yes, but I doubt they'd do this 'cause one player always has it.

control creature with power equal to or greater than D

D is one higher than the god power

Apparently the Desert subtype is coming back, but not Desert itself.

... At least give us a Desert masterpiece in Hour.

Well we got obvious white god is obvious. Desert was too powerful? In standard? I guess there was a tokens deck in FFL??

He did say "a little too powerful", which suggests to me that it was good enough for them to main-deck routinely, and then very annoying for their opponents to play around. Not really an ideal place for anything to be.

What I think we're going to see is another land with the Desert subtype. Most likely in the second set because he hints Desert is more Hour of Devastation.

BTW, is it just me, or would delve play well with some of the things Amhokhet's doing?

I read the MaRo comment as we will get at least one Land - Desert or Deserts matter card in Amohkhet and Hour will have more possibly to the point of a minor subtheme.

Oh yeah delve + cycling wouldn't be busted.

Delve has the same problems here as the ones that kept it out of Innistrad block. It competes too much with embalm and aftermath. Delve is much less appealing when the cards in your graveyard are actually useful.

Was it played vs. Fairies? Judging by it's blogatog comments he seems to be talking about standard so there might be some serious desert support like a rampant growth/ farseek for them in hour or something.

And then they just spoiled a 4 mana uncounterable cantripping instant speed rampant grown for desert & basics with upside, sorta called it, yay.

Seems like Rhonas is basically ferocious, which is not really surprising, but kind of underwhelming.
also a 5 power deathtoucher for some reason

Only black remaining then, the likely candidates being lifedrain and > X life, discard and hellbent opponent, or maybe some sort of threshold type deal with self-mill.

Bontu's trial is Ambition.

His monument is already "cast a creature drain 1", but the white and green monuments also basically just repeat the god activated ability. Blue taps instead of draws ("durdles")? Red just rummages instead of discard/shock face.

But how is a 5/5 lifelink (or whatever) that only can attack or block when you have >20 life or more life than your opponent any good? It's only a creature when you are not losing?

I would bet more life than any opponent would serve Ambition well. Badly win-more unless his stats are really interesting.

I mean all the other gods so far are eyeblights so who am I to tell them to stop

well it's out and it's... not good. It's sweet though.

we've reached a new low

I do like the new gods, but I've realized why they're so much less exciting to me than the Theros ones were.

The Theros gods felt like enchantments first and foremost. You could play it for the enchantment parts of the card and be decently happy. Turning it into a creature was a powerful bonus if you got enough devotion, but the interesting parts of the card were the enchantment abilities.

The Ahmonket gods feel like creatures. Every part of the card points you in the direction of "make this a creature". The only "enchantment" part of the card is an ability that helps you get the god into creature mode. So instead of feeling like cool enchantments that are sometimes creatures, these feel like cool creatures that don't always work.

I do think it's good that they went a different direction with the gods this time, but it just doesn't appeal to me as much. That said, it does line up well with the flavor of the Ahmonkhet gods being much more tangible than the Theros ones.

It makes sense since the new Gods aren't, in fact, Enchantments.

And it was undoubtably done because Amhokhet's schtik is something other than enchantments.