I'm interested in this over Guttersnipe for UR spells in unpowered. I find the spell decks often like to grind and although this card will activate much less than Guttersnipe, the ability to shoot down creatures and planeswalkers is very nice. It's also just a wall and survives most burn spells.
Seems bad. One of guttersnipes main strengths is turning bolts into 5 to the opponent's face, and working with any spell. This being a bolt every time is great, bur you need a LOT of card draw to make it work. It's also effectively a UR card as there are exactly 0 red effects that work with this in my cube IIRC.
I could include this if I were going super heavy on the spells and card draw for red, but it would be after Guttersnipe. I can understand the desire to move away from a 2/2 for 3, but, I think he can get a lot more work done in the decks that want him most.
I run over 30 draw spells that cost less than 2 mana and a bunch of creatures that draw cards when they EtB. Even with that much draw density I think this card is a pass.
I'm interested in this over Guttersnipe for UR spells in unpowered. I find the spell decks often like to grind and although this card will activate much less than Guttersnipe, the ability to shoot down creatures and planeswalkers is very nice. It's also just a wall and survives most burn spells.
465 unpowered cube - https://cubecobra.com/cube/list/601ac624832cdf1039947588
This is an extremely narrow Izzet card only that when built around entirely still doesn’t compare to the top 5 Izzet cards.
No chance for cube. Interesting in standard as a build around tho
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