Child of Alara: Okay, this card has a huge effect on a large body. It destroys everything but lands when it leaves play. I don't know how much I like this card at mythic. It just doesn't really do anything that unique. It certainly has mythic qualities, but I'm thinking that a larger body or to have its ability be an enter the battlefield effect would have made it just slightly more badass.
Conflux: YES! This card is not very good. I know. However, it's a splashy fun tutor. It just works. I love everything about this card. It's a very casual oriented card, but that does not make it bad. It has a powerful effect for a strict price. I love it.
Ethersworn Adjudicator: So, in a monoblue deck you get a Serra Sphinx, which isn't all that bad. In the colors of Esper you get a repeated war machine that kills everything in sight. It's awesome. Again, this has an a very threatening impact on the board because if you untap with it, nothing is safe.
Maelstrom Archangel: Okay, we have an all colored angel. That in itself is mythic. Then we have this free spell whenever it touches an opponent. OH MY GOD. Yes. If you play Conflux for free, then you are in the money! This card just screams Johnny and is worth all the effort you get in trying to get it out. I love it. It's fantastic. (That being said, in a future post I will make a comment on how I really don't like "big" creatures that have abilities that trigger on combat damage to opponents.)
Malfegor: Okay, I hated this card initially. I thought it was awful and stupid. Turns out I was wrong. This card is a freaking beast. He has a huge body and his enter the battlefield ability wrecks house against opponents. Most of their creatures will die and your little ones will have room to attack! This card is a demonic dragon. It's just the perfect cunning combination of both that makes it freaking fantastic.
Mirror-Sigil Sergeant: Ugh. Okay, I know self replicating cards are interesting. It's just the ability has kind of been done before (Spawnwrithe, Chronozoa) and does not feel as unique when it first came out. I don't know. I'm a little ambivalent about this one. I think if the "blue" clause was removed for something else, I would be able to like this guy a lot better. I know he gets out of hand quickly... but I don't know. Trample in white is also a mythic property, but I just don't know. This one doesn't really do it for me, but that's because of it seems to be a little underwhelming of a card to be copied.
Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker: For 8 mana, I want something this game changing every time. I love how Bolas is not an immediate game over. Your opponent just has to struggle to get him. He is a a tower of doom and will win games easily for you if resolved. I love this card, and it epitomizes the mythic rarity.
Progenitus: Oh, and Progenitus defines that rarity, too! I have a ton of casual decks that I make so my friends can play. They've loved Progenitus since the beginning. It is a joyous occasion whenever it comes out. The other day I played it, and my friends were trying to find a way to kill it when I said, "You know when it dies it gets shuffled back into my library, right?" They were like, "HE DOES WHAT?" They couldn't get past that he had protection from everything AND another ability. That is mythic.
Thornling: Okay, people initially complained that the art didn't match that of Morphling and Torchling, and it slightly bothered me too, but I quickly got over it. People also lamented about how haste was irrelevant after the first turn it came into play, and that it was a horrible designed card. Well, this card has seen constructed play. (Unlike his fire brethren.) I think this card is a scary motherf*cker. I think indestructible is a very mythic like ability, and this card uses it very well.
Overall, I feel that this set's mythic are all deserving of the rarity, so congratulations! This is a set well done.
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