Bonehoard was the 2nd featured card with the new mechanic living weapon, where you put out a 0/0 black germ token and attach the equipment that brought it out to it, granting it all the equipment bonuses when it is attached, it is still a equipment after the germ token dies and can be attached to anything else as per usual, but what is different about this one is this particular equipment relies on the amount of creatures in the graveyards not just one, all graveyards making this overpowered and just nasty to deal with, it's equip and summoning costs are really intruging as well as it costs 4 mana to bring out and 2 mana to equip to something else.
Where do i begin, mill, life loss and poison counters a 3 for 1 card with a cheap 4 mana cost to activate it's abilites and summon it, Decimator web is sure to take the place of various milling stones like Keening Stone or even some other things, as this is a lot better and it's really a lot easier to obtain this ability in the long run.
Knowledge pool is basically the new way to cheat things into play, imprint is just nasty on this as it exiles the top 3 cards of every player's library, plus whenever someone casts a spell it gets exiled, if it does you get to play any of the exiled cards for free, this right here will make ramp decks obsolete since Knowledge pool is just broken in any sense of the word did i mention it costs 6 mana to use.
Myr Welder is basically the new form of Necrotic Ooze for exile and let me tell you some of the abilites you can give it with this are just insane, flying, raising power/toughness etc, but it only works for other artifacts in general so be careful what is used with it.
New Pithing Needle anyone, that's basically what this dude is a pithing needle for a rare and it's nasty, it names anything like Meddling Mage does and makes them unplayable till it dies, but stilll a 2/1 for 2 mana is a nice change i wish it was 1 though.
Phyresis Crawler is something else entirely it depends on the amount of cards in your hand for it's power/toughness and it has a secondary ability of when a opponent draws a card, they lose 1 life so it's useful for you, not so much your opponent.
Shimmer Myr i feel is a junk rare, it's flash may be useful in late game but that's it, though it's a 2/2 for 3 and it grants flash to other artifact cards, i think this one may only be draft worthy.
A really expensive artifact removal spell such as this should be kept at the way side, unless your playing some serious ramp decks it's not worth a slot in your deck at all, this one might be a 2 dollar junk rare like Shimmer Myr then again i've been known to be wrong before 90% of the time.
Thopter assembly or as i now call it a mass token generator is perhaps the greatest release card in the past year or so, it makes dudes when this is alone, it repeats the process infintely and just is a 5/5 beatstick for 6 with flying, i am so willing to go out right now and place a order for 4 of these things, foil wise of course because they are that damned good.
Titan Forge is the last artifact i get to speak of right now, as there are no other artifacts confirmed, this thing loves proliferate as it uses charge counters, it makes 9/9 titans dude 9/9 beatsticks of awesome, this is defintely not a pass if you get your hands on one in draft, with a massive proliferate strategy this is a viable engine.
Lastly Inkmoth Nexus is just nuts, it's a mana generator that makes itself into a dude which is a 1/1 flyer with infect until end of turn for 1 mana, it's not a legendary land either so it means 4 of these is legit for infect, as infect seems like this was the key piece of the puzzle for the format to be viable in any sense of the word, well that about wraps up the rare breakdown for this set and stay tuned as we've not seen the last of the rares for the set, till next time this is vergil signing off.
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