It is a bit redundant to have two costs like this, why would you want to pay 3 if you have 1 mana option. It may have been templeted of Crystal Shard, but that artifact is really only good with blue mana.
Maybe the 1 mana option could have been pay one life, this adds a bit of tension to the activation.
See i was thinking like you on this one until Faerie Lord explained it to me. It goes along this line
Venser's Ambulator -
Legendary Artifact : Remove target creature you control from the game. At the end of turn, return that card to play under its owner’s control. :1mana:, : Remove target creature you control from the game. At the end of turn, return that card to play under its owner’s control.
Grandeur — Discard another card named Venser’s Ambulator: Destroy all artifacts and creatures. They can’t be regenerated. It took an instant for Venser to vanish. It took an instant for Oleg il-Dal to stare at the detonating powerstones.
So if you had 4 mana open you can get 2 creatures you control RFG (1 via "high activation" cost and one by "cheap + tap" activation cost) and the use the grandeur ability so that by the end of turn you get them back, the more mana you have to spend the better this card gets with your creatures.
Can anybody enlight me on why this card has 2 activation costs? like it might be just because i'm looking at it at 1 am but i just..don't get that part.
Other than that i do like the card all around. Congrats on the win man.
Spellwild Ouphe revolving "mana cost" and "auras" into 1 single card (you know enchanting your creature for less but removal being cheaper on him as well). Plus it does have those eyes kinda like Mistmeadow Skulk regarding as how that is widely accepted as being "in" the set. Maybe creatures in this sort of "mirror" world had to adapt their eyes since it's all based around shadows.
Yes i know it might be too far fetched but hey it's just an idea... besides it's 12:45 am haha.
Not only that, but he went 3-0, 3-0, 3-1 through the top 8.
he wen't 3-0, 3-1, 3-1 on the top 8
Edit: And yeah i was all giddy watching all the games, never saw him play LIVE and now with his status it was very impressive for me to know that this was THE best player just tapping the cards to the red zone.
I agree with Guesswork too. With all of the above mentioned all that i have left to say is that, people is making their own judgment about that single card and not the izzet guild as a whole. That often happens to people, they start to "see" what the card cannot do instead of what it really does.
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I think this is rather a publicity movement being held by woct, to "catch the eye" of players that don't use mtg.com
We had the preview of Char in tcgplayer.com. though.
And yeah the angel was HOT without the card frame and now looks HOTTER THAN HELL itself!!
Great article, only missed one Question
See i was thinking like you on this one until Faerie Lord explained it to me. It goes along this line
Venser's Ambulator -
Legendary Artifact
:1mana:,
Grandeur — Discard another card named Venser’s Ambulator: Destroy all artifacts and creatures. They can’t be regenerated.
It took an instant for Venser to vanish. It took an instant for Oleg il-Dal to stare at the detonating powerstones.
So if you had 4 mana open you can get 2 creatures you control RFG (1 via "high activation" cost and one by "cheap + tap" activation cost) and the use the grandeur ability so that by the end of turn you get them back, the more mana you have to spend the better this card gets with your creatures.
Hope that helps.
Other than that i do like the card all around. Congrats on the win man.
Spellwild Ouphe revolving "mana cost" and "auras" into 1 single card (you know enchanting your creature for less but removal being cheaper on him as well). Plus it does have those eyes kinda like Mistmeadow Skulk regarding as how that is widely accepted as being "in" the set. Maybe creatures in this sort of "mirror" world had to adapt their eyes since it's all based around shadows.
Yes i know it might be too far fetched but hey it's just an idea... besides it's 12:45 am haha.
he wen't 3-0, 3-1, 3-1 on the top 8
Edit: And yeah i was all giddy watching all the games, never saw him play LIVE and now with his status it was very impressive for me to know that this was THE best player just tapping the cards to the red zone.
Probably Psychic Drain IMO
Thnx in advance.
We had the preview of Char in tcgplayer.com. though.
And yeah the angel was HOT without the card frame and now looks HOTTER THAN HELL itself!!
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