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Latest Spider-Man Leak is Bolas’ Citadel in The Command Zone
Yesterday's comment about a slowdown in leaks has not aged well, as another Spider-Man spoiler has already come swinging in. This one was accidentally spoiled by WotC, and comes from a blurry image found in a public product shot .zip folder. The image for Gwenom, Remorseless above is extremely difficult to read, but it's a 3BB 4/4 whose textbox says:
"Deathtouch, lifelink
Whenever Gwenom attacks, until end of turn you may look at the top card of your library any time and you may play cards from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost."
That makes Gwenom a pretty sick commander. We've never seen Bolas's Citadel on a creature like this.
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Final Fantasy Commanders Spike Old Forgotten Rares 150%
Two popular Final Fantasy commanders, Y'shtola, Night's Blessed and Hope Esthiem, have caused a pair of forgotten older cards to spike. Those cards are Norn's Annex and Honor the Fallen, which are up about 150% in price.
Norn's Annex is normally just an inferior Propaganda variant, but Y'shtola really appreciates the extra life loss. Meanwhile, Honor the Fallen is a mill friendly way to gain a bunch of life at once, which plays well with Hope Estheim.
Deck of the Day: WUGr Kona Omniscience in Standard
Today's Deck of the Day went 5-0 in a recent Standard league, and is a sweet combo list that makes use of several new cards. We've featured Omniscience a few times in this column before, but we've never seen what happens when you switch out Abuelo's Awakening for Kona, Rescue Beastie!
The deck's most important cards are Kona and The Seriema, which complement each other beautifully. Playing The Seriema on turn 3 will tutor Kona for next turn, who can come down and immediately tap itself with Station. From there you'll be able to plop Omniscience into play, and go off with a sequence reminiscent of previous Omniscience decks.
The extended combo plays out something like this. First, you get Omniscience out with Kona. Then, you can start looping Roiling Dragonstorm and Marang River Regent to draw your entire deck. From there, you'll eventually find the one copy of Roxanne, Starfall Savant, which can be looped over and over for a meteoric finish.
For sideboard games, the deck is primarily concerned with red aggro and blue control decks. 3x Authority of the Consuls will help vs. burn, while control players will have to contend with Voice of Victory, Negate, and Mistrise Village.
Kona is definitely one of the biggest beneficiaries of Edge of Eternities, as The Seriema and Planet lands are pretty much a dream come true for the masked doggo.
Poor Edge of Eternities just can't stop being overshadowed by past and future sets. The Steam Launcher for MTG Arena is still using Final Fantasy art, and SDCC Spider-Man spoilers hit during EoE's prerelease weekend.
The latest MTG Arena announcements were posted yesterday. Don't forget that there's an Arena Direct this weekend, and an Open next weekend!
A couple of Edge of Eternities cards are seeing play in Modern, with Tezzeret, Cruel Captain and Quantum Riddler being major standouts.
Fast Finance
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Overlord of the Boilerbilges saw a small price bump yesterday, going from $5.91 to $7.18. Naya Yuna decks have been reasonably successful in Standard,and they've finally given Overlord a forever home.
Starting Town saw a price drop yesterday, going from $32.21 to $28.13. Unfortunately, I wouldn't expect this new Standard staple to go down much further.
Combo of the Day: Devastating Onslaught + Exalted Sunborn for Absurd Token Generation
Today's Combo of the Day is a simple way to create an absurd number of tokens, though you'll need some kind of follow up to truly go off.
Cast Devastating Onslaught for at least 6R, creating six token copies of Exalted Sunborn.
Anytime you create tokens from now until the beginning of your end step, you will instead create 128 times that many tokens, due to your Exalted Sunborns.
Find a win! Impact Tremors and Kuldotha Rebirth could work nicely, could be funny to make a ton of Darksteel Splicers too.
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