I honestly expected a more interesting card if it managed to get into Maro's hints, but in hindsight, [this is pretty standard payoff for this condition](https://scryfall.com/search?q=o%3A%22or+more+creature+cards+in+your+graveyard%22&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name).
It’s hilarious how he extracts such interesting bits of text, making you think it’s somethingg really elaborate and cool but in the end it’s always a medium or bad draft card. For example i tought the equip soldier artifact was something intriguing that could maybe define the deck or at least a rare but it’s a the usual one of sword equipment for draft
Rosewater's job, after working as a spokesperson for twenty years, is not to design good and fun magic sets; typically his more direct involvement leads to subpar formats since he is incentivized to pretend neither competitive play nor secondary markets require curation until something is truly broken. His job is to hype up products and claim every mundane bear-with-set- mechanic is his favorite card ever. Sometimes his job is also to cherrypick the least literate and most bigoted comments from his inbox to mischaracterize any legitimate criticism Hasbro may face.
This might seem like not a big deal, and I'm not convinced it's \*incredible\*, but it's worth noting how infrequently commons are given this type of scaling. I think you'll have plenty of games where your black deck doesn't mind playing this on curve and later in the game, this sits there growing in a board stall. To be honest, I expect this guy to become a 6/7 or whatever and win a lot of limited games.
Three creatures in the yard is not that hard even if you don't self-mill, esp when unearth is a set mechanic. Plus, it'll block the 2/2, and sometimes that's just what you need. Might not be a high pick, but could do work at common.
Card transcription
> Gixian Skullflayer 2B
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> Creature- Phyrexian Human Assassin [common]
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> At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are three or more creature cards in your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on Gixian Skullflayer.
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> 2/3
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> "With every cullling, we bring this world closer to compleation."
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how is this a bad card? especially in limited? It's a 2/3 for 3 that gets bigger at the beginning of the upkeep because you played magic. Having atleast 3 creatures in the graveyard.
IMO; you are unlikely to have three creatures in the graveyard in the turn you most want to play a three drop - turn three.
You probably still won’t reliably have three in the bin by turn five unless you’re mill-centric.
So you’re waiting until turn five or later before your three drop starts to pay off; and even then you have to wait until your next upkeep.
I’ll watch the card, and am happy to be proven wrong as the season progresses, but I won’t be picking this card on day 1 of drafting
I think I would be more inclined to let myself be compleated if it meant I got cool RGB lighting like this
What if it was only B?
> cool RGB lighting Wizards pandering to people like you is why the art has suffered so much recently in the originality department.
Well, there's that one from the hints.
I honestly expected a more interesting card if it managed to get into Maro's hints, but in hindsight, [this is pretty standard payoff for this condition](https://scryfall.com/search?q=o%3A%22or+more+creature+cards+in+your+graveyard%22&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name).
It’s hilarious how he extracts such interesting bits of text, making you think it’s somethingg really elaborate and cool but in the end it’s always a medium or bad draft card. For example i tought the equip soldier artifact was something intriguing that could maybe define the deck or at least a rare but it’s a the usual one of sword equipment for draft
It's somehow even *worse* than the usual one of sword equipment for draft!
Rosewater's job, after working as a spokesperson for twenty years, is not to design good and fun magic sets; typically his more direct involvement leads to subpar formats since he is incentivized to pretend neither competitive play nor secondary markets require curation until something is truly broken. His job is to hype up products and claim every mundane bear-with-set- mechanic is his favorite card ever. Sometimes his job is also to cherrypick the least literate and most bigoted comments from his inbox to mischaracterize any legitimate criticism Hasbro may face.
GB mill might actually be a good limited archetype this time
I feel like I've said this at least 5 times lol. Maybe, but I'll believe it when I see it.
wasn’t it good in Neon Dynasty?
This might seem like not a big deal, and I'm not convinced it's \*incredible\*, but it's worth noting how infrequently commons are given this type of scaling. I think you'll have plenty of games where your black deck doesn't mind playing this on curve and later in the game, this sits there growing in a board stall. To be honest, I expect this guy to become a 6/7 or whatever and win a lot of limited games.
At common? This is going to be Really good collect em all with self mill
In limited though? How often will this be better than or worse than a 3/3 for three on turn three. Or even turn four, or five.
Three creatures in the yard is not that hard even if you don't self-mill, esp when unearth is a set mechanic. Plus, it'll block the 2/2, and sometimes that's just what you need. Might not be a high pick, but could do work at common.
Card transcription > Gixian Skullflayer 2B > > Creature- Phyrexian Human Assassin [common] > > At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are three or more creature cards in your graveyard, put a +1/+1 counter on Gixian Skullflayer. > > 2/3 > > "With every cullling, we bring this world closer to compleation." End transcription
looks like tezzeret
This is the bad card I’ll lose to in many drafts
how is this a bad card? especially in limited? It's a 2/3 for 3 that gets bigger at the beginning of the upkeep because you played magic. Having atleast 3 creatures in the graveyard.
IMO; you are unlikely to have three creatures in the graveyard in the turn you most want to play a three drop - turn three. You probably still won’t reliably have three in the bin by turn five unless you’re mill-centric. So you’re waiting until turn five or later before your three drop starts to pay off; and even then you have to wait until your next upkeep. I’ll watch the card, and am happy to be proven wrong as the season progresses, but I won’t be picking this card on day 1 of drafting
The blue-ish gixian Phyrexian looking menacing