Wish there had been a cycle of five battlemages :´-(
JoeVector
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The black kicker alone could win you the game.
achilleselbow
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(4 votes)
For six mana you get a 2/2 and a triple discard (compare to Hypnotic Cloud), for five mana you get a 2/2 and some pretty substantial direct damage, and for eight mana you get the whole package.
poprockmonster
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Ana is referring to Ana Sanctuary and Ana Disciple. They did do a cycle of battlemages back in the day, along with familiars and other stuff.
Axelle
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Compare this to the cycle of battlemages from Shards of Alara. Hmm...wonder if "Ana" is the name of a place or organization?
Ana Battlemage is expensive to kick, but it's awesome if you do.
Huh. The blue kicker gives a very black-like effect and the black kicker gives a more blue-like effect...
babaker
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@steinburger1109
That was essentially the theme of Planar Chaos - it shifted the color pie around.
adrian.malacoda
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@steinburger1109: Yeah, blue normally doesn't get discard effects, but the 1B kicker has always been a black/red effect: backlash, traitor's roar, delirium. I think it was shifted out of black/red into black/green here.
j_mindfingerpainter
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
@ poprockmonster: I think Ameisenmeister meant a wedge cycle of Battlemages. Which would be awesome considering how much better the kickers are on this than Anavolver.
wholelottalove
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Off color kickers there. Blue discard?
TheWrathofShane
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Interesting little card. You never want to cast it for its vanilla cost unless you have to.
So its for a 2/2 that discards 3.
Or for a 2/2 that can burn based on their biggest creature.
Both of these have good effects for the cost, but a terrible body.
Missile_Penguin
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Many of the cards in Time Spiral Block were throwbacks to at least one previously printed card. Planar Chaos featured many such homages "color-shifted" to show alternate timelines for some classic Magic stories or to demonstrate variants on the color pie (the distribution of abilities and effects which spells can and can't do.)
This card is references both the cycle of "shard" (two enemy colors and their ally) battlemages from Planeshift as well as the vertical cycle of "wedge" (two allies and their enemy) cards, Ana, Dega, Raka, Necra, Ceta. These "wedges" didn't get battlemages in the original Invasion block.
Notice that Ana Battlemage's armor references the powerful Anavolver!
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Ana Battlemage is expensive to kick, but it's awesome if you do.
@poprockmonster: Eh. Close enough.
- For white, Dega Disciple, Dega Sanctuary and Degavolver
- For blue, Ceta Disciple, Ceta Sanctuary and Cetavolver
- For black, Necra Disciple, Necra Sanctuary and Necravolver
- For red, Raka Disciple, Raka Sanctuary and Rakavolver
- For green, as mentioned, Ana Disciple, Ana Sanctuary and Anavolver
Invasion block was pretty awesome.
Devastation: discard THREE cards
ultimate power: traitor's roar your opponents krosan cloudscraper
That was essentially the theme of Planar Chaos - it shifted the color pie around.
So its
for a 2/2 that discards 3.
Or
for a 2/2 that can burn based on their biggest creature.
Both of these have good effects for the cost, but a terrible body.
This card is references both the cycle of "shard" (two enemy colors and their ally) battlemages from Planeshift as well as the vertical cycle of "wedge" (two allies and their enemy) cards, Ana, Dega, Raka, Necra, Ceta. These "wedges" didn't get battlemages in the original Invasion block.
Notice that Ana Battlemage's armor references the powerful Anavolver!