We should work on putting together a deck list for this card, because I find it to be insanely awesome.
As has been said, it's extremely powerful with Spirit Loop. It basically becomes a recurring 4/4 for 2WW with Lifelink and Flying.
Another card it seems good with is Aspect of Mongoose. It becomes a recurring 4/4 with Shroud and Flying. The only way to deal with it then is with some form of mass RFG effect. I'm not sure if there's anything in standard that does that.
It also seems like it works well with Prison Term. With Evershrike in your graveyard, you can pay 5 mana in response to a creature spell to bring Evershrike back and put Prison Term on that creature. It's not spectacular, but Prison Term is already a good card and adding that trick makes it even better.
This seems like it could be an interesting enchantment-based control deck including the card Idyllic Tutor. We could go W/U and include Teferi's Moat as well as some nice counters. We could use various forms of Pacifism effects as removal such as Temporal Isolation. We should also include some auras other than Spirit Loop that we can stick on Evershrike.
We can also take the Black approach. Fallen Ideal can be interesting, because you can sacrifice it to itself to counter spells and abilities targeting it. This has an advantage that Spirit Loop doesn't - Bounce (such as Cryptic Command) and RFG (such as Oblivion Ring) can be very irritating when played against Evershrike.
I've designed and tested a W/U Evershrike deck on apprentice (although the testing was probably at least somewhat innaccurate). First, I tested against a homebrew Board Control/Midrange deck. The Evershrike deck won at 36 life. Then I tested against a highly optimized (though Block) version of Faeries. Evershrike won that game with 42 life (although, to be fair, the Faerie deck was without access to colored mana until turn 4). I think when testing against truly competitive/non-mana screwed decks, the results would be much less favourable, but I think Evershrike may have potential. Even if it doesn't become a tier 1 deck, I'll still probably make it to take to FNM.
From testing, Merfolk Looter has proven to be EXTREMELY useful. Even when I don't have any Evershrikes to put into my graveyard, I can still cycle cards that I don't need (plus it draws me into Evershrike twice as fast as normal). Careful Consideration is also very similar to Merfolk looter, but is a better topdeck in the lategame.
Basically, I'd have to say these cards have proven to be the most useful: Merfolk Looter Careful Consideration Cryptic Command Dream Fracture (I haven't been in a situation where letting the opponent draw a card was bad, although I really haven't tested this enough).
Idyllic Tutor hasn't been especially spectacular, though with more testing it could turn out to be better.
Wrath of God wasn't very useful in the particular game I played against Faeries, though it's obviously good in other matchups.
I haven't drawn Teferi's Moat yet, but in one of the games, if I had thought about it, I could've tutored for it for what would've nearly been an auto-win. The only way the opponent could've won with it in play would be to beat down with Birds of Paradise while Doran the Seigetower was in play. I instead tutored for Spirit Loop, brought Evershrike back, and won that way.
... Deck looks like fun though. Ever thought of a G/W build with Glittering Wish?
I actually did, but wish is only real good when it can get you most if not all of the pieces you need, like the puzzle piece that changes shape accordingly. Unfortunately theres not enough multicolor goods for this deck to warrant its use.
Sorry, two games is not "testing". It's two games. 20 games against ONE deck and you can speak of testing results. Deck looks like fun though. Ever thought of a G/W build with Glittering Wish?
I guess I didn't put enough emphasis on the fact that I didn't really think of it as REAL testing. It's basically all I could do in the time between finding out about the card and having to go to sleep.
Anyway, I see a lot of potential in Evershrike. The problem is that it's proving to be extremely difficult to choose what color combination to go with.
although it might be a little anti-tech, there is also Greater auramancy. although it stops addition auras from being added on it it can give both shroud and life link with spirit loop plus it can stop some removal and bounce of your other enchantment like say the moat or runed halo
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I agree that it's unlikely to make it into competitive t2 decks, but its casual and eternal format potential is exciting.
Like a couple posters on p. 1, this card really caught my eye from the spoiler as one I really want. My legacy tallowisp deck will eagerly include a couple copies of this.
I'm also a strong believer that Alara is going to be the Enchantment block (notice the higher-than-normal amount of "destroy target enchantment" effects in eventide...), and perhaps they'll finally put Auras over the top for playability. In which case, this elemental spirit could be much stronger in da future than it appears looking backward for t2.
we'll see.
Whatever happens, it's sweet marbles for the kitchen table.
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The main reason this wont succeed in the long run is there is still too much grave hate available to screw it over. Crypt, Macabre, Extirpate, etc. Even if it started showing promise, id would die soon enough.
So, getting devoted druid and deity of scars in the same hand classifies it as a “godhand?”. Please man, stop embarrassing yourself; the comparison you made is flawed from the ground up. I guess I'll leave this thread as I'm not really contributing to its purpose. When this deck finishes top-8 in a grand-prix or something, I'll come back here and apologize.
I also love how everyone yells about tarmogoyf every time I say a card is bad.
Ohhh Invisi-text! We're back in kinder garden it seems Ok so if getting both those cards in hand is not Godhand, you'll have to agree with me that getting Evershrike and Oona's Prowler is not that ridiculous either, but I see that you took the easy way of running away of the argument(not to mention using invisitext hehe). Probably this deck won't do any T8 (since it's lacking Alara's cards) but you were trashing the card not the deck. So I'd say I expect an apology from you when Evershriek makes a T8, but given your fondness for running away, rather, I'd expect from you to make another account to rant on how worthless are the cards of whatever set is being spoiled at that moment while privately running Evershriek in your Tier 1 deck that you netdecked from a tournament list.
Also, notice how I failed to mention 'Goyf, let alone "yell it"
I'm calling it right now- worst rare in the set. Even good limited players will find better bombs at common and uncommon no sweat. Worst. Episode. Ever.
I really do predict this to be our worst rare in set award winner. I'd be happier opening a jar of eyeballs, so I think anything worse is highly unlikely. This card wont just have zero constructed potential, but not be significantly better than a mass of ghouls in a draft.
We should work on putting together a deck list for this card, because I find it to be insanely awesome.
As has been said, it's extremely powerful with Spirit Loop. It basically becomes a recurring 4/4 for 2WW with Lifelink and Flying.
Another card it seems good with is Aspect of Mongoose. It becomes a recurring 4/4 with Shroud and Flying. The only way to deal with it then is with some form of mass RFG effect. I'm not sure if there's anything in standard that does that.
It also seems like it works well with Prison Term. With Evershrike in your graveyard, you can pay 5 mana in response to a creature spell to bring Evershrike back and put Prison Term on that creature. It's not spectacular, but Prison Term is already a good card and adding that trick makes it even better.
This seems like it could be an interesting enchantment-based control deck including the card Idyllic Tutor. We could go W/U and include Teferi's Moat as well as some nice counters. We could use various forms of Pacifism effects as removal such as Temporal Isolation. We should also include some auras other than Spirit Loop that we can stick on Evershrike.
We can also take the Black approach. Fallen Ideal can be interesting, because you can sacrifice it to itself to counter spells and abilities targeting it. This has an advantage that Spirit Loop doesn't - Bounce (such as Cryptic Command) and RFG (such as Oblivion Ring) can be very irritating when played against Evershrike.
I've designed and tested a W/U Evershrike deck on apprentice (although the testing was probably at least somewhat innaccurate). First, I tested against a homebrew Board Control/Midrange deck. The Evershrike deck won at 36 life. Then I tested against a highly optimized (though Block) version of Faeries. Evershrike won that game with 42 life (although, to be fair, the Faerie deck was without access to colored mana until turn 4). I think when testing against truly competitive/non-mana screwed decks, the results would be much less favourable, but I think Evershrike may have potential. Even if it doesn't become a tier 1 deck, I'll still probably make it to take to FNM.
From testing, Merfolk Looter has proven to be EXTREMELY useful. Even when I don't have any Evershrikes to put into my graveyard, I can still cycle cards that I don't need (plus it draws me into Evershrike twice as fast as normal). Careful Consideration is also very similar to Merfolk looter, but is a better topdeck in the lategame.
Basically, I'd have to say these cards have proven to be the most useful: Merfolk Looter Careful Consideration Cryptic Command Dream Fracture (I haven't been in a situation where letting the opponent draw a card was bad, although I really haven't tested this enough).
Idyllic Tutor hasn't been especially spectacular, though with more testing it could turn out to be better.
Wrath of God wasn't very useful in the particular game I played against Faeries, though it's obviously good in other matchups.
I haven't drawn Teferi's Moat yet, but in one of the games, if I had thought about it, I could've tutored for it for what would've nearly been an auto-win. The only way the opponent could've won with it in play would be to beat down with Birds of Paradise while Doran the Seigetower was in play. I instead tutored for Spirit Loop, brought Evershrike back, and won that way.
The main reason this wont succeed in the long run is there is still too much grave hate available to screw it over. Crypt, Macabre, Extirpate, etc. Even if it started showing promise, id would die soon enough.
Yeah all the grave hate shuts down many decks like Revillark in T2 and Dredge in Extended.
Yeah all the grave hate shuts down many decks like Revillark in T2 and Dredge in Extended.
sarcasm much? Look just because a few graveyard dependent decks are being played doesn't mean this one is up to par with them. You're talking about a Standard deck that doesn't even need to combo out to win and one of the quickest combo decks in extended... What is this decks plan when the evershrike gets RFGd? Hold a bunch of auras in hand and lose. It all goes back to the flaw of enchant creatures.
Ohhh Invisi-text! We're back in kinder garden it seems Ok so if getting both those cards in hand is not Godhand, you'll have to agree with me that getting Evershrike and Oona's Prowler is not that ridiculous either, but I see that you took the easy way of running away of the argument(not to mention using invisitext hehe). Probably this deck won't do any T8 (since it's lacking Alara's cards) but you were trashing the card not the deck. So I'd say I expect an apology from you when Evershriek makes a T8, but given your fondness for running away, rather, I'd expect from you to make another account to rant on how worthless are the cards of whatever set is being spoiled at that moment while privately running Evershriek in your Tier 1 deck that you netdecked from a tournament list.
Also, notice how I failed to mention 'Goyf, let alone "yell it"
I typed the reponse in word because I had it open at the time; I also use the black backround, hence the white text. But, what I really like is how you seem to think I'm some sort of 5-year-old kid just because I like playing with good cards. It's really very mature of you to attack me after I back out of the thread, even saying that I'll own up if I'm wrong. I mean, anyone reading your post above will see the blatent trolling. I guess I'll just leave it up to them to decide which of us is holding the moral high-ground. And, since I know your going to say that I didn't adress your points on the card, I'll tell you I'm not bothering because you're so obviously set on thinking it's the best card ever, nothing I could say would convince you otherwise. Now that said my piece, I'm gone. Feel free to continue to flame me; I promise I won't respond.
Yeah, graveyard hate is the one thing that makes me worry about this being a deck I want to build; but then I think of the Pull from Eternities that worked well in my Haakon Knight deck and it makes me worry less. Granted, graveyard hate is much more present then anti-graveyard hate, but I at least think that it will help the deck even slightly.
EXCEPT IT HAS EVASION AND COUNTS YOUR OPPONENTS CREATURES AS WELL AS YOUR OWN AND CREATURE TOKENS WTF DEAR GOD! DO YOU NOT SEEEEEE THE SHENANIGANS THIS GUY IS ABOUT TO UNLOAD ON YOUR FACE? NANTUKO HUSK IS ALL LIKE "LOL MEET MY BFF JILL!" ALL THE DEVOUR CREATURES ARE LIKE "LOLOLOLOLOL"
The deck shouldn't built as an aura-Shrike deck. That's what it allows itself to be destroyed by RFG effects. It can however be a powerhouse of a threat in an aggro type deck. Check this out. I've been testing this deck below.
@ phyre: i totally agree. Thats why when i posted a quick list a page back, i was going for the same thing with maybe a bit more control. I have a woody for haakon so i had to try and include him though, it just seemed right...lol ill post it again.
what I was going for here was the ability to wipe and have stuff to play from the grave. haakon/nameless is like my fav combo at the moment so i threw it in.
does need many changes, especially the mana base. The creatures are pretty right though.
I think any people are underrating and at the sametime overrating this card...
First off I do believe this has a very good constructed viability, the way that this card works with Spirit loop is the strongest arguement I have seen for it.
That said it will probably be limited to a late game card; as an aura based deck is something we can't really work with right now.
I do not see ANY tier 1 constructed decks with Evershrike as the main feature.
However, I would not be suprised at all to see this guy in lists that feature this package using Evershike as utilitarian recurring finisher.
2 Evershrike
3 Prison Term
2 Spirit Loop
Just remember what some people said about reveillark when he was first previewed.
I said it was awsome and got my playset for $5 lol.
Point is even good players can miss good cards like TGoyf, I think if you take a close enough look at evershrike you can see his enormous potential with spirit loop (which isn't that horrible of a card in the first place, it just never has had a chance to shine.)
I kinda prefer some older enchantments with this card particularly moldervine cloak and rancor. Rancor would make evershrike into a slightly less impressive 6/4 flying trample for 3 mana that doesnt go away but avoids the whole running bad cards situation. Alternatively moldervine cloak makes a 7/7 flying creature which can recur itself.
While this probably would not lead t oa viable deck its one of the few cards Ive seen in the set with some combo potential
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I typed the reponse in word because I had it open at the time; I also use the black backround, hence the white text. But, what I really like is how you seem to think I'm some sort of 5-year-old kid just because I like playing with good cards. It's really very mature of you to attack me after I back out of the thread, even saying that I'll own up if I'm wrong. I mean, anyone reading your post above will see the blatent trolling. I guess I'll just leave it up to them to decide which of us is holding the moral high-ground. And, since I know your going to say that I didn't adress your points on the card, I'll tell you I'm not bothering because you're so obviously set on thinking it's the best card ever, nothing I could say would convince you otherwise. Now that said my piece, I'm gone. Feel free to continue to flame me; I promise I won't respond.
Well, good to see you read that, so I know I can expect my apology once it happens. Just for the record I don't believe this is the best card ever, heck, Im not even planning to put it in a deck anytime soon. But I see vast potential on it, so I got bothered by your know-it-all attitude and self-believed foresight powers when you unabashedly state (while mocking everyone else who believes the opposite) that his card and a handful others wont be played. Guess what? you don't dictate what cards see play or not. Every month or so a wacky japanese player comes up with a weird deck using a card that had been regarded as trash by the knowing spikes of our lands and suddenly everyone gets on the bandawagon claiming to have seen the potential of the card from the beginning.
And no, Im not trying to divine your age from the fact that you "play good cards" since both kids and adults netdeck so that's no real proof of age or skill whatsoever. But the way you seem to believe that you alone posses the correct knowledge about the future popularity of a piece of cardboard and act all high and mighty making everyone else feel like unwhorty fools do talk ill about the maturity you profess to have.
Do you really think there's skill involved into recognizing those blatantly overpowered cards and playing with them? Know that people who try to break free the potential of every card are the ones who create the new archtypes that you'll netdeck once they prove competitive while you just sit down complaining and ranting about Wizards making so few "good cards".
I'm calling it right now- worst rare in the set. Even good limited players will find better bombs at common and uncommon no sweat. Worst. Episode. Ever.
I really do predict this to be our worst rare in set award winner. I'd be happier opening a jar of eyeballs, so I think anything worse is highly unlikely. This card wont just have zero constructed potential, but not be significantly better than a mass of ghouls in a draft.
Well, what I find interesting, is that so many people I've talked with--and again, even in this thread--are of the opinion that Evershrike isn't that powerful because of all the graveyard hate. This is just another aspect of the "This CREATURE sucks because 372-spells-kill-it conversation."
Tarmogoyf dies to every creature-kill spell ever made. pretty much, and has 0 evasion. It's still a very powerful card, however. Same can be said for Evershrike. It dies to a lot less removal, but it can be hosed more-so by graveyard hate. More people play creature kill than graveyard hate right now.
I, for one, find Evershrike to be a house in testing, and will throw my hat into the ring that it WILL make a splash in the competitive arena. Even if I have to drive it there.
Yeah I'm a bit surprised people DON'T see this as one of the best cards in the set. When I saw it, I thought "finally the card white players have been begging for." Just because you have to work a little to figure out how to use it doesn't make it horrible. Angel of Despair and Dralnu both looked like junk at first remember. Of course Circu and Vexing Susher looked amazing as well.
As long as I can get a pretty foil for cheap this weekend, I'll be thrilled.
The thing I like about the ability is that it has no timing restrictions. If they don't kill him AND RFG him out of the yard before your next untap step after you get him out? He won't be going anywhere. They try to RFG, you respond by playing him.
A problem would be if they had TWO instant speed graveyard hates in their hand, and you didn't have enough mana for the second activation of his ability.
EXCEPT IT HAS EVASION AND COUNTS YOUR OPPONENTS CREATURES AS WELL AS YOUR OWN AND CREATURE TOKENS WTF DEAR GOD! DO YOU NOT SEEEEEE THE SHENANIGANS THIS GUY IS ABOUT TO UNLOAD ON YOUR FACE? NANTUKO HUSK IS ALL LIKE "LOL MEET MY BFF JILL!" ALL THE DEVOUR CREATURES ARE LIKE "LOLOLOLOLOL"
As has been said, it's extremely powerful with Spirit Loop. It basically becomes a recurring 4/4 for 2WW with Lifelink and Flying.
Another card it seems good with is Aspect of Mongoose. It becomes a recurring 4/4 with Shroud and Flying. The only way to deal with it then is with some form of mass RFG effect. I'm not sure if there's anything in standard that does that.
It also seems like it works well with Prison Term. With Evershrike in your graveyard, you can pay 5 mana in response to a creature spell to bring Evershrike back and put Prison Term on that creature. It's not spectacular, but Prison Term is already a good card and adding that trick makes it even better.
This seems like it could be an interesting enchantment-based control deck including the card Idyllic Tutor. We could go W/U and include Teferi's Moat as well as some nice counters. We could use various forms of Pacifism effects as removal such as Temporal Isolation. We should also include some auras other than Spirit Loop that we can stick on Evershrike.
We can also take the Black approach. Fallen Ideal can be interesting, because you can sacrifice it to itself to counter spells and abilities targeting it. This has an advantage that Spirit Loop doesn't - Bounce (such as Cryptic Command) and RFG (such as Oblivion Ring) can be very irritating when played against Evershrike.
I've designed and tested a W/U Evershrike deck on apprentice (although the testing was probably at least somewhat innaccurate). First, I tested against a homebrew Board Control/Midrange deck. The Evershrike deck won at 36 life. Then I tested against a highly optimized (though Block) version of Faeries. Evershrike won that game with 42 life (although, to be fair, the Faerie deck was without access to colored mana until turn 4). I think when testing against truly competitive/non-mana screwed decks, the results would be much less favourable, but I think Evershrike may have potential. Even if it doesn't become a tier 1 deck, I'll still probably make it to take to FNM.
From testing, Merfolk Looter has proven to be EXTREMELY useful. Even when I don't have any Evershrikes to put into my graveyard, I can still cycle cards that I don't need (plus it draws me into Evershrike twice as fast as normal). Careful Consideration is also very similar to Merfolk looter, but is a better topdeck in the lategame.
Basically, I'd have to say these cards have proven to be the most useful:
Merfolk Looter
Careful Consideration
Cryptic Command
Dream Fracture (I haven't been in a situation where letting the opponent draw a card was bad, although I really haven't tested this enough).
Idyllic Tutor hasn't been especially spectacular, though with more testing it could turn out to be better.
Wrath of God wasn't very useful in the particular game I played against Faeries, though it's obviously good in other matchups.
I haven't drawn Teferi's Moat yet, but in one of the games, if I had thought about it, I could've tutored for it for what would've nearly been an auto-win. The only way the opponent could've won with it in play would be to beat down with Birds of Paradise while Doran the Seigetower was in play. I instead tutored for Spirit Loop, brought Evershrike back, and won that way.
Here's what I have ATM.
5 Island
4 Mystic Gate
6 Plains
4 Wanderwine Hub
4 Evershrike
1 Looter Il-Kor
4 Merfolk Looter
4 Cryptic Command
4 Dream Fracture
3 Idyllic Tutor
1 Pentarch Ward
4 Prison Term
3 Spirit Loop
1 Runed Halo
2 Teferi's Moat
3 Wrath of God
I actually did, but wish is only real good when it can get you most if not all of the pieces you need, like the puzzle piece that changes shape accordingly. Unfortunately theres not enough multicolor goods for this deck to warrant its use.
I guess I didn't put enough emphasis on the fact that I didn't really think of it as REAL testing. It's basically all I could do in the time between finding out about the card and having to go to sleep.
Anyway, I see a lot of potential in Evershrike. The problem is that it's proving to be extremely difficult to choose what color combination to go with.
Like a couple posters on p. 1, this card really caught my eye from the spoiler as one I really want. My legacy tallowisp deck will eagerly include a couple copies of this.
I'm also a strong believer that Alara is going to be the Enchantment block (notice the higher-than-normal amount of "destroy target enchantment" effects in eventide...), and perhaps they'll finally put Auras over the top for playability. In which case, this elemental spirit could be much stronger in da future than it appears looking backward for t2.
we'll see.
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Ohhh Invisi-text! We're back in kinder garden it seems Ok so if getting both those cards in hand is not Godhand, you'll have to agree with me that getting Evershrike and Oona's Prowler is not that ridiculous either, but I see that you took the easy way of running away of the argument(not to mention using invisitext hehe). Probably this deck won't do any T8 (since it's lacking Alara's cards) but you were trashing the card not the deck. So I'd say I expect an apology from you when Evershriek makes a T8, but given your fondness for running away, rather, I'd expect from you to make another account to rant on how worthless are the cards of whatever set is being spoiled at that moment while privately running Evershriek in your Tier 1 deck that you netdecked from a tournament list.
Also, notice how I failed to mention 'Goyf, let alone "yell it"
You shall splach BLACK for some discard and CA, like Pitterplossom
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Pourquoi?
What I said in the other thread.
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Yeah all the grave hate shuts down many decks like Revillark in T2 and Dredge in Extended.
Feel free to bid on my cards here!
sarcasm much? Look just because a few graveyard dependent decks are being played doesn't mean this one is up to par with them. You're talking about a Standard deck that doesn't even need to combo out to win and one of the quickest combo decks in extended... What is this decks plan when the evershrike gets RFGd? Hold a bunch of auras in hand and lose. It all goes back to the flaw of enchant creatures.
And just for clarity, i love Evershrike.
I typed the reponse in word because I had it open at the time; I also use the black backround, hence the white text. But, what I really like is how you seem to think I'm some sort of 5-year-old kid just because I like playing with good cards. It's really very mature of you to attack me after I back out of the thread, even saying that I'll own up if I'm wrong. I mean, anyone reading your post above will see the blatent trolling. I guess I'll just leave it up to them to decide which of us is holding the moral high-ground. And, since I know your going to say that I didn't adress your points on the card, I'll tell you I'm not bothering because you're so obviously set on thinking it's the best card ever, nothing I could say would convince you otherwise. Now that said my piece, I'm gone. Feel free to continue to flame me; I promise I won't respond.
04 Nip Gwyllion
04 Prickly Boggart
04 Oona's Prowler
04 Inkfathom Infiltrator
04 Dusk Urchins
04 Evershrike
Spells
04 Thoughtseize
03 Unmake
04 Edge of the Divinity
03 Spirit Loop
Lands
07 Swamp
04 Fetid Heath
04 Flagstones of Trokair
04 Plains
02 Leechridden Swamp
01 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
04 Disenchant
04 Beckon Apparition
04 Slaughter Pact
03 Faerie Macabre
hand discard = thoughtseize / stupor (unlikely) / raven's crime (likely) / lost hours
board control = *** / damnation
removal = terror / nameless inversion / oblivion ring / unmake
stall creatures = aven riftwatcher / murderous redcap / finks (?) /
Good beaters = Stillmoon cavalier (?) / reveillark / evershrike
Reveillark = Reveillark
Evershrike = Evershrike
Interesting Creatures = Spirit of the Hearth / Twilight Shepherd / Purity / Dread / Divinity of Pride / Adarkar Valkyre / Akroma of Wrath
Auras = Edge of the Divinity / prison term / temporal isolation / dust corona (?) / spirit loop / aspect of the mongoose (?) / torture (anti persist)
Enchantments = Runed Halo (unlikely, just 1 copy) / endless horizons /
Tutor = Idyllic Tutor (3-of) / Beseech the Queen (3 of)
acceleration = coalition relic / mind stone
Evershrike Version 1.0
4 Fetid Heath
4 Caves of Koilos
2 Mouth of Ronom
4 Snow-Covered Swamp
5 Snow-Covered Plains
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
2 Mutavault
1 Mistveil Plains
1 Leechridden Swamp
Creatures 15
2 Evershrike
3 Reveillark
4 Aven Riftwatcher
3 Murderous Redcap
2 Stillmoon Cavalier
1 Divinity of Pride
2 Edge of the Divinity
1 Spirit Loop
1 Prison Term
1 Torture
Spells 16
1 Wrath of God
2 Damnation
3 Idyllic Tutor
1 Endless Horizons (just 6 plains...)
3 Thoughtseize
2 Raven's Crime
3 Oblivion Ring
3 Unmake
2 Bitterblossom
3 Wispmare
1 Runed Halo (story Circle)
3 Burrenton Forge-Tender
3 Extirpate
3 Pollen Lullaby
2 Profane Command
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Pourquoi?
4 Evershrike
3 Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
4 Oona's Prowler
Auras
4 Spirit Loop
3 Edge of Divinity
3 Wrath of God
3 Damnation
4 Nameless Inversion
4 Funeral Charm
3 Bitterblossom
4 Fetid Heath
1 Scrying Sheets
10 Snow-Covered Swamp
10 Snow-Covered Plains
does need many changes, especially the mana base. The creatures are pretty right though.
First off I do believe this has a very good constructed viability, the way that this card works with Spirit loop is the strongest arguement I have seen for it.
That said it will probably be limited to a late game card; as an aura based deck is something we can't really work with right now.
I do not see ANY tier 1 constructed decks with Evershrike as the main feature.
However, I would not be suprised at all to see this guy in lists that feature this package using Evershike as utilitarian recurring finisher.
2 Evershrike
3 Prison Term
2 Spirit Loop
Just remember what some people said about reveillark when he was first previewed.
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I said it was awsome and got my playset for $5 lol.
Point is even good players can miss good cards like TGoyf, I think if you take a close enough look at evershrike you can see his enormous potential with spirit loop (which isn't that horrible of a card in the first place, it just never has had a chance to shine.)
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As set up cards for this combo gifts ungiven and/or fact or fiction work really well.
While this probably would not lead t oa viable deck its one of the few cards Ive seen in the set with some combo potential
Bear this in mind the next time a powerful mythic rare is spoiled
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Well, good to see you read that, so I know I can expect my apology once it happens. Just for the record I don't believe this is the best card ever, heck, Im not even planning to put it in a deck anytime soon. But I see vast potential on it, so I got bothered by your know-it-all attitude and self-believed foresight powers when you unabashedly state (while mocking everyone else who believes the opposite) that his card and a handful others wont be played. Guess what? you don't dictate what cards see play or not. Every month or so a wacky japanese player comes up with a weird deck using a card that had been regarded as trash by the knowing spikes of our lands and suddenly everyone gets on the bandawagon claiming to have seen the potential of the card from the beginning.
And no, Im not trying to divine your age from the fact that you "play good cards" since both kids and adults netdeck so that's no real proof of age or skill whatsoever. But the way you seem to believe that you alone posses the correct knowledge about the future popularity of a piece of cardboard and act all high and mighty making everyone else feel like unwhorty fools do talk ill about the maturity you profess to have.
Do you really think there's skill involved into recognizing those blatantly overpowered cards and playing with them? Know that people who try to break free the potential of every card are the ones who create the new archtypes that you'll netdeck once they prove competitive while you just sit down complaining and ranting about Wizards making so few "good cards".
Tarmogoyf dies to every creature-kill spell ever made. pretty much, and has 0 evasion. It's still a very powerful card, however. Same can be said for Evershrike. It dies to a lot less removal, but it can be hosed more-so by graveyard hate. More people play creature kill than graveyard hate right now.
I, for one, find Evershrike to be a house in testing, and will throw my hat into the ring that it WILL make a splash in the competitive arena. Even if I have to drive it there.
As long as I can get a pretty foil for cheap this weekend, I'll be thrilled.
A problem would be if they had TWO instant speed graveyard hates in their hand, and you didn't have enough mana for the second activation of his ability.