it would be more decent if they would name surveil abilities surveil
The problem is, that Surveil isn't an evergreen and you would very much confuse new players if you had too many evergreen keywords in a standard set. If you had to put the effect in brackets the card text wouldn't be much shorter anyway.
Not sure how Famished Foragers compares to Coal Stoaker. 1 more power and a random medicore loot ability is nice, but Bloodthirst can sometimes be quite hard to trigger if you aren't ahead on board.
Startle seems like of these cards, which looks super fun and interesting, but is probably not good enough. If the Zombie were able to block it would be very strong. I mena the zombie can at least be used for sacrifice effects.
Overwhelmed Archivist/Archive Haunt seems kind of ok. I usually don't like 3/2 bodies, because they usually trade down against any 2/X, but in this case a trade doesn't seems like the worst. I think the Disturb cost ist very fairly costed for what you get.
Overwhelmed Archivist/Archive Haunt seems kind of ok. I usually don't like 3/2 bodies, because they usually trade down against any 2/X, but in this case a trade doesn't seems like the worst. I think the Disturb cost ist very fairly costed for what you get.
Overwhelmed Archivist/Archive Haunt seems kind of ok. I usually don't like 3/2 bodies, because they usually trade down against any 2/X, but in this case a trade doesn't seems like the worst. I think the Disturb cost ist very fairly costed for what you get.
its uc and i wouldnt run it. not interested in startle either
Search Party Captain is adequate if you cast it at 3 mana, very good if you cast it for 2, and great if you cast it for 1.
And even if you hardcast it, is it bad, or only sub-optimal? A 2/2 is a decent body, and it replaces itself.
I would actually say the Search Party Captain is below rate if you cast it at 3. In the modern era, it feels like "Draw a card" or its equivalent is tacked onto every other common these days. It's worse than Cloudkin Seer, Llanowar Visionary, and Priest of Ancient Lore if you consider you had to work to get it to 3 or if you value Lifegain at all. I mean, even Thraben Inspector allows you to do something similar for 3 mana and on the payment plan if you want to.
At 4 it is quite bad. I think it is something like 1 is bonkers, 2 is great, 3 is sub-par, and 4 is awful. I guess that regardless of the size it is always flickerable.
Another consideration is it is kind of "win more". If you are already in the clear to attack with 3 creatures it probably doesn't matter that much, and if you are chump attacking to enable casting it because you are stuck on 3 lands or whatever, that is pretty terrible.
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that excuse doesnt work for me
Its just silly and lazy to ignore it. And overall makes the game more complicated.
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Famished foragers
bathroom angler -> hook-haunt drifter
hobbling zombie
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Does a lot of thing for 2 mana, but I don't think it has the required powerlevel. Specially in blue.
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Startle seems like of these cards, which looks super fun and interesting, but is probably not good enough. If the Zombie were able to block it would be very strong. I mena the zombie can at least be used for sacrifice effects.
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It's also an uncommon, though?
its uc and i wouldnt run it. not interested in startle either
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Zombie
Single Blue mana
Graveyard interaction
Digs 3 cards
Minuses:
3/2 no evasion for 4cc
Imo, you need it to be on strategy for it to outshine the 5, iirc, 4cc Man O War variants. And we have those phenomenal self-replacing flying bodies.
Not saying it cannot be good. I just would have loved a 2/4 or 3/3 a lot more. Not gonna pretend the mana changing was possible.
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And even if you hardcast it, is it bad, or only sub-optimal? A 2/2 is a decent body, and it replaces itself.
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I would actually say the Search Party Captain is below rate if you cast it at 3. In the modern era, it feels like "Draw a card" or its equivalent is tacked onto every other common these days. It's worse than Cloudkin Seer, Llanowar Visionary, and Priest of Ancient Lore if you consider you had to work to get it to 3 or if you value Lifegain at all. I mean, even Thraben Inspector allows you to do something similar for 3 mana and on the payment plan if you want to.
At 4 it is quite bad. I think it is something like 1 is bonkers, 2 is great, 3 is sub-par, and 4 is awful. I guess that regardless of the size it is always flickerable.
Another consideration is it is kind of "win more". If you are already in the clear to attack with 3 creatures it probably doesn't matter that much, and if you are chump attacking to enable casting it because you are stuck on 3 lands or whatever, that is pretty terrible.