It's Knight of the Ebon Legion rich cousin, the blackguard. While she's going to make combat confusing enough on attack, that last ability is going to make attacking into you very difficult with enough Treasure. Wonder if this means mono-black aggro will run enough Treasure-matters for this card.
Producing Treasure every turn (that you can spare the mana) is quite intriguing. There might be a deck willing to take advantage of all that Treasure produced - maybe even in Modern.
In my artifact cube you go, where black/red gets a sac/treasure theme.
Seems like the Gilded goose of treasure, but Ragavan still makes this looks bad.
At least in Modern, Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer gets blocked all day and removed all night, so unlike Forsworn Paladin, he is not a reliable Treasure-making engine. Ragavan needs ample removal to succeed, I've found. Ragavan also performs at his best against U/x Aggro-Control/Tempo, I've found - he can sneak under their counterspells and slow their tempo down quite a lot, and unlike against combo, you can actually take advantage of quite a lot of their cards.
Forsworn Paladin can reliably enable some synergies, albeit quite slowly (e.g. you get only 4 mana on Turn 3 if you play Forsworn Paladin on Turn 1). I think Forsworn Paladin's real competition is mana dorks like Ignoble Hierarch (and, even then, being mono-black has its advantages).
You can even block with her, tap her to make a treasure, then use that and three more mana to give her deathtouch... Though first strike would be needed to make it perfect.
I kind of dont like it.
feels super cluncky.
u need to tap him for the treasures. 3 mana for +2/+0 isnt that great either.
for me this could have easily been an uncommon. id rather have a good uncommon, than a bad rare. i know it is the same card, but what do you want to open in which slot in a booster.
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It's Knight of the Ebon Legion rich cousin, the blackguard. While she's going to make combat confusing enough on attack, that last ability is going to make attacking into you very difficult with enough Treasure. Wonder if this means mono-black aggro will run enough Treasure-matters for this card.
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Seems like the Gilded goose of treasure, but Ragavan still makes this looks bad.
At least in Modern, Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer gets blocked all day and removed all night, so unlike Forsworn Paladin, he is not a reliable Treasure-making engine. Ragavan needs ample removal to succeed, I've found. Ragavan also performs at his best against U/x Aggro-Control/Tempo, I've found - he can sneak under their counterspells and slow their tempo down quite a lot, and unlike against combo, you can actually take advantage of quite a lot of their cards.
Forsworn Paladin can reliably enable some synergies, albeit quite slowly (e.g. you get only 4 mana on Turn 3 if you play Forsworn Paladin on Turn 1). I think Forsworn Paladin's real competition is mana dorks like Ignoble Hierarch (and, even then, being mono-black has its advantages).
feels super cluncky.
u need to tap him for the treasures. 3 mana for +2/+0 isnt that great either.
for me this could have easily been an uncommon. id rather have a good uncommon, than a bad rare. i know it is the same card, but what do you want to open in which slot in a booster.