Mastery like artifacts and enchantments!



Merchant's Guard
Creature - Elephant Soldier
Mastery - ~ gains first strike and vigilance.
3/3
That fool ___, caravaning his silks with his cotton. Precious cargo demands proper protection.

Enchantment Creature-Elemental
Flash, flying
When cardname enters the battlefield, you may return an enchantment you control to its owner hand.
2/2

Dang, I forgot to specify no mastery cards in any of my rounds.

If you do that I'll have to counter by outlawing oblation.

Let's start the voting!








I vote for Cato.

Parad.

Parad.

PO's doesn't look common

Vote Cato.

That's what I thought, until I realized that Etherium Sculptor was common.

Parad.

That's kind of shocking. This is slightly better as a creature... I don't know it still seems healthier to put it at uncommon but I'll vote for it anyway because it feasibly could be common and is definitely awesome.

Parad.

Ballyrush Banneret and its ilk were common, too. Same with Goblin Electromancer, Stinkdrinker Daredevil, Stormscape Familiar...

Parad

Parad: 5.5
Cato: 2

And I take it, even though I didn't follow the criterion exactly! (It was supposed to be at least 3 CMC.) Sunbringer Falcon shall be added to the spoiler.

Next round: Obligatory common combat trick.

Rimecoat
Instant (C)
Tap target creature. It gains indestructible until end of turn.

Incarnate in Iron

Instant (C)

Creatures you control become artifact creatures until end of turn. Artifacts you control gain indestructible until end of turn.

Iron without, iron within.

Dormant Talents
Instant (C)
Reveal the top 5 cards from the top of your library. You may put one aura card revealed this way onto the battlefield attached to an attacking or blocking creature. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

That probably shouldn't exist outside the set.
Does this matter?

I view it a little like Miracle. Miracle was an ability that was a lot more powerful outside its block/standard (in combination with library-arrangement stuff like Brainstorm and topdeck tutors) than in a controlled environment.

With M15 adding Heliod's Pilgrim and Boonweaver Giant it seems the aurasearch/aurafreecast is a direction they're supporting (Auratouched Mage wasn't just a one-off). Without library arrangement, this will whiff a lot (I considered a Jalira, Master Polymorphist style 'dig until you find one' wording but opted against). With library arrangement, it's powerful, but then so are Bonfire of the Damned / Temporal Mastery / Terminus but that didn't prevent their existence.

Assuming you activate this T2, no mulligan, going first, and there are 4 conscription in your 52 card library, a 5 card-deep search will have a 34% chance of hitting Conscription.
Mmmm. Mmmm. Mmmm.
Oh, but I guess you do have to draw it, which is also roughly 40% not including mulligans.

IDK what to think of those numbers, but they sound better (less broken) than I thought it would be.