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Feb 3, 2014the nobodys posted a message on Launch Giveaway!My favorite card of all time: Vesuvan Doppleganger. When I laid eyes on it as a 13 year old, MtG became the game that I played. Beautiful art, great power at the time, fun to play, and one of the first desirable rares I ever opened out of a pack.Posted in: Announcements
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Well, sure, maybe this will be lackluster in standard. But most of the comments bashing this were missing a disclaimer saying they were only talking about it being bad in standard. This card will be bonkers in multiple formats. Forget the body, just imagine this being treasure cruise, only castable from the graveyard.
Sure, this isn't an 8/8 trampler, but it gives you a draw 3. Doesn't that just seem like a treasure cruise that you don't even have to have in hand?
But that may be just my play style preference, and if you're more comfortable with Ego, then I would find room for 2 copies, for sure. For some reason I like having lots of SB slots for combo, and trust my maindeck to grind it out against midrange/control.
Thopter Sword Urza is still quite good, and my preference. I've gone down to 2 Emry's (and 2 engineers), cut the Ascendancy, and upped the planeswalker count. Currently sitting at 2 T3feri, 2 Karn, TGC. Wishing well is quite nice, currently on 3.
I'm not seeing the purpose of the hammer. I get that you can drop it, and then all your emrys will be hasty. But since an opponent can always respond to her ability and bolt or push her, the haste doesn't seem that relevant. Spellskite is all-around useful, but if you switch it for a welding jar, that just gives Emry one more artifact that along with the baubles will let her start to infinite (and will help cast her turn 1). Maybe skite is just too good, though, now that we have 8 must-answer blue creatures.
All that said, it's still a card that probably lingers in hand in most matchups. As random 3 drops go, teferi has more wide ranging utility, so we'll see.
Just a refresher, with Emry and a bauble in play or the graveyard, and an ascendancy on board, you can cast bauble over and over, make emry lethal and swing. Or you can loot enough to put 2 opals in the graveyard, get infinite mana, and cast something from your deck that can close out the game. The cost of a few ascendancies in lists seems pretty low.
My decklist to try out:
4 Mishra's Bauble
4 Arcum's Astrolabe
4 Witching Well
1 Pithing Needle
4 Thopter Foundry
2 Sword of the Meek
1 Damping Sphere
4 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
1 Goblin Engineer
4 Urza, Lord High Artificer
2 Jeskai Ascendancy
1 Karn, the Great Creator
2 Whir of Invention
4 Prismatic Vista
5 Snow-Covered Island
1 Snow-Covered Plains
1 Snow-Covered Mountain
2 Flooded Strand
2 Scalding Tarn
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Steam Vents
1 Watery Grave
1 Spire of Industry
1 Inventors' Fair
1 Glass Casket
1 Pithing Needle
1 Walking Ballista
1 Teferi, Time Raveller
2 Deputy of Detention
3 Battle at the Bridge
2 Unmoored Ego
1 Ensnaring Bridge
1 Lightning Helix
1 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Engineered Explosives
1. You have a Foundry, you wish for sword. This is the best situation, because you can sac wischlaw to foundry before ability resolves.
2. You have a Sword and wish for a Foundry. This is obviously a worse situation, because opponent will get a wish. But if it's a fair matchup, their wish will probably just be some form of removal for foundry, and you will have gotten to make thopters and then you will get a chance to wish again.
3. You have nothing, you wish for Urza because value. This is probably the riskiest, but against Jund for instance, what are they going to get? Their removal can't get both urza and the token.
Wishclaw is a little silly, and hard to evaluate. I think it's probably a 1-of for us, but will get boarded out a LOT. Obviously makes whir more valuable, and random silver bullet type things. Talisman plays nicely with Karn, the Great Creator (ugh, that card), too. I've been testing Karn out as a 1-of maindeck walker without lattice, and he's OK as a must-answer threat.
As always, before the entire set is even released, posting a hypthetical list with the new tasty spoilers:
4 Mishra's Bauble
4 Mox Opal
4 Arcum's Astrolabe
3 Witching Well
1 Pithing Needle
4 Thopter Foundry
2 Sword of the Meek
1 Damping Sphere
1 Wishclaw Talisman
1 Mind Stone
1 Ensnaring Bridge
Creatures: 8
2 Goblin Welder
2 Emry, Lurker of the Loch
4 Urza, Lord High Artificer
2 Teferi, Time Raveler
1 Karn, the Great Creator
Other Spells: 3
3 Whir of Invention
Land: 20
4 Prismatic Vista
2 Flooded Strand
1 Polluted Delta
1 Polluted Delta
1 Snow-Covered Plains
1 Snow-Covered Swamp
6 Snow-Covered Island
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Steam Vents
1 Watery Grave
1 Spirebluff Canal
Well, if that's the case, then this card seems like it's geting splashed into any deck that can reasonably run it. Right? Its effect isn't overcosted when it isn't free.