MTG Salvation

Passes Vindicate test but not Terminate test.

Pass. Too expensive, heavy colored casting cost, but most importantly, UW is too stacked.

It's a pretty decent card, I think. The pseudo-Silence trigger helps to get that first Sphinx's Revelation trigger to happen, which is nice. I think the competition in the section is far too tight for it, but it's certainly not bad.

Love this card for other formats (hoping to build Sphinx tribal EDH someday) but it's outclassed for cube. Azorius is too stacked to crack the top 7-8 cards.

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rant

I'm running Sphinx's Rev still, and I think I'd rather have that than this.

Your opponent can also just not remove this and continue doing their own, non-instant-and-sorcery gameplan, which for a number of decks will be enough. The silence ability is a bit too inconsistent for my liking, at least when attached to a 6 drop.

I really like this card, but am in the same boat as the rest of you. I kinda wish I could fit him in, because it is his guild, but alas.

Quote from Salmo »

Your opponent can also just not remove this and continue doing their own, non-instant-and-sorcery gameplan, which for a number of decks will be enough. The silence ability is a bit too inconsistent for my liking, at least when attached to a 6 drop.

Agreed. I'd love to see a full Silence strapped to it instead. It would've gone a lone way towards making this reliable enough to play. As it stands, it just gets Chupacabra'd.

I'm no longer running Sphinx's Rev, but if I was, I would test this over that. I can't cut either of the cards in my Azorius section for this, though.

i like the idea of running a big stupid creature in each guild and this guy would be my choice for azorius but i dont have room for a big stupid creature in every guild.

Unlikely to test...I expect it to be worse than sphinx's revelation.
A big sales point to sphinx's revelation is that it can be cast on your opponents end step with counter magic held up, as well it's inability to be disrupted by anything but counter magic.
However, I think this is a very competitive creature, and up there in power with the mid tier cubeable azorious cards.

It's a MUST answer card IMMEDIATLY, and it has an ability that reduces the amount of cards that can answer it.
Outside of a huge play like Upheavel, Sneak attack -> Huge fatty, Craterhoof for a bazillion, it's hard to imagine losing a game with just a single activation of it's ability.

One downside , is compared to some other 6 drop creatures, it's really only good in UW, it can't be splashed in decks trying to cheat creatures into play.. And UW has a lot of solid win conditions around 6 mana.

I'd be extremely surprised if this doesn't see a fair bit of standard play.

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Love this card for other formats (hoping to build Sphinx tribal EDH someday) but it's outclassed for cube. Azorius is too stacked to crack the top 7-8 cards.

Cheers,
rant

@rantipole, Sphinx tribal in EDH is the real deal - http://tappedout.net/mtg-decks/unesh-ex-machina/

I think I'd rather play Ojutai in cube than Azor and I don't run Ojutai anymore. Pass for me, though I do like the effects.

It's a classic splashy mythic, but I don't feel like it does all that much but win games. I definitely prefer Sphinx's Revelation.

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I'm running Sphinx's Rev still, and I think I'd rather have that than this.

Yeah, Rev is a much better and less replaceable card than "another good multicolor 6/6 for 6."