MTG Salvation

It's a blue Thraben Inspector that supports spell synergies instead of blink. This is potentially the best blue 1-drop "creature".

A ton of cubes will play this card. Mine won't be one of them. I never liked Thraben Inspector much, and the only times it ever felt playable was when I could blink it for value. This loses the only attractive upside that Inspector had (plus this can't attack, even for 1). I know I'm in the minority on this, but I don't like this card. A blue Wall of Blossoms I'd happily play, since I can bounce/flicker it for value in addition to getting the defensive body + the card for less overall mana ...but this just doesn't do it for me. I expect it to play solidly for those folks that do end up playing it though, since it defends early and essentially winds up not costing you a card in the long run.

The flavor, the art... everything about this card is super cool though.

Interesting in that it's a line that gives you a body in the spells matter deck while also giving you more gas (albeit more expensive than most cantrips). Also gives you an artifact if you care about that. This card does a lot of things, but I think even all of them added together end up not enough for me. Cool design though.

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A ton of cubes will play this card. Mine won't be one of them. I never liked Thraben Inspector much, and the only times it ever felt playable was when I could blink it for value. This loses the only attractive upside that Inspector had (plus this can't attack, even for 1). I know I'm in the minority on this, but I don't like this card. A blue Wall of Blossoms I'd happily play, since I can bounce/flicker it for value in addition to getting the defensive body + the card for less overall mana ...but this just doesn't do it for me. I expect it to play solidly for those folks that do end up playing it though, since it defends early and essentially winds up not costing you a card in the long run.

The flavor, the art... everything about this card is super cool though.

I think this card + Thraben is terrible - in theory Thraben fits into any deck (Flicker, Artifacts, aggro, stax, control), but its always been the 24 card during deck building. Space is at its premium, even for 720 card cubes - I've had some pretty difficult cuts.

My general principle with cuts is always cut 24th cards and trim the weaker enablers (my play group is strong enough to know when to draft/ pivot for an archetype if too few enablers are opened).

I think Thraben Inspector is much better than this card because it fits into a variety of white decks that can use the body for equipment and other things. This card seems good in exactly hard control against exactly aggro, and I don’t like how narrow that is.

Also not overwhelmed with the power of the card, but I will say it is nice for a Polymorph package

I think this is best if your cube supports the Polymorph archetype.

This card is an amazing enabler for the Polymorph decks. Probably the best one in blue!

I’m a fan of thraben inspector.
Not a fan of this card.

Thraben is in a colour that specializes in blink, equipment and anthems. all of them synergies with his body

I love Thraben Inspector but this card falls pretty far short for me by comparison. No attack, no body that can be recurred/flickered for value, and is just in a worse color for playing one drops. I can play Thraben in everything: aggro, midrange, control, even as filler in some ramp decks, but the worse stats on this card and worse color for the effect (not to mention the generally higher barrier of entry for blue cards than white cards) means this is a pass for me.

I'm a big fan of Thraben Inspector, but I'm on the fence here. Yes, blink is more available in white, but more importantly, white needed the cantrip a lot more. There are so many ways to draw cards in blue that this feels clunky by comparison.

It's a little bit like Wall of Omens, but not quite enough. I do like it though.