For this Lightning Helix variant, they knocked off 1 damage and 1 life to give you flashback... for 6 mana. Bit much on the flashback, but it's useful.
Ok, this has its uses despite the pricey flashback.
This doesn't give us much clue as to the red/white limited archetype, or at least based on what we've been told thus far (blue/red and blue/green care about flashback). I was expecting something that cared about day changing to night, but maybe that will be on the other r/w uncommon.
The flashback is entirely too expensive. 2WR would have been much more reasonable. Paying 8 to deal 4 and gain 4 is not very good at all.
I'd like to think of it as the cherry on the sunday. Sure, it's a watered down Lightning Helix (which may have been too powerful with a flashback cost of 2RW)... I mean why would they top a Lightning Helix w/ essentially two for one (two triggers on one card, so to speak). So they add fluff, aka extra mana. In Limited it'll have its uses in the later game when one is struggling for an edge.
They are definitely being overly conservative on the Flashback costs of most of these cards this set.
Private Mod Note
():
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
Playing since 1994: Currently MAGS (HomeBrew),Standard & Pauper (Pioneer and Modern are degenerate trash formats)
STOP using "dude/bro" as a pejorative or insult. Grow up.
Margaret Thatcher: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Martin Luther King Jr.: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
For this Lightning Helix variant, they knocked off 1 damage and 1 life to give you flashback... for 6 mana. Bit much on the flashback, but it's useful.
This doesn't give us much clue as to the red/white limited archetype, or at least based on what we've been told thus far (blue/red and blue/green care about flashback). I was expecting something that cared about day changing to night, but maybe that will be on the other r/w uncommon.
I'd like to think of it as the cherry on the sunday. Sure, it's a watered down Lightning Helix (which may have been too powerful with a flashback cost of 2RW)... I mean why would they top a Lightning Helix w/ essentially two for one (two triggers on one card, so to speak). So they add fluff, aka extra mana. In Limited it'll have its uses in the later game when one is struggling for an edge.
STOP using "dude/bro" as a pejorative or insult. Grow up.
Margaret Thatcher: “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Martin Luther King Jr.: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."