Izzet Charm does its fair share of shocking, too. The three modes are relevant in my experience, usually there's something you're happy to do with it even at the cost of inefficiency. I also agree that Izzet is weak overall, but that starts after Charm.
Which card do you guys prefer? Soltari Champion or Spear of Heliod? I imagine Champion would probably see more play in aggro decks given its easy 1 white casting cost.
Spear. Champion is yet another card that will die with the next mass removal spell. It also has zero defensive value, and I've found pumping blockers to be a big part of Spear's power.
Yeah I feel like in this day and age a spear that dies to bolt and doesn't work if not attacking isn't acceptable.
Redundancy isn't really a problem though when the effects are that strong. If you don't want X amount of control magic effects, that's a different convo, but redundant staples is a good thing IMO.
Either way, Shackles functions a bit differently than both Control Magic and Treachery, they aren't really the same. Shackles often plays out as a grind engine against certain decks, not 'steal your grave titan' even if that's a possibility.
Accorder Paladin is a tier 1 white aggro 2-drop creature in my book, it pushes a lot of damage through and makes it harder for midrange decks to block a 2/1 profitably with an X/3.
Yeah I can't imagine cutting Paladin at this point, I don't think white decks are lacking to any degree for 1 drops. With an 8 mana draft you're often the only one who wants the specific white 1 drops when playing white aggro and if you happen to be fighting over them it's not like you're both typically trying to go mono white like how that can happen with red aggro. I honestly can't remember the last time during a draft that some number of white 1s didn't wheel at the end of packs, and it's mostly because you can often guarantee nabbing them over better options like removal or bombs or etc. and not because players are in desperate need of them. I also think you don't need a million 1s in mono white--you want some, but you're often closer to a midrange deck than aggro, or a slower-aggro/faster midrange deck.
More decks want 2 drops vs 1s too (at least with what's available at what costs), and Paladin is a 2 that fits in a couple archetypes. I'm playing Paladin in tokens or maybe some other midrange builds trying to go wide, whereas Soldier of the Pantheon would be a disastrous card #23/#24 in those decks.
Small cube question: Is Gideon Jura better than Elspeth, Sun's Champion?
It's not a lot worse, but I like Elspeth more. Flooding the board with tokens is generally always a good play, whereas sometimes Gideon just +2s until he dies. Helps that the only other good CMC 6 creature in white is Sun Titan but there are no shortage of great white 5s.
Why not just cut Yasova Dragonclaw since you have her labled as on the chopping block anyway? I have enjoyed her but she is pretty replaceable.
This seems legit. As much as I think Rhonas sucks I don't think I would notice Yasova missing. Sometimes it's just better to run a card that everyone says sucks and see for yourself how it plays.
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Love duplicate! It's in my loosely-defined 'flex spot' that each guild has which gets switched around here and there.
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Yeah I feel like in this day and age a spear that dies to bolt and doesn't work if not attacking isn't acceptable.
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Either way, Shackles functions a bit differently than both Control Magic and Treachery, they aren't really the same. Shackles often plays out as a grind engine against certain decks, not 'steal your grave titan' even if that's a possibility.
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I'm assuming you mean addition/replacement, and I agree! (along with the rest)
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Tracker>Rishkar. Both aren't longterm IMO, but Tracker has been a bit better as the t2 play off an elf with better later game application.
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Yeah I can't imagine cutting Paladin at this point, I don't think white decks are lacking to any degree for 1 drops. With an 8 mana draft you're often the only one who wants the specific white 1 drops when playing white aggro and if you happen to be fighting over them it's not like you're both typically trying to go mono white like how that can happen with red aggro. I honestly can't remember the last time during a draft that some number of white 1s didn't wheel at the end of packs, and it's mostly because you can often guarantee nabbing them over better options like removal or bombs or etc. and not because players are in desperate need of them. I also think you don't need a million 1s in mono white--you want some, but you're often closer to a midrange deck than aggro, or a slower-aggro/faster midrange deck.
More decks want 2 drops vs 1s too (at least with what's available at what costs), and Paladin is a 2 that fits in a couple archetypes. I'm playing Paladin in tokens or maybe some other midrange builds trying to go wide, whereas Soldier of the Pantheon would be a disastrous card #23/#24 in those decks.
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Probably in that order from best to worst, the only one I'd be OK with keeping long term is Skinrender.
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It's not a lot worse, but I like Elspeth more. Flooding the board with tokens is generally always a good play, whereas sometimes Gideon just +2s until he dies. Helps that the only other good CMC 6 creature in white is Sun Titan but there are no shortage of great white 5s.
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This seems legit. As much as I think Rhonas sucks I don't think I would notice Yasova missing. Sometimes it's just better to run a card that everyone says sucks and see for yourself how it plays.
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