I feel like I failed at drafting if my aggro deck has to take Scrounger as a vanilla 3/2. Don't get me wrong, a vanilla 3/2 is fine in an aggressive deck, but Scrounger is so good because it can recur itself. If I draft it, I'm looking for ways to be able to recur it. The fact that that Izzet aggro deck felt the need to throw in a Watery Grave tells me that the card should go into the black section.
That is exactly how i first felt about the card, but putting it in the black section just takes away a slot from black and black 2's are pretty stacked. Similar to porcelain legionnaire which is often put in colourless because it can be slotted into any aggro deck no matter the colour combination, I think scrapheap fits the same role.
It wasn't long ago that red aggro decks were playing borderland marauder, gore-house chainwalker, and war-name aspirant. Now having a non conditional 3/2 for 2 colourless is welcome in the horde of CC 2 drops found in a lot of aggro decks. Lands like city of brass, mana confluence, gemstone mine, and other WUBRG lands are already commonly found in aggro decks to deal with the CC creatures and now they can also give you late game value with scrapheap without having to splash off colour.
I think many people will keep it in black, but I now think there is a strong argument for the colourless section as well and have changed my mind.
While I ultimately agree as I've had success running scrounger in boros and non-black aggro decks, Porcelain Legionnaire is a bit different. There's no real incentive to pull me towards white with PL other than the 2 life, which is not a real incentive for an aggressive deck. White or not, I'll probably play PL as a 2 mana + 2 life 3/1 first strike in just about every deck, which is great. It's a good rate for a 3/1 first striker, while paying 2W for that is kinda subpar
With Scrapheap, there's a very real incentive to play black since the floor is much lower than the ceiling if you can or can't make black mana. Again, I ultimately agree with you as the Gore-House Chainwalkers of the world have proven that a 3/2 for 2 is fine, but the ceiling of Scrounger actually does go up when Im in black vs the fairly static ceiling of PL being in-and-out of white decks.
So I chuckled at first when some people considered putting this into an artifact slot and not a black slot. Obviously, the activated ability is required to make this card truly shine in the decks that want it. But I am now realizing that being a colorless Chainwalker is already pretty impressive, and putting this in 360 black may actually harm the color. It'll be fought over as a decent pick for an aggressive red deck, and any more cuts in black is like a dagger in my side, as it could weaken other strategies. Is it crazy to put it in artifacts as a aggressive option?
Nah, I think it's pretty reasonable for the reasons you state. It's not like a hybrid card that fits into only its colors, I could easily see myself running this in a non-black aggressive deck. I'm never like "Gee, this Gore-House Chainwalker sucks cause I can't bring it back", so missing the second ability is really not that big of a deal when you're looking to kill-kill-kill.
While I ultimately agree as I've had success running scrounger in boros and non-black aggro decks, Porcelain Legionnaire is a bit different. There's no real incentive to pull me towards white with PL other than the 2 life, which is not a real incentive for an aggressive deck. White or not, I'll probably play PL as a 2 mana + 2 life 3/1 first strike in just about every deck, which is great. It's a good rate for a 3/1 first striker, while paying 2W for that is kinda subpar
With Scrapheap, there's a very real incentive to play black since the floor is much lower than the ceiling if you can or can't make black mana. Again, I ultimately agree with you as the Gore-House Chainwalkers of the world have proven that a 3/2 for 2 is fine, but the ceiling of Scrounger actually does go up when Im in black vs the fairly static ceiling of PL being in-and-out of white decks.
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Nah, I think it's pretty reasonable for the reasons you state. It's not like a hybrid card that fits into only its colors, I could easily see myself running this in a non-black aggressive deck. I'm never like "Gee, this Gore-House Chainwalker sucks cause I can't bring it back", so missing the second ability is really not that big of a deal when you're looking to kill-kill-kill.
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