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Oh yeah, you blink her or a creature to keep her from being attack and accomplish..what? Like you play her, blink a creature, lose 2 life, then that creature comes back your next turn and you either have to blink it again to protect her again or use a different ability and completely defeat the purpose of having blinked the creature in the first place? Or you blink her, and then blink her again and do nothing but lose life with her over and over.
I mean flavorwise.
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Fun card for multi, not super disappointed or enthused. She's falvourful as well. Hope other walkers have an ult or a + and - though. Overall I wouldn't mind having one, though I'm not playing those colours in Commander at the moment.
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Well, you can drop her on curve, use the zero ability on herself and she will be protected from attackers until next turn. Then you can untap and sweep the board to start using her -2. I'd say that in a roundabout way she protects herself and you dont need blockers to do that.
She protects herself quite poorly. To get any semblance out of protection from her, you need to either: 1) Zero her and remove an opponent's fatty for a turn, 2) Zero her and blink herself, giving her another turn and the mana needed to protect her but not actually removing herself. Either way, she still does nothing until Turn 5, doesn't affects the board state directly and requires a 2 life payment. It's just too many hoops for a deck type that needs as much efficiency as it can get like Control.
If I wanted a wincon for Control decks that go online on Turn 5 and provide me card advantage, Ob Nixilis Reignited is probably better.
Figures it was already a card. It's still something I wouldn't be ashamed of running, though once again not Constructed-worthy by itself. As Blightning has proven us, however, these kinds of effects walk a fine line between "bad" and "absolutely incredible".
So Kaya is the second PW card to lack any plus abilities, though unlike Sarkhan the Mad she can at least reset herself. Her -2 feels like a color bleed; you make each opponent discard then get to draw a card yourself. It fits black, but shouldn't it require some kind of payment on your part? Then again WB did just get Sorin, Grim Nemesis and his +1.
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So Kaya is the second PW card to lack any plus abilities, though unlike Sarkhan the Mad she can at least reset herself. Her -2 feels like a color bleed; you make each opponent discard then get to draw a card yourself. It fits black, but shouldn't it require some kind of payment on your part? Then again WB did just get Sorin, Grim Nemesis and his +1.
She kind of has a + ability. If you minus her (or she takes damage) and then you use the 0 to exile her she will be reset to her base (or more with Oath of Gideon) Actually, because she can re-ener the battlefield every turn she combos well with all the oaths that care about planeswalkers entering the battle.
If all of her abilities scaled per each opponent (ie, gain as much life as the life loss or draw for each card discarded), then she'd be really good, but alas she hits and nickels and dimes your opponent for value a little at a time. Fits flavorwise, but for a 'walker that's going to be legal in pretty much only EDH and legacy, she seems lackluster.
So Kaya is the second PW card to lack any plus abilities, though unlike Sarkhan the Mad she can at least reset herself. Her -2 feels like a color bleed; you make each opponent discard then get to draw a card yourself. It fits black, but shouldn't it require some kind of payment on your part? Then again WB did just get Sorin, Grim Nemesis and his +1.
Technically, it's a strongerSyphon Mind that doesn't make your teammates discard. And you can use her -2 repeatedly while Syphon Mind is a single-shot.
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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.
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If all of her abilities scaled per each opponent (ie, gain as much life as the life loss or draw for each card discarded), then she'd be really good, but alas she hits and nickels and dimes your opponent for value a little at a time. Fits flavorwise, but for a 'walker that's going to be legal in pretty much only EDH and legacy, she seems lackluster.
until you realize she can blink utility creatures in edh.
throw in some board wipes, which are abundant in w/b, and now its a real party!
is she omg broken amazing? no, she isn't. is she a solid inclusion in just about any w/b/x deck? i'm inclined to say yes, just because of her ability to repeatedly blink so many etb goodies. like say, gray merchant, or acidic slime, or i dunno, wrath of god with woodfall primus out then use her ability to reset its persist counter or something.
she's also really solid for politics. need some combo piece threatening the table gone but you don't have removal and that other guy has a rec sage? problem solved!
She is incredibly powerful. If she was modern legal she might have helped esper control decks (instead of the jeskai nahiri ones that we have right now). Unfortunately, for as powerful as she is, vintage and legacy are a very very very high bar and I don't think she hits the bar. The fact that her -2 is double advantage for you is pretty insane, considering she can go -2/-2/0 and repeat.
More like -2, gets bolted after your opponent discards something to reanimate.
Yeah. That's why Liliana of the Veil sucks. You can just Hero's Downfall her after discarding something to reanimate.
That's why Jace the Mind Sculptor sucks. You can counterspell him.
That's why Karn Liberated sucks. You can attack him once you wrath the board.
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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.
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.
but I guess they want to be conservative with that.
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I mean flavorwise.
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She protects herself quite poorly. To get any semblance out of protection from her, you need to either: 1) Zero her and remove an opponent's fatty for a turn, 2) Zero her and blink herself, giving her another turn and the mana needed to protect her but not actually removing herself. Either way, she still does nothing until Turn 5, doesn't affects the board state directly and requires a 2 life payment. It's just too many hoops for a deck type that needs as much efficiency as it can get like Control.
If I wanted a wincon for Control decks that go online on Turn 5 and provide me card advantage, Ob Nixilis Reignited is probably better.
Figures it was already a card. It's still something I wouldn't be ashamed of running, though once again not Constructed-worthy by itself. As Blightning has proven us, however, these kinds of effects walk a fine line between "bad" and "absolutely incredible".
She's not good at her job definitely
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She kind of has a + ability. If you minus her (or she takes damage) and then you use the 0 to exile her she will be reset to her base (or more with Oath of Gideon) Actually, because she can re-ener the battlefield every turn she combos well with all the oaths that care about planeswalkers entering the battle.
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It's just a weaker Syphon Mind.
strongerSyphon Mind that doesn't make your teammates discard. And you can use her -2 repeatedly while Syphon Mind is a single-shot.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.
until you realize she can blink utility creatures in edh.
throw in some board wipes, which are abundant in w/b, and now its a real party!
is she omg broken amazing? no, she isn't. is she a solid inclusion in just about any w/b/x deck? i'm inclined to say yes, just because of her ability to repeatedly blink so many etb goodies. like say, gray merchant, or acidic slime, or i dunno, wrath of god with woodfall primus out then use her ability to reset its persist counter or something.
she's also really solid for politics. need some combo piece threatening the table gone but you don't have removal and that other guy has a rec sage? problem solved!
Yeah. That's why Liliana of the Veil sucks. You can just Hero's Downfall her after discarding something to reanimate.
That's why Jace the Mind Sculptor sucks. You can counterspell him.
That's why Karn Liberated sucks. You can attack him once you wrath the board.
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The 2 life loss on her 0 will hurt but her -1 and -2 are great.
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