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He was the only legend in the box of 1000 random cards I bought when first getting into the game, and he is now my favorite EDH general. I just ordered an Italian copy of Stangg to be his evil twin. - To post a comment, please login or register a new account.
I first tried Mikaeus, the Lunarch, but it was too slow. I later tried Anafenza, Kin-Tree Spirit and it was about the same speed, but even less reliable.
Swell of Courage spent at least some time in both versions of the deck. Sometimes it was very good, but even then it just always felt like I should ideally be doing something stronger. In the end, I sort of gave up on the deck exactly because cards like Swell of Courage were its best options and those cards aren't very good.
As an aside, how frigging weird is Reinforce? Looking at one card in isolation, it's really clear that this is just a modal spell templated to be as confusing as possible. Oh, and one mode is uncounterable for some reason.
Of course, there are some possibilities for them becoming stronger than they appear on the surface by bouncing or otherwise recurring them. But the truth is that, if you are doing that, you have much stronger options.
So they really sit in that spot of competitiveness bellwether. Great in a 66% deck, unplayable in a 67% deck.
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker is a second copy of Splinter Twin. And you can replace Bitter Ordeal with Impact Tremors, Warstorm Surge, or Purphoros, God of the Forge. All this means that Teardrop Kami can essentially be a second Deceiver Exarch/Zealous Conscripts in a UR Exarch Twin deck.
It's funny. The first thing I was going to say was that the art for this card is so bad that I barely even care what's in the rule box. Different strokes, I guess.
I do have trouble imagining a scenario where this is great. The blink every turn is pretty good for abusing ETB stuff, but I mean, it's got competition like, say, Conjurer's Closet. The -1 is largely irrelevant, you'll only choose it once in a blue moon and it probably won't actually help that much when you do.
The -2 is interesting, mostly because you have the option to -2 two turns in a row, use the 0 to reset her loyalty, rinse, wash, and repeat. But really, pretty much any planeswalker is a game winner in the scenario where it stays on the battlefield for 5 turns without anyone interfering with or attacking it, so that's not a very useful scenario to focus on. More often, if you use the -2 at all, this will end up being a sorcery reading: "Each opponent discards a card. You draw a card. Gain 3 life."
And I'm not playing that for 2WB in EDH.
EDIT: Wait, the clone and gargantuan will still enter with vanishing counters.... Cards like Shapesharer and Cemetery Puca work though....
That said, I would probably only run this if I was also running Liquimetal Coating for a ridiculous wombo-combo.