People are overrating Investigate for constructed. I strongly believe it's primarily design for limited. What I understand with development is that if it's good enough for constructed, then so be it. 2 mana for card draw is excessive and a little redundant for constructed play.
Having said that, I love the card and the flavor behind it. If no one understood, think of it as the dead bishop is leaving some clues whenever someone makes an inquisition of his death (or something related to it). It makes even more sense with more Bishops. You "interview" more bishops, you investigate more, you get even more clues.
I love this card. It`s like Mentor of the Meek, but likely to trigger on more creatures, and you can pay to draw later in case you don`t have the mana right now. Better body to boot. I`ll easily pay the extra mana per card for all those upsides.
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Perfect card for my Athreos-Cleric-tribal deck! Most of my cards are three mana or below, I can recast them fairly often thanks to Athreos, the deck always struggles with carddraw, and he's a cleric at that! Being human in addition would have been even better, but I'm more than satisfied with this card. SOI looks good already!
A 3 CMC flyer with toughness greater than 1 *and* delayed card draw for doing what the deck does in a color that usually doesn't get card draw?
Yeah, its draw cost is one more than Mentor, but you can draw at the end of your opponent's turn instead of being forced to spend the mana immediately.
Too bad it's on cast and not ETB; woulda probably led to some neat janky combo. As is, it's pretty plain-jane, but it's cost effective enough to get some work done.
With ETB it would be kinda sick with the new Ghostway.
Not sure if it there will be a deck for this, but a flying body that turns all your creatures into more gas for the late game seems good.
What I hate is the investigate mechanic itself. Yeah, cantrip is good and all of that, but come on, "investigate"? "Clue tokens"? Really? It's an awful design IMO.
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Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
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Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
This makes me wonder more and more if there will be artifact or "clue" matters cards in this block. Something tells me the clue tokens might be a part of an not-yet-spoiled alternate win condition.
I was almost going to say exactly this, but you said it better.
Perhaps we get something like:
Overwhelming Evidence1UU
Enchantment (M)
At the beginning of your upkeep investigate.
At the beginning of your end step, if you control 13 or more clue tokens, you win the game.
Burden of proof: UU propaganda effect- opponents pay 1 mana to attack for each clue you control. I dunno.
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Much better than Mentor of the Meek for small creature decks. Being able to cash in later on artifacts rather than having to slow down on casting your threats you just cast them all and then worry about the card advantage later. Sure it is slower but it works out much better this way in terms of mana efficiency.
It seems interesting for a more midrange artifact deck in modern. It seems like it can provide quite a bit of reach if sequenced properly. the down sides are pretty obvious. Dies to bolt, does nothing on death or entering the battlefield, small body. Pretty much the same complaints as Monastery Mentor. I still would love to live the dream of cast this turn 2 off of a mox opal, then cast 2 0 cmc creatures to get a total of 7 artifacts and then drop a Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas the following turn.
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What I find most interesting is that it is making artifacts when you cast small spells, which interact well with cards like Shrapnel blast and it's blue counterpart that makes a 5/5 artifact creature. Not only that, the 5/5 can be sacrificed in response to removal to draw a card. This might make American artifact grenades a thing.
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1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!
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Is SOI just Innistrad with a giant band aid on it, there to fix their "mistakes" of power creep from the first time we visited this plane?
Having said that, I love the card and the flavor behind it. If no one understood, think of it as the dead bishop is leaving some clues whenever someone makes an inquisition of his death (or something related to it). It makes even more sense with more Bishops. You "interview" more bishops, you investigate more, you get even more clues.
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A 3 CMC flyer with toughness greater than 1 *and* delayed card draw for doing what the deck does in a color that usually doesn't get card draw?
Yeah, its draw cost is one more than Mentor, but you can draw at the end of your opponent's turn instead of being forced to spend the mana immediately.
I'm intrigued.
With ETB it would be kinda sick with the new Ghostway.
What I hate is the investigate mechanic itself. Yeah, cantrip is good and all of that, but come on, "investigate"? "Clue tokens"? Really? It's an awful design IMO.
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Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
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Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
Damn didn't read reshape properly ... I'm misremembing it.
Actually the card I meant is Shape Anew.
Yeah, you'd need some kind of inverse Arcum Dagsson for that to work.
Of course, Tinker works, too...
Reprint Stasis!
Control needs more love.
EDH:
Momir Vig, Simic Visionary
Melek, Izzet Paragon
Oona, Queen of the Fae
Bruna, Light of Alabaster
Gisela, Blade of Goldnight
Rhys the Redeemed
Jarad, Golgari Lich Lord
Sen Triplets
The Mimeoplasm
WUBRGSliver OverlordGRBUW
WUBRGSliver Hivelord(Superfriends)GRBUW
Burden of proof: UU propaganda effect- opponents pay 1 mana to attack for each clue you control. I dunno.
Feel free to tell me yours!
Kind of want to run him in EDH with Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer, but that's probably just me being unimaginative.
1. (Ravnica Allegiance): You can't keep a good esper control deck down... Or Wilderness Reclamation... or Gates...
2. (War of the Spark): Guys, I know what we need! We need a cycle of really idiotic flavor text victory cards! Jace's Triumph...
3. (War of the Spark): Lets make the format with control have even more control!