Love the deck! You appear to have a fair number of triggered abilities - have you given any thought to Strionic Resonator? Seems like it could be fun with any of the Inspired effects, and if you ever did include Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger...well, that would be fun too.
I agree and I think (much like a lot of green cards) it is a victim of the way we organize cube and have so little room for multicolor cards. I am tempted to slot it into my rainbow section where I keep a lot of hybrid and 3 color cards. It misses a little not being able to get broken planewalkers, artifacts, and enchantments. But ramping into it will a bird for natural order into something dumb. Also people are pretty down on 4+ mana tutors but I think they overlook what those are bad(aren't casting the card in the same turn). If you support combo or 5 color in your cube I say for it.
This is exactly what I've done with it. I have a ten card rainbow section just like you, and this card is perfect for it. The ability to pull and cast Wrath of God, Thundermaw Hellkite, and everything in between is pretty potent and I can't wait to see it in action.
In order for the Winter lands to sell product the same way as the Battle for Zendikar lands, they'll have to be as desirable as fetches and shocks. Manlands, filterlands, "Zendikar-themed" lands like Valakut...all of these are interesting, but they don't have the wow factor that fetches and shocks do. To me, if they really want these to "delight and surprise" like MaRo spoke about in the article that spoiled all the Expedition art, they'll have to do something big.
My guess: They're going to "preprint" legendary, comes into play untapped, dual basic-land-type lands, or something similar.
They already have established that the Expeditions aren't legal in any format outside Draft or Sealed that they're not already legal in, so there would be no worry about breaking Modern or Standard with something really, really cool. It would allow them to print something that would continue that mad pack-cracking that BFZ will be about without having to have that "feel bad" moment of opening the B/R filterland or manland Expedition.
With Drana and the terrible vampire, black now has 2 mythics and 6 rares, so unless this card is common or uncommon, it can't get in without severely messing with the rarity balance.
In theory it has devoid, which would put it in the colorless rarity scheme. No idea if the number crunch has made that invalid yet or not though.
I like this card a lot. Not better than the two walkers, but I'll probably try it out over Izzet Charm. It's a marvelous Swiss army knife, between bouncing spells, exiling creatures, and being colorless. Being able to bounce Sword carriers because of devoid will be a nasty surprise. Four mana is a lot, but there's so much utility here that I'll have to give it a shot.
You really had to play with the Phantom creatures in Judgement to understand how good this card is on both offense and defense. Unlike Predator Ooze it doesn't require a heavy green commitment, and unlike Unbreathing Horde it doesn't require any board presence or anything in your yard. Having more than one of these out at a time will be ridiculous - imagine a line of T3: this, T4: another this, fetch, crack. Hopefully it's legendary, otherwise there's a lot of silliness coming in October.
I'd say I'm surprised you're not getting more credit, but this is the website that called Origins Chandra fake when it was spoiled early. Do you remember what Omnath does? Or Gideon's second ability? Thank you for posting what you know here.
Edit: Whoops, forgot the quote. This is directed to OblivionedOne.
I was running Noxious Revival in the colorless section and cut that to test it. Noxious is a fringe pet card and this is a fairly good slot to test the walker in. Link to your list?
What are people cutting for this card? I run a powered 450 list, and I'm not sure of what I would remove. I don't know if a like-for-like cut is warranted - I'm depending neutering ramp the tiniest bit by removing Basalt Monolith. Any thoughts or opinions are welcomed.
1) Costs two mana instead of four
2) Only needs blue instead of blue and white
3) You can flashback spells you cast before casting Jace with Jace, whereas with Narset you have to have her in play first before you can cast the spell twice
4) Jace let's you get your flashbacked spell now, whereas Narset makes you wait a turn to get the rebounded spell
5) Jace is unconditional card draw and grows your graveyard, Narset might not draw you the card
When Delve cycles out of Standard you might see Jace decrease in price, but I doubt it. The fact that he costs two mana is king. I can cast him late in the game with plenty of mana left over to protect him. I can cast him early in the game when boards are still developing. If they kill him when a spell that costs two, it's card parity. If they use a spell that costs three or more, its a tempo win for me. If he gets Wild Slashed, oh well, I only spent two mana on him. He's the real deal, and that's really all there is to it.
This is exactly what I've done with it. I have a ten card rainbow section just like you, and this card is perfect for it. The ability to pull and cast Wrath of God, Thundermaw Hellkite, and everything in between is pretty potent and I can't wait to see it in action.
My guess: They're going to "preprint" legendary, comes into play untapped, dual basic-land-type lands, or something similar.
They already have established that the Expeditions aren't legal in any format outside Draft or Sealed that they're not already legal in, so there would be no worry about breaking Modern or Standard with something really, really cool. It would allow them to print something that would continue that mad pack-cracking that BFZ will be about without having to have that "feel bad" moment of opening the B/R filterland or manland Expedition.
In theory it has devoid, which would put it in the colorless rarity scheme. No idea if the number crunch has made that invalid yet or not though.
Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger
10
Legendary Creature - Eldrazi
When you cast Ulamog, the Ceaseless Hunger, exile two target permanents.
Indestructible
Whenever Ulamog attacks, defending player exiles the top twenty cards of their library.
10/10
Edit: Whoops, forgot the quote. This is directed to OblivionedOne.
Yeah, a list would be helpful wouldn't it?
http://www.cubetutor.com/viewcube/16013
I did consider Masticore as a cut, but I just can't bring myself to do it yet. Nostalgia might be working against me here.
1) Costs two mana instead of four
2) Only needs blue instead of blue and white
3) You can flashback spells you cast before casting Jace with Jace, whereas with Narset you have to have her in play first before you can cast the spell twice
4) Jace let's you get your flashbacked spell now, whereas Narset makes you wait a turn to get the rebounded spell
5) Jace is unconditional card draw and grows your graveyard, Narset might not draw you the card
When Delve cycles out of Standard you might see Jace decrease in price, but I doubt it. The fact that he costs two mana is king. I can cast him late in the game with plenty of mana left over to protect him. I can cast him early in the game when boards are still developing. If they kill him when a spell that costs two, it's card parity. If they use a spell that costs three or more, its a tempo win for me. If he gets Wild Slashed, oh well, I only spent two mana on him. He's the real deal, and that's really all there is to it.
I second this request - it'd be a shame if this just fell into the depths after all the work that went into it.