[SHM] WoTC Previews - 3/31 - Rhys the Redeemed, Grim Poppet, Godhead of Awe, w/MORE

[urzassedatives]

This thread is for discussion of all art, cards and information contained in the March 31st update of the official Magic website.
Posts that are redundant or lacking content will be deleted and/or moderated, per the usual.

[rancored_elf]

There we go, it's updated now. I guess we crashed their site (again)

Rhys the Redeemed: I LOVE cheap legends, and this is one tasty little mana! Splashable, too. I wonder if this means we need to have new 1/1 Elf Warrior tokens printed.... because they're green AND WHITE instead of just green. Both abilities are very tasty. I'll play this version of Rhys.

Godhead of Awe: Hopefully will be less of a rules headache than previous cards that tell creatures to simply BE a certain power and toughness. I'm sure the "what happens if I have Giant Growth" questions will still be rampant. In all, I think it's pretty tasty. Keep in mind, it sets their power and toughness, but it doesn't make them lose their abilities. They'll still have first strike, activated abilities, and so on.

Grim Poppet: You want to get those counters off him asap, obviously. I dunno, 7 for a 1/1.... even with that tasty ability, I'm not sure it's going to be a hit.

[Mutated_Nantuko]

Looks like my squirrel deck is making a comeback.

[Knowledge]

Wow.
Rhys is really bad.
Theres just much better token producers than him.
and his abilities cost way too much.

EDIT: Maro Previews the UW Demigod but my internet is too slow to show the picture.

[Oni kadaki]

Rhys is officially the on drop my elf deck has been looking for.

Unfortunately, the scarecorw isn't exactly stellar.

[Chronmaster]

Wow. Rhys is pretty lame, but very flavorful.

Grim Poppet is awesome! Hope I get one at the pre-release! At the very least, its Fomori Nomad + Terminate

Godhead of Awe seems extremely good. New standard defining critter?

Not sure how good Leech Bonder will be. It depends on how the untap mechanic works, I guess?

I also like the Cavaliers. Watchwolf with Vigilance and one extra toughness for an extra mana? Yes plz.

Also, Persist seems good, but with all the -1/-1 counters, how good will it be?

[kami.inu]

Godhead of Awe could be annoying, especially if they have anthems to back it up.
Rhys seems like he'd be awesome with doubling season(s) to triple your token count at once.
Grim poppet seems like he could easily be part of a vertical cycle.

[kman1474]

the artifact creature isn't impressive at all. who wants to pay seven to put some -1/-1
counters on a few creatures? why does rhys have horns? they were destroyed in the lorwyn book.
godhead of awe isn't very good either imo. it just doesn't seem very good only being a 4/4 that can be killed by many things such as terror, crib swap, oblivian ring, shriekmaw, ect...

[xnylived]

Godhead of Awe seems like fun. But overall out of these three previews I am most interested in the poppet. Neither of the rares seem game-breaking like I would expect the first previews to be. Although Rhys + Kiki Jiki looks fun

[mada7]

Well we got our second member of the avatar cycle and damn if it isnt a really cool looking card combines almost too well with the -1/-1 counter theme of the set

The scarecrow is coloreless removal that gets bigger the more it kills looks great to me.

And Rhys seems to be the new doubling season and though expensive combos well with hte large number of creature token generators we have in standard

EDIT: the minisite also seems to have a few cards from magazines that we missed included in there is the persist mechanic which looks like a fun mechanic to play around with

[Nau]

Well that is a nice 1 drop, gives you a lot of stuff to do in the late game with your mana., and can sneak in under counters in the early game. And all that in white or green.

Also Wizard's site is getting hammered.

[flog montresor]

Yeah, it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that neither card will be at all relevant for Constructed.

That being said, both are pretty sick in Limited. Nothing is gonna be more demoralizing than seeing the reverse-Trike hitting play on your opponent's side.

[midgard serpent]

Guess I did something wrong Didn't have to go and delete my post though.

Grim Poppet looks pretty sick, a great universal SB strategy against weenie rush strategies. Rhys is....meh, as usual.

[Shaman08]

Wow, both are cool cards. I like Rhys alot more (new win condition for TurboFog), but the robot ain't too bad. I wish it was a little bit bigger, but I'm sure there will be tons of ways too add -1/-1 counters to it, and if alot of the removal in SHA is based on counters, he'll be great.

Wow, Godhead is great. I can't get over how much he hoses the tribal-based aggro decks that are running around.

[johnny42strom]

But consider he's a one drop. Those powers are amazing for a one drop (which also explains their price). True, it's no tourney staple like Grim Lavamancer but I like the elegance and low initial cost.