If you can get the City's blessing, this card becomes stupid dumb. And it's not terribly expensive and its stats are decent. The problem is ascension. Not sure it's worth it anywhere but EDH. But in EDH, this is incredibly good for black decks. Like staple level for essentially any black deck.
If you can get the City's blessing, this card becomes stupid dumb. And it's not terribly expensive and its stats are decent. The problem is ascension. Not sure it's worth it anywhere but EDH. But in EDH, this is incredibly good for black decks. Like staple level for essentially any black deck.
I don't think this will be hard to ascend with by at least turn 5 in Vampires as they are a go wide deck.
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I like this for Karlov. Even if it doesn't hit anything big and drain for a ton, any life gain triggers that come with extra card advantage are very welcome.
It costs twice as much, but it comes on a Makindi Griffin body. The Bob ability requires the city's blessing, but it's not really Bob: Your opponents lose life, and you gain life.
So, it's kind of a better Augury Adept TBH. But only if you're playing something like tokens or affinity where you can get the city's blessing quickly.
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Seems good in Edgar Markov; against slow opponents you'll gain the blessing immediately, forcing yet another "destroy this or lose" threat. Man is Edgar stupid with all these Conquistampires.
It might be enough in most Black EDH decks that build any sort of board presence, actually. The city blessing IS basically a free Augury Adept trigger + Baneful Omen every upkeep, so if this triggers even once you are really doing it. I'd be excited to try it in Rakdos, as I tend to get a big board and run out of gas - this fixes both things and effectively makes mana to boot. Super sick.
Not convinced on Standard - all of that is very powerful, but it's a slow and fragile engine and games aren't guaranteed to let you go unmolested to turn six.
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Some of the ascend cards are self-comboing with extra tokens, some are fairly reasonable before they come online. This one is neither. Its all-in on the ascend clause. Turn 4 on an empty board means you're only half-way to ascending, and ascend plays badly with the sort of control/drawgo shells that have low board presence, and this is a horrible body and effect to be in a go-wide token strategy.
I guess playtesting would say how easy or hard ascend really is, because this is a huge impact once the blessing is online, and horrible without it, so this is the kind of card that will be indicative of how the mechanic is remembered. And my best guess is nobody will remember this card
Some of the ascend cards are self-comboing with extra tokens, some are fairly reasonable before they come online. This one is neither. Its all-in on the ascend clause. Turn 4 on an empty board means you're only half-way to ascending, and ascend plays badly with the sort of control/drawgo shells that have low board presence, and this is a horrible body and effect to be in a go-wide token strategy.
I guess playtesting would say how easy or hard ascend really is, because this is a huge impact once the blessing is online, and horrible without it, so this is the kind of card that will be indicative of how the mechanic is remembered. And my best guess is nobody will remember this card
There is also a land that has ascend. Once you get the city's blessing it never leaves so having that land out early can ensure you will always receive the blessing when you meet the conditions despite any of your other ascend cards being in play. That way if you get board wiped or lose lots of permanents your other cards will already be online later. I think it is something to consider when evaluating how good ascend will be.
Seems thematically a vampire card, not sure how it'll function in standard. Limited this can be great, EDH tribal loves this. Could be fun, and the art is nice IMO.
This may actually be a pretty good card to top the BW vampire deck with. Vampires is very heavy on tokens so it's easy for them to get the blessing compared to some of the other tribes. Additionally, that ability to draw cards in the mid game gives them gas against some of the other strategies. The only downside is that I still don't think this card is better than Sanctum Seeker simply because we still have Energy in the format.
But yeah, I could see someone curve into this from Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle. I think she'd be a more garanteed include if she also had lifelink and honestly they probably could have given her lifelink considering she only has 2 power.
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I absolutely LOVE the card, but I have only one question...
Why are they moving away from the "And you gain that much Life"?
Those cards were kinda good for 1 vs 1, but were powerful and interesting for multiplayer, so you would become the main target; so you needed to use them wisely...
I wonder how will they push abilities to get the City's Blessing...
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no really... i have a lot of edh decks that trigger this easily and benefit from the effect
I don't think this will be hard to ascend with by at least turn 5 in Vampires as they are a go wide deck.
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It costs twice as much, but it comes on a Makindi Griffin body. The Bob ability requires the city's blessing, but it's not really Bob: Your opponents lose life, and you gain life.
So, it's kind of a better Augury Adept TBH. But only if you're playing something like tokens or affinity where you can get the city's blessing quickly.
On phasing:
It might be enough in most Black EDH decks that build any sort of board presence, actually. The city blessing IS basically a free Augury Adept trigger + Baneful Omen every upkeep, so if this triggers even once you are really doing it. I'd be excited to try it in Rakdos, as I tend to get a big board and run out of gas - this fixes both things and effectively makes mana to boot. Super sick.
Not convinced on Standard - all of that is very powerful, but it's a slow and fragile engine and games aren't guaranteed to let you go unmolested to turn six.
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I guess playtesting would say how easy or hard ascend really is, because this is a huge impact once the blessing is online, and horrible without it, so this is the kind of card that will be indicative of how the mechanic is remembered. And my best guess is nobody will remember this card
There is also a land that has ascend. Once you get the city's blessing it never leaves so having that land out early can ensure you will always receive the blessing when you meet the conditions despite any of your other ascend cards being in play. That way if you get board wiped or lose lots of permanents your other cards will already be online later. I think it is something to consider when evaluating how good ascend will be.
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But yeah, I could see someone curve into this from Mavren Fein, Dusk Apostle. I think she'd be a more garanteed include if she also had lifelink and honestly they probably could have given her lifelink considering she only has 2 power.
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!
Why are they moving away from the "And you gain that much Life"?
Those cards were kinda good for 1 vs 1, but were powerful and interesting for multiplayer, so you would become the main target; so you needed to use them wisely...
I wonder how will they push abilities to get the City's Blessing...
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Awesomely synergistic with the vamps strategy, does not die to a Bolt....what not to like?
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