Forked Bolts looks like a lot of value, without tying up your mana like Arc Trail. Although I beleive in the meta you are getting an exceptional amount of value if you run both, or some combination.
The fact that it's sorcery speed makes it significantly worse than Burst Lightning in my book, unless you play in a meta with a ton of 1/1s. It might get better if Timely Reinforcements becomes a menace but I haven't seen it yet.
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"Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire." - Jaya Ballard
Its been a necessity in my meta for quite a while now, so i have some experience. Alot of the time its 2 to finish something off, maybe 1 then 1 to the dome. Sometimes its just a unkicked burst to the dome to throw a counter on the shrine. It works pretty well, and those opportunities you get to kill 2 creatures, makes it worth consideration. If someone uses a timely reinforcements on you, you will wish you had this/arc trail in your hand. And it looks like TR is getting more popular.
Personally I like Pyroclasm and Slagstorm if you looking for cards aimed at those particular decks.
Forked Bolt doesn't do enough when compared to Lightning Bolt and Burst Lightning in vying for the 1cc slot, especially taking into account that it's a sorcery. I even value Arc Trail more highly because it's deals more damage.
I am not sold here, I have never had a tempered steel blow me out early enough for the cost of forked bolt to outweigh the cost of arc trail. Barring KFW lockouts I have never lost to this deck when they don't draw steel either.
I think I would rather run things like slaggstorm and ratchet bomb that do things post-steel.
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Forked Bolts looks like a lot of value, without tying up your mana like Arc Trail. Although I beleive in the meta you are getting an exceptional amount of value if you run both, or some combination.
"Of course you should fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire." - Jaya Ballard
Forked Bolt doesn't do enough when compared to Lightning Bolt and Burst Lightning in vying for the 1cc slot, especially taking into account that it's a sorcery. I even value Arc Trail more highly because it's deals more damage.
I think I would rather run things like slaggstorm and ratchet bomb that do things post-steel.
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