(Name Unknown) U
Creature -- Salamander Drake (uncommon)
Flying 7U: Adapt 4. This ability costs 1 less to activate for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
1/1
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Every Bedlam Reveler player knows that this card's Adapt cost can get pretty cheap in a hurry. I'd say an Adapt cost of 2U is pretty reasonable. Maybe we may finally get some redundancy in Modern Delver decks?
Hard to evaluate for me. What makes delver such a potent threat is that it can start clocking so quickly. Even with decent self mill like thought scour in modern hitting two spells, you still can't adapt this until probably t3ish if things line up well for you? At that point, I think running cards like Gurmag is just better because you can at least eat lands. bedlam reveler is great, but it's got a very relevant ETB stapled on and plays like a more midrange card - hitting the mid/late game when you're going to be hitting the requirement anyway.
I'm glad they made this uncommon, because I seriously do think this would have easily replaced something in pauper delver if it had been a common. While the cost reduction effect is maybe too wordy for common, the adapt cost is starting to strike in that range.
I don't think standard has the supporting cast for this to be too good outside of blue tempo decks. I think it's going to be an absolute monster in that deck. So often I end up getting beat by a siren stormtamer for the first 2-4 turns until they finally pop it to save something else. This gives that deck something small that can grow to a legit threat later on, and cards like opt can make gauging that ability very difficult.
I think this is going to be fine for limited. Not super great, but late game it's a short clock if you are able to blow 2-3 instants on their bombs and they waste removal on your bigger threats.
It does start with flying, so my first assessment could be way off.
I am super interested to see if this works well as a "delvers" #5 and #6 in my jeskai delver deck. Very cool design and very powerful in the correct deck. I like it.
Definitely going to find a home in Modern. I can see some decks activating this on turn 2 somehow if they are running "free" spells.
Maybe some weird UB with all Phyrexian mana instants/sorceries this and Death's Shadow.
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Seems pretty decent for Limited but it is definitely "meh" for Standard. I know the dream is to drop it mid-game then adapt it while spending only UU for a 5/5 flying thing but if you are playing Izzet Drakes then the two drakes you already have are better.
I would at the very least try this in a Drake/Phoenix deck. Don't know how many of these I want maindeck but that will probably depend on how fast the deck can make it so the adapt activation costs 3 or less.
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So.. with the new Azorius Split card, this card may be able to fill the role of "Not Delver" in a UWx tempo deck.
We have "Not Snapcaster"
We have "Not Mana Leak"
We have "Not Azorius Charm"
We have another 2 mana counter to stop cretures and make this dude even bigger....
man... UW "Not Delver" may make a return...
EDIT: Oh and we have a "not Supreme Verdict" in BW... so Esper Tempo....
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The cost reduction to Adapt is what makes this intriguing. In Limited you might get it to Adapt for 3U or maybe less depending on what you draft/what your sealed pool looks like. Still, pretty good for an unrestrictive 1/1 flyer for U in a while.
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(Name Unknown) U
Creature -- Salamander Drake (uncommon)
Flying
7U: Adapt 4. This ability costs 1 less to activate for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
1/1
If anyone can help translate the name, it would be much appreciated!
Requiring instants and sorceries in the graveyard clashes with delve creatures, and I don't think this will displace Gurmag Angler in most decks.
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I'm glad they made this uncommon, because I seriously do think this would have easily replaced something in pauper delver if it had been a common. While the cost reduction effect is maybe too wordy for common, the adapt cost is starting to strike in that range.
I don't think standard has the supporting cast for this to be too good outside of blue tempo decks. I think it's going to be an absolute monster in that deck. So often I end up getting beat by a siren stormtamer for the first 2-4 turns until they finally pop it to save something else. This gives that deck something small that can grow to a legit threat later on, and cards like opt can make gauging that ability very difficult.
I think this is going to be fine for limited. Not super great, but late game it's a short clock if you are able to blow 2-3 instants on their bombs and they waste removal on your bigger threats.
It does start with flying, so my first assessment could be way off.
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Maybe some weird UB with all Phyrexian mana instants/sorceries this and Death's Shadow.
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We have "Not Snapcaster"
We have "Not Mana Leak"
We have "Not Azorius Charm"
We have another 2 mana counter to stop cretures and make this dude even bigger....
man... UW "Not Delver" may make a return...
EDIT: Oh and we have a "not Supreme Verdict" in BW... so Esper Tempo....
This aint your girlfriends meta! This is a man's meta! TURBO META.
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