[mtgnexus] Random Card of the Day - Rishkar, Peema Renegade

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Wednesday, March 18th, 2020; Temple of the False God

I know this has come up before. I always love the conversation this card generates. The success, the horrors, for better or worse it's as synonymous with commander as command tower is.

[Hermes_]

oddly, I don't own a copy nor do I see the point to owning a copy. I don't feel like i'm missing out on two colorless,if i'm already on five mana.

[ilovesaprolings]

I love this card. The look on your opponent when they kill your general, think they are going to be free from it for a couple of turns, then you drop this...

[Serenade]

Same boat as Hermes: Never owned this card. I never will.

It's s a trap.

[folding_music]

I own four copies, giggle, it's from Scourge and that set is strange and beautiful.

I don't get why the card is particularly polarizing - if you're making a tight bursty synergetic deck then this'll never go in it but if you're making a more rounded, responsive, cards-I-like deck with a little resilience to it, it's a good option. Personally I've noticed that decks I make often run lots of permanents with abilities that cost so it might be more useful to me than normal? It leads to misleading opening hands but it's not precisely unique among cards that way...

[Dragoon]

- they don't really have a home, no general or deck work really well with them

The griffin could be played in a O-Kagachi, Vengeful Kami deck

Concerning Temple of the False God, it always had its uses. Just don't put it in your deck counting it as a land, it's a ramp "spell" (It's the same as Maze of Ith in that aspect). It's useful in non-green decks.

[Sharpened]

I don't get why the card is particularly polarizing -

Part of the reason the card is so polarizing is that it has been put in EVERY commander precon. (That may not be technically true, but it has been reprinted in every commander set, and is one of the very few cards that has been - it's in 90+% of the precons).

The idea that it should be omnipresent, which intentionally or not, has been communicated by it's reprinting frequency, is what really generates the pushback and polarization around the card.

[Outcryqq]

oddly, I don't own a copy nor do I see the point to owning a copy. I don't feel like i'm missing out on two colorless,if i'm already on five mana.

I think getting to 6 mana on turn 5 is the point.

[Sinis]

Wednesday, March 18th, 2020; Temple of the False God

I have many, many copies; commander precons have made this pretty ubiquitous, and I had a foil Scourge copy (and probably some nonfoils, too).

When it's good, it's pretty good. When it's bad, it's atrocious. I used to play it a lot, but not so much anymore. I only currently play it in one deck -- Golos -- though, I'm sure other decks in the future will want it. It does good work in Golos; since there's already a fair bit of ramp, Temple is really reliable, but there's isn't much of a practical ceiling for mana that the deck wants. Mana Reflection makes it produce 4, which is also pretty exciting.

[DirkGently]

Not a huge fan. My issue is that, in a ramp deck, what I want is a land that gets me off the ground ASAP so I can cast my ramp spells. You look at, say, my kaervek deck, and this seems like a shoe-in, but no. If I'm waiting until 5 lands to cast him, I'm way slow. I want lands that let my cast my rocks so I hit him on turn 3-4.

[materpillar]

I'm a fan of Temple of the False God. I'm always happy to see it in Gishath, Sun's Avatar since that deck is ramping to 8 as hard and fast as possible. Since I'm playing so many rampant growth effects, the odds of the Temple not being on are extremely low.

The slower and more battlecruiser your edh group is the better the temple is. As curves drop the temple becomes less and less valuable.

Actually, I think that Temple of the False God is a really good personal benchmark for where I like the format to be. If Temple is a solid but not exceptional card, I think that's a meta-game that I like. If Temple is just too slow, that's probably a meta-game that I personally think is too fast.

[RxPhantom]

I used to run Temple of the False God in a lot of decks when I first got back in to Magic in 2011, but there's been such an explosion of awesome utility lands since then that it's tough to justify its inclusion almost anywhere. I only run it now in my mono-green deck because it's so good and land ramp that it's been all upside so far, and my Boros deck because it's desperate for anything.

[Mookie]

Temple of the False God is theoretically good if all you care about is hitting 6 mana as fast as possible, in which case it's ramp in the land slot.

....unfortunately, one of the best ways to hit 6 mana as fast as possible is to cast a bunch of ramp spells, and Temple is completely dead until then, which can, ironically, keep you from getting to 6 mana on time.

You might be able to get some value from it if you're running Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth, Chromatic Lantern, or other cards that grant mana abilities to your lands. The other class of decks I could see it being good in are ones where you expect the game to go long enough that the vast majority of it is spent with 5+ lands, at which point Temple's early game weakness isn't as important. That would need to be a very slow battlecruiser meta though.

I'll call out Castle Garenbrig and Shrine of the Forsaken Gods as good alternatives. Or Ancient Tomb, I suppose, but that's probably an include far before any of these.

[WolfWhoWanders]

I don't really use it much anymore, but I don't think it's terrible. I can appreciate @materpillar s sentiments about it being a nice meta point to be at

[Dunharrow]

I used to have it in a lot of decks, just because of Precons.
Now, I have systematically removed it from most of my decks, if not all. Its upside is not worth its downside.

[RedCheese]

After getting Ancient Tomb, it basically got replaced from most of my decks. I'll still use it in my mono color decks tough, since its downside isn't as harsh on them compared to decks with more colors on it.

[toctheyounger]

The card is a trap. I used to run it in most of my decks, but the amount of times it sits in your hand achieving nothing early game is too high to mitigate any success it yields. I guess ostensibly it looks like a poor mans Ancient Tomb, but I'd honestly rather have a basic than this in almost any deck, purely because it isn't consistent.

Your starting hand could be otherwise perfect, but if you see this there's still a huge chance you mulligan, and that alone tells you all you need to know about it.

[BeneTleilax]

fake temple doesnt scry on etb

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Thursday, March 19th, 2020; Void

I always liked the sheer nuke power of this card while appreciating the versatility simultaneously.

[schweinefett]

'tis a shame it says NON-land cards. I think more often than not, i'd name 0, and it wiping out a good number of tokens!

On the other hand, it's gotta be a while since i've run void. I didn't even realised they'd preprinted it! The ability sounded familiar, but the card itself looked weird.

[Segrus]

'tis a shame it says NON-land cards. I think more often than not, i'd name 0, and it wiping out a good number of tokens!

On the other hand, it's gotta be a while since i've run void. I didn't even realised they'd preprinted it! The ability sounded familiar, but the card itself looked weird.

Yeah, I'm used to the Invasion artwork for it.

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This is a wrath effect I've always kinda wanted to play, but never had a real reason to. Neither part of its effect is as effective as I'd want it to be. What would be kinda funny though is to use this card after somebody else casts Mirrorweave (after giving Void flash, of course) for an alpha strike.

[Dunharrow]

This is often just a Putrefy for 5 mana at sorcery speed. The thing is, you are going to get rid of the biggest threat. You may have to blow up your own card(s). You may only blow up one thing.

I used to play it and I would say that it would be a 2 for 1 maybe 50% of the time. Which is good, I guess.

Maybe if your deck tends not to have a lot of permanents this becomes better. Too often though you are blowing up your mana rocks in order to kill a threat.

I would likely play Bedevil over this.

[DirkGently]

I'd take bedevil 100%. Sorcery speed removal needs to be very efficient to get played by me. This...ain't it. Cool design though.

[pokken]

I've gone way away from playing this kinda card. No more decimate or even windgrace's judgment for me. I just don't wanna spend more than 2 or 3 mana to interact unless it's an actual nuke.

It is nice that it doesn't target and it does both, but I don't think that's worth the speed and price tag.

[Hermes_]

Yeah, I'm used to the Invasion artwork for it.

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that's...that's a mech! *squees*