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Yeah, so remember that token from before?
...Yeeeeaaaaaaah.....
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Kyousuke Kousaka- Elite Member
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Yeah, so remember that token from before?
...Yeeeeaaaaaaah.....
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Blue hoser? I can only say one thing about this: Hmm.
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Now THIS is the weirdest design I've seen so far.
Doesn't mean it's bad. But I don't know HOW good it is.
Doesn't mean it's bad. But I don't know HOW good it is.
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I hate this card. *sulks*
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JEEZ WIZARDS SPOIL EMMARA ALREADY. If the */* Elemental token isn't used on Emmara, I will drink coffee instead of tea. That's serious stuff.
Anyway, Scion of the Wild is still not an amazing token to produce, but it's alright. Feels entirely bottom-up as a hoser. There are still tons of answers to this: Syncopate, Pillar of Flame, Detention Sphere, Oblivion Ring, Fiend Hunter, Sever the Bloodline. Even Supreme Verdict renders the Elemental as a 1/1, which makes it practically worse than Doomed Traveller.
Anyway, Scion of the Wild is still not an amazing token to produce, but it's alright. Feels entirely bottom-up as a hoser. There are still tons of answers to this: Syncopate, Pillar of Flame, Detention Sphere, Oblivion Ring, Fiend Hunter, Sever the Bloodline. Even Supreme Verdict renders the Elemental as a 1/1, which makes it practically worse than Doomed Traveller.
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This card has many politics built into it though. I wanna test it on Multiplayer Commander.
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It's very susceptible to boardwipes in control, but it's mandatory to deal with if combined with other rampy options, since I feel as though Revelation at EoT would lose its value if you were staring down a bunch of 5/5s without much on board except either tokens (Esper) or a Thraggy (Bant).
Control's also playing most of the answers you mentioned, though, so eh.
Control's also playing most of the answers you mentioned, though, so eh.
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Kyousuke Kousaka wrote:It's very susceptible to boardwipes in control
Only if those boardswipes are either Terminus or Cyclonic Rift...
Card is a Skill Tester...which I very much like
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-Griselbrand- wrote:Kyousuke Kousaka wrote:It's very susceptible to boardwipes in control
Only if those boardswipes are either Terminus or Cyclonic Rift...
Card is a Skill Tester...which I very much like
Or Verdict?
The only circumstance where it causes issues is if there happens to be a Thrag on board when this leaves as well, meaning you've got a 2/2 and a 3/3 to deal with. Just a 1/1 isn't really that much.
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Looks like this card wasn't made for Standard actually.
I think that Maverick Legacy would love the shit out of this card.
I think that Maverick Legacy would love the shit out of this card.
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HSektor wrote:Looks like this card wasn't made for Standard actually.
I think that Maverick Legacy would love the shit out of this card.
Apparently, it was.
To give some context for this card, around this time last year, the Future Future League had a number of white-blue-based control decks splashing either black or red, and red-white-blue aggressive decks with Snapcaster, Augur of Bolas, and Restoration Angel. After many hours of testing and realizing just how powerful these decks were, we wanted to make sure to put a card in Dragon's Maze that would give some of the green-white aggro and midrange decks in our metagame a powerful card that had enough utility to run in the main deck, but could especially shine against the red-white-blue decks. Something that would defend against Wrath without preventing board sweepers from being a legitimate strategy. From these goals, and a few other constraints, we came up with the above design.
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