MTG Salvation

Creature - Pirate Human

Flying

Whenever ~ attacks, target creature defending player controls loses all abilities and has base power/toughness 0/1 until EOT
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Pretty good, 2 power flyer for 2 that can shut down a blocker every attack is quite nice for blue tempo decks. Not sure what to cut for testing though, could be Enclave Cryptologist since I have more than enough discard outlets/looters by now and have not seen it be main decked in a long time. Could be Thirst for Knowledge too...not sure...

The ability is nice for tempo. This card is more aggressive than Stratus Dancer which is more of a three drop + anyways. You don't think Gilded Drake or Enclave Cryptologist can't be cut to test this? We cube 3-6 times every week and I have not seen them main decked the past month. This guy would have been main decked more, I feel it.

This is a pretty pushed card. I'm not sure if my blue section can support it though as we don't really support an aggressive suite of blue creatures.

I actually like this better than the 2/1 for 1U variants we have already, amazing creature for blue aggro/tempo decks.

I also really like this creature and I'm pretty sure I can find room for it in my 540.

Is there a U/R tempo/burn deck that this would fit in? This also has a nice trick where you shrink a big/problematic creature and kill it with a burn spell (like wurmcoil engine)

I think this is a decent creature for tempo decks. About on par with the flash options, which will be better in some builds and worse in others. I like how this combos with dividable burn to kill big creatures on the cheap, and may be enough for me to test this over a card like Dimensional Infiltrator if I was playing such a card. But I'm not. Because blue's cards are too good to find room for stuff like this most of the time.

great card. i feel like i have enough 2UU 4 drops in blue so i think i am going to cut niblis of frost which has been good but just isnt needed next to dungeon geists

I think I'll be testing this over Enclave Cryptologist, which hasn't really performed that much recently.

Can't see cutting Cryptologist for this. Cryptologist is the only looter that starts working on turn 2, which can be crucial for reanimation/Welder shenanigans. Then sometimes the game goes long and he transforms into a draw engine.

This card is good, but I'd have to be heavily invested in making blue a tempo/aggro color or have a large cube before I'd consider it. I think 630+ card cubes can maybe find room.

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Blue is such a powerful color with versatile spells, unless the creature is very powerful , not interested in adding it.

I'm guessing this is the second best mistral charger variant for blue, (second only to stratus dancer).. So for large cubes intentionally supporting blue tempo, I'd be happy to add it.
Getting through blockers is not a common concern with U tempo... but in UR this could help you get your 1 drops through annoying ground creatures, or combine with burn to deal with an opposing wurmcoil engine.

It's a good card. I'm old fashioned, wishing this had a downside, but them's the times we live in. Skyship Plunderer is my favorite of the cards with these stats, as it's got more potential synergy than the rest. This one can set up some pretty funny combat tricks, though.

If you get a lot of Ux tempo decks, this seems good as it punishes blocking.

If you don't get a lot of Ux tempo, this seems like a safe pass.

I like this one. Really keeps the opponent on the backfoot, like a galepowder mage lite.
Blue doesn't have too many exciting two drops, so I can see this squeezing into most cubes.

Just imagine in UR tempo being able to frog their wurmcoil engine and zap it away with a
firebolt or something. MMmmm.

A cool creature for aggressive blue decks. Which happen more often than I initially expected when I built my cube. This guy can really help force some damage through. I want to try it.

I used to play Turn to Frog so having that stapled to a two powered, two drop flyer definitely apeals to me. Will test!

It's even better than Turn to Frog since the potential blocker becomes a 0/1, so that even your x/1s can attack safely.

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I used to play Turn to Frog so having that stapled to a two powered, two drop flyer definitely apeals to me. Will test!

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It's even better than Turn to Frog since the potential blocker becomes a 0/1, so that even your x/1s can attack safely.

Don't play those, when you can play Ovinize!