If you support the drafts-matters cards, this thing is a 360 staple, windmill-slam bomb. I'm glad I don't use those kinds of cards in my main cube, because I'm not a fan of the design.
So does everybody else participating in that discussion. The non-evoke Shriekmaw discussion has nothing to do with Arcane Savant being a great cube card or not. It's entirely a sidebar discussion.
I'm not sure about that either. I've gotta agree with Metamind here; that's pretty fair for a blue card. Evoke is the main reason why Shriekmaw is good. I wouldn't play a blue Shriekmaw without evoke. I might attach a Go For the Throat to Arcane Savant in desperation times, but if that was the ceiling on the card there's no way I'd cube it.
I don't think I want to strap my best on-color spell to this guy. I'd rather play Ancestral Recall in my deck alongside Savant with an off-color effect attached to it than not be able to run both of those cards in my 23.
That being said, an on-color spell that wasn't going to make your final 40 anyways could certainly be on-color and would be the perfect kind of card to strap to this. The only exception may be Time Walk if I'm trying to go infinite with a Crystal Shard or something.
Even of off-color utility spell is good though. Blue wants access to a lot of good non-blue spells; something like a Council's Judgment or Hero's Downfall might very well be exactly what the deck needs/wants.
Sealed churns out cool decks that often don't show up organically during a regular draft. I like to mix up the cube formats to get a lot of different deckbuilding circumstances. Sealed is often far more challenging too, which our players enjoy testing themselves with.
They could've used the term "limited pool" if they wanted it to extend beyond basic drafts, but they didn't. It's much cleaner this way, and the disfunction in sealed is just an unfortunate byproduct of that cleaner wording.
I think the wording was intentional, otherwise it could've been worded differently.
You can call it a "strict" interpretation if you want, but it's simply playing the card as it's worded. It was designed to specifically work with "drafted" cards, and Sealed Pools contain no "drafted cards".
The card would probably be even more broken in Sealed, since you'll have the remainder of a 90 card pool to choose from.
The WOTC stance on it as already been confirmed:
Q: "Do cards obtained as part of a Sealed Pool count as cards "drafted" for the purposes of Arcane Savant?" -Me
A: "No. There are no "drafted" cards in Sealed Deck." -Matt Tabak
It will go into my Conspiracy Module for when goofy cards get included for funsies, but since I can't use this card in a lot of our events, it won't be going into the main body of the cube.
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So does everybody else participating in that discussion. The non-evoke Shriekmaw discussion has nothing to do with Arcane Savant being a great cube card or not. It's entirely a sidebar discussion.
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That being said, an on-color spell that wasn't going to make your final 40 anyways could certainly be on-color and would be the perfect kind of card to strap to this. The only exception may be Time Walk if I'm trying to go infinite with a Crystal Shard or something.
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You can call it a "strict" interpretation if you want, but it's simply playing the card as it's worded. It was designed to specifically work with "drafted" cards, and Sealed Pools contain no "drafted cards".
The card would probably be even more broken in Sealed, since you'll have the remainder of a 90 card pool to choose from.
The WOTC stance on it as already been confirmed:
Q: "Do cards obtained as part of a Sealed Pool count as cards "drafted" for the purposes of Arcane Savant?" -Me
A: "No. There are no "drafted" cards in Sealed Deck." -Matt Tabak
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Correct. Doesn't work in sealed deck.
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