Firesong and Sunspeaker

Lifelink for Noncreatures

RE: giving noncreatures lifelink. Firesong and Sunspeaker, Soulfire Grandmaster and Radiant Scrollwelder all give your instants and sorceries lifelink. Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord gives your planeswalkers lifelink on your turn.

FYI

Blood Firesong and Sunspeaker Instants Lifelink Lifelink Planeswalkers Sorceries Sorin, Vengeful Bloodlord

Buy-a-Box Power Level

As someone who loves the idea of the BaB promo being it's own unique card, my only problem with it is entirely with its power level. Firesong and Sunspeaker was a great card but wasn't competitive and that was fine, Commander and Brawl love them. Nexus of Fate on the other hand is so extremely powerful that its making the exclusivity of the BaB promos a problem instead of a reward. I would like the BaB to remain unique but I also want them to be toned down power-wise to stop this from happening.

Nexus of Fate is of a higher power level than our target with Buy-a-Box cards.

Brawl Commander Competitive Play Firesong and Sunspeaker Nexus of Fate Pop Culture Power Level Promos Your Hand

Boycott Impact Misconception

Hi Mark. My LGS sold much less Dominaria boxes than usual because of a coordinated boycott of box purchases due to Firesong and Sunspeaker. I sent this feedback multiple times with no response. I know I’m not alone, as the same thing was discussed in the regional WPN Facebook pages. Why wasn’t this addressed?

Your store was an outlier. Overall, the promotion was very successful with the majority of store owners saying the promotion was good for their store.

Dominaria Firesong and Sunspeaker Game Stores Pop Culture

Promo Strength Plan

On the subject of the unique buy-a-box promos, is there a contingency plan for the possibility of making it too powerful? Firesong and Sunspeaker have little to no demand but are currently the 7th most expensive card in dominaria. Would additional print runs occur if its price became too high?

The only thing we have promised is that the buy-a-box promo is not in the set it is sold with. We are free to print it elsewhere either because we feel the world needs more of them or because it’s a perfect fit for a set down the road.

Card Printing Contingency Plan Dominaria Firesong and Sunspeaker Pop Culture Promos

Silver-border Rules

Wait, so adding trample to a non-creature spell is a silver-border only thing, but Firesong and Sunspeaker can give a non-creature spell lifelink?

Yep. Black Border can add lifelink to spells but not trample.

Black Black Border Firesong and Sunspeaker Lifelink Non-creatures Pop Culture Spells Trample Un-sets

Brawl Deck Symbols

In the article for Brawl: "The mana symbols that appear on your commander dictate what cards may be in your deck. Mana symbols that don't appear on your commander can't be in the deck." The mana symbols that Firesong and Sunspeaker have is {4}, {W}, and {R}, right? So cards that have anything else like {1} can't be in the deck, according to this, correct?

No. It only looks at colored mana symbols.

Brawl Commander Firesong and Sunspeaker Mana Pop Culture

Firesong Feedback

To whom should we direct our complaints about the exclusivity of Firesong and Sunspeaker?

You can voice them to me. Emailing me through the link at the bottom of my column allows me to forward them to the proper people. By the way, I have strongly received the message that this is unpopular with a lot of players. This message *is* getting passed along to the PowersThat Be.

Firesong and Sunspeaker Pop Culture

Card Availability Compared

How is Firesong and Sunspeaker different than Nalathni Dragon?

One was available for a single weekend at a single event held at one location for an event unrelated to Magic. The other is available at any store that sells Magic for buying Magic product.

Dragon Firesong and Sunspeaker Nalathni Dragon Pop Culture

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