MTG Salvation

*SNORT*
This is so hilariously gross in the decks that already go nuts with Ajani's Pridemates.

I mean if you have two cards that do basically the same thing and one costs 1W and the other costs 3W ... Ajani's Pridemate are overall a better card for being easily supported low cost drop that can pull together life gain and effective aggro. But what this card does is give the Ajani's Pridemate deck more ammo. The Gideon text is nearly irrelevant but I guess useful potentially.

I wouldn't call "grows twice as fast and ignores all the boardwipes and other removal that cares about being less than 4 CMC" inferior. It's just a different place on the curve.

I mean, both are kind of "answer this or die", so this is an inferior 5th to 8th Ajani's Pridemate but still HIGHLY usable.

When comparing this to Ajani's Pridemate, you have to realize this is immune to Shock and Ritual of Soot. It also gets out of range of a lot of other removal with a single trigger while Ajani's Pridemate may need multiple triggers.