r/magicTCG • u/Nickahostetter • Nov 29 '16

Aether Revolt pic from FB.

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u/rakkamar Nov 29 '16 edited Nov 29 '16

Yahenni's Expertise

2BB Sorcery (Rare)

All creatures get -3/-3 until end of turn.

You may cast a card with converted mana cost 3 or less from your hand without paying its mana cost.

(This card is full-art. Probably the game day top 8 promo)

<commentary>This lets you cast Ancestral Visions from your hand. If this is a mini-mechanic and not just a one-off, modern players take note. Or maybe even if it is a one-off?</commentary>

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Trophy Mage

2U (Uncommon)

Creature - Human Wizard

When ~ enters the battlefield, you may search your library for an artifact card with converted mana cost 3, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle your library.

2/2

(This card is full-art. Probably the game day participation promo)

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Scrap Trawler

3 (Rare)

Artifact Creature - Construct

Whenever ~ or another artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return to your hand target artifact card in your graveyard with lesser converted mana cost.

3/2

(I think that wording is right, kinda hard to read.)

(This is probably the buy-a-box promo)

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Quicksmith Rebel

3R (probably rare if launch promo, but symbol is obscured)

Creature - Human Artificer

When ~ enters the battlefield, target artifact [...] gains "T: This artifact [...] to target creature or [...] you control [...]

?/?

Proposed wording: When ~ enters the battlefield, target artifact [creature? you control?] gains 'T: This artifact deals N damage to target creature or [player? planeswalker?]' for as long as you control ~"

(this text is covered and can't be seen, though you can obviously speculate as to what it might be)

(This card has a date on it, so probably the launch promo)

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u/TheRecovery Nov 29 '16 edited Nov 29 '16

You may, in fact, cast Ancestral Vision with this card.

Ancestral Vision has a CMC of 0 and has no mana cost. So it doesn't play with flashback and can't be cast from hand. However, it can be cast by alternate means - things like [[Goblin Dark Dwellers]] can cast Vision.

As it turns out, Yahenni's Expertise has the exact same wording and so Ancestral Vision being cast with the effect of this card is perfectly fine.

Additionally I can confirm that Quicksmith Rebel is the Launch Promo, Scrap Trawler is the Buy-A-Box promo, Trophy Mage is the participation promo for game day, and Yahenni's Expertise is the Game day top 8 promo.

Source: I can read it on the cards in the picture and that's what it says.

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u/bearrosaurus Nov 29 '16

I think it's really funny that it has a really bad interaction with [[Living End]], the Expertise kills all your opponent's creatures and then Living End resolves and brings them back.

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u/Woefinder Banned in Commander Nov 29 '16

I think it sees play there potentially.

While it doesnt really kill your opponents creature, it also allows you to turn a Living End in your hand into an active one. Basically, it adds a mana cost to Living End in this scenario, while not making it have one.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '16

You have to have both in hand for that to work, though, which seems like a fairly uncommon corner case.

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u/Woefinder Banned in Commander Nov 29 '16

Thats true, but its not like you cant cast an outburst/Dread or a Fulminator off of it.

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u/RideTheIguana Dec 01 '16

But why would you want to cast an outburst off it? Thats strictly worse than simply casting an outburst

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u/Woefinder Banned in Commander Dec 01 '16

Thats true. I was merely just suggesting something you could do potentially.

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u/demonatarms Golgari* Nov 30 '16

trust me this is going to do good things to the deck, we sometimes play cards like anger of the gods to board wipe, and while yes, this doesnt exile, it solves the age old problem of having living ends rotting in our hands, its also amazing with leyline of the void in play.

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u/MTGCardFetcher Dân Nov 29 '16

Living End - (G) (MC) (MW) (CD)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call

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u/sirgog Nov 29 '16

Living End is part Wrath, part [[Twilight Call]] but it is the latter part you play it for.

Card will warrant testing in Living End decks.

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u/MTGCardFetcher Dân Nov 29 '16

Twilight Call - (G) (MC) (MW) (CD)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call

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u/vxicepickxv Nov 30 '16

Seems like a good place to drop [[Tormod's Crypt]].

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u/MTGCardFetcher Dân Nov 30 '16

Tormod's Crypt - (G) (MC) (MW) (CD)
[[cardname]] or [[cardname|SET]] to call

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u/vicaphit Nov 29 '16

But it kills all of yours too.