You only need to activate this once for it to have the ideal stats for a 1-drop, and with a hand with three 1-drops, you can do that before attacking once. You can probably trigger it a second time by around turn 4, so in the ideal case this becomes a 3/3 with potential to grow more.
Unfortunately, if this is the only one-drop you draw, it is really bad. You can hold it for turn 3 and play it with a 2-drop, but you don't want to be holding your 1-drops. Also, this is a bad topdeck if you draw it with exactly zero spells in hand (and even then only not terrible when compared against other 1-drops).
With how competitive white 1-drops have gotten, I don't think I'll personally have space for this, but larger cubes will probably be interested.
This one is very mildly interesting to me. At 540 it would be this vs a card like Skymarcher Aspirant. How often will this reliably trigger once? More importantly, how often will it trigger more than once?
It needs to frequently hit once and sometimes hit twice to be worthwhile.
I think whether Monk of the Open Hand is good in a game all depends on the timing of the first trigger. Getting a trigger on turn two (or one) is great, but turning your aggro 1/1 into a 2/2 on turn 3 or 4 is underwhelming. To have a good chance at triggering on turn 1 or 2 your deck (and Cube) needs a really heavy density of aggro 1 drops and/or lots of 0 mana cards (like moxen) that make sense in a white aggro deck.
Maybe someone can math it out: How many other 0-1 mana cards do you need to have in your deck to have a 75% chance of your turn 1 Monk of the Open Hand attacking as (at least) a 2/2 on turn 2?
Seems pretty meh to me.
Ok if it’s built around in some sort of prowess shell, but too inconsistent in a white Agro deck, which is really the only major archetype that would want it.
Agro 1 drops are narrow cards to begin with, so adding an additional contingency to that , without much upside is unappealing.
You only need to activate this once for it to have the ideal stats for a 1-drop, and with a hand with three 1-drops, you can do that before attacking once. You can probably trigger it a second time by around turn 4, so in the ideal case this becomes a 3/3 with potential to grow more.
Unfortunately, if this is the only one-drop you draw, it is really bad. You can hold it for turn 3 and play it with a 2-drop, but you don't want to be holding your 1-drops. Also, this is a bad topdeck if you draw it with exactly zero spells in hand (and even then only not terrible when compared against other 1-drops).
With how competitive white 1-drops have gotten, I don't think I'll personally have space for this, but larger cubes will probably be interested.
It needs to frequently hit once and sometimes hit twice to be worthwhile.
Willing to test but expectations are low.
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Maybe someone can math it out: How many other 0-1 mana cards do you need to have in your deck to have a 75% chance of your turn 1 Monk of the Open Hand attacking as (at least) a 2/2 on turn 2?
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Ok if it’s built around in some sort of prowess shell, but too inconsistent in a white Agro deck, which is really the only major archetype that would want it.
Agro 1 drops are narrow cards to begin with, so adding an additional contingency to that , without much upside is unappealing.
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