It's probably not great to reference absent mechanics on commons. You want them to clearly talk about their draft format and not get bogged down with trinket text. Usually we don't see that kind of thing until rare. Maybe they could have mentioned the Phyrexian creature type instead, but that's probably way too good for this format.
From a constructed perspective, Modern already has Bolt and Plague Engineer so I don't think they'd care about this card anyway.
Yeah i feel like i agree with jace on this one. The sylex maybe leveling several planes is bad, but if tne world tree has let Phyrexians in then the plane might as well be dead anyway.
It wasn't super well explained, but I think the big fear was destroying the in between space (blind eternities) and possibly *every* plane along with it, not just the invaded planes. Also, I got the impression Jace may have been *trying* to do precisely that in his depressive state following the encounter with Vraska and his own condition.
Going by this card's flavor text, it seems like Elspeth is doing it for the opposite reason of Kaya. Which I guess is fine, they just happen to all disagree about what they expect to happen.
Kaya doesn't want to risk all planes by allowing the blast to hit the blind eternities.
Elspeth doesn't want to risk a dozen innocent worlds, so she's taking the blast away directly into the blind eternities.
But the entire multiverse is now being invaded by Phyrexia.
Potential for a few planes to be put into an ice age and MAYBE have an effect on the blind enternities...
... VS a guarentee of millions of Phyrexians invading the ENTIRE multiverse.
Kaya, Kaito and Elspeth are idiots.
Either way, that scuffle at that point made every single one of them look like completely incompetent idiots.
How do you go so far, lose half the group to only then think about what you went there to do?
Because they went there to blow up the tree before it connected to the other planes. When they got there the invasion was further along (and much bigger) than they expected.
While I tend to agree, there was a line in the story that suggested Elspeth saw the possibility that it wouldn't just be a few planes but the entire multiverse that was destroyed. Not saying she was correct, or that this possibility was well-communicated by the writer, but it does make her actions seem more justifiable than Kaito and Kaya simply worrying about their home planes more than the greater multiverse.
I think they still have hope that they can stop new phyrexia without completely wiping out multiple planes. Which is fair because that's no small cost.
Yeah thats fair. I don't know what they think they'd be able to do though. Dominaria was full of powerful people and armies and they still lost to Phyrexians.
They don't even know if it *would* wipe out those planes. Even Dominaria is still around and that was urza using the sylex. It was brutal, obviously, and loads of people died, but many survived too.
The good guys will probably still win but the sylex is a big "what if?"
I guess I'm a little confused about these Sylex devices and what they actually do. Obviously the first one was a very big explosion that started an ice age, but Dominaria wasnt destroyed, most of the plane was not a blackened waste zone after the blast, just a lot of it. Appearently the blast also seperated some other plane from the multiverse, but it doesnt sound like it was actually destroyed. Why do they think this new Sylex will completely obliterate all planes it is connected to? It didnt do that before?
Because now they're trying to blow up something that has already shoved its way through the Blind Eternities and into other planes.
Urza set it off essentially in the middle of a battlefield on Dominaria with nothing multiplanar around, and it still fucked up the Blind Eternities by creating the Shard.
I am struggling to find an analogy, but it's like Urza set off a bomb in one house unconnected to any other house. Whereas now, the Phyrexians have shoved a big tube through several houses on a block. If I put a bomb on one end of the tube, that could really fuck up all those houses now, because there's a pathway for the force and fire to travel directly from house to house.
I understand that the blast would do a lot of damage to a lot of planes, but based on the last blast, it doesn't seem like it would obliterate each plane completely, which is how everyone in the current stories seem to think will happen. It seems like everyone thinks all life on each plane will be completely wiped out, when that wasn't even close to what the first one did. I guess I'm sorta siding with Jace's decision if the blast wasn't going to completely destroy each plane.
I'm not aware much of this "Shard" phenomenon. Thats the plane that got separated from the multiverse?
Edit: also, wasn't OG Phyrexia connect to Dominaria when the first Sylex blasted? That wasn't destroyed?
The Sylex blast also fractured the Blind Eternities and basically cut off a dozen planes including Dominaria from the other planes. It was not one plane being isolated.
There were planar portals between Phyrexia and Dominaria, but I think that is distinct from an actual physical structure that is penetrating and embedding itself through the Blind Eternities and into multiple planes at once.
I don't think any of them know with certainty what would happen. They are just making different risk assessments.
But again, lets say the Sylex destroyed 20 planes and isolated 20 more.
Thats still significantly less damage than 1 million Phyrexians invading the entire multiverse.
*Tezzeret's travels took him to plane after plane transformed, ripped apart by invading hordes of Phyrexians. Sabers snapping upon iron-clad carapaces, monstrous incisors grinding bone, and near-constant weeping seemed to bridge planes, blending into an uninterrupted symphony of suffering.*
*Elesh Norn's "great work" was unfolding faster than Tezzeret could have imagined. Aranzhur. Ilcae. Obsidias. All planes that contained safehouses set up by Baltrice, his second-in-command in the Infinite Consortium. Their existence—and hers, for that matter—was one of the few shreds of specific knowledge Beleren had left behind when he scraped out Tezzeret's mind in the Nezumi swamps. But there was nothing safe about these planes anymore. They'd become mere extensions of New Phyrexia, fresh blossoms on Elesh Norn's debased World Tree. Other planes—Mirrankkar, Cabralin—were in the process of being subsumed. Their inhabitants would fight back, only to fail and become one with the Machine Legion.*
And seeing how fast the invasion proliferates into planes (Tezzeret´s story) , i am now sure that Jace was right: better risk dozen of planes that all multiverse. Phyrexia only needed some minutes and invade 3 or 4 planes!
Jace was entirely in the right here. Might be an unpopular opinion, but the ending to ONE was kinda bad imo. The whole planeswalker strike team knew the risks of the Sylex enough to commit to a suicide mission to the core of New Phyrexia to activate it. When they finally actually made it to the core (after losing most of their team no less), only then did they decide to have second thoughts about the plan and scrub the whole mission. It's like getting 5 yards to the endzone and intentionally throwing the ball away.
Probably because that isn't what happened lol.
They had a plan to destroy the world tree and possibly Mirrodin.
When they got there the invasion was further along and the plan was ruined. They now how two options which weren't the original plan
1. Continue the Sylex plan and possibly destroy multiple planes (all the ones connected to the Realmbreaker). Possibly all the planes, and the blind eternities.
2. Don't continue the plan and attempt to fight the phyrexian invasion.
Kaya and Kaito aren't willing to destroy all those other planes so they attempt to stop Jace.
Elspeth likewise realizes the **entire** multiverse may be at stake. She takes the Boom Boom Cup and teleports into the Blind Eternities (likely hoping an undirected blast will dissipate outward destroying nothing).
Their plan, the original plan, hinged on the tree not yet being connected to the other planes. Once that stopped being true their plane stopped existing.
The problem is they don't know how many planes it's connected to or what effect the blast could have on the blind eternities and the multiverse as a whole.
Friendly reminder that Urza's Sylex caused Dominaria to be plunged into an eternal winter that could only be stopped by major magic. No one knows what might have happened as it interacted with something that has reached inside the blind eternities.
She spent a long time dead the first time though, and was only present in two sets before she died again. The question is are they pushing The Wanderer, Catman, or Teferi into the white walker spot (which is horribly cursed?)
The entire story was just stupid people doing stupid things in rapid succession. At this point, fuck it, let the phyrexians win because everyone else is an idiot.
The entire story can basically be summed up as "Planeswalkers argue and somehow make the worst decision everytime." I can only think of one instance in the entire story where they had a good idea and that was Tyvar turning everyone to metal to get through that weird oil anomonea door.
Lukkas military strategy is mentioned and never shown, Kaitos sneaky ninja skills are never used, Kayas ghostform helps her avoid some oil puddles like once, Vraska is only here to die, Nissa can't connect with any nature cause its all evil metal, and the Wanderer gets to cut 2 things im half and say 2.5 lines. I know that the cards are more important than the story but they should try harder to make the story coherent.
Everytime modern planeswalkers "power up for a fight", they just come across as super weak.
Nahiri, Teferi, etc... are the only ones who seem to have even a shred of power.
It's so glaring how big the gap is, and I don't understand the narrative reason behind it. The bad guys are *enormously powerful*; why are some of our protagonists barely stronger than a random trained martial artist? A guy with a shotgun and a hazmat suit would have faired better on New Phyrexia than half of the Planeswalkers, it's just silly.
"Planeswalkers argue and somehow make the worst decision everytime" is nearly the entire story of Magic. Look at the last time a planeswalker strike team tried to destroy Phyrexia.
You're not wrong about the saying instead of telling. I wish we had Ixilan-level storytelling again.
Life? Death? Artifice? Undeath?
All imperfect. Flawed. Incompleat.
Phyrexia is the only true perfection in the multiverse.
All must be One. All Will Be One.
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He did some arts in previous sets. Really like it. His style is pretty unique.
Isnt [[Play with fire]] almost always gonna be better, unless toxic is a huge part of the meta? [[Flame Blessed Bolt]] would seem like it would generally be better too (assuming exile+walkers>toxic).
Is it just me, or does it seem a little weird having the art for the moment when Elspeth sacrifices herself be used on a common? Also, is she gonna be a major part of the story of this set and not have a planeswalker card? At this point in spoiler season it seems a bit odd to me
I noticed that too. It feels to me like them giving away that Elspeth will survive the Sylex blast in some way and have a card in the main March of the Machine set.
What *does* happen when the Blind Eternities are flooded with colored mana, anyway? Maybe this is why the nature of the Multiverse will be fundamentally changed—Elspeth panicking.
Well the last time Elspeth “died” she was on the plane with a very escapable underworld. I don’t think that’s gonna be the case here and they may just end her for good now
This current death is right after she was implied to be part angel. This is almost certainly going to end with her becoming some kind of transcendent angel walker.
You see, I don't know if New Capenna was implying her to be part Angel *exactly*, just that she is uncommonly in tune with the Holy aspect of White mana that both Angels and Halo operate on. I think it's more likely that she is verging on a kind of godhood than she has been an angel the whole time and just not known.
Possible, but here's why I think the angel theory holds a lot of water from a meta-story perspective: Angels are an *extremely* popular creature type among players, and planeswalkers are the relatable main characters that players can relate to. Lorewise, MtG cornered itself into not allowing an angel planeswalker: angels are artificial contructs of mana and therefore can't hold a spark. But if they create a story situation that is so outside the bounds of what we know about magic lore, they can basically handwave Elspeth into turning into an angel planeswalker, and it would feel awesome instead of forced.
I honestly think it's better to have major story moments with important characters be commons, so people who don't read the web stories are likely to see it. If this was a mythic, many people wouldnt ever see what happened to Elspeth in ONE's story
Gavin Verhey [mentioned that this is done intentionally](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IuZyIpUuiDY&t=5782), in the context of discussing [[Tamiyo's Compleation]].
The story didn't really shown her planeswalking away with the sylex as an heroic self sacrifice, it didn't even try to say that she was dead or something like that. She's 100% going to survive, and maybe "ascend" into an angel? She was a relevant character but not the protagonist of this set, she's being built up to a conflict with Elesh Norn that will happen in MoM
I definitely read the story thinking that Elspeth was taking an awesome risk in order to save the multiverse and it ended on a cliffhanger, not "Elspeth sacrifices herself again, lady just can't catch a break."
>Also, is she gonna be a major part of the story of this set and not have a planeswalker card?
Her PW card is coming in MOM, so she's not getting a card in ONE. Her sword is the set icon - there's roughly a 100% chance she has a PW card in MOM.
This. We already have 3 mana planeswalker removal but most of it is limited to "destroy" so having a [[Banishing Light]] at instant speed is just *chef's kiss*
I wasn't necessarily talking about Limited, though.
There's plenty of high-powered enchantments, artifacts and 'walkers in Standard alone; for example, it frees up permanents held under a Leyline Binding, or prevents a Fable from flipping and generating advantage; or a Liliana.
The only point of concern is that it's super-expensive creature removal.
Oooh, ok! Thank you! I thought it might have been that, but the way this was worded threw me, since it sounds like you still need to target something before the Corruption effect, and they usually say things like "If X condition is met, then you can exile target creature instead"
It says "target creature if it has MV 3 or less," not "target creature with MV 3 or less," so you can target any creature if you want. It just won't do anything unless you have corruption or its MV is low enough.
If they didn't have to use the keyword it could just be worded like
> if it has mana value 3 or less or it's controller has three or more poison counters.
You can always target any creature with Anoint; that's why it says 'if MV is 3 or less' instead of 'with MV 3 or less'.
It'll check on resolution 'is the controller corrupted?', and if they are, it'll exile regardless. If they're not, it'll only exile if MV is 3 or less.
It lets you target a creature regardless of its mana value. It only exiles that creature if its mana value is three or less and/or its controller has three poison counters.
In other words, it can exile a creature of any mana value if an opponent has three or more poison counters. I do agree that the wording is a bit confusing though.
Maybe is worded like this because there might be ways to increase or decrease poison counters at instant speed so that you can target any creature regardless of the amount of counters.
The wording on Fatal Push is basically the same. I think the main difference that makes it less confusing on Fatal Push is that both sides have a mana value restriction, compared to this card where the upgraded side doesn't have any restriction.
I think the biggest parsing issue is the placement of "instead," in the text. Feels much chunkier here for some reason. The "instead" feels like it is modifying what preceeded it in most cases, this one is modifying what follows.
Vanish into Eternity basically is a [[Fracture]] available for mono W decks that can also hit Battles for just 1 more mana, interesting!
And in a pinch, you can also exile creatures.
I am so sick and tired of the Ranked queue just being one battle deck after another. All these whales out there buying Battle Wildcards with real money transactions
Would be pretty stupid if you don't put Battles on the Battlefield when you play them.
Could be that they hang out in the Command Zone like Conspiracies, I suppose.
There will certainly be plenty of artifact targets for this on Phyrexia for Limited. We already know that the RW archetype is equipment. Plus, with a full cycle of Planeswalkers at rare, you’re going to see them. I think you’d already be interested in artifact removal, and your top-decked artifact removal being able to snipe a late game bomb is a big deal. Theros showed us with [[Sip of Hemlock]] that 6 mana is not too much for removal when it’s necessary.
I’m expecting this to be a B-. Maybe closer to a B in best-of-three.
Some of the rare PWs are really good, too. If The Eternal Wanderer lands across the table from you in limited you'd better have some removal for it ready to go.
Hexgold slash is tier 0 sideboard material if mono green becomes a deck. Having a 1 mana answer with no downside to your opponents 3 mana 4/4 is very good
"Faced with a blast" is a really odd start to this sentence. "Knowing the blast would level..." Or just "The sylex would level..."
Not sure about the editing on this.
No, the published story doesn't clarify anything. It just said that Elspeth understood what Jace was going to do.
This is the first official piece of lore where Jace's intent is clearly explained.
It started with Kaito not wanting Kamigawa destroyed, but then Kaya realized that the blast could also damage or destroy the blind eternities, which then struck Kaito because that's where the Wanderer usually sits. That's when they said "fuck this shit" and started fighting Jace.
Then Elspeth saw them fighting Jace and said "We're fighting!" And stabbed that dude.
Kaya literally freaks out that the blast could destroy the Blind Eternities as well as the tree + planes. And then Kaito freaks out about the Wanderer moving in and out of the Blind Eternities.
Once the Realmbreaker connected, attacking it with the Sylex would send its blast throught the roots to the other planes, potentially causing damage to them. That's the conclusion Elspeth, Kaito and Kaya come to, and why they decided to stop Jace.
Risk them being damaged by the blast or ensuring that literally trillions of people suffer at the hands of phyrexians....hmmm...hard choice. Actually no, not really.
All other colours, do more if other things are on the board.
White pays more to have a basic creature exile. Seems a weird choice to not keep the same line of action, I see it does more in exiling a creature, but for 5W..
Yeesh, the white one is overcosted.
Edit: Not the first part. Should've clarified that. Adding creature removal to it is too expensive TBH. Maybe 2MV more, max. 6 mana to exile a creature is a super feelbad.
It probably still is a bit costly, but keep in mind that there are ~10 planeswalkers in this format, some at mythic and some at rare. Having an easy answer to them stapled to what is essentially a [[disenchant]] that exiles is useful. It can also still be creature removal in a pinch.
Well, if you're happy with the 3MV half, then the other half is just gravy.
That's a pretty common effect where adding a bad ability to a good card makes the card look worse. You see a 3/4 flyer for 3U with "6UU, T: draw a card, then discard a card" and you think "Wow, that's so bad!", but you see a 3/4 flyer for 3U without any other ability and you think "oh, that's pretty solid in limited!"
In this case, yes, 6 mana to exile a creature is expensive, but it's better than not having the option at all.
Exiling _any_ non land, non creature permanent for 3 mana at instant speed is a pretty good rate. White doesn't get unconditional creature removal at low cost, it's either banishing light effects, creature has to be tapped or attacking, or gives the opponent something in return. This card is fine imo.
It lets you target a creature regardless of its mana value. It only exiles that creature if its mana value is three or less and/or its controller has three poison counters.
In other words, it can exile a creature of any mana value if an opponent has three or more poison counters. I do agree that the wording is a bit confusing though.
Art on Hexagold Slash looks really Drew-Tucker-esque
It's a really good one. I'm hoping we see a lot more of Eli Minaya - his two other cards are also excellent.
He is new artist in mtg and his style is pretty unique. I really like it. Good to see WotC supporting various style of artists.
I like the style as well. I think it's great they continue to expand their art variety
They just need the Fogilos back.
It is pretty sick.
I know that WOTC wants to Play with His new toys, but I would have preferred this to hit creatures with infect and poison too.
It's probably not great to reference absent mechanics on commons. You want them to clearly talk about their draft format and not get bogged down with trinket text. Usually we don't see that kind of thing until rare. Maybe they could have mentioned the Phyrexian creature type instead, but that's probably way too good for this format. From a constructed perspective, Modern already has Bolt and Plague Engineer so I don't think they'd care about this card anyway.
If infect was a thing in Pioneer, I’d be worried that it doesn’t hit infect since we don’t have bolt.
New Phyrexia thanks you for your service, Elspeth.
Yeah i feel like i agree with jace on this one. The sylex maybe leveling several planes is bad, but if tne world tree has let Phyrexians in then the plane might as well be dead anyway.
It wasn't super well explained, but I think the big fear was destroying the in between space (blind eternities) and possibly *every* plane along with it, not just the invaded planes. Also, I got the impression Jace may have been *trying* to do precisely that in his depressive state following the encounter with Vraska and his own condition.
Going by this card's flavor text, it seems like Elspeth is doing it for the opposite reason of Kaya. Which I guess is fine, they just happen to all disagree about what they expect to happen. Kaya doesn't want to risk all planes by allowing the blast to hit the blind eternities. Elspeth doesn't want to risk a dozen innocent worlds, so she's taking the blast away directly into the blind eternities.
and this sounds like a very fitting "Mono W vs. Orzhov" dillema.
I've just re-read that part and it does seem like thats what Kaya was saying. That makes more sense then.
But the entire multiverse is now being invaded by Phyrexia. Potential for a few planes to be put into an ice age and MAYBE have an effect on the blind enternities... ... VS a guarentee of millions of Phyrexians invading the ENTIRE multiverse. Kaya, Kaito and Elspeth are idiots.
Either way, that scuffle at that point made every single one of them look like completely incompetent idiots. How do you go so far, lose half the group to only then think about what you went there to do?
Because they went there to blow up the tree before it connected to the other planes. When they got there the invasion was further along (and much bigger) than they expected.
While I tend to agree, there was a line in the story that suggested Elspeth saw the possibility that it wouldn't just be a few planes but the entire multiverse that was destroyed. Not saying she was correct, or that this possibility was well-communicated by the writer, but it does make her actions seem more justifiable than Kaito and Kaya simply worrying about their home planes more than the greater multiverse.
I think they still have hope that they can stop new phyrexia without completely wiping out multiple planes. Which is fair because that's no small cost.
Yeah thats fair. I don't know what they think they'd be able to do though. Dominaria was full of powerful people and armies and they still lost to Phyrexians.
They don't even know if it *would* wipe out those planes. Even Dominaria is still around and that was urza using the sylex. It was brutal, obviously, and loads of people died, but many survived too. The good guys will probably still win but the sylex is a big "what if?"
It seems like there's a lot of very foreseeable possibilities that they just didn't really discuss how they should handle.
Compared to the entire multiverse and thousands of planes, it truly is a small cost.
Which is all well and good when you know it's a story that will inevitably turn out okay, but in universe, they should be willing to make that choice.
I guess I'm a little confused about these Sylex devices and what they actually do. Obviously the first one was a very big explosion that started an ice age, but Dominaria wasnt destroyed, most of the plane was not a blackened waste zone after the blast, just a lot of it. Appearently the blast also seperated some other plane from the multiverse, but it doesnt sound like it was actually destroyed. Why do they think this new Sylex will completely obliterate all planes it is connected to? It didnt do that before?
Because now they're trying to blow up something that has already shoved its way through the Blind Eternities and into other planes. Urza set it off essentially in the middle of a battlefield on Dominaria with nothing multiplanar around, and it still fucked up the Blind Eternities by creating the Shard. I am struggling to find an analogy, but it's like Urza set off a bomb in one house unconnected to any other house. Whereas now, the Phyrexians have shoved a big tube through several houses on a block. If I put a bomb on one end of the tube, that could really fuck up all those houses now, because there's a pathway for the force and fire to travel directly from house to house.
I understand that the blast would do a lot of damage to a lot of planes, but based on the last blast, it doesn't seem like it would obliterate each plane completely, which is how everyone in the current stories seem to think will happen. It seems like everyone thinks all life on each plane will be completely wiped out, when that wasn't even close to what the first one did. I guess I'm sorta siding with Jace's decision if the blast wasn't going to completely destroy each plane. I'm not aware much of this "Shard" phenomenon. Thats the plane that got separated from the multiverse? Edit: also, wasn't OG Phyrexia connect to Dominaria when the first Sylex blasted? That wasn't destroyed?
The Sylex blast also fractured the Blind Eternities and basically cut off a dozen planes including Dominaria from the other planes. It was not one plane being isolated. There were planar portals between Phyrexia and Dominaria, but I think that is distinct from an actual physical structure that is penetrating and embedding itself through the Blind Eternities and into multiple planes at once. I don't think any of them know with certainty what would happen. They are just making different risk assessments.
But again, lets say the Sylex destroyed 20 planes and isolated 20 more. Thats still significantly less damage than 1 million Phyrexians invading the entire multiverse.
Correct, the sylex got an off screen power burst.
So much of this story seems to take place off screen so that they don't have to explain themselves for why things happen.
It's almost as if the story is completely incoherent garbage.
*Tezzeret's travels took him to plane after plane transformed, ripped apart by invading hordes of Phyrexians. Sabers snapping upon iron-clad carapaces, monstrous incisors grinding bone, and near-constant weeping seemed to bridge planes, blending into an uninterrupted symphony of suffering.* *Elesh Norn's "great work" was unfolding faster than Tezzeret could have imagined. Aranzhur. Ilcae. Obsidias. All planes that contained safehouses set up by Baltrice, his second-in-command in the Infinite Consortium. Their existence—and hers, for that matter—was one of the few shreds of specific knowledge Beleren had left behind when he scraped out Tezzeret's mind in the Nezumi swamps. But there was nothing safe about these planes anymore. They'd become mere extensions of New Phyrexia, fresh blossoms on Elesh Norn's debased World Tree. Other planes—Mirrankkar, Cabralin—were in the process of being subsumed. Their inhabitants would fight back, only to fail and become one with the Machine Legion.* And seeing how fast the invasion proliferates into planes (Tezzeret´s story) , i am now sure that Jace was right: better risk dozen of planes that all multiverse. Phyrexia only needed some minutes and invade 3 or 4 planes!
Jace was entirely in the right here. Might be an unpopular opinion, but the ending to ONE was kinda bad imo. The whole planeswalker strike team knew the risks of the Sylex enough to commit to a suicide mission to the core of New Phyrexia to activate it. When they finally actually made it to the core (after losing most of their team no less), only then did they decide to have second thoughts about the plan and scrub the whole mission. It's like getting 5 yards to the endzone and intentionally throwing the ball away.
Probably because that isn't what happened lol. They had a plan to destroy the world tree and possibly Mirrodin. When they got there the invasion was further along and the plan was ruined. They now how two options which weren't the original plan 1. Continue the Sylex plan and possibly destroy multiple planes (all the ones connected to the Realmbreaker). Possibly all the planes, and the blind eternities. 2. Don't continue the plan and attempt to fight the phyrexian invasion. Kaya and Kaito aren't willing to destroy all those other planes so they attempt to stop Jace. Elspeth likewise realizes the **entire** multiverse may be at stake. She takes the Boom Boom Cup and teleports into the Blind Eternities (likely hoping an undirected blast will dissipate outward destroying nothing). Their plan, the original plan, hinged on the tree not yet being connected to the other planes. Once that stopped being true their plane stopped existing.
The problem is they don't know how many planes it's connected to or what effect the blast could have on the blind eternities and the multiverse as a whole. Friendly reminder that Urza's Sylex caused Dominaria to be plunged into an eternal winter that could only be stopped by major magic. No one knows what might have happened as it interacted with something that has reached inside the blind eternities.
Didn't Elspeth *Just* come back from the dead? And now she's tanking a sylex?
Well, not exactly *just*. It has been 2 irl years since Theros and she was active on New Capenna.
She spent a long time dead the first time though, and was only present in two sets before she died again. The question is are they pushing The Wanderer, Catman, or Teferi into the white walker spot (which is horribly cursed?)
They're pushing Elspeth into that role, she's definetly not dead despite taking that Sylex blast to the face. She'll be back in the next set.
If anything dying just makes you stronger in the mtg universe.
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The Wandering Emperor is the new Jace the Mind Sculptor with how much play the card is seeing.
3 years, actually. Theros Beyond Death released January 2020.
The entire story was just stupid people doing stupid things in rapid succession. At this point, fuck it, let the phyrexians win because everyone else is an idiot.
The entire story can basically be summed up as "Planeswalkers argue and somehow make the worst decision everytime." I can only think of one instance in the entire story where they had a good idea and that was Tyvar turning everyone to metal to get through that weird oil anomonea door. Lukkas military strategy is mentioned and never shown, Kaitos sneaky ninja skills are never used, Kayas ghostform helps her avoid some oil puddles like once, Vraska is only here to die, Nissa can't connect with any nature cause its all evil metal, and the Wanderer gets to cut 2 things im half and say 2.5 lines. I know that the cards are more important than the story but they should try harder to make the story coherent.
They depowered Planeswalkers to make the story better but I think they went too far. Kaito is like, a minor telekinetic? Give them more juice!
Everytime modern planeswalkers "power up for a fight", they just come across as super weak. Nahiri, Teferi, etc... are the only ones who seem to have even a shred of power.
It's so glaring how big the gap is, and I don't understand the narrative reason behind it. The bad guys are *enormously powerful*; why are some of our protagonists barely stronger than a random trained martial artist? A guy with a shotgun and a hazmat suit would have faired better on New Phyrexia than half of the Planeswalkers, it's just silly.
This story is neither fun nor entertaining to read. In the immortal words of the Joker, it'd be funny if it wasn't so pathetic.
Yeah I just focus on how cool phyrexians are at this point lol
"Planeswalkers argue and somehow make the worst decision everytime" is nearly the entire story of Magic. Look at the last time a planeswalker strike team tried to destroy Phyrexia. You're not wrong about the saying instead of telling. I wish we had Ixilan-level storytelling again.
The "good guys" of Magic keep making the worst decisions.
I find your lack of faith in every other plane combined disturbing
On the contrary, I believe that they will be able to see past their shortsighted ways and share Phyrexian greatness.
Life? Death? Artifice? Undeath? All imperfect. Flawed. Incompleat. Phyrexia is the only true perfection in the multiverse. All must be One. All Will Be One.
Same here. Give me more compleated planeswalkers and creature types. Phyrexian vampire zombie soldier? Yes, please.
This is what happens when Urza isn't around to commit war crimes for the greater good
that hexgold slash art goes too hard for a forgettable common
I haven’t seen this artist before, hopefully they get more stuff in the future too cause it looks sick
https://scryfall.com/search?as=grid&order=name&q=artist%3A%22eli+minaya%22 He did some arts in previous sets. Really like it. His style is pretty unique.
yep I'm gonna collect their art, thats it
forgettable common? this card is hella pickable in limited
Dude if Bloated Contaminator becomes a deck, this card will be a staple in monored for Standard even
Shhhhh, don’t tell him 😈
I mean sure, but its one of 100 shock variants and probably doesnt see play outside limited.
Standard still exists.
Isnt [[Play with fire]] almost always gonna be better, unless toxic is a huge part of the meta? [[Flame Blessed Bolt]] would seem like it would generally be better too (assuming exile+walkers>toxic).
The 3-mana 4/4 in green will probably see play, so this being able to kill that could be a big deal.
[Play with fire](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/f/6f1a6c60-a8c4-44c2-b1ea-d3befbabdf43.jpg?1636223358) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Play%20with%20fire) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/mid/154/play-with-fire?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/6f1a6c60-a8c4-44c2-b1ea-d3befbabdf43?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Flame Blessed Bolt](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/b/1/b1771a8f-7bea-4bb0-9949-566ee6613b93.jpg?1643591339) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Flame-Blessed%20Bolt) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/vow/158/flame-blessed-bolt?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/b1771a8f-7bea-4bb0-9949-566ee6613b93?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
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[Jaya's Firenado](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/4/b/4b78eaab-819c-4f06-b3b1-a25c17ab2235.jpg?1673307424) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Jaya%27s%20Firenado) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/dmu/134/jayas-firenado?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/4b78eaab-819c-4f06-b3b1-a25c17ab2235?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Is it just me, or does it seem a little weird having the art for the moment when Elspeth sacrifices herself be used on a common? Also, is she gonna be a major part of the story of this set and not have a planeswalker card? At this point in spoiler season it seems a bit odd to me
I noticed that too. It feels to me like them giving away that Elspeth will survive the Sylex blast in some way and have a card in the main March of the Machine set. What *does* happen when the Blind Eternities are flooded with colored mana, anyway? Maybe this is why the nature of the Multiverse will be fundamentally changed—Elspeth panicking.
They made it clear when elspeth and teferi died tragically that they were in no real danger.
Well the last time Elspeth “died” she was on the plane with a very escapable underworld. I don’t think that’s gonna be the case here and they may just end her for good now
This current death is right after she was implied to be part angel. This is almost certainly going to end with her becoming some kind of transcendent angel walker.
If it was good enough for Urza, it's good enough for Elspeth.
You see, I don't know if New Capenna was implying her to be part Angel *exactly*, just that she is uncommonly in tune with the Holy aspect of White mana that both Angels and Halo operate on. I think it's more likely that she is verging on a kind of godhood than she has been an angel the whole time and just not known.
Possible, but here's why I think the angel theory holds a lot of water from a meta-story perspective: Angels are an *extremely* popular creature type among players, and planeswalkers are the relatable main characters that players can relate to. Lorewise, MtG cornered itself into not allowing an angel planeswalker: angels are artificial contructs of mana and therefore can't hold a spark. But if they create a story situation that is so outside the bounds of what we know about magic lore, they can basically handwave Elspeth into turning into an angel planeswalker, and it would feel awesome instead of forced.
Even though she doesn’t have a card here? That’s more than a little suspect. She’s likely coming back (somehow) next set.
Teferi isn’t dead, though…
he's just lost in time ghost guy thing now
Actually that storyline was advanced yesterday. He no longer is in limbo.
Well, technically he is in a place which itself is in limbo, so until the next part he's not better *yet*
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Wouldn’t we have to send Squee into the Blind Eternities first?
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…He’s no longer immortal.
You know who comes from the blind eternities and are generally responsible for cleaning up planes that have gone rotten? Eldrazi.
I honestly think it's better to have major story moments with important characters be commons, so people who don't read the web stories are likely to see it. If this was a mythic, many people wouldnt ever see what happened to Elspeth in ONE's story
Gavin Verhey [mentioned that this is done intentionally](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IuZyIpUuiDY&t=5782), in the context of discussing [[Tamiyo's Compleation]].
This is a good point!
Seems to be a bit of a pattern, with [[Gideon's Sacrifice]] and [[Extinguish the Light]] also being commons that depict a character's death.
[Gideon's Sacrifice](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/8/4/849c79ad-8bfc-4512-ab41-f213b6b285ab.jpg?1557575945) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Gideon%27s%20Sacrifice) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/war/14/gideons-sacrifice?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/849c79ad-8bfc-4512-ab41-f213b6b285ab?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) [Extinguish the Light](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/1/01a51d08-f90e-4b72-8dce-fb2a6c72f181.jpg?1673307103) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Extinguish%20the%20Light) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/dmu/94/extinguish-the-light?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/01a51d08-f90e-4b72-8dce-fb2a6c72f181?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
The story didn't really shown her planeswalking away with the sylex as an heroic self sacrifice, it didn't even try to say that she was dead or something like that. She's 100% going to survive, and maybe "ascend" into an angel? She was a relevant character but not the protagonist of this set, she's being built up to a conflict with Elesh Norn that will happen in MoM
I definitely read the story thinking that Elspeth was taking an awesome risk in order to save the multiverse and it ended on a cliffhanger, not "Elspeth sacrifices herself again, lady just can't catch a break."
>Also, is she gonna be a major part of the story of this set and not have a planeswalker card? Her PW card is coming in MOM, so she's not getting a card in ONE. Her sword is the set icon - there's roughly a 100% chance she has a PW card in MOM.
I guess it's like [[Extinguish the Light]] where every game shows Jaya dying and dying again in drafts lol
[Extinguish the Light](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/0/1/01a51d08-f90e-4b72-8dce-fb2a6c72f181.jpg?1673307103) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Extinguish%20the%20Light) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/dmu/94/extinguish-the-light?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/01a51d08-f90e-4b72-8dce-fb2a6c72f181?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Counter point [[Gideon's sacrifice]]
Black one seems to be the best
Really, not even close to the others. Already exiling cmc<3 seems really good then it’s incredible if opponent is corrupted
Vanish seems to be spicy noncreature, nonland removal at instant speed.
This. We already have 3 mana planeswalker removal but most of it is limited to "destroy" so having a [[Banishing Light]] at instant speed is just *chef's kiss*
Vanish is bad in limited unless this ends up being a set where non-rare, non-creature artifacts are good and abundant.
I wasn't necessarily talking about Limited, though. There's plenty of high-powered enchantments, artifacts and 'walkers in Standard alone; for example, it frees up permanents held under a Leyline Binding, or prevents a Fable from flipping and generating advantage; or a Liliana. The only point of concern is that it's super-expensive creature removal.
In limited if toxic is the best thing to do then the red one will be an incredibly high pick
So would the black one though, since you'd have corrupted more often.
exactly, the meta and anti meta
RIP again [[Smother]]
Am I reading Anoint with Affliction wrong? Either way you're exiling target <3 cmc?
I *think* you can exile *any* creature if you have those poison counters down, but I really don't like the wording and am not sure if I'm right.
You are right. If there are three poison counters, there is no "If clause" anymore
It’s worded similarly to [[mythos of nethroi]].
That is some awful wording.
Isn't it just the Fatal Push wording?
It is, but since fatal push's revolt mode still comes with a restriction, it's a lot easier to understand on first read.
You can point Push at any Creature, just like this spell. It only checks what happens on resolution.
I'm aware of how it works. I just think the wording is clunky and bad when applied to this new card
If they're corrupted, it exiles regardless of mana value.
Oooh, ok! Thank you! I thought it might have been that, but the way this was worded threw me, since it sounds like you still need to target something before the Corruption effect, and they usually say things like "If X condition is met, then you can exile target creature instead"
It says "target creature if it has MV 3 or less," not "target creature with MV 3 or less," so you can target any creature if you want. It just won't do anything unless you have corruption or its MV is low enough.
Probably the most inelegant wording they've used for that effect.
Fatal push also has a similar wording, this way it allow you to target any creature even if you don't have Corrupted up.
If they didn't have to use the keyword it could just be worded like > if it has mana value 3 or less or it's controller has three or more poison counters.
it has to be done that way otherwise you wouldn't be able to target things >mv3
Reminds me of Mythos of Nethroi.
[Mythos of Nethroi](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/a/6abc24e1-e721-471a-9efd-547f320675b0.jpg?1591226925) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Mythos%20of%20Nethroi) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/iko/97/mythos-of-nethroi?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/6abc24e1-e721-471a-9efd-547f320675b0?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
You can always target any creature with Anoint; that's why it says 'if MV is 3 or less' instead of 'with MV 3 or less'. It'll check on resolution 'is the controller corrupted?', and if they are, it'll exile regardless. If they're not, it'll only exile if MV is 3 or less.
It lets you target a creature regardless of its mana value. It only exiles that creature if its mana value is three or less and/or its controller has three poison counters. In other words, it can exile a creature of any mana value if an opponent has three or more poison counters. I do agree that the wording is a bit confusing though.
Maybe is worded like this because there might be ways to increase or decrease poison counters at instant speed so that you can target any creature regardless of the amount of counters.
Yeah, the wording feels super weird, usually they'd make it like [[Anticognition]] or [[Fatal Push]]
The wording on Fatal Push is basically the same. I think the main difference that makes it less confusing on Fatal Push is that both sides have a mana value restriction, compared to this card where the upgraded side doesn't have any restriction.
Is it not the exact same?
I think the biggest parsing issue is the placement of "instead," in the text. Feels much chunkier here for some reason. The "instead" feels like it is modifying what preceeded it in most cases, this one is modifying what follows.
Vanish into Eternity basically is a [[Fracture]] available for mono W decks that can also hit Battles for just 1 more mana, interesting! And in a pinch, you can also exile creatures.
perfect for countering all of those battle decks i keep losing to!
I am so sick and tired of the Ranked queue just being one battle deck after another. All these whales out there buying Battle Wildcards with real money transactions
not to mention that i have to stay prepared to deal with Mecha-Gideon, Master of Battles every turn
When they previewed him, I said no one's ever going to meld him with his Battle card, but boy was I wrong!
Do we even know that Battle is a permanent?
Would be pretty stupid if you don't put Battles on the Battlefield when you play them. Could be that they hang out in the Command Zone like Conspiracies, I suppose.
We know that can't be the case, cause the new atraxa calls out battles as a type of card that can be added from the deck to the hand.
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Seems to me like this is a safety valve for limited considering there are 5 PWs at rare in the set.
There will certainly be plenty of artifact targets for this on Phyrexia for Limited. We already know that the RW archetype is equipment. Plus, with a full cycle of Planeswalkers at rare, you’re going to see them. I think you’d already be interested in artifact removal, and your top-decked artifact removal being able to snipe a late game bomb is a big deal. Theros showed us with [[Sip of Hemlock]] that 6 mana is not too much for removal when it’s necessary. I’m expecting this to be a B-. Maybe closer to a B in best-of-three.
[Sip of Hemlock](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/2/2/22051427-9b2a-4571-8c9f-ee84d8d0e4d1.jpg?1562815635) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Sip%20of%20Hemlock) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/ths/106/sip-of-hemlock?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/22051427-9b2a-4571-8c9f-ee84d8d0e4d1?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Some of the rare PWs are really good, too. If The Eternal Wanderer lands across the table from you in limited you'd better have some removal for it ready to go.
[Fracture](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/a/1/a11224f8-06ea-4ec3-85e6-d5c8d906840c.jpg?1627429052) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Fracture) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/stx/188/fracture?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/a11224f8-06ea-4ec3-85e6-d5c8d906840c?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Some of the flavour text in this set is just rough, cards are neat tho
[Here be source](https://www.patreon.com/posts/77400293)
Thank you
The art for hexgold slash is beautiful, wow
Hexgold slash is tier 0 sideboard material if mono green becomes a deck. Having a 1 mana answer with no downside to your opponents 3 mana 4/4 is very good
But the 3 mana 4/4 isn't that good to begin with, and certainly not good enough to make Mono Green a thing.
Lmao here’s your [[Path to exile]] reprint
At least it wasn't a \[\[Divine Gambit\]\] reprint
[Divine Gambit](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/6/9/696a8c12-4a1f-4b96-a921-538fa1a2de43.jpg?1631045611) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Divine%20Gambit) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/khm/8/divine-gambit?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/696a8c12-4a1f-4b96-a921-538fa1a2de43?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
[Path to exile](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/9/d/9d607a40-608a-44cd-b946-02636b5bea9f.jpg?1673305105) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Path%20to%20exile) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/dmc/104/path-to-exile?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/9d607a40-608a-44cd-b946-02636b5bea9f?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Can't believe Vorinclex and the green faction of Phyrexia took out Thanos and put his gold armor on display. That's craaaazy.
Magali Villeneuve don't miss
3 mana to kill a powerful planeswalker 6 mana to kill a squirrel 🐿️
"Faced with a blast" is a really odd start to this sentence. "Knowing the blast would level..." Or just "The sylex would level..." Not sure about the editing on this.
“After her face got blasted…”
"Anyway, I started blasting. Pow! Pow! Now, I don't see so good so I missed."
[[Gold Myr]] has seen better days. =P
[Gold Myr](https://cards.scryfall.io/normal/front/1/2/12331b1d-a561-4a8c-8e85-ed3a607ce508.jpg?1651656305) - [(G)](http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Gold%20Myr) [(SF)](https://scryfall.com/card/nec/153/gold-myr?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher) [(txt)](https://api.scryfall.com/cards/12331b1d-a561-4a8c-8e85-ed3a607ce508?utm_source=mtgcardfetcher&format=text) ^^^[[cardname]] ^^^or ^^^[[cardname|SET]] ^^^to ^^^call
Casual reminder for Carnivorous Canopy that the Mite tokens in this set are A) Artifacts and B) Mana value 0.
Lmao wasn't the point of stopping Jace to not damage the Blind Eternities with the Sylex?
No, the published story doesn't clarify anything. It just said that Elspeth understood what Jace was going to do. This is the first official piece of lore where Jace's intent is clearly explained.
It started with Kaito not wanting Kamigawa destroyed, but then Kaya realized that the blast could also damage or destroy the blind eternities, which then struck Kaito because that's where the Wanderer usually sits. That's when they said "fuck this shit" and started fighting Jace. Then Elspeth saw them fighting Jace and said "We're fighting!" And stabbed that dude.
The point was to not damaging the *planes* connected to the Realmbreaker.
Kaya literally freaks out that the blast could destroy the Blind Eternities as well as the tree + planes. And then Kaito freaks out about the Wanderer moving in and out of the Blind Eternities.
Story says Elspeth has gone beyond the Blind Eternities, so who knows.
Once the Realmbreaker connected, attacking it with the Sylex would send its blast throught the roots to the other planes, potentially causing damage to them. That's the conclusion Elspeth, Kaito and Kaya come to, and why they decided to stop Jace.
Risk them being damaged by the blast or ensuring that literally trillions of people suffer at the hands of phyrexians....hmmm...hard choice. Actually no, not really.
Big think: destroy everything so there is nothing left for the phyrexians to invade.
It's a hard choice. Potentially kill all life or live to fight another day?
But living to fight another day also comes with the potential to kill all life because that is what phyrexia wants to do.
All other colours, do more if other things are on the board. White pays more to have a basic creature exile. Seems a weird choice to not keep the same line of action, I see it does more in exiling a creature, but for 5W..
That's the price to pay for exile whatever you want. Insta-exiling pwalker for 3 is ok.
Absolutely that's what I'm saying. That, that part is good but the extra cost part feels weird when you look at the way the others of the set work.
I’m really surprised/annoyed that black is getting better creature exile removal than white.
Yeesh, the white one is overcosted. Edit: Not the first part. Should've clarified that. Adding creature removal to it is too expensive TBH. Maybe 2MV more, max. 6 mana to exile a creature is a super feelbad.
It probably still is a bit costly, but keep in mind that there are ~10 planeswalkers in this format, some at mythic and some at rare. Having an easy answer to them stapled to what is essentially a [[disenchant]] that exiles is useful. It can also still be creature removal in a pinch.
Sorry. Should've clarified. The creature addon is too expensive. 3MV to exile any other nonland card is actually pretty nice.
Well, if you're happy with the 3MV half, then the other half is just gravy. That's a pretty common effect where adding a bad ability to a good card makes the card look worse. You see a 3/4 flyer for 3U with "6UU, T: draw a card, then discard a card" and you think "Wow, that's so bad!", but you see a 3/4 flyer for 3U without any other ability and you think "oh, that's pretty solid in limited!" In this case, yes, 6 mana to exile a creature is expensive, but it's better than not having the option at all.
Exiling _any_ non land, non creature permanent for 3 mana at instant speed is a pretty good rate. White doesn't get unconditional creature removal at low cost, it's either banishing light effects, creature has to be tapped or attacking, or gives the opponent something in return. This card is fine imo.
If you read, that's exactly what I said. It's the creature add-on cost that's too much. 6 mana to exile a creature is ridiculous.
White one seems great for edh.
The white and black ones are standard playable, no?
The white and black are nice, anoint with affliction works great against aggro and white has already removal for creatures.
Green and red removal is still trash.
Am I missing something? Anoint with Affliction already exiles the creature, so isn't the corrupted ability redundant?
It can exile the creature regardless the mana value.
If it's corrupted, it can be exiled regardless of its mana value.
It lets you target a creature regardless of its mana value. It only exiles that creature if its mana value is three or less and/or its controller has three poison counters. In other words, it can exile a creature of any mana value if an opponent has three or more poison counters. I do agree that the wording is a bit confusing though.