On curve, some of the time it won't be bringing anything back, which will make you sad to have it in your deck, but the body of a 3/2 with lifelink is still worth 2 mana. When it does bring something back, it's between amazing (returning on curve a Mother of Runes or a Stoneforge Mystic that got killed by a removal spell is backbreaking) and a good value card.
For comparisons, this might be comparable to something like a Blade Splicer: 3/2 lifelink instead of a 3/3 first striker, but a 1 or 2 -drop from your deck instead of a 1/1. Another possible comparison could be made to Lurrus of the Dream-Den as both have the same body and return back cheap permanents, though they are very different cards, as Lurrus does not want to enter combat while you want to trade this off if possible. The card with the most similar effect is probably Renegade Rallier, but I believe this card is better in cube, as it is monocoloured, has the better body, and revolt is harder to trigger without a high density of fetchlands. Both Lurrus and Blade Splicer are great, so I expect this card will play at least decently as well.
In combo applications, like Renegade Rallier, if you have Corridor Monitor, Restoration Angel and Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker in your Birthing Pod deck, you can win off of a single 1-drop, even on turn 3 if that 1-drop is a mana creature. This is actually somewhat realistic to happen in cube, though Corridor Monitor isn't really a card worth running for most cubes. Even without the combo, it's a good card to pod to. In a B/W aristocrats deck, you can get infinite sacrifices off of Charming Prince and this, though at most one a turn due to the Prince returning the card at end of turn.
The white 3-drop slot is super tight, so this will probably not make it, but as the effect seems fun and the powerlevel is not embarassing, I believe I'll be testing it.
I might try this out, but yeah white 3's are so insane it will be hard to stick. I think I might try it in for welcoming vampire but I suspect it's worse.
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This works really well with a lot of common white 1-2 drop creatures: Mother of Runes, Giver of Runes, Dauntless Bodyguard, Lion Sash (can still reconfigure!), Luminarch Aspirant and in particular with Charming Prince and Stoneforge Mystic. Another good synergy is Phantasmal Image (of particular importance if U/W blink is an archetype in your cube).
On curve, some of the time it won't be bringing anything back, which will make you sad to have it in your deck, but the body of a 3/2 with lifelink is still worth 2 mana. When it does bring something back, it's between amazing (returning on curve a Mother of Runes or a Stoneforge Mystic that got killed by a removal spell is backbreaking) and a good value card.
For comparisons, this might be comparable to something like a Blade Splicer: 3/2 lifelink instead of a 3/3 first striker, but a 1 or 2 -drop from your deck instead of a 1/1. Another possible comparison could be made to Lurrus of the Dream-Den as both have the same body and return back cheap permanents, though they are very different cards, as Lurrus does not want to enter combat while you want to trade this off if possible. The card with the most similar effect is probably Renegade Rallier, but I believe this card is better in cube, as it is monocoloured, has the better body, and revolt is harder to trigger without a high density of fetchlands. Both Lurrus and Blade Splicer are great, so I expect this card will play at least decently as well.
In combo applications, like Renegade Rallier, if you have Corridor Monitor, Restoration Angel and Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker in your Birthing Pod deck, you can win off of a single 1-drop, even on turn 3 if that 1-drop is a mana creature. This is actually somewhat realistic to happen in cube, though Corridor Monitor isn't really a card worth running for most cubes. Even without the combo, it's a good card to pod to. In a B/W aristocrats deck, you can get infinite sacrifices off of Charming Prince and this, though at most one a turn due to the Prince returning the card at end of turn.
The white 3-drop slot is super tight, so this will probably not make it, but as the effect seems fun and the powerlevel is not embarassing, I believe I'll be testing it.