Obviously it’s still a great deck, but it seems a lot harder to get into. However, this is another case where the larger number of commons hurts, as you still only have Amrou Scout and Blightspeaker as your searchers. This deck feels like it should be in great shape, since it got virtually all the good rebels, and even some medium ones, while the only major changes are Bound in Silence downshifted to common and Saltfield Recluse being upshifted to uncommon. This feels like it could work, even before you consider the obvious plants on the Timeshifted sheet for it. This deck lost basically nothing from the original Time Spiral (only Psychotrope Thallid, Herd Gnarr, and Sprout Swarm, and maybe Essence Warden if you’re stretching) and got Gaea's Anthem downshifted to uncommon (along with Fortify and Tromp the Domains returning). This deck seems fine, but difficult to make work. The main difference is that Primal Forcemage gives it a more aggro angle, especially when you add Uktabi Drake and multiple ways to give your Slivers haste. The suspend side of this archetype is mostly unchanged from where I expected it to be (the main differences are Shivan Sand-Mage coming back and Fury Charm getting cut), and the storm side is better since Empty the Warrens wasn’t upshifted. I’m just worried the aggro deck isn’t fast enough to compete with all the good suspend cards. The only downgrades are upshifts of Henchfiend of Ukor and Lightning Axe to uncommon, and that isn’t that big a deal. Not only is Gathan Raiders back at common, most of the other good enablers are here too, while Reckless Wurm was downshifted to common and Strangling Soot stayed there. I’m shocked at how aggressive Wizards was with this deck.
The deck is probably fine, especially since you still have Tendrils of Corruption, but it’s not a level ahead of the rest of the decks anymore. It goes beyond that too: Logic Knot is the only common (blue) counterspell, and there aren’t as many Instants/cards with Flash as you’d expect. You also get a bunch of good Morph creatures, and while both Shaper Parasite and Whip-Spine Drake were upshifted to uncommon, that’s still two more great cards that fit well in this deck.Ĭonversely when Mystical Teachings gets a (justified) upshift to uncommon, it’s going to hurt the deck centered on it. There’s also a separate deck based around playing bunch of cheap suspend creatures like Knight of Sursi and Infiltrator Il-Kor together, and since virtually all of them were reprinted at common (including Errant Ephemeron ) that seems better than ever. Virtually all of the nerfs I expected for the blink deck didn’t happen, as Stormfront Riders and Tolarian Sentinel got reprinted and Reality Acid wasn’t upshifted (though you’re naturally less likely to get multiple copies of the combo due to the larger number of commons). I’m also not going to go over all the mechanics, but you can check my old Time Spiral articles (particularly the Time Spiral Mechanics article) for an overview. One important design note is that there are more commons and uncommons than usual, so while each individual card is less likely to appear than in a normal (large) set, there is a lot of duplication of basic effects.
However, before we talk about that, we need to talk about the Limited format. The time warp has brought back the time set, and it’s a very interesting design.
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