This will be the sixth board wipe in 2020 Standard, and it has advantages over the other five. Citywide Bust only hits big creatures and Ritual of Soot only hits small creatures. Kaya's Wrath and Time Wipe are multicolored. Planar Cleansing costs more and kills planeswalkers as well, which is awkward in many control decks. This does have a big downside, if I am understanding adventures correctly, that it is only counted as a sorcery on the stack, and therefore can't be found by Augur of Bolas or Narset. I am not a good control player, so I don't know how to balance these, but it certainly seems like it is in the conversation.
Can I just add some clarity here.
I am not saying this is a bad board wipe. I’ve gone so far as to say it’s par for the course in nuStandard. However, that does not make this a card worth a Mythic slot.
The card isn’t the problem, the rarity is. You just listed ‘wipes that are all comparable, either costing less with restrictions or costing more but killing more. This falls into the same category. It’s also not leaving behind a body, it’s leaving behind an expensive, vanilla, creature spell. So one side of the spell is certainly a rare-worthy card. The other half is most certainly not. For a card like this, I’d expect some form of synergy between the 2 abilities. There really isn’t any here, which is why I am incredibly puzzled by the rarity.
This card is mythic for literally the same reason that wakening sun's avatar was mythic.
Any creature with a board wipe tacked on is mythic nowadays.
But this isn’t tacked on. It’s 13 mana, albeit spread across a few turns, for a “wrath tacked on”.
I understand that standard wrath’s are now 5-CMC, but, most have upsides, not downsides. Regardless of how many giants exist, you’re still potentially missing something with the wrath. The creature is too vanilla.
It’s just not Mythic worthy. Maybe if the Adventure was 6cmc at instant speed with the same vanilla body attached, but as is, just don’t like it at all.
It reminds me a lot of Part the Waterveil, actually, in terms of what you're getting for the cost. I think the major issue with it isn't its design so much as the fact that it's a white card in a top-down, low powered set leading into a potentially slower meta. In the abstract, wiping the board and then getting a big body a turn or two later - from the same card - is actually solid value. The ultimate question isn't "is this a good card?" so much as "is there a place for this?", but the general proportions of it certainly do seem mythic, to me at least.
This is the last bit I’m going to give on this. I’ve said my piece, ‘it’s what it ‘tis. For 8-Mana, you’re left with a hasty, albeit smaller body. They are effectively the same thing.
You may want to have the creature later, and that’s fine. But, that doesn’t change the fact that this effect has been done before at rare, and a few instances at that. And, the effect at Mythic has been done before and pushed a bit harder.
This card is mythic for literally the same reason that wakening sun's avatar was mythic.
Any creature with a board wipe tacked on is mythic nowadays.
But this isn’t tacked on. It’s 13 mana, albeit spread across a few turns, for a “wrath tacked on”.
I understand that standard wrath’s are now 5-CMC, but, most have upsides, not downsides. Regardless of how many giants exist, you’re still potentially missing something with the wrath. The creature is too vanilla.
It’s just not Mythic worthy. Maybe if the Adventure was 6cmc at instant speed with the same vanilla body attached, but as is, just don’t like it at all.
This is still an overcosted wrath withbuilt in drawback, stapled to an overcosted beater with no evasion.
If this was a true Day of Judgement and the creature had something a bit more relevant in terms of pressure/survivability, sure, but as is, this isn’t a very good mythic.
For reference, we have Bonecrusher Giant, which seems more deserving of a mythic spot than this.
Can I just add some clarity here.
I am not saying this is a bad board wipe. I’ve gone so far as to say it’s par for the course in nuStandard. However, that does not make this a card worth a Mythic slot.
The card isn’t the problem, the rarity is. You just listed ‘wipes that are all comparable, either costing less with restrictions or costing more but killing more. This falls into the same category. It’s also not leaving behind a body, it’s leaving behind an expensive, vanilla, creature spell. So one side of the spell is certainly a rare-worthy card. The other half is most certainly not. For a card like this, I’d expect some form of synergy between the 2 abilities. There really isn’t any here, which is why I am incredibly puzzled by the rarity.
This is the last bit I’m going to give on this. I’ve said my piece, ‘it’s what it ‘tis. For 8-Mana, you’re left with a hasty, albeit smaller body. They are effectively the same thing.
You may want to have the creature later, and that’s fine. But, that doesn’t change the fact that this effect has been done before at rare, and a few instances at that. And, the effect at Mythic has been done before and pushed a bit harder.
But this isn’t tacked on. It’s 13 mana, albeit spread across a few turns, for a “wrath tacked on”.
I understand that standard wrath’s are now 5-CMC, but, most have upsides, not downsides. Regardless of how many giants exist, you’re still potentially missing something with the wrath. The creature is too vanilla.
It’s just not Mythic worthy. Maybe if the Adventure was 6cmc at instant speed with the same vanilla body attached, but as is, just don’t like it at all.
This is still an overcosted wrath withbuilt in drawback, stapled to an overcosted beater with no evasion.
If this was a true Day of Judgement and the creature had something a bit more relevant in terms of pressure/survivability, sure, but as is, this isn’t a very good mythic.
For reference, we have Bonecrusher Giant, which seems more deserving of a mythic spot than this.