I am absolutely loving this card. By far it is my favorite card in the set and i will be trying to fit 4 into whichever standard deck i play in the future, for as long as the stoneforge hawk package and titans dominate standard. I can see this card being worth quite a pretty penny.
You know what this card does... utterly annihilates my allies. Absolutely destroys them. My absolute favorite deck... is going to get hosed by one card.. *side boards even more artifact hate*
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SonofaBith - Wizards was so excited about making the packaging for Modern Masters 2 recyclable, they decided to make most of the rares and all but 1 of the UC's recycle-bin ready too. Convenient!
err... this seems a lot like an illusion mask in eternal formats (and how much illusion mask do you see nowadays?). It does have some random hate like making arcbound ravager come into play as a 0/0 and shutting off a lot of the good goblins, but I'm not sure it's enough to warrant something as precious as a 4-of spot in a vintage/legacy deck.
Heck, I really don't think it's good enough to warrant a spot in standard, since all the things that it's important as an answer to will either 1.) still kill you anyhow next turn{titans} or 2.) are only slower than that on the draw {mystic, hawk}. Add to this that it puts you in a very bad position if they've got Jace, and hawk/mystic can still block... and then you're left with a card that's very narrow as hate. I'd rather be casting discard spells or memoricide than rely on this to hit the board in time.
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It stops many legacy goblins (matron, ringleader, SGC, MWM), faeries, and combo elves. Also stops basically every creature played in standard control decks (titans, SF, hawks). What it doesn't stop is creatures from turning sideways and killing the opponent.
I don't think this is going to change standard in to drastic a fashion. On the draw it will be a turn slow against caw blade you still need to answer that titan valakut dropped and what deck would actually want to play this? Caw blade and vala hose their own dudes it is to slow for aggro decks such as boros (also hoses their mystics and birds) so maybe blue black control starts? tezz? Maybe I just lack the proper foresight to see it's greatness but it just seems like it will be either anti your own deck or a tempo nightmare.
This card ruins my whole venser deck. Acidic Slime, Spine of Ish Sah, Titans...I want to start crying right now
That being said I think it very needed for a Standard environment that CiPT abilities. On the draw this is the the best card you can play against Venser decks, Caw blade, Valakut suffers. The list goes on and on.
As for building a deck to abuse the ETB-trigger (Dreadnough, etc), my guess is it will be too fragile.
Kataki was a powerful weapon against a deck that was a reasonable portion of the metagame
So I don't see how this is similar
Raking Canopy was an ineffectual weapon against a dominant deck in the metagame
This may be seen as good against Caw Blade or Valakut but it doesn't really do enough for anyone to play it. It's like playing pithing needle against someone with 1,2 reasonable targets
This is to allies as legendary eldrazi are to mill.
This isn't a replacement for Stifle in legacy, it's a supplement.
It also shuts off the time-walk of Emmy, which seems relatively relevent across multiple formats.
Most important though is that it shuts off the fetching of Stoneforge Mystic.
My prediction is this card will see maindeck play in some deck somewhere that is cheating in creatures on the cheaps with big drawbacks - and it will have random impacts against a host of decks. Legacy Aluren pilots just died a little inside when they read this card.
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Don't think so.
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As for building a deck to abuse the ETB-trigger (Dreadnough, etc), my guess is it will be too fragile.
This set is starting to make me cry with joy...
Heck, I really don't think it's good enough to warrant a spot in standard, since all the things that it's important as an answer to will either 1.) still kill you anyhow next turn{titans} or 2.) are only slower than that on the draw {mystic, hawk}. Add to this that it puts you in a very bad position if they've got Jace, and hawk/mystic can still block... and then you're left with a card that's very narrow as hate. I'd rather be casting discard spells or memoricide than rely on this to hit the board in time.
That being said I think it very needed for a Standard environment that CiPT abilities. On the draw this is the the best card you can play against Venser decks, Caw blade, Valakut suffers. The list goes on and on.
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Kataki was a powerful weapon against a deck that was a reasonable portion of the metagame
So I don't see how this is similar
Raking Canopy was an ineffectual weapon against a dominant deck in the metagame
This may be seen as good against Caw Blade or Valakut but it doesn't really do enough for anyone to play it. It's like playing pithing needle against someone with 1,2 reasonable targets
This is to allies as legendary eldrazi are to mill.
It also shuts off the time-walk of Emmy, which seems relatively relevent across multiple formats.
Most important though is that it shuts off the fetching of Stoneforge Mystic.
My prediction is this card will see maindeck play in some deck somewhere that is cheating in creatures on the cheaps with big drawbacks - and it will have random impacts against a host of decks. Legacy Aluren pilots just died a little inside when they read this card.
My second thought exactly.
the eldrazi is when you cast not comes into play(old ways die hard).