With the recent change to the legend rule is this guy still worth a slot? I liked the card but one of its best uses was as a pseudo terror for hard to deal with dudes like Thrun and Geist of Saint Traft. Thoughts?
It lost a little bit of its value, for sure, but I'd run it in even the smallest of cubes. Clone effects are incredibly powerful and this one, at two-mana, means that you're always getting ahead with it. You get the best creature on the board, and the drawback is largely negligible.
Pretty much lol. This card is so good for 2 mana. If the rules never change back, PI is still a staple across all blue cards. It's the best pure 2 mana blue creature even with the new rules (snapcaster is above 2 mana) IMHO.
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I mean, hell, we're all on a forum for something that most people would describe as a "children's card game"...do what makes you happy. You are never too old to enjoy yourself.
I’ve heard some people wanting to take out the clones from their cube, like Phantasmal Image, Sakashima’s Student and Phyrexian Metamorph because they’re scared that the clones will lose too much value after M14′s legendary/PW rule happens. Don’t. The value that they lose is nowhere near enough to make them bad. Some clones like Sakashima’s Student don’t currently make the grade in smaller lists (it’s on the border in my 460-card list) but when it’s time for the Student to leave from my cube, it won’t be because of the clones being unable to kill legends, it’ll because its overall power level can’t compete anymore (due to general inefficiencies, blah blah blah.)
I did a recent cube draft and the PW thing did come up once where a Jace, AOT would have killed a Jace, TMS and it would have been preferable for Jace, AOT to be a Dreadbore than a mini-FoF. Actually, it didn’t even matter, since Jace, AOT got countered.
As of right now, I think the number of times that the legend rule mattered was 3 times and that has been from playing with the new rules once a week since they were announced. Cutting Phantasmal Image out of fear of losing value due to the new rules is a big mistake.
Phantasmal Image is in the top tier of blue cards (well in unpowered anyway). The potential value from this guy is always increasing, due to ETB effects becoming so good.
Not to mention, it goes infinite with Palinchron, if you're into it.
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With the recent change to the legend rule is this guy still worth a slot? I liked the card but one of its best uses was as a pseudo terror for hard to deal with dudes like Thrun and Geist of Saint Traft. Thoughts?
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Pretty much lol. This card is so good for 2 mana. If the rules never change back, PI is still a staple across all blue cards. It's the best pure 2 mana blue creature even with the new rules (snapcaster is above 2 mana) IMHO.
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As of right now, I think the number of times that the legend rule mattered was 3 times and that has been from playing with the new rules once a week since they were announced. Cutting Phantasmal Image out of fear of losing value due to the new rules is a big mistake.
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Not to mention, it goes infinite with Palinchron, if you're into it.
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I think I can safely predict that I'm NEVER going to cut this card, the legend rule change doesn't impact its power level to any significant degree.
I can't recall ever blowing up a legend with this guy. I also can't remember ever not playing him in a deck that could cast him.
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