3 powered menace is already pretty aggressive on its own for 2 mana, and its equip cost is pretty reasonable for an aggro deck. Pairs well with black's recursive threats that can keep attaching this / Bitterbllossom. This reminds me a lot of the black aggro bestow cards like Gnarled Scarhide / Herald of Torment, but this is probably much better. Big beater for black aggro, and Stoneforge Mystic always appreciates new targets. I dig it.
Yeah, this is gas. I'm going to sadly be cutting Kitesail Freebooter for this. I continue to be excited for creature equipments, and this one is definitely one of the better ones. Additionally, I'm excited about this one setting base p/t, because my hope is that it will make it more likely to end up in an aggro deck than a midrange goodstuff deck, as the midrange deck won't get as much mileage out of the boost and won't pick it as early, but I look forward to having my assumption proven right/wrong.
I'm not as high on this card as others. I'd rather have all the recursive black two drops over this since they also support Aristocrats. Cards that only go in black aggro tend to be perennial last picks in my experience.
I'm shocked that this can block on the turn you play it, considering howmuchofitscompetition fails to do so, and that really pushes it over the edge for me. I'll swap out Nullpriest of Oblivion, which is somewhat similar in being a 2-drop with menace that you can sink mana into lategame. They shine in different decks, but I feel that Blade of the Oni does more for the decks that want it than Nullpriest does for its respective decks.
This card is obviously quite strong, but I don't know whether it'll make my cube because it has no specific synergy. The only cards that fits that bill in my black 2 drop section right now are Dauthi Voidwalker and Dark Confidant. Everything else is either recursive, a discard outlet, or a piece of a specific deck. It's nice you can find this with Stoneforge I guess, and the artifact tag can matter, but it's not like black has any other support for artifact.dec.
I find it a generically good card since black do not have much artifact or equipment synergies.
In artifact cube it is a slam dunk with the multitude of artifact synergies. I love how reconfigure is a creature and eqiupment in one. Gives so much space in cube for other cards.
This is my problem as well. It is better at aggro than stuff I am running but no synergies to speak of and occasionally will die to disenchants. And the'wrath protection' is meh as it is likely this will get wrathed before you reconfigure
For an Aggro deck, the play pattern is like this
Turn 1: 2/1
Turn 2: Blade of the Oni 3/1
Turn 3: Dark Ritual Equip 2/1, swing for 5 and utility spell - play a 3 drop or w creatures and a utility spells
Turn 4: Equip 2/1 and have a 5/5 menace and 2/x or 3/x swinging.
2BB is pretty expensive for an equip, but it provides the option to upgrade useless creatures and tokens later in the game, so aggro and reach in one card.
Worth trying out, depending on the make-up of your cube I think.
Black aggro is great in our cube, but the only actually committed black agressive/midrange cards we play that aren't also playable in reanimator or control are Dark Confidant, Bloodghast, Scrapheap Scrounger, and Bitterblossom. That's a pretty high threshold to reach, and while this card is super pushed, all those cards are super dynamic and can generate tangible card advantage and have powerful in-game synergies. Even thought it looks cool and we support black aggro, I don't know if we'll test it. Likely a pass for us, but probably worth it in larger cubes.
EDIT: Apparently we are testing this. Enough people in our circle thought it looked cool, so it's in. Not sure how long it'll last, but worst case a baseline 3/1 with menace can't be half bad, albeit just a little bit narrow.
3 powered menace is already pretty aggressive on its own for 2 mana, and its equip cost is pretty reasonable for an aggro deck. Pairs well with black's recursive threats that can keep attaching this / Bitterbllossom. This reminds me a lot of the black aggro bestow cards like Gnarled Scarhide / Herald of Torment, but this is probably much better. Big beater for black aggro, and Stoneforge Mystic always appreciates new targets. I dig it.
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In artifact cube it is a slam dunk with the multitude of artifact synergies. I love how reconfigure is a creature and eqiupment in one. Gives so much space in cube for other cards.
Turn 1: 2/1
Turn 2: Blade of the Oni 3/1
Turn 3: Dark Ritual Equip 2/1, swing for 5 and utility spell - play a 3 drop or w creatures and a utility spells
Turn 4: Equip 2/1 and have a 5/5 menace and 2/x or 3/x swinging.
2BB is pretty expensive for an equip, but it provides the option to upgrade useless creatures and tokens later in the game, so aggro and reach in one card.
Worth trying out, depending on the make-up of your cube I think.
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EDIT: Apparently we are testing this. Enough people in our circle thought it looked cool, so it's in. Not sure how long it'll last, but worst case a baseline 3/1 with menace can't be half bad, albeit just a little bit narrow.