Ravnica Allegiance Card Gallery (3/8/19)

https://d3go.com/magic-puzzle-quest-ravnica-allegiance-set-gallery/

Its up!

And I've gotta say, I really like what I see there.  The mythics and masterpieces are powerful and look fun to build around, but none seem super game-breaking (Lavinia seems filthy for legacy, though).

I love how adapt looks (and am by no means biased by my love for Simic), and the other mechanics don't look half bad either.

I know there's a lot of hate going around now, but this is something to be excited about.

OmegaLolrus said:

Yeah, I leveled Kiora up to 60 specifically to make sure I could get all the Simic lovin' I could get into one deck. I'm really glad to see my faith was rewarded.

Really?  You didn't do it because she's the best walker in the game?  (or top 5 if you don't agree with best lol)

Somehow I always get the most excited about commons and uncommons. In this case, Goblin Gathering and Sentinel's Mark have me the most interested.

Among the Mythics/MPs there's several that struck me as being toned-down versions of cards from SOI/EMN. Walking Archive is basically the return of Sage of Ancient Lore, Angel of Grace is a smaller, cheaper Avacyn but with Flash instead of Transform (she might actually be better than Avacyn TBH), and of course End-Raze Forerunners means Bacon's back on the (standard) menu.

Lot of solid rares, too. Cindervine's a great anti-combo-deck card, too bad we won't need it anymore.

Bunch of typos and a few issues with card formatting, but it's just a preview gallery, one hopes they'll sort that out before release.

Brigby said:

*Merged same thread topics together

Wow, way to steal my thread     

I saw a couple of cards that where quite similar to existing cards, ill-gotten inheritance seems a lot like campaign of vengeance same cost only COV is better with multiple creatures on the field.

The lockets, gates and rare lands bloats the size of the set, but love the gate shenanigans will definitely have some fun with the gates.

So far nothing have stood out as insanely OP, but I only browsed mainly looking at rare, mythic and MP.

I got a sense that cost has generally been increased. Anyone else get that feeling?

I thought the common and uncommon has a bit higher cost than usual.

I'm amazed how Replicate powercrept Quasiduplicate in the span of a single set.

Brakkis said:

Deputy of Detention in paper - Exile that nonland card, and every card with the same name.

Deputy of Detention in PQ - Exile that creature. Give them a copy of it so it can just come right back.

I think they still have to save up the mana to cast it. Deputy of Detention in paper magic returns the creature to play once it leaves, so I think trying to make an actual oblivion ring effect in this game is hard. Think about Ixalan's Binding, it doesn't give the creature back if the support is destroyed. Also In Bolas's Clutches doesn't give the creature back when destroyed either.

madwren said:

I'm amazed how Replicate powercrept Quasiduplicate in the span of a single set.

I think they're pretty equal.  The Jump Start on Quasi is a huge bonus (since you never have to draw it to use it and it fuels itself), but Replicate gives the double-reinforce much more quickly.  Fair is fair.