Aggro decks play few 4cc cards, and when they do, they're cards like Koth, Armageddon(s), Hero and Hellriders. Aurelia wouldn't see much play in our aggro decks. If they need a 4cc curve-topper, they can find one with no problem whatsoever.
But 3cc creatures with haste that bash for 4 on T3? I don't have any of those.
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I like Aurelia for Wildfire shells, but I feel her abilities aren't maximized there, and that she'll see significantly less maindeck play than Tajit will overall. does like to get its beatdown on, lol.
Aggro decks play few 4cc cards, and when they do, they're cards like Koth, Armageddon(s), Hero and Hellriders. Aurelia wouldn't see much play in our aggro decks. If they need a 4cc curve-topper, they can find one with no problem whatsoever.
But 3cc creatures with haste that bash for 4 on T3? I don't have any of those.
I guess we have a different view on her power level in agro decks... in that you would rather play most of the mono color curve toppers over her in a WR agro deck, whereas I wouldn't. Think she's worse than most of them against spell heavy decks, but is soooooo much better against G/W (tough matchups for red) that it more than makes up for that.
Hope Taijic is as good as he looks.. These two combined in standard gonna be a spooky good force!
Ya, I wouldn't play her over any of the existing 4cc curve toppers we use in aggro.
There's a much greater chance that when I'm deckbuilding my aggro decks will want another hard-hitting 3-drop than be looking for a 4cc aggro card. Like I said above, if I need a 4-drop that's good and playable in aggro, the cube's lousy with 'em, and I can find one really easily.
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I really like RW having good support options in its gold section because their mono-colored offerings can feel pretty samey. I'm low on Ajani but I know I'm the outlier in that. I want to keep the planeswalker count low and he doesn't excite me at all.
Tragic, Legion's Edge sucked for my group. A perennial last pick. Aurelia, on the other hand, consistently closes out games and has honestly overperformed. I 200% recommend this card.
Aurelia was terrible in my experience. Her immediate impact was just too little when boros aggro wanted to be closing the game and a rando midrange beater is not how I want to use my gold slots. I've replaced her with Heroic Reinforcements which has been performing very well in my boros decks.
But 3cc creatures with haste that bash for 4 on T3? I don't have any of those.
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I like Aurelia for Wildfire shells, but I feel her abilities aren't maximized there, and that she'll see significantly less maindeck play than Tajit will overall. does like to get its beatdown on, lol.
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I guess we have a different view on her power level in agro decks... in that you would rather play most of the mono color curve toppers over her in a WR agro deck, whereas I wouldn't. Think she's worse than most of them against spell heavy decks, but is soooooo much better against G/W (tough matchups for red) that it more than makes up for that.
Hope Taijic is as good as he looks.. These two combined in standard gonna be a spooky good force!
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There's a much greater chance that when I'm deckbuilding my aggro decks will want another hard-hitting 3-drop than be looking for a 4cc aggro card. Like I said above, if I need a 4-drop that's good and playable in aggro, the cube's lousy with 'em, and I can find one really easily.
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Aurelia is a really good creature, and I think she's easily a top 5-6 card.
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I really like RW having good support options in its gold section because their mono-colored offerings can feel pretty samey. I'm low on Ajani but I know I'm the outlier in that. I want to keep the planeswalker count low and he doesn't excite me at all.
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