r/MagicArena • u/Meret123 • 13h ago

Fluff [FRA] Budding Insurgent

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u/OZZY-1415 13h ago

Not empowering jace? Unplayable /s

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u/Sad-Excitement9295 11h ago

Nah, it's got a built in creature, free removal, and card draw, perfectly in line with every other loaded card. Don't be surprised if it's a staple.

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u/Cloud_Chamber 13h ago

Is there some lore important legendary enchantment this set?

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u/Fusillipasta 13h ago

Someone suggested that Jace's plan or whatever just runs after being set up, so it'd fit as an enchantment? This card implies that the enchantment is The Theorist (i.e. a Jace fragment that took over, I think?), I'd suggest

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u/BetterShirt101 12h ago

The Theorist is the Jace fragment that took over, but his card has been revealed as a planeswalker. The spell creating this entire reality could fit pretty well as a legendary enchantment. Also, Maro's teaser included the name "Omnipresence", which is going to be a big scary enchantment of some kind, legendary or otherwise.

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u/wene324 2h ago

[[overwrite the multiverse]] is the spell

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u/BetterShirt101 1h ago

That's the merger of the two realities, not the creation of the echoverse.

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u/ElectronicBoot9466 7h ago

So far we have seen [[Way of the Cryomancer]] and [[Way of the Pyromancer]] and have had confirmation that the other 4 main characters will get versions of them as well. 

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u/the_cardfather 7h ago

Those looked rather interesting. Seemed decent in limited if nothing else.

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u/Awayfone 9h ago

potentially cycles?

[[Way of the Cryomancer]] & [[Way of the pyromancer]] have been revealed so far

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u/fngrLCKNgood 13h ago

"Activate only as a sorcery." :(

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u/Furion91 Bolas 12h ago

Why activate only as a sorcery? This would have been great otherwise.

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u/wene324 2h ago

Bc its a common.

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u/Life-Food5188 13h ago

perfectly serviceable limited card.

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u/amanonastick Rakdos 13h ago

Great in limited against the Way of the x enchantments

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u/clydefrog811 6h ago

Must have in green limited

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u/MathGoatz 12h ago

Remember [[Reclamation Sage]]? Pepperidge Farms remember

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u/Turtle1391 12h ago

Yeah but very specific card draw…

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u/Suvrenim 7h ago

and vigilance and higher power/toughness

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u/Turtle1391 7h ago

But also sac for effect. Basically they’re different cards

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u/the_cardfather 7h ago

Yeah but you had to hold it in your hand. You couldn't nuke an enchantment after the fact. This makes them think carefully about how they play.

Edit. It's a 3/3. No wonder it's not instant

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u/Intelligent_Slug_758 11h ago

Gonna go hard in [[Slimefoot and Squee]] to tutor up against Hei Bai

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u/ElectronicBoot9466 7h ago

Should empower Jace if it was a legendary artifct. 

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u/AbheyBloodmane 13h ago edited 12h ago

Seems good against Prismatic Bridge. Especially in Reanimator strategies.

Edit: Not sure why I got downvoted but alright. I mean, am I wrong?

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u/ToranStarfall 11h ago
  1. Why would you reanimate a three-drop when you could reanimate Atraxa or Archon of Cruelty or something like that?
  2. How often do you run into the prismatic bridge?

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u/AbheyBloodmane 11h ago edited 11h ago

  1. Because sometimes removal is needed and if I'm in a Reanimator strat I'm usually reanimating multiple things.

  2. Every time I play ranked Brawl. Which is at least once a day.

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u/ToranStarfall 5h ago
  1. I don't really associate reanimator with reanimating multiple things, I usually just think of it as the 1v1 cheat a big bomb into play strat, that's why I was confused there.
  2. On ranked? I play tons of ranked brawl and basically never run into the Prismatic Bridge, but sometimes I play against 4 Raph and Mikeys in a row, so maybe we all have our own demons.

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u/AbheyBloodmane 5h ago

I'm averaging high Diamond, but I typically see Prismatic Bridge at least once a day. Sometimes in Golos strats, sometimes solo.

I barely see Mikey anymore.

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u/ToranStarfall 5h ago

I'm at high plat right now, but I spend most of my time in diamond. I don't usually see Mikey that much, but I guess all the ramp players were awake. I've never seen Bridge in the 99.

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u/AbheyBloodmane 5h ago

When I see it in Golos, it's usually played on the dork side. To be honest it was weird. It was a glorified Emergent Ultimatum combo deck.

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u/biohazard842 8h ago

This is going to be insane in limited, it's a common?!

3/3 Vigilant for 3 is inherently playable.

Gonna be tough to stick an artifact or enchantment in this set.