Shouldn't this be in a deck with all the Delve stuff running around? I'm surprised there hasn't been some new Zoo deck that uses Dryad Militant and Spirit of the Labyrinth and Thalia, Guardian of Thraben.
Force just one draw a turn, bolts/helix/swords and Wild Nacatl bashing your face in.
Take a Savannah Lions, give it built in colour fixing (hybrid mana), and tack on static graveyard hosing. Ten years ago, who'd have believed such a card would be unplayable in Legacy!
This guy, Spirit Of The Labyrinth, the new Contaminated Priest... I think WotC are trying to prop up a Junk Or Naya mid-range/hate-bear deck in Legacy.
The thing about cards like this is not that they are bad, but simply that they do not make the cut to warrant the cutting of another already run creature, especially given the fact that the decks in which this card could go do not have the same tools of consistency of other decks.
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All of these "Let's eliminate bad cards" crusades are simply ignorant. And when they start to devolve into "WotC is conspiring to give us crappy cards," they just become embarrassing. MATH is conspiring to give you crappy cards.
I think GSZ is a fine way to get it, but then it's a 2-drop. The biggest issue with Militant is that you can't run it with Goyf and it weakens DRS, but DRS is *vastly* stronger in almost any perceivable meta. The X/1 status hurts a tiny bit but I think that it's mostly that Mom/DRS/Noble take the same slots and do things that are better against most decks. It's also "not good enough" to GSZ out of the sideboard (even in maverick) since it doesn't hose things in the yard and since opposing decks (like Dredge) can still just win through Zombie/Ichorid plays or with an existing Dread Return.
And all of the decks who would want to run Militant would probably be better off with Jotun Grunt. I love the card though, and I've really wanted to make a mono-white Martyr/Proc list with it and Judge's Familiar which is another fringe one drop from that set.
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Shouldn't this be in a deck with all the Delve stuff running around? I'm surprised there hasn't been some new Zoo deck that uses Dryad Militant and Spirit of the Labyrinth and Thalia, Guardian of Thraben.
Force just one draw a turn, bolts/helix/swords and Wild Nacatl bashing your face in.
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This guy, Spirit Of The Labyrinth, the new Contaminated Priest... I think WotC are trying to prop up a Junk Or Naya mid-range/hate-bear deck in Legacy.
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