[mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Jetfire, Ingenious Scientist

[Sinis]

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022; Champion of Dusk

Pact of the Serpent is , so this is probably a good deal.

[ISBPathfinder]

I used to play it in Edgar Markov. Its really good if you can get a bunch of chaff vamps

[3drinks]

Thursday, March 24th, 2022; Equinox

Lolwut is this mess, a one mana value answer to Ruination? 🙄

[BeneTleilax]

If you see someone running this, it's a good sign something is very wrong with that meta. I like the art though.

[Ruiner]

It might be niche but I can totally see this as a really useful card in Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper decks.

[folding_music]

weirdly good in Ertai the Corrupted, right? a source of counterspells you can sacrifice to yr commander to cast counterspell <3
I have this card in whatever enchantress thing I make though cos if you animate one of your lands it can counter Wrath of God etc

[hyalopterouslemur]

"Cards that should be easy to understand but 1) are full of clauses like this will stop any effect that doesn't explicitly say "destroy", and 2) require the card to do something impossible like look forward into the future" tribal?

[onering]

It might be niche but I can totally see this as a really useful card in Noyan Dar, Roil Shaper decks.

Yeah, repeatedly shut down wraths is pretty sweet, although there are a lot of -x/-x and exile based wraths floating around (and Supreme Verdict). Combos with artifact lands to protect your artifacts from Vandalblast and the like. Not an all star, but cute tech, if you can afford the slot.

[vandertroll]

Weird cards are weird. I'd be tempted to run it on an enchantress deck though.

[3drinks]

Friday, March 25th, 2022; Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant

[hyalopterouslemur]

Obvious value in an Underworld Dreams deck is obvious.

[3drinks]

Saturday, March 26th, 2022; Voltaic Construct

[folding_music]

creates beautiful jittering with Palladium Myr, giggle

am generally against effects which read "Please find the infinite combo this accompanies" and this is no exception

[hyalopterouslemur]

creates beautiful jittering with Palladium Myr, giggle

am generally against effects which read "Please find the infinite combo this accompanies" and this is no exception

I believe the phrase is "Some assembly required."

Since you mentioned Palladium Myr, Mana Reflection? Illusionist's Bracers?

Mycosynth Lattice and anything like Elvish Aberration or Viridian Joiner?

March of the Machines and Gilded Lotus?

This guy is way too easily broken. But my God, the U word is the path to infinity in this game.

[Mookie]

Re: Karazikar, the Eye Tyrant - I'm running it in my Kess deck and generally enjoying it. Very much a 'dance, puppets, dance!' sort of card. Doesn't work very well with Sire of Insanity though, which is a thing I have encountered.

As for Voltaic Construct... yeah, as others have pointed out, it's a pretty obvious combo piece. There are some more benign uses for it - untapping Steel Overseer or another useful tap ability - but most of the time it's going to be used to generate infinite mana. Not that there are a lot of artifact creatures that tap for 3+ mana though. Looks like a job for Metalworker!

[3drinks]

Sunday, March 27th, 2022; True-Name Nemesis

[hyalopterouslemur]

Written as protection.

Naturally it's blue, rather than white.

That said, I should point out this guy is vulnerable to most boardwipes (other than ones like Earthquake and Pestilence), but he is vulnerable to Wave of Reckoning.

[Dunharrow]

not a great commander card at all
still one of the worst cards to make it in a precon ever. It was worth almost as much as the actually deck.

[Mookie]

True-Name Nemesis was expensive when it first came out, but it has fallen significantly since then. One reason is because of reprints, but a large portion is because it has fallen out of favor - cards like Plague Engineer and Council's Judgment are now capable of dealing with it, while new threats like Kappa Cannoneer and Murktide Regent outclass it. Unfortunately, due to the supply issues caused by its initial printing, WotC no longer really prints eternal-relevant cards in EDH decks (or at least not intentionally). That isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I do miss getting cheap, quirky utility cards like Scavenging Ooze and Flusterstorm in precons. I guess that design space has been shifted to Modern Horizons.

Anyway, as for EDH... while it may have originally been printed in a precon, it never really had a place in this format. A french vanilla 3/1 just doesn't really fit most decks - no matter how good it may be at attacking or blocking, that just isn't enough power to be relevant by itself. I suppose you could throw on a bunch of equipment to buff it... but there are plenty of alternative evasive options out there. The best use may be as part of a merfolk deck, but I don't see those that often.

[Wallycaine]

Written as protection.

Naturally it's blue, rather than white.

The reasoning for it being blue rather than white is actually pretty solid: This doesn't really play like Protection at all. Protection from an opponent plays more like Hexproof+Unblockable, both of which are solidly more Blue than White. The damage prevention is the only aspect that comes across as even slightly White, but it's also not much of a bend.

[Igzex]

Looking back, this guy really was a harbinger of things to come with some commander products wasn't it?

[Melua]

As far as pushed cards, yes, but nothing on the level of TNN.

[3drinks]

Onday, March 28th, 2022; Llanowar Druid

[Dunharrow]

Never saw this card before. I guess it pairs well with Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth. Personally, I don't see myself ever playing this. It is a very slow green High Tide.
But I could see it in a deck like Halana and Alena, Partners. Haste enabler in the command zone makes this much more potent.

[Sinis]

Onday, March 28th, 2022; Llanowar Druid

It's not just your forests, sadly, so if you combo it with Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth you're untapping everyone else's lands.

Otherwise, I think it's pretty noteworthy.