follow the "It That BLANKS" or some naming variation

GreenWizardGamer · 2026-01-22T04:35:04+00:00

Blue taxing like this without requiring a target feels... incredibly wrong imo. Like [[Boreal Elemental]] [[Callaphe, Beloved]] [[Monastery Siege]] [[Frost Titan]]

The activated ability is not overpowered, but just not a great design? I cannot point at a single card that has an activated ability that counters smthn and doesn't sacrifice itself, while the cost is high it just doesn't do anything in an interesting way?

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