Good White card is good. Skyclave Apparition is... It's really decent.

I also like @Sinis point - I've found in modern EDH that spending a total of 5 mana to play and equip a sword is awkward and clunky outside of dedicated equipment decks unless the Sword specifically synergizes with your plan. So my list is more a tier list. Yeah, pretty much. I often find it hard t...

TheGildedGoose wrote: ↑

1 year ago

Can confirm. I hadn't played with the card in years but when I sleeved it up in my casual Szarekh, the Silent King deck it did a lot of work.

I've played it in a lot of decks, and it's really good, IMO. Very underrated.

I don't think this is a viable comparison, they do different things although mask plays nicely with SoOaF. I think if you want one, it's highly likely you want the other and that's a pretty good place to be. I also think it's a mistake that people skimp on cheap instants and sorceries (this stems f...

Reanimate and Exhume for more graveyard stuff. This is an angle I kind of idly thought about. Surveil for pieces or targets, and then let it rip. There's a lot of pieces that Sword can reuse; Entomb , Unmarked Grave , Reanimate , Persist , Stitch Together , etc. Looting spells can also be cheap; Ca...

Sword of Once and Future The first Swords of Protection and Value came out in Darksteel, in 2004. The tenth and last sword came out this month. It's been almost 20 years of Swords, some very powerful (looking at you, Sword of Feast and Famine ) and some pretty weak ( Sword of Body and Mind is almos...

This card is so silly. Maybe it could see play in some vicious discard deck, but, I'd rather play something like Iwamori of the Open Fist in Selvala or whatever power-matters deck I'm running.

Not to say this card isn't fun, though...

I like that it makes them indestructible so you can Armageddon. Wait... I didn't mean that. I like that it just makes them creatures with indestructible so you can play a relatively risk-free lands-as-creature strategy for a turn. Sylvan Advocate , Tatyova, Steward of Tides , etc. can make them pack...

Mina and Denn is a great way to reuse Bojuka Bog. You can also just kind of give creatures trample to secure a really busted land (like Nykthos or Field of the Dead) against removal (as long as you're willing to spend a land drop to play it next turn). The bounce part could also be used with Crucibl...

To the Elder Kologhan naysayers, you're totally correct, except when you're playing Dragonstorm , and are not in green. So, yeah, it sucks. In fact, I did use it as the best way to end the chain when I was brewing dragonstorm|scg Kaalia. For when you couldn't get enough damage via Lathlis --> Scour...

Yeah, I mean, the failcase as a mana rock is okay, but I think you need to compare that to other mv 3 mana rocks, like Cursed Mirror , Strixhaven Stadium , etc. The fail case of "a 3 mv add 1 rock" is actually really bad nowadays, IMO. It's acceptable during play, because that sort of thin...

To the Elder Kologhan naysayers, you're totally correct, except when you're playing Dragonstorm, and are not in green.

So, yeah, it sucks.

I would say, the same role as any single-clone spell. Sometimes you clone the Rune-scarred Demon. Sometimes you clone the Acidic Slime. I think Sculpting Steel has aged out, though; it's hard to justify over something like Phyrexian Metamorph, or Clever Impersonator if you're in blue, and then the r...

I rarely play my copies.

I think, partly, it's that I have been playing a lot of background commanders that can't actually be cloned this way.

Surprised to see all the love for Battles - perhaps I've judged them too harshly/quickly? I'm hoping to jam some games this weekend so I'll sneak a few into lists. Despite my own misgivings, a few I'm excited to playtest are... I think they're kind of fun. Like, do you play Invasion of Zendikar ove...

3drinks wrote: ↑

1 year ago

I just like this art.

I bought this one for the art. Never played it.

I have a lingering fear surrounding many of the Esper ones, because Aminatou, the Fateshifter exists. My playgroup was mad when I used Oath of Liliana in Aminatou, they'd be apoplectic if I used Invasion of Fiora.

I think Shriveling Rot was especially good as an extra punish when someone was wrathing a third party's board. I think it's also playable in go-wide decks if you can manage the cost; if you're attacking with something like Toski, Bearer of Secrets and a bunch of tokens, you can leverage this post-bl...

I love this archon. Eldraine had so many hits for me, power creep notwithstanding. Just an awesome card for decks using tokens. Maybe it should be in my Preston deck...

You only have one archmage emeritus though. I think there's room for both, at least until we get seven more copies inevitably power creeping it. Serum Sovereign exists. I'd rather pay one into that. MOM Jin Gitaxias is going to draw with noncreatures more than 2 for free. And then there are the car...

I get the impression people sleep on this because it doesn't look like a bomb, but turning all your non-permanent spells into cantrips is worth + 1 imho. Should probably see more play in these kinds of decks. I feel like Lunar Mystic never saw play. That one mana, it turns out, is quite a bit on to...

Okay, but what do you do with it? Trigger Constellation X times, and protect itself with Sphere of Safety , I think. I think this card is pretty unremarkable. All the abilities on it are serviceable, but, I can't really see it doing anything but the two things I mentioned. Maybe it dunks a tapped c...

Okay, but what do you do with it? Trigger Constellation X times, and protect itself with Sphere of Safety , I think. I think this card is pretty unremarkable. All the abilities on it are serviceable, but, I can't really see it doing anything but the two things I mentioned. Maybe it dunks a tapped c...

Academy Manufactor got so hyped during spoilers for MH2, and I don't think I've ever seen it played. I even got a copy myself (as well as Lonis, Cryptozoologist and Fae Offering... also unplayed).

Maybe I should finally get on that...

Venedrex wrote: ↑

1 year ago

They started Pioneer by banning them.

Honestly, this was so telling that the initial Pioneer banlist was either entirely or mostly fetchlands.