How does this card interact w/ Shoals? All of the Shoals have a CMC of 2 and are rare... in fact, both the Shoals and Myojin are rare... in fact-er, this is rare. This card is very "Limited Only". At least that new Soulshift 8 creature has a use finally
I think what they meant was that this card interacts well with Shoals in that both cards like your deck to be packed full of high-CC cards. In Constructed, what does rarity matter? By your logic, the card is worse in Limited (which I feel it is). I think Tora is going to make a huge splash in KBC.
Terash's Verdict looks like a nice limited card and maybe decent sideboard card for along with Purge. I'm on the fence about the Tora. I don't think play too many spirit or arcane cards with highly perverted mana cost is worth it. Why not just play the card anyway, especially if its a spirit?
[scenario]
You're playing a G/W Spirit/Arcane deck in a draft. It's the 4th turn. Your opponent is playing a slow deck, but once it gets going, it'll be hard to stop. For now, he/she has no creatures out. You've dealt 5 damage so far thanks to the efficient White creatures you drafted (with help from Kodama's Might), and you'll be able to add 6 more on this turn, but you have the sneaking suspicion that the game is going to swing the other way next turn. Last turn, you played Tora. You draw a Myojin of Life's Web. You pitch it to the Tora, turning it into a 9/9 creature, and swing for 15. On turn 4. Good game.
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Sometimes, it's better to get a one-time use out of the overcosted fatties you draft, especially if you can get that use 6 turns earlier than you could play the creature normally.
[scenario2]
You've built a decent-looking B/G Spirit/Arcane deck. Via plenty of removal, you've managed to prevent any serious threats on your opponent's side of the board, but you're a bit mana screwed, stuck at 4 mana with a Moss Kami in hand and Tora in play. You draw the new arcane Shallow Grave. You pay 2 mana to pitch the Kami, making the Tora a 6/6 creature. You then cast the shallow grave variant to reanimate the Moss Kami. Swing for 11.
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With a heavy reanimation theme in this block, being able to discard fatties and beat face because of it can be a HUGE enabler if you've managed to snag a couple good recursion cards.
Note that the 2 creatures in my examples are creatures most people would probably play in a Limited deck despite their high cost.
The downside of Verdict as I see it in Constructed is that it doesn't really phase Affinity that much. Sure, it takes down Frogmite or Worker, or an early-game Nexus, but it won't touch Ravager, Enforcer, or anything equipped with Cranial Plating. And as if that wasn't bad enough for it, it can't hit ANYTHING in Tooth and Nail. It'll be strong in Kamigawa Block though, where I expect U/B Ninjas, R/W Samurai, and mono-G Snakes to all be competitive.
As much as I would have loved for the Tora to be uncommon, it is WAY too powerful for that. As it is, it could very well end up being near the top of BOK for money rares, it looks very playable, ESP. after Mirrodin and all its artifact hate cycles out of Standard, and we get 3 full sets of Spirits and Arcane.
Tora has a LOT of potential...maybe in that Blazing Shoal deck, in case you can't get the first-turn or second-turn kill. Just pitch a Myojin to the Tora and smack them with a 10/10.
Verdict is really nice too.
Hey, the set's getting better. Woo!
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I think what they meant was that this card interacts well with Shoals in that both cards like your deck to be packed full of high-CC cards. In Constructed, what does rarity matter? By your logic, the card is worse in Limited (which I feel it is). I think Tora is going to make a huge splash in KBC.
[scenario]
You're playing a G/W Spirit/Arcane deck in a draft. It's the 4th turn. Your opponent is playing a slow deck, but once it gets going, it'll be hard to stop. For now, he/she has no creatures out. You've dealt 5 damage so far thanks to the efficient White creatures you drafted (with help from Kodama's Might), and you'll be able to add 6 more on this turn, but you have the sneaking suspicion that the game is going to swing the other way next turn. Last turn, you played Tora. You draw a Myojin of Life's Web. You pitch it to the Tora, turning it into a 9/9 creature, and swing for 15. On turn 4. Good game.
[/scenario]
Sometimes, it's better to get a one-time use out of the overcosted fatties you draft, especially if you can get that use 6 turns earlier than you could play the creature normally.
[scenario2]
You've built a decent-looking B/G Spirit/Arcane deck. Via plenty of removal, you've managed to prevent any serious threats on your opponent's side of the board, but you're a bit mana screwed, stuck at 4 mana with a Moss Kami in hand and Tora in play. You draw the new arcane Shallow Grave. You pay 2 mana to pitch the Kami, making the Tora a 6/6 creature. You then cast the shallow grave variant to reanimate the Moss Kami. Swing for 11.
[/scenario2]
With a heavy reanimation theme in this block, being able to discard fatties and beat face because of it can be a HUGE enabler if you've managed to snag a couple good recursion cards.
Note that the 2 creatures in my examples are creatures most people would probably play in a Limited deck despite their high cost.
OMG you're right. Wow, BOK is REALLY pushing the reanimation theme. This makes 3 reanimators and a discard engine.
Verdict is really nice too.
Hey, the set's getting better. Woo!