MTG Salvation

Am I the only one extremely excited for this new card? I know on the surface it looks like just another fleshbag marauder (which is already a great card) but it's so much more.

One of my struggles with MBC decks is balancing answers to aggro with answers to combo/control. Too much creature removal and it is difficult to answer combos or disrupt opposing control strategies.

Planeswalkers are always annoying to deal with since I don't run many creatures of my own and other answers are narrow and/or over-costed. This guy stays relevant vs creature decks while also nailing the hand or planeswalkers.

Aside from all of the other benefits, he has 2 toughness allowing him to survive heartless summoning in a tortured existence/phyrexian reclamation deck. He can rip hands away along with the board and is also a human which can be relevant.

Obviously I'm excited about this card, but what do you think? Just another functional reprint or a new multiplayer staple?

Though not entirely my taste I think it’s a really good card.
Hardly any situation in which it doesn’t help you get ahead.

And it even has a point more toughness than most of it’s brothers.

I’m betting it’s a new staple.

I echo your sentiments entirely. Unlike all previous iterations of the card Plaguecrafter has legitimate worth vs Combo/Control/Prison/etc. including drastically increased effectiveness against Control. The extra toughness is incredibly relevant for Heartless Summoning decks and the discard is bonkers for decks that feature heavy quantities of resource denial effects and/or cards like Waste Not. This is an absolute staple of the format going forward.

I'm not going to add to what has already been said, you guys are on it.

I want 4.

I want a playset or two myself for decks, but is fleshbag Marauder still superior in a dedicated zombie build or does the added flexibility of the discard card trump all other versions?

Oath of Liliana seems to be heralded as the best version for devotion and merciless executioner seems to be the lowest rung on the ladder.

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I want a playset or two myself for decks, but is fleshbag Marauder still superior in a dedicated zombie build or does the added flexibility of the discard card trump all other versions?

Zombie decks will still play the Zombie.

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Oath of Liliana seems to be heralded as the best version for devotion and merciless executioner seems to be the lowest rung on the ladder.

Vona's Hunger and Virtus's Maneuver are both solid too. There's tons of playable versions of this spell. That being said I currently have Plaguecrafter over all of them (overall) because it's the only one that's relevant against all archetypes and that you can blindly cast on turn 3 if you want to spend your mana.