dina infinites with Exquisite Blood another one Basicly and this is a legend
how is harness infinity instant? That Basicly slightly worse Praetor's Counsel at instant speed (it’s missing the infinite hand size forever effect)
Actually, that missing text is probably exactly why it's an instant, at least that way you do get 1 turn with your 20 card hand before discarding to hand size.
Well, with all of Witherbloom's pests this feels like you're getting solid value for casting this, may even make it into some cat builds as another way to rebuy Mayhem Devil.
I feel like most of the time you are only getting 50% of the value of this card but that is generally good enough and every now and then you'll get both abilities and that's just lovely.
True but there's a plus side if you lose the creature target it doesn't fizzle.
Oh for sure, and I have no problem with a thoughtseize for WB in standard or even just pitch this for WB to give a creature +1/+1 when you draw it late game as there's plenty of times that thoughtseize is a dead draw. Of course this will be a dead draw too sometimes, just less often.
I feel like most of the time you are only getting 50% of the value of this card but that is generally good enough and every now and then you'll get both abilities and that's just lovely.
I fear that the bird is rare because of limited, which is a crappy reason to make it rare. But then again, why is Brazen Borrower Mythic? Blue fliers are hard to balance, apparently.
With the text its severely limited in what it can do.
Without once per turn, wraths would have been a bit too good in standard. Gaining a 3/2 flier from each of your creatures blown up and having nothing on the opponent’s side would be... bad? Let’s go with bad.
And then I'm sure it would take all of about 2 seconds to break it with something like Undying in older formats. Even you may pay 1 or 2 would have been difficult to defend from a combo perspective. This version is fair and fairly exciting.
There's an interesting tension with this and Simic's natural tendency to draw cards.
You mean a 20/20 is not big enough for you ;P ?
If this one thing I've learnt from watching Dark Depths combo loose in Legacy, and beating Serra Avatars in Urza's block standard... It's that no a 20/20 doesn't get the job done.
Edgar Markov likes this, he likes to stack +1/+1 on all your creatures, and the draw *pun intended* blood from their opponent by just declaring attacks
Where is the draw coming from? I see extra life gain, and damage but no draw.
The stadium is a very interesting design. I like how it can create a back and forth without ever fully backfiring on you. At worst, if your opponent is "winning" you end up with a crappy mana rock. At best, it gives you an alternate win con. It also presents an amusing conundrum against a control deck. They can kinda sorta ignore it, but since they won't typically be stripping counters off, it can use its mana ability to build up points and eventually get to the point where any attack becomes lethal.
And then I swung, 1 time with Flying Men and it was GG.
Hot dang, it costs no mana to put a counter? That's HUGE. One of the biggest advantages of running fewer colors is being able to get extra utility in the form of lands that tap for C, but said utility lands often come with huge mana costs that limit their usefulness to lategame mana sinks. No matter how useful Crawling Barrens is (and it's very useful btw), it's still something you'll use only if you're out of cards.
This, on the other hand, reminds me a lot of Mutavault. It's not something you use when you're out of options, it's so cheap and versatile that it's always an option. Will you play that three-drop creature, or will you main phase Heartless Act, put a counter on your creature and protect it from your opponent's Heartless Act? The opportunity cost for such utility in one- or two- colored decks seems pretty much nil. And it also acts as a fixer in a pinch? Sign me the hell up.
Maybe I'm overrating it, but this seems to be one of if not the best card previewed so far. I genuinely think if this didn't had that Sorcery speed restriction, it could see play in Modern and beyond.
I'm not entirely sure I agree with you about not paying for Crawling Barrens if you have other options. There have been plenty of times I've had a full hand and activated Barrens 2x on my opponents end step.
Actually, that missing text is probably exactly why it's an instant, at least that way you do get 1 turn with your 20 card hand before discarding to hand size.
Oh for sure, and I have no problem with a thoughtseize for WB in standard or even just pitch this for WB to give a creature +1/+1 when you draw it late game as there's plenty of times that thoughtseize is a dead draw. Of course this will be a dead draw too sometimes, just less often.
And then I'm sure it would take all of about 2 seconds to break it with something like Undying in older formats. Even you may pay 1 or 2 would have been difficult to defend from a combo perspective. This version is fair and fairly exciting.
As far the mechanic of the card, you're supposed to cast it when the value of X is academic, I like what they did there.
If this one thing I've learnt from watching Dark Depths combo loose in Legacy, and beating Serra Avatars in Urza's block standard... It's that no a 20/20 doesn't get the job done.
Where is the draw coming from? I see extra life gain, and damage but no draw.
And then I swung, 1 time with Flying Men and it was GG.
I'm not entirely sure I agree with you about not paying for Crawling Barrens if you have other options. There have been plenty of times I've had a full hand and activated Barrens 2x on my opponents end step.