At first I saw the piece of metal on his left (non-metal) arm as being on his upper arm, not lower arm, making it look like he had an extremely thin left forearm (like just a bone with a black sleeve over it). Was it just me?
I like him, he is good. But for EDH purposes I'm way more excited over the planeswalker deck version. Nonetheless, another piece for my non-G objectophilia superfriends deck.
It really annoys me that they use the same symbol on the planeswalker deck as in the set. How are we to know which one is which? In eight years, no one will remember.
Some kid in the future: "What? I have two Tezzerets from the same set, but they're different cards! It must be some rare misprint!
Also, it's weird that he creates Gold tokens that aren't called Gold tokens. It's technically different because it has T in the cost, but still...
Nevertheless, I like the card. I think niche walkers do more for the game than generically good ones.
I'd much rather run agent of bolas but if I'm stuck in standard due to the pricing of competitive modern he might be ok. I think the pw deck version will be much better and more suitable for a varying degree of decks in standard. It's not going to be played a lot if at all. The rw vehicles and Wx humans are too fast for it. Bw control/midrange is also too fast and has a bunch of options to deal with planeswalkers. I just think this tezzeret has a couple of good abilities mainly both of his - abilities but where's the protection? His + gives you a tap sac mana rock. To buff him to his ultimate is not good. You get garbage that you could've gotten elsewhere and his ultimate isn't even that great. You need a bunch of non creature artifacts or low power artifacts to make it worthwhile. It's pointless to turn your bombs for creatures (gearhulks) into 5/5's because they've already got solid bodies. The weakest one is a 4/4 but you're not playing green so who cares. The 2 you do care about in this deck is the on color ones. The black one is a 5/4 and the blue one is a 5/6. Unless I'm playing limited and get a solid ramp masterpiece I'm not using it. If we had artifact lands in standard then I would say it's worth it. But there's not many good noncreature artifacts outside of panharmonicon and cryptolith fragment. Not a good planeswalker. I expected agent of bolas level power and obviously expected too much. This ones ultimate is agents -1. I'm not excited at all for either of the planeswalkers spoiled so far. I can however make use of ooa kinda maybe if I jammed a couple planeswalkers that do nothing for synergy with atraxa. This set has Two cards I want right now. Disallow and yahenni's expertise.
And people thought Ob Nixilis reignited was a bad, boring planeswalker. I'd rather run a single copy of Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas all day long before touching a playset of this new one. Art doesn't stand out, can't effectively protect itself, no card advantage and an extremely lackluster ultimate. in other words, a terrible walker, judging from first impressions.
I'm SO SICK of the "too strong for Standard" argument. It's the new "Dies to removal". We can have a two mana 4/4 with a zillion abilities, but we can't just have Accumulated Knowledge. Makes sense.
He's not terrible but he isn't awe-inspiring either. No matter what people say Lotus Petal is worth at least a card. If you disagree imagine what the possibilities would have been if he was priced at, say, 1UB? Gearhulks on turn 4? That seem fair? Thought so. As it is you will certainly be playing haymakers at least a turn ahead of schedule and that's nothing to scoff at.
The ability that I find the least impressive is actually the minus ability and that's the biggest strike against the card. I don't think it will do much outside of a deck which is heavily focused resource-wise to enable it. There will possibly be other cheap artifacts in the set but as it is the puzzleknots alone just won't cut it.
Bottom-line is you will want to play Tezzeret only if you really need those lotus petals, either for ramp or color fixing.
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It really annoys me that they use the same symbol on the planeswalker deck as in the set. How are we to know which one is which? In eight years, no one will remember.
Some kid in the future: "What? I have two Tezzerets from the same set, but they're different cards! It must be some rare misprint!
Why would that be? They've got different numbers. The Tezzeret at 190/184 is pretty obviously the one not part of the main set. Besides which, conservation of set symbol space is important, it's a very tiny space to keep coming up with new, distinguishable designs for. I'd rather they use the main set symbol it goes with than invent a new one for 10 cards.
The fact the token created bay the +1 have to tap + sacrifice is tough.
Why? I'm genuinely curious. Outside of Quicksmith Rebel and Malfunction (and honestly, who is going to use Malfunction on the token), there isn't a whole lot of relevance and it mimics Lotus Petal nicely.
Oh, so Tezz can make Etherium now? Not really keeping up with the story.. but has he always had this ability in the novels?
Test of Metal had him learn it, but based on his recent appearances that novel has been retconned (his anger management issues were removed by Bolas reviving him in the novel).
But given that Breya exists, it's likely he figured it out anyway.
I think you guys are vastly under-evaluating this card.
For 4 mana he enters with 5 loyalty, and moves to 6, which is a rarity in standard right now. His +1 offers ramp (into a turn 5 gearhulk if necessary), or supports his -2 ability which is essentially removal on a stick. His ultimate happens very quickly if he isn't pressured, and will close a game out quickly. He has all the right ingredients to be very playable.
The tap is just unnecessary on the tokens(but it only matters when they become creatures), it should be -x/-x until your next turn so you can stall damage each turn, and the ultimate should just make 5/5 artifacts.
What a shame. I am sure that some decks will find a use for him but Hedron Archive does most of the same things and has better synergy in a Colossus deck. The only U/B deck right now is the Metallurgic Summoning deck and a card that is not an instant or sorcery would have to be awesome. This is not awesome.
There are a few decks that might try this to minor effect but I can imagine the PW deck version getting play as Gearhulk number 5 in a control deck.
This card might not seem very appealing at the moment but I can see him been playable with Metallurgic Summonings making your construct tokens 5/5. He has a decent ultimate for a 4 mana cost planeswalker.
It really annoys me that they use the same symbol on the planeswalker deck as in the set. How are we to know which one is which? In eight years, no one will remember.
Some kid in the future: "What? I have two Tezzerets from the same set, but they're different cards! It must be some rare misprint!
Why would that be? They've got different numbers. The Tezzeret at 190/184 is pretty obviously the one not part of the main set. Besides which, conservation of set symbol space is important, it's a very tiny space to keep coming up with new, distinguishable designs for. I'd rather they use the main set symbol it goes with than invent a new one for 10 cards.
A lot of players including me, doesn´t ever look at the numbers of a card, so I can see why some people would be confused. I too think they need to find a better way of showing which of them belong to what set and why not do it with a different symbol to represent the Planeswalker deck and the actual deck, in this case Kaladesh
This card might not seem very appealing at the moment but I can see him been playable with Metallurgic Summonings making your construct tokens 5/5. He has a decent ultimate for a 4 mana cost planeswalker.
I just don't see how it would be good in that deck. Your scenario involves getting out Summonings, and a Planeswalker, and ultimating it. How about I just cast summonings and then a couple of instants that draw me cards and kill stuff and I win normally?
This card might not seem very appealing at the moment but I can see him been playable with Metallurgic Summonings making your construct tokens 5/5. He has a decent ultimate for a 4 mana cost planeswalker.
I just don't see how it would be good in that deck. Your scenario involves getting out Summonings, and a Planeswalker, and ultimating it. How about I just cast summonings and then a couple of instants that draw me cards and kill stuff and I win normally?
It can be used in a control type deck or an aggro deck with low mana cost artifacts such as the puzzleknots, scarp trawler, etc. That is probably the best choice to utilize this planeswalker in my opinion.
A lot of players including me, doesn´t ever look at the numbers of a card, so I can see why some people would be confused. I too think they need to find a better way of showing which of them belong to what set and why not do it with a different symbol to represent the Planeswalker deck and the actual deck, in this case Kaladesh
But there are two potential confusions here. People could be confused about why there are two Tezzerets, which is fair but also not particularly important to anything. The second is where they can play each Tezzeret. By giving it the Aether Revolt symbol, they're indicating it's legal for anything Aether Revolt is legal in.
Compare to when they didn't do this, and had standard legal cards with their own set symbol. No one actually knew if they could play them.
However, traditional Chinese translations are known to be bit...fickle. So I am not entirely sure about his name. Everything else is OK tho.
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Some kid in the future: "What? I have two Tezzerets from the same set, but they're different cards! It must be some rare misprint!
Also, it's weird that he creates Gold tokens that aren't called Gold tokens. It's technically different because it has T in the cost, but still...
Nevertheless, I like the card. I think niche walkers do more for the game than generically good ones.
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The ability that I find the least impressive is actually the minus ability and that's the biggest strike against the card. I don't think it will do much outside of a deck which is heavily focused resource-wise to enable it. There will possibly be other cheap artifacts in the set but as it is the puzzleknots alone just won't cut it.
Bottom-line is you will want to play Tezzeret only if you really need those lotus petals, either for ramp or color fixing.
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Anyway, about the card.. it's worth testing at least. Comes on turn 4, but a free Lotus petal each turn can still be useful in some way.
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I agree, I'd rather interesting or unique over obvious.
Why? I'm genuinely curious. Outside of Quicksmith Rebel and Malfunction (and honestly, who is going to use Malfunction on the token), there isn't a whole lot of relevance and it mimics Lotus Petal nicely.
Test of Metal had him learn it, but based on his recent appearances that novel has been retconned (his anger management issues were removed by Bolas reviving him in the novel).
But given that Breya exists, it's likely he figured it out anyway.
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For 4 mana he enters with 5 loyalty, and moves to 6, which is a rarity in standard right now. His +1 offers ramp (into a turn 5 gearhulk if necessary), or supports his -2 ability which is essentially removal on a stick. His ultimate happens very quickly if he isn't pressured, and will close a game out quickly. He has all the right ingredients to be very playable.
What a shame. I am sure that some decks will find a use for him but Hedron Archive does most of the same things and has better synergy in a Colossus deck. The only U/B deck right now is the Metallurgic Summoning deck and a card that is not an instant or sorcery would have to be awesome. This is not awesome.
There are a few decks that might try this to minor effect but I can imagine the PW deck version getting play as Gearhulk number 5 in a control deck.
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A lot of players including me, doesn´t ever look at the numbers of a card, so I can see why some people would be confused. I too think they need to find a better way of showing which of them belong to what set and why not do it with a different symbol to represent the Planeswalker deck and the actual deck, in this case Kaladesh
I just don't see how it would be good in that deck. Your scenario involves getting out Summonings, and a Planeswalker, and ultimating it. How about I just cast summonings and then a couple of instants that draw me cards and kill stuff and I win normally?
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It can be used in a control type deck or an aggro deck with low mana cost artifacts such as the puzzleknots, scarp trawler, etc. That is probably the best choice to utilize this planeswalker in my opinion.
Compare to when they didn't do this, and had standard legal cards with their own set symbol. No one actually knew if they could play them.
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