razorborne has just posted the article "Judge Mortheon" in NGA Constructed Daily Card.

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This card has some cool concepts -- I particularly like the "one prisoner at a time" thing -- but I feel like the card encourages you to try things with it that just don't work very well.

Like, it sort of seems like a good idea to exile your own creature, then wrath, then get your creature back, but then your creature is stuck in exile until your opponent casts a creature. Even worse, if Mortheon dies at any point during these shenanigans, your creature is gone forever.

And then there's the weird anti-synergy between the ultimate and the -4. I dunno. This card just feels awkward to me.

In retrospect, the +1 should be restricted to exiling stuff you don't control only. Most of the time ideally you should be +1'ing onto their guys and having the -4 as backup after they cast other things; I can see why the +1 can be misleading and allowing you to do things you shouldn't.

That said, I don't see much anti-synergy between the ultimate and the -4. First because if you ultimate in all likelihood you aren't going to have Mortheon around to -4 for a while, second because you are supposed to do it with an empty/near empty board, so you won't need to -4 (it was an emblem for a while before realizing that the ability kept people out of the game without actually ending the game).

Judge Mortheon. I just like having the cards linked.

Anyhoo, I find Mortheon's motivations a refreshing change of flavour pace and hope to hear more from the Candoli party in the future.

One entire large set isn't enough? Because Velicta's Reckoning is essentially about Candoli World.

I mean I want the story to gain some traction in the M:EM so I can get my regular fix of Candoli.