[M10] White card jamboree

[urzassedatives]

As posted in the name speculation thread:

Angel’s Mercy 2WW
Instant C
You gain 7 life.
“Until that day I cursed the angels, those uncaring lights in the sky. They rewarded my scorn with the gift of time, every year of which I’ve spent in devotion to their names.”—Torian Sha, soul warden
Andrew Robinson

Seems fine in limited, nothing exciting. Fair enough though for its cost.

Divine Verdict 3W
Instant C
Destroy target attacking or blocking creature.
Giants and pit spawn attempted to topple the cathedral’s pillars. The fine grit of their remains still swirls in the breeze outside.
Kev Walker

It is Neck Snap, with a much more whiteish name. Oh no, now we have to go buy playsets of this card too. Curse WoTC!!!

Griffin Sentinel 2W
Creature — Griffin C
Flying
Vigilance (Attacking doesn’t cause this creature to tap.)
Once a griffin sentinel adopts a territory as its own, only death can force it to betray its post.
1/3
Warren Mahy

One of the dudes from Mirrodin is changed up here. Are Griffins making a comeback? Seems like it. (I loved them in Mirage, can't complain.)

Lifelink W
Enchantment — Aura C
Enchant creature
Enchanted creature has lifelink.
(Damage dealt by the creature also causes its controller to gain that much life.)
The spoils of war are not measured only in gold and silver.
Terese Nielsen

I think we knew this, didn't have it in the spoiler. The card wasn't intuitive to put it on the opponent's guys really. This is fair, and seems to be pretty funny in limited at common.

Lightwielder Paladin 3WW
Creature — Human Knight R
First strike (This creature deals combat damage before creatures without first strike.)
Whenever Lightwielder Paladin deals combat damage to a player, you may exile target black or red permanent that player controls.
4/4
D. Alexander Gregory

Do we have a 'hates the enemy' color at rare? The repeatable purge effect is nice, but how often will they let this through to do it? It seems like it will grab noncreatures obviously...

Keep all comments intelligent and coherent.

[ShadowFenril]

Eh, all boring except for the Paladin (though griffons are cool I guess, even if the card isn't and is one of the infamous 'new' cards). With that and the Stag, it -does- look as if we might get a color hate cycle in the rare slot too.

[Lardalish]

Ok, maybe Ive miss counted or something, but is white getting the lions share of the rares? It looks like they've got like 10 and the other colors have 3-5.

Seems kinda odd for a core set to seemingly favor one color. But then again, I could be wrong.

[Master of White's Knights]

Oooo. Finally get to see Lightwielder paladin. I do like it better than Northern/southern paladin in that it needs to get into the frey to get it's effect off rather than sitting back and doing the deed. I would have rather it had protection from those colors though Instead of First strike. Still pretty cool. Good to see white getting a 4/4 for 5. 3/3s for 5 always bugged me.

[spiritual herder]

And there goes the "Southern and Northern Paladins at last made right" theory. Right down the drain.

This one is as bad as its predecessors. No protection means extremely killable for both red and black colors, he is never ever going to get through to activate.

I would have preferred Paladin en-Vec in every game situation, I don't understand why they removed such a playable and iconic creature from the Core Set for this junk anyway.

[Sorrow's shoadow]

So they finally they have a reminder for first strike? Nice to have lifelink in. The verdict is great in limited, and it is common. I don't like the mercy (too weak) and think, that the Griffin is mostly also not worth being played, but I'm not sure about this.

Nothing really usefull for constructed, though, for five mana, you need better than Paladin.

[Brother_Of_Alara]

I like the paladin - he either forces a block or forces removal from the RB player, leaving you free to swing with your many many mini-soldier lords

[Henge Guardian]

Originally Posted by Lardalish

Ok, maybe Ive miss counted or something, but is white getting the lions share of the rares? It looks like they've got like 10 and the other colors have 3-5.

Seems kinda odd for a core set to seemingly favor one color. But then again, I could be wrong.

Each colour will end up with a max of 11 rares, but 10 each is more likely. The only reason it seems this iway is that we have more white cards spoiled. Also, white is getting the most new rares.

[quetzilla]

Originally Posted by spiritual herder

This one is as bad as its predecessors. No protection means extremely killable for both red and black colors, he is never ever going to get through to activate.

Lol, because youve never been hit by a white creature when playing black/red. It will happen. I'm not saying its fantastically amazing, but you need to chill out with the ridiculous comments.

[Lardalish]

Originally Posted by Henge Guardian

Each colour will end up with a max of 11 rares, but 10 each is more likely. The only reason it seems this iway is that we have more white cards spoiled. Also, white is getting the most new rares.

Ah, ok, Im cool with that. And really Im fine with white getting the focus, just seemed odd in Core. Glad to hear thats not the case.

[FieryBalrog]

Wizards still giving us crap white cards.

[oranges2]

Originally Posted by quetzilla

Lol, because youve never been hit by a white creature when playing black/red. It will happen. I'm not saying its fantastically amazing, but you need to chill out with the ridiculous comments.

His comment is pretty much on the money.

You don't play much Magic do you

[urzassedatives]

Originally Posted by FieryBalrog

Wizards still giving us crap white cards.

Yeah, white totally got the weakest cards in M10.
It is just full of cards that will never be played in constructed at all.
Silence? Who would play that?
The soldier lord is jank, and all the soldiers are bad too.
Harm's Way should have prevented 3, its so bad.

[oranges2]

Originally Posted by urzassedatives

Yeah, white totally got the weakest cards in M10.
It is just full of cards that will never be played in constructed at all.
Silence? Who would play that?
The soldier lord is jank, and all the soldiers are bad too.
Harm's Way should have prevented 3, its so bad.

If that's sarcasm, it shouldn't be.

The only new card that will be played at all is Honor of the Pure. The rest are pretty subpar/terrible.

EDIT: Guardian Seraph possibly as a sb if burn becomes very viable.

[DanoLefourbe]

-Angel's Mercy. WotC learned how to make damage prevention. They've still got to learn how to make lifegain.
-Dinive Verdict: I saw no problem with "neck snap" as a name. Again one of those "new cards".
-Griffin Sentinel: Yeah Ajani is fine, but certainly not other Leonins. Must be the mount, new players would not tolerate it I guess :/...
-Lifelink: weaker Spirit Link. People will be defending it like there's no tomorrow though.
-Lightweilder Paladin: One turn to hose the colors that can kill him before he does anything. Oh it's a 4/4 first strike for 5 so it's okay, but people will feel stupid getting it killed on the spot.

2 "new reprints" and 1 underpowered classic. A crappy Lifegain. And a half-decent Paladin. I guess people will be satisfied.

Urzas': I know white's one of the best deserved colors from this set (which really doesn't mean much), but you must admit this is a crappy lot.