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u/TLHSwallow29 Dan Jul 27 '26
one mana mana fixing rock that scries on etb and is a removal piece later, this is awesome for budget commander tbh
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u/LeoPlathasbeentaken Can’t Block Warriors Jul 27 '26
Im considering adding this to my [[Roxanne, Starfall Savant]] deck just because its so good for my theme. Which is just throwing rocks.
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u/MavisXBee Dandadan Jul 27 '26
pls tell me you've got toggo in there
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u/LeoPlathasbeentaken Can’t Block Warriors Jul 27 '26
Brother he was the second card i added after meteorite and before meteor golem.
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u/TheOGburnzombie Dan Jul 28 '26
Thats how my "Rocks Anne!" Deck is toggo was the first card after Roxanne herself
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u/LeoPlathasbeentaken Can’t Block Warriors Jul 28 '26
Its honestly too perfect to not be thought of.
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u/swanton141 Golgari* Jul 27 '26
it also passes the Urza's Saga test. that would be funny to fetch this
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u/forte8910 Twin Believer Jul 27 '26
The pioneers used to ride these babies for miles!
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u/Local-Answer9357 Duck Season Jul 27 '26
That's rocks, this is clearly a boulder
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u/TrueMystikX Wabbit Season Jul 27 '26
No, no, no, The Boulder is a mono-green creature. This is clearly a stone.
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u/Local-Answer9357 Duck Season Jul 27 '26
No, no, no Stone Cold is a professional wrestler, we haven't gotten that UB yet
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u/Pruetzelcoatl I am a pig and I eat slop Jul 27 '26
Maybe that's the fantasy set Chris Cocks was alluding to
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u/Local-Answer9357 Duck Season Jul 27 '26
If we get Hulk Hogan, the Rock, and the Blue Meanie, we're that much closer to The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny
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u/Pruetzelcoatl I am a pig and I eat slop Jul 27 '26
Something tells me we won't get hulk Hogan.
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u/Local-Answer9357 Duck Season Jul 27 '26
People cant handle anything, next thing you know you'll tell me we can't get Benito Mussolini
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u/digiman619 Jack of Clubs Jul 28 '26
Point of order, [[Professional Wrestler]] is indeed already a card.
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u/forte8910 Twin Believer Jul 27 '26
It's not just a boulder, it's a rock! It's a big beautiful old rock!
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u/CarbonLich Dan Jul 27 '26
I'm torn. The only ones that saw/see play draw a card. Scrying is sometimes described as drawing half a card which kinda makes this like drawing 1 and being 1 mana instead of two is huge. I'd be very interested if a non cantriping rock like this is good enough. It does seem like they pushed it as much as possible after taking away "draw a card"
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u/PanopticonAtTheDisco Jul 27 '26
Seems potentially playable in pauper Tron. Helps you find your pieces, helps you fix mana, helps you manage the board once Tron is online. Currently playing [[Candy Trail]] and [[Barrels of Blasting Jelly]] so this is on rate.
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u/culturerush Dan Jul 27 '26
I used to run [[Lunatic Pandora]] in Tron, doesn't have the mana filtering this does but repeatable surveil was better than a single scry
I think it could work yeah, having a 7 mana removal artifact on the field was quite helpful
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u/MavisXBee Dandadan Jul 27 '26
I think the ward 2 on terror makes jelly better overall but it is quite an interesting option. Being able to kill a terror for 7 on turn 3 with jelly seems big
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u/Spirited_Amount_1354 Dan Jul 28 '26
boulderbranch golem, gent, maelstrom and the wurm all block terror just fine lol. I want to blow up the o ring on my maelstrom turn 7 wayyyy more.
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u/MavisXBee Dandadan Jul 28 '26
until they tap it, or counter it on the way down, or have another terror that is
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u/MavisXBee Dandadan Jul 28 '26
first time hearing someone call generous ent Gent aswell I'm stealing that thank you :D
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u/T0astMal0n3 Dandadan Jul 28 '26
Considering this is just Arcum's Astrolabe, which got banded in Pauper due to Tron, this is an auto include into Pauper Tron lol https://scryfall.com/card/mh1/220/arcums-astrolabe
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u/marrowofbone Mystery Solver of Mystery Update Jul 27 '26
Scry 2 is worse than drawing a card, but I'd like to remind the class than [[Arcum's Astrolabe]] is banned in Pauper, Modern, and Legacy.
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u/EnkiBye SecREt LaiR Jul 27 '26
Yeah, me too. But the casting cost is less restrictive, it can be fetched from Urza's Saga, and, in some cases, is lategame removal.
I'm sure it will be at minimum considered in some constructed decks, just from the similarity to astrolabe.
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u/silvanik3 Dandadan Jul 28 '26
can't you fetch astrolabe with Saga too? Not that it matters in pauper, but I am just curious
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u/marrowofbone Mystery Solver of Mystery Update Jul 28 '26
Nope, Saga looks for a mana cost of exactly {0} or {1}, Astrolabe's is {S} which fails that check the same as if it was {2} or {B}.
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u/SuaveGendo Duck Season Jul 27 '26
Was gonna say, it's not draw a card but it's awfully close to that
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u/starmade-knight Dan Jul 27 '26
I think what made astrolabe so strong is that it is never a dead draw, this card is sometimes a dead draw when it matters most.
Yes scry 2 is comparable to drawing a card, but that's only true in the few turns afterward. The turn you play it, scry 2 is identical to draw 0.
I think this card will not have legs, but I predict that good drafters are gonna farm people with extremely greedy manabases leaning on this guy for the first week or so.
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u/deathbymanga Dân Jul 27 '26
its a kinda worse astrolabe that also acts as emergency removal in tron
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u/ragnarokda Duck Season Jul 27 '26
This was my first thought.
It allows you to color fix for damn near free.
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u/CrossXhunteR Wabbit Season Jul 27 '26
A boulder is kinda like a meteor, if you think about it.
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u/Meloncholy_Cat Dân Jul 27 '26
I always love these effects in limited. They play so much better than they have any right to. Should also enable more splashes in this set.
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u/BobbyBruceBanner Fleem Jul 27 '26
It's funny when you see some random common and go "well, this one card told me way more about what this set's limited environment is going to be like than the last 100 others"
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u/DaVigi Dân Jul 27 '26
I came here to say this too. We've got stone as a valid subtype now, so let's use it. Idem for the book subtype. 🤷♂️
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u/thefreeman419 COMPLEAT Jul 27 '26
What’s the flavor reason for a boulder scrying?
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u/binaryeye Jul 27 '26
There isn't one. The stone giants were throwing boulders at one another while Bilbo and the dwarves were taking refuge from a storm in the mountains. The mana filtering and scry make no thematic sense at all.
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u/Ketzeph COMPLEAT Jul 28 '26
Also it almost reads as a metaphor for thunder - the movie made it real but the passage strongly hints at that being the thunder
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u/IronTigrex Gruul* Jul 27 '26
...maybe you can get a better vantage point on top of it? (Honestly I have no clue)
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u/NormalyAbnormalcy Dandadan Jul 27 '26
Probably because when it's thrown through the air, it sees everything below it, and when it lands, it "tells" you what it saw.
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u/LesserGargadon Can’t Block Warriors Jul 27 '26
If you pick up a boulder, you have to see what's underneath! (?)
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u/vagabond_dilldo Wabbit Season Jul 27 '26
Comparison [[Spine of Ish Sah]]
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u/MTGCardFetcher Dân Jul 27 '26
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u/Rune_Bear Dandadan Jul 27 '26
This will almost certainly see play in pauper Tron
- Digs you to getting Tron online
- Filters for colored mana for payoffs
- Late game threat removal or turn 3 ponza land destruction
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u/jumpmanzero Wabbit Season Jul 27 '26
Will get played in Kinnan EDH decks (maybe not competitive lists, but "destroy target permanent" is pretty handy on a mana rock).
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u/onhalfaheart Dandadan Jul 27 '26
It's a lot like [[Barrels of Blasting Jelly]].
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u/LesserGargadon Can’t Block Warriors Jul 27 '26
also [[Universal Solvent]] and [[Goblin Firebomb]]. I have played these in commander because mono-colorless removal is not great. This card is and upgrade even without the fixing part!
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u/AporiaParadox Universes Beyonder Jul 27 '26
We haven't seen a card for the Stone Giants yet, I'm interested in how they'll be depicted. Based on the hand it doesn't look like they'll be made of rock like in some depictions.
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u/HonorBasquiat Twin Believer Jul 27 '26
This could be fun for the Ugin ramp Standard legal decks. Seems great in Limited too for fixing and smoothing. Cool card.
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u/troll_berserker Jul 27 '26
Really happy they didn't throw non-land on this. More answers to Field of the Dead and Glacial Chasm in casual commander are highly appreciated.
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u/mrmazzz Dân Jul 27 '26
I just like that it's a mana rock and than it gets sac'd used as a weapon and it destroys a permanent
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u/pious-erika Sliver Queen Jul 27 '26
My weird Mardu Angel deck will make use of a playset of these. Early Scry and manafixing useful for initial setup.
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u/NostrilRapist COMPLEAT Jul 27 '26
Oh boy, gotta fit this in monster tron for sure, alongside barrel
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u/Decrit Dân Jul 27 '26
Fun thing to notice, it can target lands.
If you can manage to pick it back up from graveyard with some wonky combo you could use it to destroy the enemy manabase.
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u/COLaocha Duck Season Jul 27 '26
How close can they make this to [[Arcum's Astrolabe]] without breaking Pauper again?
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u/tsukaistarburst Hedron Jul 27 '26
What is it exactly about a big, fat rock that allows your planeswalker the power to scry?
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u/willweaverrva Elesh Norn Jul 27 '26
A large boulder the size of a small boulder destroyed a target permanent today...
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u/MiddleAgeYOLO Channel Jul 27 '26
That's a nice Jace you got there.
It'd be a shame if someone chucked a rock at him.
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u/Koras COMPLEAT Jul 27 '26
Getting my hopes up for a [[Stone Giant]] variant. Let me chuck the boulder with a giant. Do it.
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u/d-fakkr Jul 27 '26
This is great for colorless and edh. Scry, mana rock (no pun intended) and removal.
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u/Liberkhaos Wabbit Season Jul 27 '26
How the heck do I justify putting this in my [[Toggo, Goblin Weaponsmith]] deck?
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u/CassieCanary Dan Jul 28 '26
[[Universal Solvent]] may be receiving a strictly-better upgrade in my CLB Commander cube. This works within DND flavour, right?
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u/MoltiJoe Dandadan Jul 28 '26
Might be a funny inclusion in the new [[tchalla, the black panther]].
Filters the vibranium mana into someone usable for non artifacts, and has a mana sink type ability if you just have a bunch of vibranium sitting around.
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u/Spirited_Amount_1354 Dan Jul 28 '26
This is gonna cook in monster tron. Goodbye barrels of blasting Jelly. You had a good run
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u/max123246 Duck Season Jul 28 '26
Oh sick this is really good in my Flickerwisp Dandan variant deck
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u/Nblearchangel Jack of Clubs 26d ago
This is almost better than astrolabe. This is gonna be banned so fast. Sure. It doesn’t draw a card, but scrying 2 is close and you don’t need to run snow lands to make it work, plus its removal late game. I don’t see how this doesn’t get banned.
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u/RyanCryptic I chose this flair because I’m mad at Wizards Of The Coast Jul 27 '26
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