Well, it's 4 mana (and tapping a creature) to get your first 1/1 fish. The suggestion this could be modern playable is hilarious. Yeah, this is on-par with ragavan, bowmaster and company. You pay 4 for a fish, they pay 4 for a ring.
Well, it's 4 mana (and tapping a creature) to get your first 1/1 fish. The suggestion this could be modern playable is hilarious. Yeah, this is on-par with ragavan, bowmaster and company. You pay 4 for a fish, they pay 4 for a ring.
Urza's Saga tutors for all kinds of 0-1-mana questionables in the maindeck such as Shadowspear (equip cost is nearly prohibitive), Spellbombs (they admittedly do hose when they're good), Pithing Needle (I commonly kick it out of the maindeck, it's that narrow), and Springleaf Drum (OK early-game, bad late-game). This Fishing Pole's equip use case is likely like Springleaf Drum, but it's much better late-game.
Springleaf drum does not need to be equipped. Comparing to shadowspear... are you serious? That's the Swiss army knife of equipments, being played not only in modern but a staple of Canadian highlander. But hey, there might be a weird combo with stuff that makes equipping cost zero and/or intruder alarm-like cards, but that's not a deck that exists. Hammer will not trade its hammer for a fish.
I guess 3 mana elf + this + intruder alarm gives you infinite fishes. Too bad they all die to orcish bowmasters, isn't it?
Week combo: Plaguemaw Beast or Xavier Sal, Infested Captain Intruder Alarm
- Get 2 bait counters onto the rod and equip rod to one of the creatures above
- When euipped untaps, you'll remove 1 bait counter and get the fish
- intruder alarm triggers
- activate the tap/sac/proliferate in response (sac the fish); stack the triggers to get infinite tap/sac/proliferate
Not sure if the OOO is quite right for that to work
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Spoiler EditorUrza's Saga tutors for this, so this just might be Modern-playable with enough creatures that don't want to attack.
Like Survivors?
Urza's Saga tutors for all kinds of 0-1-mana questionables in the maindeck such as Shadowspear (equip cost is nearly prohibitive), Spellbombs (they admittedly do hose when they're good), Pithing Needle (I commonly kick it out of the maindeck, it's that narrow), and Springleaf Drum (OK early-game, bad late-game). This Fishing Pole's equip use case is likely like Springleaf Drum, but it's much better late-game.
I guess 3 mana elf + this + intruder alarm gives you infinite fishes. Too bad they all die to orcish bowmasters, isn't it?
Plaguemaw Beast or Xavier Sal, Infested Captain
Intruder Alarm
- Get 2 bait counters onto the rod and equip rod to one of the creatures above
- When euipped untaps, you'll remove 1 bait counter and get the fish
- intruder alarm triggers
- activate the tap/sac/proliferate in response (sac the fish); stack the triggers to get infinite tap/sac/proliferate
Not sure if the OOO is quite right for that to work