I agree with Rhand... except that I don't regret taking Green cards. It doesn't commit us to anything.
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I don't rate either of the white cards that highly; Justiciar is a 2/1 for 4 with an expensive tap ability that will very occasionally be removal, and Authority costs 5 to give you 1/1 on the next turn, if you don't get twofored.
Sheltering Word on the other hand counters both spells and abilities targeting our creatures, while Rain of Thorns will almost always hit a land and etiher an enchantment or artifact, occasionally all three.
Vote Sheltering Word (though as always I've no problem being outvoted :))
Sheltering Word can be nice, but I feel it's a dead card too often.
It looks like most removal comes in the form of combat tricks targeting your own creatures in this format.
Holy Justiciar is an expensive tapper, but a tapper is a tapper and can change a stall to a win.
for now: vote Holy Justiciar, but I might change my mind if someone sees a good reason for taking sheltering word.
@Bateleur: 'regret' is too strong a word, but if we switch to white now, we missed some nice cards by taking green earlier
The tapper is definitely the pick. Seems like human synergy is the only way to get a cohesive aggro deck in the format, but you're very vulnerable to getting cut off by someone who opens one of the rares. Hopefully we open aggro rares in P2/3, but we should keep a game plan in mind if that falls out. As to sheltering word, if we want to go tempo/aggressive we don't want to hold up the mana defensively, and the lifegain is irrelevant. If we go big dudes there are hardly any removal spells in the format anyway, and it's not like we want to wait an additional two mana to cast any big guy we have in hand.
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a littleunderwhelming.I think both white cards are the best ones here.
I regret the choice for green now, white seems open indeed.
I agree with Rhand... except that I don't regret taking Green cards. It doesn't commit us to anything.
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Sheltering Word on the other hand counters both spells and abilities targeting our creatures, while Rain of Thorns will almost always hit a land and etiher an enchantment or artifact, occasionally all three.
Vote Sheltering Word (though as always I've no problem being outvoted :))
It looks like most removal comes in the form of combat tricks targeting your own creatures in this format.
Holy Justiciar is an expensive tapper, but a tapper is a tapper and can change a stall to a win.
for now: vote Holy Justiciar, but I might change my mind if someone sees a good reason for taking sheltering word.
@Bateleur: 'regret' is too strong a word, but if we switch to white now, we missed some nice cards by taking green earlier
Vote: Holy Justiciar