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I like her (more randomness, yay!) but I feel like the "Discard a card: Return to hand" is a bit much. Something like Ward would have been just fine imo.Lifeless wrote: ↑3 years agoJadzi, Oracle of Archavios looks pretty ridiculous at medium powered tables. Sure, she costs 8, but maximizing Journey to the Oracle doesn't sound all that hard to me.
I think that wouldn't accomplish the goal, which is less "protect her" and more "allow you to use the other side".Dragoon wrote: ↑3 years agoI like her (more randomness, yay!) but I feel like the "Discard a card: Return to hand" is a bit much. Something like Ward would have been just fine imo.Lifeless wrote: ↑3 years agoJadzi, Oracle of Archavios looks pretty ridiculous at medium powered tables. Sure, she costs 8, but maximizing Journey to the Oracle doesn't sound all that hard to me.
Mmh, I think of the other side more as a setup for the front side actually. Is there any real benefit to bounce her, cast Journey, discard a card to get it back, then recast her again?Wallycaine wrote: ↑3 years agoI think that wouldn't accomplish the goal, which is less "protect her" and more "allow you to use the other side".
I think she will be fun indeed, but if the deck is playing cheap cantrips and some top deck manipulation, maybe she'll end up being annoying? Having counterspell backup to protect her can also be good as it fuels her spell-cheating ability. I love those types of cards anyway but I don't want them to be overly powerful either, although her CMC might be just high enough to prevent real abuse.Wallycaine wrote: ↑3 years agoGenerally, I think it'll be a bit weaker than people are assuming at first, as magecraft and the mana cost both limit how ridiculous she can be. That said, will still probably be fun to watch.
Blue and Green draw a lot of cards. Lots of cards means lots of lands in hand. Especially if you've just resolved something like Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn, it wouldn't be unreasonable to end up in a situation where bouncing her back to your hand lets you go mana positive, either on just Journey to the Oracle or, if you've really got a full grip or hit a massive land pocket, both Journey and her. Even something like "spend 4 and 2 cards to ramp 8 'tapped'" is real strong, and totally feasible.Dragoon wrote: ↑3 years agoMmh, I think of the other side more as a setup for the front side actually. Is there any real benefit to bounce her, cast Journey, discard a card to get it back, then recast her again?Wallycaine wrote: ↑3 years agoI think that wouldn't accomplish the goal, which is less "protect her" and more "allow you to use the other side".
FenrirRex wrote: ↑3 years agoI adore that Elimination Ritual just straight up bodies early game rocks and dorks, potentially ramping up into a huge play if the rest of the table is sitting on a critical mass of them. Fun stuff.
Probably no, but hard to say. Going only off some analysis on conditional removal spells, Despark hits more creatures than Ultimate Price. It's possible that number is somewhat different when you add noncreatures to the mix, but would need to do some analysis to determine which way it goes. My brief analysis suggests that Vanishing Verse hits significantly more enchantments, while Despark hits significantly more planeswalkers and artifacts. So, depends somewhat on what cards you care about more.
In my meta surely not
We're going back to Innistrad soon, aren't we? Insects and spiders and snakes, oh my!Sporegorger_Dragon wrote: ↑3 years agoBlex, Vexing Pest
There are no Insect, Snakes, or Spiders in the set and only one Bat.
Has the entire set been spoiled? Maybe we will get a couple more.Sporegorger_Dragon wrote: ↑3 years agoBlex, Vexing Pest
There are no Insect, Snakes, or Spiders in the set and only one Bat.
It's basically trinket text, yes, but seems misleading and a massive let-down after its text was teased by Rosewater.JWK wrote: ↑3 years agoHas the entire set been spoiled? Maybe we will get a couple more.Sporegorger_Dragon wrote: ↑3 years agoBlex, Vexing Pest
There are no Insect, Snakes, or Spiders in the set and only one Bat.
Either way, seems intended for us than as a thing in limited. And maybe there will be some good ones in upcoming sets, including the next Innistrad sets, as already suggested.
Full set has been spoiled, outside the commander decks. That said, those creature types were almost certainly added for flavor/backwards compatibility, as Pests as a creature type are a new Strixhaven thing. This lets him be the lord of pests in limited/standard, while still allowing him to synergize with Pest-like creature types in standard and commander.JWK wrote: ↑3 years agoHas the entire set been spoiled? Maybe we will get a couple more.Sporegorger_Dragon wrote: ↑3 years agoBlex, Vexing Pest
There are no Insect, Snakes, or Spiders in the set and only one Bat.
Either way, seems intended for us than as a thing in limited. And maybe there will be some good ones in upcoming sets, including the next Innistrad sets, as already suggested.
Technically, Mirrodin 1.0. Nuisance Engine was the original, Signal Pest was the callback. Considering those are the only two, however, I felt comfortable calling it a "new Strixhaven thing", just like I'd call Werewolves a "new Innistrad thing" when they first came out.Serenade wrote: ↑3 years ago....pests arose in Mirrodin 2.0.
(A BG variant of Moonlight Bargain as a general seems very strong.)