A-Guide of Souls
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Sep 23, 2026
Phil BlechmanHOST
And then, you know, this also is going to gain some amount of life if you're, like, the combo deck that needs to buy some amount of time against, like, the Boros energy decks or whatever.
Phil BlechmanHOST
This is just gonna sit in the way of your-- the Guide of Souls or Ocelot Prides or whatever while you do that.
Phil BlechmanHOST
Uh, so even though in matchups where the uncounterable part doesn't matter, this is a wall that replaces itself.
Phil BlechmanHOST
And then in the matchups where you do care about the uncounterable clause, this is an activated ability, so they would have to fight over the Theorist's Proxy in your, in their end step, uh, and tapping them out, you know, which, you know, further punishes any type of counterspells or countermagic that costs mana.
Graham StarkHOST
Yeah.
Graham StarkHOST
Um, and Historic only exists on, on Arena, so, uh, in, in light of all of, in, all the r- the reverting, uh, Historic is going to, um, then ban Galvanic Discharge, Guide of Souls, Nadu, Sorin, Imperious Bloodlord, and The One Ring, and Nadu is banned in Brawl.
Nelson SalahubHOST
Okay, so.
Kathleen De VereHOST
Right, because they're going back to the paper versions.
Graham StarkHOST
Yeah.
Kathleen De VereHOST
And, like, Guide of Souls, they, like, increased from, like, three to four, and, like, they did, like, a bunch of other stuff, I think.
Graham StarkHOST
Guide of Souls, yeah, it was something to do with the energy costs.
Kathleen De VereHOST
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
DaveHOST
Um, And they've just rebalanced all the cards, which means that they've done quite a radical, I say radical, quite an obvious ban list for day one.
DaveHOST
So what it is going to mean is that with all the cards falling back to their balanced levels, we will have Galvanic Discharge, Guide of Souls, Nardu Winged Wisdom, Sovereign Imperious Bloodlord and the One Ring.
DaveHOST
just banned from day one and yeah fine the only one standing out would probably be people might not be like why Soren is because there's ultimately like a one shot kill with life gain decks the format's relatively slow so you could probably pretty much cocoa into like a 20 a 20 banger straight to the face so fair enough so I don't know if there's any take on this Scott other than cool let's move on yeah that's pretty much it
ScottHOST
Alchemy was really controversial and will continue to be, right? And would timeless be more fun without alchemy cards? Would historic be more fun without alchemy cards? I don't know.
James ChilcottHOST
But Ragavan Nimble Pilferer MH2 version is up 60% from 25 to 40 over the last year because it's back to being a four of in Boros Modern now that they've lost some of their other options.
Cliff DaigleHOST
I mean, this is in the running for being one of the best one-drops ever printed, and what else could you possibly want from it? I understand why the attention went away, and especially with Ocelot into Guide of Souls, that's a combo that's real hard to turn down, but Ragavan is just amazing and quite the value engine.
Cliff DaigleHOST
You get to semi-draw a card, you definitely get a treasure, And once you start getting ahead with the removal, you know, he's going to get there and make you miserable.
James ChilcottHOST
Also another card that's going to be an auto-include in Smog, who's going to need early game action until he finally comes into play.