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"Spellsling"?  They called it "Gunslinging" back then.  I wonder whether it was a lawyer or a marketing doof that informed them they were required to pretend this was never the case and not mention it.

It's not necessarily bah-roken, but in an aggressive red deck it's above the curve of burn spell efficiency, with no drawback. Compare to Shrapnel Blast , except no artifacts required. It would win games out of nowhere all the time.

Huzzah, an automatic 3/4-of in Delver decks, and our first candidate in the new set for banning! Seriously, how many times does Wizards need to reprint Time Walk before they realize that taking extra turns will always be broken. Even just top-decking this naturally is going to be a huge blowout in so many games, and that's not counting deck manipulation.

Okay, Mark, I know that you like experimenting with the format of your articles, and I usually like it because it keeps things fresh. But please, I'm begging you: Never. Do. This. Again.

I could not keep track of what was going on. It could have worked, if we hadn't been expected to keep continuity of all the stories within straight, but unfortunately, you kept returning to the same stories, as if you hadn't just spent twenty paragraphs writing about something not at all related, as if there was no way we'd have forgotten what you'd said before. The human mind doesn't work that way.


Now, down to business. Miracle is a bad idea. It doesn't excite me at all, because the answer is obvious: Ponder or similar to set up the top of your deck. That's about all you can do with it. It also discourages running any additional card drawing spells, because then you risk drawing the miracle in some non-miraculous way, and are stuck with an extraordinarily overcosted card. However, when you do get miraculous, the effect to cost ratio is absolutely ridiculous. From six mana to one. From seven mana to two. What the heck?

As for the preview card itself, wow. Just wow. How is that safe to print, at all? I mean, Time Walk is completely broken, but this isn't? If you get this card miraculously early, then I can't see opponents coming back from it. I think this card will probably be a staple in most Blue decks, though at least not likely as much so as Jace, the Mind Sculptor was.

This, combined with the fact that Undying is the only returning keyword from Innistrad block, combined with the fact that Soulbind is just boring and the absolute disappointment in the story (Seriously, Avacyn was mortally wounded, and you not only don't explain how she's now suddenly fully-healthy, you don't even mention the wound at all? And you claimed humanity was on the brink of extinction, but suddenly they're able to beat back all the monsters overnight, despite the fact that all of the demons are free and the human's numbers are severely dwindled from before, when they were only just holding their own against the monsters WITH AVACYN'S HELP? This story is an absolute mess...) Sorry, lost my train of thought there... But wow. Innistrad block was awesome, and this set could not be a worse let-down follow-up.

But hey, that's not important at all. Because Return to Ravnica, guys! They could have printed NOTHING in Avacyn Restored's place and the news that we're going back to the best setting in the game next year would STILL have me the most excited I've been for this game in years.