An interesting take on the Young Pyromancer / Monastery Mentor mold. Has a much better floor than Monastery Mentor since it makes a 2/2 with firebending 1 on ETB and the enchantment is extremely durable. Weirder cast trigger since it's not dependent on the card type, but rather casting on your opponent's turn. Making additional 2/2s with firebending 1 gives this consistently bigger tokens than most token generators would at that cost. Might be too expensive for what it's worth, but might at least be worth testing just based on how good Cori-Steel Cutter ended up being.
I think I'm giving this a test. Looks great with cube all-stars like Phelia (both triggering it with flash and blinking the enchantment for value), Snapcaster Mage + any instant, Brazen Borrower etc. I'm unsure how good the Firebending part will be but even the baseline token being 2/2 seems decent enough.
Also allows Orzhov to trigger Ajani, heh.
It irks me that the card that pays you off for casting on your opponent's turn can't itself be cast at that time. It's much more difficult to string together spells on your opponent's turn than it is on your own turn, but the timing restriction also means your opponent has less time to react to the bodies you do manage to generate. Most of the B archetypes in my cube play at sorcery speed though, so it'll be a pass for me.
If it was 2B Enchantment, when this ETB, create two 2/2 Solider tokens with FireBending 1.
Would this card see play?
Very easily, yes. As far as I'm concerned there's no card that makes two 2/2s for 3 mana so cleanly like that. Black not having much competition with 3-cmc creature (generators) also helps a lot.
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StaffAn interesting take on the Young Pyromancer / Monastery Mentor mold. Has a much better floor than Monastery Mentor since it makes a 2/2 with firebending 1 on ETB and the enchantment is extremely durable. Weirder cast trigger since it's not dependent on the card type, but rather casting on your opponent's turn. Making additional 2/2s with firebending 1 gives this consistently bigger tokens than most token generators would at that cost. Might be too expensive for what it's worth, but might at least be worth testing just based on how good Cori-Steel Cutter ended up being.
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Also allows Orzhov to trigger Ajani, heh.
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If it was 2B Enchantment, when this ETB, create two 2/2 Solider tokens with FireBending 1.
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StaffVery easily, yes. As far as I'm concerned there's no card that makes two 2/2s for 3 mana so cleanly like that. Black not having much competition with 3-cmc creature (generators) also helps a lot.
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