MTG Salvation

Playing this on T3 or T4 can you ever use its -3? Im assuming the opponent will attack it and lower his loyalty, will you ever get to use the -3?. Playing it after T4 you might as well play vivien. Saddened.

Seems a bit weak compared to something like Lead the stampede. Most times you will use this for it's lead the stampede effect right away when casting it but only digging 4 deep and getting max 2 cards makes the EV on that weak.

Best case scenario in standard you play this besides 32 creatures or so Which gives it about 6 percent to completely whiff and about 25 percent to get just 1 creature. That's too low

Much better than his OG incarnation, this is a pretty fair card. Being able to come down on T3 with Elves and a chump blocker from T2 makes this PW pretty attractive. I think it's a well-designed PW, honestly.

Getting both riot effects on a creature seems pretty good to me. Yeah, the -3 is weak all around, but that just makes the value on the +1 that much greater, IMO.

And a child shall lead them...to hell. (Which is probably where I'm going for making that reference.)

The +1 is pretty cool and obviously satisfies "good in EDH" criteria, since giving a creature haste or a +1/+1 counter is always good, so here you can pick.

The -3 is also straight up card advantage, if you build your deck right. Boring as it is.

The -8 is the real payoff.

T4 hastened tyrant? good luck..