It's a serviceable card, but it's outclassed by several other cards these days. In the same vein as this effect you have Journey to Nowhere and Temporal Isolation, which are both quite a bit better. And you also have Declaration in Stone in the 2cc white removal slot. I can't see needing more than that outside of a gigantic cube, and I haven't even played Temporal Isolation in years.
The Robert Bliss and Adam Rex arts are my favorite. And my favorite foil version is the Eric Peterson one from 7th.
Pacifism isn't terrible, but I agree there's just so many better options that can be run. The best art is a tie between the beauty of the Akroma art, and the fantastic Grakk art + flavor text. I prefer the Mirage simply because I love Mirage's aesthetic, and I love it when MTG can be a little humorous.
I have run pacifism of long time but from the looks of it I should proabaly swap it for temporal isolation, the only downside to the swap is having to dig through my box of cards to find the one I know I have.
I am running the Robert bliss art (fitting name) but I think it's a modern bordered one. I have ran various pacifism arts over the years but the 7th edition one is both the one I haven't run and possibly my favourite; The grakk flavour text wins it by a mile though
I don't think I have had those warm fuzzy feels in a while.
I have run pacifism of long time but from the looks of it I should proabaly swap it for temporal isolation, the only downside to the swap is having to dig through my box of cards to find the one I know I have.
Same here. I have run Pacifism for ever, simply because of the Enchantress theme in my cube. And TBH never clicked that Temporal Isolation was like Pacifism with flash. Go me.
I'm running the 7th Ed copy for the gorgeous art. I'm willing to bet that that copy in particular looks amazing in foil.
Warm and fuzzy time? Had a wine tasting on the weekend with my wife's workmate and her husband. The further we got into it, the more we realised our taste in wine was absolutely identical.
Prophetic Bolt is a good card, but suffers from being in Izzet. The top of the guild is absolutely stacked, and it's one of many different flavors you could choose for the last spot. It's a fine card that isn't embarrassing in any list, but you could not run it and no one would be asking where it was.
One time when I was like 5 or 6 I was watching the price is right and I thought to myself "Someone is going to guess the exact price" during the "One Bid" game before the pricing games start and they did. It's all been down hill ever since.
When I was first building my cube, Prophetic Bolt seemed to be on it's way out of cubes so I never bothered getting one. It seems like a good enough deal for what it does, but there are only so many 5-mana spells you can possibly have room for in any cube and 5 mana is a lot to pay for a spot removal spell that won't always get the job done, even if it does replace itself. I may give it a shot in my Peasant cube one of these days, and I'm working on building a Battle Box that maximizes choices. P. Bolt seems like a shoe-in there.
I'm with Ravnic on that sweet looking gold frame.
I guessed the 1-4 loss of my supported football (not hand-egg) club correctly.
I feel like prophet right now as I predict that "hand-egg" will never catch on as a name for American football.
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I have had Prophetic Bolt out of my cube for about two years now. Just not efficient enough in Multiplayer these days - once they started printing repeatable stuff like Mercurial Chemister and Ral Zarek, the writing was on the wall.
Though, I have to say... the dude in the original art is one of the happiest dudes I've ever seen bolting someone in the face. I love it.
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I like Student of Warfare. Not as strong as he once was, as better creatures were printed all along the curve, but still potent. It is a one drop that is also a solid topdeck, and can attack for 3 damage on turn two. Also a good mana sink for decks that usually have very few so it helps when you are flooded/out of gas. The major problem is requiring so many white mana sources in your deck to function well. In addition, sometimes you just don't have the spare mana to pump and in those cases he will spend a few turns being a 1/1. The tighter your deck the less strong he is.
I just recently picked one up, but I haven't seen it's impact yet. Good on turn 1, good mana sink late in the game. It's not the flashiest, but it is pretty effective.
I was a good student. Now I'm going to be a teacher. Life is kinda funny like that.
Student of Warfare is dope and a staple IMO. It's attacking for 3 on T2 with first strike, and then becomes a monster with your excess mana. I like him more than a lot of the other generic 1-drops since he's good in the aggro decks where maxing out at a 3/3 is totally acceptable for your one drop and great in the midrange decks where you can often get to the double-striker. I consider it a staple.
I was good at the stuff I cared about and didn't give a *****/thought to anything else. My issue is I can't really just watch or listen to someone and learn something--I have to be doing it myself, which made lectures and such hard. Plus I ******* hate waking up early which means usually the first 2-3 hours were a struggle to stay awake. Overall: hated school.
I like student of warfare. Can be an explosive early attacker that's hard to tangle with, and it's also a legitimate late game threat. It requires a lot of white sources to be reliable, but it's great in the decks that can support it.
I was a terrible student once I got into college. I tended to ace my courses that I actually cared about, but bombed/dropped most of my gen ed classes that I didn't care enough about to put in the time/effort for. I tend to prefer technical education/professional development to traditional classroom lecture. Go to a class every day for 2 weeks straight, learn what you need to know, take an exam on the subject, and get a cert that says you know it. That's what makes the most sense to me.
I really like Prophetic Bolt and I ran it for a long time. Izzet was pretty shallow for years, so Bolt kept being a good option for that guild. Only in recent years (somewhere around Dragon's Maze) did we get enough great Izzet cards to push Bolt out of the running. While I usually prefer the objectively superior 8th edition frame, old gold frames look kinda neat.
Student of Warfare is an interesting 1-drop that plays differently from the typical 2/1s that aggro decks are running. It is nice to have some diversity in the 1-drop slot.
Early hitter that can push through almost any board stall. The level up mechanic always raises questions, but mostly just to clarify. Level up is an intuitive mechanic, based on what I have seen in my playgroup.
I would say I was a nerdy student, but only on things that interest me. So I would high grades in some subjects and barely passing in others.
Also, I was a very honest (and uptight) student, and never cheated in exams, but I think I copied homework once or twice.
Student of Warfare is probably going to stay in my cube and many others for a long time. I wish there were more aggressive 1-drops that were effective as late game mana sinks. It does require a heavy commitment to W in order to be able to consistently attack with it as a 3/3 first strike, but that's a small price to pay for an aggro 1-drop that can still do a lot in the mid-to-late game. If we start to get better aggro white 1-drops, there are plenty of Savannah Lions clones that'll get cut long before Student.
Like many (at least from the USA), high school was a pretty miserable experience for me. At an age where you're yearning for independence, you're still reduced to begging for hall passes to take a pee, and you have no choice about what you'll be studying, who you'll be learning from, or who you associate with. I put my all into the classes I cared about (history and foreign language) and slacked in everything else which usually still left me with decent grades in those classes because the exams and major projects at the end that were worth the most points were never that much of a challenge. College was much better. Many of the freshman introductory lecture hall classes were a slog, but I loved the smaller sized classes and real discussion that came with nearly everything else. Plus, since I had a lot more choice about what I was learning about, I was always interested in most of what my classes were about. I really put my all into research projects, too, where I could go into great depth about things that fascinated me like the bubonic plague in Europe, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, African literature, radical movements in the US, and more.
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I like Student of Warfare a lot, partly because I just like having cards in my cube that, you know, do stuff. Even if Student were hypothetically less powerful than a vanilla 2/1 I'd still prioritize it because it's a much more interesting card that opens up more play decisions and more interactions.
I was a poor student who loved learning. Most of the time I enjoyed school. Most of the negatives were when my own lack of work ethic made the situation stressful because a project was late or I had low grades from not turning in homework, etc.
Now I've been teaching middle school for ten years. It's interesting seeing it from both sides.
This card ia very unique, just because it's a white 1-drop that is good both early game and late game. I love it and I'm keeping it in my cube forever.
I was a bad student in middle school but now I want to make things right... I started this year a degree of Computer Science and I want to prove myself that I can be a good student.
Crucible is a combo piece that doesn't do much unless it's in a specific deck, so I'd say it's cuttable, but we run it and it's pretty fun. Sees play with Armageddon and balance. Has been good in lists that just have a bunch of fetches.
I really liked this children's book fantasy world where essentially all sorcerer/wizard type people made contracts with elementals and demons to do stuff for them. Main character man was bound to two lightning elementals, always thought that world was fascinating.
The Robert Bliss and Adam Rex arts are my favorite. And my favorite foil version is the Eric Peterson one from 7th.
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I feel warm and fuzzy when both of my kids run up to me at the same time for hugs.
I am running the Robert bliss art (fitting name) but I think it's a modern bordered one. I have ran various pacifism arts over the years but the 7th edition one is both the one I haven't run and possibly my favourite; The grakk flavour text wins it by a mile though
I don't think I have had those warm fuzzy feels in a while.
Same here. I have run Pacifism for ever, simply because of the Enchantress theme in my cube. And TBH never clicked that Temporal Isolation was like Pacifism with flash. Go me.
I'm running the 7th Ed copy for the gorgeous art. I'm willing to bet that that copy in particular looks amazing in foil.
Warm and fuzzy time? Had a wine tasting on the weekend with my wife's workmate and her husband. The further we got into it, the more we realised our taste in wine was absolutely identical.
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I'm with Ravnic on that sweet looking gold frame.
I feel like prophet right now as I predict that "hand-egg" will never catch on as a name for American football.
450 card Peasant cube thread. Draft it here.
Though, I have to say... the dude in the original art is one of the happiest dudes I've ever seen bolting someone in the face. I love it.
My work sees me being a prophet all. The. Freaking. Time.
"Yes, if you don't test this before installing, it will:
a) Crash;
b) Fail;
c) Anger our customer with the billion-dollar contract;
d) All of the above."
Three weeks later, it's inevitably "So, you didn't test it before install... let me guess, d) again?"
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I was a good student. Now I'm going to be a teacher. Life is kinda funny like that.
I was good at the stuff I cared about and didn't give a *****/thought to anything else. My issue is I can't really just watch or listen to someone and learn something--I have to be doing it myself, which made lectures and such hard. Plus I ******* hate waking up early which means usually the first 2-3 hours were a struggle to stay awake. Overall: hated school.
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I was a terrible student once I got into college. I tended to ace my courses that I actually cared about, but bombed/dropped most of my gen ed classes that I didn't care enough about to put in the time/effort for. I tend to prefer technical education/professional development to traditional classroom lecture. Go to a class every day for 2 weeks straight, learn what you need to know, take an exam on the subject, and get a cert that says you know it. That's what makes the most sense to me.
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My Article - "Mana Short: A study in limited resource management."
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Student of Warfare is an interesting 1-drop that plays differently from the typical 2/1s that aggro decks are running. It is nice to have some diversity in the 1-drop slot.
Uril, the Miststalker RGW -- Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre C -- Vhati il-Dal BG -- Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer RW -- Animar, Soul of Elements URG
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker R -- Maga, Traitor to Mortals B -- Ghave, Guru of Spores BGW -- Sliver Hivelord WUBRG
I would say I was a nerdy student, but only on things that interest me. So I would high grades in some subjects and barely passing in others.
Also, I was a very honest (and uptight) student, and never cheated in exams, but I think I copied homework once or twice.
Like many (at least from the USA), high school was a pretty miserable experience for me. At an age where you're yearning for independence, you're still reduced to begging for hall passes to take a pee, and you have no choice about what you'll be studying, who you'll be learning from, or who you associate with. I put my all into the classes I cared about (history and foreign language) and slacked in everything else which usually still left me with decent grades in those classes because the exams and major projects at the end that were worth the most points were never that much of a challenge. College was much better. Many of the freshman introductory lecture hall classes were a slog, but I loved the smaller sized classes and real discussion that came with nearly everything else. Plus, since I had a lot more choice about what I was learning about, I was always interested in most of what my classes were about. I really put my all into research projects, too, where I could go into great depth about things that fascinated me like the bubonic plague in Europe, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, African literature, radical movements in the US, and more.
450 card Peasant cube thread. Draft it here.
I was a poor student who loved learning. Most of the time I enjoyed school. Most of the negatives were when my own lack of work ethic made the situation stressful because a project was late or I had low grades from not turning in homework, etc.
Now I've been teaching middle school for ten years. It's interesting seeing it from both sides.
I was a bad student in middle school but now I want to make things right... I started this year a degree of Computer Science and I want to prove myself that I can be a good student.
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I really liked this children's book fantasy world where essentially all sorcerer/wizard type people made contracts with elementals and demons to do stuff for them. Main character man was bound to two lightning elementals, always thought that world was fascinating.
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