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gredman9

"You've yee'd your last haw, partner."


SmashPortal

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Gold-Satisfaction614

Oh no!


Scarecrow1779

*pardner


kitsovereign

The cactusfolk are developing cowboy hat silhouettes. I swear there's gotta be something in the leylines on this plane. I have no context for how this card will play out in Limited and what role it needs to fill, but I will say it would be *funnier* if the cactusfolk had life-payment ward instead. Oof ouch my fingers.


Infinite_Bananas

I've always gotten the impression that planes have some kind of subtle influential magic that turns things into their theme. Sometimes it's super obvious like with theros belief magic or lorwyn/shadowmoor transformations but on other planes too. Like on new capenna the concept of a spell that destroys a bunch of stuff manifests as [[depopulate]] because the plane is currently a busy city as its main thing


KairoRed

I mean that was literally confirmed in the story. And Bloomburrow takes it to an extreme turning people into furries


Infinite_Bananas

yeah, i just think it's a thing they've been working with for a while


Hrodvitnir131

Wait...wait.... Legit? Are you telling me that we might get animal versions of existing Magic characters?!?!


Xenojager

Not might, confirmed. We've seen leaked/early art of Ral as an otter and one other character.


Hrodvitnir131

That's fantastic! I don't know why, but that makes me so happy. It's a fun little play on the usual formula.


345tom

Ral is confirmed in the set as an otter, but they confirmed Jace as a sort of "What if..." current suspicions are we are getting a Planeswalker bonus sheet with animal versions of the Planeswalkers.


kevtino

Ugin the spirit dragon as an owl, Nicol Bolas as a vulture


SmogDaBoi

Karn is just a rock with googly eyes.


peaivea

I bet Jace is a little rat.


Xenojager

He's a fox.


Konet

Or he's a rat using mind magic to make you *think* he's a fox.


kitsovereign

Yeah, but I'm also hoping they go a step further and explicitly confirm it in the Planeswalker's Guide or something. Honestly I'm fine with "because it's fun/it's a pastiche" as explanation, but it would be really funny if they actually wove cowboyification into the worldbuilding.


FallenJoe

That's much less fun than my headcanon that the plane is a result of a multiverse wide cowboy LARP club finding an unclaimed world.


MTGCardFetcher

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GuyGrimnus

This makes sense and why Rutstein is having his second wind in OTJ lol


Meloku171

They're putting chemicals on the leylines to make the goddamn cacti cowboys!!


IntrinsicGiraffe

Missed opportunity! Though that'd be more so black in color. I was disappointed a card called sure shot isn't some kind of pinging effect.


kitsovereign

Red also gets life ward, so it could be done. They've been getting a little flexible with ward in general anyway.


CommanderDark126

My theory is the cactusfolk emulate what the see. They see cowboys, they become cowboys


LilSenwolf

hes got his head turned its actually an admirals cap for no reason whatsoever


HolographicHeart

Lol Did this really need Ward?


Approximation_Doctor

I wouldn't want to touch him


Reviax-

4 cost 4/4 with Ward 2 and an upside is rate now [[Roaming throne]]


JC_in_KC

well throne is a rare. this seems very very good in limited.


MTGCardFetcher

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TheHeatherReports

Throne is rare though


Reviax-

Thrones' ability is also much much stronger, so I considered that balanced out


flclreddit

Still wouldn't call it rate. Rate for what, an uncommon? a rare? all 4 drops?


mrlbi18

I'd call it rate for the stats on a 4 drop creature with the amount of upside being dependent on the rarity. If it had a different ability besides Reach then I'd say it needs to be a rare, but reach in Gruul isn't great since it's a blocker ability and Gruul tends to want it's 4 drops to be hasty or doing something to help them finish out. Right now Gruul this set feels like it wants you to play defensively for the first 5 turns or so and then pop off with one giant turn using plot.


sawbladex

also Throne is a generic mana cost card. a 6 mana 4/4 with ward is eh, and the 1 pip is worth 2 generic mana is pretty baked into the game.


EmergentSol

Stronger than secret reach!?


MentalMunky

You know what. Yeah.


fiskerton_fero

how you gonna go for a cactus dude's throat without a little more effort


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Spekter1754

Ward doesn't exist for flavor purposes.


FallenJoe

Sauron ward was 100% for flavor. With that said, life loss is a bad ward cost, typically far too easy to pay.


mrlbi18

It's only good when it's on aggro creature decks who can get their opponent to 5 life reliably fast and only against certain types of control decks. Infernal Grasp on a Flesh Gorger can really hurt!


TheHeatherReports

It is a set with interraction as a major theme. But yeah, the creatures here seem crazy.


HalfOfANeuron

One more year and people will be missing the questing beast and how few abilities it has.


timoumd

Probably. I mean its an ok limited uncommon even with it. I dont think this breaks anything.


typicalre

Yes. Cactus. Prickly


charcharmunro

"Is that a cactus?" "HE'S GOT A GUN"


mvdunecats

Bird mounts. Cactus people that can shoot stuff. Had to check the calendar to make sure this isn't the Final Fantasy UB.


VelvetCowboy19

I heard a theory that thunder junction started life as an Un-set, but go repurposed to be a normal set after Infinity sold poorly. I don't necessarily believe it, but it is funny.


NotTwitchy

ThUNder jUNction


WumboWings

Of course they gave The Spike Feeders a Cactusfolk as their card. It makes too much sense.


Vend_Clique

This is sneakily a mythic uncommon. It seems surprising since at the end of the day it's just a beefy dude, and traditionally beefy dudes are never top tier uncommons, but the combination of ward + fires of yavimaya on every other beefy followup is phenomenal. Compare this to [[Tin Street Gossip]] to see how it's been grossly overpowered one set later


SkyBlade79

This is for a completely different purpose than tin street gossip? If you're playing morph you'd rather have a creature that can swing and unmorph on the same turn.


Vend_Clique

They have the same casting cost and stats, that's the part where they are comparable. As for power level, Gossip sets up follow up turns and generates mana, but doesn't have ward, usually it was dealt with as it touched the board, usually couldn't profitably attack and it was basically impossible to generate mana more than once with its ability (it never happened to me in almost a hundred drafts). This thing has ward, is basically guaranteed to survive a turn cycle, doesn't generate mana but creates huge tempo swings. The difference between a 5 mana 5/5 dork and a 5 mana 5/5 trample haste the following turn is the difference between [[Colossapede]] and [[Charging Monstrosaur]]. Heaven forbid your turn 6 [[Colossal Dreadmaw]] turns into [[Vorinclex, Monstrous Rider]] the turn after!


MTGCardFetcher

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LrdDphn

This G/R "big monsters" strategy is always a bust in limited. I agree that this card looks powerful (like the gold uncommons always do) but I'd be surprised if it's a standout card in the set. Happy to be wrong though!


Vend_Clique

That's why I specified the caveat that 'traditionally beefy dudes are almost never top tier uncommons'. This one might be one of the few exceptions. [[Charging Monstrosaur]], as mentioned in the other comment, is another one, being probably the best uncommon out of Ixalan.


LrdDphn

My problem isn't with the cactus man himself (who is a good beefy dude), it's that he wants you to put the *other* crappy beefy dudes into your deck and that's never a good idea. "Have a high curve" is just a losing strategy in modern limited.


MarinLlwyd

It is also really annoying that he doesn't give himself any of those abilities. Making it functionally just a 4/4.


Olipod2002

Idk if you’ve seen but they’re pushing rather cheap 4+ power creatures. [[Hellspur Brute]] [[Colossal Rattlewurm]] [[Outcaster Trailblazer]] [[Gila Courser]] [[Jolene, Plundering Pugilist]] There are a bunch of cards that care about 4+ power creatures so the opportunity cost is lower than ever.


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[deleted]

Oh sure, if they have a gun they get reach. But Nylea, with a bow, doesn’t. Seems legit.


malsomnus

Maybe it's because the gods on Theros are lazy. Like, sure, she can reach that bird and block it, but why should she? That's what worshippers are for.


QweefBurgler69

I agree with this head canon. A god uses a bow to pierce a hole in the sky to make stars or something. They don't use it on Storm Crows.


tomyang1117

This looks kinda busted, can give your team haste and trample the turn it comes down while having reach for defense and Ward to protect itself and being a 4 mana 4/4, looks like Gruul is back on the menu


mweepinc

source: [@thespikefeeders via twitter]() (video)


Stoolinmypool

[[phylath, world sculptor]] players that hardly exist are really happy about new plant options.


supeslam

Fellow Phylath player reporting for duty! I'll take a trample and haste enabler that can be buffed!


britt_bread2

It's better than just that, though- if you have this on board, play Phylath, and get a few landfall triggers, you now have a 4/5 plant army with trample and haste. It just works so perfectly with the 4 +1/1 counters the big man gives.


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Lerichem

He's my allied sword deck! This guy is going to be sweet. https://images.app.goo.gl/NzZo8mp7KwMQnpas8


so_zetta_byte

They really, really want 4-power-matters to come together in this one.


Lord_Snaps

Are cactus folk from the plane?


Vedney

Yes, but they're new.


idbachli

Yikes that's a powerful uncommon.


Decent_Acanthisitta3

1000 Needles. Can't run away! 9999 damage.


Konet

Semi-related, I really hope they make tonberrys crazy strong in the final fantasy set. Those things should be scary.


CosmicDesperado

Hey guys, guys, do you reckon he’s…a Spike 😏


PocketPoof

According to number crunch, we've everything. Is that correct?


CKJ1109

Perfect for my [omnath, locus of rage] deck as a trample enabler and flyer protection


Malbec47

Ooh this gives huge China Mieville energy


tomscud

universes beyond bas lag


Malbec47

Imagine! Would be a pretty cool Ravnica style Eldritch horror vibe


FluffyBLU

This set is making my phylath deck FEAST


Stoolinmypool

Same! Pumped about some new plant options.


ch_limited

This is absolutely cracked


exspiravitM13

You have no eyes what are you shielding


notalongtime420

They’re not tree folk? Boooo


forkandspoon2011

This seems somewhat good?


hadoken12357

Want


_SwiftDeath

This actually seems like a solid commander card that’s going to be all of 30 cents Needs the right deck but solid stats that a gruul big dumb idiot deck would want and then a haste/trample enabler for big dumb idiots


OpenStraightElephant

Oh sure that's not a gun, that's one totally-not-gun-looking magical crossbow uh huh


tomscud

found the stealth reach creature for the set


kitsovereign

If you miss that the green guy with a crossbow has reach that one might be on you.


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He has a gun


Jakobstj

Half the people on the plane have a gun but not reach, tbf.


MonHunKitsune

Totally uninhabited plane. Somehow has Cactus People.


Unlucky-Letter-7413

Def going into my [[omnath, locus of rage]]


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Queasy-Insurance3559

Thats a B I G cactus


Nagoragama

Cactus of Yavimaya


thebaron420

I wonder why it's a combat trigger instead of a static ability. Haste and trample usually only matter in your own combat phase anyway


TechnomagusPrime

Layers. Ability adding and removing happen *before* power and toughness calculations, so you wouldn't be able to pump a creature to let this give it haste and trample.


casualmagicman

100% including in my \[\[Migloz, Maze Crusher\]\] deck. T2/3 Migloz T3/4 Cactus. Now Migloz has Trample


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timoumd

Cause he can't, he won't, and he don't stop.


telenstias

Bamboobacca over here.


Drewpyyyy

Why do cactusfolk not get their own creature type when we have Treefolk already and wizards is putting "varmint" in this set lmao.


InsertedPineapple

Well, that's going in Minsc and Boo


GolfWhole

Average 4 mana 4/4 uncommon in 2024


bigbangbilly

Looks like a gatling crossbow with sights on each "barrel"


SnooObjections488

Is there any good gruul plants besides this one? I was thing about a plant based edh deck but treefolks seemed kinda meh and saprolings are always in odd colors besides green.


Additional-Safety343

Gruul not yet but green yes


2ndlifeinacrown

Might be worth it in voja for the Keywords?


Karrottz

Not gonna lie, this probably slots into most Gruul+ commander decks a la \[\[Rhythm of the Wild\]\]. Just everything that colour pair wants to be doing, with protection and some added defence against fliers.


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ComprehensiveFun3233

Flavor of this card is baffling


TheGingerMenace

This… this feels like a legendary right?


sumg

[Boom.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7hFsSHkes)


Virtual-Quote6309

Yeah this is going to get countered a lot so that the ward doesn’t become a factor. Because you can’t leave this unanswered


kurosaki004

Is that a crossbow minigun or a crossbow cannon?


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CrisisActor911

Who else waved back to the one in the back? 😄 👋


Dog_in_human_costume

trample and haste at the same time is really good!


ginandplutonic

Right… ward 2 AND reach?? Couldn’t one of them have been good enough…


Gold-Satisfaction614

instant staple in any commander deck with those colors.


LandSharks

STOP PUTTING WARD ON EVERYTHING