I'm saddened that people don't seem to appreciate how flavorful Sigarda 2.0 is. If your problem is playability, I can attest to Dromoka, the Eternal winning me games against several Tier 1 Standard lists since FRF was released. The loss of power doesn't look like a downside to me, and the flavor of her gifting hexproof to you and your humans is so suited to GW's self-sacrificing nature. Love her.
Thank you lycodrake. It's the few posters like you that are the only thing that salvage these message boards full of nothing but spoiled whiny cry babies.
Any creature or effect which gives all your other creatures an ability like hexproof is always worth having. Play only humans and Reflector Mage becomes nothing more than a minor annoyance because it has a toughness of 3. Giving yourself hexproof is an ability I find many players underestimate. Not that it happens often, but the ultimate for Jace, Vryn's Prodigy targets an opponent. Thought-Knot Seer becomes a generic colorless 4/4. No more edicts like Duress.
i first was too among the ones who are dissapointed in this. Yea, of Course id rather Play Sigarda, Host of Herons if i could. But then i reread & noticed: for 2 Mana you can Exile any one Card from your grave to put more creatures into Play. i first read that youd get a Token for each 2 Cards you Exile.
Now this is much better. Lategame Mana-sink here. She herself is a big Flyer in the sky makin many lil Dudes on the ground. i will give her a Chance !
But what bothers me, is it seems to me that we havent gotten any Humans from Gavony. From the Spoiler i c so many tribal Cards from Zombies, from Werewolves, from Vampires & even from Spirits. Can anyone call me some good humans from Innistrad so far ? im serious, cuz nothing Comes to my mind.
I may be misevaluating her, but her token spamming ability seems pretty solid. Getting cards in graveyard is pretty easy, and being able to activate it multiple times on the same turn is great. It's not as abusable as Ant Queen or Sliver Queen (queens seems to like tokens), but anything without evasion will have a hard time hitting through Sigarda and her kids
MTGS Wikia Article about "New World Order"
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
PSA to everyone who keeps forgetting about the Reserved List:
You're on a website dedicated to talking about MtG. You're only a few keystrokes away from finding out what cards are on the Reserved List. You're also only a few keystrokes away from finding out why some cards on the Reserved List got foil printings in FtV, as Judge promos, or whatnot, as well as why that won't happen again. Stop doing this.
The downgrade... such a shame. Her abilities should've read:
Flying, hexproof
You have hexproof.
2, Target creature gets hexproof until the end of turn.
I guess this pretty much means Sigarda is defending the humans because she had hexproof. But she loses her hexproof now? that doesn't make sense.
It does, though. In the story she basically comes right out and says that she doesn't stand a chance against Avacyn. She knows she's going to die if she fights Avacyn, but she's willing to do it anyway to protect the humans. She's forgoing her own safety (losing her hexproof) to try to protect the humans (giving them hexproof).
EDH: GWCaptain Sisay
Now this is much better. Lategame Mana-sink here. She herself is a big Flyer in the sky makin many lil Dudes on the ground. i will give her a Chance !
But what bothers me, is it seems to me that we havent gotten any Humans from Gavony. From the Spoiler i c so many tribal Cards from Zombies, from Werewolves, from Vampires & even from Spirits. Can anyone call me some good humans from Innistrad so far ? im serious, cuz nothing Comes to my mind.
And with DTK still around, Hidden Dragonslayer, Den Protector, and Surrak, the Hunt Caller are pretty good with her.
EDH: GWCaptain Sisay
Commander: WUBRG Superfriends, GW Rhys Tokens, WUBRG Scion of the Ur-Dragon
Kitchen Table (now that's real Magic): WUBRG Domain, GU Biovisionary, UB Korlash Grandeur, UW Merfolk Mill
Every time I read a comment about "Well if this card had card draw/trample/haste/indestructible/hexproof/life gain...", I think "You're missing the point." They're armchair developer comments that fail to take into account the card's role in the greater Limited and Standard environment. No, it may not be as good as whatever card you're comparing it to. There's a reason for that. Not every burn spell is Lightning Bolt, nor does it need to be or should be.
She's actually a ton better at second glance once you digest her abilities, stats and ability to bring you back into the game via tokens.