Oath Of The Gatewatch

OKay, this is interesting:



A new type of Basic Land?



Not surprised... I was expecting them to return...

More spoilers... fell behind, so am slowly catching up.

Yes, it is. I'll be putting up more spoilers, but there is a set of basic lands that are Wastes. Which makes sense... By having a special, colourless basic land, means that you have to use those cards to cast colourless cards. Think about it... it means they can have Ugin appear again, and then have it that you need special colourless mana to produce him. It also means that you can limit the power of colourless cards. They can't anymore just be slotted into decks; you need more thought on it. It also means you can create colourless decks as an actual theme, and have it do well. It means you can have a few colourless cards in every set...

It's going to be a big, big thing in the future, I'm certain of it.



Also, has to use Wastes to cast it... making it a less crazy card...



Imagine her in a Commander Deck with Avacyn...



Well, they have two sets to tell a story, and really work on it. Think on it... they now have more to focus on in these two sets. So, more mechanic development is inevitable.



You've lost me here...

One card you've overlooked...



Four Planeswalkers united, to fight against the Eldrazi. And the name... don't you get it? The Oath of the Gatewatch is the four Planeswalkers swearing to stand, fight and defeat the Eldrazi... at Sea's Gate. Sea's Gate seems to be a massive, massive standing ground for all of this...

Oooh - lots to talk through in due course. The planeswalkers and Legends would be good for some discussion.

The Oath of the Gatewatch is a useful card. It might be a thing in standard (depending how much aggro there is around) but it would be very welcome in commander - especially in the 'pillow fort' type decks that tend to have more than a couple of planeswalkers floating around (Angus McKenzie is a good example).

But this is the card that has really got me:



It's a 2/3 for 2 with deathtouch - which makes it attractive to start with. Give it flying and make it cost one more and you have? Vampire Nighthawk...

But it also has 2 major abilities - it's a sacrifice outlet and in W/B colors that is significant for my Commander deck portfolio. Ignore the fact that you can use her as a lifegain trigger off of the back of that - it's a sac outlet for 1 mana that you can bring back from the command zone limitless times. Now that's a deck mechanic that you can build around with confidence.

..and then - if that wasn't enough - you have an exile trigger if you can fulfil the condition of having either 30 life (Standard / Modern) or 50 life in Commander. Hmm... that's very achieveable in the latter case.

I love this card and want to build a deck around it. Enough said.

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