We are marching towards the end of Magic: the Gathering March of the Machine spoilers. Tomorrow we get the full set, but today we get a look at our last Praetor – the return of Urabrask – a battle version of Ephara, a knight lord and more! Let’s discuss!
Today’s video is brought to you by Card Kingdom. You can pick up some MTG cards (and help support the show) at https://www.cardkingdom.com/mtggoldfish
Need more spoilers? https://www.mtgpreviews.com
0:00 Start
1:11 Urabrask
9:33 Invasion of Theros
15:39 Invasion of Pyrulea
17:35 Invasion of New Capenna
19:57 Marshal of Zhalfir
21:53 Invasion of Amonkhet
25:00 Commons/Uncommons
source
Check out our spoiler video for the the new Brimaz Commander Precon on the Commander Clash podcast here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b333PG4_KQ
I think two Urabrask in a Phoenix deck is going to be SCARY!
Do we actually know what The Great Work is in the story?
Lazotel Convert’s flavor text is really interesting. I override your override
One thing I noticed is that battles say: Exile it then CAST it transformed. So you can counter the backside? And it triggers on cast triggers from other cards (enchantress for example).
Urabrask can deal 10 damage if you swing, cast 3 instants or sorceries (which isnt too hard due to the mana he gives) and then flip him
I wish they made a card for Gisa and Geralf or even the monstrosity they created together
The flavor sucks really bad, but I think Invasion of New Capenna will be at its best in Phyrexian Tribal, which seems like it will be primarily W/B. Mite and Incubator tokens make great fodder, as you said yourself.
Knights will prolly be a part of wilds of eldraine so here's hoping lol
urabrask is definitely gonna be the circle of loyalty from the set, as soon as you mentioned running it in standard spellslinger or pioneer prowess like that isnt a turn 4 aggro deck and didnt realize they arent going to want to play a 4 mana no etb card it completely sealed away the odds of this not backfiring on you.
Why would your opponents attack your placed battlefields if it only benefits you?
looking foreward to jamming Urabrask in explorer phoenix!!
Ephara being the Athena of theros, makes sense she'd be the God that doesn't Phyrexianize
Knights Tribal should only get even more supported when Wilds of Eldraine comes out.
Best part of the new urabrask is that the final chapter combos with itself, giving you the ability to cast a bunch of spells from the grave meaning whatever you used the first time can be used again to flip into the saga straight away.
I wanna point out for the Marshal of Zalfir, te next two proper sets are Eldraine (full of knights) and Ixalan (full of vampires who are mostly knights), so if were almost there with all the knight support currently, it's gonna be bonkers in the coming months.
They'll never print a 1 mana 1/1 with convoke but what about a 0/1 with convoke? Still too good? I want that so badly. 😂
Maybe they'd have to make it legendary to prevent the quadra convoke turn 1 play. Ouh or make it 2 mana but one mana is phyrexian.
It seems like such a wasted design potential when you have an invasion of an entire plane be uncommon, it doesn't feel epic. This set should have been a 3-year war
I've not heard you mention this in the videos yet, so I'll drop it in – Maybe it's more intended as a Limited archetype or the cards are there for jamming into the Brimaz Commander precon, but cards like Invasion of New Capenna seem like a new WB Phyrexian tribal deck could be a thing in Standard with the lords. I need to see the full set and try some theorycrafting, but there's some decent beatdown potential with either lords, anthems, counters, or an Aristocrats or reanimator midgame bonus.
Can you play invasion of theros in commander decks that don't have blue? Because it looks like that blue is part of the backside color identity?
i think id rather just have the front side of urbrask on the field in most decks that hed be playable in
I love that Seth isn't afraid to point out that he's been wrong in the past.
What about Urabrask in UR with The Thing in the Ice and Expressive Iteration in Modern?
Invasion of Theros seems horrible. Enchantress decks aren't good at flipping a battle. Maybe bogles could do it, but it does want to spend three Mana for Auras and not a slow tutor.
Oh snap, is Circle of Loyalty finally going to have enough to break Standard?? 😀
He's good but still the weakest
Open the armory can get a battle? Even tho it doesn't day enchantment as a card type on the front? Even search for glory even tho the battle isn't legendary???
One of the things about flipped Urabrask, it works a bit better than past in flames as rather than spells already in the graveyard gaining flashback instead you can cast spells. So you can cast spells in your hand and then from the graveyard. Which is an upside.
Fingers crossed that returning to Eldraine later this year actually makes Knights good!
wotc finally put sum respeck on his name
I'm eagerly awaiting a "March abrew about nothing" episode
Urabrask is going to be absurd in my Veyran EDH deck
Berserker tribal
for some reason it stopped recommending mtggoldfish to me. weird. had to search it.
Are there any "name a card" cards in standard?
With all the praetors getting plainly named cards, are we going to get more Borborygmos / Borborygmos, Enraged ruling issues? I have personally gotten used to referring to Sheoldred, the Apocalypse as simply Sheoldred, but now that's a different card.
one thing i will say about knight tribal, it feels like somewhat of a plant for the future, cuz next set is eldraine where we know knights is a supported tribe.
Urabrask is just a legendary Defiler of instinct which I LOVE. Not to mention that Urabrask is my favorite character by a long shot, making this my dream commander.
I don't think you ever would plan on Urabrask flipping in Modern Storm. If I tried him, I would just use it as a bit of extra mana and a Grapeshot with legs.
I think Urabrask could go infinite in a proliferate deck? you flip it for 1 red, proliferate twice with 1 mana spells, get 3 treasures, it flip back, you flip it again now you can recast your 2 proliferate from your graveyard, get 3 more treasure… you dealt 8dmg to opponent, proliferated 4 time and still have all your mana…
Not quite infinite on it own, but so many things could break it. Goldspan, extra proiliferate, extra tokens, anything that use proliferate, or trigger when you cast a spell…
Yep! I just found it, that's Runaway Steam-Kin… and light up the stage (which is always lit and allow to cast twice the cards).
These things gonna be broken…
they don't understand treasor suck in all format ….
There are enough knights in Modern. I don't understand why everybody is so obsessed about standard… There are other formats…
I N S E C T I L E A B E R R A T I O N
Urabrask is absolutely busted for spellslinger commander decks. That a second copy of birgi electrostatic field and past in flames.
Urabrask is now effectively a storm card, not a change i anticipated but this card seems absurd, 4 is a lot of mana for Modern and Legacy, but i think this Urabrask has some small eternal format potential.
Ephara can never be indestructible in Standard. There's no board state where a player has 3 permanents on the battlefield in competitive play. Standard is about grinding until one player is down to one threat and the other player is down to zero. Also, as with all the battles, if you can deal 4 to the face the game is already over. Like why would you ever waste 4 damage making a thing that in the most optimistic situation can only deal 4 itself?
Another cuntness to spend money on as if I had better things not to spend it on.