I'm surprised there is no thread for this yet. Viashino Pyromancer is not a bad card, and for this not to deal 2 damage, the opponent has to never play a card of the type you exile.
Imagine you play this on turn 2 off a fetchland, and now your 2-drop first striker has the Ankh of Mishra effect! That's insanely good.
In the worst case, this is a 2/1 first striker, which isn't that bad of a floor, and that only happens when you have no other 2-drop to play and there are no cards in the graveyard.
It's also random graveyard hate, for what that's worth.
Yup it's the card I'm the most interested in from this set. Not sure how easy it will be to trigger though, so I'm not adding it straight away. Could be potentially very good.
I'm not very high on this, but it certainly has enough possible upside (specifically in regards to exiling a land early) that we're probably going to test this. The body is fine, might get slotted in over something like Lightning Mauler, even though mauler would be missed. Hope this guy plays better than he looks.
Seems ok. My gripe with it, is it's an aggressive only card.. thus you want to play it out on curve more often than not. By that time, I think it's too likely graveyards will be empty (~30%?). IF you hit a relevant target ,the card is a strong cube 2 drop. If it doesn't have a good target, it's floor is well below par.
Average that out, and I don't think the card makes it.
In a slower cube with 2x fetchlands or something I could see giving it a test.
I think this is going to be a constructed all star, but in cube with only so many fetches I can see some consistency issues. I'm curious how it actually plays out in cube.
While reading wtwlf123's writeup it occured to me that my perfect cut for this card will be Eidolon of the Great Revel. That card just never did enough for me and with its RR manacost, it often feels like it belongs in exactly one deck. While Cemetery Gatekeeper is probably also relegated to aggro only, it has a better manacost and first strike.
Maybe this is because I'm playing unpowered, but the 3 CMC clause also just didn't trigger as often as you would see it in Legacy where decks are super lean, so I'm happy to see Eidolon go and have a replacement.
This is so much worse than Eidolon IMO, but most of our aggro decks are heavy R so maybe that's coloring my impression of this card.
In any event, if this could always hit a land on t2 it would be incredible, but there's a lot of games where there's no targets on turn 2, and waiting till your opponent has a relevant card in yard will often mean the body is irrelevant. Easy pass for me.
I'm not trying to say this card is amazing, but since Eidolon has never been good for me, I'll test it out over that - I've been looking for an excuse to cut Eidolon for some time either way.
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I'm surprised there is no thread for this yet. Viashino Pyromancer is not a bad card, and for this not to deal 2 damage, the opponent has to never play a card of the type you exile.
Imagine you play this on turn 2 off a fetchland, and now your 2-drop first striker has the Ankh of Mishra effect! That's insanely good.
In the worst case, this is a 2/1 first striker, which isn't that bad of a floor, and that only happens when you have no other 2-drop to play and there are no cards in the graveyard.
It's also random graveyard hate, for what that's worth.
Average that out, and I don't think the card makes it.
In a slower cube with 2x fetchlands or something I could see giving it a test.
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Maybe this is because I'm playing unpowered, but the 3 CMC clause also just didn't trigger as often as you would see it in Legacy where decks are super lean, so I'm happy to see Eidolon go and have a replacement.
In any event, if this could always hit a land on t2 it would be incredible, but there's a lot of games where there's no targets on turn 2, and waiting till your opponent has a relevant card in yard will often mean the body is irrelevant. Easy pass for me.
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