This card seems absolutely bonkers to me. Many games are going to end with the turn 4 planeswalker, turn 5 Deepglow Skate into planeswalker ultimate. It's an exciting card to be sure, and while it's admittedly somewhat narrow, the ceiling is through the roof! Thoughts?
Yeah, you are likely not going to cast this until turn 6 or 7, at which time the board state might be a bit complicated and this will just sit in your hand. Also, without a viable target this is straight bad.
Having tried and failed to make Proliferate a thing on numerous occasions in multiple cubes... This is probably a combo piece or bust. Wouldn't rule it out though, and the redundancy with Doubling Season might make that deck worth exploring.
Deserves extra consideration if you run Magical Hacker, as it gives that Superfriends/Hacker style of deck some redundancy. Those decks can sometimes suffer from not doing enough turn-to-turn/being too durdly, so I could see this guy helping there. Not sure if I'll run it, but as someone who loves Hacker it's hard not to consider.
This is kind of cool, and I could see it doing good work in "theme" cubes where you can go deep on unusual themes, but the base body is way too bad for it to crack blue 5s
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A card to keep your eye on in the future, but as it stands its too narrow.
Requiring a planeswalker in play to be remotely useful is a huge downside for 5 mana.
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In EDH I see this being a staple forever and the kind of card that illicits groans when it hits the field.
I can see the potential but will pass.
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