The 2/01/21 random card of the day is Sawtooth Loon. If you have any comments, combos or a decklist involving this card, feel free to share.
I own the "Comeback" precon, and the Loon is a rather good hand fixer, also returning Stormscape Battlemage to hand, so I could use it's kicker ability again. Stormscape Familiar and Nightscape Familiar helped lower the cost of creatures in the deck.
Despite scaling up in multiplayer, not the kind of card you typically want to run in multiplayer. If you want this effect, I'd suggest Exsanguinate before this, or just abandon the lifegain altogether for Torment of Hailfire.
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Why play Elite Vanguard when you can have Youthful Knight? Clearly the knight is better, he has first strike!
Gaining your opponent a small amount of life in exchange for one less mana spent is a good deal a lot of the time, though Naturalize comes out on top against Chalice of the Void X=1. Return to Nature kind of turns Naturalize into a coaster in a way that Claim can't necessarily do, though, because it does the exact same job, but better.
While better than your average Keldon Champion due to hexproof, elves definitely have better payoffs for having a ton of them in play. I'd suggest either Dungrove Elder for your going-tall hexproofy green strategies, or Alpha Status for elves that want to beat in with one creature (Auras like this are generally bad, but the psuedo-haste you get from being able to attack right away can be underestimated when you're getting lethal-levels of pump)
Yeah, elf token decks were a big thing. Still are, but haven't really played this guy since back in it's day (we called it "Drove of Death"). I think I also had a couple lists pairing it with Creakwood Liege. Might play nice with Hornet Queen or Arasta of the Endless Web. Or a counter-swing after a nice fat Arachnogenesis. There's just so many ways to make green tokens.
a gigantic creature with hexproof is scary. This drove would be huge unless a wrath or some other mass removal is applied by the opponent. And it counts not just elves, it counts green permanents.
Fanatic of Mogis is kind of like Grey Merchant of Asphodel, but I see it played much less often. Just goes to show how good lifegain tacked on to something that can actually win you a game can be, I suppose. Also, heavy red devotion cards like Seismic Assault don't really play well into the Devotion->Damage strategy like Necropotence can. A lot of the better red-pip-heavy cards are creatures rather than sticky permanents; and recurring this thing in red is laughable compared to Animate dead and things black gets. Still nice that it hits each opponent, not a bad card by any means.
There was a time that if you were doing a tribal zombie weenie aggro deck, this guy was one of very few 1 drop zombies. Still sucked. Best thing about it was the ability to get a bigger creature in your graveyard to dig out later.
Sill one of the cheapest unrestricted discard outlets out there. Compare this to One With Nothing. Dredge decks use the imp to this day, and I wouldn't be surprised to see him if you're playing a few Madness cards. On top of that, a 2/2 that can't block is good for 1 mana.
Pretty efficient, if kind of unimpactful. Used to think Blessed Orator was great, but we've come a long way, haven't we? I still try to make Hold the Gates decks work from time to time in Commander. I'd like to see a functional Castle reprint at two mana.
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In regards to Haunting Echoes, it looks pretty powerful on paper- but in practice, not so much. You could run it in a mill deck with Traumatize but in truth, it'd be easier just to keep milling. In any other sort of deck, it's pretty useless as by the time it's going to have any impact, the game it either already won or lost. It's a decent sideboard against a Dredge deck...
In regards to the giant- without evasion or threat, it's a Hobble target. Let your opponent waste their resources to cast it- then just as easily lock it down. I prefer something like False Prophet- something that's easily killed without the exorbident mana costs.
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A friend of mine played Haunting Echoes in a black control deck of his back in the day. You don't even have to mill the opponent, just remove some stuff he plays early, then lobotomize him. Or if he plays lots of instants and sorceries, that works too. It's actually really devastating. The chances of the opponent drawing lands go way up as are your chances of keeping control until you win.
The 2/17/21 random card of the day is Haunting Echoes. If you have any comments, combos or a decklist involving this card, feel free to share.
this card was strong a few years ago in our casual playgroup. Since only a few decks had dedicated counterspells, someone getting hit with this mid-late game is brutal, literally almost only lands are left in their deck. Well, we were newbies back then. However, even today I have a fear of this card..
I own the "Comeback" precon, and the Loon is a rather good hand fixer, also returning Stormscape Battlemage to hand, so I could use it's kicker ability again. Stormscape Familiar and Nightscape Familiar helped lower the cost of creatures in the deck.
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"Do ya feel lucky? Because you'd better start runnin' while you still can."
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Edgar Rice Burroughs, forgotten legend of the word.
Why play Elite Vanguard when you can have Youthful Knight? Clearly the knight is better, he has first strike!
Gaining your opponent a small amount of life in exchange for one less mana spent is a good deal a lot of the time, though Naturalize comes out on top against Chalice of the Void X=1. Return to Nature kind of turns Naturalize into a coaster in a way that Claim can't necessarily do, though, because it does the exact same job, but better.
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Two-CC Castle? Parapet?
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Paranope. Too unimpactful of a boost, if we're only boosting toughness I want those boosts to be beeeeg
In regards to the giant- without evasion or threat, it's a Hobble target. Let your opponent waste their resources to cast it- then just as easily lock it down. I prefer something like False Prophet- something that's easily killed without the exorbident mana costs.
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"Do ya feel lucky? Because you'd better start runnin' while you still can."
375 Misfortune {+3 signed AP's} & 104 Rocket Launcher (41 AQ/ 63 Rev)
Edgar Rice Burroughs, forgotten legend of the word.
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this card was strong a few years ago in our casual playgroup. Since only a few decks had dedicated counterspells, someone getting hit with this mid-late game is brutal, literally almost only lands are left in their deck. Well, we were newbies back then. However, even today I have a fear of this card..
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Want to play a UW control deck in modern, but don't have jace or snaps?
Please come visit us at the Emeria Titan control thread