The Scry 3 clearly isn't as good as drawing a card, but it's definitely a weaker form of card advantage, AND you don't have to wait until the wurm dies to reap the benefit.
It's not any form of card advantage; that's not what the phrase means.
I like the upfront scry more than the death trigger draw, but I also like the guaranteed 7 life on the wurm. Scry 3 is certainly comparable in value to drawing a card. They're pretty close cards.
It's Virtual Card Advantage. You have the same amount of cards before and after, but your likelihood of drawing dead cards decreases.
Indeed. If you'e playing a 7-drop creature, you probably don't need more land. If you like gaining life and aren't tremendously unlucky, you're probably putting a nonland card on the top of your library, and all the lands to the bottom.
Yeah, what they all said.
Card advantage is not the same thing as simply drawing a card or forcing your opponent to use more cards than you. Those fall under the umbrella of card advantage, but the term also includes things like filtering out dead cards either through scrying or looting (which is why Smuggler's Copter is widely regarded as a card advantage engine even though it doesn't actually net you any additional cards). The Mothership posted an entire article dedicated to the different forms of card advantage almost three years ago, actually.
"Virtual card advantage" isn't the same thing, and the writers on the mtg site have said as much. Scrying isn't card advantage.
The Sigiled Starfish has never technically given Jenny card advantage, it's simply changed what cards wound up in her hand. Nevertheless, it's given her virtual card advantage by helping her avoid dead cards.
When I see Healing Salve, I'm often like "Oh girl, I wish I could turn every card into this." Thanks they removed the gain life part, otherwise this would have been broken.
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Yeah, what they all said.
Card advantage is not the same thing as simply drawing a card or forcing your opponent to use more cards than you. Those fall under the umbrella of card advantage, but the term also includes things like filtering out dead cards either through scrying or looting (which is why Smuggler's Copter is widely regarded as a card advantage engine even though it doesn't actually net you any additional cards). The Mothership posted an entire article dedicated to the different forms of card advantage almost three years ago, actually.
There you go. From:
http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/level-one/basics-card-advantage-2015-07-13