Here is the problem. If you attack with a creature with big attack and lifelink you get the counter after your attack and you have to wait a full turn circle until you can attack with those again.
The best way to use this is with Trostani like effects. So he does something when you cast him for freaky 6 mana or you have some way to get big life numbers in the same turn. Which can be problematic because those high life number cards cost a ton of mana. If you are able to cheat him to the battlefield and use some of those expensive big life gain cards good for you. If you already have access to 12 mana than great.
Small life gain cards just works better because they come in form of enchantments and with CC of max 3... sticking around granting you much more life in the end and adding some additional effects (like graveyard hate, control etc). As a cleric he would have been a little better. In my casual edh group he would be to slow in a lifegain deck other than Trostani.
In addition he needs another card to work. Archangel of Thune has lifelink and doesn't feels so clunky.
At the same time though, the effect can snowball quite well over successive turns. The larger your lifelink creature for example, the more life, the more power, etc. It's really so much fun. Being an enchantment gives it more synergy with cards than Archangel, including tutoring it, casting it for cheaper, and protecting it with cards like Sterling Grove.
Man this makes me wish we had Nykthos himself, the character, as a card.
Nykthos is a temple, not a character. Nyx is a character, but is female.
Awesome in Trostoni tokens. As long as Trostoni is on the battlefield, this dude gains you 6 life, makes all your tokens +6/6 and he himself comes in as a 10/12.
What a bunch of stinkeroo planeswalker reprints. Couldn't we have gotten, like, one of Ajani's cards, or a Garruk that wasn't just reprinted in C19, or a black planeswalker that doesn't suck?
is two years ago “just reprinted” now?
When something is worthless and better equally worthless options exist... well yeah
I get the idea is to improve the deck yourself and to find neat synergistic cards, but at a certain point its just lazy. Why put thought or creativity into it if its going to sell regardless.
Its a well done precon, way more where these things should be headed, but it couldve been better with just a hair more effort in terms of reprints
So first it was a frequency complaint, now it’s a power complaint. Do you even know what you’re complaining about or are you *****ing just to *****?
What a bunch of stinkeroo planeswalker reprints. Couldn't we have gotten, like, one of Ajani's cards, or a Garruk that wasn't just reprinted in C19, or a black planeswalker that doesn't suck?
Trudge Garden is insane in a Trostoni token deck. You can get as many tokens as you have two mana for since each one entering will trigger the life gain to allow for the next one.
LRR, if you can’t do spoilers at a reasonable time you shouldn’t get to do it. Only 5 people/groups were given the chance to spoil these, and the other four had no problems doing so at reasonable times. Get your sh!t together.
LoadingReadyRun, never heard of that channel, and its contents appear to be outside of TCG?
LLR are extremely well know but they have a few channels. Their LRRMTG one is devoted to Magic exclusively (although iDK if this one or just the all-purpose LRR is dealing with spoilers).
Why in the introduction to this write up does it say this is a weekly series (not once, but twice), and here we are on April 7th, 14 weeks into the year, and there’s been a grand total of 3 of these in 2019? These don’t even happen frequently enough to be considered monthly, let alone weekly.
It’s existed in Modern border for nearly 11 months now. 4 bucks on TCGP.
I don’t know. Are there still people that necro 6 month old threads (that don’t belong in the rumors forum anyway)?
Nykthos is a temple, not a character. Nyx is a character, but is female.
kiki-jiki and Pestermite in the background.
So first it was a frequency complaint, now it’s a power complaint. Do you even know what you’re complaining about or are you *****ing just to *****?
is two years ago “just reprinted” now?
LLR are extremely well know but they have a few channels. Their LRRMTG one is devoted to Magic exclusively (although iDK if this one or just the all-purpose LRR is dealing with spoilers).