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[Gatecrash] 5 additional new 1/7/13 spoilers

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 3:37 pm
by Thrillho
From around the webs:
Boros Keyrune 3
Artifact
t: Add W or R to your mana pool.
WR: ~ becomes a 1/1 RW Soldier creature with double strike until end of turn.

Crocanura 2G
Creature -- Crocodile Frog
Reach
Evolve
1/3

AKA one of the Designer Challenge 2 Evolve cards with a streamlined Evolve keyword (the original had Evolve when a creature with flying ETB).

Dimir Charm UB
Instant
Choose one – Counter target sorcery spell; or destroy target creature with power 2 or less; or look at the top three cards of target player’s library, then put one back and the rest into that player’s graveyard.

Urban Evolution 3UG
Sorcery U
Draw three cards. You may play an additional land this turn.

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 4:21 pm
by Checkbox
what is that jap card please and thank you

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 6:34 pm
by Yannaria
Dimir Charm :thumbsup:
Envelope, Mini Smother, and a Mini Impulse. I approve.

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 8:28 pm
by Thrillho
I have very mixed feelings about Dimir Charm.
Swat hits a respectable number of creatures, even if many of those creatures have additional value you're not offsetting entirely by killing the dude (Snapcaster, Auger, Huntmaster) and that it can be countered by Selesnaya Charm.

Envelop doesn't seem very well positioned right now since the primary Sorcery of Standard is uncounterable (Supreme Verdict), and many of the other commonly played ones have Flashback (all of the ones in the various Unburial Rites decks). It does counter the flashback rites that your opponent will mill away, though, which is a fairly respectable advantage.

The last ability is a lot more complicated. It doesn't actually draw the card, so it's use as a small Impulse or Forbidden Alchemy is sort of moot, but it fuels Snapcaster as a worse Thought Scour that has two other modes, and you can win the lottery by Portenting your opponent. It does not put as
many cards into your graveyard as Mulch or its analogs do, so it's unlikely to have a place in Chronic Flooding-style decks.

I feel like it doesn't shine as brightly as Azorius or Selesnaya Charms, but it's probably just below both in terms of constructed permeability... but how many "three marginal effects on one card" cards do you possibly need for a control deck when Azorius Charm effectively fills that role?

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 8:58 pm
by Kaitscralt
I like the Clans card and expect it to see play.

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 9:34 pm
by Thrillho
I like the Clans card and expect it to see play.
Thank you.

There are many redundant creatures in Standard right now and creature decks -- especially of the RG-inclusive type -- are pretty good. 2-mana instant random creature tutor means it's slightly worse than Eldamri's Call and essentially a random, creature-only Gifts Ungiven (or a merger of Gifts and Intuition but still only for creatures).

I expect it to see Standard play and think it's very likely to see Modern play.

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 9:57 pm
by Kaitscralt
Could you link the text for Boxcock, I am a busboy

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:00 pm
by Pendulum
I think just the fact that you can get Snapcaster and 2 efficient beaters will give people an excuse to test a RUG deck with the Clans card.

Edit- Skaab Ruinator and Thragtusk?

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:53 pm
by Kaitscralt
Signal the Clans {R}{G} Rare
Instant
Search your library for three creature cards and reveal them. If you searched for three cards with different names, choose one at random and put it into your hand. Shuffle the rest into your library.

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 11:07 pm
by iamabadman
i like that there is a crocodile frog creature, because lol crocofrog.

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 11:39 pm
by Pendulum
Signal the Clans {R}{G} Rare
Instant
Search your library for three creature cards and reveal them. If you searched for three cards with different names, choose one at random and put it into your hand. Shuffle the rest into your library.
Oh, son of a bitch. That's it, I'm learning Japanese.

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 11:41 pm
by Kaitscralt
It's still a really powerful card. Shuffling back up allows you to keep finding the same singletons over and over again.

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 3:54 am
by iamabadman
CROCOFROG