When Torrential Gearhulk enters the battlefield, you may cast target instant card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that card would be put into your graveyard this turn, exile it instead.
Hmm, interesting. Not entirely impressed, creating a 1/1 flying thopter for 4 seems like too much investment. Still, could find a home in my Esper Thopters deck.
His second ability makes servo tokens, not thopters
"When Cataclysmic Gearhulk enters the battlefield, each player chooses from among the non-land permanents he or she controls an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker, then sacrifices the rest."
4/5
Is this a possible SB card against (non-land) permanent-heavy decks?
It's a nice card, I'm just tired of limited being an excuse for upshifting rarity on everything. In this limited environment I can't tell how far off this is from Armament Corps which was an uncommon. Two extra counters make it an iffy rare. I basically see trample taking it from rare to mythic.
I went 6-3 at GP guangzhou with a list almost the same as the SCG one but with a lavinia of the tenth and a RIP in SB. My record is a bit of a farce but if you're interested you can keep reading.
Here's my report:
Round 1: I was 40 minutes late to the venue, so I was surprised they even let me play. I got an auto game loss for tardiness and g2 I find myself playing lantern control and a t3 bridge, 0-1
Round 2: I play UR pyromancer's ascension with thing the ice. Game one he plays multiple ToiT and gets them flipped. Couldn't do much. Game 2 I SB in natural state and EE. I blow up his first ascension and he plays a second. when he's at 4 life or so he combos off, 0-2
Round 3: I play UG infect, his G1 is kind of slow and I get spellskite out, so I take it. G2 we both have spellskites out so I just keep redirecting distortion strike to make him pay life. I play lavinia of the tenth (displacer was out too), which stopped spellskite and hierarch from blocking/using abilities. He did have inkmoths but they were way too slow and my eldrazi were basically unblockable, 1-2
Round 4: I play against elves. G1 he plays a nettle setinel? t1, t2 he has about 5 1/1 elves (heritage druid, llanowar), t3 he topdecks ezuri and i get steamrolled. G2 I side in cage and explosives, i mulligan to 2 forest, temple, TKS, cage and PTE. I play cage T1, TKS T3 and take an elf (i see he has chord and company in hand as well), but unfortunately i get mana devastate and he flips westvale abbey for ormendahl, profane prince and I'm sitting with two PTE in hand and no white mana sources, i top deck explosives thinking it matters and it doesn't 1-3
Round 5: My opponent didn't show up, 2-3
Round 6: Bant Eldrazi mirror. Win game 1, look stupid in G2 with enchantment removal and worship in hand and nothing else. G3 is a long one and there's board stalls. I misplay by attacking agressively with a topdeck'd reality smasher and my opponent doesn't understand how eldrazi displacer works, thinking that his drowner of hope dies when he blocks my exalted reality smasher, but unfortunately it means his takes 6 trample damage. i leave myself in a spot where he can attack me with matter reshaper and 2 exalted triggers for lethal but he doesnt see it, next turn i kill him with a bunch of mana, drowner of hope/displacer. 3-3
Round 7: Ad Nauseum. I almost win game 1 by ravaging his hand with TKS, but phyrexian unlife does a lot of work in slowing the game down and he top decked ad nauseum. Game 2, he played slaughter pact, and forgot to pay in the upkeep and drew the card, which is a game loss. Game 3 I am able to put the pressure on and he is out of luck. 4-3
Round 8: RG tron. His version was a really bad matchup against my deck. Played karn, ulamog, and a random platinum angel? Anyhow, game one he wins. Game 2 he exiles my hierarchs with ulamog when I have 3 lands, but I just PTE ulamog and keep the pressure on. Game 3 was a long one that went to turns, but I made the dude so mad. Every threat he played I had PTE for, and when he played karn he would just die the next turn. I thought knot'd a threat, he played oblivion stone (he had another one in hand), cracked it to kill TKS, i topdeck another TKS and take his other oblivion stone, and he gets close to milling. In turns I topdeck a land to play smasher when he is at 10 life on T2, and kill him T4. 5-3
Round 9: UWR Nahiri: Lose game 1. I felt really bad because I took a verdict instead of an emrakul with TKS but the emrakul later killed me. Game 2 i got cage and rest in peace in the early turns and his deck just couldn't do anything, and it was satisfying to watch. G3 I started with like..2 cages and a ROP, but didn't want to walk into explosives or wear/tear so I played them slowly while attacking. It went to turns and the dude conceded, but I had the feeling I was gonna win. 6-3
There's my tale of horrible coincidences and misplays. I made day two, but I had to leave early. I would say spellskite is a monster and ruins so many decks for such little effort. Worship usually under-performed in every game so I'm a little iffy on it. Displacer did a lot of work as usual. I think my 1x elder deep fiend needs to go, and it never really did anything.
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand, you may search your library for a creature card with the same total power and toughness and put it onto the battlefield. If you do, shuffle your library.
(4)(U)(U) Artifact Creature - Construct
Flash
When Torrential Gearhulk enters the battlefield, you may cast target instant card from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that card would be put into your graveyard this turn, exile it instead.
5/6
His second ability makes servo tokens, not thopters
Name (estimate): Trinket Mastercraft The crunch puts it before P so we're going with Master Trinketcrafter
Creature - Dwarf Artificer 2W
Servo and thopter creatures you control get +1/+1.
3W: Create a 1/1 colorless Servo artifact creature token.
3/2
I was confused but Servo are the new creature type that also show up from the fabricate mechanic e.g. propeller pioneer
kinda sad cause i doubt any new card is gonna beat his old two in terms of spikeyness
Is this a possible SB card against (non-land) permanent-heavy decks?
Why are you talking to yourself?
Here's my report:
Round 1: I was 40 minutes late to the venue, so I was surprised they even let me play. I got an auto game loss for tardiness and g2 I find myself playing lantern control and a t3 bridge, 0-1
Round 2: I play UR pyromancer's ascension with thing the ice. Game one he plays multiple ToiT and gets them flipped. Couldn't do much. Game 2 I SB in natural state and EE. I blow up his first ascension and he plays a second. when he's at 4 life or so he combos off, 0-2
Round 3: I play UG infect, his G1 is kind of slow and I get spellskite out, so I take it. G2 we both have spellskites out so I just keep redirecting distortion strike to make him pay life. I play lavinia of the tenth (displacer was out too), which stopped spellskite and hierarch from blocking/using abilities. He did have inkmoths but they were way too slow and my eldrazi were basically unblockable, 1-2
Round 4: I play against elves. G1 he plays a nettle setinel? t1, t2 he has about 5 1/1 elves (heritage druid, llanowar), t3 he topdecks ezuri and i get steamrolled. G2 I side in cage and explosives, i mulligan to 2 forest, temple, TKS, cage and PTE. I play cage T1, TKS T3 and take an elf (i see he has chord and company in hand as well), but unfortunately i get mana devastate and he flips westvale abbey for ormendahl, profane prince and I'm sitting with two PTE in hand and no white mana sources, i top deck explosives thinking it matters and it doesn't
Round 5: My opponent didn't show up, 2-3
Round 6: Bant Eldrazi mirror. Win game 1, look stupid in G2 with enchantment removal and worship in hand and nothing else. G3 is a long one and there's board stalls. I misplay by attacking agressively with a topdeck'd reality smasher and my opponent doesn't understand how eldrazi displacer works, thinking that his drowner of hope dies when he blocks my exalted reality smasher, but unfortunately it means his takes 6 trample damage. i leave myself in a spot where he can attack me with matter reshaper and 2 exalted triggers for lethal but he doesnt see it, next turn i kill him with a bunch of mana, drowner of hope/displacer. 3-3
Round 7: Ad Nauseum. I almost win game 1 by ravaging his hand with TKS, but phyrexian unlife does a lot of work in slowing the game down and he top decked ad nauseum. Game 2, he played slaughter pact, and forgot to pay in the upkeep and drew the card, which is a game loss. Game 3 I am able to put the pressure on and he is out of luck. 4-3
Round 8: RG tron. His version was a really bad matchup against my deck. Played karn, ulamog, and a random platinum angel? Anyhow, game one he wins. Game 2 he exiles my hierarchs with ulamog when I have 3 lands, but I just PTE ulamog and keep the pressure on. Game 3 was a long one that went to turns, but I made the dude so mad. Every threat he played I had PTE for, and when he played karn he would just die the next turn. I thought knot'd a threat, he played oblivion stone (he had another one in hand), cracked it to kill TKS, i topdeck another TKS and take his other oblivion stone, and he gets close to milling. In turns I topdeck a land to play smasher when he is at 10 life on T2, and kill him T4. 5-3
Round 9: UWR Nahiri: Lose game 1. I felt really bad because I took a verdict instead of an emrakul with TKS but the emrakul later killed me. Game 2 i got cage and rest in peace in the early turns and his deck just couldn't do anything, and it was satisfying to watch. G3 I started with like..2 cages and a ROP, but didn't want to walk into explosives or wear/tear so I played them slowly while attacking. It went to turns and the dude conceded, but I had the feeling I was gonna win. 6-3
There's my tale of horrible coincidences and misplays. I made day two, but I had to leave early. I would say spellskite is a monster and ruins so many decks for such little effort. Worship usually under-performed in every game so I'm a little iffy on it. Displacer did a lot of work as usual. I think my 1x elder deep fiend needs to go, and it never really did anything.
wild pair
Wild Pair
{4}{G}{G} Enchantment
Whenever a creature enters the battlefield, if you cast it from your hand, you may search your library for a creature card with the same total power and toughness and put it onto the battlefield. If you do, shuffle your library.