CTNC wrote: ↑

4 years ago

the flavor text still makes it feel like a new story.

Frankly, it's a common, how hard ca it be to find another one? Hey, rover keep! Just check the table and floor after FNM draft! You'll find plenty of mates to hang with.

You can gain 5 life for 3 mana!

The 5/5 trample haste for 6 or that part of drawing cards and reanimator on legs? Not important.

For 7, I don't want to pay 7 to be able to attack. Pass.

And if you play burn, you could chain spells at a furious rate. Good thing she costs 5 to make her unplayable in modern. That Worthy Knight though... I believe humans already plays a few knight? I'l have to go through the type lines... (hum thalia is a solider, same for lieutenant... oh well) althou...

Combos with plague engineer naming goats

Seriously, gaining 3 and a card looks good.

Flavor fail: the art has a brown goat...

So many adventures feel like they should be instant. I guess the food combos would be too good with instant-speed food creation.

Would you play stinkweed imp, supreme verdict or expedition map in your human modern deck?

That's why this card is not that good in humans.

My first reaction: why does a fox have reach?

Works with tokens, seems abusable.

Janky modern combo:

ornithopter
Emry, Lurker of the Loch
intruder alarm
+ some sac outlet
+ some creature ETB payoff.

You're better off playing Urza...

The GY recursion is worse than it looks. It will often be tempting to sac islands and swamp, which will make recasting it harder. You need 8 mana to recur and recast in a single turn... which makes the flash ability a bit weird. Flash is great for the first time being cast. Eat an attacker, untap, a...

once upon a time falls into the annoying category of cards that are bad until they are busted. At it's nominal cost, it's a worse ancient stirring , so a typical green spell of its kind. But for its special free price, it would only see play if it enables something broken, like making neoform more ...

This will end many limited games, with your opponent in tears. On a mere 4/4 that was chump-blocked, this deals 9 for possibly only RR. Well, it's mythic, so no problem.

Against control holding an empty board, this is pretty sweet. OTOH, if it backfires on you, you merely loot and get a 2/2.

Ooops, nothing happens if you sacrifice it to itself...

Wow, the "tap it" part seems very gratuitous. You can attack and eat food after declaring attackers. You can block and eat food afterward. It's only relevant if your opponent tries to kill it with direct damage before you attack or block. I really wonder why it was over-powered without tha...

Well, it can be countered. Needs veil of summer.

Seems like a steep price on both halves. 8 mana for 4 power on three bodies. (Well, 7 power when blocking I guess...) Could not the elf have vigilance at the least?

I find it awkward the way they repeat creature in the rule text. I guess to be 100% they couldn't just just "creature of the type of your choice", with the fact that the type has to be a creature type implied by the fact that creatures are being affected. Otherwise, I'd rather that they sp...

All-round star. There are no bad bits, from being an instant down to the creature types.

Wall type for a trebuchet? Kinda a flavor fail, isn't it?

Once upon a time seems crazy in modern tron deck. Sure, the 2nd one isn't free, but fixing your tron on your 0th turn (on the draw) seems busted. sylvan scrying is still probably better since you're guaranteed to get the land you need, but this looks so good.

If people played servant just to have access to a 1-mana conditional counter, that would be the least of our problems...

For instance, it can be tempting to view Order of Midnight as "mediocre" because in modern Magic a 2/2 Flying that can't block is "just okay" and a two mana Raise Dead is unbelievably awful. I didn't see anyone calling mediocre. It's actully a gravedigger that flies and can be c...

1. That's not true at all. (...) 2. Except that SV is better in the early turns of the game than Preordain, because (...) 3. Only if you play poorly. (...) Meh. If you're going to be that aggressive and one sided, why do you think I'd care about what you say? It's not "not true at all". M...

I just noticed that the bakery basket has a wolf paw right next to it. Nice subtle red riding hood reference.

Here's a comparison of the two cards in every possible case: I think your analysis is misleading for the following reasons: Most of the time, you're looking for one card, not two. At the very least, you usually need one card now and the other can wait at least a turn. Modern is a fast format where ...