Making a 4/4 flier on T4 is simply not good enough right now. If it was, Phoenix would see a LOT more play.
What a silly thing to say. By the same logic you could argue that Nissa, Who Shakes the World is bad, because "making a 3/3 on turn 5 is not good enough". Clearly, there is great value in making a creature while leaving a planeswalker behind.
I will admit there is a distinct difference. Mu cannot accomplish this until she survives a round after plussing, but ultimately, I agree with you. It's a neat card. I'm glad I exclusively play EDH so I don't have my enthusiasm stifled by the competitive demands of other formats.
Making a 4/4 flier on T4 is simply not good enough right now. If it was, Phoenix would see a LOT more play.
What a silly thing to say. By the same logic you could argue that Nissa, Who Shakes the World is bad, because "making a 3/3 on turn 5 is not good enough". Clearly, there is great value in making a creature while leaving a planeswalker behind.
Apples and oranges.
Nissa can make a 3/3 EVERY turn (which is clearly a lot better than 1 4/4 - maybe). Plus she doubles your mana.
Try again.
I stand pat when I say making a 4/4 (and nothing else) is bad in Standard and the format as is clearly agrees with me. Othewise we'd see more Rekindling Phoenix in Standard.
Here's another list of 4 drop creatures that are great that see ZERO, or close to it, competitive play:
Notice a pattern? If a card like Rekindling Phoenix can barely see any play, how can a 4/4 French Vanilla that you can *maybe* create on T4 has any chance of being any good? The card would actually be decent if you could immediately minus her and create that same creature on T3. Or that it would cost 2 in loyalty instead of 3, so that you could activate it twice after the plus.
As it stands, this thing is so incredibly under powered compared to everything else in the format that I can't conceive any reason why you'd consider playing this in your deck if you wanted to win an MCQ.
Let's call a spade a spade. This card is a dud and that's ok. Not all mythics can be crazy flashy things. Once in a while, blue's gotta swing and miss too (can't always be red that sucks).
Your assessment of competitive standard is completely, utterly off. Gruul is highly competitive deck who is everywhere in mtgo and paper. And that deck plays 3-4 Rekindling Phoenix main board and sometimes Nullhide Ferox split in the 75. Nightveil Predator still sees some play in Esper control and hero SB. Rekindling Phoenix is also included in mono-red SB.
Comparing Mu to a 4 cmc creature is also completely pointless as her cmc is 3. And really doesn't matter the creature will only ht the board later. This is exactly like comparing Delver to cmc 2-3 creatures because he only transforms by turn 2-3.
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Apples and oranges.
Nissa can make a 3/3 EVERY turn (which is clearly a lot better than 1 4/4 - maybe). Plus she doubles your mana.
Try again.
I stand pat when I say making a 4/4 (and nothing else) is bad in Standard and the format as is clearly agrees with me. Othewise we'd see more Rekindling Phoenix in Standard.
Here's another list of 4 drop creatures that are great that see ZERO, or close to it, competitive play:
And here's some examples of cards that are seeing play
Notice a pattern? If a card like Rekindling Phoenix can barely see any play, how can a 4/4 French Vanilla that you can *maybe* create on T4 has any chance of being any good? The card would actually be decent if you could immediately minus her and create that same creature on T3. Or that it would cost 2 in loyalty instead of 3, so that you could activate it twice after the plus.
As it stands, this thing is so incredibly under powered compared to everything else in the format that I can't conceive any reason why you'd consider playing this in your deck if you wanted to win an MCQ.
Let's call a spade a spade. This card is a dud and that's ok. Not all mythics can be crazy flashy things. Once in a while, blue's gotta swing and miss too (can't always be red that sucks).
Those 3 cards sees FAR more play then Frilled Mystic, Murmuring Mystic and Josu Vess, Lich Knight (the first sees marginal play, the later two sees no play at all). And Phoenix does see more play then Nicol Bolas, the Ravager given it's role in gruul and mono-red.
Comparing Mu to a 4 cmc creature is also completely pointless as her cmc is 3. And really doesn't matter the creature will only ht the board later. This is exactly like comparing Delver to cmc 2-3 creatures because he only transforms by turn 2-3.
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