Armadillo Cloak
I won countless games when I first started playing at the kitchen table with this thing strapped to a Watchwolf or Loxodon Hierarch.
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Mindleech Mass is fun, but expensive.
Body Double for gy tricks.
You'll notice I said "was worth". Past tense. FTV printings typically hold less value than their counterparts anyway due to the different and largely disliked foiling process, it's only the insane desire for that specific card that's allowed the FTV certain to hold as much value as it's other printings.
His current price reflects a knee-jerk reaction to his sudden unbanning, and while I expect his overall price to raise considerably from where it was before the ban lift, it will level back out once the initial rush of demand settles down.
My point though was that they have printed high value cards in similar products in the past, so it's not crazy to think it could happen again. You're not wrong in that if we see FTV-level supply for the spellbook series, it will do nothing to impact the price, if it's even reprinted at all.
Here's hoping they print JTMS and Vryn's Prodigy (which has managed to elude me, still) and give us duel-deck levels of product that you can happily pick up at your local Target.
Why? I bought a JTMS at $35 a few years ago in FTV:20. I've since sold him because while he's useful in Commander, I got more value by trading him away for a whole slew of cards on my want list.
Understandably the FTV printing was worth a lot less than the other versions, and in the long run it made little impact on his market value, but it sets the precedent that Wizards aren't afraid to print high value cards in something like this. Honestly, I wish they'd exercise that right a little more often, but meh.
My concerns are him being the poster boy for Masters 25, and having already had a FTV printing both hurt the odds of us getting a mass reprint in this sort of product.
Edit: Took a glance at your list, and if you want cheap tribal options, I'd go with Vampire Nighthawk , Pawn of Ulamog or Arrogant Bloodlord even if they are 3 CMC.
For 2 CMC, you're missing Gatekeeper of Malakir which can provide some utility in an aggro shell.
It could have also been a similarly costed enchantment and read something like "1BB, sacrifice a creature: all creatures get -X/-X, etc" and still have at least been an interesting card.
I would at least given it a shot in Ghave. As is, it's wasted effort on cardboard.
Pretty much. His thinking was that casting it in response to the Willbender trigger would shut it off and prevent me from stealing the Deepglow Skate trigger. We had to explain to him that even with split second, once the morph creature is face up it's ability resolves.
Funny you should mention that, I played a game last week where I was piloting Animar and had a face down Willbender in play when someone tried to Deepglow Skate a freshly played Elspeth, Knight-Errant. I was delighted to gift his "double counters" trigger to Animar, so then he responded with Sudden Spoiling and learned about the weirdness that is Morph on the stack.
I guess the question is, will he generate enough reliable CA to warrant a slot over similar proven alternatives?
That's a fair point. I haven't actually gotten to play with him at all, but I wanted to provide some sort of protection since one Bojuka Bog can shut down the whole engine. Maybe something like "1: Sacrifice a creature, Kras'thul gains indestructible/hexproof/etc until end of turn" to allow for some kind of built in protection. I think dropping permanent Hexproof could also justify bringing him down to cmc 5. Thanks for the feedback!
Whimfeaster is a bit odd, but it definitely feels like a punisher R/B card in the same vein as Kaervek the Merciless , in that opponents could be tempted to keep feeding him and losing CA to stick him with the stats that are easier to deal with. I feel like you could add something like "If Whimfeaster has more than 4 +1/+1 counters, spells that target Whimfeaster cost {3} more" or a similar damage effect if he's targeted with a spell. That gives incentive to keep feeding him as opposed to just having him eat removal.
I like the flavor on the horseman cards. They're well powered without feeling op. Call the Horseman is a little silly, but would still be tons of fun to cast from the command zone and Reiterate a few times.
Here's my entry I made after we were let down with the lack of an Esper zombie leader in HOU. Ironically, I think he and Vaylesh would be good pals.
D'oh, was thinking Breath granted haste for some reason. Oh well.
I considered this card in a Saskia "combat matters" build that included Tana, the Bloodsower but I never finished the list. Worth noting that it goes infinite with Breath of Fury with each enchantment on a different creature.