Wrath of God is an amazing target for this, who here wouldn't play a 3UU wrath of God, except me because that is definitely not an effect I would put in blue
Y'all are arguing whether Arcane Savant with Terror (not even cubed) stapled on would be in every single blue deck or just most of them. And that is probably very near the floor for this card.
So I think the argument is moot.
Would a 3/3 for 3UU with ETB vindicate be an auto-include? Because I think that is closer to your average case scenario (and that is likely being pessimistic). What percentage of the typical cube is instant/sorcery? Enough for spells matter to be an archetype right? How much of that is 3 mana or more? 10% of the cube maybe. So there are roughly 36 cards in a 360 cube you could pair this with that makes it better than Shriekmaw. And this comes with zero color restriction too. Draft whatever and you still have 36 choices.
I agree with you, I love savant, but judging by CmC isn't the best metric, eureka costs four, but I probably don't want to run that on this. Meanwhile reanimate might be good, or random other cards that cost 1, mystic tutor, time walk etc.
My question is why would you ever stick an on color effect on this? It should really only be a nonblue spell. Brainstorm ponder should never be on this card, timewalk sure, but that's the only one I can think of.
Running toxic deluge or damnation for 3UU in my amorous control shell sounds just fine. Even a lightning bolt is serviceable. Usually with time I lose hype on cards, but I keep thinking about best case and worst case scenarios and they all seem great. My question is, what is your worst case scenario with this card, I imagine only really having x spells in sideboard would suck, but that would be almost impossible especially if you draft this guy before p3p15.
I think people are thinking about this wrong when picking a blue card. I want to include those blue cards in my final 40, usually picking a nonblue spell seems right if you can't heavily abuse it's etb.
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I agree with you, I love savant, but judging by CmC isn't the best metric, eureka costs four, but I probably don't want to run that on this. Meanwhile reanimate might be good, or random other cards that cost 1, mystic tutor, time walk etc.
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