Quote from Jay13x »Sure. But the timing seems awfully convenient, especially because they'd have known Jaya was returning while working on the set, and deliberately put in several pieces of Dominaria nostalgia (like Wasitora).
I remember reading somewhere, possibly on blogatog, that Wizards intentionally put tribes that would align with Standard cards (e.g. Cats and Vampires) into the Commander set. Why not do the same with lore? Maybe they slipped Mairsil in to remind longtime players about his existence and introduce him to a new generation before they get to Dominaria.
Crop Rotation into Bojuka Bog. Nobody sees it coming.
1. Painter's Servant is an artifact, so it can go into literally every deck, whereas Solemnity is white.
2. Solemnity really only has one specific interaction that you have to build around. It doesn't really do that well in a deck just as a card to play because you can. The difference is that Painter's Servant can warp the game in far more relevant incidental ways than Solemnity can.
3. I think the key issue is that Painter's Servant has an additive effect, i.e. everything is the chosen colour in addition to its other colours, whereas Solemnity has a subtractive effect, i.e. no counters can be put onto certain permanents. Most cards that use counters typically want you to put more on them, not fewer.
4. There are far fewer effects that can potentially abuse Solemnity than there are Painter's Servant.
I'm not sure how the meta is where you are, but I doubt most savvy players would allow Decree of Silence to resolve with a Solemnity on board, or vice versa... at least, not more than once.
I think if I were running a Radha, Heir to Keld deck, I'd probably try to slot this in. Giving your board +2/+0 for "free" isn't that bad.
Insidious Dreams!
Kamigawa, Summarized.
It's also removal that slots easily in alongside Jaya. And if she sticks around for a few turns, you get a free Mizzix's Mastery without the exile drawback.
A little late to the party, but is anyone else confused and annoyed that his type is Shaman instead of Wizard? I mean, he's an alchemist, he's strapped himself into some kind of destructive mechanism, and his flavourtext implies that he thinks of himself as some kind of a genius. That all screams "wizard" to me.
"What about the ones without bl-"
All my decks.
It's the Kool-Aid Man! Oh yeah!
Tainted Aether could make it very difficult for them to have a board presence and the Chasm at the same time.
Stoneshaker Shaman might do the trick, assuming there's no Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth or Chromatic Lantern onboard.
Herald of Leshrac. "Cumulative Upkeep, eh? Well, two can play at that game!"