What a great card. Rec Sage, big 4/3 beater, or a Lone Missionary. The only strike against it is that it's not 'flashy', but really this a very powerful suite of effects. Between this and the rocket Goblin, I'm liking these modular creature effects.
Wonderful card competing in a viciously powerful guild, but this has to be up near the top of the mountain. I’m glad I only manage a peasant cube right now, because this sounds like a painful cut to make.
Just in green white it works with Recruiter, Resto Angel, Green Sun, Natural Order, Woodland Bellower (Keep the Faith!) and more. It's crazy but I might cut pridemage. Just going to be tough to find room.
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I literally just said this morning “I’m always sorta disappointed for Selesnya because I don’t expect anything to break into such a competitive guild.” Glad to be proven wrong. Not sure if I cut Finks or Pridemage for this, but it’s definitely coming in.
Adding another "reclamation sage' ability to my cube also opens up a mono-green spot which is cool. Wickerborough Elder could probably be safely cut now for a different type of card.
Edit* I've played too many of this type of effect before and it just made playing artifacts a negative which I don't want happening too often.
I like this a lot. Will also look at cutting pridemage as well. I wish they would have replaced the +4 life with play a land from your graveyard. I think this would have been a really nice tack on as the set is quite graveyard focused. Anyway, can't really complain about this card a lot. Can't see anything wrong with running it, but the guild is stacked so won't complain if it's not in someone's cube as well.
Ugh, this card is incredible, but cutting Finks is gonna hurt like a *****. Rest in peace sweet prince, there's no more -1/-1 counters where you're going...
I think the choice of cutting Pridemage or something else depends on how much other Enchant/Artifact hate you've got. Rec Sage, Pridemage, and this is probably too much for that effect.
..and I can't picture cutting anything but one of those two. The curve tells me to cut the Finks because Knight is more versatile and is the same mana cost. The other thought is that this + Pridemage along with Rec Sage might saturate artifact/enchantment hate too much. Any thoughts?
This card is amazing. Once again reveillark is happy. Finks is safe until they make one that persists twice. That card is too much value to go anywhere.
I love the versatility, the design and the power level. I just think this card is great.
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..and I can't picture cutting anything but one of those two. The curve tells me to cut the Finks because Knight is more versatile and is the same mana cost. The other thought is that this + Pridemage along with Rec Sage might saturate artifact/enchantment hate too much. Any thoughts?
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