It's a 5/4 with a very good death trigger. Either you trigger it yourself with sac effects, or you pummel your opponent until it dies of combat damage or they run out of chump blockers. The next turn, replace the Yew with something scarier you tutored up.
Only if you still have a 5-cmc permanent on the battlefield. That's easy to do in green, though.
Are you sure? If you have Rootless Yew on the table, as well as In Search of Greatness, when the Yew dies two triggers go on the stack. Can't you stack the triggers so the Yew's goes first, you search and put a creature in your hand as part of that single trigger, then the next trigger would let you put the searched for card on the table?
Let's say you have In Search of Greatness and Rootless Yew on the battlefield and a way to sacrifice or kill your own creature at instant speed. At the beginning of your upkeep the enchantment triggers, so if you kill/sac your Yew to search for a creature with power or toughness >= 6 then by the time the enchantment trigger resolves the Yew is not on the battlefield. If you let the enchantment trigger resolve then you may not have a 6-cmc in hand.
Now...if you have two copies of Rootless Yew then yes, you could easily sac/kill one then use the enchantment trigger to auto-cast the big creature you find from the death trigger.
Green usually doesn't have any problem finding or casting enormous creatures--it was possible to cast Ghalta as early as turn 4 during that Standard or Gigantosaurus on turn 3 with a turn 1 dork, turn 2 Steel Leaf Champion, and a turn 3 Nykthos. I think In Search of Greatness is okay because enchantments are more resilient than creatures but it is a little slow. Rootless Yew is a solid card because it is a large body and lets you find an even larger one when it dies.
That makes sense. A big part of the issue is I mis-remembered how the enchantment worked - for some reason I had it in my head it triggered when a creature died. I should probably have read it more carefully rather than just trying to "recall" what it did!
That makes sense. A big part of the issue is I mis-remembered how the enchantment worked - for some reason I had it in my head it triggered when a creature died. I should probably have read it more carefully rather than just trying to "recall" what it did!
No worries--we are not going to discuss all the times I have misread and/or misremembered how a card works. I, myself, had recently asked a question about trying to use Gaea's Blessing in Oops, All Spells but the answer was "you would mill your library then reshuffle the graveyard back into the library".
It's a 5/4 with a very good death trigger. Either you trigger it yourself with sac effects, or you pummel your opponent until it dies of combat damage or they run out of chump blockers. The next turn, replace the Yew with something scarier you tutored up.
Are you sure? If you have Rootless Yew on the table, as well as In Search of Greatness, when the Yew dies two triggers go on the stack. Can't you stack the triggers so the Yew's goes first, you search and put a creature in your hand as part of that single trigger, then the next trigger would let you put the searched for card on the table?
Now...if you have two copies of Rootless Yew then yes, you could easily sac/kill one then use the enchantment trigger to auto-cast the big creature you find from the death trigger.
Green usually doesn't have any problem finding or casting enormous creatures--it was possible to cast Ghalta as early as turn 4 during that Standard or Gigantosaurus on turn 3 with a turn 1 dork, turn 2 Steel Leaf Champion, and a turn 3 Nykthos. I think In Search of Greatness is okay because enchantments are more resilient than creatures but it is a little slow. Rootless Yew is a solid card because it is a large body and lets you find an even larger one when it dies.
No worries--we are not going to discuss all the times I have misread and/or misremembered how a card works. I, myself, had recently asked a question about trying to use Gaea's Blessing in Oops, All Spells but the answer was "you would mill your library then reshuffle the graveyard back into the library".
This is why fierce empath exists
This yew is just...slow
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