Surprised to not see a thread on this walker.
Not for small cubes, but think it is pretty solid aggressive/midrange walker for larger ones.
The -3 will be the default activation mode. In a creature medium+ deck this should hit a solid target most of the time.
Shield counter is a nice protection bonus for when you start pumping it with flying + counters.
There's a lot of good 3 mana walkers in cube, and accelerating into elspeth -> 3 mana walker with a shield counter will be a nightmare to deal with.
Digging 7 deep means you can find/hit some situational utility creatures as well.
The +1 + evasion will snowball quite quickly, requiring both the creature and elspeth to be dealt with.
Yeah, I think she's slightly worse than all 5 of those cards.
I'm going to test her at 540, but my initial guess is she's 720-900 range and the #6 or #7 best white walker (3 mana gideons/serra tier).
Her strength is somewhat dependent on what 3 mana cards your have access too. White has reflector mage, t3feri, skyclave apparition, brutal cathar etc.. so implicitly she has a tempo/removal option if you support those cards in your cube. The +1/lifelink counter on a medium size creature -> leaving behind 6 loyalty planeswalker, can drastically swing agressive races as well... even if you are behind.
True-name nemesis is a nasty combo with her, as is something like a baleful strix (first strike counter)
Glad this finally got a thread. I think it’s definitely worse than Elspeth 4&6 and Gideon aoz but with very different play patterns, which I like), very likely worse than Gideon Jura, and perhaps worse than several other W walkers but I’d like to at least get some gameplay in. The amount on flexibility on the + is pretty impressive, and + flying into +flying can deliver more damage than knight-errant double fly, or + lifelink swinging a race pretty hard. I probably view +,+,ult as more of the default path here than starting with the 3, but it’s definitely a valuable middle mode for when you need it. Not sure how to evaluate shield counters just yet, but probably a decent fraction of a card — if you get a rebate of 3 mana+1.5 cards that’s pretty solid, and 7 is a large chunk to select from.
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Surprised to not see a thread on this walker.
Not for small cubes, but think it is pretty solid aggressive/midrange walker for larger ones.
The -3 will be the default activation mode. In a creature medium+ deck this should hit a solid target most of the time.
Shield counter is a nice protection bonus for when you start pumping it with flying + counters.
There's a lot of good 3 mana walkers in cube, and accelerating into elspeth -> 3 mana walker with a shield counter will be a nightmare to deal with.
Digging 7 deep means you can find/hit some situational utility creatures as well.
The +1 + evasion will snowball quite quickly, requiring both the creature and elspeth to be dealt with.
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Yeah, I think she's slightly worse than all 5 of those cards.
I'm going to test her at 540, but my initial guess is she's 720-900 range and the #6 or #7 best white walker (3 mana gideons/serra tier).
Her strength is somewhat dependent on what 3 mana cards your have access too. White has reflector mage, t3feri, skyclave apparition, brutal cathar etc.. so implicitly she has a tempo/removal option if you support those cards in your cube. The +1/lifelink counter on a medium size creature -> leaving behind 6 loyalty planeswalker, can drastically swing agressive races as well... even if you are behind.
True-name nemesis is a nasty combo with her, as is something like a baleful strix (first strike counter)
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