I love this. It's exactly what green likes, good blocker, great with creature combos and the added synergies with Nadu, Winged Wisdom and Gaea's Cradle are the cherry on top. Also a discard outlet.
Yes, this looks excellent, and at 2G it is quite splashable. It supports many cube archetypes:
Creature combo decks can tutor up the piece they need. For instance, Formidable Speaker tutors Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, use Kiki to copy Formidable Speaker, the new Formidable Speaker copy tutors Pestermite, Pestermite untaps Kiki, Kiki copies Perstermite, and loop to win. Great tutors like this also help make decks trying to win with more complicated 3+ card combos functional.
Flicker value decks love to repeat strong ETB triggers like this. Perhaps you tutor up Soulherder first to blink Speaker on each of your end steps.
Gruul land shennanigans likes a way to loot lands into the yard for value, then perhaps you tutor Icetill Explorer.
Nadu decks tutor Nadu, Winged Wisdom and use the second ability to trigger it every turn.
The point is, it’s flexible and every deck with a reasonable number of creatures that touches green will want to draft this. The power of a tutor scales with the power level of the cube, so this can play a role at any cube power level.
I have this feeling that I don’t like it. It does a lot, and will be a very splashable, reasonably costed, and useful creature for a lot of decks and archetypes. It’s good. It’s better than cards I’m running. I just… don’t like it. Maybe I’ll throw it in, maybe not. It just seems off to me.
With the number of bomb-level creatures in cube nowadays, I suspect turning the worst card in your hand into an Eladamri's Call will generally be quite powerful. I don't like how, at 3 mana and sorcery speed, it gives your opponent ample opportunity to disrupt your creature combos. But they'll still have to deal with both your combo piece(s) as well as the Speaker itself. The untap ability feels kinda tacked on, but it does open up more avenues of abuse. Looks like a shoe-in if you support creature combos and a fair card if you don't.
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StaffSurvival of the Fittest x Imperial Recruiter. Better body than Imperial Recruiter and can find any creature. And unlike Survival of the Fittest / Fauna Shaman, you can discard any card, not just creature cards. Finding + triggering Nadu is really nice. Also goes infinite with Time Vault.
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- Tutors specific creatures
- Creature combo decks can tutor up the piece they need. For instance, Formidable Speaker tutors Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, use Kiki to copy Formidable Speaker, the new Formidable Speaker copy tutors Pestermite, Pestermite untaps Kiki, Kiki copies Perstermite, and loop to win. Great tutors like this also help make decks trying to win with more complicated 3+ card combos functional.
- Flicker value decks love to repeat strong ETB triggers like this. Perhaps you tutor up Soulherder first to blink Speaker on each of your end steps.
- Reanimator likes the discard outlet to put its big bomb in the yard, then perhaps you tutor a creature-based reanimate spell like Metamorphosis Fanatic, Nullpriest of Oblivion, or Rodolf Duskbringer.
- Mono-Green likes another copy of Craterhoof Behemoth.
- Gruul land shennanigans likes a way to loot lands into the yard for value, then perhaps you tutor Icetill Explorer.
- Nadu decks tutor Nadu, Winged Wisdom and use the second ability to trigger it every turn.
The point is, it’s flexible and every deck with a reasonable number of creatures that touches green will want to draft this. The power of a tutor scales with the power level of the cube, so this can play a role at any cube power level.Un-Spiracy Module - http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/63204
Utility Land Module - http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/53258