This card can definitely see play if the right shell pops up. Hero of Iroas is a tad similar, and saw play in the UW heroic decks back in the day. That said, I don't think such a shell exists yet, so it is fair to be skeptical.
With standard considerations aside, I've been tinkering with Sram EDH for duel commander in the last couple of days and this gal seems pretty nuts in the deck. Maybe she will be a little win-more, but I'm excited to try her.
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So Sisay and Gerrard finally got together right? And Shanna and Danitha are sisters? Why else would Sisay's legacy have Hanna's name? Hmmm
Uh, no.
1. Gerrard was with Hanna. And when she died, he was too busy grieving to even think about romance. He still hadn't completed the five stages of grief when he had to sacrifice himself to activate the Legacy Weapon. When exactly were you thinking Gerrard and Sisay had the time to hook up?
2. Gerrard isn't the only person with the last name Capashen. He doesn't have a monopoly. Danitha might not even have a direct blood relation to Gerrard.
3. The Weatherlight saga took place at least 300 years ago. we're not looking at the sons and daughters of the previous crew, we're looking at their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren. So even if we did meet two people descended from Sisay, there's no guarantee that they'd be as closely related as siblings.
So, you want a completely different card, is what you're saying.
'Cause WotC can just do that. Print another, new card. Instead of trying to make every card the best card ever and/or catered specifically to your desires.
She's fine for what she is.
Not really another, She could have been better using a ability that never have been revisited that's what I meant. that plain and simple.
You don't want a different card, you just want all her abilities switched out for a new one. Soooooo... basically, a different card.
You know, WotC printing Danitha doesn't prevent them from ever printing a Leonin Shikari variant. It's not like any given equipment-matters card being printed is at the explicit expense of another equipment-matters card seeing print. The existence of more Shikaris is independent of Danitha.
If we are at the point where a Three Keyword, Two types of permanents Cost Reducing, 2/2, splashable 3CMC Uncommon ISN'T Good???....then Im at a loss for this site. For Gods sake even Ashiok likes it
If yall want that power creep Magic wouldve ran out of cards a long time ago print cards along time ago. There are 180-349 cards in any given set, there have to be fillers, mediocre, good and amazing cards in a set....this girls falls in the slightly over good role just fine
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You don't want a different card, you just want all her abilities switched out for a new one. Soooooo... basically, a different card.
You know, WotC printing Danitha doesn't prevent them from ever printing a Leonin Shikari variant. It's not like any given equipment-matters card being printed is at the explicit expense of another equipment-matters card seeing print. The existence of more Shikaris is independent of Danitha.
Not entirely switched out but rather find a way that include Shikari ability in a sensible way of cmc and I believe this was a waste opportunity. Yet I do Agree onto to the rest you say.
This character is of course not a descendant of Gerrard, the capashen were many families, Gerrard being the heir of the most powerful one of the blood lines. the card looks really nice for an uncommon.
It could be that there is a capashen order, or that some of the clan memebers survived, she would be part therefore of his people, but not family.
Possible of course, but reread the flavor text. It doesn't say Capashen order, it says Capashen. I'm going to say some sort of bloodline connection but we will have to wait and see.
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If we are at the point where a Three Keyword, Two types of permanents Cost Reducing, 2/2, splashable 3CMC Uncommon ISN'T Good???....then Im at a loss for this site. For Gods sake even Ashiok likes it
If yall want that power creep Magic wouldve ran out of cards a long time ago print cards along time ago. There are 180-349 cards in any given set, there have to be fillers, mediocre, good and amazing cards in a set....this girls falls in the slightly over good role just fine
The card is "good" in terms of what it offers for the cost.
But its still a 2/2 and if that size is bad in a format, all the extra stuff just doesnt sell the deal.
Thats even more true in todays age of point removal everywhere.
If a card is resilient to a lot of removal in a given format it has a big selling point for that reason alone.
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To make a card good just by stats and ability keywords alone, it has to offer tremendous to be a real contender among all the other pushed cards.
For modern the most common removal and sizes are 3 toughness (Lightning Bolt), 2 mana/4mana cost (Fatal Push).
Having 2 toughness is quite a burden for a card that doesnt want to die to almost anything to be around when it matters.
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Cards a strong uncommon still, but its most important stats for regular magic games is that its a 2/2 and still loses on board against any 3 toughness creature, so that limits it quite a bit.
Kelly digges confirmed they are part of the clan, as Gerrards cousins did have sons.
Didn't Volrath genocide the entire clan?
Not Volrath. He was just a human boy called Vuel at the time, just like Gerrard was still a boy. They grew together after that.
Phyrexians killed Gerrard's family. Not the whole clan, it was too big for that, the only way would be to destroy the whole Benalia or something like that.
Danitha is like the great-great-great granddaughter of Gerrard's third cousin twice removed or something like that.
Mixing her with Green I would make use of New Horizons and give the +1/+1 counter to her. That would get some mana accel and she gets a buff without attaching anything to her.
I love this new card. It's going to do great things in my Uril EDH deck. That said, unless your talking about peasant cube (which I know little about), this card has zero chance seeing play over the wealth of options at the 3 spot. Unless your cube supports a strong Voltron theme, I don't think Danitha Capashen, Paragon cracks the top ten 3-drop white creature slot in Cube.
Solid uncommon. Will be a very good cost reducer in appropriate EDH decks.
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So Sisay and Gerrard finally got together right? And Shanna and Danitha are sisters? Why else would Sisay's legacy have Hanna's name? Hmmm
Uh, no.
1. Gerrard was with Hanna. And when she died, he was too busy grieving to even think about romance. He still hadn't completed the five stages of grief when he had to sacrifice himself to activate the Legacy Weapon. When exactly were you thinking Gerrard and Sisay had the time to hook up?
2. Gerrard isn't the only person with the last name Capashen. He doesn't have a monopoly. Danitha might not even have a direct blood relation to Gerrard.
3. The Weatherlight saga took place at least 300 years ago. we're not looking at the sons and daughters of the previous crew, we're looking at their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren. So even if we did meet two people descended from Sisay, there's no guarantee that they'd be as closely related as siblings.
So, you want a completely different card, is what you're saying.
'Cause WotC can just do that. Print another, new card. Instead of trying to make every card the best card ever and/or catered specifically to your desires.
She's fine for what she is.
Not really another, She could have been better using a ability that never have been revisited that's what I meant. that plain and simple.
You don't want a different card, you just want all her abilities switched out for a new one. Soooooo... basically, a different card.
You know, WotC printing Danitha doesn't prevent them from ever printing a Leonin Shikari variant. It's not like any given equipment-matters card being printed is at the explicit expense of another equipment-matters card seeing print. The existence of more Shikaris is independent of Danitha.
Lol my bad you guys, that was a joke. I'm well aware that was hundreds of years ago. Thought that would've come across... Was poking fun at conspiracy theorists
Speaking of which, they did say she's the heir to House Capashen. And that she has a brother who pursued knowledge of all things Gerrard. Sounds like a blue character.
Lol my bad you guys, that was a joke. I'm well aware that was hundreds of years ago. Thought that would've come across... Was poking fun at conspiracy theorists
The problem with trying to do conspiracy theory satire is that we've had people legitimately believing much crazier theories here on MTGSal. There's nothing you can come up with in jest that nobody has proposed with all seriousness.
With standard considerations aside, I've been tinkering with Sram EDH for duel commander in the last couple of days and this gal seems pretty nuts in the deck. Maybe she will be a little win-more, but I'm excited to try her.
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1. Gerrard was with Hanna. And when she died, he was too busy grieving to even think about romance. He still hadn't completed the five stages of grief when he had to sacrifice himself to activate the Legacy Weapon. When exactly were you thinking Gerrard and Sisay had the time to hook up?
2. Gerrard isn't the only person with the last name Capashen. He doesn't have a monopoly. Danitha might not even have a direct blood relation to Gerrard.
3. The Weatherlight saga took place at least 300 years ago. we're not looking at the sons and daughters of the previous crew, we're looking at their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren. So even if we did meet two people descended from Sisay, there's no guarantee that they'd be as closely related as siblings.
You don't want a different card, you just want all her abilities switched out for a new one. Soooooo... basically, a different card.
You know, WotC printing Danitha doesn't prevent them from ever printing a Leonin Shikari variant. It's not like any given equipment-matters card being printed is at the explicit expense of another equipment-matters card seeing print. The existence of more Shikaris is independent of Danitha.
If yall want that power creep Magic wouldve ran out of cards a long time ago print cards along time ago. There are 180-349 cards in any given set, there have to be fillers, mediocre, good and amazing cards in a set....this girls falls in the slightly over good role just fine
Not entirely switched out but rather find a way that include Shikari ability in a sensible way of cmc and I believe this was a waste opportunity. Yet I do Agree onto to the rest you say.
Possible of course, but reread the flavor text. It doesn't say Capashen order, it says Capashen. I'm going to say some sort of bloodline connection but we will have to wait and see.
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Didn't Volrath genocide the entire clan?
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The card is "good" in terms of what it offers for the cost.
But its still a 2/2 and if that size is bad in a format, all the extra stuff just doesnt sell the deal.
Thats even more true in todays age of point removal everywhere.
If a card is resilient to a lot of removal in a given format it has a big selling point for that reason alone.
----
To make a card good just by stats and ability keywords alone, it has to offer tremendous to be a real contender among all the other pushed cards.
For modern the most common removal and sizes are 3 toughness (Lightning Bolt), 2 mana/4mana cost (Fatal Push).
Having 2 toughness is quite a burden for a card that doesnt want to die to almost anything to be around when it matters.
----
Cards a strong uncommon still, but its most important stats for regular magic games is that its a 2/2 and still loses on board against any 3 toughness creature, so that limits it quite a bit.
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Guess that card was fake!
This one is better anyways.
Not Volrath. He was just a human boy called Vuel at the time, just like Gerrard was still a boy. They grew together after that.
Phyrexians killed Gerrard's family. Not the whole clan, it was too big for that, the only way would be to destroy the whole Benalia or something like that.
Danitha is like the great-great-great granddaughter of Gerrard's third cousin twice removed or something like that.
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UWB Oloro, Ageless Ascetic's spring of life
RUG Animar, Soul of the Elements and friends... lots of them
WBG Karador king of two worlds (value and attrition)
WRKalemne's Angels
BRUG Yidris's Wild Party
UWBR Breya's Terrifying Tinker Toys
UBR The Pretender
Lol my bad you guys, that was a joke. I'm well aware that was hundreds of years ago. Thought that would've come across... Was poking fun at conspiracy theorists
Speaking of which, they did say she's the heir to House Capashen. And that she has a brother who pursued knowledge of all things Gerrard. Sounds like a blue character.
I was also thinking the discount does help curse auras.
She also makes bonesplitters and skullclamps free to cast. Pacifism for only W. Good deals all around.
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For Pacifism alternative there is Compulsory Rest which could be better.
Why would giving the opponent the option to sacrifice his now worthless creature and gain 2 life be any better?
Unless you're purely talking about standard? Then yeah. I guess it could substitute for pacifism.
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