Whenever ~ attacks, look at the top seven cards of your library. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value less than or equal to ~'s power from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
I think that card can propel my Boros section towards non-aggro decks. It seems great in shells as mindrange/reaminate/control/Wildfire decks. I'll run this over Nahiri, the Harbinger. Thoughts ?
I was never a fan of Nahiri since white really isn't in the business of cheating things into play. This is a decent cheaty face target that's also fairly castable in the late game. This is essentially a big Glorybringer with the flying / haste / attack trigger. While the lack of a 6th power means this can't cast Wildfire / Selvala's Stampede for free, there's still plenty of value to be had.
If I were still running Nahiri, I would immediately cut her for this. Too bad this doesn't have the benefit of being green like Dragonlord Atarka, but having haste and vigilance is a decent way to make up for the lack of a guaranteed ETB trigger. If you're not playing this in a cheaty face deck, this is probably best in a Jeskai shell since blue gives you access to bigger spells like Fact or Fiction / Mystic Confluence / Ancestral Recall / Time Walk / Fractured Identity / etc.
This will be on the outside for most tighter lists but I could see this being played if you are looking for some diversity in Boros in cubes with larger gold sections.
Not often you see a good 7 mana card.. Think it's a fine choice to test for huge cubes that want to mix up the fatty composition.
If it's in the right deck, you basically have to kill this within a couple turns or you are gonna lose. High chance you can get one swing off too to guarantee some value.
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Legendary Creature - Elder Dragon
Flying, vigilance, haste
Whenever ~ attacks, look at the top seven cards of your library. You may cast an instant or sorcery spell with mana value less than or equal to ~'s power from among them without paying its mana cost. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
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I think that card can propel my Boros section towards non-aggro decks. It seems great in shells as mindrange/reaminate/control/Wildfire decks. I'll run this over Nahiri, the Harbinger. Thoughts ?
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StaffIf I were still running Nahiri, I would immediately cut her for this. Too bad this doesn't have the benefit of being green like Dragonlord Atarka, but having haste and vigilance is a decent way to make up for the lack of a guaranteed ETB trigger. If you're not playing this in a cheaty face deck, this is probably best in a Jeskai shell since blue gives you access to bigger spells like Fact or Fiction / Mystic Confluence / Ancestral Recall / Time Walk / Fractured Identity / etc.
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If it's in the right deck, you basically have to kill this within a couple turns or you are gonna lose. High chance you can get one swing off too to guarantee some value.
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