Blue removal is still not great. I'm playing Frogify, and happy with my choices. The smallest cubes probably don't need to worry, but I could definitely use some more.
The real wet blanket is sorcery speed. But foretell, exile, and the ability to hit an artifact make it worthwhile for me. A bird is no big deal for a blue deck compared to a Pongify ape.
Again, small cubes probably don't feel the deficiency of blue removal as much.
On its own, I don't think this is good enough (turn to moon or whatever it was called was pretty bad for us), but if you want to make foretell traps a thing, this will probably be part of that package.
Another clean answer to wurmcoil is always something I consider. If I end up pulling the monarch package and Fall from Favor gets benched I could see giving this a spin. Exiling the creature permanently where Imprisoned in the moon and frogify both can get naturalized is a big upside.
But, I do play a low walker count in my cube so trapped on the moon's planeswalker clause is less relevant to my list.
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Blue removal is still not great. I'm playing Frogify, and happy with my choices. The smallest cubes probably don't need to worry, but I could definitely use some more.
The real wet blanket is sorcery speed. But foretell, exile, and the ability to hit an artifact make it worthwhile for me. A bird is no big deal for a blue deck compared to a Pongify ape.
Again, small cubes probably don't feel the deficiency of blue removal as much.
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But, I do play a low walker count in my cube so trapped on the moon's planeswalker clause is less relevant to my list.
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