Iona, Shield of Emeria

[Baatezu]

Iona, Shield of Emeria

Legendary Creature - Angel (Mythic Rare)

Flying
When Iona, Shield of Emeria enters the battlefield chose a color.
Your opponents can't play spells of the chosen color.

7/7

[NessOnett]

Wow Wizards...you suck! "here everyone, play monocolor again...we're just gonna print this one card that will make your entire deck completely unplayable. Good luck unless you're playing mono-blue with open."

Well, it'll be nice to see a big creature thread without that pesky "dies to removal" argument. This card alone begs and pleads for some wonky ramp deck to fight against mono-coloreds. In the end though, it probably won't see much play in high-level standard until some random rogue deck comes in with a way of breaking it(assuming mono-colored starts dominating standard again).

[Warmaker]

Good God, Wizards. You encourage mono-color again, and you drop off this guy with it. Good thing it costs so much...R/G aggro would probably be able to take a player out eons before he could play this...

[GenericKen]

Ramp? I'm looking for discard outlets for reanimator. Still no good ones.

[DraconisMarch]

Oh. My. God.

This is going in my reanimator deck. (Non-standard, of course.)

[NessOnett]

Ramp? I'm looking for discard outlets for reanimator. Still no good ones.

I feel dumb for immediately jumping to ramp before re-animate. Thanks for the correction Ken. I just see so few reanimate decks lately and so much ramp.

[hellkite91]

for discard outlets, there's either cunning lethemancer or rotting rats. still the only reanimator card that we're for sure is gonna be around right now is rise from the grave, at least that's the only one i can think of right now, here's hoping for a zombify of some sort

[PhyrexianRitual]

Painter's Servant anyone?

[dek]

This will not be competitive in Type II unless they create another version of warren instigator and/or reprint windbrisk heights.

[Agrrotactics]

It costs 9?! Thats all I have to say for standard play unless we become as slow conflux! I don't mind Mythic rares, but I hate these ones that cost so much mana that it won't ever do anything but waste peoples time thinking its good like Progenitus.