It is another creature made ineffective by the strangle hold that lightning bolt has on the format. You just cannot rely on 3< critters to win you games.
In defense of the strange hold of Bolt, Snipe dies to basically every removal spell in the format. Not just Lightning. Path, Helix, Electrolyze, Blade, Throat, Dismember, etc. You name a widely played removal spell and it probably kills this poor goblin.
I formerly had a very silly casual standard deck that used green pump spells then flung guttersnipe at people.
What about some sort of green red deck with a few dorks some buff spells empty and guttersnipe (although empty may or may not be good in such a deck)
To slow for burn, as others have said a 2 cmc 1/1 would have been stronger because it comes down faster. As it is, hes too clunky to really work from what I have found.
Every time you open one you realize that it's even worse than the last. New Dawns is probably the worst of a bad bunch, even if it is another soldier lord for the wholly nonexistant soldiers deck. The red one is probably the best because you can (and I can't believe I'm trying to develop a play line with these horrible cards) drop him on turn 4, swing with a bunch of dudes, and then drop an even bigger guy on turn 5 and give it haste.
I've never noticed this before, but why does the Black Paragon break with the type/class structure the other four have? Shouldn't it be something like a Human Cleric instead of a Skeleton Warrior? The Black one also has a more expensive ability (granted, deathtouch is pretty good to hand out all over your team). Get it together, Paragon of Open Graves.
Clearly meant for limited where it OK. It is a nice take on the uncommon repeatable effect type cards. If these where meant for competitive play they would have to cost three. Three mana is where the lord cards want to be.
I guess if there's ever a deck that can use instant-speed creature recursion then this could see play, and it can be ridiculous CA with snapcaster (With a snapcaster in the graveyard, return it to your hand with charm, then cast snapcaster and flashback charm). Unfortunately there's no real shell that fits in right now.
Never really liked the PC Charms.
I mean, there's something to be said about Piracy Charm being in the set when they already reprinted Funeral Charm in TSP, but I dunno whether to take it positively or negatively...
There's just something about monocolor Charms in general that feel weak.
Though, I guess there's something to be said about balancing powerlevels for Charms that only require a single variety of colored mana to cast... you either get 3 meh modes at a reasonable cost as your cycle template, or you make another cycle of Commands.
definitely worth a consideration if you're trying Ninjas (As are most Soulbound creatures); attack with your Hexproof Guy, Ninjitsu him out, Ninja enters immediately Hexproof.
Would only run one of them in a list like that though. Much could be said about Wingcrafter.
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I think most of the Soulbound creatures have a lot of potential, or maybe it's Soulbound that has the potential. Being able to give hexproof at nearly any moment to two creatures seems very strong.
You don't call "dying to removal" if the removal is more expensive in resources than the creature. If you have to spend BG (Abrupt Decay), or W + basic land (PtE) to remove a 1G, that is not "dying to removal". Strictly speaking Goyf dies to removal, but actually your removal is dying to Goyf.
Soul Warden of Soul Sisters fame. We already know she's a viable card there, but does she have any other Modern applications? I was always a big fan of her synergy with Norin the Wary in the Norin deck that occasionally pops up on MTGO, but we don't see a lot of that deck these days.
I disagree, he's aggressively priced such that covering him under the veil of disruption doesn't seem implausible.
...ok not really, not unless he had Flash.
He's on the fringe, IMO.
I think even Jon Finkel suffered a similar issue too, just barely there as a playable card, too choked up by its place in the curve and the place that answers occupy everyone else's curves...
Wonder how good he'd be if it was an ETB instead of damage trigger.
Pretty sick, really. You're getting a Divination's worth of card advantage with a free bear thrown in. People played Court Hussar a bit in the Ravnica-era control decks, I think ETB!Cutpurse would have outclassed it by miles, especially in the mirror.
In defense of the strange hold of Bolt, Snipe dies to basically every removal spell in the format. Not just Lightning. Path, Helix, Electrolyze, Blade, Throat, Dismember, etc. You name a widely played removal spell and it probably kills this poor goblin.
What about some sort of green red deck with a few dorks some buff spells empty and guttersnipe (although empty may or may not be good in such a deck)
It's just hard to rely on a fragile 3-drop value engine. But at 2cmc he would be better than Young pyromancer for my money
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As it is, too expensive. If I were to play a 3 cmc 2/2 Spells matter, I'll just skip straight to 4 cmc and play Talrand, Sky Summoner instead.
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Back to another bad one. I guess it's a chance to rip the Paragon cycle apart for being so terrible.
Every time you open one you realize that it's even worse than the last. New Dawns is probably the worst of a bad bunch, even if it is another soldier lord for the wholly nonexistant soldiers deck. The red one is probably the best because you can (and I can't believe I'm trying to develop a play line with these horrible cards) drop him on turn 4, swing with a bunch of dudes, and then drop an even bigger guy on turn 5 and give it haste.
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Savra BG | Sisay GW | Teneb BGW | Thada Adel U | Wort BR
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I've always been a big fan of the charms, even if the Planar Chaos ones don't get a lot of love:
I tested Dawn Charm in UBw Mill for a while but eventually switched to Darkness instead.
I mean, there's something to be said about Piracy Charm being in the set when they already reprinted Funeral Charm in TSP, but I dunno whether to take it positively or negatively...
There's just something about monocolor Charms in general that feel weak.
Though, I guess there's something to be said about balancing powerlevels for Charms that only require a single variety of colored mana to cast... you either get 3 meh modes at a reasonable cost as your cycle template, or you make another cycle of Commands.
Storm Crow is strictly worse than Seacoast Drake.
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Would only run one of them in a list like that though. Much could be said about Wingcrafter.
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10/10, I tapped.
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Soul Warden of Soul Sisters fame. We already know she's a viable card there, but does she have any other Modern applications? I was always a big fan of her synergy with Norin the Wary in the Norin deck that occasionally pops up on MTGO, but we don't see a lot of that deck these days.
Just use the mana you saved on casting a onedrop... protecting that onedrop!
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...ok not really, not unless he had Flash.
He's on the fringe, IMO.
I think even Jon Finkel suffered a similar issue too, just barely there as a playable card, too choked up by its place in the curve and the place that answers occupy everyone else's curves...
Wonder how good he'd be if it was an ETB instead of damage trigger.
Pretty sick, really. You're getting a Divination's worth of card advantage with a free bear thrown in. People played Court Hussar a bit in the Ravnica-era control decks, I think ETB!Cutpurse would have outclassed it by miles, especially in the mirror.
Erebos B | Ghost Council WB | Grimgrin UB | Jhoira UR
Jor Kadeen RW | Melek UR | Mimeoplasm GUB | Rasputin WU
Savra BG | Sisay GW | Teneb BGW | Thada Adel U | Wort BR
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