MTG Salvation

I like this card as a buildaround +2/+0 lord focused on "haste matters." 36/540 cards in my cube say "haste" (including noncreature cards like Rhythm of the Wild, which seems spicy with Ardoz). I like the sound of turn 1 Kumano Faces Kakkazan, turn 2 Ardoz, turn 3 Squee, Dubious Monarch. Ardoz is also pretty good on its own as a 1R 3/1 haste on turn 2, or it's OK as a late game mana sink for board stalls. On the other hand, this is not a 3/1 forever, so it might seem a bit anemic as a 1/1 if you don't have other haste creatures/tokens in your deck -- that's why I think it's a haste buildaround.

It's also pretty sweet with Terror of the Peaks.

It's good in decks with a lot of haste, but is very weak outside synergistic decks and needs to be in an aggressive deck. I think it's too narrow unless the red section is built around it.

Card looks sweet. Red 2s for us are always weird since most of them are pretty middling and boring from a powerlevel perspective. Excited that this gives some interesting and potentially powerful token incentives for red aggro and faster midrange decks. Playing this on 6 can also be pretty decent topdeck. The mana sink aspect of this especially gives plenty of late game reach, and while not so much to block with it can still set up some slower wins with Opposition or Garruk Wildspeaker.

I think Kari Zev, Skyship Raider and Young Pyromancer are the only red 2s wee play that we really love. Eidolon of the Great Revel is pretty narrow but it's really iconic and strong in aggro alone, Radha's Firebrand is getting tested since we just added triomes, leaving Flametongue Yearling and Dire Fleet Daredevil as the odd ones out as they haven't been typically too great in our aggro decks, even if they're pretty useful elsewhere. I don't think we play enough red 2s, so even though the slot is weak I'm guessing one of our 5s gets cut for this guy instead of a same cmc swap.

Should also mention that this is really unconventionally good with Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance and Flametongue Yearling if you play those, and gets really nasty with blocking flash creatures like Sicarian Infiltrator or instant speed token producers like Young Pyromancer or Occult Epiphany. At first glance this seems like a top tier red 2 drop to me, can't wait to test this.

I am warmer on this than other posters.

It might be a hot take, but personally I think this is better than Kari Zev, Eidolon or Dire Fleet Daredevil.
This can attack as a 3/1 haste for 2 which is exactly what red aggro wants to do, and in the right deck it shouldn't be hard to trigger the activation at least once a turn.

If you follow this up with a T3 Rabblemaster variant you can really go nuts because then you get two activations, which means it can add 6 power on turn 3. Seems good.

I’ll test it. Red 2s kind of stink, and this one has some powerful interactions. It power greatly depends on your red Agro composition.

It’s not great but it’s not bad in black Agro either since it can create fodder/mana sink for something to sac

It will depend on how much other haste is in the cube I think. Over 2 turns this has the same damage output as any other 2 power haster and 2 drop haste with late game value is pretty common (Earthshaker Kenra, Robber of the Rich, Bloodthirsty Adversary) and that's not even going in to reds 2 drops without haste. I just see too often the opponent having an x/2 and this thing no longer swinging because of it.

Thinking of giving this one a try. Anybody tested it?