I tried it and really unhelpful. There are situational times when you could use this, but I didn't appreciate having it MD. I've found that there aren't many builds that want to leave mana open in this format. By the time your opponent is casting 4CMC spells you're wanting to do one of two things. If you're put in the defending role, this card really doesn't do much to stabilize. If you're the aggressor, you can use this as a tempo play to protect your dude or to deny your opponent of a high-curve threat. But at that point, you might as well be playing more threats of your own. This may be a totally bogus assessment, but I found that it doesn't have many relevant targets.
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Disdainful Stroke can't counter morphs, and an awful lot of the high mana cost stuff on people's curves is going to be morphs. I wouldn't run it, if only for that reason.
nightwyrm: Is this true? I thought that CMCs on the stack counted the mana actually spent to play the spell, rather than the CMC on the card.... or is that only for X spells?
The CMC of a spell is always the symbols on the upper right corner, except for X spells. Delve is a form of cost reduction, which doesn't actually change the CMC of a spell. It's no different than casting a spell with affinity. Or when you "cast a spell without paying its mana cost", the spell doesn't become 0 cmc.
Not only that, but Delve has been reworded so that each card you exile pays for 1 as opposed to reducing the cost by 1. The only real effect of this change is that you can't exile more cards than the colorless cost of a delve card even if you wanted to.
It also changes its interaction with Trinisphere, but, if anything, that's more obscure than not being able to overpay, and obviously has no effect on this limited enviroment.
Disdainful Stroke can't counter morphs, and an awful lot of the high mana cost stuff on people's curves is going to be morphs. I wouldn't run it, if only for that reason.
There's also a lot of 4+ cc cards that aren't morphs, or that once ppl reached 5 or 6 mana, they'll be playing their morphs in regular form coz they don't want to spend the extra mana to play the morph and then unmorph. Also due to your own morphs, there's a lot of reason to hold counterspell mana open....It's an interesting situation. I'll be curious to see how it pans out.
Seems like a nuts card in Abzan colors, considering that Abzan has the biggest butts in the set. I can see many people trying for a curve of T1 Disowned Ancestor into a T2 4/4. That's.... pretty crazy.
Worst case scenario you're probably getting a 3/3 for BG (it is Abzan, after all), which seems like decent value.
Kin-Tree Invocation is an excellent card, IMO. There's not a whole lot of bounce in the set, and GB have two cards that are good on their own (0/5 Wall and 0/4 Outlast) that can have this coming down as an undercosted fatty.
Ive built a few sealed pools and i have always ended up going at least 3 colors, with the urge to go 4-5 most times.
I dont mean i have 30% White, 20% blue, 20% black, 30% green or something crazy, Usually my decks are centered on two colors splashing the powerful wedge morph cards, which makes it 4-5 colors.
Ive play tested my 4-5 color good stuff deck vs pools where ive specifically built 2-3 color decks and it SEEMS like the splash is usually worth it.. Even if i dont draw the right mana, i can still morph the creature and i dont need the splash mana until turn 5 usually.
Thoughts and opinions from anyone else who has tried to build sealed pools?
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Not only that, but Delve has been reworded so that each card you exile pays for 1 as opposed to reducing the cost by 1. The only real effect of this change is that you can't exile more cards than the colorless cost of a delve card even if you wanted to.
There's also a lot of 4+ cc cards that aren't morphs, or that once ppl reached 5 or 6 mana, they'll be playing their morphs in regular form coz they don't want to spend the extra mana to play the morph and then unmorph. Also due to your own morphs, there's a lot of reason to hold counterspell mana open....It's an interesting situation. I'll be curious to see how it pans out.
Seems like a nuts card in Abzan colors, considering that Abzan has the biggest butts in the set. I can see many people trying for a curve of T1 Disowned Ancestor into a T2 4/4. That's.... pretty crazy.
Worst case scenario you're probably getting a 3/3 for BG (it is Abzan, after all), which seems like decent value.
I dont mean i have 30% White, 20% blue, 20% black, 30% green or something crazy, Usually my decks are centered on two colors splashing the powerful wedge morph cards, which makes it 4-5 colors.
Ive play tested my 4-5 color good stuff deck vs pools where ive specifically built 2-3 color decks and it SEEMS like the splash is usually worth it.. Even if i dont draw the right mana, i can still morph the creature and i dont need the splash mana until turn 5 usually.
Thoughts and opinions from anyone else who has tried to build sealed pools?