A good walker or the next Sarkhan Unbroken? She does have one strength over the latter: Bant is the most played 3-color combination in standard, while Temur was always marginal.
Lemme see,
+1) It plays well creatures, hey CoCo runs about 26-28 hmm
-2) It does a nice job of keeping tempo. Imagine this plus Reflector Mage off of coco or tapping down an entire team with Krasis + her Main Phase. GREAT
3) The Emblem...well that;s pretty good...
She's pretty good... Not sure if a deck like Bant CoCo wants this but is worth trying out. Who I am kidding, they're going to play it, as if they needed to draw more cards
WHere are my DAMN ZOMBIES!!!!
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Standard Arena: Eh? Gruul or Die
Modern: Decks I'm playing right now: G Mono Green Tron (34-10-3 paper record, only SCG/Regionals/PPTQ record) C Eldrazi Tron (9-5) UG Infect RW Burn
seems pretty ok for standard/highlander/edh, -2 can protect her at least, her +1 can hit any two creatures, so i guess you'll usually be drawing cards at some point before your next turn? ultimate seems nuts as usual. 7/10, three stars, seems ok.
4 mana is "ok". Three color is "bad".
Drawing cards (only one though) as a +1 is nice. Conditional is bad.
Tapping two permanents is fine though weak for a -2.
Ultimate is good but a bit out of reach...
Sadly I don't think she's quite there.
Seems made for a tempo weenie attacker deck, ala Edric, Spymaster of Trest style.
Could have probably cost just GWU for these effects.
I first thought this was a fake. Either way, the card can't really protect itself and is hard to cast. The +1 doesn't seem particullarly good if you're behind on board and the -2 is extremely painful. She's proably best in something more aggressive, where her +1 converts to gas and her -2 push damage through, but the mana fixing isn't the best currently.
Outside of Standard I see little chance for her. If her +1 were only for damage, there would be certainly something funny to do with her, but combat damage only? She doesn't seem good honestly.
Wow, this card being spoiled pretty much confirms to me that wizards essentially planned to make bant company a thing in advance, or at least a straight up bant deck. This card, to me, kind of shows us why white and green have been pushed so much, and splashing in blue for the ridiculous reflector Mage. The abilities here on Tamiyo are picture perfect for the bant deck, even the ultimate. Letting them use recruiters ability multiple times a turn and cast the cards for free? It's like putting CoCo on an ultimate but better. Bravo wizards.....seriously though this card is pretty awesome.
Neato. I'm not sure if Bant wants her with CoCo still around, but I could certainly brew up a different kind of bant midrange deck that would put her to good use.
Huh. I wasn't expecting Bant, either. I can see the White in her philosophy, I suppose, but I'm having trouble seeing the White in her abilities: +1 is Green (or just Blue because card draw), -2 is Blue, -7 is Blue...what am I missing?
But yay, Tamiyo card! Not sure I have a deck in Bant colors to play her in, but I certainly won't complain if I pull her.
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Wasn't expecting G. Definitely got more of a straight-up WU vibe from her in the SoI stories.
I guess they were thinking they needed someone to be able to fill in for both Jace and Nissa?
She can serve the same compliment to Elspeth (When they decide to unkill her) as Jace does to Gideon. All she needs now is a super goodguy boyfriend back home to make Jace jealous.
You don't call "dying to removal" if the removal is more expensive in resources than the creature. If you have to spend BG (Abrupt Decay), or W + basic land (PtE) to remove a 1G, that is not "dying to removal". Strictly speaking Goyf dies to removal, but actually your removal is dying to Goyf.
A good walker or the next Sarkhan Unbroken? She does have one strength over the latter: Bant is the most played 3-color combination in standard, while Temur was always marginal.
Link: http://www.gatheringmagic.com/emmahandy-07012016-field-research/
WBC Eldrazi & Taxes CBW
UR Keep on Cantripin' (UR Phoenix) RU
WU Surprise! It's not UW Control! (UW Midrange) UW
BG The Rock, Straight BG
U Mono-Blue Fish U
RBW Mardu Pyromancer BWR
RG Rabble! Rabble! (GR Blood Moon Aggro) GR
Legacy
W Death & Taxes W
This is going to be hella fun.
Lemme see,
+1) It plays well creatures, hey CoCo runs about 26-28 hmm
-2) It does a nice job of keeping tempo. Imagine this plus Reflector Mage off of coco or tapping down an entire team with Krasis + her Main Phase. GREAT
3) The Emblem...well that;s pretty good...
She's pretty good... Not sure if a deck like Bant CoCo wants this but is worth trying out. Who I am kidding, they're going to play it, as if they needed to draw more cards
WHere are my DAMN ZOMBIES!!!!
Modern: Decks I'm playing right now:
G Mono Green Tron (34-10-3 paper record, only SCG/Regionals/PPTQ record)
C Eldrazi Tron (9-5)
UG Infect
RW Burn
also, her research is very efficent... in just 4 turns she reaches Omniscience
Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest WUR Voltron Control
Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun WU Unblockable Mirror Trickery
Ra's al Ghul (Sidar Kondo) and Face-Down Ninjas
Brudiclad, Token Engineer
Vaevictis (VV2) the Dire Lantern
Rona, Disciple of Gix
Tiana the Auror
Hallar
Ulrich the Politician
Zur the Rebel
Scorpion, Locust, Scarab, Egyptian Gods
O-Kagachi, Mathas, Mairsil
"Non-Tribal" Tribal Generals, Eggs
UR ....... WUBR ........... WB ............. RGW ........ UBR ....... WUB .... BGU
Spells / Blink & Combo / Token Grind / Dino Tribal / Draw Cards / Zombies / Reanimate
Drawing cards (only one though) as a +1 is nice. Conditional is bad.
Tapping two permanents is fine though weak for a -2.
Ultimate is good but a bit out of reach...
Sadly I don't think she's quite there.
Seems made for a tempo weenie attacker deck, ala Edric, Spymaster of Trest style.
Could have probably cost just GWU for these effects.
Many thanks to DNC at Heroes of the Plane Studios
Outside of Standard I see little chance for her. If her +1 were only for damage, there would be certainly something funny to do with her, but combat damage only? She doesn't seem good honestly.
UR Blue-Red Control
Modern:
UBR Grixis Control
UWR Jeskai Control
Meh
Modern
BUWEsper ControlWUB
BRUGrixis DelverURB
WRBGKiki ChordGBRW
WBGAbzan MidrangeGBW
BRGJundGRB
Legacy
UBRGrixis DelverRBU
Commander
Also meh
But yay, Tamiyo card! Not sure I have a deck in Bant colors to play her in, but I certainly won't complain if I pull her.
Dang 2 creatures when ever damage is deal (anything) you draw a card is nuts
-2 tap 2 per ants and don't untapped upgrade of old Tamiyo 2 things instead of just 1 (but it's minus though)
-7
A planeswalker token version of omniscience a instant win.
Love this card
I guess they were thinking they needed someone to be able to fill in for both Jace and Nissa?
She can serve the same compliment to Elspeth (When they decide to unkill her) as Jace does to Gideon. All she needs now is a super goodguy boyfriend back home to make Jace jealous.
"OH GOD MY BRAIN IS EXPLOADING AT HOW BAD THE ART IS ON MY OWN CARD"
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10/10, I tapped.