And yeah, new Putrefy is not nearly as good as old Putrefy/Mortify, because back then, Planeswalkers didn't exist.

Now, if I'm playing expensive removal, I want something like Vraska's Contempt that deals with walkers, too.

Radical Idea is a decent card...but it isn't better than what we have currently. Chart the course draws the same amount of cards for the same advantage for 1/2 the mana...though at sorcery speed. I like it and I think it has potential but it isn't great...yet.

Direct Current just plain sucks. I'm waiting for Alternating Current to be printed.

Status//Statue is really good. Not sure what I'd play it in, or even if I would while Vraska's Contempt is around. Really depends how many artifacts/enchantments are being played.

I like Healer's hawk, it'll be another way to turn on ajani's pridemate and if you pump/anthem it it could do some work. Also, using removal on it will be a feel bad moment for any opp, so they'll just probably let it through most of the time. Are you really going to seal away or vraska's contempt a 1/1 flying lifelinker?

Sonic assault looks like a fun and annoying tempo card, perfect for izzet tempo wizards. I'll definitely be trying it out.

Well, for obvious reasons, Chart the Course and Radical Idea would go into 2 very different decks. Radical Idea is a slightly nerfed Think Twice, which was a very powerful card. Yes, the cost of discarding hurts it, but not enough for me to believe it won't happily fill the card draw slot of a bunch of permission decks losing Glimmer (supposing we don't get a better version somewhere else this set).

Problem: Glimmer and Think Twice give card advantage. Radical Idea basically only gives selection, and at a very expesive rate. A card that cycles for 2 and gives one of your other cards Cycling 1U is not going to make control decks when I struggle making room for Anticipate.

Kinda surprised that we still have to see a surveil card that cares about surveil not being scry.

Removal in the set seems pushed for limited. Bad Shock with flashback at common might mean the bodies are generally big? And scry 2 on a removal spell at common seems extremely solid too, token matter themes aside.

Emmara interesting, shame the best vehicle right now is the weatherlight that she can't crew, it's another cheap legendary in color for mox amber I guess, but green loses the one drop legend from kaladesh.

Lay bare the heart saw sideboard play so the new discard might too I guess, but we didn't have duress at the time methinks.

I don't like Sonic Assault. It may be a tech card depending on the meta, but if control has any kind of presence it is pretty bad. Seems like the kind of card you have 1-2 in the SB for a mirror match at best. Then again, maybe I have just gotten to used to the current meta.

Hell, I've playing mostly jank so I face mostly jank too.
Then when I get matched against some T1 net-decks, I go smash some face with suicide black or infuriate opponents with wizards tempo, so I don't face all that much creature less control.
I think I just took my first loss against the notorious fog deck. Didn't stick around to watch the guy masturbate in front of me anyway.

Card looks sweet as a tempo play for my build, would be much better at 2cc, but I'll give it a go anyway.

You are a better agro player then myself, so I will take your word for it, although I agree UR would be a more playable CC.

Besides, the game is about fun, and if the card is fun, that is all it needs to be.

With jump start, we could build aggro decks with some sort of flood insurance

In most cases, the Surveil payoff is not on the card itself. However, we actually have already seen a Surveil card with immediate payoff: Search for Azcanta basically says "At the beginning of your upkeep, surveil 1. Then..."

It's not like we really needed ways to make azcanta even better...
Here comes the controlfest... Hehehe.
Let's see what tools aggro gets, I'm guessing ravnica will be all about the guilds and going 2 colours so for mono fans like me there may not be all that much stuff, but it's still early in spoiler season.

Status // Statue - I will like this card when it finds it partner combo creature. Of course it comes after we lose Ballista...

I think in the right deck the new Ral PW is going to be strong. With surveil + azcanta kicking cards into the gy to power up his -3 and his +1 basically drawing you 2 cards when you pitch a jump start card... he could be powerful. Not as good as Taferi but Tef is a tuff act to follow.

GY hate is going to be a must have for any sb that can run it.

One cute thing about the split card is that against a red aggro deck using the toughness boost to save the creature from removal might make up for the "good" half being too clunky. Also abrade rotates out, so some 2-3 mana artifacts that you need to untap with might be more played, but I'm not sure that any of them is standard playable.

Goblin Chainwhirler says hello.

wow thats one amazing combo, one side sweep NOICE!

Of course you could do the same thing with Death Baron, Rise from the Grave, and have the Chainwhirler in the graveyard in new standard.

That would work? I mean, Deathtouch on non-combat damage. Sounds fun

It would work. It's still a bit Fantasy Land, comboing a G/B card with a RRR card. But yes, it'd work.

In my Fantasy Land, we shower together