I've found the quality of cards in Dimir drops off fairly quickly after Strix/ Tezz/ Notion Thief. I've found this to be a fairly reasonable filler during MKM drafts as a Baleful Strix variant to ambush an attacker and Surveil 2 + Clue, which is agurably better than draw 1.
EDIT - I did not realize the death trigger is on cast and not EOT. Yah this isn't that good.
I think this card is a classic example of being good in retail limited that makes you think twice about it in cube. The floor of a 2/2 bear with flash is extremely relevant in MKM limited with disguise / cloak running around, but I don't think this translates well to cube unless you can reliably trigger morbid. I've never found morbid to be consistent without explicit aristocrats support with a lot of sac outlets. Without morbid this is quite lackluster. Dimir doesn't have a lot of bombs, but it does have a lot of great role players that I think are much more useful than this like Tainted Indulgence / Sauron's Ransom / Kaito Shizuki / etc.
as a Baleful Strix variant to ambush an attacker and Surveil 2 + Clue, which is agurably better than draw 1.
Not sure how you are getting both of those effects. The morbid trigger is checked when the spell resolves, not at end of turn. You can't activate that effect by trading with the generated 2/2. If you could I would be interested, but this card needs too much support as is for not enough payoff.
as a Baleful Strix variant to ambush an attacker and Surveil 2 + Clue, which is agurably better than draw 1.
Not sure how you are getting both of those effects. The morbid trigger is checked when the spell resolves, not at end of turn. You can't activate that effect by trading with the generated 2/2. If you could I would be interested, but this card needs too much support as is for not enough payoff.
I've found the quality of cards in Dimir drops off fairly quickly after Strix/ Tezz/ Notion Thief. I've found this to be a fairly reasonable filler during MKM drafts as a Baleful Strix variant to ambush an attacker and Surveil 2 + Clue, which is agurably better than draw 1.
EDIT - I did not realize the death trigger is on cast and not EOT. Yah this isn't that good.
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Not sure how you are getting both of those effects. The morbid trigger is checked when the spell resolves, not at end of turn. You can't activate that effect by trading with the generated 2/2. If you could I would be interested, but this card needs too much support as is for not enough payoff.
Oh I see. It's check on cast and not EOT?
It's checked on resolution, not cast.
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