I think its mainly about Maro wanting to make a pun on "lure".
Probably that as well, heh. After carefully reading there is also the word play of 'grizzled angler' becoming a 'grisly anglerfish' and the flavortext of lure, etc.
The only thing that bothers me in this card is to know if I should get a foil copy for my sea monsters collection. The criteria is being a monster from the sea and being big. It is not easy to tell if the anglerfish is big or not. Ancient Carp made the cut, but the anglerfish kinda looks the size of Slipstream Eel, which doesn't make the cut.
The thing on the end of its lure is human head. From that you can extrapolate its size. It looks pretty big.
Take Inventory is pretty good imo, even at sorcery speed. I feel like my Modern Grixis would love this card since it already uses Thought Scour to mill myself, and having even just one in my grave makes this a strictly better Divination.
It's also definitely standard playable. We don't have anything like Jace's Ingenuity, for an end of turn card draw, closest being Dragonlord's Prerogative, and the closest thing to this is Anticipate, which lets you dig 3 deep, but also only nets you one card. When the second one is cast, it'd be one of the better blue draw spells we've had in a while in standard(ignoring Dig Through Time and Treasure Cruise, of course).
What makes me upset, if anything, is the reveal of Galvanic Bombardment. This screams to me that were not getting bolt, nay, strike, NAY, not even a shock in standard! C'mon wizards, you've literally killed the RDW archetype and white has better removal than black and red at this point, hell even creatures to an extent, which is basically why almost every deck is W/x, blue is only really viable to those running Reflector Mage(<which is also white) and/or Jace, Vryn's Prodigy, black loses out to white in removal since all of it is either conditional removal or makes you 2-4-1 yourself, and red has practically no reach for decks that don't want to abuse Pyromancer's goggles, which even then isn't exactly an oppressive deck. The least they could have done is let the bombardment hit planeswalkers, since there are just so many running about right now. I'm just really hoping we get something like Doom Blade or Dreadbore, or something. Throw us a bone wizards, :/
WOTC needs you to stop that Control talk, sir. The scrubs younger players don't enjoy anything but big creature battles. The focus testing says so!
I keep comparing Grizzled Angler and Lone Rider and it is just ridiculous how hard Lone Rider is pushed compared to the Fish. I really hate how awesome/goofy flavor cards are almost ALWAYS made unplayable for constructed as it is, but the fish is bad even in limited(unless we get like 25 more eldrazi in the set to help it flip).
Do you really think its going to be easier to flip Lone Rider than Grizzled Angler in limited? A 2/3 for 3 is at least playable in limited when you're out of better pickups, a 1/1 for 2 isn't, first strike / lifelink won't change it losing combat with 90%+ of creatures. Its a worse pickup than a grizzly bears most of the time. Meanwhile this set is going to have colorless emerge eldrazi at common, and from what we've seen, playable ones without implicit card disadvantage. And cards that get enabled after the fact are more reliable in limited than cards that need to be laid simultaneously. A card that NEEDS to combo to matter on the board relies upon its enablers a lot, and then its payoff is just good, not autowin.
Now that might be a different story if theres a lone missionary reprint out of left field, but so far the only card that can even activate it at all is just blessed alliance, and you'd *really* not want to waste your excellent removal pickup just for +4 life, so it would need to be escalated and wait until they swing into you to get value. Or maybe if theres a good equipment to throw on the little guy so he's got 3 power and survives swinging into their face whether they block or not or he blocks
It's a hard place for red boys. Either it's a dearth where we pray for Shock to just make things better, or it's Lightning Bolt and everyone else is praying for rotation.
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The thing on the end of its lure is human head. From that you can extrapolate its size. It looks pretty big.
WOTC needs you to stop that Control talk, sir. The
scrubsyounger players don't enjoy anything but big creature battles. The focus testing says so!Ojutai's Command
What do you have to do in order to get a decent burn spell in standard?
Its a sad sad day when red mages are begging for shock....man we need some burn
Wont be for a long while as well, with all the humans and other creature based decks it makes it tough for red to get under them.