It's a fun card. It adds 13 life for four mana, so it will be played in some format. What's fun though is that it gains you life once you add P/T to it, because each time you switch the P/T is reapplied.
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It can be pretty abusive if you know how to use it.
I haven't found it yet, but there must be a way to be immortal with that tree. It's also nasty in a Doran, the siege tower deck that uses Warmonger's Chariot to attack with defender creatures.
He's also pretty good with equipments that give toughness, like Slagwurm Armor, especially if you put multiple of them on it.
But in light of that, even if it is incredubly cool, it,s just not as good as Eternity Vessel, it's even easier to get rid of.
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If there is such a thing as too much power, I have not discovered it!
funnily enough this guy might see some fringe play in a control deck using green.
death cloud decks might want this guy as a 1 or 2-of....... as both a blocker and a life buffer while building to a large cloud and sticking planeswalkers etc.
i'll admit, it's a bit sketchy, but gaining up to 12 life at instant speed, while maintaining a blocker is actually fairly usable in certain scenarios.
we'll have to wait and see whether the tree catches on. maybe nothing will happen
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It's a fun card. It adds 13 life for four mana, so it will be played in some format. What's fun though is that it gains you life once you add P/T to it, because each time you switch the P/T is reapplied.
It doesn't "add" 13 life. You can't activate it when your life is at "0".
What happens when you activate it's ability and someone casts victim of night on it? I guess your life total just stays the same.
Anyone else think this guy is a limited tank if activated? Drop him late game and make you opponents game even harder. Good times.
At least we know why "13" is the magic number in red damage in this set, other than for the unlucky flavor factor.
The card's wacky but I'm not sure what I'd actually want to do with it.
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My personal thinking is this maybe another nail in the coffin for Burn decks. I don't believe it to be the final one but it certainly is potent. If the burn deck doesn't kill you by turn 4-5 or 3-4 with some ramping, they will basically run out of fuel in the long run and this tree makes that possible. It can't be burned away by such decks unless they actually run Blasphemous Act which in itself is situational at best and very costly if the green deck is not using as many creatures to win.
I'm sure a Doran EDH deck will have a way to get rid of the defender part as a lot of it's beaters tend to be high toughness low power anyway.
Actually, I do like the flavor of the card, and anyone that runs Doran in EDH would be bonkers not to include this, but I can't really see any obvious applications for him in Standard. Basically, you need a way to exploit his toughness aside from being a big dumb blocker, but I just don't see it, not in Standard anyway.
-1/-1 counter on it, proliferate it down to one. Change your life total to one. Give yourself hexproof. Use soul conduit. Shock them for win.
Honestly I can really see combo using Trigon of Corruption, Soul Conudit, Tree of Redemption. It can get mana extensive BUTTT red has given us Geosurge and that other Red mana acceler, and the one mana land search card is insane. I think it is a possibly deck.
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-1/-1 counter on it, proliferate it down to one. Change your life total to one. Give yourself hexproof. Use soul conduit. Shock them for win.
Honestly I can really see combo using Trigon of Corruption, Soul Conudit, Tree of Redemption. It can get mana extensive BUTTT red has given us Geosurge and that other Red mana acceler, and the one mana land search card is insane. I think it is a possibly deck.
I'm usually pretty open about zany deck ideas, but you're talking about a 3 card combo (that also needs a proliferater and hexproof granter + shock/burn) with 3 cards that don't do anything by themselves.
This won't even work well in casual, as once people see your slow, slow pieces coming together it's simple to start gunning for you.
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T: Exchange your life total with Tree of Redemption's toughness.
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Lets discuss.
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I haven't found it yet, but there must be a way to be immortal with that tree. It's also nasty in a Doran, the siege tower deck that uses Warmonger's Chariot to attack with defender creatures.
He's also pretty good with equipments that give toughness, like Slagwurm Armor, especially if you put multiple of them on it.
But in light of that, even if it is incredubly cool, it,s just not as good as Eternity Vessel, it's even easier to get rid of.
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The card's wacky but I'm not sure what I'd actually want to do with it.
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Put this in every green deck evar, winmore
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death cloud decks might want this guy as a 1 or 2-of....... as both a blocker and a life buffer while building to a large cloud and sticking planeswalkers etc.
i'll admit, it's a bit sketchy, but gaining up to 12 life at instant speed, while maintaining a blocker is actually fairly usable in certain scenarios.
we'll have to wait and see whether the tree catches on. maybe nothing will happen
abuse its toughness in an edh
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Morbid Bloom with the tree would be interesting in a saproling edh.
540 Peasant cube- Gold EditionSomething SpicyIt doesn't "add" 13 life. You can't activate it when your life is at "0".
What happens when you activate it's ability and someone casts victim of night on it? I guess your life total just stays the same.
Anyone else think this guy is a limited tank if activated? Drop him late game and make you opponents game even harder. Good times.
At least we know why "13" is the magic number in red damage in this set, other than for the unlucky flavor factor.
Noted and added.
My personal thinking is this maybe another nail in the coffin for Burn decks. I don't believe it to be the final one but it certainly is potent. If the burn deck doesn't kill you by turn 4-5 or 3-4 with some ramping, they will basically run out of fuel in the long run and this tree makes that possible. It can't be burned away by such decks unless they actually run Blasphemous Act which in itself is situational at best and very costly if the green deck is not using as many creatures to win.
I'm sure a Doran EDH deck will have a way to get rid of the defender part as a lot of it's beaters tend to be high toughness low power anyway.
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Actually, I do like the flavor of the card, and anyone that runs Doran in EDH would be bonkers not to include this, but I can't really see any obvious applications for him in Standard. Basically, you need a way to exploit his toughness aside from being a big dumb blocker, but I just don't see it, not in Standard anyway.
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pity he has defender. I say the way to use him is an enchantment granting lots of toughness to abuse his ability more.
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I can't think of any reusable at instant speed though - which is what would make it perfect.
I'd love input and advice!
Honestly I can really see combo using Trigon of Corruption, Soul Conudit, Tree of Redemption. It can get mana extensive BUTTT red has given us Geosurge and that other Red mana acceler, and the one mana land search card is insane. I think it is a possibly deck.
UThada Adel AcquisitorU
GB Savara, Queen of the Golgori BG
GR Ulasht, the Hate Seed RG
I'm usually pretty open about zany deck ideas, but you're talking about a 3 card combo (that also needs a proliferater and hexproof granter + shock/burn) with 3 cards that don't do anything by themselves.
This won't even work well in casual, as once people see your slow, slow pieces coming together it's simple to start gunning for you.
I really like the design of this card. Lots of fun stuff you can do here.
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