I am fond of Imposing Sovereign, for the flavor of it, but I believe that she could have been a 2/2 for that mana cost and not have been overpowered. To be very frank, even with her powerful ability, I find that a creature who can be so easily destroyed is not very "imposing," at all.
How many monarchs have you known that have been physically strong? In all honesty, the fact that she comes with a small body is fitting for the card.
Plus, her ability can easily be countered with an amulet of vigor, which itself has a lower mana cost than does she...
This is some pretty terrible reasoning. I suppose we should never play a single copy of Thundermaw Hellkite in a deck because it dies to a card that costs two mana. And with the same logic, I'm pretty sure that Voice of Resurgence should see no play whatsoever and be a $2 mythic because Pillar of Flame 'counters' it and costs less mana. Amulet of Vigor has very limited applications outside of this interaction, and even then it's not that powerful. If you play Amulet of Vigor and your opponent plays the Sovereign, you've now got a card that does next to nothing whilst your opponent has a 2/1 creature.
and finally, blind obedience has the same mana cost as her, but is more powerful, and also is less vulnerable to being destroyed.
Blind Obedience can't trade a Rakdos Cackler, nor can it kill an opponent at 2 life (without using Extort, admittedly). You're comparing apples to bananas here.
"Why does white get this and my favorite color does not?"
What's with the obsession between card equality across the board? Obviously they can't make a cycle out of everything. White gets the most hate bears. That's the designated color. You don't ever hear white mages asking for removal (though we did get one in Celestial Flare, so nyaha!).
The creature is indeed interesting, but i'm wondering how good it actually is. We have War Priest of Thune legal in standard, but most aggro decks choose other enchantment removal (Ray of Revelation) if they do decide to devote some slots in the sideboard. I understand that flashback is nice, but having a body in the board is also nice. This is sort of similar with Blind Obedience and Imposing Sovereign--but not completely because we are talking about different decks that they will be boarded in.
This is even a main deckable card because it actually attacks. Blind Obedience is just dead against some (most?) decks.
I'm surprised so many people think being a creature is a drawback. Fiend Hunter is seeing play in decks that don't run Oblivion Ring. And Fiend Hunter has much more drawbacks compared to Oblivion Ring than Imposing Sovereign has compared to Blind Obedience, most notably that it can't hit artifacts, enchantments and planeswalkers, and that being more susceptible to removal is way more relevant for a Fiend Hunter than for an Imposing Sovereign.
In an aggro deck, Imposing Sovereign is highly maindeckable, while Blind Obedience is barely sideboardable...
Me, I'm just glad we got our first good white card in M14 (Brave the Elements and Archangel of Thune are fine, but more speculative in my opinion)
"Why does white get this and my favorite color does not?"
What's with the obsession between card equality across the board? Obviously they can't make a cycle out of everything. White gets the most hate bears. That's the designated color. You don't ever hear white mages asking for removal (though we did get one in Celestial Flare, so nyaha!).
The creature is indeed interesting, but i'm wondering how good it actually is. We have War Priest of Thune legal in standard, but most aggro decks choose other enchantment removal (Ray of Revelation) if they do decide to devote some slots in the sideboard. I understand that flashback is nice, but having a body in the board is also nice. This is sort of similar with Blind Obedience and Imposing Sovereign--but not completely because we are talking about different decks that they will be boarded in.
This is even a main deckable card because it actually attacks. Blind Obedience is just dead against some (most?) decks.
I guess its about wanting to have an equal chance in the environment...
which you know its bad enough that it is inevitable that everyone loses its a lot more egregious because there are a lot of us that are SUPER arrogant about the color/archetype they're fond of/using at the moment.
So yeah everyone wants and should reasonably expect some kind of parity when it comes to general card strength, (though its always till recently been skewed toward certain colors/styles of play when it comes to standard over the years)
As for your other two "thoughts":
Look "WHITE" gets some good hate bears but Ash Zealot was the greatest hate bear till Voice.
Second. White players (such as they are) don't complain about removal because they freaking get removal.
I mean we started with Stp and we still have oblivion ring, and others. Its seriously even a thing for colors to be all over the place nowdays.
Color pie is just an odd periodically defined thing.
Some people just don't want good card throughout all the colors. It seems so silly.
I guess its about wanting to have an equal chance in the environment...
which you know its bad enough that it is inevitable that everyone loses its a lot more egregious because there are a lot of us that are SUPER arrogant about the color/archetype they're fond of/using at the moment.
So yeah everyone wants and should reasonably expect some kind of parity when it comes to general card strength, (though its always till recently been skewed toward certain colors/styles of play when it comes to standard over the years)
As for your other two "thoughts": Look "WHITE" gets some good hate bears but Ash Zealot was the greatest hate bear till Voice.
Second. White players (such as they are) don't complain about removal because they freaking get removal.
I mean we started with Stp and we still have oblivion ring, and others. Its seriously even a thing for colors to be all over the place nowdays.
Color pie is just an odd periodically defined thing.
Some people just don't want good card throughout all the colors. It seems so silly.
Nobody really used Ash Zealot as a "hate bear" and anybody who thought it hosed anything (snapcaster) is beyond rescuing. No blue mage out there retired their Snapcasters because of Ash Zealot. I will admit that it does limit flashback use a little bit, but aggro plays Ash Zealot because it is a 2/2 haste with first strike in an environment where there are a lot of 2 toughness creatures.
The last good white removal spell white had was Path to Exile (maybe Oust?) and that was so long ago. But the point I was trying to make was that it's a bit silly to complain about not getting Swords to Plowshares when wotc decides to reprint Lightning Bolt.
It just seems like every time the color white gets something new, people are quick to point out that the color is getting too many good stuff while their favorite gets no love. If you ask me, white is actually a pretty underpowered and underrepresented color right now--in Standard. Before anybody mentions the power of Lingering Souls, Sphinx's Revelation, Geist of Saint Traft and Boros Reckoner, I would just like to point out that these cards are played in non-white decks more often than they do appear in decks where white is actually the dominating color. Lingering Souls is a junk card, Sphinx and Geist is a blue card and Boros Reckoner is a red card.
With that being said, Imposing Sovereign IS a white card. It will likely go in a mainly white humans list (like Boros) being that it's a cheap card that supports an aggressive strategy. So, the white deck finally gets something for them to play with and the general reaction is asking for something similar to be given to the other colors and strategies that are already stacked with good cards.
Maybe it's unfair to make it seem like white is the only color where this happens. I remember looking through the comments about Kalonian Tusker, and reading how people were upset that green got another nice 2 drop YET AGAIN, as if green got anything other than nice creatures in the past since, I don't know, the year 2000 or something? I mean it really is just obvious that any color other than green wouldn't--and shouldnt--get a 3/3 for 3 with no drawback like a GG creature would. In relation, any other color shouldn't be able to get a 2 mana utility creature as often as white gets it. Call me a color-pie traditionalist, that's fine by me.
B: She can't have the proper secondary type, Lord, because she doesn't serve the function of a "Lord" for the purpose of the card game. Also, Wizards does not seem to support the secondary type that is otherwise more appropriate for her.
I still call BS on that. Lord and the abilities associated with it was mostly slang, and the fact that they killed the creature type because it didn't match their in-house slang is infuriating.
And for the last time why the EFF WEREN'T THE GOBLIN DIPLOMATS TYPED ADVISOR?!
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So do you intend to use the Aid to get the enchantment out of the graveyard? That seems like a lot of work for little effect. I would much rather get a bomb that ends the game. And if you are talking about getting Flames, well, it is has to be a permanent in order to be returned with aid.
How many monarchs have you known that have been physically strong? In all honesty, the fact that she comes with a small body is fitting for the card.
This is some pretty terrible reasoning. I suppose we should never play a single copy of Thundermaw Hellkite in a deck because it dies to a card that costs two mana. And with the same logic, I'm pretty sure that Voice of Resurgence should see no play whatsoever and be a $2 mythic because Pillar of Flame 'counters' it and costs less mana. Amulet of Vigor has very limited applications outside of this interaction, and even then it's not that powerful. If you play Amulet of Vigor and your opponent plays the Sovereign, you've now got a card that does next to nothing whilst your opponent has a 2/1 creature.
Blind Obedience can't trade a Rakdos Cackler, nor can it kill an opponent at 2 life (without using Extort, admittedly). You're comparing apples to bananas here.
What's with the obsession between card equality across the board? Obviously they can't make a cycle out of everything. White gets the most hate bears. That's the designated color. You don't ever hear white mages asking for removal (though we did get one in Celestial Flare, so nyaha!).
The creature is indeed interesting, but i'm wondering how good it actually is. We have War Priest of Thune legal in standard, but most aggro decks choose other enchantment removal (Ray of Revelation) if they do decide to devote some slots in the sideboard. I understand that flashback is nice, but having a body in the board is also nice. This is sort of similar with Blind Obedience and Imposing Sovereign--but not completely because we are talking about different decks that they will be boarded in.
This is even a main deckable card because it actually attacks. Blind Obedience is just dead against some (most?) decks.
I'm surprised so many people think being a creature is a drawback. Fiend Hunter is seeing play in decks that don't run Oblivion Ring. And Fiend Hunter has much more drawbacks compared to Oblivion Ring than Imposing Sovereign has compared to Blind Obedience, most notably that it can't hit artifacts, enchantments and planeswalkers, and that being more susceptible to removal is way more relevant for a Fiend Hunter than for an Imposing Sovereign.
In an aggro deck, Imposing Sovereign is highly maindeckable, while Blind Obedience is barely sideboardable...
Me, I'm just glad we got our first good white card in M14 (Brave the Elements and Archangel of Thune are fine, but more speculative in my opinion)
I guess its about wanting to have an equal chance in the environment...
which you know its bad enough that it is inevitable that everyone loses its a lot more egregious because there are a lot of us that are SUPER arrogant about the color/archetype they're fond of/using at the moment.
So yeah everyone wants and should reasonably expect some kind of parity when it comes to general card strength, (though its always till recently been skewed toward certain colors/styles of play when it comes to standard over the years)
As for your other two "thoughts":
Look "WHITE" gets some good hate bears but Ash Zealot was the greatest hate bear till Voice.
Second. White players (such as they are) don't complain about removal because they freaking get removal.
I mean we started with Stp and we still have oblivion ring, and others. Its seriously even a thing for colors to be all over the place nowdays.
Color pie is just an odd periodically defined thing.
Some people just don't want good card throughout all the colors. It seems so silly.
Nobody really used Ash Zealot as a "hate bear" and anybody who thought it hosed anything (snapcaster) is beyond rescuing. No blue mage out there retired their Snapcasters because of Ash Zealot. I will admit that it does limit flashback use a little bit, but aggro plays Ash Zealot because it is a 2/2 haste with first strike in an environment where there are a lot of 2 toughness creatures.
The last good white removal spell white had was Path to Exile (maybe Oust?) and that was so long ago. But the point I was trying to make was that it's a bit silly to complain about not getting Swords to Plowshares when wotc decides to reprint Lightning Bolt.
It just seems like every time the color white gets something new, people are quick to point out that the color is getting too many good stuff while their favorite gets no love. If you ask me, white is actually a pretty underpowered and underrepresented color right now--in Standard. Before anybody mentions the power of Lingering Souls, Sphinx's Revelation, Geist of Saint Traft and Boros Reckoner, I would just like to point out that these cards are played in non-white decks more often than they do appear in decks where white is actually the dominating color. Lingering Souls is a junk card, Sphinx and Geist is a blue card and Boros Reckoner is a red card.
With that being said, Imposing Sovereign IS a white card. It will likely go in a mainly white humans list (like Boros) being that it's a cheap card that supports an aggressive strategy. So, the white deck finally gets something for them to play with and the general reaction is asking for something similar to be given to the other colors and strategies that are already stacked with good cards.
Maybe it's unfair to make it seem like white is the only color where this happens. I remember looking through the comments about Kalonian Tusker, and reading how people were upset that green got another nice 2 drop YET AGAIN, as if green got anything other than nice creatures in the past since, I don't know, the year 2000 or something? I mean it really is just obvious that any color other than green wouldn't--and shouldnt--get a 3/3 for 3 with no drawback like a GG creature would. In relation, any other color shouldn't be able to get a 2 mana utility creature as often as white gets it. Call me a color-pie traditionalist, that's fine by me.
I still call BS on that. Lord and the abilities associated with it was mostly slang, and the fact that they killed the creature type because it didn't match their in-house slang is infuriating.
And for the last time why the EFF WEREN'T THE GOBLIN DIPLOMATS TYPED ADVISOR?!
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So do you intend to use the Aid to get the enchantment out of the graveyard? That seems like a lot of work for little effect. I would much rather get a bomb that ends the game. And if you are talking about getting Flames, well, it is has to be a permanent in order to be returned with aid.