Versatile card. If you need to get a big creature through, Guildmage makes it harder to block. If you wants a swarm, Guildmage creates one out of an obsolete big creature.
I have used this in a Doran Rebels deck... The second ability benefited from all the high-toughness creatures, but the first also helped push through a million-toughness Task Force for lethal damage.
Korozda Guildmage is one of those cards I never trade off because it's so versatile and useful that there has to be a deck for it somewhere, but that deck never seems to happen. Intimidate's barely worth any mana at all. As for the second ability, there's both better sac outlets and better token generators in these colors. I suppose if I had a Jund deck where I steal something with Zealous Conscripts then feed it to this post-combat and get a bunch more damage off Impact Tremors. Just saying it out loud, I know it'll never work that way.
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For when you get so carried away with your steal-everything theme, you have to have EVERY steal-a-thing spell.
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My Commander decks:
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
*opens envelope* Name three cards that do this more generically and therefore better, albeit for more (but still reasonable) mana.
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
It's one of my tech cards in Thassa, alongside other devotion-builders like Spreading Seas and the new Imprisoned in the Moon. Usually very effective in my meta.
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
I do love Domain, just because it feels nice to assemble all 5 land types with basics, but this is perhaps the most meh Domain card in existance. It doesn't even work in Doran, as you can only ever get 3 toughness out of it! At best, decent in limited.
I would only run it in badass weapons.dec, because that glaive is pretty sweet. Even then, I'm pretty sure this is bottom of the barrel bad, even in a deck build around domain. Then again, a five color Doran/Assault Formation deck could be a thing, in which case a three mana 5/5 is far from terrible.
I could see this in Doran...If you're fine with a 3/3 with flying for 2W!
The very image of GILBIC.
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Card advantage is not the same thing as card draw. Something for 2B cannot be strictly worse than something for BBB or 3BB. If you're taking out Swords to Plowshares for Plummet, you're a fool. Stop doing these things!
Magnetic Theft is more satisfying to cast, costs less, and is an instant that can be Sunforgered.
Advantage:
Magnetic Theft doesn't give you control of the equipment, though. So if you MT a Sword of Feast & Famine, for example, the controller is the one who untaps their lands when you connect, not you.
I mean, I have a Bird Soldier tribal deck, but the closest thing I've got to a plain beater like this is War Falcon. Since the deck is mono-white, though, that means I've got a 2/1 flier for 1 instead of a 2/1 flier for 3.
Magnetic Theft doesn't give you control of the equipment, though. So if you MT a Sword of Feast & Famine, for example, the controller is the one who untaps their lands when you connect, not you.
True, which is why you use it during their combat step before blockers are declared. You can also use it on your own equipment in a pinch. Heck, use it with Skullclamp as a kill spell for an opponent's X/1 creature.
I never understood this card's art. Why is he holding a tiny knife used for spreading butter? What's with the mask? Where did he find a hairdresser who'd do such a horrid haircut in ulamog-torn Zendikar? What's with the smoke? Who is he looking at? WHAT'S GOING ON?!
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My Commander decks:
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
She, I think. And I think she's supposed to have just killed a giant eldrazi with that butter knife.
Mechanically, I like that the equipment doesn't even have to be attached to anything and it's and aggressive body in 3 relevant tribes that like to go wide. I could see this making the cut in some decks.
Versatile card. If you need to get a big creature through, Guildmage makes it harder to block. If you wants a swarm, Guildmage creates one out of an obsolete big creature.
Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest WUR Voltron Control
Temmet, Vizier of Naktamun WU Unblockable Mirror Trickery
Ra's al Ghul (Sidar Kondo) and Face-Down Ninjas
Brudiclad, Token Engineer
Vaevictis (VV2) the Dire Lantern
Rona, Disciple of Gix
Tiana the Auror
Hallar
Ulrich the Politician
Zur the Rebel
Scorpion, Locust, Scarab, Egyptian Gods
O-Kagachi, Mathas, Mairsil
"Non-Tribal" Tribal Generals, Eggs
"Oh grabbing my neck..how original..."
(U/B)(U/B)(U/B) JUMP IN THE LINE, ROCK YOUR BODY IN TIME
(R/W)(R/W)(R/W) RISING FROM THE NEON GLOOM, SHINING LIKE A CRAZY MOON
(U/R)(R/G)(G/U) STEALIN' WHEN I SHOULD HAVE BEEN BUYIN'
For when you get so carried away with your steal-everything theme, you have to have EVERY steal-a-thing spell.
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
*opens envelope* Name three cards that do this more generically and therefore better, albeit for more (but still reasonable) mana.
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its a bit too niche i think for it to be that impactful in any given game. not even the flavour text makes the card any better i think
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Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
Still probably not a great idea.
The very image of GILBIC.
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True, which is why you use it during their combat step before blockers are declared. You can also use it on your own equipment in a pinch. Heck, use it with Skullclamp as a kill spell for an opponent's X/1 creature.
I never understood this card's art. Why is he holding a tiny knife used for spreading butter? What's with the mask? Where did he find a hairdresser who'd do such a horrid haircut in ulamog-torn Zendikar? What's with the smoke? Who is he looking at? WHAT'S GOING ON?!
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
Mechanically, I like that the equipment doesn't even have to be attached to anything and it's and aggressive body in 3 relevant tribes that like to go wide. I could see this making the cut in some decks.
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